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11 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his


kingdom and the LORD his God was with him and magnified him
exceedingly .

12 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel to the captains of
thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every
governor in all Israel the chief of the fathers .

13 So Solomon and all the congregation with him went to the
high place that was at Gibeon for there was the tabernacle of
the congregation of God which Moses the servant of the LORD had
made in the wilderness .

14 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim
to the place which David had prepared for it for he had pitched
a tent for it at Jerusalem .

15 Moreover the brazen altar that Bezaleel the son of Uri the
son of Hur had made he put before the tabernacle of the LORD and
Solomon and the congregation sought unto it .

16 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before the
LORD which was at the tabernacle of the congregation and offered
a thousand burnt offerings upon it .

17 In that night did God appear unto Solomon and said unto him
Ask what I shall give thee .

18 And Solomon said unto God Thou hast showed great mercy unto
David my father and hast made me to reign in his stead .

19 Now O LORD God let thy promise unto David my father be
established for thou hast made me king over a people like the
dust of the earth in multitude .

110 Give me now wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and
come in before this people for who can judge this thy people
that is so great .

111 And God said to Solomon Because this was in thine heart
and thou hast not asked riches wealth or honour nor the life of
thine enemies neither yet hast asked long life but hast asked
wisdom and knowledge for thyself that thou mayest judge my
people over whom I have made thee king .

112 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee and I will give
thee riches and wealth and honour such as none of the kings have
had that have been before thee neither shall there any after
thee have the like .

113 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that
was at Gibeon to Jerusalem from before the tabernacle of the
congregation and reigned over Israel .

114 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen and he had a
thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen
which he placed in the chariot cities and with the king at
Jerusalem .

115 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as
plenteous as stones and cedar trees made he as the sycamore
trees that are in the vale for abundance .

116 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt and linen yarn
the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price .

117 And they fetched up and brought forth out of Egypt a
chariot for six hundred shekels of silver and an horse for an
hundred and fifty and so brought they out horses for all the
kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria by their means .

* 21 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of
the LORD and an house for his kingdom .

22 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to
bear burdens and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain and
three thousand and six hundred to oversee them .

23 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre saying As thou
didst deal with David my father and didst send him cedars to
build him an house to dwell therein even so deal with me .

24 Behold I build an house to the name of the LORD my God to
dedicate it to him and to burn before him sweet incense and for
the continual showbread and for the burnt offerings morning and
evening on the sabbaths and on the new moons and on the solemn
feasts of the LORD our God This is an ordinance for ever to
Israel .

25 And the house which I build is great for great is our God
above all gods .

26 But who is able to build him an house seeing the heaven and
heaven of heavens cannot contain him who am I then that I should
build him an house save only to burn sacrifice before him .

27 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold and in
silver and in brass and in iron and in purple and crimson and
blue and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are
with me in Judah and in Jerusalem whom David my father did
provide .

28 Send me also cedar trees fir trees and algum trees out of
Lebanon for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in
Lebanon and behold my servants shall be with thy servants .

29 Even to prepare me timber in abundance for the house which
I am about to build shall be wonderful great .

210 And behold I will give to thy servants the hewers that cut
timber twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat and twenty
thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand baths of wine
and twenty thousand baths of oil .

211 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing which he
sent to Solomon Because the LORD hath loved his people he hath
made thee king over them .

212 Huram said moreover Blessed be the LORD God of Israel that
made heaven and earth who hath given to David the king a wise
son endued with prudence and understanding that might build an
house for the LORD and an house for his kingdom .

213 And now I have sent a cunning man endued with
understanding of Huram my father's .

214 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan and his father
was a man of Tyre skilful to work in gold and in silver in brass
in iron in stone and in timber in purple in blue and in fine
linen and in crimson also to grave any mannerof graving and to
find out every device which shall be put to him with thy cunning
men and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father .

215 Now therefore the wheat and the barley the oil and the
wine which my lord hath spoken of let him send unto his servants
.

216 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon as much as thou shalt
need and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa and
thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem .

217 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the
land of Israel after the numbering wherewith David his father
had numbered them and they were found an hundred and fifty
thousand and three thousand and six hundred .

218 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be
bearers of burdens and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the
mountain and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the
people a work .

* 31 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at
Jerusalem in mount Moriah where the Lord appeared unto David his
father in the place that David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite .

32 And he began to build in the second day of the second month
in the fourth year of his reign .

33 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for
the building of the house of God The length by cubits after the
first measure was threescore cubits and the breadth twenty
cubits .

34 And the porch that was in the front of the house the length
of it was according to the breadth of the house twenty cubits
and the height was an hundred and twenty and he overlaid it
within with pure gold .

35 And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree which he
overlaid with fine gold and set thereon palm trees and chains .

36 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty
and the gold was gold of Parvaim .

37 He overlaid also the house the beams the posts and the
walls thereof and the doors thereof with gold and graved
cherubims on the walls .

38 And he made the most holy house the length whereof was
according to the breadth of the house twenty cubits and the
breadth thereof twenty cubits and he overlaid it with fine gold
amounting to six hundred talents .

39 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold And
he overlaid the upper chambers with gold .

310 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image
work and overlaid them with gold .

311 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long one
wing of the one cherub was five cubits reaching to the wall of
the house and the other wing was likewise five cubits reaching
to the wing of the other cherub .

312 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits reaching
to the wall of the house and the other wing was five cubits also
joining to the wing of the other cherub .

313 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth
twenty cubits and they stood on their feet and their faces were
inward .

314 And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson and
fine linen and wrought cherubims thereon .

315 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and
five cubits high and the chapiter that was on the top of each of
them was five cubits .

316 And he made chains as in the oracle and put them on the
heads of the pillars and made an hundred pomegranates and put
them on the chains .

317 And he reared up the pillars before the temple one on the
right hand and the other on the left and called the name of that
on the right hand Jachin and the name of that on the left Boaz .

* 41 Moreover he made an altar of brass twenty cubits the
length thereof and twenty cubits the breadth thereof and ten
cubits the height thereof .

42 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim
round in compass and five cubits the height thereof and a line
of thirty cubits did compass it round about .

43 And under it was the similitude of oxen which did compass
it round about ten in a cubit compassing the sea round about Two
rows of oxen were cast when it was cast .

44 It stood upon twelve oxen three looking toward the north
and three looking toward the west and three looking toward the
south and three looking toward the east and the sea was set
above upon them and all their hinder parts were inward .

45 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth and the brim of
it like the work of the brim of a cup with flowers of lilies and
it received and held three thousand baths .

46 He made also ten lavers and put five on the right hand and
five on the left to wash in them such things as they offered for
the burnt offering they washed in them but the sea was for the
priests to wash in .

47 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their
form and set them in the temple five on the right hand and five
on the left .

48 He made also ten tables and placed them in the temple five
on the right side and five on the left And he made an hundred
basins of gold .

49 Furthermore he made the court of the priests and the great
court and doors for the court and overlaid the doors of them
with brass .

410 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end over
against the south .

411 And Huram made the pots and the shovels and the basins And
Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for
the house of God .

412 To wit the two pillars and the pommels and the chapiters
which were on the top of the two pillars and the two wreaths to
cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of
the pillars .

413 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths two rows
of pomegranates on each wreath to cover the two pommels of the
chapiters which were upon the pillars .

414 He made also bases and lavers made he upon the bases .

415 One sea and twelve oxen under it .

416 The pots also and the shovels and the fleshhooks and all
their instruments did Huram his father make to king Solomon for
the house of the LORD of bright brass .

417 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them in the clay
ground between Succoth and Zeredathah .

418 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance for
the weight of the brass could not be found out .

419 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house
of God the golden altar also and the tables whereon the
showbread was set .

420 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps that they
should burn after the manner before the oracle of pure gold .

421 And the flowers and the lamps and the tongs made he of
gold and that perfect gold .

422 And the snuffers and the basins and the spoons and the
censers of pure gold and the entry of the house the inner doors
thereof for the most holy place and the doors of the house of
the temple were of gold .

* 51 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the
LORD was finished and Solomon brought in all the things that
David his father had dedicated and the silver and the gold and
all the instruments put he among the treasures of the house of
God .

52 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the
heads of the tribes the chief of the fathers of the children of
Israel unto Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
LORD out of the city of David which is Zion .

53 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
the king in the feast which was in the seventh month .

54 And all the elders of Israel came and the Levites took up
the ark .

55 And they brought up the ark and the tabernacle of the
congregation and all the holy vessels that were in the
tabernacle these did the priests and the Levites bring up .

56 Also king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that
were assembled unto him before the ark sacrificed sheep and oxen
which could not be told nor numbered for multitude .

57 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the
LORD unto his place to the oracle of the house into the most
holy place even under the wings of the cherubims .

58 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place
of the ark and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves
thereof above .

59 And they drew out the staves of the ark that the ends of
the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle but they
were not seen without And there it is unto this day .

510 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which
Moses put therein at Horeb when the LORD made a covenant with
the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt .

511 And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the
holy place (for all the priests that were present were
sanctified and did not then wait by course .

512 Also the Levites which were the singers all of them of
Asaph of Heman of Jeduthun with their sons and their brethren
being arrayed in white linen having cymbals and psalteries and
harps stood at the east end of the altar and with them an
hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets .

513 It came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as
one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the
LORD and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and
cymbals and instruments of music and praised the LORD saying For
he is good for his mercy endureth for ever that then the house
was filled with a cloud even the house of the LORD .

514 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason
of the cloud for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of
God .

* 61 Then said Solomon The LORD hath said that he would dwell
in the thick darkness .

62 But I have built an house of habitation for thee and a
place for thy dwelling for ever .

63 And the king turned his face and blessed the whole
congregation of Israel and all the congregation of Israel stood .

64 And he said Blessed be the LORD God of Israel who hath with
his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my
father David saying .

65 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the
land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to
build an house in that my name might be there neither chose I
any man to be a ruler over my people Israel .

66 But I have chosen Jerusalem that my name might be there and
have chosen David to be over my people Israel .

67 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an
house for the name of the LORD God of Israel .

68 But the LORD said to David my father Forasmuch as it was in
thine heart to build an house for my name thou didst well in
that it was in thine heart .

69 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house but thy son
which shall come forth out of thy loins he shall build the house
for my name .

610 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath
spoken for I am risen up in the room of David my father and am
set on the throne of Israel as the LORD promised and have built
the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel .

611 And in it have I put the ark wherein is the covenant of
the LORD that he made with the children of Israel .

612 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence
of all the congregation of Israel and spread forth his hands .

613 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold of five cubits long
and five cubits broad and three cubits high and had set it in
the midst of the court and upon it he stood and kneeled down
upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel and spread
forth his hands toward heaven .

614 And said O LORD God of Israel there is no God like thee in
the heaven nor in the earth which keepest covenant and showest
mercy unto thy servants that walk before thee with all their
hearts .

615 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that
which thou hast promised him and spakest with thy mouth and hast
fulfilled it with thine hand as it is this day .

616 Now therefore O LORD God of Israel keep with thy servant
David my father that which thou hast promised him saying There
shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of
Israel yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk
in my law as thou hast walked before me .

617 Now then O LORD God of Israel let thy word be verified
which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David .

618 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth
behold heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee how
much less this house which I have built .

619 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant and to
his supplication O LORD my God to hearken unto the cry and the
prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee .

620 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night
upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy
name there to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth
toward this place .

621 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant
and of thy people Israel which they shall make toward this place
hear thou from thy dwelling place even from heaven and when thou
hearest forgive .

622 If a man sin against his neighbour and an oath be laid
upon him to make him swear and the oath come before thine altar
in this house .

623 Then hear thou from heaven and do and judge thy servants
by requiting the wicked by recompensing his way upon his own
head and by justifying the righteous by giving him according to
his righteousness .

624 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the
enemy because they have sinned against thee and shall return and
confess thy name and pray and make supplication before thee in
this house .

625 Then hear thou from the heavens and forgive the sin of thy
people Israel and bring them again unto the land which thou
gavest to them and to their fathers .

626 When the heaven is shut up and there is no rain because
they have sinned against thee yet if they pray toward this place
and confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou dost
afflict them .

627 Then hear thou from heaven and forgive the sin of thy
servants and of thy people Israel when thou hast taught them the
good way wherein they should walk and send rain upon thy land
which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance .

628 If there be dearth in the land if there be pestilence if
there be blasting or mildew locusts or caterpillars if their
enemies besiege them in the cities of their land whatsoever sore
or whatsoever sickness there be .

629 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made
of any man or of all thy people Israel when every one shall know
his own sore and his own grief and shall spread forth his hands
in this house .

630 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place and forgive
and render unto every man according unto all his ways whose
heart thou knowest (for thou only knowest the hearts of the
children of men .

631 That they may fear thee to walk in thy ways so long as
they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers .

632 Moreover concerning the stranger which is not of thy
people Israel but is come from a far country for thy great
name's sake and thy mighty hand and thy stretched out arm if
they come and pray in this house .

633 Then hear thou from the heavens even from thy dwelling
place and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee
for that all people of the earth may know thy name and fear thee
as doth thy people Israel and may know that this house which I
have built is called by thy name .

634 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the
way that thou shalt send them and they pray unto thee toward
this city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have
built for thy name .

635 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
supplication and maintain their cause .

636 If they sin against thee (for there is no man which
sinneth not and thou be angry with them and deliver them over
before their enemies and they carry them away captives unto a
land far off or near .

637 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they
are carried captive and turn and pray unto thee in the land of
their captivity saying We have sinned we have done amiss and
have dealt wickedly .

638 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all
their soul in the land of their captivity whither they have
carried them captives and pray toward their land which thou
gavest unto their fathers and toward the city which thou hast
chosen and toward the house which I have built for thy name .

639 Then hear thou from the heavens even from thy dwelling
place their prayer and their supplications and maintain their
cause and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee .

640 Now my God let I beseech thee thine eyes be open and let
thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place .

641 Now therefore arise O LORD God into thy resting place thou
and the ark of thy strength let thy priests O LORD God be
clothed with salvation and let thy saints rejoice in goodness .

642 O LORD God turn not away the face of thine anointed
remember the mercies of David thy servant .

* 71 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying the fire came
down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the
sacrifices and the glory of the LORD filled the house .

72 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD
because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house .

73 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came
down and the glory of the LORD upon the house they bowed
themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement and
worshipped and praised the LORD saying For he is good for his
mercy endureth for ever .

74 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before
the LORD .

75 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two
thousand oxen and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep so the
king and all the people dedicated the house of God .

76 And the priests waited on their offices the Levites also
with instruments of music of the LORD which David the king had
made to praise the LORD because his mercy endureth for ever when
David praised by their ministry and the priests sounded trumpets
before them and all Israel stood .

77 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was
before the house of the LORD for there he offered burnt
offerings and the fat of the peace offerings because the brazen
altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt
offerings and the meat offerings and the fat .

78 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days and
all Israel with him a very great congregation from the entering
in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt .

79 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly for they
kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven
days .

710 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he
sent the people away into their tents glad and merry in heart
for the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David and to
Solomon and to Israel his people .

711 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's
house and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the
house of the LORD and in his own house he prosperously effected .

712 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said unto
him I have heard thy prayer and have chosen this place to myself
for an house of sacrifice .

713 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain or if I command
the locusts to devour the land or if I send pestilence among my
people .

714 If my people which are called by my name shall humble
themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and
will heal their land .

715 Now mine eyes shall be open and mine ears attent unto the
prayer that is made in this place .

716 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house that my
name may be there for ever and mine eyes and mine heart shall be
there perpetually .

717 And as for thee if thou wilt walk before me as David thy
father walked and do according to all that I have commanded thee
and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments .

718 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom according
as I have covenanted with David thy father saying There shall
not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel .

719 But if ye turn away and forsake my statutes and my
commandments which I have set before you and shall go and serve
other gods and worship them .

720 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land
which I have given them and this house which I have sanctified
for my name will I cast out of my sight and will make it to be a
proverb and a byword among all nations .

721 And this house which is high shall be an astonishment to
every one that passeth by it so that he shall say Why hath the
LORD done thus unto this land and unto this house .

722 And it shall be answered Because they forsook the LORD God
of their fathers which brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshipped them and served
them therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them .

* 81 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years wherein
Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house .

82 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon Solomon
built them and caused the children of Israel to dwell there .

83 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah and prevailed against it .

84 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store
cities which he built in Hamath .

85 Also he built Bethhoron the upper and Bethhoron the nether
fenced cities with walls gates and bars .

86 And Baalath and all the store cities that Solomon had and
all the chariot cities and the cities of the horsemen and all
that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and
throughout all the land of his dominion .

87 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites and
the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the
Jebusites which were not of Israel .

88 But of their children who were left after them in the land
whom the children of Israel consumed not them did Solomon make
to pay tribute until this day .

89 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants
for his work but they were men of war and chief of his captains
and captains of his chariots and horsemen .

810 And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers even
two hundred and fifty that bare rule over the people .

811 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the
city of David unto the house that he had built for her for he
said My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of
Israel because the places are holy whereunto the ark of the LORD
hath come .

812 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the
altar of the LORD which he had built before the porch .

813 Even after a certain rate every day offering according to
the commandment of Moses on the sabbaths and on the new moons
and on the solemn feasts three times in the year even in the
feast of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the
feast of tabernacles .

814 And he appointed according to the order of David his
father the courses of the priests to their service and the
Levites to their charges to praise and minister before the
priests as the duty of every day required the porters also by
their courses at every gate for so had David the man of God
commanded .

815 And they departed not from the commandment of the king
unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter or concerning
the treasures .

816 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of
the foundation of the house of the LORD and until it was
finished So the house of the LORD was perfected .

817 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber and to Eloth at the sea
side in the land of Edom .

818 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships and
servants that had knowledge of the sea and they went with the
servants of Solomon to Ophir and took thence four hundred and
fifty talents of gold and brought them to king Solomon .

* 91 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon
she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem with
a very great company and camels that bare spices and gold in
abundance and precious stones and when she was come to Solomon
she communed with him of all that was in her heart .

92 And Solomon told her all her questions and there was
nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not .

93 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon
and the house that he had built .

94 And the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants
and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel his
cupbearers also and their apparel and his ascent by which he
went up into the house of the LORD there was no more spirit in
her .

95 And she said to the king It was a true report which I heard
in mine own land of thine acts and of thy wisdom .

96 Howbeit I believed not their words until I came and mine
eyes had seen it and behold the one half of the greatness of thy
wisdom was not told me for thou exceedest the fame that I heard .

97 Happy are thy men and happy are these thy servants which
stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom .

98 Blessed be the LORD thy God which delighted in thee to set
thee on his throne to be king for the LORD thy God because thy
God loved Israel to establish them for ever therefore made he
thee king over them to do judgment and justice .

99 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold
and of spices great abundance and precious stones neither was
there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon .

910 And the servants also of Huram and the servants of Solomon
which brought gold from Ophir brought algum trees and precious
stones .

911 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house
of the LORD and to the king's palace and harps and psalteries
for singers and there were none such seen before in the land of
Judah .

912 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire
whatsoever she asked beside that which she had brought unto the
king So she turned and went away to her own land she and her
servants .

913 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year
was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold .

914 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought And all
the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold
and silver to Solomon .

915 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold
six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target .

916 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold three
hundred shekels of gold went to one shield And the king put them
in the house of the forest of Lebanon .

917 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory and
overlaid it with pure gold .

918 And there were six steps to the throne with a footstool of
gold which were fastened to the throne and stays on each side of
the sitting place and two lions standing by the stays .

919 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the
other upon the six steps There was not the like made in any
kingdom .

920 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold
and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were
of pure gold none were of silver it was not any thing accounted
of in the days of Solomon .

921 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of
Huram every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing
gold and silver ivory and apes and peacocks .

922 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in
riches and wisdom .

923 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of
Solomon to hear his wisdom that God had put in his heart .

924 And they brought every man his present vessels of silver
and vessels of gold and raiment harness and spices horses and
mules a rate year by year .

925 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and
chariots and twelve thousand horsemen whom he bestowed in the
chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem .

926 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto
the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt .

927 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones and cedar
trees made he as the sycamore trees that are in the low plains
in abundance .

928 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt and out
of all lands .

929 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are
they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet and in the
prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Iddo the
seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat .

930 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty
years .

931 And Solomon slept with his fathers and he was buried in
the city of David his father and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
stead .

* 101 And Rehoboam went to Shechem for to Shechem were all
Israel come to make him king .

102 And it came to pass when Jeroboam the son of Nebat who was
in Egypt whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the
king heard it that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt .

103 And they sent and called him So Jeroboam and all Israel
came and spake to Rehoboam saying .

104 Thy father made our yoke grievous now therefore ease thou
somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke
that he put upon us and we will serve thee .

105 And he said unto them Come again unto me after three days
And the people departed .

106 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had
stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived saying What
counsel give ye me to return answer to this people .

107 And they spake unto him saying If thou be kind to this
people and please them and speak good words to them they will be
thy servants for ever .

108 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him and
took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him
that stood before him .

109 And he said unto them What advice give ye that we may
return answer to this people which have spoken to me saying Ease
somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us .

1010 And the young men that were brought up with him spake
unto him saying Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake
unto thee saying Thy father made our yoke heavy but make thou it
somewhat lighter for us thus shalt thou say unto themMy little
finger shall be thicker than my father's loins .

1011 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you I will
put more to your yoke my father chastised you with whips but I
will chastise you with scorpions .

1012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the
third day as the king bade saying Come again to me on the third
day .

1013 And the king answered them roughly and king Rehoboam
forsook the counsel of the old men .

1014 And answered them after the advice of the young men
saying My father made your yoke heavy but I will add thereto my
father chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with
scorpions .

1015 So the king hearkened not unto the people for the cause
was of God that the LORD might perform his word which he spake
by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat
.

1016 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken
unto them the people answered the king saying What portion have
we in David and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse
every man to your tents O Israel and now David see to thine own
house So all Israel went to their tents .

1017 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the
cities of Judah Rehoboam reigned over them .

1018 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute
and the children of Israel stoned him with stones that he died
But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot to
flee to Jerusalem .

1019 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this
day .

* 111 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem he gathered of
the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore
thousand chosen men which were warriors to fight against Israel
that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam .

112 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God
saying .

113 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon king of Judah and
to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin saying .

114 Thus saith the LORD Ye shall not go up nor fight against
your brethren return every man to his house for this thing is
done of me And they obeyed the words of the LORD and returned
from going against Jeroboam .

115 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem and built cities for
defence in Judah .

116 He built even Bethlehem and Etam and Tekoa .

117 And Bethzur and Shoco and Adullam .

118 And Gath and Mareshah and Ziph .

119 And Adoraim and Lachish and Azekah .

1110 And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron which are in Judah and
in Benjamin fenced cities .

1111 And he fortified the strong holds and put captains in
them and store of victual and of oil and wine .

1112 And in every several city he put shields and spears and
made them exceeding strong having Judah and Benjamin on his side
.

1113 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel
resorted to him out of all their coasts .

1114 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession
and came to Judah and Jerusalem for Jeroboam and his sons had
cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD .

1115 And he ordained him priests for the high places and for
the devils and for the calves which he had made .

1116 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as
set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to
Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers .

1117 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made
Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong three years for three years
they walked in the way of David and Solomon .

1118 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth
the son of David to wife and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the
son of Jesse .

1119 Which bare him children Jeush and Shemariah and Zaham .

1120 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom
which bare him Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith .

1121 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above
all his wives and his concubines (for he took eighteen wives and
threescore concubines and begat twenty and eight sons and
threescore daughters .

1122 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief to
be ruler among his brethren for he thought to make him king .

1123 And he dealt wisely and dispersed of all his children
throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin unto every
fenced city and he gave them victual in abundance And he desired
many wives .

* 121 And it came to pass when Rehoboam had established the
kingdom and had strengthened himself he forsook the law of the
LORD and all Israel with him .

122 And it came to pass that in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem because
they had transgressed against the LORD .

123 With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand
horsemen and the people were without number that came with him
out of Egypt the Lubims the Sukkiims and the Ethiopians .

124 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah and
came to Jerusalem .

125 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam and to the
princes of Judah that were gathered together to Jerusalem
because of Shishak and said unto them Thus saith the LORD Ye
have forsaken me and therefore have I also left you in the hand
of Shishak .

126 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled
themselves and they said The LORD is righteous .

127 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves the
word of the LORD came to Shemaiah saying They have humbled
themselves therefore I will not destroy them but I will grant
them some deliverance and my wrath shall not be poured out upon
Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak .

128 Nevertheless they shall be his servants that they may know
my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries .

129 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and
took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the
treasures of the king's house he took all he carried away also
the shields of gold which Solomon had made .

1210 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass and
committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard that kept
the entrance of the king's house .

1211 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD the
guard came and fetched them and brought them again into the
guard chamber .

1212 And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned
from him that he would not destroy him altogether and also in
Judah things went well .

1213 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and
reigned for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began
to reign and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city
which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put
his name there And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess .

1214 And he did evil because he prepared not his heart to seek
the LORD .

1215 Now the acts of Rehoboam first and last are they not
written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer
concerning genealogies And there were wars between Rehoboam and
Jeroboam continually .

1216 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the
city of David and Abijah his son reigned in his stead .

* 131 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah
to reign over Judah .

132 He reigned three years in Jerusalem His mother's name also
was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah And there was war
between Abijah and Jeroboam .

133 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant
men of war even four hundred thousand chosen men Jeroboam also
set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand
chosen men being mighty men of valour .

134 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim which is in mount
Ephraim and said Hear me thou Jeroboam and all Israel .

135 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the
kingdom over Israel to David for ever even to him and to his
sons by a covenant of salt .

136 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat the servant of Solomon the
son of David is risen up and hath rebelled against his lord .

137 And there are gathered unto him vain men the children of
Belial and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son
of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted and could
not withstand them .

138 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in
the hand of the sons of David and ye be a great multitude and
there are with you golden calves which Jeroboam made you for
gods .

139 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD the sons of
Aaron and the Levites and have made you priests after the manner
of the nations of other lands so that whosoever cometh to
consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams the same
may be a priest of them that are no gods .

1310 But as for us the LORD is our God and we have not
forsaken him and the priests which minister unto the LORD are
the sons of Aaron and the Levites wait upon their business .

1311 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every
evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense the showbread also
set they in order upon the pure table and the candlestick of
gold with the lamps thereof to burn every evening for we keepthe
charge of the LORD our God but ye have forsaken him .

1312 And behold God himself is with us for our captain and his
priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you O
children of Israel fight ye not against the LORD God of your
fathers for ye shall not prosper .

1313 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind
them so they were before Judah and the ambushment was behind
them .

1314 And when Judah looked back behold the battle was before
and behind and they cried unto the LORD and the priests sounded
with the trumpets .

1315 Then the men of Judah gave a shout and as the men of
Judah shouted it came to pass that God smote Jeroboam and all
Israel before Abijah and Judah .

1316 And the children of Israel fled before Judah and God
delivered them into their hand .

1317 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great
slaughter so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred
thousand chosen men .

1318 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that
time and the children of Judah prevailed because they relied
upon the LORD God of their fathers .

1319 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took cities from
him Bethel with the towns thereof and Jeshanah with the towns
thereof and Ephrain with the towns thereof .

1320 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days
of Abijah and the LORD struck him and he died .

1321 But Abijah waxed mighty and married fourteen wives and
begat twenty and two sons and sixteen daughters .

1322 And the rest of the acts of Abijah and his ways and his
sayings are written in the story of the prophet Iddo .

* 141 So Abijah slept with his fathers and they buried him in
the city of David and Asa his son reigned in his stead In his
days the land was quiet ten years .

142 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of
the LORD his God .

143 For he took away the altars of the strange gods and the
high places and brake down the images and cut down the groves .

144 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers
and to do the law and the commandment .

145 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high
places and the images and the kingdom was quiet before him .

146 And he built fenced cities in Judah for the land had rest
and he had no war in those years because the LORD had given him
rest .

147 Therefore he said unto Judah Let us build these cities and
make about them walls and towers gates and bars while the land
is yet before us because we have sought the LORD our God we have
sought him and he hath given us rest on every side So they built
and prospered .

148 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears
out of Judah three hundred thousand and out of Benjamin that
bare shields and drew bows two hundred and fourscore thousand
all these were mighty men of valour .

149 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with
an host of a thousand thousand and three hundred chariots and
came unto Mareshah .

1410 Then Asa went out against him and they set the battle in
array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah .

1411 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God and said LORD it is
nothing with thee to help whether with many or with them that
have no power help us O LORD our God for we rest on thee and in
thy name we go against this multitude O LORD thou art our God
let not man prevail against thee .

1412 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before
Judah and the Ethiopians fled .

1413 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them
unto Gerar and the Ethiopians were overthrown that they could
not recover themselves for they were destroyed before the LORD
and before his host and they carried away very much spoil .

1414 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar for the
fear of the LORD came upon them and they spoiled all the cities
for there was exceeding much spoil in them .

1415 They smote also the tents of cattle and carried away
sheep and camels in abundance and returned to Jerusalem .

* 151 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded .

152 And he went out to meet Asa and said unto him Hear ye me
Asa and all Judah and Benjamin The LORD is with you while ye be
with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye
forsake him he will forsake you .

153 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true
God and without a teaching priest and without law .

154 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God
of Israel and sought him he was found of them .

155 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out
nor to him that came in but great vexations were upon all the
inhabitants of the countries .

156 And nation was destroyed of nation and city of city for
God did vex them with all adversity .

157 Be ye strong therefore and let not your hands be weak for
your work shall be rewarded .

158 And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded
the prophet he took courage and put away the abominable idols
out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin and out of the cities
which he had taken from mount Ephraim and renewed the altar of
the LORD that was before the porch of the LORD .

159 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and the strangers
with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh and out of Simeon for they
fell to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that the
LORD his God was with him .

1510 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the
third month in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa .

1511 And they offered unto the LORD the same time of the spoil
which they had brought seven hundred oxen and seven thousand
sheep .

1512 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of
their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul .

1513 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel
should be put to death whether small or great whether man or
woman .

1514 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice and with
shouting and with trumpets and with cornets .

1515 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath for they had sworn
with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire and
he was found of them and the LORD gave them rest round about .

1516 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king he
removed her from being queen because she had made an idol in a
grove and Asa cut down her idol and stamped it and burnt it at
the brook Kidron .

1517 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel
nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days .

1518 And he brought into the house of God the things that his
father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated silver
and gold and vessels .

1519 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth
year of the reign of Asa .

* 161 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha
king of Israel came up against Judah and built Ramah to the
intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of
Judah .

162 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures
of the house of the LORD and of the king's house and sent to
Benhadad king of Syria that dwelt at Damascus saying .

163 There is a league between me and thee as there was between
my father and thy father behold I have sent thee silver and gold
go break thy league with Baasha king of Israel that he may
depart from me .

164 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa and sent the captains
of his armies against the cities of Israel and they smote Ijon
and Dan and Abelmaim and all the store cities of Naphtali .

165 And it came to pass when Baasha heard it that he left off
building of Ramah and let his work cease .

166 Then Asa the king took all Judah and they carried away the
stones of Ramah and the timber thereof wherewith Baasha was
building and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah .

167 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah
and said unto him Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria
and not relied on the LORD thy God therefore is the host of the
king of Syria escaped out of thine hand .

168 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host with
very many chariots and horsemen yet because thou didst rely on
the LORD he delivered them into thine hand .

169 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the
whole earth to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose
heart is perfect toward him Herein thou hast done foolishly
therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars .

1610 Then Asa was wroth with the seer and put him in a prison
house for he was in a rage with him because of this thing And
Asa oppressed some of the people the same time .

1611 And behold the acts of Asa first and last lo they are
written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel .

1612 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was
diseased in his feet until his disease was exceeding great yet
in his disease he sought not to the LORD but to the physicians .

1613 And Asa slept with his fathers and died in the one and
fortieth year of his reign .

1614 And they buried him in his own sepulchres which he had
made for himself in the city of David and laid him in the bed
which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices
prepared by the apothecaries' art and they made a very great
burning for him .

* 171 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead and
strengthened himself against Israel .

172 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah and
set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim
which Asa his father had taken .

173 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the
first ways of his father David and sought not unto Baalim .

174 But sought to the LORD God of his father and walked in his
commandments and not after the doings of Israel .

175 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand and
all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents and he had riches and
honour in abundance .

176 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD
moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah .

177 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes
even to Benhail and to Obadiah and to Zechariah and to Nethaneel
and to Michaiah to teach in the cities of Judah .

178 And with them he sent Levites even Shemaiah and Nethaniah
and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and
Adonijah and Tobijah and Tobadonijah Levites and with them
Elishama and Jehoram priests .

179 And they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of
the LORD with them and went about throughout all the cities of
Judah and taught the people .

1710 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of
the lands that were round about Judah so that they made no war
against Jehoshaphat .

1711 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents
and tribute silver and the Arabians brought him flocks seven
thousand and seven hundred rams and seven thousand and seven
hundred he goats .

1712 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly and he built in
Judah castles and cities of store .

1713 And he had much business in the cities of Judah and the
men of war mighty men of valour were in Jerusalem .

1714 And these are the numbers of them according to the house
of their fathers Of Judah the captains of thousands Adnah the
chief and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand .

1715 And next to him was Jehohanan the captain and with him
two hundred and fourscore thousand .

1716 And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri who willingly
offered himself unto the LORD and with him two hundred thousand
mighty men of valour .

1717 And of Benjamin Eliada a mighty man of valour and with
him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand .

1718 And next him was Jehozabad and with him an hundred and
fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war .

1719 These waited on the king beside those whom the king put
in the fenced cities throughout all Judah .

* 181 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance and
joined affinity with Ahab .

182 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria
And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance and for the
people that he had with him and persuaded him to go up with him
to Ramothgilead .

183 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of
Judah Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead And he answered him I
am as thou art and my people as thy people and we will be with
thee in the war .

184 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel Inquire I
pray thee at the word of the LORD to day .

185 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets
four hundred men and said unto them Shall we go to Ramothgilead
to battle or shall I forbear And they said Go up for God will
deliver it into the king's hand .

186 But Jehoshaphat said Is there not here a prophet of the
LORD besides that we might inquire of him .

187 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat There is yet
one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD but I hate him for he
never prophesied good unto me but always evil the same is
Micaiah the son of Imla And Jehoshaphat said Let not the king
say so .

188 And the king of Israel called for one of his officers and
said Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla .

189 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat
either of them on his throne clothed in their robes and they sat
in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria and
all the prophets prophesied before them .

1810 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of
iron and said Thus saith the LORD With these thou shalt push
Syria until they be consumed .

1811 And all the prophets prophesied so saying Go up to
Ramothgilead and prosper for the LORD shall deliver it into the
hand of the king .

1812 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him
saying Behold the words of the prophets declare good to the king
with one assent let thy word therefore I pray thee be like one
of theirs and speak thou good .

1813 And Micaiah said As the LORD liveth even what my God
saith that will I speak .

1814 And when he was come to the king the king said unto him
Micaiah shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle or shall I forbear
And he said Go ye up and prosper and they shall be delivered
into your hand .

1815 And the king said to him How many times shall I adjure
thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of
the LORD .

1816 Then he said I did see all Israel scattered upon the
mountains as sheep that have no shepherd and the LORD said These
have no master let them return therefore every man to his house
in peace .

1817 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat Did I not tell
thee that he would not prophesy good unto me but evil .

1818 Again he said Therefore hear the word of the LORD I saw
the LORD sitting upon his throne and all the host of heaven
standing on his right hand and on his left .

1819 And the LORD said Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel
that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead And one spake saying
after this manner and another saying after that manner .

1820 Then there came out a spirit and stood before the LORD
and said I will entice him And the LORD said unto him Wherewith .

1821 And he said I will go out and be a lying spirit in the
mouth of all his prophets And the LORD said Thou shalt entice
him and thou shalt also prevail go out and do even so .

1822 Now therefore behold the LORD hath put a lying spirit in
the mouth of these thy prophets and the LORD hath spoken evil
against thee .

1823 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and smote
Micaiah upon the cheek and said Which way went the Spirit of the
LORD from me to speak unto thee .

1824 And Micaiah said Behold thou shalt see on that day when
thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself .

1825 Then the king of Israel said Take ye Micaiah and carry
him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the
king's son .

1826 And say Thus saith the king Put this fellow in the prison
and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
affliction until I return in peace .

1827 And Micaiah said If thou certainly return in peace then
hath not the LORD spoken by me And he said Hearken all ye people
.

1828 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
went up to Ramothgilead .

1829 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat I will
disguise myself and will go to the battle but put thou on thy
robes So the king of Israel disguised himself and they went to
the battle .

1830 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the
chariots that were with him saying Fight ye not with small or
great save only with the king of Israel .

1831 And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat that they said It is the king of Israel Therefore
they compassed about him to fight but Jehoshaphat cried out and
the LORD helped him and God moved them to depart from him .

1832 For it came to pass that when the captains of the
chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel they
turned back again from pursuing him .

1833 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the
king of Israel between the joints of the harness therefore he
said to his chariot man Turn thine hand that thou mayest carry
me out of the host for I am wounded .

1834 And the battle increased that day howbeit the king of
Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians
until the even and about the time of the sun going down he died .

* 191 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house
in peace to Jerusalem .

192 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him
and said to king Jehoshaphat Shouldest thou help the ungodly and
love them that hate the LORD therefore is wrath upon thee from
before the LORD .

193 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee in that
thou hast taken away the groves out of the land and hast
prepared thine heart to seek God .

194 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem and he went out again
through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim and brought
them back unto the LORD God of their fathers .

195 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced
cities of Judah city by city .

196 And said to the judges Take heed what ye do for ye judge
not for man but for the LORD who is with you in the judgment .

197 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you take
heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God
nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts .

198 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites
and of the priests and of the chief of the fathers of Israel for
the judgment of the LORD and for controversies when they
returned to Jerusalem .

199 And he charged them saying Thus shall ye do in the fear of
the LORD faithfully and with a perfect heart .

1910 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren
that dwell in their cities between blood and blood between law
and commandment statutes and judgments ye shall even warn them
that they trespass not against the LORD and so wrath come upon
you and upon your brethren this do and ye shall not trespass .

1911 And behold Amariah the chief priest is over you in all
matters of the LORD and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael the ruler of
the house of Judah for all the king's matters also the Levites
shall be officers before you Deal courageously and the LORD
shall be with the good .

* 201 It came to pass after this also that the children of Moab
and the children of Ammon and with them other beside the
Ammonites came against Jehoshaphat to battle .

202 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat saying There
cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on
this side Syria and behold they be in Hazazontamar which is
Engedi .

203 And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the LORD
and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah .

204 And Judah gathered themselves together to ask help of the
LORD even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the
LORD .

205 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and
Jerusalem in the house of the LORD before the new court .

206 And said O LORD God of our fathers art not thou God in
heaven and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen
and in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is
able to withstand thee .

207 Art not thou our God who didst drive out the inhabitants
of this land before thy people Israel and gavest it to the seed
of Abraham thy friend for ever .

208 And they dwelt therein and have built thee a sanctuary
therein for thy name saying .

209 If when evil cometh upon us as the sword judgment or
pestilence or famine we stand before this house and in thy
presence (for thy name is in this house and cry unto thee in our
affliction then thou wilt hear and help .

2010 And now behold the children of Ammon and Moab and mount
Seir whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade when they came out
of the land of Egypt but they turned from them and destroyed
them not .

2011 Behold I say how they reward us to come to cast us out of
thy possession which thou hast given us to inherit .

2012 O our God wilt thou not judge them for we have no might
against this great company that cometh against us neither know
we what to do but our eyes are upon thee .

2013 And all Judah stood before the LORD with their little
ones their wives and their children .

2014 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah the son of
Benaiah the son of Jeiel the son of Mattaniah a Levite of the
sons of Asaph came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the
congregation .

2015 And he said Hearken ye all Judah and ye inhabitants of
Jerusalem and thou king Jehoshaphat Thus saith the LORD unto you
Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude for
the battle is not yours but God's .

2016 To morrow go ye down against them behold they come up by
the cliff of Ziz and ye shall find them at the end of the brook
before the wilderness of Jeruel .

2017 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle set yourselves
stand ye still and see the salvation of the LORD with you O
Judah and Jerusalem fear not nor be dismayed to morrow go out
against them for the LORD will be with you .

2018 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground
and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the
LORD worshipping the LORD .

2019 And the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and of
the children of the Korhites stood up to praise the LORD God of
Israel with a loud voice on high .

2020 And they rose early in the morning and went forth into
the wilderness of Tekoa and as they went forth Jehoshaphat stood
and said Hear me O Judah and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem Believe
in the LORD your God so shall ye be established believe his
prophets so shall ye prosper .

2021 And when he had consulted with the people he appointed
singers unto the LORD and that should praise the beauty of
holiness as they went out before the army and to say Praise the
LORD for his mercy endureth for ever .

2022 And when they began to sing and to praise the LORD set
ambushments against the children of Ammon Moab and mount Seir
which were come against Judah and they were smitten .

2023 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the
inhabitants of mount Seir utterly to slay and destroy them and
when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir every one
helped to destroy another .

2024 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the
wilderness they looked unto the multitude and behold they were
dead bodies fallen to the earth and none escaped .

2025 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the
spoil of them they found among them in abundance both riches
with the dead bodies and precious jewels which they stripped off
for themselves more than they could carry away and they were
three days in gathering of the spoil it was so much .

2026 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the
valley of Berachah for there they blessed the LORD therefore the
name of the same place was called The valley of Berachah unto
this day .

2027 Then they returned every man of Judah and Jerusalem and
Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them to go again to Jerusalem
with joy for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their
enemies .

2028 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and
trumpets unto the house of the LORD .

2029 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those
countries when they had heard that the LORD fought against the
enemies of Israel .

2030 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet for his God gave
him rest round about .

2031 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah he was thirty and five
years old when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and five
years in Jerusalem And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter
of Shilhi .

2032 And he walked in the way of Asa his father and departed
not from it doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD .

2033 Howbeit the high places were not taken away for as yet
the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their
fathers .

2034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat first and last
behold they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani
who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel .

2035 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself
with Ahaziah king of Israel who did very wickedly .

2036 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to
Tarshish and they made the ships in Eziongaber .

2037 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied
against Jehoshaphat saying Because thou hast joined thyself with
Ahaziah the LORD hath broken thy works And the ships were broken
that they were not able to go to Tarshish .

* 211 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David And Jehoram his son
reigned in his stead .

212 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat Azariah and
Jehiel and Zechariah and Azariah and Michael and Shephatiah all
these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel .

213 And their father gave them great gifts of silver and of
gold and of precious things with fenced cities in Judah but the
kingdom gave he to Jehoram because he was the firstborn .

214 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father
he strengthened himself and slew all his brethren with the sword
and divers also of the princes of Israel .

215 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to
reign and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem .

216 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel like as
did the house of Ahab for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife
and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD .

217 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David
because of the covenant that he had made with David and as he
promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever .

218 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion
of Judah and made themselves a king .

219 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes and all his
chariots with him and he rose up by night and smote the Edomites
which compassed him in and the captains of the chariots .

2110 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah
unto this day The same time also did Libnah revolt from under
his hand because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers .

2111 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah
and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication
and compelled Judah thereto .

2112 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet
saying Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father Because thou
hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father nor in the
ways of Asa king of Judah .

2113 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel and
hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring
like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab and also hast slain
thy brethren of thy father's house which were better than
thyself .

2114 Behold with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people
and thy children and thy wives and all thy goods .

2115 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy
bowels until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day
by day .

2116 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit
of the Philistines and of the Arabians that were near the
Ethiopians .

2117 And they came up into Judah and brake into it and carried
away all the substance that was found in the king's house and
his sons also and his wives so that there was never a son left
him save Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons .

2118 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with
an incurable disease .

2119 And it came to pass that in process of time after the end
of two years his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness so he
died of sore diseases And his people made no burning for him
like the burning of his fathers .

2120 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign
and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years and departed without
being desired Howbeit they buried him in the city of David but
not in the sepulchres of the kings .

* 221 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his
youngest son king in his stead for the band of men that came
with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest So
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned .

222 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign
and he reigned one year in Jerusalem His mother's name also was
Athaliah the daughter of Omri .

223 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab for his
mother was his counsellor to do wickedly .

224 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the
house of Ahab for they were his counsellors after the death of
his father to his destruction .

225 He walked also after their counsel and went with Jehoram
the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of
Syria at Ramothgilead and the Syrians smote Joram .

226 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the
wounds which were given him at Ramah when he fought with Hazael
king of Syria And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel because he was
sick .

227 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to
Joram for when he was come he went out with Jehoram against Jehu
the son of Nimshi whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the
house of Ahab .

228 And it came to pass that when Jehu was executing judgment
upon the house of Ahab and found the princes of Judah and the
sons of the brethren of Ahaziah that ministered to Ahaziah he
slew them .

229 And he sought Ahaziah and they caught him (for he was hid
in Samaria and brought him to Jehu and when they had slain him
they buried him Because said they he is the son of Jehoshaphat
who sought the LORD with all his heart So the house of Ahaziah
had no power to keep still the kingdom .

2210 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
was dead she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house
of Judah .

2211 But Jehoshabeath the daughter of the king took Joash the
son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king's sons that
were slain and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber So
Jehoshabeath the daughter of king Jehoram the wife of Jehoiada
the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah hid him from
Athaliah so that she slew him not .

2212 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years
and Athaliah reigned over the land .

* 231 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself and
took the captains of hundreds Azariah the son of Jeroham and
Ishmael the son of Jehohanan and Azariah the son of Obed and
Maaseiah the son of Adaiah and Elishaphat the son of Zichri into
covenant with him .

232 And they went about in Judah and gathered the Levites out
of all the cities of Judah and the chief of the fathers of
Israel and they came to Jerusalem .

233 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in
the house of God And he said unto them Behold the king's son
shall reign as the LORD hath said of the sons of David .

234 This is the thing that ye shall do A third part of you
entering on the sabbath of the priests and of the Levites shall
be porters of the doors .

235 And a third part shall be at the king's house and a third
part at the gate of the foundation and all the people shall be
in the courts of the house of the LORD .

236 But let none come into the house of the LORD save the
priests and they that minister of the Levites they shall go in
for they are holy but all the people shall keep the watch of the
LORD .

237 And the Levites shall compass the king round about every
man with his weapons in his hand and whosoever else cometh into
the house he shall be put to death but be ye with the king when
he cometh in and when he goeth out .

238 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things
that Jehoiada the priest had commanded and took every man his
men that were to come in on the sabbath with them that were to
go out on the sabbath for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the
courses .

239 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of
hundreds spears and bucklers and shields that had been king
David's which were in the house of God .

2310 And he set all the people every man having his weapon in
his hand from the right side of the temple to the left side of
the temple along by the altar and the temple by the king round
about .

2311 Then they brought out the king's son and put upon him the
crown and gave him the testimony and made him king And Jehoiada
and his sons anointed him and said God save the king .

2312 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running
and praising the king she came to the people into the house of
the LORD .

2313 And she looked and behold the king stood at his pillar at
the entering in and the princes and the trumpets by the king and
all the people of the land rejoiced and sounded with trumpets
also the singers with instruments of music and such as taught to
sing praise Then Athaliah rent her clothes and said Treason
Treason .

2314 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of
hundreds that were set over the host and said unto them Have her
forth of the ranges and whoso followeth her let him be slain
with the sword For the priest said Slay her not in the house of
the LORD .

2315 So they laid hands on her and when she was come to the
entering of the horse gate by the king's house they slew her
there .

2316 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him and between all
the people and between the king that they should be the LORD'S
people .

2317 Then all the people went to the house of Baal and brake
it down and brake his altars and his images in pieces and slew
Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars .

2318 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the
LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites whom David had
distributed in the house of the LORD to offer the burnt
offerings of the LORD as it is written in the law of Moses with
rejoicing and with singing as it was ordained by David .

2319 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the
LORD that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in .

2320 And he took the captains of hundreds and the nobles and
the governors of the people and all the people of the land and
brought down the king from the house of the LORD and they came
through the high gate into the king's house and set the king
upon the throne of the kingdom .

2321 And all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was
quiet after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword .

* 241 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem His mother's name also was
Zibiah of Beersheba .

242 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest .

243 And Jehoiada took for him two wives and he begat sons and
daughters .

244 And it came to pass after this that Joash was minded to
repair the house of the LORD .

245 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites and
said to them Go out unto the cities of Judah and gather of all
Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year
and see that ye hasten the matter Howbeit the Levites hastened
it not .

246 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief and said unto
him Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of
Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection according to the
commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD and of the
congregation of Israel for the tabernacle of witness .

247 For the sons of Athaliah that wicked woman had broken up
the house of God and also all the dedicated things of the house
of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim .

248 And at the king's commandment they made a chest and set it
without at the gate of the house of the LORD .

249 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem
to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of
God laid upon Israel in the wilderness .

2410 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and
brought in and cast into the chest until they had made an end .

2411 Now it came to pass that at what time the chest was
brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites and
when they saw that there was much money the king's scribe and
the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest and took it
and carried it to his place again Thus they did day by day and
gathered money in abundance .

2412 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work
of the service of the house of the LORD and hired masons and
carpenters to repair the house of the LORD and also such as
wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD .

2413 So the workmen wrought and the work was perfected by them
and they set the house of God in his state and strengthened it .

2414 And when they had finished it they brought the rest of
the money before the king and Jehoiada whereof were made vessels
for the house of the LORD even vessels to minister and to offer
withal and spoons and vessels of gold and silver And they
offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all
the days of Jehoiada .

2415 But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days when he died
an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died .

2416 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings
because he had done good in Israel both toward God and toward
his house .

2417 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah
and made obeisance to the king Then the king hearkened unto them
.

2418 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers
and served groves and idols and wrath came upon Judah and
Jerusalem for this their trespass .

2419 Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again unto the
LORD and they testified against them but they would not give ear
.

2420 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of
Jehoiada the priest which stood above the people and said unto
them Thus saith God Why transgress ye the commandments of the
LORD that ye cannot prosper because ye have forsaken the LORD he
hath also forsaken you .

2421 And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones
at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the
LORD .

2422 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which
Jehoiada his father had done to him but slew his son And when he
died he said The LORD look upon it and require it .

2423 And it came to pass at the end of the year that the host
of Syria came up against him and they came to Judah and
Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among
the people and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of
Damascus .

2424 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of
men and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand
because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers So they
executed judgment against Joash .

2425 And when they were departed from him (for they left him
in great diseases his own servants conspired against him for the
blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest and slew him on his bed
and he died and they buried him in the city of David but they
buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings .

2426 And these are they that conspired against him Zabad the
son of Shimeath an Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith
a Moabitess .

2427 Now concerning his sons and the greatness of the burdens
laid upon him and the repairing of the house of God behold they
are written in the story of the book of the kings And Amaziah
his son reigned in his stead .

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

252 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
but not with a perfect heart .

253 Now it came to pass when the kingdom was established to
him that he slew his servants that had killed the king his
father .

254 But he slew not their children but did as it is written in
the law in the book of Moses where the LORD commanded saying The
fathers shall not die for the children neither shall the
children die for the fathers but every man shall die for his own
sin .

255 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together and made them
captains over thousands and captains over hundreds according to
the houses of their fathers throughout all Judah and Benjamin
and he numbered them from twenty years old and above and found
them three hundred thousand choice men able to go forth to war
that could handle spear and shield .

256 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out
of Israel for an hundred talents of silver .

257 But there came a man of God to him saying O king let not
the army of Israel go with thee for the LORD is not with Israel
to wit with all the children of Ephraim .

258 But if thou wilt go do it be strong for the battle God
shall make thee fall before the enemy for God hath power to help
and to cast down .

259 And Amaziah said to the man of God But what shall we do
for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel
And the man of God answered The LORD is able to give thee much
more than this .

2510 Then Amaziah separated them to wit the army that was come
to him out of Ephraim to go home again wherefore their anger was
greatly kindled against Judah and they returned home in great
anger .

2511 And Amaziah strengthened himself and led forth his people
and went to the valley of salt and smote of the children of Seir
ten thousand .

2512 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of
Judah carry away captive and brought them unto the top of the
rock and cast them down from the top of the rock that they all
were broken in pieces .

2513 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back that
they should not go with him to battle fell upon the cities of
Judah from Samaria even unto Bethhoron and smote three thousand
of them and took much spoil .

2514 Now it came to pass after that Amaziah was come from the
slaughter of the Edomites that he brought the gods of the
children of Seir and set them up to be his gods and bowed down
himself before them and burned incense unto them .

2515 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Amaziah and he sent unto him a prophet which said unto him Why
hast thou sought after the gods of the people which could not
deliver their own people out of thine hand .

2516 And it came to pass as he talked with him that the king
said unto him Art thou made of the king's counsel forbear why
shouldest thou be smitten Then the prophet forbare and said I
know that God hath determined to destroy thee because thou hast
done this and hast not hearkened unto my counsel .

2517 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice and sent to Joash
the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu king of Israel saying Come
let us see one another in the face .

2518 And Joash 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 .

2519 Thou sayest Lo thou hast smitten the Edomites and thine
heart lifteth thee up to boast abide now at home why shouldest
thou meddle to thine hurt that thou shouldest fall even thou and
Judah with thee .

2520 But Amaziah would not hear for it came of God that he
might deliver them into the hand of their enemies because they
sought after the gods of Edom .

2521 So Joash the king of Israel went up and they saw one
another in the face both he and Amaziah king of Judah at
Bethshemesh which belongeth to Judah .

2522 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel and they
fled every man to his tent .

2523 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah
the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz at Bethshemesh and brought
him to Jerusalem and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the
gate of Ephraim to the corner gate four hundred cubits .

2524 And he took all the gold and the silver and all the
vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom and
the treasures of the king's house the hostages also and returned
to Samaria .

2525 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after
the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years .

2526 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah first and last behold
are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel .

2527 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from
following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in
Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish but they sent to Lachish after
him and slew him there .

2528 And they brought him upon horses and buried him with his
fathers in the city of Judah .

* 261 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah who was sixteen
years old and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah .

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

263 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign and he
reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem His mother's name also
was Jecoliah of Jerusalem .

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

265 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah who had
understanding in the visions of God and as long as he sought the
LORD God made him to prosper .

266 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines and
brake down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall
of Ashdod and built cities about Ashdod and among the
Philistines .

267 And God helped him against the Philistines and against the
Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal and the Mehunims .

268 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah and his name spread
abroad even to the entering in of Egypt for he strengthened
himself exceedingly .

269 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner
gate and at the valley gate and at the turning of the wall and
fortified them .

2610 Also he built towers in the desert and digged many wells
for he had much cattle both in the low country and in the plains
husbandmen also and vine dressers in the mountains and in Carmel
for he loved husbandry .

2611 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men that went out
to war by bands according to the number of their account by the
hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler under the hand
of Hananiah one of the king's captains .

2612 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the
mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred .

2613 And under their hand was an army three hundred thousand
and seven thousand and five hundred that made war with mighty
power to help the king against the enemy .

2614 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host
shields and spears and helmets and habergeons and bows and
slings to cast stones .

2615 And he made in Jerusalem engines invented by cunning men
to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and
great stones withal And his name spread far abroad for he was
marvellously helped till he was strong .

2616 But when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his
destruction for he transgressed against the LORD his God and
went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar
of incense .

2617 And Azariah the priest went in after him and with him
fourscore priests of the LORD that were valiant men .

2618 And they withstood Uzziah the king and said unto him It
appertaineth not unto thee Uzziah to burn incense unto the LORD
but to the priests the sons of Aaron that are consecrated to
burn incense go out of the sanctuary for thou hast trespassed
neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God .

2619 Then Uzziah was wroth and had a censer in his hand to
burn incense and while he was wroth with the priests the leprosy
even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of
the LORD from beside the incense altar .

2620 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked
upon him and behold he was leprous in his forehead and they
thrust him out from thence yea himself hasted also to go out
because the LORD had smitten him .

2621 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death
and dwelt in a several house being a leper for he was cut off
from the house of the LORD and Jotham his son was over the
king's house judging the people of the land .

2622 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah first and last did
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz write .

2623 So Uzziah slept with his fathers and they buried him with
his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the
kings for they said He is a leper and Jotham his son reigned in
his stead .

* 271 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to
reign and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem His mother's
name also was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok .

272 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
according to all that his father Uzziah did howbeit he entered
not into the temple of the LORD And the people did yet corruptly
.

273 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD and on the
wall of Ophel he built much .

274 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah and in
the forests he built castles and towers .

275 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites and
prevailed against them And the children of Ammon gave him the
same year an hundred talents of silver and ten thousand measures
of wheat and ten thousand of barley So much did the children of
Ammon pay unto him both the second year and the third .

276 So Jotham became mighty because he prepared his ways
before the LORD his God .

277 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all his wars and
his ways lo they are written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah .

278 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign
and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem .

279 And Jotham slept with his fathers and they buried him in
the city of David and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead .

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

282 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made
also molten images for Baalim .

283 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of
Hinnom and burnt his children in the fire after the abominations
of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel .

284 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places
and on the hills and under every green tree .

285 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of
the king of Syria and they smote him and carried away a great
multitude of them captives and brought them to Damascus And he
was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel who smote
him with a great slaughter .

286 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and
twenty thousand in one day which were all valiant men because
they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers .

287 And Zichri a mighty man of Ephraim slew Maaseiah the
king's son and Azrikam the governor of the house and Elkanah
that was next to the king .

288 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their
brethren two hundred thousand women sons and daughters and took
also away much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria .

289 But a prophet of the LORD was there whose name was Oded
and he went out before the host that came to Samaria and said
unto them Behold because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth
with Judah he hath delivered them into your hand and ye have
slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven .

2810 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah
and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you but are there
not with you even with you sins against the LORD your God .

2811 Now hear me therefore and deliver the captives again
which ye have taken captive of your brethren for the fierce
wrath of the LORD is upon you .

2812 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim
Azariah the son of Johanan Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth and
Jehizkiah the son of Shallum and Amasa the son of Hadlai stood
up against them that came from the war .

2813 And said unto them Ye shall not bring in the captives
hither for whereas we have offended against the LORD already ye
intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass for our
trespass is great and there is fierce wrath against Israel .

2814 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before
the princes and all the congregation .

2815 And the men which were expressed by name rose up and took
the captives and with the spoil clothed all that were naked
among them and arrayed them and shod them and gave them to eat
and to drink and anointed them and carried all the feeble of
them upon asses and brought them to Jericho the city of palm
trees to their brethren then they returned to Samaria .

2816 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria
to help him .

2817 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah and
carried away captives .

2818 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low
country and of the south of Judah and had taken Bethshemesh and
Ajalon and Gederoth and Shocho with the villages thereof and
Timnah with the villages thereof Gimzo also and the villages
thereof and they dwelt there .

2819 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of
Israel for he made Judah naked and transgressed sore against the
LORD .

2820 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him and
distressed him but strengthened him not .

2821 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD
and out of the house of the king and of the princes and gave it
unto the king of Assyria but he helped him not .

2822 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more
against the LORD this is that king Ahaz .

2823 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus which smote
him and he said Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them
therefore will I sacrifice to them that they may help me But
they were the ruin of him and of all Israel .

2824 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of
God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God and shut
up the doors of the house of the LORD and he made him altars in
every corner of Jerusalem .

2825 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to
burn incense unto other gods and provoked to anger the LORD God
of his fathers .

2826 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways first and
last behold they are written in the book of the kings of Judah
and Israel .

2827 And Ahaz slept with his fathers and they buried him in
the city even in Jerusalem but they brought him not into the
sepulchres of the kings of Israel and Hezekiah his son reigned
in his stead .

* 291 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years
old and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem And his
mother's name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah .

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

293 He in the first year of his reign in the first month
opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them .

294 And he brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered
them together into the east street .

295 And said unto them Hear me ye Levites sanctify now
yourselves and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your
fathers and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place .

296 For our fathers have trespassed and done that which was
evil in the eyes of the LORD our God and have forsaken him and
have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and
turned their backs .

297 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch and put out
the lamps and have not burned incense nor offered burnt
offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel .

298 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and
Jerusalem and he hath delivered them to trouble to astonishment
and to hissing as ye see with your eyes .

299 For lo our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons
and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this .

2910 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD
God of Israel that his fierce wrath may turn away from us .

2911 My sons be not now negligent for the LORD hath chosen you
to stand before him to serve him and that ye should minister
unto him and burn incense .

2912 Then the Levites arose Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel
the son of Azariah of the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons
of Merari Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehalelel
and of the Gershonites Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son
of Joah .

2913 And of the sons of Elizaphan Shimri and Jeiel and of the
sons of Asaph Zechariah and Mattaniah .

2914 And of the sons of Heman Jehiel and Shimei and of the
sons of Jeduthun Shemaiah and Uzziel .

2915 And they gathered their brethren and sanctified
themselves and came according to the commandment of the king by
the words of the LORD to cleanse the house of the LORD .

2916 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of
the LORD to cleanse it and brought out all the uncleanness that
they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house
of the LORD And the Levites took it to carry it out abroad into
the brook Kidron .

2917 Now they began on the first day of the first month to
sanctify and on the eighth day of the month came they to the
porch of the LORD so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
eight days and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made
an end .

2918 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said We have
cleansed all the house of the LORD and the altar of burnt
offering with all the vessels thereof and the showbread table
with all the vessels thereof .

2919 Moreover all the vessels which king Ahaz in his reign did
cast away in his transgression have we prepared and sanctified
and behold they are before the altar of the LORD .

2920 Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the rulers
of the city and went up to the house of the LORD .

2921 And they brought seven bullocks and seven rams and seven
lambs and seven he goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and
for the sanctuary and for Judah And he commanded the priests the
sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD .

2922 So they killed the bullocks and the priests received the
blood and sprinkled it on the altar likewise when they had
killed the rams they sprinkled the blood upon the altar they
killed also the lambs and they sprinkled the blood upon the
altar .

2923 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering
before the king and the congregation and they laid their hands
upon them .

2924 And the priests killed them and they made reconciliation
with their blood upon the altar to make an atonement for all
Israel for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the
sin offering should be made for all Israel .

2925 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with
cymbals with psalteries and with harps according to the
commandment of David and of Gad the king's seer and Nathan the
prophet for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets .

2926 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David and
the priests with the trumpets .

2927 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon
the altar And when the burnt offering began the song of the LORD
began also with the trumpets and with the instruments ordained
by David king of Israel .

2928 And all the congregation worshipped and the singers sang
and the trumpeters sounded and all this continued until the
burnt offering was finished .

2929 And when they had made an end of offering the king and
all that were present with him bowed themselves and worshipped .

2930 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the
Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David and
of Asaph the seer And they sang praises with gladness and they
bowed their heads and worshipped .

2931 Then Hezekiah answered and said Now ye have consecrated
yourselves unto the LORD come near and bring sacrifices and
thank offerings into the house of the LORD And the congregation
brought in sacrifices and thank offerings and as many as were of
a free heart burnt offerings .

2932 And the number of the burnt offerings which the
congregation brought was threescore and ten bullocks an hundred
rams and two hundred lambs all these were for a burnt offering
to the LORD .

2933 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and
three thousand sheep .

2934 But the priests were too few so that they could not flay
all the burnt offerings wherefore their brethren the Levites did
help them till the work was ended and until the other priests
had sanctified themselves for the Levites were more upright in
heart to sanctify themselves than the priests .

2935 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance with the
fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for every
burnt offering So the service of the house of the LORD was set
in order .

2936 And Hezekiah rejoiced and all the people that God had
prepared the people for the thing was done suddenly .

* 301 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah and wrote
letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh that they should come to
the house of the LORD at Jerusalem to keep the passover unto the
LORD God of Israel .

302 For the king had taken counsel and his princes and all the
congregation in Jerusalem to keep the passover in the second
month .

303 For they could not keep it at that time because the
priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently neither had
the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem .

304 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation .

305 So they established a decree to make proclamation
throughout all Israel from Beersheba even to Dan that they
should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at
Jerusalem for they had not done it of a long time in such sort
as it was written .

306 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his
princes throughout all Israel and Judah and according to the
commandment of the king saying Ye children of Israel turn again
unto the LORD God of Abraham Isaac and Israel and he will return
to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the
kings of Assyria .

307 And be not ye like your fathers and like your brethren
which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers who
therefore gave them up to desolation as ye see .

308 Now be ye not stiffnecked as your fathers were but yield
yourselves unto the LORD and enter into his sanctuary which he
hath sanctified for ever and serve the LORD your God that the
fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you .

309 For if ye turn again unto the LORD your brethren and your
children shall find compassion before them that lead them
captive so that they shall come again into this land for the
LORD your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away
his face from you if ye return unto him .

3010 So the posts passed from city to city through the country
of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun but they laughed them
to scorn and mocked them .

3011 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun
humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem .

3012 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart
to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word
of the LORD .

3013 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the
feast of unleavened bread in the second month a very great
congregation .

3014 And they arose and took away the altars that were in
Jerusalem and all the altars for incense took they away and cast
them into the brook Kidron .

3015 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of
the second month and the priests and the Levites were ashamed
and sanctified themselves and brought in the burnt offerings
into the house of the LORD .

3016 And they stood in their place after their manner
according to the law of Moses the man of God the priests
sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the
Levites .

3017 For there were many in the congregation that were not
sanctified therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing
of the passovers for every one that was not clean to sanctify
them unto the LORD .

3018 For a multitude of the people even many of Ephraim and
Manasseh Issachar and Zebulun had not cleansed themselves yet
did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written But
Hezekiah prayed for them saying The good LORD pardon every one .

3019 That prepareth his heart to seek God the LORD God of his
fathers though he be not cleansed according to the purification
of the sanctuary .

3020 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah and healed the people .

3021 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem
kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great
gladness and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by
day singing with loud instruments unto the LORD .

3022 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that
taught the good knowledge of the LORD and they did eat
throughout the feast seven days offering peace offerings and
making confession to the LORD God of their fathers .

3023 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven
days and they kept other seven days with gladness .

3024 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a
thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep and the princes gave
to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep
and a great number of priests sanctified themselves .

3025 And all the congregation of Judah with the priests and the
Levites and all the congregation that came out of Israel and the
strangers that came out of the land of Israel and that dwelt in
Judah rejoiced .

3026 So there was great joy in Jerusalem for since the time of
Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like
in Jerusalem .

3027 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people
and their voice was heard and their prayer came up to his holy
dwelling place even unto heaven .

* 311 Now when all this was finished all Israel that were
present went out to the cities of Judah and brake the images in
pieces and cut down the groves and threw down the high places
and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin in Ephraim alsoand
Manasseh until they had utterly destroyed them all Then all the
children of Israel returned every man to his possession into
their own cities .

312 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the
Levites after their courses every man according to his service
the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace
offerings to minister and to give thanks and to praise in the
gates of the tents of the LORD .

313 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for
the burnt offerings to wit for the morning and evening burnt
offerings and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths and for the
new moons and for the set feasts as it is written in the law of
the LORD .

314 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem
to give the portion of the priests and the Levites that they
might be encouraged in the law of the LORD .

315 And as soon as the commandment came abroad the children of
Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn wine and oil
and honey and of all the increase of the field and the tithe of
all things brought they in abundantly .

316 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah that dwelt
in the cities of Judah they also brought in the tithe of oxen
and sheep and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated
unto the LORD their God and laid them by heaps .

317 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the
heaps and finished them in the seventh month .

318 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps
they blessed the LORD and his people Israel .

319 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites
concerning the heaps .

3110 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok
answered him and said Since the people began to bring the
offerings into the house of the LORD we have had enough to eat
and have left plenty for the LORD hath blessed his people and
that which is left is this great store .

3111 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house
of the LORD and they prepared them .

3112 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the
dedicated things faithfully over which Cononiah the Levite was
ruler and Shimei his brother was the next .

3113 And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth
and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were
overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother at
the commandment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of
the house of God .

3114 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite the porter toward
the east was over the freewill offerings of God to distribute
the oblations of the LORD and the most holy things .

3115 And next him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and
Shemaiah Amariah and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests in
their set office to give to their brethren by courses as well to
the great as to the small .

3116 Beside their genealogy of males from three years old and
upward even unto every one that entereth into the house of the
LORD his daily portion for their service in their charges
according to their courses .

3117 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of
their fathers and the Levites from twenty years old and upward
in their charges by their courses .

3118 And to the genealogy of all their little ones their wives
and their sons and their daughters through all the congregation
for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness .

3119 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests which were in the
fields of the suburbs of their cities in every several city the
men that were expressed by name to give portions to all the
males among the priests and to all that were reckoned by
genealogies among the Levites .

3120 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah and wrought
that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God .

3121 And in every work that he began in the service of the
house of God and in the law and in the commandments to seek his
God he did it with all his heart and prospered .

* 321 After these things and the establishment thereof
Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered into Judah and
encamped against the fenced cities and thought to win them for
himself .

322 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come and that
he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem .

323 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to
stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city and
they did help him .

324 So there was gathered much people together who stopped all
the fountains and the brook that ran through the midst of the
land saying Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much
water .

325 Also he strengthened himself and built up all the wall
that was broken and raised it up to the towers and another wall
without and repaired Millo in the city of David and made darts
and shields in abundance .

326 And he set captains of war over the people and gathered
them together to him in the street of the gate of the city and
spake comfortably to them saying .

327 Be strong and courageous be not afraid nor dismayed for
the king of Assyria nor for all the multitude that is with him
for there be more with us than with him .

328 With him is an arm of flesh but with us is the LORD our
God to help us and to fight our battles And the people rested
themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah .

329 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his
servants to Jerusalem (but he himself laid siege against Lachish
and all his power with him unto Hezekiah king of Judah and unto
all Judah that were at Jerusalem saying .

3210 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria Whereon do ye
trust that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem .

3211 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to
die by famine and by thirst saying The LORD our God shall
deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria .

3212 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and
his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem saying Ye shall
worship before one altar and burn incense upon it .

3213 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the
people of other lands were the gods of the nations of those
lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand .

3214 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my
fathers utterly destroyed that could deliver his people out of
mine hand that your God should be able to deliver you out of
mine hand .

3215 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you nor persuade
you on this manner neither yet believe him for no god of any
nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine
hand and out of the hand of my fathers how much less shall your
God deliver you out of mine hand .

3216 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God and
against his servant Hezekiah .

3217 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel
and to speak against him saying As the gods of the nations of
other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand so
shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine
hand .

3218 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech
unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall to affright
them and to trouble them that they might take the city .

3219 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem as against
the gods of the people of the earth which were the work of the
hands of man .

3220 And for this cause Hezekiah the king and the prophet
Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven .

3221 And the LORD sent an angel which cut off all the mighty
men of valour and the leaders and captains in the camp of the
king of Assyria So he returned with shame of face to his own
land And when he was come into the house of his god they that
came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword .

3222 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and
from the hand of all other and guided them on every side .

3223 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem and
presents to Hezekiah king of Judah so that he was magnified in
the sight of all nations from thenceforth .

3224 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death and prayed
unto the LORD and he spake unto him and he gave him a sign .

3225 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit
done unto him for his heart was lifted up therefore there was
wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem .

3226 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of
his heart both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the
wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah .

3227 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour and he
made himself treasuries for silver and for gold and for precious
stones and for spices and for shields and for all manner of
pleasant jewels .

3228 Storehouses also for the increase of corn and wine and
oil and stalls for all manner of beasts and cotes for flocks .

3229 Moreover he provided him cities and possessions of flocks
and herds in abundance for God had given him substance very much
.

3230 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of
Gihon and brought it straight down to the west side of the city
of David And Hezekiah prospered in all his works .

3231 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes
of Babylon who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was
done in the land God left him to try him that he might know all
that was in his heart .

3232 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his goodness
behold they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the
son of Amoz and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel .

3233 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and they buried him
in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David and all
Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his
death And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead .

* 331 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign and
he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem .

332 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD like
unto the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out
before the children of Israel .

333 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had broken down and he reared up altars for Baalim and
made groves and worshipped all the host of heaven and served
them .

334 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD whereof the
LORD had said In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever .

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

336 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the
valley of the son of Hinnom also he observed times and used
enchantments and used witchcraft and dealt with a familiar
spirit and with wizards he wrought much evil in the sight of the
LORD to provoke him to anger .

337 And he set a carved image the idol which he had made in
the house of God of which God had said to David and to Solomon
his son In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen
before all the tribes of Israel will I put my name for ever .

338 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out
of the land which I have appointed for your fathers so that they
will take heed to do all that I have commanded them according to
the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of
Moses .

339 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
err and to do worse than the heathen whom the LORD had destroyed
before the children of Israel .

3310 And the LORD spake to Manasseh and to his people but they
would not hearken .

3311 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the
host of the king of Assyria which took Manasseh among the thorns
and bound him with fetters and carried him to Babylon .

3312 And when he was in affliction he besought the LORD his
God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers .

3313 And prayed unto him and he was entreated of him and heard
his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his
kingdom Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God .

3314 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David
on the west side of Gihon in the valley even to the entering in
at the fish gate and compassed about Ophel and raised it up a
very great height and put captains of war in all the fenced
cities of Judah .

3315 And he took away the strange gods and the idol out of the
house of the LORD and all the altars that he had built in the
mount of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem and cast them
out of the city .

3316 And he repaired the altar of the LORD and sacrificed
thereon peace offerings and thank offerings and commanded Judah
to serve the LORD God of Israel .

3317 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high
places yet unto the LORD their God only .

3318 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and his prayer unto
his God and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name
of the LORD God of Israel behold they are written in the book of
the kings of Israel .

3319 His prayer also and how God was entreated of him and all
his sins and his trespass and the places wherein he built high
places and set up groves and graven images before he was humbled
behold they are written among the sayings of the seers .

3320 So Manasseh slept with his fathers and they buried him in
his own house and Amon his son reigned in his stead .

3321 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign
and reigned two years in Jerusalem .

3322 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
as did Manasseh his father for Amon sacrificed unto all the
carved images which Manasseh his father had made and served them
.

3323 And humbled not himself before the LORD as Manasseh his
father had humbled himself but Amon trespassed more and more .

3324 And his servants conspired against him and slew him in
his own house .

3325 But 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 .

* 341 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign and he
reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years .

342 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
and walked in the ways of David his father and declined neither
to the right hand nor to the left .

343 For in the eighth year of his reign while he was yet young
he began to seek after the God of David his father and in the
twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high
places and the groves and the carved images and the molten
images .

344 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence
and the images that were on high above them he cut down and the
groves and the carved images and the molten images he brake in
pieces and made dust of them and strowed it upon the graves of
them that had sacrificed unto them .

345 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars
and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem .

346 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and
Simeon even unto Naphtali with their mattocks round about .

347 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves and
had beaten the graven images into powder and cut down all the
idols throughout all the land of Israel he returned to Jerusalem
.

348 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign when he had purged
the land and the house he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah and
Maaseiah the governor of the city and Joah the son of Joahaz the
recorder to repair the house of the LORD his God .

349 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest they
delivered the money that was brought into the house of God which
the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of
Manasseh and Ephraim and of all the remnant of Israel and of all
Judah and Benjamin and they returned to Jerusalem .

3410 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the
oversight of the house of the LORD and they gave it to the
workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD to repair and
amend the house .

3411 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it to buy
hewn stone and timber for couplings and to floor the houses
which the kings of Judah had destroyed .

3412 And the men did the work faithfully and the overseers of
them were Jahath and Obadiah the Levites of the sons of Merari
and Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of the Kohathites to set
it forward and other of the Levites all that could skill of
instruments of music .

3413 Also they were over the bearers of burdens and were
overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service
and of the Levites there were scribes and officers and porters .

3414 And when they brought out the money that was brought into
the house of the LORD Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law
of the LORD given by Moses .

3415 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe I
have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD And
Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan .

3416 And Shaphan carried the book to the king and brought the
king word back again saying All that was committed to thy
servants they do it .

3417 And they have gathered together the money that was found
in the house of the LORD and have delivered it into the hand of
the overseers and to the hand of the workmen .

3418 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king saying Hilkiah the
priest hath given me a book And Shaphan read it before the king .

3419 And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of
the law that he rent his clothes .

3420 And the king commanded Hilkiah and Ahikam the son of
Shaphan and Abdon the son of Micah and Shaphan the scribe and
Asaiah a servant of the king's saying .

3421 Go inquire of the LORD for me and for them that are left
in Israel and in Judah concerning the words of the book that is
found for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon
us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD to do
after all that is written in this book .

3422 And Hilkiah and they that the king had appointed went to
Huldah the prophetess the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath the
son of Hasrah keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem
in the college and they spake to her to that effect .

3423 And she answered them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel
Tell ye the man that sent you to me .

3424 Thus saith the LORD Behold I will bring evil upon this
place and upon the inhabitants thereof even all the curses that
are written in the book which they have read before the king of
Judah .

3425 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 poured out upon
this place and shall not be quenched .

3426 And as for the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of
the LORD so shall ye say unto him Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard .

3427 Because thine heart was tender and thou didst humble
thyself before God when thou heardest his words against this
place and against the inhabitants thereof and humbledst thyself
before me and didst rend thy clothes and weep before me I have
even heard thee also saith the LORD .

3428 Behold I will gather thee to thy fathers and thou shalt
be gathered to thy grave in peace neither shall thine eyes see
all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the
inhabitants of the same So they brought the king word again .

3429 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders
of Judah and Jerusalem .

3430 And the king went up into the house of the LORD and all
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the
priests and the Levites and all the people great and small and
he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant
that was found in the house of the LORD .

3431 And the king stood in his place 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 his
heart and with all his soul to perform the words of the covenant
which are written in this book .

3432 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and
Benjamin to stand to it And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did
according to the covenant of God the God of their fathers .

3433 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the
countries that pertained to the children of Israel and made all
that were present in Israel to serve even to serve the LORD
their God And all his days they departed not from following the
LORD the God of their fathers .

* 351 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in
Jerusalem and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of
the first month .

352 And he set the priests in their charges and encouraged
them to the service of the house of the LORD .

353 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel which
were holy unto the LORD Put the holy ark in the house which
Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build it shall not
be a burden upon your shoulders serve now the LORD your God and
his people Israel .

354 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers after
your courses according to the writing of David king of Israel
and according to the writing of Solomon his son .

355 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of
the families of the fathers of your brethren the people and
after the division of the families of the Levites .

356 So kill the passover and sanctify yourselves and prepare
your brethren that they may do according to the word of the LORD
by the hand of Moses .

357 And Josiah gave to the people of the flock lambs and kids
all for the passover offerings for all that were present to the
number of thirty thousand and three thousand bullocks these were
of the king's substance .

358 And his princes gave willingly unto the people to the
priests and to the Levites Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel
rulers of the house of God gave unto the priests for the
passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle and
three hundred oxen .

359 Conaniah also and Shemaiah and Nethaneel his brethren and
Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad chief of the Levites gave unto
the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle
and five hundred oxen .

3510 So the service was prepared and the priests stood in
their place and the Levites in their courses according to the
king's commandment .

3511 And they killed the passover and the priests sprinkled
the blood from their hands and the Levites flayed them .

3512 And they removed the burnt offerings that they might give
according to the divisions of the families of the people to
offer unto the LORD as it is written in the book of Moses And so
did they with the oxen .

3513 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the
ordinance but the other holy offerings sod they in pots and in
caldrons and in pans and divided them speedily among all the
people .

3514 And afterward they made ready for themselves and for the
priests because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in
offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night therefore
the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons
of Aaron .

3515 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place
according to the commandment of David and Asaph and Heman and
Jeduthun the king's seer and the porters waited at every gate
they might not depart from their service for their brethren the
Levites prepared for them .

3516 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day
to keep the passover and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar
of the LORD according to the commandment of king Josiah .

3517 And the children of Israel that were present kept the
passover at that time and the feast of unleavened bread seven
days .

3518 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel
from the days of Samuel the prophet neither did all the kings of
Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept and the priests and
the Levites and all Judah and Israel that were present and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem .

3519 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this
passover kept .

3520 After all this when Josiah had prepared the temple Necho
king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates
and Josiah went out against him .

3521 But he sent ambassadors to him saying What have I to do
with thee thou king of Judah I come not against thee this day
but against the house wherewith I have war for God commanded me
to make haste forbear thee from meddling with God who is with me
that he destroy thee not .

3522 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him but
disguised himself that he might fight with him and hearkened not
unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God and came to fight
in the valley of Megiddo .

3523 And the archers shot at king Josiah and the king said to
his servants Have me away for I am sore wounded .

3524 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot and
put him in the second chariot that he had and they brought him
to Jerusalem and he died and was buried in one of the sepulchres
of his fathers And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah .

3525 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing men
and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to
this day and made them an ordinance in Israel and behold they
are written in the lamentations .

3526 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his goodness
according to that which was written in the law of the LORD .

3527 And his deeds first and last behold they are written in
the book of the kings of Israel and Judah .

* 361 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem .

362 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to
reign and he reigned three months in Jerusalem .

363 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem and
condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent
of gold .

364 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over
Judah and Jerusalem and turned his name to Jehoiakim And Necho
took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt .

365 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to
reign and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and he did that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God .

366 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and
bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon .

367 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of
the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon .

368 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and his abominations
which he did and that which was found in him behold they are
written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah and
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead .

369 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign and
he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem and he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD .

3610 And when the year was expired king Nebuchadnezzar sent
and brought him to Babylon with the goodly vessels of the house
of the LORD and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem .

3611 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to
reign and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem .

3612 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
his God and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet
speaking from the mouth of the LORD .

3613 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar who had
made him swear by God but he stiffened his neck and hardened his
heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel .

3614 Moreover all the chief of the priests and the people
transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen
and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in
Jerusalem .

3615 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his
messengers rising up betimes and sending because he had
compassion on his people and on his dwelling place .

3616 But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his
words and misused his prophets until the wrath of the LORD arose
against his people till there was no remedy .

3617 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees
who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their
sanctuary and had no compassion upon young man or maiden old man
or him that stooped for age he gave them all into his hand .

3618 And all the vessels of the house of God great and small
and the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of
the king and of his princes all these he brought to Babylon .

3619 And they burnt the house of God and brake down the wall
of Jerusalem and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire and
destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof .

3620 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away
to Babylon where they were servants to him and his sons until
the reign of the kingdom of Persia .

3621 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah
until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths for as long as she lay
desolate she kept sabbath to fulfil threescore and ten years .

3622 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia that the
word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
accomplished the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of
Persia that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom
and put it also in writing saying .

3623 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia All the kingdoms of the
earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me and he hath charged
me to build him an house in Jerusalem which is in Judah Who is
there among you of all his people The LORD his God be with him
and let him go up .









  
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