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11 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab .



12 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper
chamber that was in Samaria and was sick and he sent messengers
and said unto them Go inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron
whether I shall recover of this disease .

13 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite Arise
go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say unto
them Is it not because there is not a God in Israel that ye go
to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron .

14 Now therefore thus saith the LORD Thou shalt not come down
from that bed on which thou art gone up but shalt surely die And
Elijah departed .

15 And when the messengers turned back unto him he said unto
them Why are ye now turned back .

16 And they said unto him There came a man up to meet us and
said unto us Go turn again unto the king that sent you and say
unto him Thus saith the LORD Is it not because there is not a
God in Israel that thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god
of Ekron therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on
which thou art gone up but shalt surely die .

17 And he said unto them What manner of man was he which came
up to meet you and told you these words .

18 And they answered him He was an hairy man and girt with a
girdle of leather about his loins And he said It is Elijah the
Tishbite .

19 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his
fifty And he went up to him and behold he sat on the top of an
hill And he spake unto him Thou man of God the king hath said
Come down .

110 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty If I
be a man of God then let fire come down from heaven and consume
thee and thy fifty And there came down fire from heaven and
consumed him and his fifty .

111 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with
his fifty And he answered and said unto him O man of God thus
hath the king said Come down quickly .

112 And Elijah answered and said unto them If I be a man of
God let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy
fifty And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him
and his fifty .

113 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his
fifty And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell
on his knees before Elijah and besought him and said unto him O
man of God I pray thee let my life and the life of these fifty
thy servants be precious in thy sight .

114 Behold there came fire down from heaven and burnt up the
two captains of the former fifties with their fifties therefore
let my life now be precious in thy sight .

115 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah Go down with
him be not afraid of him And he arose and went down with him
unto the king .

116 And he said unto him Thus saith the LORD Forasmuch as thou
hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron is
it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word
therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou
art gone up but shalt surely die .

117 So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah
had spoken And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year
of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah because he had
no son .

118 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel
.

* 21 And it came to pass when the LORD would take up Elijah
into heaven by a whirlwind that Elijah went with Elisha from
Gilgal .

22 And Elijah said unto Elisha Tarry here I pray thee for the
LORD hath sent me to Bethel And Elisha said unto him As the LORD
liveth and as thy soul liveth I will not leave thee So they went
down to Bethel .

23 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth
to Elisha and said unto him Knowest thou that the LORD will take
away thy master from thy head to day And he said Yea I know it
hold ye your peace .

24 And Elijah said unto him Elisha tarry here I pray thee for
the LORD hath sent me to Jericho And he said As the LORD liveth
and as thy soul liveth I will not leave thee So they came to
Jericho .

25 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to
Elisha and said unto him Knowest thou that the LORD will take
away thy master from thy head to day And he answered Yea I know
it hold ye your peace .

26 And Elijah said unto him Tarry I pray thee here for the
LORD hath sent me to Jordan And he said As the LORD liveth and
as thy soul liveth I will not leave thee And they two went on .

27 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood to
view afar off and they two stood by Jordan .

28 And Elijah took his mantle and wrapped it together and
smote the waters and they were divided hither and thither so
that they two went over on dry ground .

29 And it came to pass when they were gone over that Elijah
said unto Elisha Ask what I shall do for thee before I be taken
away from thee And Elisha said I pray thee let a double portion
of thy spirit be upon me .

210 And he said Thou hast asked a hard thing nevertheless if
thou see me when I am taken from thee it shall be so unto thee
but if not it shall not be so .

211 And it came to pass as they still went on and talked that
behold there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire and
parted them both asunder and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into
heaven .

212 And Elisha saw it and he cried My father my father the
chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof And he saw him no
more and he took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two
pieces .

213 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him
and went back and stood by the bank of Jordan .

214 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and
smote the waters and said Where is the LORD God of Elijah and
when he also had smitten the waters they parted hither and
thither and Elisha went over .

215 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at
Jericho saw him they said The spirit of Elijah doth rest on
Elisha And they came to meet him and bowed themselves to the
ground before him .

216 And they said unto him Behold now there be with thy
servants fifty strong men let them go we pray thee and seek thy
master lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him
up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley And he
said Ye shall not send .

217 And when they urged him till he was ashamed he said Send
They sent therefore fifty men and they sought three days but
found him not .

218 And when they came again to him (for he tarried at Jericho
he said unto them Did I not say unto you Go not .

219 And the men of the city said unto Elisha Behold I pray
thee the situation of this city is pleasant as my lord seeth but
the water is nought and the ground barren .

220 And he said Bring me a new cruse and put salt therein And
they brought it to him .

221 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters and cast
the salt in there and said Thus saith the LORD I have healed
these waters there shall not be from thence any more death or
barren land .

222 So the waters were healed unto this day according to the
saying of Elisha which he spake .

223 And he went up from thence unto Bethel and as he was going
up by the way there came forth little children out of the city
and mocked him and said unto him Go up thou bald head go up thou
bald head .

224 And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in
the name of the LORD And there came forth two she bears out of
the wood and tare forty and two children of them .

225 And he went from thence to mount Carmel and from thence he
returned to Samaria .

* 31 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and
reigned twelve years .

32 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD but not like
his father and like his mother for he put away the image of Baal
that his father had made .

33 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat which made Israel to sin he departed not therefrom .

34 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster and rendered unto
the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs and an hundred
thousand rams with the wool .

35 But it came to pass when Ahab was dead that the king of
Moab rebelled against the king of Israel .

36 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time and
numbered all Israel .

37 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
saying The king of Moab hath rebelled against me wilt thou go
with me against Moab to battle And he said I will go up I am as
thou art my people as thy people and my horses as thy horses .

38 And he said Which way shall we go up And he answered The
way through the wilderness of Edom .

39 So the king of Israel went and the king of Judah and the
king of Edom and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey
and there was no water for the host and for the cattle that
followed them .

310 And the king of Israel said Alas that the LORD hath called
these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab
.

311 But Jehoshaphat said Is there not here a prophet of the
LORD that we may inquire of the LORD by him And one of the king
of Israel's servants answered and said Here is Elisha the son of
Shaphat which poured water on the hands of Elijah .

312 And Jehoshaphat said The word of the LORD is with him So
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went
down to him .

313 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel What have I to do
with thee get thee to the prophets of thy father and to the
prophets of thy mother And the king of Israel said unto him Nay
for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver
them into the hand of Moab .

314 And Elisha said As the LORD of hosts liveth before whom I
stand surely were it not that I regard the presence of
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah I would not look toward thee nor
see thee .

315 But now bring me a minstrel And it came to pass when the
minstrel played that the hand of the LORD came upon him .

316 And he said Thus saith the LORD Make this valley full of
ditches .

317 For thus saith the LORD Ye shall not see wind neither
shall ye see rain yet that valley shall be filled with water
that ye may drink both ye and your cattle and your beasts .

318 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD he
will deliver the Moabites also into your hand .

319 And ye shall smite every fenced city and every choice city
and shall fell every good tree and stop all wells of water and
mar every good piece of land with stones .

320 And it came to pass in the morning when the meat offering
was offered that behold there came water by the way of Edom and
the country was filled with water .

321 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come
up to fight against them they gathered all that were able to put
on armour and upward and stood in the border .

322 And they rose up early in the morning and the sun shone
upon the water and the Moabites saw the water on the other side
as red as blood .

323 And they said This is blood the kings are surely slain and
they have smitten one another now therefore Moab to the spoil .

324 And when they came to the camp of Israel the Israelites
rose up and smote the Moabites so that they fled before them but
they went forward smiting the Moabites even in their country .

325 And they beat down the cities and on every good piece of
land cast every man his stone and filled it and they stopped all
the wells of water and felled all the good trees only in
Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof howbeit the slingers
went about it and smote it .

326 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore
for him he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords to
break through even unto the king of Edom but they could not .

327 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in
his stead and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall And
there was great indignation against Israel and they departed
from him and returned to their own land .

* 41 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons
of the prophets unto Elisha saying Thy servant my husband is
dead and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD and the
creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen .

42 And Elisha said unto her What shall I do for thee tell me
what hast thou in the house And she said Thine handmaid hath not
any thing in the house save a pot of oil .

43 Then he said Go borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
neighbours even empty vessels borrow not a few .

44 And when thou art come in thou shalt shut the door upon
thee and upon thy sons and shalt pour out into all those vessels
and thou shalt set aside that which is full .

45 So she went from him and shut the door upon her and upon
her sons who brought the vessels to her and she poured out .

46 And it came to pass when the vessels were full that she
said unto her son Bring me yet a vessel And he said unto her
There is not a vessel more And the oil stayed .

47 Then she came and told the man of God And he said Go sell
the oil and pay thy debt and live thou and thy children of the
rest .

48 And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem where was
a great woman and she constrained him to eat bread And so it was
that as oft as he passed by he turned in thither to eat bread .

49 And she said unto her husband Behold now I perceive that
this is an holy man of God which passeth by us continually .

410 Let us make a little chamber I pray thee on the wall and
let us set for him there a bed and a table and a stool and a
candlestick and it shall be when he cometh to us that he shall
turn in thither .

411 And it fell on a day that he came thither and he turned
into the chamber and lay there .

412 And he said to Gehazi his servant Call this Shunammite And
when he had called her she stood before him .

413 And he said unto him Say now unto her Behold thou hast
been careful for us with all this care what is to be done for
thee wouldest thou be spoken for to the king or to the captain
of the host And she answered I dwell among mine own people .

414 And he said What then is to be done for her And Gehazi
answered Verily she hath no child and her husband is old .

415 And he said Call her And when he had called her she stood
in the door .

416 And he said About this season according to the time of
life thou shalt embrace a son And she said Nay my lord thou man
of God do not lie unto thine handmaid .

417 And the woman conceived and bare a son at that season that
Elisha had said unto her according to the time of life .

418 And when the child was grown it fell on a day that he went
out to his father to the reapers .

419 And he said unto his father My head my head And he said to
a lad Carry him to his mother .

420 And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother he
sat on her knees till noon and then died .

421 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God
and shut the door upon him and went out .

422 And she called unto her husband and said Send me I pray
thee one of the young men and one of the asses that I may run to
the man of God and come again .

423 And he said Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day it is
neither new moon nor sabbath And she said It shall be well .

424 Then she saddled an ass and said to her servant Drive and
go forward slack not thy riding for me except I bid thee .

425 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel
And it came to pass when the man of God saw her afar off that he
said to Gehazi his servant Behold yonder is that Shunammite .

426 Run now I pray thee to meet her and say unto her Is it
well with thee is it well with thy husband is it well with the
child And she answered It is well .

427 And when she came to the man of God to the hill she caught
him by the feet but Gehazi came near to thrust her away And the
man of God said Let her alone for her soul is vexed within her
and the LORD hath hid it from me and hath not told me .

428 Then she said Did I desire a son of my lord did I not say
Do not deceive me .

429 Then he said to Gehazi Gird up thy loins and take my staff
in thine hand and go thy way if thou meet any man salute him not
and if any salute thee answer him not again and lay my staff
upon the face of the child .

430 And the mother of the child said As the LORD liveth and as
thy soul liveth I will not leave thee And he arose and followed
her .

431 And Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff upon
the face of the child but there was neither voice nor hearing
Wherefore he went again to meet him and told him saying The
child is not awaked .

432 And when Elisha was come into the house behold the child
was dead and laid upon his bed .

433 He went in therefore and shut the door upon them twain and
prayed unto the LORD .

434 And he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth
upon his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon his
hands and he stretched himself upon the child and the flesh of
the child waxed warm .

435 Then he returned and walked in the house to and fro and
went up and stretched himself upon him and the child sneezed
seven times and the child opened his eyes .

436 And he called Gehazi and said Call this Shunammite So he
called her And when she was come in unto him he said Take up thy
son .

437 Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to
the ground and took up her son and went out .

438 And Elisha came again to Gilgal and there was a dearth in
the land and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him
and he said unto his servant Set on the great pot and seethe
pottage for the sons of the prophets .

439 And one went out into the field to gather herbs and found
a wild vine and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full and
came and shred them into the pot of pottage for they knew them
not .

440 So they poured out for the men to eat And it came to pass
as they were eating of the pottage that they cried out and said
O thou man of God there is death in the pot And they could not
eat thereof .

441 But he said Then bring meal And he cast it into the pot
and he said Pour out for the people that they may eat And there
was no harm in the pot .

442 And there came a man from Baalshalisha and brought the man
of God bread of the firstfruits twenty loaves of barley and full
ears of corn in the husk thereof And he said Give unto the
people that they may eat .

443 And his servitor said What should I set this before an
hundred men He said again Give the people that they may eat for
thus saith the LORD They shall eat and shall leave thereof .

444 So he set it before them and they did eat and left thereof
according to the word of the LORD .

* 51 Now Naaman captain of the host of the king of Syria was a
great man with his master and honourable because by him the LORD
had given deliverance unto Syria he was also a mighty man in
valour but he was a leper .

52 And the Syrians had gone out by companies and had brought
away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid and she
waited on Naaman's wife .

53 And she said unto her mistress Would God my lord were with
the prophet that is in Samaria for he would recover him of his
leprosy .

54 And one went in and told his lord saying Thus and thus said
the maid that is of the land of Israel .

55 And the king of Syria said Go to go and I will send a
letter unto the king of Israel And he departed and took with him
ten talents of silver and six thousand pieces of gold and ten
changes of raiment .

56 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel saying Now
when this letter is come unto thee behold I have therewith sent
Naaman my servant to thee that thou mayest recover him of his
leprosy .

57 And it came to pass when the king of Israel had read the
letter that he rent his clothes and said Am I God to kill and to
make alive that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of
his leprosy wherefore consider I pray you and see how he seeketh
a quarrel against me .

58 And it was so when Elisha the man of God had heard that the
king of Israel had rent his clothes that he sent to the king
saying Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes let him come now to
me and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel .

59 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot and
stood at the door of the house of Elisha .

510 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him saying Go and wash in
Jordan seven times and thy flesh shall come again to thee and
thou shalt be clean .

511 But Naaman was wroth and went away and said Behold I
thought He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the
name of the LORD his God and strike his hand over the place and
recover the leper .

512 Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus better than
all the waters of Israel may I not wash in them and be clean So
he turned and went away in a rage .

513 And his servants came near and spake unto him and said My
father if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing wouldest
thou not have done it how much rather then when he saith to thee
Wash and be clean .

514 Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in Jordan
according to the saying of the man of God and his flesh came
again like unto the flesh of a little child and he was clean .

515 And he returned to the man of God he and all his company
and came and stood before him and he said Behold now I know that
there is no God in all the earth but in Israel now therefore I
pray thee take a blessing of thy servant .

516 But he said As the LORD liveth before whom I stand I will
receive none And he urged him to take it but he refused .

517 And Naaman said Shall there not then I pray thee be given
to thy servant two mules' burden of earth for thy servant will
henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other
gods but unto the LORD .

518 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant that when my
master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there and he
leaneth on my hand and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon when
I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon the LORD pardon thy
servant in this thing .

519 And he said unto him Go in peace So he departed from him a
little way .

520 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God said
Behold my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian in not receiving
at his hands that which he brought but as the LORD liveth I will
run after him and take somewhat of him .

521 So Gehazi followed after Naaman And when Naaman saw him
running after him he lighted down from the chariot to meet him
and said Is all well .

522 And he said All is well My master hath sent me saying
Behold even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young
men of the sons of the prophets give them I pray thee a talent
of silver and two changes of garments .

523 And Naaman said Be content take two talents And he urged
him and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes
of garments and laid them upon two of his servants and they bare
them before him .

524 And when he came to the tower he took them from their hand
and bestowed them in the house and he let the men go and they
departed .

525 But he went in and stood before his master And Elisha said
unto him Whence comest thou Gehazi And he said Thy servant went
no whither .

526 And he said unto him Went not mine heart with thee when
the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee Is it a time
to receive money and to receive garments and oliveyards and
vineyards and sheep and oxen and menservants and maidservants .

527 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee and
unto thy seed for ever And he went out from his presence a leper
as white as snow .

* 61 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha Behold now
the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us . .

62 Let us go we pray thee unto Jordan and take thence every
man a beam and let us make us a place there where we may dwell
And he answered Go ye .

63 And one said Be content I pray thee and go with thy
servants And he answered I will go .

64 So he went with them And when they came to Jordan they cut
down wood .

65 But as one was felling a beam the ax head fell into the
water and he cried and said Alas master for it was borrowed .

66 And the man of God said Where fell it And he showed him the
place And he cut down a stick and cast it in thither and the
iron did swim .

67 Therefore said he Take it up to thee And he put out his
hand and took it .

68 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel and took
counsel with his servants saying In such and such a place shall
be my camp .

69 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel saying
Beware that thou pass not such a place for thither the Syrians
are come down .

610 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of
God told him and warned him of and saved himself there not once
nor twice .

611 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled
for this thing and he called his servants and said unto them
Will ye not show me which of us is for the king of Israel .

612 And one of his servants said None my lord O king but
Elisha the prophet that is in Israel telleth the king of Israel
the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber .

613 And he said Go and spy where he is that I may send and
fetch him And it was told him saying Behold he is in Dothan .

614 Therefore sent he thither horses and chariots and a great
host and they came by night and compassed the city about .

615 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early and
gone forth behold an host compassed the city both with horses
and chariots And his servant said unto him Alas my master how
shall we do .

616 And he answered Fear not for they that be with us are more
than they that be with them .

617 And Elisha prayed and said LORD I pray thee open his eyes
that he may see And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man
and he saw and behold the mountain was full of horses and
chariots of fire round about Elisha .

618 And when they came down to him Elisha prayed unto the LORD
and said Smite this people I pray thee with blindness And he
smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha .

619 And Elisha said unto them This is not the way neither is
this the city follow me and I will bring you to the man whom ye
seek But he led them to Samaria .

620 And it came to pass when they were come into Samaria that
Elisha said LORD open the eyes of these men that they may see
And the LORD opened their eyes and they saw and behold they were
in the midst of Samaria .

621 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha when he saw them
My father shall I smite them shall I smite them .

622 And he answered Thou shalt not smite them wouldest thou
smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with
thy bow set bread and water before them that they may eat and
drink and go to their master .

623 And he prepared great provision for them and when they had
eaten and drunk he sent them away and they went to their master
So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel .

624 And it came to pass after this that Benhadad king of Syria
gathered all his host and went up and besieged Samaria .

625 And there was a great famine in Samaria and behold they
besieged it until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of
silver and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five
pieces of silver .

626 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall
there cried a woman unto him saying Help my lord O king .

627 And he said If the LORD do not help thee whence shall I
help thee out of the barnfloor or out of the winepress .

628 And the king said unto her What aileth thee And she
answered This woman said unto me Give thy son that we may eat
him to day and we will eat my son to morrow .

629 So we boiled my son and did eat him and I said unto her on
the next day Give thy son that we may eat him and she hath hid
her son .

630 And it came to pass when the king heard the words of the
woman that he rent his clothes and he passed by upon the wall
and the people looked and behold he had sackcloth within upon
his flesh .

631 Then he said God do so and more also to me if the head of
Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day .

632 But Elisha sat in his house and the elders sat with him
and the king sent a man from before him but ere the messenger
came to him he said to the elders See ye how this son of a
murderer hath sent to take away mine head look when the
messenger cometh shut the door and hold him fast at the door is
not the sound of his master's feet behind him .

633 And while he yet talked with them behold the messenger
came down unto him and he said Behold this evil is of the LORD
what should I wait for the LORD any longer .

* 71 Then Elisha said Hear ye the word of the LORD Thus saith
the LORD To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour
be sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in
the gate of Samaria .

72 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man
of God and said Behold if the LORD would make windows in heaven
might this thing be And he said Behold thou shalt see it with
thine eyes but shalt not eat thereof .

73 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the
gate and they said one to another Why sit we here until we die .

74 If we say We will enter into the city then the famine is in
the city and we shall die there and if we sit still here we die
also Now therefore come and let us fall unto the host of the
Syrians if they save us alive we shall live and if they kill us
we shall but die .

75 And they rose up in the twilight to go unto the camp of the
Syrians and when they were come to the uttermost part of the
camp of Syria behold there was no man there .

76 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a
noise of chariots and a noise of horses even the noise of a
great host and they said one to another Lo the king of Israel
hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of
the Egyptians to come upon us .

77 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight and left
their tents and their horses and their asses even the camp as it
was and fled for their life .

78 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the
camp they went into one tent and did eat and drink and carried
thence silver and gold and raiment and went and hid it and came
again and entered into another tent and carried thence also and
went and hid it .

79 Then they said one to another We do not well this day is a
day of good tidings and we hold our peace if we tarry till the
morning light some mischief will come upon us now therefore come
that we may go and tell the king's household .

710 So they came and called unto the porter of the city and
they told them saying We came to the camp of the Syrians and
behold there was no man there neither voice of man but horses
tied and asses tied and the tents as they were .

711 And he called the porters and they told it to the king's
house within .

712 And the king arose in the night and said unto his servants
I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us They know
that we be hungry therefore are they gone out of the camp to
hide themselves in the field saying When they come out of the
city we shall catch them alive and get into the city .

713 And one of his servants answered and said Let some take I
pray thee five of the horses that remain which are left in the
city (behold they are as all the multitude of Israel that are
left in it behold I say they are even as all the multitude of
the Israelites that are consumed and let us send and see .

714 They took therefore two chariot horses and the king sent
after the host of the Syrians saying Go and see .

715 And they went after them unto Jordan and lo all the way
was full of garments and vessels which the Syrians had cast away
in their haste And the messengers returned and told the king .

716 And the people went out and spoiled the tents of the
Syrians So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two
measures of barley for a shekel according to the word of the
LORD .

717 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to
have the charge of the gate and the people trode upon him in the
gate and he died as the man of God had said who spake when the
king came down to him .

718 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the
king saying Two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of
fine flour for a shekel shall be to morrow about this time in
the gate of Samaria .

719 And that lord answered the man of God and said Now behold
if the LORD should make windows in heaven might such a thing be
And he said Behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but shalt
not eat thereof .

720 And so it fell out unto him for the people trode upon him
in the gate and he died .

* 81 Then spake Elisha unto the woman whose son he had restored
to life saying Arise and go thou and thine household and sojourn
wheresoever thou canst sojourn for the LORD hath called for a
famine and it shall also come upon the land seven years .

82 And the woman arose and did after the saying of the man of
God and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of
the Philistines seven years .

83 And it came to pass at the seven years' end that the woman
returned out of the land of the Philistines and she went forth
to cry unto the king for her house and for her land .

84 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of
God saying Tell me I pray thee all the great things that Elisha
hath done .

85 And it came to pass as he was telling the king how he had
restored a dead body to life that behold the woman whose son he
had restored to life cried to the king for her house and for her
land And Gehazi said My lord O king this is the woman and this
is her son whom Elisha restored to life .

86 And when the king asked the woman she told him So the king
appointed unto her a certain officer saying Restore all that was
hers and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left
the land even until now .

87 And Elisha came to Damascus and Benhadad the king of Syria
was sick and it was told him saying The man of God is come
hither .

88 And the king said unto Hazael Take a present in thine hand
and go meet the man of God and inquire of the LORD by him saying
Shall I recover of this disease .

89 So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him even
of every good thing of Damascus forty camels' burden and came
and stood before him and said Thy son Benhadad king of Syria
hath sent me to thee saying Shall I recover of this disease .

810 And Elisha said unto him Go say unto him Thou mayest
certainly recover howbeit the LORD hath showed me that he shall
surely die .

811 And he settled his countenance stedfastly until he was
ashamed and the man of God wept .

812 And Hazael said Why weepeth my lord And he answered
Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of
Israel their strong holds wilt thou set on fire and their young
men wilt thou slay with the sword and wilt dash their children
and rip up their women with child .

813 And Hazael said But what is thy servant a dog that he
should do this great thing And Elisha answered The LORD hath
showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria .

814 So he departed from Elisha and came to his master who said
to him What said Elisha to thee And he answered He told me that
thou shouldest surely recover .

815 And it came to pass on the morrow that he took a thick
cloth and dipped it in water and spread it on his face so that
he died and Hazael reigned in his stead .

816 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign .

817 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign and
he reigned eight years in Jerusalem .

818 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel as did the
house of Ahab for the daughter of Ahab was his wife and he did
evil in the sight of the LORD .

819 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his
servant's sake as he promised him to give him alway a light and
to his children .

820 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah and
made a king over themselves .

821 So Joram went over to Zair and all the chariots with him
and he rose by night and smote the Edomites which compassed him
about and the captains of the chariots and the people fled into
their tents .

822 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
day Then Libnah revolted at the same time .

823 And the rest of the acts of Joram and all that he did are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah .

824 And Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David and Ahaziah his son reigned in his
stead .

825 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to
reign .

826 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to
reign and he reigned one year in Jerusalem And his mother's name
was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel .

827 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil
in the sight of the LORD as did the house of Ahab for he was the
son in law of the house of Ahab .

828 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against
Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead and the Syrians wounded
Joram .

829 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah when he fought
against Hazael king of Syria And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king
of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel
because he was sick .

* 91 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the
prophets and said unto him Gird up thy loins and take this box
of oil in thine hand and go to Ramothgilead .

92 And when thou comest thither look out there Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi and go in and make him arise up
from among his brethren and carry him to an inner chamber .

93 Then take the box of oil and pour it on his head and say
Thus saith the LORD I have anointed thee king over Israel Then
open the door and flee and tarry not .

94 So the young man even the young man the prophet went to
Ramothgilead .

95 And when he came behold the captains of the host were
sitting and he said I have an errand to thee O captain And Jehu
said Unto which of all us And he said To thee O captain .

96 And he arose and went into the house and he poured the oil
on his head and said unto him Thus saith the LORD God of Israel
I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD even over
Israel .

97 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master that I
may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood
of all the servants of the LORD at the hand of Jezebel .

98 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish and I will cut off
from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall and him that is shut
up and left in Israel .

99 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son
of Ahijah .

910 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel
and there shall be none to bury her And he opened the door and
fled .

911 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord and one
said unto him Is all well wherefore came this mad fellow to thee
And he said unto them Ye know the man and his communication .

912 And they said It is false tell us now And he said Thus and
thus spake he to me saying Thus saith the LORD I have anointed
thee king over Israel .

913 Then they hasted and took every man his garment and put it
under him on the top of the stairs and blew with trumpets saying
Jehu is king .

914 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead he and all Israel
because of Hazael king of Syria .

915 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him when he fought with
Hazael king of Syria And Jehu said If it be your minds then let
none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in
Jezreel .

916 So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel for Joram
lay there And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram .

917 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel and he
spied the company of Jehu as he came and said I see a company
And Joram said Take an horseman and send to meet them and let
him say Is it peace .

918 So there went one on horseback to meet him and said Thus
saith the king Is it peace And Jehu said What hast thou to do
with peace turn thee behind me And the watchman told saying The
messenger came to them but he cometh not again .

919 Then he sent out a second on horseback which came to them
and said Thus saith the king Is it peace And Jehu answered What
hast thou to do with peace turn thee behind me .

920 And the watchman told saying He came even unto them and
cometh not again and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the
son of Nimshi for he driveth furiously .

921 And Joram said Make ready And his chariot was made ready
And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out each
in his chariot and they went out against Jehu and met him in the
portion of Naboth the Jezreelite .

922 And it came to pass when Joram saw Jehu that he said Is it
peace Jehu And he answered What peace so long as the whoredoms
of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many .

923 And Joram turned his hands and fled and said to Ahaziah
There is treachery O Ahaziah .

924 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength and smote
Jehoram between his arms and the arrow went out at his heart and
he sunk down in his chariot .

925 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain Take up and cast him
in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite for
remember how that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his
father the LORD laid this burden upon him .

926 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the
blood of his sons saith the LORD and I will requite thee in this
plat saith the LORD Now therefore take and cast him into the
plat of ground according to the word of the LORD .

927 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this he fled by the
way of the garden house And Jehu followed after him and said
Smite him also in the chariot And they did so at the going up to
Gur which is by Ibleam And he fled to Megiddo and died there .

928 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and
buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of
David .

929 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah .

930 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel Jezebel heard of it and
she painted her face and tired her head and looked out at a
window .

931 And as Jehu entered in at the gate she said Had Zimri
peace who slew his master .

932 And he lifted up his face to the window and said Who is on
my side who And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs .

933 And he said Throw her down So they threw her down and some
of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses and he
trode her under foot .

934 And when he was come in he did eat and drink and said Go
see now this cursed woman and bury her for she is a king's
daughter .

935 And they went to bury her but they found no more of her
than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands .

936 Wherefore they came again and told him And he said This is
the word of the LORD which he spake by his servant Elijah the
Tishbite saying In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the
flesh of Jezebel .

937 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face
of the field in the portion of Jezreel so that they shall not
say This is Jezebel .

* 101 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria And Jehu wrote
letters and sent to Samaria unto the rulers of Jezreel to the
elders and to them that brought up Ahab's children saying .

102 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you seeing your
master's sons are with you and there are with you chariots and
horses a fenced city also and armour .

103 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons
and set him on his father's throne and fight for your master's
house .

104 But they were exceedingly afraid and said Behold two kings
stood not before him how then shall we stand .

105 And he that was over the house and he that was over the
city the elders also and the bringers up of the children sent to
Jehu saying We are thy servants and will do all that thou shalt
bid us we will not make any king do thou that which is good in
thine eyes .

106 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them saying If
ye be mine and if ye will hearken unto my voice take ye the
heads of the men your master's sons and come to me to Jezreel by
to morrow this time Now the king's sons being seventy persons
were with the great men of the city which brought them up .

107 And it came to pass when the letter came to them that they
took the king's sons and slew seventy persons and put their
heads in baskets and sent him them to Jezreel .

108 And there came a messenger and told him saying They have
brought the heads of the king's sons And he said Lay ye them in
two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning .

109 And it came to pass in the morning that he went out and
stood and said to all the people Ye be righteous behold I
conspired against my master and slew him but who slew all these .

1010 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of
the word of the LORD which the LORD spake concerning the house
of Ahab for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his
servant Elijah .

1011 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in
Jezreel and all his great men and his kinsfolks and his priests
until he left him none remaining .

1012 And he arose and departed and came to Samaria And as he
was at the shearing house in the way .

1013 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah and
said Who are ye And they answered We are the brethren of Ahaziah
and we go down to salute the children of the king and the
children of the queen .

1014 And he said Take them alive And they took them alive and
slew them at the pit of the shearing house even two and forty
men neither left he any of them .

1015 And when he was departed thence he lighted on Jehonadab
the son of Rechab coming to meet him and he saluted him and said
to him Is thine heart right as my heart is with thy heart And
Jehonadab answered It is If it be give me thine hand And he gave
him his hand and he took him up to him into the chariot .

1016 And he said Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD So
they made him ride in his chariot .

1017 And when he came to Samaria he slew all that remained
unto Ahab in Samaria till he had destroyed him according to the
saying of the LORD which he spake to Elijah .

1018 And Jehu gathered all the people together and said unto
them Ahab served Baal a little but Jehu shall serve him much .

1019 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal all
his servants and all his priests let none be wanting for I have
a great sacrifice to do to Baal whosoever shall be wanting he
shall not live But Jehu did it in subtlety to the intent that he
might destroy the worshippers of Baal .

1020 And Jehu said Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal And
they proclaimed it .

1021 And Jehu sent through all Israel and all the worshippers
of Baal came so that there was not a man left that came not And
they came into the house of Baal and the house of Baal was full
from one end to another .

1022 And he said unto him that was over the vestry Bring forth
vestments for all the worshippers of Baal And he brought them
forth vestments .

1023 And Jehu went and Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the
house of Baal and said unto the worshippers of Baal Search and
look that there be here with you none of the servants of the
LORD but the worshippers of Baal only .

1024 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt
offerings Jehu appointed fourscore men without and said If any
of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape he that
letteth him go his life shall be for the life of him .

1025 And it came to pass as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt offering that Jehu said to the guard and to
the captains Go in and slay them let none come forth And they
smote them with the edge of the sword and the guard and the
captains cast them out and went to the city of the house of Baal
.

1026 And they brought forth the images out of the house of
Baal and burned them .

1027 And they brake down the image of Baal and brake down the
house of Baal and made it a draught house unto this day .

1028 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel .

1029 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who
made Israel to sin Jehu departed not from after them to wit the
golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan .

1030 And the LORD said unto Jehu Because thou hast done well
in executing that which is right in mine eyes and hast done unto
the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart thy
children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of
Israel .

1031 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God
of Israel with all his heart for he departed not from the sins
of Jeroboam which made Israel to sin .

1032 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short and
Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel .

1033 From Jordan eastward all the land of Gilead the Gadites
and the Reubenites and the Manassites from Aroer which is by the
river Arnon even Gilead and Bashan .

1034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and
all his might are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel .

1035 And Jehu slept with his fathers and they buried him in
Samaria And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead .

1036 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was
twenty and eight years .

* 111 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
was dead she arose and destroyed all the seed royal .

112 But Jehosheba the daughter of king Joram sister of Ahaziah
took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the
king's sons which were slain and they hid him even him and his
nurse in the bedchamber from Athaliah so that he was not slain .

113 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years
And Athaliah did reign over the land .

114 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers
over hundreds with the captains and the guard and brought them
to him into the house of the LORD and made a covenant with them
and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD and showed
them the king's son .

115 And he commanded them saying This is the thing that ye
shall do A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall
even be keepers of the watch of the king's house .

116 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur and a third
part at the gate behind the guard so shall ye keep the watch of
the house that it be not broken down .

117 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath even
they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the
king .

118 And ye shall compass the king round about every man with
his weapons in his hand and he that cometh within the ranges let
him be slain and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he
cometh in .

119 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all
things that Jehoiada the priest commanded and they took every
man his men that were to come in on the sabbath with them that
should go out on the sabbath and came to Jehoiada the priest .

1110 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give
king David's spears and shields that were in the temple of the
LORD .

1111 And the guard stood every man with his weapons in his
hand round about the king from the right corner of the temple to
the left corner of the temple along by the altar and the temple .

1112 And he brought forth the king's son and put the crown
upon him and gave him the testimony and they made him king and
anointed him and they clapped their hands and said God save the
king .

1113 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the
people she came to the people into the temple of the LORD .

1114 And when she looked behold the king stood by a pillar as
the manner was and the princes and the trumpeters by the king
and all the people of the land rejoiced and blew with trumpets
and Athaliah rent her clothes and cried Treason Treason .

1115 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
hundreds the officers of the host and said unto them Have her
forth without the ranges and him that followeth her kill with
the sword For the priest had said Let her not be slain in the
house of the LORD .

1116 And they laid hands on her and she went by the way by the
which the horses came into the king's house and there was she
slain .

1117 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the
king and the people that they should be the LORD'S people
between the king also and the people .

1118 And all the people of the land went into the house of
Baal and brake it down his altars and his images brake they in
pieces thoroughly and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the
altars And the priest appointed officers over the house of the
LORD .

1119 And he took the rulers over hundreds and the captains and
the guard and all the people of the land and they brought down
the king from the house of the LORD and came by the way of the
gate of the guard to the king's house And he sat on the throne
of the kings .

1120 And all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was
in quiet and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's
house .

1121 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign .

* 121 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign and
forty years reigned he in Jerusalem And his mother's name was
Zibiah of Beersheba .

122 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him .

123 But the high places were not taken away the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places .

124 And Jehoash said to the priests All the money of the
dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD even
the money of every one that passeth the account the money that
every man is set at and all the money that cometh into any man's
heart to bring into the house of the LORD .

125 Let the priests take it to them every man of his
acquaintance and let them repair the breaches of the house
wheresoever any breach shall be found .

126 But it was so that in the three and twentieth year of king
Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house .

127 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest and the
other priests and said unto them Why repair ye not the breaches
of the house now therefore receive no more money of your
acquaintance but deliver it for the breaches of the house .

128 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the
people neither to repair the breaches of the house .

129 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in
the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as
one cometh into the house of the LORD and the priests that kept
the door put therein all the money that was brought into the
house of the LORD .

1210 And it was so when they saw that there was much money in
the chest that the king's scribe and the high priest came up and
they put up in bags and told the money that was found in the
house of the LORD .

1211 And they gave the money being told into the hands of them
that did the work that had the oversight of the house of the
LORD and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders that
wrought upon the house of the LORD .

1212 And to masons and hewers of stone and to buy timber and
hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD and
for all that was laid out for the house to repair it .

1213 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD
bowls of silver snuffers basins trumpets any vessels of gold or
vessels of silver of the money that was brought into the house
of the LORD .

1214 But they gave that to the workmen and repaired therewith
the house of the LORD .

1215 Moreover they reckoned not with the men into whose hand
they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen for they
dealt faithfully .

1216 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the
house of the LORD it was the priests' .

1217 Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath
and took it and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem .

1218 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things
that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers kings of
Judah had dedicated and his own hallowed things and all the gold
that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD and in
the king's house and sent it to Hazael king of Syria and he went
away from Jerusalem .

1219 And the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah .

1220 And his servants arose and made a conspiracy and slew
Joash in the house of Millo which goeth down to Silla .

1221 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of
Shomer his servants smote him and he died and they buried him
with his fathers in the city of David and Amaziah his son
reigned in his stead .

* 131 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of
Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign
over Israel in Samaria and reigned seventeen years .

132 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which made
Israel to sin he departed not therefrom .

133 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel and
he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into
the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael all their days .

134 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD and the LORD hearkened unto
him for he saw the oppression of Israel because the king of
Syria oppressed them .

135 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour so that they went out
from under the hand of the Syrians and the children of Israel
dwelt in their tents as beforetime .

136 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house
of Jeroboam who made Israel sin but walked therein and there
remained the grove also in Samaria .

137 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen for the king
of Syria had destroyed them and had made them like the dust by
threshing .

138 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did
and his might are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel .

139 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers and they buried him in
Samaria and Joash his son reigned in his stead .

1310 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah
began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in
Samaria and reigned sixteen years .

1311 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat
who made Israel sin but he walked therein .

1312 And the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did and
his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel .

1313 And Joash slept with his fathers and Jeroboam sat upon
his throne and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of
Israel .

1314 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he
died And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him and wept
over his face and said O my father my father the chariot of
Israel and the horsemen thereof .

1315 And Elisha said unto him Take bow and arrows And he took
unto him bow and arrows .

1316 And he said to the king of Israel Put thine hand upon the
bow And he put his hand upon it and Elisha put his hands upon
the king's hands .

1317 And he said Open the window eastward And he opened it
Then Elisha said Shoot And he shot And he said The arrow of the
LORD'S deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria for
thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek till thou have consumed
them .

1318 And he said Take the arrows And he took them And he said
unto the king of Israel Smite upon the ground And he smote
thrice and stayed .

1319 And the man of God was wroth with him and said Thou
shouldest have smitten five or six times then hadst thou smitten
Syria till thou hadst consumed it whereas now thou shalt smite
Syria but thrice .

1320 And Elisha died and they buried him And the bands of the
Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year .

1321 And it came to pass as they were burying a man that
behold they spied a band of men and they cast the man into the
sepulchre of Elisha and when the man was let down and touched
the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet .

1322 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
Jehoahaz .

1323 And the LORD was gracious unto them and had compassion on
them and had respect unto them because of his covenant with
Abraham Isaac and Jacob and would not destroy them neither cast
he them from his presence as yet .

1324 So Hazael king of Syria died and Benhadad his son reigned
in his stead .

1325 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the
hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken
out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war Three times did
Joash beat him and recovered the cities of Israel .

* 141 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah .

142 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign
and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem And his mother's
name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem .

143 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
yet not like David his father he did according to all things as
Joash his father did .

144 Howbeit the high places were not taken away as yet the
people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places .

145 And it came to pass as soon as the kingdom was confirmed
in his hand that he slew his servants which had slain the king
his father .

146 But the children of the murderers he slew not according
unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses
wherein the LORD commanded saying The fathers shall not be put
to death for the children nor the children be put to death for
the fathers but every man shall be put to death for his own sin .


147 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand and
took Selah by war and called the name of it Joktheel unto this
day .

148 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of
Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel saying Come let us look one
another in the face .

149 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah saying The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar
that was in Lebanon saying Give thy daughter to my son to wife
and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon and trode
down the thistle .

1410 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom and thine heart hath lifted
thee up glory of this and tarry at home for why shouldest thou
meddle to thy hurt that thou shouldest fall even thou and Judah
with thee .

1411 But Amaziah would not hear Therefore Jehoash king of
Israel went up and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one
another in the face at Bethshemesh which belongeth to Judah .

1412 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel and they
fled every man to their tents .

1413 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah the
son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah at Bethshemesh and came to
Jerusalem and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of
Ephraim unto the corner gate four hundred cubits .

1414 And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels
that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of
the king's house and hostages and returned to Samaria .

1415 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did and his
might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel .

1416 And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in
Samaria with the kings of Israel and Jeroboam his son reigned in
his stead .

1417 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after
the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years .

1418 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah .

1419 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem and
he fled to Lachish but they sent after him to Lachish and slew
him there .

1420 And they brought him on horses and he was buried at
Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David .

1421 And all the people of Judah took Azariah which was
sixteen years old and made him king instead of his father
Amaziah .

1422 He built Elath and restored it to Judah after that the
king slept with his fathers .

1423 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in
Samaria and reigned forty and one years .

1424 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat
who made Israel to sin .

1425 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of
Hamath unto the sea of the plain according to the word of the
LORD God of Israel which he spake by the hand of his servant
Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet which was of Gathhepher .

1426 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel that it was
very bitter for there was not any shut up nor any left nor any
helper for Israel .

1427 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of
Israel from under heaven but he saved them by the hand of
Jeroboam the son of Joash .

1428 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did
and his might how he warred and how he recovered Damascus and
Hamath which belonged to Judah for Israel are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel .

1429 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers even with the kings
of Israel and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead .

* 151 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel
began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign .

152 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign and he
reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem And his mother's name
was Jecholiah of Jerusalem .

153 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
according to all that his father Amaziah had done .

154 Save that the high places were not removed the people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places .

155 And the LORD smote the king so that he was a leper unto
the day of his death and dwelt in a several house And Jotham the
king's son was over the house judging the people of the land .

156 And the rest of the acts of Azariah and all that he did
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah .

157 So Azariah slept with his fathers and they buried him with
his fathers in the city of David and Jotham his son reigned in
his stead .

158 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six
months .

159 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD as
his fathers had done he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin .

1510 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and
smote him before the people and slew him and reigned in his
stead .

1511 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah behold they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel .

1512 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu
saying Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the
fourth generation And so it came to pass .

1513 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah and he reigned a full
month in Samaria .

1514 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came
to Samaria and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and
slew him and reigned in his stead .

1515 And the rest of the acts of Shallum and his conspiracy
which he made behold they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel .

1516 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah and all that were therein and
the coasts thereof from Tirzah because they opened not to him
therefore he smote it and all the women therein that were with
child he ripped up .

1517 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah
began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel and reigned
ten years in Samaria .

1518 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat who made Israel to sin .

1519 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land and
Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver that his hand
might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand .

1520 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel even of all the
mighty men of wealth of each man fifty shekels of silver to give
to the king of Assyria So the king of Assyria turned back and
stayed not there in the land .

1521 And the rest of the acts of Menahem and all that he did
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel .

1522 And Menahem slept with his fathers and Pekahiah his son
reigned in his stead .

1523 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah
the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria and
reigned two years .

1524 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who
made Israel to sin .

1525 But Pekah the son of Remaliah a captain of his conspired
against him and smote him in Samaria in the palace of the king's
house with Argob and Arieh and with him fifty men of the
Gileadites and he killed him and reigned in his room .

1526 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah and all that he did
behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel .

1527 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria
and reigned twenty years .

1528 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who
made Israel to sin .

1529 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser
king of Assyria and took Ijon and Abelbethmaachah and Janoah and
Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee all the land of Naphtali
and carried them captive to Assyria .

1530 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against
Pekah the son of Remaliah and smote him and slew him and reigned
in his stead in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah .

1531 And the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did
behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel .

1532 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of
Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign .

1533 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem And his mother's name
was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok .

1534 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done .

1535 Howbeit the high places were not removed the people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places He built
the higher gate of the house of the LORD .

1536 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah .

1537 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin
the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah .

1538 And Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father and Ahaz his son reigned
in his stead .

* 161 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign .

162 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and did not that which was
right in the sight of the LORD his God like David his father .

163 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel yea and
made his son to pass through the fire according to the
abominations of the heathen whom the LORD cast out from before
the children of Israel .

164 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and
on the hills and under every green tree .

165 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of
Israel came up to Jerusalem to war and they besieged Ahaz but
could not overcome him .

166 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria
and drave the Jews from Elath and the Syrians came to Elath and
dwelt there unto this day .

167 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria
saying I am thy servant and thy son come up and save me out of
the hand of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king of
Israel which rise up against me .

168 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the
house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king's house and
sent it for a present to the king of Assyria .

169 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him for the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus and took it and carried the
people of it captive to Kir and slew Rezin .

1610 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser
king of Assyria and saw an altar that was at Damascus and king
Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar and the
pattern of it according to all the workmanship thereof .

1611 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all
that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus so Urijah the priest made
it against king Ahaz came from Damascus .

1612 And when the king was come from Damascus the king saw the
altar and the king approached to the altar and offered thereon .

1613 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering and
poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his peace
offerings upon the altar .

1614 And he brought also the brazen altar which was before the
LORD from the forefront of the house from between the altar and
the house of the LORD and put it on the north side of the altar .

1615 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest saying Upon the
great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening meat
offering and the king's burnt sacrifice and his meat offering
with the burnt offering of all the people of the land and their
meat offering and their drink offerings and sprinkle upon it all
the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the
sacrifice and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by .

1616 Thus did Urijah the priest according to all that king
Ahaz commanded .

1617 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases and
removed the laver from off them and took down the sea from off
the brazen oxen that were under it and put it upon a pavement of
stones .

1618 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the
house and the king's entry without turned he from the house of
the LORD for the king of Assyria .

1619 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah .

1620 And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David and Hezekiah his son reigned in his
stead .

* 171 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea
the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years .

172 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
but not as the kings of Israel that were before him .

173 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria and Hoshea
became his servant and gave him presents .

174 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea for he
had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and brought no present
to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year therefore the
king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison .

175 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land
and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years .

176 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
Samaria and carried Israel away into Assyria and placed them in
Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the cities of
the Medes .

177 For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned
against the LORD their God which had brought them up out of the
land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt and
had feared other gods .

178 And walked in the statutes of the heathen whom the LORD
cast out from before the children of Israel and of the kings of
Israel which they had made .

179 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that
were not right against the LORD their God and they built them
high places in all their cities from the tower of the watchmen
to the fenced city .

1710 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill
and under every green tree .

1711 And there they burnt incense in all the high places as
did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them and
wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger .

1712 For they served idols whereof the LORD had said unto them
Ye shall not do this thing .

1713 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah
by all the prophets and by all the seers saying Turn ye from
your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes
according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and
which I sent to you by my servants the prophets .

1714 Notwithstanding they would not hear but hardened their
necks like to the neck of their fathers that did not believe in
the LORD their God .

1715 And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he
made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified
against them and they followed vanity and became vain and went
after the heathen that were round about them concerning whom the
LORD had charged them that they should not do like them .

1716 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God
and made them molten images even two calves and made a grove and
worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal .

1717 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire and used divination and enchantments and sold
themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to
anger .

1718 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed
them out of his sight there was none left but the tribe of Judah
only .

1719 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their
God but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made .

1720 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel and
afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers
until he had cast them out of his sight .

1721 For he rent Israel from the house of David and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king and Jeroboam drave Israel from
following the LORD and made them sin a great sin .

1722 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did they departed not from them .

1723 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight as he had
said by all his servants the prophets So was Israel carried away
out of their own land to Assyria unto this day .

1724 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from
Cuthah and from Ava and from Hamath and from Sepharvaim and
placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of
Israel and they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities
thereof .

1725 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there
that they feared not the LORD therefore the LORD sent lions
among them which slew some of them .

1726 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria saying The
nations which thou hast removed and placed in the cities of
Samaria know not the manner of the God of the land therefore he
hath sent lions among them and behold they slay them because
they know not the manner of the God of the land .

1727 Then the king of Assyria commanded saying Carry thither
one of the priests whom ye brought from thence and let them go
and dwell there and let him teach them the manner of the God of
the land .

1728 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from
Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel and taught them how they should
fear the LORD .

1729 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own and put them
in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made
every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt .

1730 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth and the men of
Cuth made Nergal and the men of Hamath made Ashima .

1731 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak and the Sepharvites
burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the
gods of Sepharvaim .

1732 So they feared the LORD and made unto themselves of the
lowest of them priests of the high places which sacrificed for
them in the houses of the high places .

1733 They feared the LORD and served their own gods after the
manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence .

1734 Unto this day they do after the former manners they fear
not the LORD neither do they after their statutes or after their
ordinances or after the law and commandment which the LORD
commanded the children of Jacob whom he named Israel .

1735 With whom the LORD had made a covenant and charged them
saying Ye shall not fear other gods nor bow yourselves to them
nor serve them nor sacrifice to them .

1736 But the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
with great power and a stretched out arm him shall ye fear and
him shall ye worship and to him shall ye do sacrifice .

1737 And the statutes and the ordinances and the law and the
commandment which he wrote for you ye shall observe to do for
evermore and ye shall not fear other gods .

1738 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not
forget neither shall ye fear other gods .

1739 But the LORD your God ye shall fear and he shall deliver
you out of the hand of all your enemies .

1740 Howbeit they did not hearken but they did after their
former manner .

1741 So these nations feared the LORD and served their graven
images both their children and their children's children as did
their fathers so do they unto this day .

* 181 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of
Elah king of Israel that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah
began to reign .

182 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign
and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem His mother's
name also was Abi the daughter of Zachariah .

183 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
according to all that David his father did .

184 He removed the high places and brake the images and cut
down the groves and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that
Moses had made for unto those days the children of Israel did
burn incense to it and he called it Nehushtan .

185 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel so that after him was
none like him among all the kings of Judah nor any that were
before him .

186 For he clave to the LORD and departed not from following
him but kept his commandments which the LORD commanded Moses .

187 And the LORD was with him and he prospered whithersoever
he went forth and he rebelled against the king of Assyria and
served him not .

188 He smote the Philistines even unto Gaza and the borders
thereof from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city .

189 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah
which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel
that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and
besieged it .

1810 And at the end of three years they took it even in the
sixth year of Hezekiah that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of
Israel Samaria was taken .

1811 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto
Assyria and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan
and in the cities of the Medes .

1812 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God
but transgressed his covenant and all that Moses the servant of
the LORD commanded and would not hear them nor do them .

1813 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced
cities of Judah and took them .

1814 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to
Lachish saying I have offended return from me that which thou
puttest on me will I bear And the king of Assyria appointed unto
Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and
thirty talents of gold .

1815 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in
the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king's house .

1816 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors
of the temple of the LORD and from the pillars which Hezekiah
king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria .

1817 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and
Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host
against Jerusalem And they went up and came to Jerusalem And
when they were come up they came and stood by the conduit of the
upper pool which is in the highway of the fuller's field .

1818 And when they had called to the king there came out to
them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah which was over the household and
Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder .

1819 And Rabshakeh said unto them Speak ye now to Hezekiah
Thus saith the great king the king of Assyria What confidence is
this wherein thou trustest .

1820 Thou sayest (but they are but vain words I have counsel
and strength for the war Now on whom dost thou trust that thou
rebellest against me .

1821 Now behold thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised
reed even upon Egypt on which if a man lean it will go into his
hand and pierce it so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that
trust on him .

1822 But if ye say unto me We trust in the LORD our God is not
that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken
away and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem Ye shall worship
before this altar in Jerusalem .

1823 Now therefore I pray thee give pledges to my lord the
king of Assyria and I will deliver thee two thousand horses if
thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them .

1824 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of
the least of my master's servants and put thy trust on Egypt for
chariots and for horsemen .

1825 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to
destroy it The LORD said to me Go up against this land and
destroy it .

1826 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and Shebna and Joah
unto Rabshakeh Speak I pray thee to thy servants in the Syrian
language for we understand it and talk not with us in the Jews'
language in the ears of the people that are on the wall .

1827 But Rabshakeh said unto them Hath my master sent me to
thy master and to thee to speak these words hath he not sent me
to the men which sit on the wall that they may eat their own
dung and drink their own piss with you .

1828 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the
Jews' language and spake saying Hear the word of the great king
the king of Assyria .

1829 Thus saith the king Let not Hezekiah deceive you for he
shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand .

1830 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD saying
The LORD will surely deliver us and this city shall not be
delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria .

1831 Hearken not to Hezekiah for thus saith the king of
Assyria Make an agreement with me by a present and come out to
me and then eat ye every man of his own vine and every one of
his fig tree and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern .

1832 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own
land a land of corn and wine a land of bread and vineyards a
land of oil olive and of honey that ye may live and not die and
hearken not unto Hezekiah when he persuadeth you saying The LORD
will deliver us .

1833 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his
land out of the hand of the king of Assyria .

1834 Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad where are the
gods of Sepharvaim Hena and Ivah have they delivered Samaria out
of mine hand .

1835 Who are they among all the gods of the countries that
have delivered their country out of mine hand that the LORD
should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand .

1836 But the people held their peace and answered him not a
word for the king's commandment was saying Answer him not .

1837 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah which was over the
household and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder to Hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the
words of Rabshakeh .

* 191 And it came to pass when king Hezekiah heard it that he
rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went
into the house of the LORD .

192 And he sent Eliakim which was over the household and
Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests covered with
sackcloth to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz .

193 And they said unto him Thus saith Hezekiah This day is a
day of trouble and of rebuke and blasphemy for the children are
come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth .

194 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of
Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God and will reprove the words which the
LORD thy God hath heard wherefore lift up thy prayer for the
remnant that are left .

195 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah .

196 And Isaiah said unto them Thus shall ye say to your master
Thus saith the LORD Be not afraid of the words which thou hast
heard with which the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me .

197 Behold I will send a blast upon him and he shall hear a
rumour and shall return to his own land and I will cause him to
fall by the sword in his own land .

198 So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah for he had heard that he was departed
from Lachish .

199 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia Behold
he is come out to fight against thee he sent messengers again
unto Hezekiah saying .

1910 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah saying Let
not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee saying Jerusalem
shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria .

1911 Behold thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be
delivered .

1912 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
fathers have destroyed as Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the
children of Eden which were in Thelasar .

1913 Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad and the
king of the city of Sepharvaim of Hena and Ivah .

1914 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the
messengers and read it and Hezekiah went up into the house of
the LORD and spread it before the LORD .

1915 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said O LORD God
of Israel which dwellest between the cherubims thou art the God
even thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth thou hast made
heaven and earth .

1916 LORD bow down thine ear and hear open LORD thine eyes and
see and hear the words of Sennacherib which hath sent him to
reproach the living God .

1917 Of a truth LORD the kings of Assyria have destroyed the
nations and their lands .

1918 And have cast their gods into the fire for they were no
gods but the work of men's hands wood and stone therefore they
have destroyed them .

1919 Now therefore O LORD our God I beseech thee save thou us
out of his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that
thou art the LORD God even thou only .

1920 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah saying Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel That which thou hast prayed to me
against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard .

1921 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him
The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed
thee to scorn the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at
thee .

1922 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed and against whom
hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high
even against the Holy One of Israel .

1923 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord and hast
said With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the
height of the mountains to the sides of Lebanon and will cut
down the tall cedar trees thereof and the choice fir trees
thereof and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders and
into the forest of his Carmel .

1924 I have digged and drunk strange waters and with the sole
of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places .

1925 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it and of
ancient times that I have formed it now have I brought it to
pass that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into
ruinous heaps .

1926 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power they were
dismayed and confounded they were as the grass of the field and
as the green herb as the grass on the house tops and as corn
blasted before it be grown up .

1927 But I know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in
and thy rage against me .

1928 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up
into mine ears therefore I will put my hook in thy nose and my
bridle in thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way by which
thou camest .

1929 And this shall be a sign unto thee Ye shall eat this year
such things as grow of themselves and in the second year that
which springeth of the same and in the third year sow ye and
reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruits thereof .

1930 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward .

1931 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and they
that escape out of mount Zion the zeal of the LORD of hosts
shall do this .

1932 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
Assyria He shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow
there nor come before it with shield nor cast a bank against it .

1933 By the way that he came by the same shall he return and
shall not come into this city saith the LORD .

1934 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake
and for my servant David's sake .

1935 And it came to pass that night that the angel of the LORD
went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred
fourscore and five thousand and when they arose early in the
morning behold they were all dead corpses .

1936 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and
returned and dwelt at Nineveh .

1937 And it came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him
with the sword and they escaped into the land of Armenia And
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead .

* 201 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death And the
prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said unto him
Thus saith the LORD Set thine house in order for thou shalt die
and not live .

202 Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed unto the
LORD saying .

203 I beseech thee O LORD remember now how I have walked
before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that
which is good in thy sight And Hezekiah wept sore .

204 And it came to pass afore Isaiah was gone out into the
middle court that the word of the LORD came to him saying .

205 Turn again and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people Thus
saith the LORD the God of David thy father I have heard thy
prayer I have seen thy tears behold I will heal thee on the
third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD .

206 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years and I will
deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria and I will defend this city for mine own sake and for my
servant David's sake .

207 And Isaiah said Take a lump of figs And they took and laid
it on the boil and he recovered .

208 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah What shall be the sign that
the LORD will heal me and that I shall go up into the house of
the LORD the third day .

209 And Isaiah said This sign shalt thou have of the LORD that
the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken shall the shadow
go forward ten degrees or go back ten degrees .

2010 And Hezekiah answered It is a light thing for the shadow
to go down ten degrees nay but let the shadow return backward
ten degrees .

2011 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD and he brought
the shadow ten degrees backward by which it had gone down in the
dial of Ahaz .

2012 At that time Berodachbaladan the son of Baladan king of
Babylon sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah for he had
heard that Hezekiah had been sick .

2013 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them and showed them all the
house of his precious things the silver and the gold and the
spices and the precious ointment and all the house of his armour
and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing in his
house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah showed them not .

2014 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah and said
unto him What said these men and from whence came they unto thee
And Hezekiah said They are come from a far country even from
Babylon .

2015 And he said What have they seen in thine house And
Hezekiah answered All the things that are in mine house have
they seen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not
showed them .

2016 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah Hear the word of the LORD .

2017 Behold the days come that all that is in thine house and
that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day shall
be carried into Babylon nothing shall be left saith the LORD .

2018 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou
shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in
the palace of the king of Babylon .

2019 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah Good is the word of the
LORD which thou hast spoken And he said Is it not good if peace
and truth be in my days .

2020 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might
and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water into the
city are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah .

2021 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasseh his son
reigned in his stead .

* 211 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign and
reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem And his mother's name
was Hephzibah .

212 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD cast out
before the children of Israel .

213 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had destroyed and he reared up altars for Baal and made a
grove as did Ahab king of Israel and worshipped all the host of
heaven and served them .

214 And he built altars in the house of the LORD of which the
LORD said In Jerusalem will I put my name .

215 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of the LORD .

216 And he made his son pass through the fire and observed
times and used enchantments and dealt with familiar spirits and
wizards he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD to
provoke him to anger .

217 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in
the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son
In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all
tribes of Israel will I put my name for ever .

218 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out
of the land which I gave their fathers only if they will observe
to do according to all that I have commanded them and according
to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them .

219 But they hearkened not and Manasseh seduced them to do
more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before
the children of Israel .

2110 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets saying .

2111 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites
did which were before him and hath made Judah also to sin with
his idols .

2112 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel Behold I am
bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever
heareth of it both his ears shall tingle .

2113 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and
the plummet of the house of Ahab and I will wipe Jerusalem as a
man wipeth a dish wiping it and turning it upside down .

2114 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance and
deliver them into the hand of their enemies and they shall
become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies .

2115 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight
and have provoked me to anger since the day their fathers came
forth out of Egypt even unto this day .

2116 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much till he
had filled Jerusalem from one end to another beside his sin
wherewith he made Judah to sin in doing that which was evil in
the sight of the LORD .

2117 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did
and his sin that he sinned are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah .

2118 And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the
garden of his own house in the garden of Uzza and Amon his son
reigned in his stead .

2119 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign
and he reigned two years in Jerusalem And his mother's name was
Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah .

2120 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
as his father Manasseh did .

2121 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in
and served the idols that his father served and worshipped them .

2122 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers and walked not
in the way of the LORD .

2123 And the servants of Amon conspired against him and slew
the king in his own house .

2124 And the people of the land slew all them that had
conspired against king Amon and the people of the land made
Josiah his son king in his stead .

2125 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah .

2126 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza
and Josiah his son reigned in his stead .

* 221 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign and he
reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem And his mother's name
was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath .

222 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
and walked in all the way of David his father and turned not
aside to the right hand or to the left .

223 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah
that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah the son of
Meshullam the scribe to the house of the LORD saying .

224 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may sum the
silver which is brought into the house of the LORD which the
keepers of the door have gathered of the people .

225 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the
work that have the oversight of the house of the LORD and let
them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of
the LORD to repair the breaches of the house .

226 Unto carpenters and builders and masons and to buy timber
and hewn stone to repair the house .

227 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money
that was delivered into their hand because they dealt faithfully
.

228 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe I
have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD And
Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan and he read it .

229 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought the
king word again and said Thy servants have gathered the money
that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand
of them that do the work that have the oversight of the house of
the LORD .

2210 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king saying Hilkiah the
priest hath delivered me a book And Shaphan read it before the
king .

2211 And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of
the book of the law that he rent his clothes .

2212 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam the
son of Shaphan and Achbor the son of Michaiah and Shaphan the
scribe and Asahiah a servant of the king's saying .

2213 Go ye inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and
for all Judah concerning the words of this book that is found
for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us
because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this
book to do according unto all that which is written concerning
us .

2214 So Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan
and Asahiah went unto Huldah the prophetess the wife of Shallum
the son of Tikvah the son of Harhas keeper of the wardrobe (now
she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college and they communed with her
.

2215 And she said unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel
Tell the man that sent you to me .

2216 Thus saith the LORD Behold I will bring evil upon this
place and upon the inhabitants thereof even all the words of the
book which the king of Judah hath read .

2217 Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense
unto other gods that they might provoke me to anger with all the
works of their hands therefore my wrath shall be kindled against
this place and shall not be quenched .

2218 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the
LORD thus shall ye say to him Thus saith the LORD God of Israel
As touching the words which thou hast heard .

2219 Because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled
thyself before the LORD when thou heardest what I spake against
this place and against the inhabitants thereof that they should
become a desolation and a curse and hast rent thy clothes and
wept before me I also have heard thee saith the LORD .

2220 Behold therefore I will gather thee unto thy fathers and
thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace and thine eyes
shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place
And they brought the king word again .

* 231 And the king sent and they gathered unto him all the
elders of Judah and of Jerusalem .

232 And the king went up into the house of the LORD and all
the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him
and the priests and the prophets and all the people both small
and great and he read in their ears all the words of the book of
the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD .

233 And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before
the LORD to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and
his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all
their soul to perform the words of this covenant that were
written in this book And all the people stood to the covenant .

234 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the
priests of the second order and the keepers of the door to bring
forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were
made for Baal and for the grove and for all the host of heaven
and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and
carried the ashes of them unto Bethel .

235 And he put down the idolatrous priests whom the kings of
Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the
cities of Judah and in the places round about Jerusalem them
also that burned incense unto Baal to the sun and to the moon
and to the planets and to all the host of heaven .

236 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD
without Jerusalem unto the brook Kidron and burned it at the
brook Kidron and stamped it small to powder and cast the powder
thereof upon the graves of the children of the people .

237 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites that were by
the house of the LORD where the women wove hangings for the
grove .

238 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah
and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense
from Geba to Beersheba and brake down the high places of the
gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the
governor of the city which were on a man's left hand at the gate
of the city .

239 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to
the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem but they did eat of the
unleavened bread among their brethren .

2310 And he defiled Topheth which is in the valley of the
children of Hinnom that no man might make his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire to Molech .

2311 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had
given to the sun at the entering in of the house of the LORD by
the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain which was in the
suburbs and burned the chariots of the sun with fire .

2312 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber
of Ahaz which the kings of Judah had made and the altars which
Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD did
the king beat down and brake them down from thence and cast the
dust of them into the brook Kidron .

2313 And the high places that were before Jerusalem which were
on the right hand of the mount of corruption which Solomon the
king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the
Zidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites and
for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon did the king
defile .

2314 And he brake in pieces the images and cut down the groves
and filled their places with the bones of men .

2315 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel and the high place
which Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin had made
both that altar and the high place he brake down and burned the
high place and stamped it small to powder and burned the grove .

2316 And as Josiah turned himself he spied the sepulchres that
were there in the mount and sent and took the bones out of the
sepulchres and burned them upon the altar and polluted it
according to the word of the LORD which the man of God
proclaimed who proclaimed these words .

2317 Then he said What title is that that I see And the men of
the city told him It is the sepulchre of the man of God which
came from Judah and proclaimed these things that thou hast done
against the altar of Bethel .

2318 And he said Let him alone let no man move his bones So
they let his bones alone with the bones of the prophet that came
out of Samaria .

2319 And all the houses also of the high places that were in
the cities of Samaria which the kings of Israel had made to
provoke the LORD to anger Josiah took away and did to them
according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel .

2320 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were
there upon the altars and burned men's bones upon them and
returned to Jerusalem .

2321 And the king commanded all the people saying Keep the
passover unto the LORD your God as it is written in the book of
this covenant .

2322 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days
of the judges that judged Israel nor in all the days of the
kings of Israel nor of the kings of Judah .

2323 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah wherein this
passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem .

2324 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits and the
wizards and the images and the idols and all the abominations
that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem did Josiah
put away that he might perform the words of the law which were
written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house
of the LORD .

2325 And like unto him was there no king before him that
turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and
with all his might according to all the law of Moses neither
after him arose there any like him .

2326 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness
of his great wrath wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah
because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him
withal .

2327 And the LORD said I will remove Judah also out of my
sight as I have removed Israel and will cast off this city
Jerusalem which I have chosen and the house of which I said My
name shall be there .

2328 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah .

2329 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against
the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates and king Josiah went
against him and he slew him at Megiddo when he had seen him .

2330 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from
Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own
sepulchre And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah and anointed him and made him king in his father's stead .

2331 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to
reign and he reigned three months in Jerusalem And his mother's
name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah .

2332 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
according to all that his fathers had done .

2333 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land
of Hamath that he might not reign in Jerusalem and put the land
to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver and a talent of
gold .

2334 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in
the room of Josiah his father and turned his name to Jehoiakim
and took Jehoahaz away and he came to Egypt and died there .

2335 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh but
he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment
of Pharaoh he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of
the land of every one according to his taxation to give it unto
Pharaohnechoh .

2336 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to
reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem And his mother's
name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah .

2337 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
according to all that his fathers had done .

* 241 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years then he turned and
rebelled against him .

242 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees and
bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the
children of Ammon and sent them against Judah to destroy it
according to the word of the LORD which he spake by his servants
the prophets .

243 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah
to remove them out of his sight for the sins of Manasseh
according to all that he did .

244 And also for the innocent blood that he shed for he
filled Jerusalem with innocent blood which the LORD would not
pardon .

245 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah .

246 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers and Jehoiachin his son
reigned in his stead .

247 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his
land for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt
unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt
.

248 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign
and he reigned in Jerusalem three months And his mother's name
was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem .

249 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
according to all that his father had done .

2410 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came up against Jerusalem and the city was besieged .

2411 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city
and his servants did besiege it .

2412 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of
Babylon he and his mother and his servants and his princes and
his officers and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year
of his reign .

2413 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house
of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house and cut in
pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had
made in the temple of the LORD as the LORD had said .

2414 And he carried away all Jerusalem and all the princes and
all the mighty men of valour even ten thousand captives and all
the craftsmen and smiths none remained save the poorest sort of
the people of the land .

2415 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon and the king's
mother and the king's wives and his officers and the mighty of
the land those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to
Babylon .

2416 And all the men of might even seven thousand and
craftsmen and smiths a thousand all that were strong and apt for
war even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon .

2417 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's
brother king in his stead and changed his name to Zedekiah .

2418 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to
reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem And his mother's
name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah .

2419 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
according to all that Jehoiakim had done .

2420 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in
Jerusalem and Judah until he had cast them out from his presence
that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon .

* 251 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the
tenth month in the tenth day of the month that Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon came he and all his host against Jerusalem and
pitched against it and they built forts against it round about .

252 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah .

253 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine
prevailed in the city and there was no bread for the people of
the land .

254 And the city was broken up and all the men of war fled by
night by the way of the gate between two walls which is by the
king's garden now the Chaldees were against the city round about
and the king went the way toward the plain .

255 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king and
overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army were
scattered from him .

256 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah and they gave judgment upon him .

257 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and put
out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with fetters of brass and
carried him to Babylon .

258 And in the fifth month on the seventh day of the month
which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came Nebuzaradan captain of the guard a servant of the
king of Babylon unto Jerusalem .

259 And he burnt the house of the LORD and the king's house
and all the houses of Jerusalem and every great man's house
burnt he with fire .

2510 And all the army of the Chaldees that were with the
captain of the guard brake down the walls of Jerusalem round
about .

2511 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city and
the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon with the
remnant of the multitude did Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carry away .

2512 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land
to be vinedressers and husbandmen .

2513 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the
LORD and the bases and the brazen sea that was in the house of
the LORD did the Chaldees break in pieces and carried the brass
of them to Babylon .

2514 And the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the
spoons and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered
took they away .

2515 And the firepans and the bowls and such things as were of
gold in gold and of silver in silver the captain of the guard
took away .

2516 The two pillars one sea and the bases which Solomon had
made for the house of the LORD the brass of all these vessels
was without weight .

2517 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits and the
chapiter upon it was brass and the height of the chapiter three
cubits and the wreathen work and pomegranates upon the chapiter
round about all of brass and like unto these had the second
pillar with wreathen work .

2518 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of
the door .

2519 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over
the men of war and five men of them that were in the king's
presence which were found in the city and the principal scribe
of the host which mustered the people of the land and threescore
men of the people of the land that were found in the city .

2520 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah .

2521 And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at
Riblah in the land of Hamath So Judah was carried away out of
their land .

2522 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah
whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left even over them he
made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan ruler .

2523 And when all the captains of the armies they and their
men heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor
there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah even Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah and Johanan the son of Careah and Seraiah the son of
Tanhumeth the Netophathite and Jaazaniah the son of a
Maachathite they and their men .

2524 And Gedaliah sware to them and to their men and said unto
them Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees dwell in the
land and serve the king of Babylon and it shall be well with you
.

2525 But it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama of the seed royal came and
ten men with him and smote Gedaliah that he died and the Jews
and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah .

2526 And all the people both small and great and the captains
of the armies arose and came to Egypt for they were afraid of
the Chaldees .

2527 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of
the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah in the twelfth month
on the seven and twentieth day of the month that Evilmerodach
king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up
the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison .

2528 And he spake kindly to him and set his throne above the
throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon .

2529 And changed his prison garments and he did eat bread
continually before him all the days of his life .

2530 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of
the king a daily rate for every day all the days of his life .









  
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