\NormalFont\ShortTitle{2 Chronicles}
{\MT The Second Book of Chronicles

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon,
the
son
of
David,
made
himself
strong
in
his
kingdom,
and
the
Lord
his
God
was
with
him,
and
made
him
very
great.
\VS{2}And
Solomon
sent
word
to
all
Israel,
to
the
captains
of
thousands
and
of
hundreds
and
to
the
judges
and
to
every
chief
in
all
Israel,
heads
of
their
families.
\VS{3}Then
Solomon,
and
all
the
men
of Israel
with
him,
went
to
the
high
place
at
Gibeon,
because
the
Tent
of
meeting
of
God,
which
Moses,
the
servant
of
the
Lord,
had
made
in
the waste land,
was
there.
\VS{4}But
the
ark
of
God
had
been
moved
by
David
from
Kiriath-jearim
to
the
place which
he
had
made
ready
for
it,
for
he
had
put
up
a
tent
for
it
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}And
the
altar
of
brass
which
Bezalel,
the
son
of
Uri,
the
son
of
Hur,
had
made,
was
there
before
the Tent
of
the
Lord;
and
Solomon
and
all
the
people
went
to
give worship
there.
\VS{6}And
Solomon
went
up
there
to
the
brass
altar
before
the
Lord
at
the
Tent
of
meeting,
offering
on
it
a
thousand burned
offerings.
\VS{7}In
that
night
God
came
to
Solomon
in
a
vision,
and
said
to
him,
Say
what
I
am
to
give
you.
\VS{8}And
Solomon
said
to
God,
Great
was
your mercy
to
David
my
father,
and
you
have
made
me
king
in
his
place.
\VS{9}Now,
O
Lord
God,
let
your
word
to
David
my
father come
true;
for
you
have made
me
king
over
a
people
like
the
dust
of
the
earth
in number.
\VS{10}Give
me
now
wisdom
and
knowledge,
so
that
I
may
go
out
and
come
in
before
this
people:
for
who
is able
to
be
the
judge
of
this
great
people
of
yours?
\VS{11}And
God
said
to
Solomon,
Because
this
was
in
your
heart,
and
you
did
not make
request
for money,
property,
or honour,
or
for
the destruction
of
your haters,
or
for
long
life;
but
you
have
made
request
for
wisdom
and
knowledge
for
yourself,
so
that
you
may
be
the
judge
of
my
people
over
whom
I
have
made
you
king:
\VS{12}Wisdom
and
knowledge
are
given
to
you;
and
I
will
give
you
wealth
and honour,
such
as
no
king
has
had
before
you
or ever
will
have
after
you.
\VS{13}So
Solomon
went
back
from
the
high
place
at
Gibeon,
from
before
the
Tent
of
meeting,
to
Jerusalem;
and
he
was
king
over
Israel.
\VS{14}And
Solomon got
together war-carriages
and
horsemen;
he
had
one
thousand,
four
hundred carriages
and
twelve
thousand
horsemen, which
he kept, some
in
the carriage-towns
and some
with
the
king
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{15}And
the
king
made
silver
and
gold
as common
as
stones
in
Jerusalem,
and
cedar
like
the sycamore-trees
of
the
lowland
in
number.
\VS{16}And Solomon's
horses came out
of
Egypt;
the king's
traders
got
them
from Kue
at
a
price.
\VS{17}A war-carriage might
be
got
from
Egypt
for
six
hundred
shekels
of
silver,
and
a
horse
for
a
hundred
and
fifty:
they
got
them
at
the
same rate
for
all
the
kings
of
the
Hittites
and
the
kings
of
Aram.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
it
was Solomon's purpose
to put
up
a house
for
the name
of
the Lord
and
a house
for
himself
as
king.
\VS{2}And
Solomon
had seventy thousand
men numbered
for transport,
and eighty thousand
for cutting
stone
in
the mountains,
and three thousand, six hundred
as overseers.
\VS{3}And Solomon sent
to Huram,
king
of Tyre, saying,
As
you did
for
my father David, sending
him cedar-trees
for
the
building
of
his
house,
\VS{4}See!
I
am
building
a
house
for
the name
of
the Lord
my
God,
to
be
made holy
to
him,
where perfumes
of sweet spices
will
be burned
before
him,
and
the holy bread
will
be placed
at
all times,
and burned
offerings
will
be offered morning
and evening,
on
the Sabbaths
and
at
the new moons,
and
on
the regular feasts
of
the Lord
our
God.
This
is
a law
for ever
to Israel.
\VS{5}And
the
house
which
I
am
building
is
to
be great,
for
our
God
is greater
than all gods.
\VS{6}But
who
may
have strength
enough
to
make
a house
for
him, seeing
that
the heaven
and
the heaven
of heavens
are
not wide
enough
to
be
his resting-place?
who am
I
then
to
make
a house
for
him?
But
I am building
it only
for
the burning
of perfume
before
him.
\VS{7}So
now
send
me
an expert worker
in gold
and silver
and brass
and iron?
in purple
and red
and blue,
and
in
the cutting
of
all sorts
of ornament,
to
be
with
the expert workmen
who
are
here
in Judah
and
in Jerusalem,
whom
my father
David got
together.
\VS{8}And send
me cedar-trees, cypress-trees
and sandal-wood
from Lebanon,
for,
to
my knowledge,
your servants
are expert wood-cutters
in Lebanon;
and
my servants
will
be
with yours,
\VS{9}To get
trees
for
me
in great numbers,
for
the house
which
I am building
is
to
be great
and
a wonder.
\VS{10}And
I
will
give
as food
to
your servants,
the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures
of grain,
and twenty thousand measures
of barley
and twenty thousand measures
of wine
and twenty thousand measures
of oil.
\VS{11}Then
Huram,
king
of Tyre,
sent Solomon
an
answer
in writing,
saying,
Because
of
his love
for
his
people
the
Lord
has
made
you
king
over
them.
\VS{12}And
Huram said, Praise
be
to
the Lord,
the
God
of Israel, maker
of heaven
and earth,
who
has given
to
David
the king
a
wise
son, full
of
wisdom
and good sense,
to
be
the builder
of
a house
for
the Lord
and
a house
for
himself
as king.
\VS{13}And
now
I am sending
you
a
wise
and
expert
man, Huram
who
is
as
my
father,
\VS{14}The son
of
a woman
of
the daughters
of Dan,
whose father
was
a man
of Tyre,
an expert worker
in gold
and silver
and brass
and iron,
in
stone
and wood,
in purple
and blue
and fair linen
and red, trained
in
the cutting
of every sort
of ornament
and
the invention
of every sort
of design;
let
him
be
given
a place among
your expert workmen
and
those
of
my
lord,
your father
David.
\VS{15}So
now let
my lord
send
to
his servants
the
grain
and
the oil
and
the wine
as
my lord
has said;
\VS{16}And
we
will
have wood cut
from Lebanon,
as
much
as
you
have
need
of,
and
will send
it
to
you
on flat boats
by sea
to Joppa,
and
from
there
you
may take
it
up
to Jerusalem.
\VS{17}Then Solomon
took
the number
of
all
the
men
from strange lands
who
were living
in
Israel,
as
his father David
had
done;
there
were
a
hundred
and fifty-three
thousand,
six
hundred.
\VS{18}Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Solomon
made
a start
at
building
the
house
of
the
Lord
on
Mount
Moriah
in
Jerusalem,
where
the
Lord
had
been
seen
by
his
father
David,
in
the
place
which
David
had
made
ready
in
the grain-floor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite.
\VS{2}The
building
was
started
in
the
second
month
in
the
fourth
year
of
his
rule.
\VS{3}And
Solomon put
the
base
of
the
house
of
God
in position;
by
the
older
measure
it
was
sixty
cubits
long
and
twenty
cubits
wide.
\VS{4}And
the covered
way
in
front
of
the
house
was
twenty
cubits
long,
as
wide
as
the
house,
and
a
hundred
and
twenty
cubits
high, all
plated
inside
with
the best
gold.
\VS{5}And
the
greater
house
was roofed
with cypress-wood, plated
with
the
best
gold
and ornamented
with designs
of palm-trees
and
chains.
\VS{6}And
the
house
was made
beautiful
with
stones
of great value,
and
the
gold
was
gold
of
Parvaim.
\VS{7}All
the
house
was plated
with
gold,
the supports,
the steps,
the
walls
and
the
doors;
and
the
walls
were ornamented
with designs
of winged ones.
\VS{8}And
he
made
the
most
holy
place;
it
was
twenty
cubits
long,
and
twenty
cubits
wide,
like
the greater
house,
and
was plated all
over
with
the
best
gold;
six
hundred
talents
were
used
for
it.
\VS{9}And
fifty
shekels
weight
of
gold
was used
for
the
nails. He had all
the higher
rooms plated
with
gold.
\VS{10}And
in
the
most
holy
place
he
made
images
of
two winged beings, covering
them
with
gold.
\VS{11}Their outstretched
wings
were
twenty
cubits across;
one
wing,
five
cubits
long,
touching
the
wall
of
the
house,
and
the
other,
of
the
same size, meeting
the
wing
of
the
other
winged
one.
\VS{12}And
in
the
same way,
the
wings
of
the
other,
five
cubits long,
were stretched out,
one
touching
the
wall
and
the
other meeting
the
wing
of
the
first
winged
one.
\VS{13}Their outstretched
wings
were
twenty
cubits
across;
they
were
placed
upright
on
their
feet,
facing
the
inner
part
of
the
house.
\VS{14}And
he
made
the
veil
of
blue
and
purple
and red,
of
the best
linen,
worked
with winged ones.
\VS{15}And
in
front
of
the
house
he
made
two
pillars, thirty-five
cubits
high,
with
crowns
on
the
tops
of
them,
five
cubits
high.
\VS{16}And
he
made
chains,
like neck ornaments,
and
put
them
on
the
tops
of
the
pillars,
and
a
hundred apples
on
the
chains.
\VS{17}He put
up
the
pillars
in
front
of
the
Temple,
one
on
the
right
side
and
one
on
the
left, naming
the
one
on
the
right
Jachin
and
that
on
the
left
Boaz.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
he
made
a
brass
altar,
twenty
cubits
long,
twenty
cubits
wide
and
ten
cubits
high.
\VS{2}And
he
made
the great water-vessel
of
metal,
round
in
form, measuring
ten
cubits across
from
edge
to
edge;
it
was
five
cubits
high
and
thirty
cubits
round.
\VS{3}And
under
it
was
a design
of flowers
all
round
it,
ten
to
a
cubit,
circling
the water-vessel
in
two lines;
they
were
made
from liquid metal
at
the
same
time
as
the water-vessel.
\VS{4}It
was supported
on
twelve
oxen,
three
facing
to
the
north,
three
to
the
west,
three
to
the
south,
and
three
to
the
east,
the water-vessel resting
on
top
of
them;
their
back
parts
were
all
turned
to
the middle
of
it.
\VS{5}It
was
as
thick
as
a man's open hand,
and
the
edge
of
it
was curved
like
the
edge
of
a
cup,
like
a
lily
flower;
it
would
take
three
thousand
baths.
\VS{6}And
he
made
ten washing-vessels,
putting
five
on
the
right
side
and
five
on
the
left; such
things
as were
used
in
making
the burned
offering were
washed
in
them;
but
the great water-vessel
was
to
be
used
by
the
priests
for
washing
themselves.
\VS{7}And
he
made
the
ten
gold supports
for
the lights,
as directions
had been
given
for
them,
and
he
put
them
in
the
Temple,
five
on
the
right
side
and
five
on
the
left.
\VS{8}He
made
ten
tables,
and
put
them
in
the
Temple,
five
on
the
right
side
and
five
on
the
left.
And
he
made a
hundred
gold
basins.
\VS{9}Then
he
made
the open space
for
the
priests,
and
the
great open space
and its
doors, plating
the
doors
with
brass.
\VS{10}He
put
the great water-vessel
on
the
right
side
of
the house
to
the
east, facing
south.
\VS{11}And
Huram
made
all
the
pots
and
the spades
and
the
basins.
So
he
came
to
the
end
of
all
the
work
he
did
for
King
Solomon
in
the
house
of
God:
\VS{12}The
two
pillars,
and
the
two
crowns
on
the
tops
of
the
pillars,
and
the
network
covering
the
two cups
of
the
crowns
on
the
tops
of
the
pillars;
\VS{13}And
the
four
hundred apples
for
the
network,
two lines
of apples
for
the
network
covering
the
two cups
of
the
crowns
on
the
pillars.
\VS{14}And
he
made
the ten bases
and
the ten washing-vessels which
were
on
the bases;
\VS{15}The great water-vessel
with
the
twelve
oxen
under
it.
\VS{16}All
the
pots
and
the spades
and
the meat-hooks
and
their
vessels,
which
Huram,
who
was
as
his
father,
made
for
King
Solomon
for
the
house
of
the
Lord,
were
of
polished
brass.
\VS{17}The
king made them
of liquid metal
in
the lowland
of
Jordan,
in
the soft
earth
between
Succoth
and
Zeredah.
\VS{18}So
Solomon
made
all
these
vessels,
a
very
great store
of
them,
and
the
weight
of
the
brass
used
was
not measured.
\VS{19}And
Solomon
made
all
the
vessels
used
in
the
house
of
God,
the
gold
altar
and
the
tables
on
which
the holy
bread
was placed,
\VS{20}And
the supports
for
the lights
with
their lights,
to be
burning
in
the regular
way
in
front
of
the inmost room,
of
the best
gold;
\VS{21}The
flowers
and
the vessels
for
the lights
and
the instruments used
for
them,
were all
of
gold;
it
was
the best
gold.
\VS{22}The scissors
and
the
basins
and
the
spoons
and
the fire-trays,
of
the best
gold;
and
the
inner
doors
of
the
house,
opening into
the
most
holy
place,
and
the
doors
of
the
Temple,
were all
of
gold.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}So
all
the
work
which
Solomon
did
for
the
house
of
the
Lord
was
complete.
And
Solomon
took
the
holy
things
which
David
his
father
had
given,
the
silver
and
the
gold
and
all
the
vessels,
and
put
them
in
the store-houses
of
the
house
of
God.
\VS{2}Then
Solomon
sent
for
all
the
responsible
men
of
Israel,
all
the
chiefs
of
the
tribes
and
the
heads
of
families
of
the
children
of
Israel,
to
come
to
Jerusalem
and
take
the
ark
of
the Lord's
agreement
up
out
of
the
town
of
David,
which
is
Zion.
\VS{3}And
all
the
men
of
Israel
came
together
to
the
king
at
the
feast
in
the
seventh
month.
\VS{4}All
the responsible
men
of
Israel
came,
and
the
Levites
took
up
the
ark.
\VS{5}They
took
up
the
ark
and
the
Tent
of
meeting
and
all
the
holy
vessels
which
were
in
the
Tent;
all
these
the
priests,
the
Levites,
took
up.
\VS{6}And
King
Solomon
and
all
the
men
of
Israel
who
had come
together
there
with
him,
were
before
the
ark,
making
offerings
of
sheep
and
oxen
more
than
might
be
numbered.
\VS{7}And
the
priests
took
the
ark
of
the Lord's
agreement
and
put
it
in
its
place,
in
the
inner
room
of
the
house,
in
the
most
holy
place,
under
the
wings
of
the
winged
ones.
\VS{8}For
their
wings
were outstretched
over
the
place
where
the
ark
was,
covering
the
ark
and
its rods.
\VS{9}The rods
were
so
long
that
their
ends
were
seen
from
the holy
place
before
the inmost room;
but
they
were
not
seen
from
outside;
and
there
they
are
to
this
day.
\VS{10}Nothing
was
in
the
ark
but
the
two flat stones
which
Moses
put
there
at
Horeb,
where
the
Lord
made
an agreement
with
the
children
of
Israel
when
they
came
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{11}Now
when
the
priests
had
come
out
of
the
holy
place, (for
all
the
priests
who
were
present
had
made
themselves
holy,
not
keeping
to
their
divisions;
\VS{12}And
the
Levites
who
made
the music,
all
of
them,
Asaph,
Heman,
Jeduthun,
and
their
sons
and
brothers, robed
in fair
linen,
were
in
their
places
with
their brass
and corded instruments
at
the
east
side
of
the
altar,
and
with
them
a
hundred
and
twenty
priests
blowing horns;)
\VS{13}And
when
the players
on horns,
and
those
who
made melody
in
song,
with
one
voice
were sounding
the
praise
and glory
of
the
Lord;
with
loud
voices
and
with wind
instruments,
and brass
and corded
instruments
of
music,
praising
the
Lord
and
saying,
He
is
good;
his
mercy
is unchanging
for
ever:
then
the
house
was
full
of
the
cloud
of
the glory
of
the
Lord,
\VS{14}So
that
the
priests
were
not
able
to keep
their
places
to
do
their work
because
of
the
cloud;
for
the
house
of
God
was
full
of
the
glory
of
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Solomon
said,
O
Lord,
to
the sun
you
have given
the heaven
for
a living-place,
but
your living-place
was not seen
by
men,
\VS{2}So
I
have
made
for
you
a living-place,
a
house
in
which
you
may
be
for
ever present.
\VS{3}Then,
turning
his
face
about,
the
king gave
a
blessing
to
all
the
men
of
Israel;
and
they
were
all
on
their feet together.
\VS{4}And
he
said,
Praise
be
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
who
himself
gave
his
word
to
my
father
David,
and
with
his strong
hand
has
made
his
word
come
true,
saying,
\VS{5}From
the
day
when
I
took
my
people
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
no
town
in
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
has
been marked
out
by
me
for
the
building
of
a
house
for
the resting-place
of
my
name;
and
I
took
no
man
to
be
a
ruler
over
my
people
Israel;
\VS{6}But
now
I
have
made selection
of
Jerusalem,
that
my
name
might
be
there,
and
of
David,
to
be
over
my
people
Israel.
\VS{7}Now
it
was
in
the
heart
of
my
father
David
to put
up
a
house
for
the
name
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{8}But
the
Lord
said
to
David
my
father,
You
did
well
to
have
in
your
heart
the
desire
to
make
a
house
for
my
name:
\VS{9}But
you
yourself
will
not
be
the builder
of
the
house;
but
your
son,
the
offspring
of
your body,
he
it
is
who
will
put
up
a
house
for
my
name.
\VS{10}And
the
Lord
has kept
his
word;
for
I
have
taken
my
father David's
place
on
the
seat
of
the kingdom
of
Israel,
as
the
Lord gave
his
word;
and
I
have
made
the
house
for
the
name
of
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{11}And
there
I
have
put
the
ark,
in
which
is
the
agreement
of
the
Lord,
which
he
made
with
the
people
of
Israel.
\VS{12}Then
he
took
his
place
in
front
of
the
altar
of
the
Lord,
all
the
men
of
Israel being
present,
\VS{13}(For
Solomon
had
made
a
brass stage,
five
cubits
long,
five
cubits
wide
and
three
cubits
high,
and
had
put
it
in
the
middle
of
the open space;
on
this
he
took
his
place
and went
down
on
his
knees
before
all
the meeting
of
Israel,
stretching
out
his
hands
to
heaven.)
\VS{14}And
he
said,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
there
is
no
God
like
you
in
heaven
or
on
earth;
keeping faith
and
mercy unchanging
for
your
servants, while
they
go
in
your ways
with
all
their
hearts;
\VS{15}For
you
have
kept
the
word
which
you
gave
to
your
servant
David,
my
father;
with
your
mouth
you
said
it
and
with
your
hand
you
have
made
it
come true
this
day.
\VS{16}So
now,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
let
your
word
to
your
servant
David,
my
father,
come
true,
when
you
said,
You
will
never
be
without
a
man
to
take
his place
before
me
on
the
seat
of
the kingdom
of
Israel;
if
only
your
children
give
attention
to
their
ways,
walking
in
my
law,
as
you
have
done
before
me.
\VS{17}So
now,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel, make
your
word come
true
which
you
said
to
your
servant
David.
\VS{18}But
is
it
truly possible
that
God
may
be housed
with
men
on
earth?
see,
heaven
and
the
heaven
of
heavens
are
not wide enough
to
be
your resting-place:
how
much
less
this
house
which
I
have
made:
\VS{19}Still, let
your
heart
be
turned
to
the
prayer
of
your
servant
and
to
his
prayer
for
grace,
O
Lord
my
God,
and
give ear
to
the
cry
and
the
prayer
which
your
servant
makes
before
you;
\VS{20}That
your
eyes
may
be
open
to
this
house
day
and
night,
to
this
place
of
which
you
have
said
that
you
would
put
your
name
there;
to
give ear
to
the
prayer
which
your
servant
may
make, turning
to
this
place.
\VS{21}And
give ear
to
the prayers
of
your
servant
and
of
your
people
Israel,
when
they
make
their prayers, turning
to
this
place;
give ear
from
heaven
your living-place;
and
hearing
have mercy.
\VS{22}If
a
man
does
wrong
to
his neighbour
and
has
to
take
an
oath,
and
comes
before
your
altar
to
take
his
oath
in
this
house:
\VS{23}Then
let
your ear
be open
in
heaven,
and
be
the
judge
of
your
servants,
giving punishment
to
the wrongdoer,
so
that
his sin
may
come
on
his
head;
and,
by
your decision,
keeping
from
evil
him
who
has
done
no wrong.
\VS{24}And
if
your
people
Israel
are overcome
in war,
because
of
their
sin
against
you;
if
they
are
turned
to
you
again, honouring
your
name,
making prayers
and requesting
your grace
in
this
house:
\VS{25}Then
give ear
from
heaven,
and
let
the
sin
of
your
people
Israel
have forgiveness,
and
take
them
back
again
to
the
land
which
you
gave
to
them
and
to
their
fathers.
\VS{26}When
heaven
is
shut
up
and
there
is
no
rain,
because
of
their
sin
against
you:
if
they
make prayers
with
their faces
turned
to
this
place, honouring
your
name
and
turning
away
from
their
sin
when
you send
trouble
on
them:
\VS{27}Then
give ear
from
heaven,
so
that
the
sin
of
your
servants
and
the
sin
of
your
people
Israel
may
have forgiveness,
when
you
make clear
to
them
the
good
way
in
which
they
are
to go;
and
send
rain
on
your
land
which
you
have
given
to
your
people
for
their
heritage.
\VS{28}If
there
is
no food
in
the
land,
if
there
is
disease,
if
the fruits
of
the
earth
are damaged
by heat
or water,
locust
or worm;
if
their
towns
are shut
in
by
their attackers:
whatever trouble
or
whatever
disease
there
may
be:
\VS{29}Whatever
prayer
or request
for
your
grace
is
made
by
any
man,
or
by
all
your
people
Israel,
whatever
his
trouble
may
be,
whose
hands
are
stretched
out
to
this
house:
\VS{30}Then
give ear
from
heaven
your living-place, answering
with forgiveness,
and
give
to
every
man,
whose secret
heart
is open
to
you,
the reward
of
all
his
ways; (for
you,
and
you
only,
have
knowledge
of
the
hearts
of
the
children
of
men;)
\VS{31}So
that
they
may
give
you
worship, walking
in
your
ways,
as
long
as
they
are
living
in
the
land
which
you
gave
to
our
fathers.
\VS{32}And
as
for
the
man
from
a strange
land,
who
is
not
of
your
people
Israel
but
comes
from
a
far
country
because
of
the glory
of
your
name
and
your
strong
hand
and
your
outstretched
arm;
when
he
comes
to
make
his prayer,
turning
to
this
house:
\VS{33}Then
give ear
from
heaven
your living-place,
and
give
him
his desire,
whatever
it
may
be;
so
that
all
the
peoples
of
the
earth
may
have
knowledge
of
your
name, worshipping
you
as
do
your
people
Israel,
and
may
see
that
this
house
which
I
have
made
is
truly
named
by
your
name.
\VS{34}If
your
people
go
out
to
war
against
their attackers,
by
whatever
way
you
may
send
them,
if
they
make
their prayers
to
you turning
their
faces
to
this
town
of yours
and
to
this
house
which
I
have
put
up
for
your
name:
\VS{35}Then
give ear
from
heaven
to
their
prayer
and
their cry
for
grace,
and see
right
done
to
them.
\VS{36}If
they
do
wrong
against
you, (for
no
man
is
without
sin,)
and
you
are
angry
with
them,
and
give
them
up
into
the power
of
those
who
are fighting
against
them,
so
that
they
take
them
away prisoners
to
a
land
far
off
or
near;
\VS{37}And
if
they
take
thought,
in
the
land
where
they
are prisoners,
turning
again
to
you, crying
out
in prayer
to
you
in
that
land,
and
saying,
We
are sinners,
we
have
done
wrong,
we
have
done
evil;
\VS{38}If
with
all
their
heart
and
soul
they
are
turned
again
to
you,
in
the
land
where
they
are prisoners,
the
land
where
they
have
been
taken,
and
make
their prayers,
turning
their eyes
to
their
land
which
you
gave
to
their
fathers,
and
to
the
town
which
you
took
for
yourself,
and
the
house
which
I
have
made
for
your
name:
\VS{39}Then
give ear
from
heaven
your living-place
to
their
prayer
and
their cry,
and
see
right
done
to
them, answering
with forgiveness
your
people
who
have
done
wrong
against
you.
\VS{40}Now,
O
my
God,
may
your
eyes
be
open
and
your
ears awake
to
the
prayers
made
in
this
place.
\VS{41}Up!
now,
O
Lord
God,
come back
to
your resting-place,
you
and
the
ark
of
your
strength:
let
your
priests,
O
Lord
God,
be
clothed
with
salvation,
and
let
your saints
be
glad
in
what
is
good.
\VS{42}O
Lord
God,
let
him whom
you
have taken
for yourself
never
be
given up
by
you:
keep
in
mind
your mercies
to
David
your
servant.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when Solomon's prayers
were
ended,
fire
came
down
from
heaven,
burning
up
all
the
offerings;
and
the
house
was
full
of
the
glory
of
the
Lord.
\VS{2}And
the
priests
were
not
able
to
go
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
for
the Lord's
house
was
full
of
the
glory
of
the
Lord.
\VS{3}And
all
the
children
of
Israel
were
looking
on
when
the
fire
came
down,
and
the
glory
of
the
Lord
was
on
the
house;
and
they
went
down
on
their knees,
with
their
faces
to
the
earth, worshipping
and praising
the
Lord,
and saying,
He
is
good;
for
his
mercy
is unchanging
for
ever.
\VS{4}Then
the
king
and
all
the
people
made
offerings
before
the
Lord.
\VS{5}King
Solomon
made
an
offering
of
twenty-two
thousand
oxen,
and
a
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
sheep.
So
the
king
and
all
the
people kept
the feast
of
the opening
of
the
house
of
God.
\VS{6}And
the
priests
were
in
their
places,
and
the
Levites
with
their
instruments
of
music
for
the Lord's
song,
which
David
the
king
had
made
for
the
praise
of
the
Lord
whose
mercy
is unchanging
for
ever,
when
David
gave
praise
by
their
hand;
and
the
priests
were sounding horns
before
them;
and
all
Israel
were
on
their feet.
\VS{7}Then
Solomon
made
holy
the
middle
of
the
open square
in
front
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
offering
the burned
offerings
there,
and
the
fat
of
the peace-offerings;
for
there
was
not
room
on
the
brass
altar
which
Solomon
had
made
for
all
the burned
offerings
and
the
meal
offerings
and
the
fat.
\VS{8}So
Solomon
kept
the
feast
at
that
time
for
seven
days,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
a
very
great meeting,
for
the
people
had
come
together
from
the
way
into
Hamath
and
from
as
far
as
the
river
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}And
on
the
eighth
day
they
had
a holy meeting;
the
offerings
for
making
the
altar holy went
on
for
seven
days,
and
the
feast
for
seven
days.
\VS{10}And
on
the
twenty-third
day
of
the
seventh
month,
he
sent
the
people
away
to
their
tents,
full
of
joy
and
glad
in
their
hearts,
because
of
all
the
good
which
the
Lord
had
done
to
David
and
to
Solomon
and
to
Israel
his
people.
\VS{11}So
Solomon
came
to
the
end
of building
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
the king's
house;
and
everything
which
it
was
in
his
mind
to
make
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
for
himself
had
been
well
done.
\VS{12}Now
the
Lord
came
to
Solomon
in
a
vision
by
night,
and
said
to
him,
I
have
given ear
to
your
prayer,
and
have taken
this
place
for myself
as
a
house
where
offerings
are
to
be
made.
\VS{13}If,
at
my word,
heaven
is
shut
up,
so
that
there
is
no
rain,
or
if
I
send
locusts
on
the
land
for
its destruction,
or
if
I
send disease
on
my
people;
\VS{14}If
my
people,
on
whom
my
name
is
named,
make
themselves
low
and
come
to
me
in prayer,
searching
for
me
and
turning
from
their
evil
ways;
then
I
will
give ear
from
heaven, overlooking
their
sin,
and
will
give life
again
to
their
land.
\VS{15}Now
my
eyes
will
be
open
and
my
ears awake
to
the
prayers
made
in
this
place.
\VS{16}For
I
have
taken
this
house
for
myself
and
made
it
holy,
so
that
my
name
may
be
there
for
ever;
and
my
eyes
and
my
heart
will
be
there
at
all
times.
\VS{17}And
as
for
you,
if
you
will
go
on
your
way
before
me
as
David
your
father
did,
doing
whatever
I
have
given
you
orders
to
do
and
keeping
my
laws
and
my
decisions:
\VS{18}Then
I
will
make strong
the
seat
of
your
kingdom,
as
I
gave
my
word
to
David
your
father,
saying,
You
will
never
be
without
a
man
to
be
ruler
in
Israel.
\VS{19}But
if
you
are
turned
away
from
me,
and
do
not
keep
my
orders
and
my laws
which
I
have
put
before
you,
but
go
and
make
yourselves
servants
to
other
gods,
giving
them
worship:
\VS{20}Then
I
will
have
this
people
uprooted
out
of
my
land
which
I
have
given
them;
and
this
house,
which
I
have
made
holy
for
my
name,
I
will
put
away
from
before
my eyes,
and
make
it
an example
and
a word
of shame
among
all
peoples.
\VS{21}And
this
house
will
become
a mass
of
broken walls,
and
everyone
who goes
by
will
be overcome
with wonder,
and
will
say,
Why
has
the
Lord
done
so
to
this
land
and
to
this
house?
\VS{22}And
their
answer
will
be,
Because
they
were turned
away
from
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
who
took
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
took
for
themselves
other
gods
and
gave
them
worship
and
became
their
servants:
that
is
why
he
has
sent
all
this
evil
on
them.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
at
the
end
of
twenty
years,
in
which
time
Solomon
had put
up
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
a
house
for himself,
\VS{2}He
took
in
hand
the
building
up
of
the
towns
which
Huram
had
given
him, causing
the
children
of
Israel
to
make living-places
for
themselves
there.
\VS{3}And
Solomon went
to
Hamath-zobah
and overcame
it.
\VS{4}And
he put
up
the buildings
of
Tadmor
in
the waste land,
and
of
all
the store-towns
in
Hamath;
\VS{5}And
of
Beth-horon
the higher
and
the
lower,
walled
towns
with
walls
and doorways
and locks;
\VS{6}And
of
Baalath,
and
all
the store-towns
which
Solomon
had,
and
the
towns
where
he kept
his war-carriages
and
his horse
men,
and
everything
which
it
was
his pleasure
to put
up
in
Jerusalem
and
in
Lebanon
and
in
all
the
land
under
his rule.
\VS{7}As
for
all
the
rest
of
the
Hittites
and
the
Amorites
and
the
Perizzites
and
the
Hivites
and
the
Jebusites,
who
were
not
of
Israel:
\VS{8}Their
men
who
were
still living
in
the
land,
and
whom
the
children
of
Israel
had
not
put
an
end
to,
these
Solomon
put
to
forced work,
as
is done
to
this
day;
\VS{9}But
Solomon
did
not
make
use
of
the
children
of
Israel
as
servants
for
his
work;
they
were
men
of
war,
his
chiefs
and
his
captains,
and
captains
of
his war-carriages
and
his
horsemen.
\VS{10}Now
these
were
the
chief
men
in authority
whom
King
Solomon
had:
two
hundred
and
fifty
of
them,
in authority
over
the
people.
\VS{11}Then
Solomon
made Pharaoh's
daughter
come
up
from
the
town
of
David
to
the
house
which
he
had
made
for
her;
for
he
said,
I
will
not
have
my
wife
living
in
the
house
of
David,
king
of
Israel,
because
those
places
where
the
ark
of
the
Lord
has
come
are
holy.
\VS{12}Then
Solomon
made burned
offerings
to
the
Lord
on
the
altar
of
the
Lord
which
he
had
put
up
in
front
of
the covered
way,
\VS{13}Offering
every
day
what
had
been ordered
by
Moses,
on
the
Sabbaths
and
at
the
new
moon
and
at
the regular
feasts
three
times
a
year,
that
is
at
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread,
the
feast
of
weeks,
and
the
feast
of tents.
\VS{14}And
he gave
the
divisions
of
the
priests
their
places
for
their
work,
as ordered
by
his
father
David,
and
to
the
Levites
he gave
their
work
of
praise
and waiting
on
the
priests,
to do
what
was needed
day
by
day;
and
he gave
the door-keepers
their
places
in turn
at
every door;
for
so
David,
the
man
of
God,
had
given
orders.
\VS{15}All
the
orders
given
by
the
king
to
the
priests
and
Levites,
in
connection
with
any
business
or
stores,
were
done
with
care.
\VS{16}And
all
the
work
of
Solomon
was
complete,
from
the
day
when
he
put
the base
of
the Lord's
house
in
position,
till
Solomon
had
come
to
the
end
of building
the Lord's
house.
\VS{17}Then
Solomon
went
to
Ezion-geber
and
to
Eloth
by
the
sea
in
the
land
of
Edom.
\VS{18}And
Huram
sent
him,
by
his
servants,
ships
and
experienced seamen,
who
went
with
the
servants
of
Solomon
to
Ophir
and
came
back
with
four
hundred
and
fifty
talents
of
gold,
which
they
took
to
King
Solomon.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
the
queen
of
Sheba,
hearing
great
things
of
Solomon,
came
to
Jerusalem
to
put
his wisdom
to
the
test
with
hard
questions;
and
with
her
came
a
very
great train,
and
camels weighted
down
with
spices,
and
great stores
of
gold
and jewels:
and
when
she
came
to
Solomon
she
had
talk
with
him
of
everything
in
her
mind.
\VS{2}And
Solomon gave
her
answers
to
all
her
questions;
there
was
no
secret
which
he
did
not
make
clear
to
her.
\VS{3}And
when
the
queen
of
Sheba
had
seen
the
wisdom
of
Solomon,
and
the
house
which
he
had
made,
\VS{4}And
the
food
at
his
table,
and
all
his
servants seated
there,
and
those
who
were waiting
on
him
in
their
places,
and
their
robes,
and
his wine-servants
and
their
robes,
and
the burned
offerings
which
he
made
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
there
was
no
more
spirit
in
her.
\VS{5}And
she
said
to
the
king,
The
account
which
was
given
to
me
in
my
country
of
your
acts
and
your
wisdom
was
true.
\VS{6}But
I
had
no
faith
in
what
was
said
about
you,
till
I
came
and
saw
for myself;
and
truly,
word
was
not
given
me
of
half
your great
wisdom;
you
are
much greater
than
they
said.
\VS{7}Happy
are
your wives
and
happy
these
your
servants
whose
place
is
ever
before
you,
hearing
your words
of
wisdom.
\VS{8}Praise
be
to
the
Lord
your
God
whose
pleasure
it
was
to
put
you
on
the
seat
of
his
kingdom
to
be
king
for
the
Lord
your
God:
because,
in
his
love
for
Israel,
it
was
the purpose
of
your
God
to
make
them strong
for
ever,
he
made
you
king
over
them,
to
be
their
judge
in
righteousness.
\VS{9}And
she
gave
the
king
a
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold,
and
a
great store
of
spices
and jewels:
never
had
such
spices
been seen
as
the
queen
of
Sheba
gave
to
Solomon.
\VS{10}And
the
servants
of Huram
and
the
servants
of
Solomon,
in
addition
to
gold
from
Ophir,
came
back
with sandal-wood
and jewels.
\VS{11}And
with
the sandal-wood
the
king
made
steps
for
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
for
the king's
house,
and instruments
of music
for
the makers
of melody;
never
before
had
such
been
seen
in
the
land
of
Judah.
\VS{12}And
King
Solomon
gave
the
queen
of
Sheba
all
her
desire,
whatever
she
made
request
for,
in
addition
to
what
she
had
taken
to
the
king.
So
she
went
back
to
her
country
with
her
servants.
\VS{13}Now
the
weight
of
gold
which
came
to
Solomon
in
one
year
was
six
hundred
and sixty-six
talents;
\VS{14}And
in addition
to what
he got
from
traders
of different sorts,
all
the
kings
of
Arabia
and
the rulers
of
the
country
gave
gold
and
silver
to
Solomon.
\VS{15}And
King
Solomon
made
two
hundred body-covers
of hammered
gold,
every
one
having
six
hundred shekels
of
gold
in
it.
\VS{16}And
he
made
three
hundred smaller body-covers
of hammered
gold,
using
three
hundred shekels
of
gold
for
every cover,
and
the
king
put
them
in
the
house
of
the
Woods
of
Lebanon.
\VS{17}Then
the
king
made
a
great
ivory
seat,
plated
with
the best
gold.
\VS{18}There
were
six
steps
up
to
it,
and
a foot-rest
of
gold
fixed
to
it,
and
arms
on
the
two
sides
of
the
seat,
with
two
lions
at
the
side
of
the
arms.
\VS{19}And
twelve
lions
were
placed
on
one
side
and
on
the
other
side
on
the
six
steps:
there
was
nothing
like
it
in
any
kingdom.
\VS{20}All
King Solomon's drinking-vessels
were
of
gold,
and
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
Woods
of
Lebanon
were
of
the best
gold:
no
one
gave
a
thought
to
silver
in
the
days
of
Solomon.
\VS{21}For
the
king
had Tarshish-ships sailing
with
the
servants
of
Huram:
once
every
three
years
the Tarshish-ships
came
back
with
gold
and
silver,
ivory
and monkeys
and
peacocks.
\VS{22}And
King
Solomon
was
greater
than
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
in
wealth
and
in
wisdom.
\VS{23}And
all
the
kings
of
the
earth came
to
see
Solomon
and
to
give ear
to
his
wisdom,
which
God
had
put
into
his
heart.
\VS{24}And
everyone
took
with
him
an
offering,
vessels
of
silver
and
vessels
of
gold,
and robes,
and coats
of metal,
and
spices,
and
horses
and beasts
for transport, regularly
year
by
year.
\VS{25}Solomon
had
four
thousand buildings
for
his
horses
and
his war-carriages,
and
twelve
thousand
horsemen whom
he kept, some
in
the carriage-towns
and some
with
the
king
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}And
he
was
ruler
over
all
the
kings
from
the
River
to
the
land
of
the
Philistines,
as
far
as
the limit
of
Egypt.
\VS{27}The
king
made
silver
as common
as
stones
in
Jerusalem
and
cedars
like
the sycamore-trees
of
the lowlands
in
number.
\VS{28}They
got
horses
for
Solomon
from
Egypt
and
from
every
land.
\VS{29}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Solomon,
first
and
last,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the history
of
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
in
the
words
of
Ahijah
the
prophet
of Shiloh,
and
in
the
visions
of
Iddo
the
seer
about
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat?
\VS{30}Solomon
was
king
over
Israel
in
Jerusalem
for
forty
years.
\VS{31}And
Solomon went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David
his
father;
and
Rehoboam
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Rehoboam
went
to
Shechem, where
all
Israel
had
come together
to
make
him
king.
\VS{2}And
when
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
had news
of
it, (for
he
was
in
Egypt
where
he
had
gone
in
flight
from
King
Solomon,)
he
came
back
from
Egypt.
\VS{3}And
they
sent
for
him;
and
Jeroboam
and
all
Israel
came
to
Rehoboam
and
said,
\VS{4}Your
father
put
a
hard
yoke
on
us:
if
you
will
make
the conditions
under
which
your
father
kept
us
down less
cruel,
and
the weight
of
the
yoke
he
put
on
us less
hard,
then
we
will
be
your
servants.
\VS{5}And
he
said
to
them,
Come
to
me
again
after
three
days.
So
the
people
went
away.
\VS{6}Then
King
Rehoboam
took
the opinion
of
the
old
men
who
had
been
with
Solomon
his
father
when
he
was
living,
and
said,
In
your opinion,
what
answer
am
I
to
give
to
this
people?
\VS{7}And
they
said
to
him,
If
you
are
kind
to
this
people,
pleasing
them
and
saying
good
words
to
them,
then
they
will
be
your
servants
for
ever.
\VS{8}But
he
gave no
attention
to
the opinion
of
the
old
men,
but
went
to
the
young
men
of
his generation
who
were waiting
before
him.
\VS{9}And
he
said
to
them,
What
is
your opinion?
What
answer
are
we
to
give
to
this
people
who
have
said
to
me,
Make less
the weight
of
the
yoke
which
your
father
put
on
us?
\VS{10}And
the
young
men
of
his
generation
said
to
him,
This
is
the
answer
to
give
to
the
people
who
came
to
you
saying,
Your
father put
a hard
yoke
on
us,
but
will
you
make
it less;
say
to
them,
My
little
finger
is
thicker
than
my father's
body;
\VS{11}If
my
father put
a
hard
yoke
on
you,
I
will
make
it harder:
my
father
gave
you punishment
with
whips,
but
I
will
give
you blows
with snakes.
\VS{12}So
Jeroboam
and
all
the
people
came
to
Rehoboam
on
the
third
day,
as
the
king
had given
orders,
saying,
Come
to
me
again
on
the
third
day.
\VS{13}And
the
king gave
them
a rough
answer.
So
King
Rehoboam gave no attention
to
the suggestion
of
the
old
men,
\VS{14}But
gave
them
the
answer put forward
by
the
young
men,
saying,
My
father
made
your
yoke hard,
but
I
will
make
it harder;
my
father
gave
you punishment
with
whips,
but
I
will
give
it
with snakes.
\VS{15}So
the
king
did
not
give ear
to
the
people;
for
this
came
about
by
the
purpose
of
God,
so
that
the
Lord
might
give
effect
to
his
word
which
he
had
said
by
Ahijah
the
Shilonite
to
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat.
\VS{16}And
when
all
Israel
saw
that
the
king
would
give
no
attention
to
them,
the
people
in
answer
said
to
the
king,
What part
have
we
in
David?
what
is
our
heritage
in
the
son
of
Jesse?
every
man
to
your
tents,
O
Israel;
now
see
to
your
house,
David.
So
all
Israel
went
to
their
tents.
\VS{17}But
Rehoboam
was
still
king
over
those
of
the
children
of
Israel
who
were
living
in
the
towns
of
Judah.
\VS{18}Then
Rehoboam
sent Adoniram,
the overseer
of
the
forced work;
and
he
was
stoned
to
death
by
all
Israel.
And
King
Rehoboam
went quickly
and
got
into
his carriage
to
go
in
flight
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}So
Israel
was
turned away
from
the
family
of
David
to
this
day.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Rehoboam
came
to
Jerusalem,
and got
together
the
men
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
a
hundred
and
eighty
thousand
of
his best fighting-men,
to
make
war
against
Israel
and
get
the
kingdom
back
for
Rehoboam.
\VS{2}But
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Shemaiah,
the
man
of
God,
saying,
\VS{3}Say
to
Rehoboam,
the
son
of
Solomon,
king
of
Judah,
and
to
all
Israel
in
Judah
and
Benjamin,
\VS{4}The
Lord
has
said,
You
are
not
to
go
to war
against
your
brothers:
let
every
man
go
back
to
his
house,
for
this
thing
is
my
purpose.
So
they
gave ear
to
the
words
of
the
Lord
and
were
turned
back
from
fighting
against
Jeroboam.
\VS{5}Now
Rehoboam kept
in
Jerusalem,
building walled
towns
in
Judah.
\VS{6}He was
the builder
of Beth-lehem
and
Etam
and
Tekoa
\VS{7}And
Beth-zur
and
Soco
and
Adullam
\VS{8}And
Gath
and
Mareshah
and
Ziph
\VS{9}And
Adoraim
and
Lachish
and
Azekah
\VS{10}And
Zorah
and
Aijalon
and
Hebron, walled
towns
in
Judah
and
Benjamin.
\VS{11}And
he
made
the walled towns
strong,
and
he
put captains
in
them
and
stores
of
food,
oil,
and
wine.
\VS{12}And
in
every
town
he
put stores
of body-covers
and
spears,
and
made
them
very
strong.
And
Judah
and
Benjamin
were
his.
\VS{13}And
the
priests
and
Levites
who
were
in
all
Israel came
together
to
him
from
every
part
of
their country.
\VS{14}For
the
Levites gave
up
their living-places
and
their
property,
and came
to
Judah
and
Jerusalem;
for
Jeroboam
and
his
sons
had sent
them away,
not letting
them
be
priests
to
the
Lord;
\VS{15}And
he himself
made
priests
for
the
high
places,
and
for
the images
of he-goats
and oxen
which
he
had
made.
\VS{16}And
after
them,
from
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
all
those
whose
hearts
were fixed
and
true
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
came
to
Jerusalem
to
make
offerings
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{17}So
they
went
on increasing
the
power
of
the
kingdom
of
Judah,
and
made
Rehoboam,
the
son
of
Solomon,
strong
for
three
years;
and
for
three
years
they
went
in
the
ways
of
David
and
Solomon.
\VS{18}And
Rehoboam
took
as
his
wife
Mahalath,
the
daughter
of Jerimoth,
the
son
of
David
and
of
Abihail,
the
daughter
of
Eliab,
the
son
of
Jesse;
\VS{19}And she
had
sons
by
him,
Jeush,
Shemariah,
and
Zaham.
\VS{20}And
after
her
he
took
Maacah,
the
daughter
of
Absalom;
and
she
had
Abijah
and
Attai
and
Ziza
and
Shelomith
by
him.
\VS{21}Maacah,
the
daughter
of
Absalom,
was dearer
to
Rehoboam
than
all
his
wives
and
his servant-wives: (for
he
had
eighteen
wives
and
sixty servant-wives,
and
was
the
father
of
twenty-eight
sons
and
sixty
daughters.)
\VS{22}Rehoboam made
Abijah,
the
son
of
Maacah,
chief
and
ruler
among
his
brothers,
for
it
was
his purpose
to
make
him
king.
\VS{23}And
in
his wisdom
he
had
his
sons stationed
in
every walled
town
through
all
the
lands
of
Judah
and
Benjamin;
and
he
gave
them
a
great store
of
food,
and
took
wives
for
them.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when Rehoboam's
position
as king
had
been
made
certain,
and
he
was
strong,
he
gave
up
the
law
of
the
Lord,
and
all
Israel
with
him.
\VS{2}Now
in
the
fifth
year
of
King
Rehoboam,
Shishak,
king
of
Egypt,
came
up
against
Jerusalem,
because
of
their sin
against
the
Lord,
\VS{3}With twelve
hundred war-carriages
and
sixty
thousand
horsemen:
and
the
people
who
came
with
him
out
of
Egypt
were
more than
might
be
numbered:
Lubim
and
Sukkiim
and
Ethiopians.
\VS{4}And
he
took
the walled
towns
of
Judah,
and
came
as
far
as
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}Now
Shemaiah
the
prophet
came
to
Rehoboam
and
the
chiefs
of
Judah,
who
had
come
together
in
Jerusalem
because
of
Shishak,
and
said
to
them,
The
Lord
has
said,
Because
you
have
given
me
up,
I
have
given
you
up
into
the
hands
of
Shishak.
\VS{6}Then
the
chiefs
of
Israel
and
the
king made
themselves low
and
said,
The
Lord
is upright.
\VS{7}And
the
Lord,
seeing
that
they
had
made
themselves low,
said
to
Shemaiah,
They
have
made
themselves low:
I
will
not
send
destruction
on
them,
but
in
a short
time
I
will
give
them salvation,
and
will
not
let loose
my
wrath
on
Jerusalem
by
the
hand
of
Shishak.
\VS{8}But still
they
will
become
his
servants,
so
that
they
may
see
how different
my yoke
is
from
the yoke
of
the
kingdoms
of
the
lands.
\VS{9}So
Shishak,
king
of
Egypt,
came
up
against
Jerusalem
and
took
away
all
the
stored
wealth
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
the king's
house:
he
took
everything
away,
and
with
the rest
the
gold body-covers
which
Solomon
had
made.
\VS{10}And
in
their
place
King
Rehoboam
had other body-covers
made
of
brass
and
gave
them
into
the
care
of
the
captains
of
the
armed
men
who
were stationed
at
the
door
of
the king's
house.
\VS{11}And
whenever
the
king
went
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
the armed men
went
with
him
taking
the body-covers,
and
then
took
them
back
to
their
room.
\VS{12}And
when
he
made
himself low,
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was
turned
back
from
him,
and
complete
destruction
did
not
come
on
him,
for
there
was
still
some
good
in
Judah.
\VS{13}So
King
Rehoboam
made
himself
strong
in
Jerusalem
and
was ruling
there.
Rehoboam
was forty-one
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
for
seventeen
years
in
Jerusalem,
the
town
which
the
Lord
had
made
his
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
to
put
his
name
there;
and
his mother's
name
was
Naamah,
an Ammonite
woman.
\VS{14}And
he
did
evil
because
his
heart
was
not
true
to
the
Lord.
\VS{15}Now
the
acts
of
Rehoboam,
first
and
last,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
words
of
Shemaiah
the
prophet
and
Iddo
the
seer?
And
there
were
wars
between
Rehoboam
and
Jeroboam
all
their
days.
\VS{16}And
Rehoboam went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David;
and
Abijah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
eighteenth
year
of
King
Jeroboam,
Abijah
became
king
over
Judah.
\VS{2}He
was
king
in
Jerusalem
for
three
years;
his mother's
name
was Maacah,
the
daughter
of
Uriel
of
Gibeah.
And
there
was
war
between
Abijah
and
Jeroboam.
\VS{3}And
Abijah
went
out
to
the
fight
with
an
army
of
men
of
war,
four
hundred
thousand
of
his best
men;
and
Jeroboam
put
his
forces
in line
against
him,
eight
hundred
thousand
of
his best
men
of
war.
\VS{4}And
Abijah took
up
his position
on
Mount
Zemaraim,
in
the hill-country
of
Ephraim,
and
said,
Give ear
to
me,
O
Jeroboam
and
all
Israel:
\VS{5}Is
it
not clear
to
you
that
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
gave
the
rule
over
Israel
to
David
and
to
his
sons
for
ever,
by
an
agreement
made
with
salt?
\VS{6}But
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
the
servant
of
Solomon,
the
son
of
David, took
up arms
against
his
lord.
\VS{7}And
certain
foolish
and
good-for-nothing
men
were
joined
with
him,
and
made
themselves
strong
against
Rehoboam,
the
son
of
Solomon,
when
he
was
young
and untested
and
not able
to keep
them back.
\VS{8}And
now
it
is
your purpose
to
put
yourselves
against
the
authority
which
the
Lord
has
put
into
the
hands
of
the
sons
of
David,
and
you
are
a
very
great number,
and
you
have
with
you
the
gold oxen
which
Jeroboam
made
to
be
your
gods.
\VS{9}And
after driving
out
the
priests
of
the
Lord,
the
sons
of
Aaron
and
the
Levites,
have
you
not
made
priests
for
yourselves
as
the
people
of
other
lands
do?
so
that
anyone
who
comes
to
make
himself
priest
by
offering
an
ox
or
seven sheep,
may
be
a
priest
of
those
who
are
no
gods.
\VS{10}But
as
for us,
the
Lord
is
our
God,
and
we
have
not
been turned away
from
him;
we
have
priests
who do
the
work
of
the
Lord,
even
the
sons
of
Aaron
and
the
Levites
in
their places;
\VS{11}By whom
burned
offerings
and perfumes
are sent
up
in
smoke
before
the
Lord
every
morning
and
every
evening;
and
they put
out
the holy
bread
on
its
table
and
the
gold support
for
the lights
with
its lights
burning
every
evening;
for
we
keep
the orders given
to
us
by
the
Lord
our
God,
but
you
have gone away
from
him.
\VS{12}And
now
God
is
with
us
at
our
head,
and
his
priests
with
their
loud horns
sounding
against
you.
O
children
of
Israel,
do
not
make
war
on
the
Lord,
the
God
of
your
fathers,
for
it
will
not
go
well
for
you.
\VS{13}But
Jeroboam
had
put some
of
his men
to
make
a surprise
attack
on
them
from
the
back,
so some
were
facing
Judah
and others
were stationed secretly
at
their
back.
\VS{14}And
Judah,
turning
their
faces,
saw
that
they
were being
attacked
in
front
and
at
the
back;
and
they gave
a
cry
for
help
to
the
Lord,
while
the
priests
were sounding
their horns.
\VS{15}And
the
men
of
Judah
gave
a
loud
cry;
and
at
their
cry,
God put fear
into
Jeroboam
and
all
Israel
before
Abijah
and
Judah.
\VS{16}And
the
children
of
Israel
went
in
flight
before
Judah,
and
God
gave
them
up
into
their
hands.
\VS{17}And
Abijah
and
his
people put
them
to death
with
great destruction:
five
hundred
thousand
of
the best
of
Israel
were put
to
the sword.
\VS{18}So
at
that
time
the
children
of
Israel
were overcome,
and
the
children
of
Judah got
the
better
of
them,
because
they put
their faith
in
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{19}And
Abijah
went
after
Jeroboam
and
took
some
of
his
towns, Beth-el
with
its small
towns
and
Jeshanah
with
its small
towns
and
Ephron
with
its small
towns.
\VS{20}And
Jeroboam
did
not get
back
his
power
again
in
the life-time
of
Abijah;
and
the
Lord sent
death
on
him.
\VS{21}But
Abijah
became great,
and
had
fourteen
wives,
and
became
the
father
of
twenty-two
sons
and
sixteen
daughters.
\VS{22}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Abijah,
and
his
ways
and
his
sayings,
are
recorded
in
the
account
of
the
prophet
Iddo.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}So Abijah went
to rest
with
his fathers,
and
they put
him into
the earth
in
the town
of David,
and
Asa
his son became king
in
his place;
in
his time
the land
was quiet
for ten years.
\VS{2}And Asa did what was good
and right
in
the eyes
of
the Lord
his God;
\VS{3}For
he
took away
the altars
of strange
gods
and
the high
places,
and
had
the upright stones broken
and
the wood pillars cut down;
\VS{4}And
he
made
Judah
go after
the Lord,
the God
of
their fathers,
and
keep
his laws
and
his orders.
\VS{5}And
he took
away
the high places
and
the sun-images
from all
the
towns
of
Judah;
and
the kingdom
was
quiet under
his rule.
\VS{6}He
made
walled
towns
in
Judah,
for
the
land
was quiet
and
there
were no wars
in
those years,
because
the
Lord
had
given
him
rest.
\VS{7}He said
to
Judah,
Let us
make
these towns, building walls round
them
with
towers
and doors
and locks.
The land
is still ours,
because
we
have
been true
to
the Lord
our God;
we
have
been true
to
him
and
he
has given us
rest
on
every side.
So
they
went
on building
and
all
went well
for
them.
\VS{8}And Asa
had
an
army
of
three
hundred
thousand men
of Judah armed
with body-covers
and spears,
and
two
hundred
and eighty
thousand
of Benjamin armed
with body-covers
and bows;
all these
were men
of war.
\VS{9}And Zerah
the Ethiopian,
with
an
army
of
a million,
and three hundred war-carriages,
came
out
against
them
to
Mareshah.
\VS{10}And
Asa
went
out
against
him,
and
they
put
their
forces
in position
in
the valley north
of Mareshah.
\VS{11}And
Asa made prayer
to
the
Lord
his
God
and said,
Lord,
you only
are able
to give help
against
the strong
to
him
who
has no strength; come
to
our help,
O
Lord
our
God,
for
our hope
is
in
you,
and
in
your name we
have come
out
against
this great army.
O
Lord,
you
are
our
God; let not man's power
be greater than yours.
\VS{12}So
the
Lord sent fear
on
the
Ethiopians
before
Asa
and Judah;
and
the
Ethiopians
went
in
flight.
\VS{13}And Asa
and
the people
who
were
with
him
went
after
them
as
far
as
Gerar;
and
so
great
was
the destruction
among
the Ethiopians
that
they
were
not able
to get
their army
together
again,
for
they
were broken
before
the
Lord
and
before
his army;
and
they
took
away
a
great amount
of
their goods.
\VS{14}And
they overcame
all
the towns round Gerar,
because
the Lord
sent fear
on
them;
and
they
took
away
their goods
from
the towns,
for
there
were stores
of wealth
in
them.
\VS{15}And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
spirit
of
God
came
on
Azariah,
the
son
of
Oded;
\VS{2}And
he
came
face
to
face
with
Asa
and
said
to
him,
Give ear
to
me,
Asa
and
all
Judah
and
Benjamin:
the
Lord
is
with
you
while
you
are
with
him;
if
your heart's desire
is
for
him,
he
will
be
near
you,
but
if
you
give
him
up,
he
will
give
you
up.
\VS{3}Now
for
a
long
time
Israel
has
been
without
the
true
God,
and
without
a
teaching
priest
and
without
the
law;
\VS{4}But
when
in
their
trouble
they
were
turned
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
searching
after
him,
he let
their
search
be
rewarded.
\VS{5}In
those times
there
was
no
peace
for
him
who
went
out
or
for
him
who
came
in,
but
great trouble
was
on
all
the
people
of
the
lands.
\VS{6}And
they
were
broken
by divisions,
nation
against
nation
and
town
against
town,
because
God sent
all sorts
of
trouble
on
them.
\VS{7}But
be
you
strong
and
let
not
your
hands
be
feeble,
for
your
work
will
be
rewarded.
\VS{8}And
Asa,
hearing
these
words
of Azariah,
the son
of
Oded
the
prophet,
took
heart
and
put
away
all
the disgusting
things
out
of
all
the
land
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
and
out
of
the
towns
which
he
had
taken
from
the hill-country
of
Ephraim;
and
he
made new
again
the
altar
of
the
Lord
in
front
of
the covered
way
of
the Lord's house.
\VS{9}And
he got
together
all
Judah
and
Benjamin
and
those
of
Ephraim
and
Manasseh
and
Simeon
who
were
living
with
them;
for
numbers
of
them
came
to
him
out
of
Israel
when
they
saw
that
the
Lord
his
God
was
with
him.
\VS{10}So
they
came
together
at
Jerusalem
in
the
third
month,
in
the fifteenth
year
of
the
rule
of
Asa.
\VS{11}And
that
day
they
made
offerings
to
the
Lord
of
the things
they
had taken
in war,
seven
hundred
oxen
and
seven
thousand
sheep.
\VS{12}And
they
made
an
agreement
to
be
true
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
with
all
their
heart
and
all
their
soul;
\VS{13}And
that
anyone,
small
or
great,
man
or
woman,
who
was
not
true
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
would
be
put
to
death.
\VS{14}And
they
made
an
oath
to
the
Lord,
with
a
loud
voice, sounding wind-instruments
and
horns.
\VS{15}And
all
Judah
was
glad
because
of
the
oath,
for
they
had
taken
it
with
all
their
heart, turning
to
the
Lord
with
all
their
desire;
and
he
was
with
them
and
gave
them
rest
on
every
side.
\VS{16}And
Asa
would
not let
Maacah,
his
mother,
be
queen,
because
she
had
made
a disgusting
image
for
Asherah;
and
Asa
had
her
image
cut
down
and broken
up
and
burned
by
the
stream
Kidron.
\VS{17}But
the
high
places
were
not
taken
away
out
of
Israel;
but still
the
heart
of
Asa
was true
to
the Lord
all
his
life.
\VS{18}He
took
into
the
house
of
God all
the
things
which
his
father
had
made
holy
and
those
which
he
himself
had
made
holy,
silver
and
gold
and
vessels.
\VS{19}And
there
was
no
more
war
till
the thirty-fifth
year
of
the
rule
of
Asa.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the thirty-sixth
year
of
the
rule
of
Asa,
Baasha,
king
of
Israel,
went
up
against
Judah,
building
Ramah
so
that
no
one
was able
to
go
out
or
in
to
Asa,
king
of
Judah.
\VS{2}Then
Asa
took
silver
and
gold
out
of
the
stores
of
the Lord's
house
and
of
the king's store-house,
and
sent
to
Ben-hadad,
king
of
Aram,
at
Damascus,
saying,
\VS{3}Let
there
be
an
agreement
between
me
and
you
as
there
was
between
my
father
and
your
father:
see,
I
have
sent
you
silver
and
gold;
go
and
put
an end
to
your
agreement
with
Baasha,
king
of
Israel,
so
that
he
may
give
up attacking
me.
\VS{4}And
Ben-hadad
did
as
King
Asa
said,
and
sent
the
captains
of
his
armies
against
the
towns
of
Israel,
attacking
Ijon
and
Dan
and
Abel-maim,
and
all
the store-towns
of
Naphtali.
\VS{5}Then
Baasha,
hearing
of
it, put
a
stop
to
the
building
of
Ramah,
and
let
his
work
come
to
an end.
\VS{6}Then
King
Asa,
with
all
Judah,
took
away
the
stones
and
wood
with
which
Baasha
was
building
Ramah,
and
he
made
use
of
them
for
building
Geba
and
Mizpah.
\VS{7}At
that
time
Hanani
the seer
came
to
Asa,
king
of
Judah,
and
said
to
him,
Because
you
have
put
your faith
in
the
king
of
Aram
and
not
in
the
Lord
your
God,
the
army
of
the
king
of
Aram
has got
away
out
of
your
hands.
\VS{8}Were
not
the
Ethiopians
and
the
Lubim
a
very
great
army,
with war-carriages
and
horsemen
more
than
might
be
numbered?
but
because
your faith
was
in
the
Lord,
he
gave
them
up
into
your
hands.
\VS{9}For
the
eyes
of
the
Lord go
this
way
and
that,
through
all
the
earth, letting
it
be
seen
that
he
is
the
strong
support
of
those
whose
hearts
are
true
to
him.
In
this
you
have
done
foolishly,
for
from
now
you
will
have
wars.
\VS{10}Then
Asa
was
angry
with
the seer,
and
put
him
in
prison, burning
with
wrath
against
him
because
of
this
thing.
And
at
the
same
time
Asa
was cruel
to
some
of
the
people.
\VS{11}Now
the
acts
of
Asa,
first
and
last,
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel.
\VS{12}In
the thirty-ninth
year
of
his
rule,
Asa
had
a
very bad
disease
of
the
feet;
but
he
did
not go
to
the
Lord
for help
in
his
disease,
but
to medical men.
\VS{13}So
Asa went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
death
came
to
him
in
the forty-first
year
of
his
rule.
\VS{14}And
they put
him into
the resting-place
which
he
had
made
for himself
in
the
town
of
David,
in
a
bed
full
of
sweet perfumes
of
all sorts
of
spices,
made
by
the perfumer's
art,
and
they
made
a
great
burning
for
him.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehoshaphat
his
son
became
king
in
his
place,
and
made
himself
strong
against
Israel.
\VS{2}He
put
forces
in
all
the walled
towns
of
Judah,
and responsible chiefs
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
the
towns
of
Ephraim,
which
Asa
his
father
had
taken.
\VS{3}And
the
Lord
was
with
Jehoshaphat,
because
he
went
in
the early
ways
of
his
father,
not
turning
to
the
Baals,
\VS{4}But
turning
to
the
God
of
his
father
and keeping
his laws,
and
not doing
as
Israel
did.
\VS{5}So
the
Lord
made
his
kingdom strong;
and
all
Judah
gave
offerings
to
Jehoshaphat,
and
he
had
great
wealth
and honour.
\VS{6}His
heart
was lifted
up
in
the
ways
of
the
Lord;
and
he went
so far
as
to
take
away
the
high
places
and
the wood pillars
out
of
Judah.
\VS{7}In
the
third
year
of
his
rule
he
sent Benhail
and
Obadiah
and
Zechariah
and
Nethanel
and
Micaiah,
his
captains,
as
teachers
into
the
towns
of
Judah;
\VS{8}And
with them,
Shemaiah
and
Nethaniah
and
Zebadiah
and
Asahel
and
Shemiramoth
and
Jehonathan
and
Adonijah
and
Tobijah
and Tob-adonijah,
the
Levites;
and
Elishama
and
Jehoram
the
priests.
\VS{9}And
they gave
teaching
in
Judah
and
had
the
book
of
the
law
of
the
Lord
with
them;
they
went
through
all
the
towns
of
Judah
teaching
the
people.
\VS{10}And
the
fear
of
the
Lord
was
on
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
lands
round
Judah,
so
that
they
made
no wars
against
Jehoshaphat.
\VS{11}And
some
of
the
Philistines
took
offerings
to
Jehoshaphat,
and
made
him payments
of
silver;
and
the Arabians
gave
him
flocks,
seven
thousand,
seven
hundred
sheep,
and
seven
thousand,
seven
hundred he-goats.
\VS{12}Jehoshaphat
became
greater
and
greater,
and
made strong towers
and store-towns
in
Judah.
\VS{13}He
had
much
property
in
the
towns
of
Judah;
he
had
forces
of
armed
men,
great
and
strong,
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{14}This
is
the number
of
them,
listed
by
their
families,
the
captains
of
thousands
of
Judah: Adnah,
the
captain,
and
with
him
three
hundred
thousand
men
of war;
\VS{15}Second
to
him
Jehohanan,
the
captain,
and
with
him
two
hundred
and
eighty
thousand;
\VS{16}After
him
Amasiah,
the
son
of
Zichri,
who freely gave
himself
to
the
Lord,
and
with
him
two
hundred
thousand
men
of war;
\VS{17}And
the captains
of
Benjamin:
Eliada,
a
great
man
of war,
and
with
him
two
hundred
thousand
armed
with
bows
and body-covers;
\VS{18}And
after
him
Jehozabad,
and
with
him
a
hundred
and
eighty
thousand
trained
for
war.
\VS{19}These
were
the
men
who
were waiting
on
the
king,
in addition
to
those
placed
by
the
king
in
the walled
towns
through
all
Judah.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Jehoshaphat
had
great
wealth
and honour,
and
his son
was married
to Ahab's daughter.
\VS{2}And
after
some
years
he
went
down
to
Samaria
to
see
Ahab.
And
Ahab
made
a feast
for
him
and
the
people
who
were
with
him, putting
to death
great
numbers
of
sheep
and
oxen;
and
he
got Jehoshaphat
to
go
with
him
to
Ramoth-gilead.
\VS{3}For
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah,
Will
you go
with
me
to
Ramoth-gilead?
And
he
said,
I am
as
you
are,
and
my
people
as
your
people; we
will
be
with
you
in
the
war.
\VS{4}Then
Jehoshaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
Let
us
now get directions
from
the
Lord.
\VS{5}So
the
king
of
Israel
got
together
all
the
prophets,
four
hundred
men,
and
said
to
them,
Am
I
to
go
to
Ramoth-gilead
to
make
war
or
not?
And
they
said,
Go
up:
for
God
will
give
it
into
the
hands
of
the
king.
\VS{6}But
Jehoshaphat
said,
Is
there
no
other
prophet
of
the
Lord
here
from whom we
may get directions?
\VS{7}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
There
is
still
one
man
by
whom
we
may get directions
from
the
Lord,
but
I
have
no love
for
him,
because
he
has
never
been
a
prophet
of
good
to
me,
but
only
of
evil:
he
is
Micaiah,
the
son
of
Imla.
And
Jehoshaphat
said,
Let
not
the
king
say
so.
\VS{8}Then
the
king
of
Israel
sent
for
one
of
his unsexed servants
and
said, Go
quickly
and come
back
with
Micaiah,
the
son
of
Imla.
\VS{9}Now
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat,
the
king
of
Judah,
were
seated
on
their seats
of
authority,
dressed
in
their
robes,
by
the
doorway
into
Samaria;
and
all
the
prophets
were acting
as
prophets
before
them.
\VS{10}And
Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Chenaanah,
made himself
iron
horns
and
said,
The
Lord
says, Pushing
back
the Aramaeans
with
these,
you
will
put
an
end
to
them
completely.
\VS{11}And
all
the
prophets
said
the
same
thing,
saying,
Go
up
to
Ramoth-gilead,
and
it
will
go
well
for
you,
for
the
Lord
will
give
it
into
the
hands
of
the
king.
\VS{12}Now
the servant
who
had
gone
to
get
Micaiah
said
to
him,
See
now,
all
the
prophets
with
one voice
are
saying
good
things
to
the
king;
so
let
your
words
be
like
theirs,
and
say
good
things.
\VS{13}And
Micaiah
said,
By
the
living
Lord,
whatever
the
Lord
says
to
me
I
will
say.
\VS{14}When
he
came
to
the
king,
the
king
said
to
him,
Micaiah,
are
we
to
go
to
Ramoth-gilead
to
make
war
or
not?
And
he
said,
Go
up,
and
it
will
go well
for
you;
and
they
will
be
given
up
into
your
hands.
\VS{15}And
the
king
said
to
him,
Have
I
not,
again
and
again,
put
you
on
your
oath
to
say
nothing
to
me
but
what
is
true
in
the
name
of
the
Lord?
\VS{16}Then
he
said,
I
saw
all
Israel wandering
on
the
mountains
like
sheep
without
a keeper;
and
the
Lord
said,
These
have
no
master:
let
them
go
back,
every
man
to
his
house
in
peace.
\VS{17}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
Did
I
not
say
that
he
would
not
be
a
prophet
of
good
to
me,
but
of
evil?
\VS{18}Then
he
said,
Give ear
now
to
the
word
of
the
Lord:
I
saw
the
Lord
seated
on
his
seat
of power,
and
all
the
army
of
heaven
in
their
places,
at
his
right
hand
and
at
his
left.
\VS{19}And
the
Lord
said,
How
may
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
be tricked
into
going
up
to
Ramoth-gilead
to
his death?
And
one
said
one
thing
and
one
another.
\VS{20}Then
a
spirit
came
forward
and
took
his
place
before
the
Lord
and
said,
I
will
get
him
to
do
it
by
a trick.
And
the
Lord
said
to
him,
How?
\VS{21}And
he
said,
I
will
go
out
and
be
a
spirit
of
deceit
in
the
mouth
of
all
his
prophets.
And
the Lord
said,
Your trick
will
have
its effect
on
him:
go
out
and
do
so.
\VS{22}And
now,
see,
the
Lord
has
put
a
spirit
of
deceit
in
the
mouth
of
these
prophets
of
yours;
and
the
Lord
has
said
evil
against
you.
\VS{23}Then
Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Chenaanah,
came
near
and
gave
Micaiah
a blow
on
the
side
of
his face,
saying,
Where
is
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
whose
word
is
in
you?
\VS{24}And
Micaiah
said, Truly,
you
will
see
on
that
day
when
you
go
into
an
inner
room
to
keep yourself safe.
\VS{25}And
the
king
of
Israel
said,
Take
Micaiah
and send
him
back
to
Amon,
the
ruler
of
the
town,
and
to
Joash,
the king's
son;
\VS{26}And
say,
By
the king's
order
this man
is
to
be
put
in
prison,
and given
prison
food
till
I
come
back
in
peace.
\VS{27}And
Micaiah
said,
If
you
come
back
at
all
in
peace,
the
Lord
has
not
sent
his
word
by
me.
\VS{28}So
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat,
the
king
of
Judah,
went
up
to
Ramoth-gilead.
\VS{29}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
I
will make
a change
in
my
clothing,
so
that
I
do not seem
to
be
the
king,
and
will
go
into
the
fight;
but
do
you
put
on
your
robes.
So
the
king
of
Israel made
a change
in
his
dress,
and
they
went
to
the
fight.
\VS{30}Now
the
king
of
Aram
had
given
orders
to
the
captains
of
his war-carriages,
saying,
Make
no
attack
on
small
or
great,
but
only
on
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{31}So
when
the
captains
of
the war-carriages
saw
Jehoshaphat,
they
said,
It
is
the
king
of
Israel.
And
turning
about,
they
came
round
him,
but
Jehoshaphat
gave
a
cry,
and
the
Lord
came
to
his
help,
and
God
sent
them
away
from
him.
\VS{32}Now
when
the
captains
of
the war-carriages
saw
that
he
was
not
the
king
of
Israel,
they
went
back
from
going
after
him.
\VS{33}And
a
certain
man
sent
an arrow
from
his
bow
without
thought
of
its
direction,
and
gave
the
king
of
Israel
a wound where
his
breastplate
was joined
to
his clothing;
so
he
said
to
the
driver
of
his war-carriage,
Go
to
one
side
and
take
me
away
out
of
the
army,
for
I am badly
wounded.
\VS{34}But
the
fight
became more violent
while
the
day
went
on;
and
the
king
of
Israel
was supported
in
his war-carriage facing
the Aramaeans
till
the
evening;
and
by
sundown
he
was
dead.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah,
went
back
to
his
house
in
Jerusalem
in
peace.
\VS{2}And
Jehu,
the
son
of
Hanani
the
seer,
went
to
King
Jehoshaphat
and
said
to
him,
Is
it right
for
you
to
go
to
the
help
of evil-doers,
loving
the haters
of
the
Lord?
because
of
this,
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
has
come
on
you.
\VS{3}But still
there
is
some
good
in
you,
for
you
have
put
away
the wood pillars
out
of
the
land,
and
have given
your
heart
to
the worship
of
God.
\VS{4}And
Jehoshaphat
was
living
in
Jerusalem;
and
he
went
out
again
among
the
people,
from Beer-sheba
to
the hill-country
of
Ephraim, guiding
them
back
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{5}And
he put
judges
through
all
the
land,
in
every walled
town
of
Judah,
\VS{6}And
said
to
the
judges,
Take care
what
you
do,
for
you
are
judging
not
for
man
but
for
the
Lord,
and
he
is
with
you
in
the
decisions
you
give.
\VS{7}So
now
let
the
fear
of
the
Lord
be
in
you;
do
your work
with
care;
for
in
the
Lord
our
God
there
is
no
evil,
or
respect
for high position,
or
taking
of payment
to
do
wrong.
\VS{8}Then
in
Jerusalem
he
gave authority
to certain
of
the
Levites
and
the
priests
and
the
heads
of
families
of
Israel
to
give
decisions
for
the
Lord,
and
in
the causes
of
those
living
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}And
he
gave
them
their
orders,
saying,
You
are
to
do
your work
in
the
fear
of
the
Lord,
in good
faith
and
with
a
true
heart.
\VS{10}And
if
any
cause
comes
before
you
from
your
brothers
living
in
their
towns,
where
the
death punishment
is
in question,
or
where
there
are questions
of
law
or
order,
or
rules
or
decisions,
make
them
take
care
that
they
are
not
in
the
wrong
before
the
Lord,
so
that
wrath
may
not
come
on
you
and
on
your
brothers;
do
this
and
you
yourselves
will
not
be
in
the
wrong.
\VS{11}And
now,
Amariah,
the
chief
priest,
is
over
you
in
all
questions
to
do
with
the
Lord;
and
Zebadiah
the
son
of
Ishmael,
the
head
of
the
family
of
Judah,
in
everything
to
do
with
the king's
business;
and
the
Levites
will
be overseers
for
you.
Be
strong
to
do
the
work;
and
may
the
Lord
be
with
the upright.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
this,
the
children
of
Moab
and
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
with
them some
of
the Meunim,
made
war
against
Jehoshaphat.
\VS{2}And
they
came
to
Jehoshaphat
with
the
news,
saying,
A
great
army
is moving
against
you
from
Edom
across
the
sea;
and
now
they
are
in
Hazazon-tamar (which
is En-gedi).
\VS{3}Then
Jehoshaphat,
in
his
fear,
went
to
the
Lord
for
directions,
and
gave orders
all
through
Judah
for
the people
to go without food.
\VS{4}And
Judah
came
together
to make prayer
for help
from
the
Lord;
from
every
town
of
Judah
they
came
to
give worship
to
the
Lord.
\VS{5}And
Jehoshaphat
took
his
place
in
the meeting
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
in
front
of
the
new
open space,
\VS{6}And
said,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
our
fathers,
are
you
not
God
in
heaven?
are
you
not
ruler
over
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
nations?
and
in
your
hands
are
power
and
strength
so
that
no
one
is
able
to keep
his
place
against
you.
\VS{7}Did
you
not,
O Lord
our
God,
after
driving
out
the
people
of
this
land
before
your
people
Israel,
give
it
to
the
seed
of
Abraham,
your
friend,
for
ever?
\VS{8}And
they
made
it
their living-place,
building
there
a
holy house
for
your
name,
and
saying,
\VS{9}If
evil
comes
on
us,
the
sword,
or punishment,
or disease,
or need
of
food,
we
will
come
to
this
house
and
to
you, (for
your
name
is
in
this
house,)
crying
to
you
in
our
trouble,
and
you
will
give
us
salvation
in answer
to
our
cry.
\VS{10}And
now,
see,
the
children
of
Ammon
and
Moab
and
the
people
of
Mount
Seir,
whom
you
kept
Israel
from attacking
when
they
came
out
of
Egypt,
so
that
turning
to
one side
they
did
not
send
destruction
on
them:
\VS{11}See
now,
how
as
our reward
they
have
come
to send
us
out
of
your land
which
you
have
given
us
as
our heritage.
\VS{12}O
our
God,
will
you
not
be
their
judge?
for
our
strength
is
not equal
to
this
great
army
which
is
coming
against
us;
and
we
are
at
a loss
what
to
do:
but
our
eyes
are
on
you.
\VS{13}And
all
Judah
were waiting
before
the
Lord,
with
their
little
ones,
their
wives,
and
their
children.
\VS{14}Then,
before
all
the meeting,
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
on
Jahaziel,
the
son
of
Zechariah,
son
of
Benaiah,
son
of
Jeiel,
son
of
Mattaniah,
a
Levite
and
one
of
the family
of
Asaph;
\VS{15}And
he
said,
Give ear,
O
Judah,
and
you
people
of
Jerusalem,
and
you,
King
Jehoshaphat:
the
Lord
says
to
you,
Have
no
fear
and
do
not
be troubled
on
account
of
this
great
army;
for
the
fight
is
not
yours
but God's.
\VS{16}Go
down
against
them
tomorrow:
see,
they
are
coming
up
by
the
slope
of
Ziz;
at
the
end
of
the
valley,
before
the waste
land
of Jeruel,
you
will
come
face
to
face
with
them.
\VS{17}There
will
be
no need
for
you
to
take
up arms
in
this
fight;
put
yourselves
in
position,
and
keep
where
you
are,
and
you
will
see
the
salvation
of
the
Lord
with
you,
O
Judah
and
Jerusalem:
have
no
fear
and
do
not
be troubled:
go
out
against
them
tomorrow,
for
the
Lord
is
with
you.
\VS{18}Then
Jehoshaphat
went
down
with
his
face
to
the
earth,
and
all
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem gave
worship
to
the
Lord,
falling
down
before
him.
\VS{19}And
the
Levites,
the
children
of
the
Kohathites
and
the
Korahites,
got
to
their feet
and gave
praise
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
with
a
loud
voice.
\VS{20}And
early
in
the
morning
they
got
up
and
went
out
to
the waste land
of
Tekoa:
and
when
they
were
going
out,
Jehoshaphat
took
his
station
and
said
to
them,
Give ear
to
me,
O
Judah
and
you
people
of
Jerusalem:
have
faith
in
the
Lord
your
God
and
you
will
be safe;
have
faith
in
his
prophets
and all
will
go well
for
you.
\VS{21}And
after discussion
with
the
people,
he
put
in
their
places
those
who
were
to
make melody
to
the
Lord,
praising
him
in
holy robes,
while
they
went
at
the
head
of
the
army,
and
saying,
May
the
Lord
be
praised,
for
his
mercy
is unchanging
for
ever.
\VS{22}And
at
the first notes
of
song
and
praise
the
Lord
sent
a surprise
attack
against
the
children
of
Ammon
and
Moab
and
the
people
of
Mount
Seir,
who
had
come
against
Judah;
and
they
were overcome.
\VS{23}And
the
children
of
Ammon
and
Moab made
an
attack
on
the
people
of
Mount
Seir
with
a
view
to
their
complete
destruction;
and
when
they
had
put
an
end
to
the
people
of
Seir, everyman's hand
was turned
against
his neighbour
for
his
destruction.
\VS{24}And
Judah
came
to
the
watchtower
of
the
waste
land,
and looking
in
the direction
of
the
army,
they saw
only
dead
bodies stretched
on
the
earth;
no living
man
was
to
be seen.
\VS{25}And
when
Jehoshaphat
and
his
people
came
to
take
their
goods
from
them,
they saw beasts
in
great
numbers,
and
wealth
and
clothing
and
things
of value,
more
than
they
were able
to
take
away;
all
this
they
took
for themselves,
and
they
were
three
days getting
it
away,
there
was
so
much.
\VS{26}On
the
fourth
day
they
all came
together
in
the
Valley
of
Blessing,
and
there
they
gave
blessing
to
the
Lord;
for
which
cause
that
place
has
been
named
the
Valley
of
Blessing
to
this
day.
\VS{27}Then
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
went
back,
with
Jehoshaphat
at
their
head, coming
back
to
Jerusalem
with
joy;
for
the
Lord
had
made
them
glad
over
their haters.
\VS{28}So
they
came
to
Jerusalem
with corded instruments
and wind-instruments
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{29}And
the
fear
of
God
came
on
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
lands,
when
they
had news
of
how
the
Lord
made war
on
those
who
came
against
Israel.
\VS{30}So
the
kingdom
of
Jehoshaphat
was
quiet,
for
the Lord
gave
him
rest
on
every
side.
\VS{31}And
Jehoshaphat
was
king
over
Judah:
he
was thirty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
for
twenty-five
years
in
Jerusalem:
his mother's
name
was
Azubah,
the
daughter
of
Shilhi.
\VS{32}He went
in
the
ways
of
his
father
Asa,
not
turning
away,
but
doing
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord.
\VS{33}The
high
places,
however,
were
not
taken
away,
and
the
hearts
of
the
people
were
still
not true
to
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{34}Now
as
for
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoshaphat,
first
and
last,
they
are
recorded
in
the
words
of
Jehu,
the
son
of
Hanani,
which
were
put
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{35}After
this
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah, became friends
with
Ahaziah,
king
of
Israel,
who
did much
evil:
\VS{36}Together
they
made
ships
to go
to
Tarshish, building
them
in
Ezion-geber.
\VS{37}Then
the
word
of
Eliezer
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Dodavahu
of
Mareshah,
came
against
Jehoshaphat,
saying,
Because
you
have
let
yourself
be
joined
with
Ahaziah,
the
Lord
has
sent destruction
on
your
works.
And
the
ships
were
broken
and
were
not
able
to go
to
Tarshish.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehoshaphat went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
his body
was put into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David.
And
Jehoram
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{2}And
he
had
brothers,
sons
of
Jehoshaphat,
Azariah,
Jehiel,
Zechariah,
Azariah,
Michael,
and
Shephatiah;
all
these
were
sons
of
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Israel.
\VS{3}And
their
father
gave
them
much
silver
and
gold
and
things
of
great value,
as
well
as walled
towns
in
Judah;
but
the
kingdom
he
gave
to
Jehoram,
because
he
was
the
oldest.
\VS{4}Now
when
Jehoram
had
taken
his
place
over
his father's
kingdom,
and
had
made
his position safe,
he
put
all
his
brothers
to death
with
the
sword,
as
well
as
some
of
the
princes
of
Israel.
\VS{5}Jehoram
was thirty-two
years
old
when
he
became
king;
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
eight
years.
\VS{6}He
went
in
the
ways
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and
did
as
the
family
of
Ahab
did,
for
the
daughter
of
Ahab
was
his
wife;
and
he
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord.
\VS{7}But
it
was
not
the Lord's
purpose
to
send
destruction
on
the
family
of
David,
because
of
the
agreement
he
had
made
with
David,
when
he
said
he
would
give
to
him
and
to
his
sons
a light
for ever.
\VS{8}In
his
time
Edom made
themselves free
from
the
rule
of
Judah,
and took
a
king
for
themselves.
\VS{9}Then
Jehoram
went
over
with
his
captains
and
all
his war-carriages ...
made
an
attack
by
night
on
the
Edomites,
whose
forces
were
all
round
him ...
on
the
captains
of
the war-carriages.
\VS{10}So
Edom made themselves free
from
the
rule
of
Judah,
to
this
day:
and
at
the
same
time
Libnah made
itself free
from
his
rule;
because
he
was turned away
from
the
Lord,
the
God
of
his
fathers.
\VS{11}And
more
than
this,
he
made
high
places
in
the
mountains
of
Judah, teaching
the
people
of
Jerusalem
to go after false gods,
and guiding
Judah
away
from
the true way.
\VS{12}And
a
letter
came
to
him
from
Elijah
the
prophet,
saying,
The
Lord,
the
God
of
your
father
David,
says,
Because
you
have
not kept
to
the
ways
of
your
father
Jehoshaphat
or
the
ways
of
Asa,
king
of
Judah,
\VS{13}But
have
gone
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and
have
made
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem go
after false gods,
as
the
family
of
Ahab did:
and
because
you
have put
to death
your father's
sons,
your
brothers,
who
were
better
than yourself:
\VS{14}Now, truly,
the
Lord
will send
a
great destruction
on
your
people
and
your
children
and
your
wives
and
everything
which
is yours:
\VS{15}And
you
yourself
will undergo
the cruel pains
of
a
disease
in
your
stomach,
so
that
day
by
day
your inside
will
be falling
out
because
of
the
disease.
\VS{16}Then
the
Philistines
and
the Arabians,
who
are
by
Ethiopia,
were
moved
by
the
Lord
to
make war
on
Jehoram;
\VS{17}And
they
came
up
against
Judah, forcing
a
way
into
it,
and
took
away
all
the
goods
in
the king's
house,
as
well
as
his
sons
and
his
wives;
so
that
he
had
no
son
but
only
Jehoahaz,
the
youngest.
\VS{18}And
after
all
this
the
Lord sent
on
him
a
disease
of
the
stomach
from which
it
was impossible
for
him
to
be
made well.
\VS{19}And
time
went
on,
and
after
two
years,
his inside falling
out
because
of
the
disease,
he
came
to
his
death
in cruel
pain.
And
his
people
made
no
burning
for
him
like
the
burning
made
for
his
fathers.
\VS{20}He
was thirty-two
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
eight
years:
and
at
his death
he
was
not regretted;
they put
his body
into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David,
but
not
in
the resting-place
of
the
kings.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
people
of
Jerusalem
made
Ahaziah,
his
youngest
son,
king
in
his
place,
for
the
band
of
men
who
came
with
the Arabians
to
the
army
had
put
all
the
older
sons
to death.
So
Ahaziah,
the
son
of
Jehoram,
became
king.
\VS{2}Ahaziah
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
one
year.
His mother's
name
was
Athaliah,
the
daughter
of
Omri.
\VS{3}He
went
in
the
ways
of
the
family
of
Ahab,
for
his
mother
was
his teacher
in evil-doing.
\VS{4}And
he
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
the
family
of
Ahab
did;
for
after
the
death
of
his
father
they
were
his
guides
to
his
destruction.
\VS{5}Acting
on
their suggestion,
he
went
with
Jehoram,
son
of
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
to make
war
on
Hazael,
king
of
Aram,
at
Ramoth-gilead:
and
Joram
was
wounded
by
the bowmen.
\VS{6}And
he
went
back
to
Jezreel
to
get
well
from
the
wounds
which
they
had given
him
at
Ramah
when
he
was
fighting
against
Hazael,
king
of
Aram.
And
Ahaziah,
the
son
of
Jehoram,
king
of
Judah,
went
down
to
Jezreel
to
see
Jehoram,
the
son
of
Ahab,
because
he
was ill.
\VS{7}Now
by
the purpose
of
God, Ahaziah's
journey
to
see
Jehoram
was
the
cause
of
his downfall:
for
when
he
came
there,
he
went
out
with
Jehoram
against
Jehu,
the
son
of
Nimshi,
who
had
been marked
out
by
the
Lord
for
the
destruction
of
the
family
of
Ahab.
\VS{8}Now
when
Jehu
was effecting
the punishment
of
the
family
of
Ahab,
he
came
to
the
princes
of
Judah
and
the
sons
of Ahaziah's
brothers,
the
servants
of
Ahaziah,
and put
them
to death.
\VS{9}And
he
went
in
search
of
Ahaziah;
and
when
they
came
where
he
was, (for
he
was
in
a secret
place
in
Samaria,)
they
took
him
to
Jehu
and
put
him
to
death;
then
they
put
his
body
to rest
in
the earth,
for
they
said,
He
is
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
whose
heart
was
true
to
the
Lord.
So
the
family
of
Ahaziah
had
no
power
to
keep
the
kingdom.
\VS{10}Now
when
Athaliah,
the
mother
of
Ahaziah,
saw
that
her
son
was
dead,
she
had
all
the rest
of
the
seed
of
the
kingdom
of
Judah
put
to
death.
\VS{11}But
Jehoshabeath,
the
daughter
of
the
king, secretly
took
Joash,
the
son
of
Ahaziah,
away
from
among
the king's
sons
who
were
put
to
death,
and
put
him
and
the
woman
who
took care
of
him
in
a
bedroom.
So
Jehoshabeath,
the
daughter
of
King
Jehoram,
the
wife
of
Jehoiada
the
priest
and
sister
of
Ahaziah,
kept
him safe
from
Athaliah,
so
that
she
did
not
put
him
to
death.
\VS{12}And she kept
him safe
with
her
in
the
house
of
God
for
six
years,
while
Athaliah
was ruling
the
land.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
seventh
year,
Jehoiada
made
himself
strong,
and
made
an
agreement
with
the
captains
of
hundreds,
Azariah,
the
son
of
Jeroham,
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Jehohanan,
Azariah,
the
son
of
Obed,
Maaseiah,
the
son
of
Adaiah,
and
Elishaphat,
the
son
of
Zichri.
\VS{2}And
they
went
through
Judah, getting
together
the
Levites
and
the
heads
of
families
in
Israel
from
all
the
towns
of
Judah,
and
they
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}And
all
the
people
made
an
agreement
with
the
king
in
the
house
of
God.
And
he
said
to
them, Truly,
the king's
son
will
be
king,
as
the
Lord
has
said
about
the
sons
of
David.
\VS{4}This
is
what
you
are
to
do: let
a
third
of
you,
of
the
priests
and
Levites,
who
come
in
on
the
Sabbath,
keep
the doors;
\VS{5}And
a
third
are
to
be stationed
at
the king's
house;
and
a
third
at
the doorway
of
the horses:
while
all
the
people
are waiting
in
the open spaces round
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}But
let
no
one
come
into
the
house
of
the
Lord
but
only
the
priests
and
those
of
the
Levites
who
have work
to
do
there;
they
may
go
in
for
they
are
holy;
but
the rest
of
the
people
are
to
keep
the orders
of
the
Lord.
\VS{7}And
the
Levites
are
to
make
a circle
round
the
king,
every
man
being armed;
and
any
man
who
comes
into
the
house
is
to
be
put
to
death;
you
are
to
keep
with
the
king
when
he
comes
in
and
when
he
goes
out.
\VS{8}So
the
Levites
and
all
Judah
did
as
Jehoiada
the
priest
had
given
them
orders:
every
one
took
with
him
his
men,
those
who
were
to
come
in
and
those
who
were
to
go
out
on
the
Sabbath;
for
Jehoiada
had
not
sent
away
the
divisions.
\VS{9}Then
Jehoiada
the
priest
gave
to
the
captains
of
hundreds
the
spears
and body-covers
which
had
been
King David's
and
which
were
kept
in
the
house
of
God.
\VS{10}And
he
put
all
the
people
in
position,
every
man
with
his instruments
of war
in
his
hand,
from
the
right
side
of
the
house
to
the
left,
by
the
altar
and
the
house
and
all
round
the
king.
\VS{11}Then
they
made
the king's
son
come
out,
and
they
put
the
crown
on
his head
and
gave
him
the arm-bands
and
made
him
king:
and
Jehoiada
and
his
sons
put
the holy
oil
on
him
and
said, Long
life
to
the
king.
\VS{12}Now
Athaliah,
hearing
the
noise
of
the
people
running
and
praising
the
king,
came
to
the
people
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
\VS{13}And
looking, she
saw
the
king
in
his
place
by
the
pillar
at
the doorway,
and
the
captains
and
the horns
by
his side;
and
all
the
people
of
the
land
were giving signs
of
joy
and sounding
the horns;
and
the makers
of melody
were playing
on
instruments
of
music, taking
the
chief
part
in
the
song
of
praise.
Then
Athaliah, violently parting
her
robes,
said, Broken faith, broken faith!
\VS{14}Then
Jehoiada
the
priest
gave
orders
to
the
captains
of
hundreds
who
had authority
over
the
army,
saying,
Take
her
outside
the lines,
and
let
anyone
who
goes
after
her
be
put
to
death
with
the
sword.
For
the
priest
said,
Let
her
not
be
put
to
death
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{15}So
they
put
their
hands
on
her,
and she
went
to
the king's
house
by
the doorway
of
the king's
horses;
and
there she
was
put
to
death.
\VS{16}And
Jehoiada
made
an
agreement
between
the
Lord
and
all
the
people
and
the
king,
that
they
would
be
the Lord's
people.
\VS{17}Then
all
the
people
went
to
the
house
of
Baal
and
had
it
pulled
down,
and
its
altars
and
images
broken
up;
and
Mattan,
the
priest
of
Baal,
they
put
to death
before
the
altars.
\VS{18}And
Jehoiada
put
the
work
and
the
care
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
into
the
hands
of
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
who
had
been grouped
in divisions
by
David
to
make burned
offerings
to
the
Lord,
as
it
is
recorded
in
the
law
of
Moses,
with
joy
and
song
as
David
had said.
\VS{19}And
he
put door-keepers
at
the doors
of
the Lord's
house,
to
see
that
no
one
who
was
unclean
in
any
way
might
come
in.
\VS{20}Then
he
took
the
captains
of
hundreds
and
the
chiefs
and
the
rulers
of
the
people
and
all
the
people
of
the
land,
and
they
came
down
with
the
king
from
the
house
of
the
Lord
through
the higher doorway
into
the king's
house,
and
put
the
king
on
the
seat
of
the
kingdom.
\VS{21}So
all
the
people
of
the
land
were
glad
and
the
town
was
quiet,
for
they
had
put
Athaliah
to
death
with
the
sword.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Joash
was
seven
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
for
forty
years
in
Jerusalem:
his mother's
name
was
Zibiah
of Beer-sheba.
\VS{2}And
Joash
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
as
long
as
Jehoiada
the
priest
was living.
\VS{3}And
Jehoiada
took
two
wives
for
him,
and
he
became
the
father
of
sons
and
daughters.
\VS{4}Now
after
this
Joash
had
a desire
to put
the
house
of
the
Lord
into good order
again;
\VS{5}And getting
together
the
priests
and
Levites,
he
said
to
them,
Go
out
into
the
towns
of
Judah
year
by
year,
and
get
from
all
Israel
money
to keep
the
house
of
your
God
in good condition;
and see
that
this
is
done
without
loss
of
time.
The
Levites, however,
were slow
in
doing
so.
\VS{6}Then
the
king
sent
for
Jehoiada,
the
chief priest,
and
said
to
him,
Why
have
you
not
given
the
Levites
orders
that
the
tax fixed
by
Moses,
the
servant
of
the
Lord,
and
by
the meeting
of
Israel,
for
the
Tent
of witness,
is
to
be got
in
from
Judah
and
Jerusalem
and handed
over?
\VS{7}For
the
house
of
the
Lord
had
been
broken
up
by
Athaliah,
that evil
woman,
and
her
sons;
and
all
its
holy
things
they
had given
to
the
Baals.
\VS{8}So
at
the king's
order
they
made
a
chest
and
put
it
outside
the doorway
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{9}And
an order
was
sent
out
through all
Judah
and
Jerusalem
that payment
was
to
be
made
to
the
Lord
of
the
tax which
Moses,
the
servant
of
God,
had
put
on
Israel
in
the waste land.
\VS{10}And
all
the
chiefs
and
all
the
people
came
gladly
and
put
their money
into
the
chest,
till
they
had
all
given.
\VS{11}So
when
the
chest
was
taken
to
the king's servants
by
the
Levites,
and
they
saw
that
there
was
much
money
in
it,
the king's
scribe
and
the
chief priest's servant
took
the
money
out,
and
put
the
chest
back
in
its
place.
They
did
this
day
by
day,
and got
together
a
great
amount
of
money.
\VS{12}Then
the
king
and
Jehoiada
gave
it
to
those
who
were
responsible
for getting
the
work
done
on
the Lord's
house,
and
with
it
they got wall-builders
and woodworkers
and metal-workers
to
put
the
house
of
the
Lord
in good order
again.
\VS{13}So
the
workmen
did
their
work,
making good
what
was damaged
and building
up
the
house
of
God till
it
was
strong
and beautiful again.
\VS{14}And
when
the work
was
done,
they
took
the
rest
of
the
money
to
the
king
and
Jehoiada,
and
it
was
used
for
making
the
vessels
for
the
house
of
the
Lord,
all
the
vessels needed
for
the
offerings,
the
spoons
and
the
vessels
of
gold
and
silver.
And
as
long
as
Jehoiada
was living,
the
regular burned
offerings
were
offered
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{15}But
Jehoiada
became
old
and
full
of
days,
and
he
came
to
his end;
he
was
a
hundred
and
thirty
years
old
at
the
time
of
his
death.
\VS{16}And
they put
him into
his last resting-place
in
the
town
of
David,
among
the
kings,
because
he
had
done
good
in
Israel
for
God
and
for
his
house.
\VS{17}Now
after
the
death
of
Jehoiada,
the
chiefs
of
Judah
came
and
went
down
on
their faces
before
the
king.
Then
the
king
gave ear
to
them.
\VS{18}And
they
gave
up
the
house
of
the
Lord
God
of
their
fathers,
and
became worshippers
of pillars
of wood
and
of
the
images;
and
because
of
this sin
of theirs,
wrath
came
on
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}And
the
Lord
sent
them
prophets
to
make
them
come
back
to
him;
and
they
gave witness
against
them,
but
they
would
not
give
ear.
\VS{20}Then
the
spirit
of
God
came
on
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada
the
priest,
and, getting
up
before
the
people,
he
said
to
them,
God
has
said,
Why
do
you
go
against
the
orders
of
the
Lord,
so
that everything goes badly
for
you?
because
you
have
given
up
the
Lord,
he
has
given
you
up.
\VS{21}But
when
they
had
made
a secret design
against
him,
he
was
stoned
with
stones,
by
the king's order,
in
the outer square
of
the Lord's
house.
\VS{22}So
King
Joash
did
not
keep
in
mind
how good
Jehoiada
his
father
had
been
to
him,
but
put
his
son
to
death.
And
in
the hour
of
his
death
he
said,
May
the
Lord
see
it
and
take payment!
\VS{23}Now
in
the
spring,
the
army
of
the Aramaeans
came
up
against
him;
they
came
against
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
putting
to death
all
the great
men
of
the
people
and
sending
all
the goods
they
took
from
them
to
the
king
of
Damascus.
\VS{24}For
though
the
army
of
Aram
was only
a
small
one,
the
Lord
gave
a
very
great
army
into
their
hands,
because
they
had
given
up
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
So
they
put
into effect
the
punishment
of
Joash.
\VS{25}And
when
they
had
gone
away
from
him, (for
he
was broken
with disease,)
his
servants
made
a secret design
against
him
because
of
the
blood
of
the
son
of
Jehoiada
the
priest,
and
they
put
him
to
death
on
his
bed;
and
they
put
his
body
into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David,
but
not
in
the resting-place
of
the
kings.
\VS{26}Those
who
made designs
against
him
were
Zabad,
the
son
of
Shimeath,
an Ammonite woman,
and
Jehozabad,
the
son
of
Shimrith,
a
Moabite woman.
\VS{27}Now
the story
of
his
sons,
and
all
the words said
by
the
prophet
against
him,
and
the building
up again
of
the Lord's
house,
are
recorded
in
the
account
in
the
book
of
the
kings.
And
Amaziah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Amaziah
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
twenty-nine
years;
his mother's
name
was
Jehoaddan
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}He
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
but
his
heart
was
not
completely
true
to
the
Lord.
\VS{3}Now
when
he
became
strong
in
the
kingdom,
he
put
to death
those
men
who
had
taken
the life
of
the
king
his
father.
\VS{4}But
he
did
not
put
their
children
to
death,
for
he kept
the
orders
of
the
Lord
recorded
in
the
book
of
the
law
of
Moses,
saying,
The
fathers
are
not
to
be
put
to
death
for
their
children
or
the
children
for
their
fathers,
but
a
man
is
to
be
put
to
death
for
the
sin
which
he
himself
has done.
\VS{5}Then
Amaziah
got
all
Judah
together
and
put
them
in order
by
their
families,
even
all
Judah
and
Benjamin,
under
captains
of
thousands
and
captains
of
hundreds:
and
he
had
those
of
twenty
years
old
and
over
numbered,
and
they
came
to
three
hundred
thousand
of
the best fighting-men,
trained
for
war
and
in
the
use
of
the
spear
and
the body-cover.
\VS{6}And
for
a
hundred
talents
of
silver,
he got
a
hundred
thousand fighting-men
from
Israel.
\VS{7}But
a
man
of
God
came
to
him,
saying,
O
king,
let
not
the
army
of
Israel
go
with
you;
for
the
Lord
is
not
with
Israel,
that
is,
the
children
of
Ephraim.
\VS{8}But
go
yourself,
and
be
strong
in
war;
God
will
not let
you
go
down
before
those
who
are fighting
against
you;
for
God
has
power
to
give
help
or
to send
you
down
before
your attackers.
\VS{9}Then
Amaziah
said
to
the
man
of
God,
But
what
is
to
be
done about
the
hundred
talents
which
I
have
given
for
the armed
band
of
Israel?
And
the
man
of
God
in
answer
said,
God
is able
to
give
you
much
more
than
this.
\VS{10}So
Amaziah, separating
the armed
band
which
had
come
to
him
from
Ephraim,
sent
them
back
again;
which
made
them
very
angry
with
Judah,
and
they
went
back burning
with
wrath.
\VS{11}Then
Amaziah
took heart,
and went
out
at
the head
of
his
people
and came
to
the
Valley
of
Salt, where
he
put
to death
ten
thousand
of
the
children
of
Seir;
\VS{12}And
ten
thousand more
the
children
of Israel
took
living,
and
made
them
go
up
to
the
top
of
the
rock, pushing
them
down
from
the
top
of
the
rock
so
that
their bodies
were
broken
by
the
fall.
\VS{13}But
the
men
of
the
band
which
Amaziah
sent
back
and
did
not
take
with
him
to
the
fight,
made
attacks
on
the
towns
of
Judah
from
Samaria
to
Beth-horon, putting
to death
three
thousand
of
their
people
and
taking
away
a
great store
of
their goods.
\VS{14}Now
when
Amaziah
came
back
from
the destruction
of
the
Edomites,
he
took
the
gods
of
the
children
of
Seir
and
made
them
his
gods, worshipping
them
and
burning offerings
before
them.
\VS{15}And
so
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was moved
against
Amaziah,
and
he
sent
a
prophet
to
him,
who
said,
Why
have
you
gone
after
the
gods
of
the
people
who
have
not
given
their
people salvation
from
your
hands?
\VS{16}But
while
he
was
talking
to
him
the
king
said
to
him,
Have
we
made
you
one
of
the king's government?
say
no
more,
or
it
will
be
the
cause
of
your death.
Then
the
prophet
gave
up protesting,
and
said,
It
is clear
to
me
that God's
purpose
is
your
destruction,
because
you
have
done
this
and
have
not
given ear
to
my words.
\VS{17}Then
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah,
acting
on
the suggestion
of
his servants,
sent
to
Joash,
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
the
son
of
Jehu,
king
of
Israel,
saying,
Come,
let
us
have
a meeting
face
to
face.
\VS{18}And
Joash,
king
of
Israel,
sent
to
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah,
saying,
The thorn-tree
in
Lebanon
sent
to
the
cedar
in
Lebanon,
saying,
Give
your
daughter
to
my
son
for
a
wife:
and
a
beast
from
the woodland
in
Lebanon
went
by, crushing
the
thorn
under
his feet.
\VS{19}You
say,
See,
I
have
overcome
Edom;
and
your
heart
is
lifted
up
with pride:
now keep
in
your country;
why
do
you
make causes
of
trouble, putting
yourself,
and
Judah
with
you,
in
danger
of
downfall?
\VS{20}But
Amaziah
gave
no
attention;
and
this
was
the
purpose
of
God,
so
that
he
might
give
them
up
into
the
hands
of Joash,
because
they
had
gone
after
the
gods
of
Edom.
\VS{21}And
so
Joash,
king
of
Israel,
went
up;
and
he
and
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah,
came
face
to
face
at
Beth-shemesh
in
Judah.
\VS{22}And
Judah
was overcome
before
Israel,
and
they
went
in
flight,
every
man
to
his
tent.
\VS{23}And
Joash,
king
of
Israel,
made
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah,
the
son
of
Joash,
the
son
of
Jehoahaz, prisoner
at
Beth-shemesh,
and
took
him
to
Jerusalem;
and
he
had
the
wall
of
Jerusalem pulled
down
from
the doorway
of
Ephraim
to
the doorway
in
the angle,
four
hundred
cubits.
\VS{24}And
he
took
all
the
gold
and
silver
and
all
the
vessels
which
were
in
the
house
of
the Lord,
under
the care
of
Obed-edom,
and
all
the
wealth
from
the king's
house,
as
well
as
those
whose lives
would
be
the
price
of broken faith,
and
went
back
to
Samaria.
\VS{25}Amaziah,
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Judah, went
on living
for
fifteen
years
after
the
death
of
Joash,
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
king
of
Israel.
\VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Amaziah,
first
and
last,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel?
\VS{27}Now
from
the
time
when
Amaziah
gave
up worshipping
the
Lord,
they
made secret designs
against
him
in
Jerusalem;
and
he went
in
flight
to
Lachish:
but
they
sent
to
Lachish
after
him
and
put
him
to
death
there.
\VS{28}And
they
took
his body
on
horseback
and
put
it
into
the earth
with
his
fathers
in
the
town
of
David.

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
all
the
people
of
Judah
took
Uzziah,
who
was
sixteen
years
old,
and
made
him
king
in
place
of
his
father
Amaziah.
\VS{2}He
was
the builder
of
Eloth,
which
he got
back
for
Judah
after
the death
of
the
king.
\VS{3}Uzziah
was
sixteen
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
fifty-two
years;
his mother's
name
was
Jechiliah
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}He
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
his
father
Amaziah
had
done.
\VS{5}He
gave
himself
to
searching
after
God
in
the
days
of
Zechariah,
who
made men wise
in
the fear
of
God;
and
as
long
as
he
was
true
to
the
Lord,
God
made
things
go well
for
him.
\VS{6}He
went
out
and
made war
against
the
Philistines, pulling
down
the
walls
of
Gath
and
Jabneh
and
Ashdod,
and
building
towns
in
the country round
Ashdod
and among
the
Philistines.
\VS{7}And
God gave
him
help
against
the
Philistines,
and
against
the Arabians
living
in
Gur-baal,
and
against
the
Meunim.
\VS{8}The
Ammonites
gave
offerings
to
Uzziah:
and news
of
him
went
out
as
far
as
the limit
of
Egypt;
for
he
became
very great
in
power.
\VS{9}Uzziah
made
towers
in
Jerusalem,
at
the doorway
in
the
angle
and
at
the doorway
in
the
valley
and
at
the turn
of
the wall, arming
them.
\VS{10}And
he put
up
towers
in
the waste
land
and
made places
for storing water,
for
he
had
much
cattle,
in
the low
hills
and
in
the table
land;
and
he
had
farmers
and vine-keepers
in
the
mountains
and
in
the fertile
land,
for
he
was
a
lover
of farming.
\VS{11}In
addition,
Uzziah
had
an
army
of fighting-men
who
went
out
to
war
in
bands,
as
they
had
been
listed
by
Jeiel
the
scribe
and
Maaseiah
the
ruler,
under
the
authority
of
Hananiah,
one
of
the king's
captains.
\VS{12}The
heads
of
families,
the
strong
men
of war,
were
two
thousand,
six
hundred.
\VS{13}And
under
their orders
was
a
trained
army
of
three
hundred
and
seven
thousand,
five
hundred,
of
great
strength
in
war,
helping
the
king
against any
who came
against
him.
\VS{14}And
Uzziah
had
all
these
forces
armed
with body-covers
and
spears
and head-covers
and coats
of metal
and
bows
and
stones
for sending
from leather bands.
\VS{15}And
in
Jerusalem
he
made machines,
the invention
of expert
men,
to
be
placed
on
the
towers
and angles
of
the walls
for sending
arrows
and
great
stones.
And
his
name
was honoured
far
and wide;
for
he
was
greatly
helped
till
he
was
strong.
\VS{16}But
when
he
had become
strong,
his
heart
was
lifted
up
in pride,
causing
his
destruction;
and
he did evil
against
the
Lord
his
God;
for
he
went
into
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
for
the
purpose
of
burning perfumes
on
the
altar
of perfumes.
\VS{17}And
Azariah
the
priest
went
in
after
him,
with
eighty
of
the Lord's
priests,
who
were
strong
men;
\VS{18}And
they
made protests
to
Uzziah
the
king,
and
said
to
him,
The
burning
of perfumes,
Uzziah,
is
not
your business
but
that
of
the
priests,
the
sons
of
Aaron,
who
have
been
made
holy
for
this work:
go
out
of
the
holy
place,
for
you
have done wrong,
and
it
will
not
be
to
your honour
before
God.
\VS{19}Then
Uzziah
was angry;
and
he
had
in
his
hand
a vessel
for
burning
perfume;
and
while
his wrath
was bitter
against
the
priests,
the
mark
of
the leper's
disease
came
out
on
his brow,
before
the eyes
of
the
priests
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
by
the
altar
of perfumes.
\VS{20}And
Azariah,
the
chief
priest,
and
all
the
priests, looking
at
him,
saw
the mark
of
the
leper
on
his brow,
and
they
sent
him
out
quickly
and
he
himself
went
out
straight
away,
for
the Lord's punishment
had
come
on
him.
\VS{21}So
King
Uzziah
was
a
leper
till
the
day
of
his
death,
living separately
in
his private
house;
for
he
was
cut
off
from
the
house
of
God;
and
Jotham
his
son
was
ruling
over
his
house,
judging
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{22}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Uzziah,
first
and
last,
were
recorded
by
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz.
\VS{23}So
Uzziah went
to
rest
with
his
fathers;
and
they put
his body into
the earth
in
the
field used
for
the resting-place
of
the
kings,
for
they
said,
He
is
a
leper:
and
Jotham
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Jotham
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king;
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
sixteen
years;
and
his mother's
name
was
Jerushah,
the
daughter
of
Zadok.
\VS{2}He
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
his
father
Uzziah
had
done;
but
he
did
not
go
into
the
Temple
of
the
Lord.
And
the
people
still
went
on
in
their evil ways.
\VS{3}He put
up
the higher doorway
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and did
much
building
on
the
wall
of
the
Ophel.
\VS{4}In addition,
he
made
towns
in
the hill-country
of
Judah,
and strong buildings
and
towers
in
the woodlands.
\VS{5}He
went
to war
with
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon
and overcame
them.
That
year,
the
children
of
Ammon
gave
him
a
hundred
talents
of
silver,
and
ten
thousand measures
of
grain
and
ten
thousand measures
of
barley.
And
the
children
of
Ammon
gave
him
the
same amount
the
second
year
and
the
third.
\VS{6}So
Jotham
became
strong,
because
in all
his
ways
he
made
the
Lord
his guide.
\VS{7}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jotham,
and
all
his
wars
and
his
ways,
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
Judah.
\VS{8}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
sixteen
years.
\VS{9}And
Jotham went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
they put
his body into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David;
and
Ahaz
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ahaz
was
twenty
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
sixteen
years;
he
did
not
do
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
like
David
his
father:
\VS{2}But
he went
in
the
ways
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
made
images
of
metal
for
the
Baals.
\VS{3}More than
this,
he
had
offerings
burned
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
and
made
his
children go through
fire, copying
the
disgusting ways
of
the
nations
whom
the
Lord
had sent
out
of
the
land
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{4}And
he
made offerings
and had perfumes
burned
in
the
high
places
and
on
the
hills
and
under
every
green
tree.
\VS{5}So
the
Lord
his
God
gave
him
up
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Aram;
and
they overcame
him,
and
took
away
a
great number
of
his people
as prisoners
to
Damascus.
Then
he
was
given
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Israel,
who
sent
great destruction
on
him.
\VS{6}For
Pekah,
the
son
of
Remaliah,
in
one
day put
to death
a
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
men
of
Judah,
all
of
them good fighting-men;
because
they
had given
up
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{7}And
Zichri,
a
great fighting-man
of
Ephraim, put
to death
Maaseiah,
the king's
son,
and
Azrikam,
the controller
of
his
house,
and
Elkanah,
who
was
second
in authority
to
the
king.
\VS{8}And
the
children
of
Israel
took
away
as prisoners
from
their
brothers,
two
hundred
thousand,
women
and
sons
and
daughters,
and
a
great store
of
their goods,
and
took
them
to
Samaria.
\VS{9}But
a
prophet
of
the
Lord
was
there,
named
Oded;
and
he
went
out
in
front
of
the
army
which
was
coming
into
Samaria
and
said
to
them, Truly,
because
the
Lord,
the
God
of
your
fathers,
was
angry
with
Judah,
he
gave
them
up
into
your
hands,
and
you
have
put
them
to death
in
an outburst
of
wrath stretching
up
to
heaven.
\VS{10}And
now
your purpose
is
to keep
the
children
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
as men-servants
and women-servants
under
your yoke:
but
are
there
no sins
against
the
Lord
your
God
to
be seen
among
yourselves?
\VS{11}And
now
give ear
to
me,
and send
back
the prisoners
whom
you
have
taken
from
your
brothers:
for
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
is
burning
against
you.
\VS{12}Then
certain
of
the
heads
of
the
children
of
Ephraim,
Azariah,
the
son
of
Johanan,
Berechiah,
the
son
of
Meshillemoth
Jehizkiah,
the
son
of
Shallum,
and
Amasa
the
son
of
Hadlai,
put
themselves
against
those
who
had
come
from
the
war,
\VS{13}And
said
to
them,
You
are
not
to
let these prisoners
come
here;
for
what
you
are designing
to
do
will
be
a
cause
of
sin
against
the
Lord
to
us, making
even
greater
our
sin
and
our wrongdoing, which
now
are
great
enough,
and
his
wrath
is
burning
against
Israel.
\VS{14}So
the
armed
men gave
up
the prisoners
and
the goods
they
had taken
to
the
heads
and
the meeting
of
the
people.
\VS{15}And
those
men
who
have
been
named
went
up
and
took
the prisoners,
clothing
those
among
them
who
were uncovered,
with
things
from
the goods
which
had
been
taken
in
the war,
and
putting robes
on
them
and shoes
on
their feet;
and
they
gave
them
food
and
drink
and oil
for
their bodies,
and seating
all
the
feeble
among
them
on asses,
they
took
them
to
Jericho,
the
town
of palm-trees,
to
their
people,
and
then
went
back
to
Samaria.
\VS{16}At
that
time
King
Ahaz
sent
for
help
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{17}For
the
Edomites
had
come
again,
attacking
Judah
and
taking
away
prisoners.
\VS{18}And
the
Philistines, forcing
their way
into
the
towns
of
the lowlands
and
the
south
of
Judah,
had
taken
Beth-shemesh
and
Aijalon
and
Gederoth
and
Soco,
with
their daughter-towns,
as well
as
Timnah
and
Gimzo
and
their daughter-towns,
and
were
living
there.
\VS{19}For
the
Lord made
Judah low,
because
of
Ahaz,
king
of
Israel;
for
he
had given
up all self-control
in
Judah, sinning greatly
against
the
Lord.
\VS{20}Then
Tiglath-pileser,
king
of
Assyria,
came
to
him,
but
was
a cause
of trouble
and
not
of
strength
to
him.
\VS{21}For
Ahaz
took
a part
of
the
wealth
from
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
from
the
house
of
the
king
and
of
the great
men,
and
gave
it
to
the
king
of
Assyria;
but
it
was
no
help
to
him.
\VS{22}And
in
the
time
of
his
trouble,
this
same
King
Ahaz
did
even
more evil against
the
Lord.
\VS{23}For
he
made
offerings
to
the
gods
of
Damascus,
who
were
attacking
him,
and
said,
Because
the
gods
of
the
kings
of
Aram
are giving
them
help,
I
will
make
offerings
to
them
so
that
they
may
give
me
help.
But
they
were
the
cause
of
his
downfall,
and
of
that
of
all
Israel.
\VS{24}And
Ahaz got
together
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
God, cutting
up
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
God,
and shutting
the
doors
of
the Lord's
house;
and
he
made
altars
in
every part
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{25}And
in
every
town
of
Judah
he
made
high
places where perfumes
were
burned
to
other
gods, awaking
the wrath
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
his
fathers.
\VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
his
acts
and
all
his
ways,
first
and
last,
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel.
\VS{27}And
Ahaz
went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
they
put
his body
into
the earth
in
Jerusalem;
but
they
did
not
put
him
in
the resting-place
of
the
kings
of
Israel:
and
Hezekiah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hezekiah
became
king
when
he
was
twenty-five
years
old;
and
he
was
king
in
Jerusalem
for
twenty-nine
years;
and
his mother's
name
was
Abijah,
the
daughter
of
Zechariah.
\VS{2}He
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
his
father
David
had
done.
\VS{3}In
the
first
year
of
his
rule,
in
the
first
month,
opening
the
doors
of
the Lord's
house,
he
made
them
strong.
\VS{4}And
he sent
for
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and got
them
together
in
the wide
place
on
the
east
side,
\VS{5}And
said
to
them,
Give ear
to
me,
O
Levites:
now
make
yourselves
holy,
and
make
holy
the
house
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
your
fathers,
and
take
away everything
unclean
from
the
holy
place.
\VS{6}For
our
fathers
have
done
evil, sinning
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
our
God,
and
have
given
him
up,
turning
away
their
faces
from
the house
of
the
Lord,
and
turning
their
backs
on
him.
\VS{7}The
doors
of
his house
have
been
shut
and
the lights
put
out;
no perfumes
have
been
burned
or
offerings
made
to
the
God
of
Israel
in
his
holy
place.
\VS{8}And
so
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
has
come
on
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
and
he
has
given
them
up
to
be
a
cause
of fear
and wonder
and shame,
as
your
eyes
have
seen.
\VS{9}For
see,
our
fathers
have been put
to death
with
the
sword,
and
our
sons
and
daughters
and
wives
have been taken
away
prisoners
because
of
this.
\VS{10}Now
it
is
my
purpose
to
make
an
agreement
with
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
so
that
the heat
of
his
wrath
may
be
turned
away
from
us.
\VS{11}My
sons,
take
care
now:
for
you
have
been marked
out
by
the
Lord
to
come
before
him
and
to
be
his
servants,
burning
offerings
to
him.
\VS{12}Then
the
Levites took
their places;
Mahath,
the
son
of
Amasai,
and
Joel,
the
son
of
Azariah,
among
the
Kohathites;
and
of
the
sons
of
Merari,
Kish,
the
son
of
Abdi,
and
Azariah,
the
son
of
Jehallelel;
and
of
the
Gershonites,
Joah,
the
son
of
Zimmah,
and
Eden,
the
son
of
Joah;
\VS{13}And
of
the
sons
of
Elizaphan,
Shimri
and
Jeuel;
and
of
the
sons
of
Asaph,
Zechariah
and
Mattaniah;
\VS{14}And
of
the
sons
of
Heman, Jehuel
and
Shimei;
and
of
the
sons
of
Jeduthun,
Shemaiah
and
Uzziel.
\VS{15}And
they got
their
brothers
together
and
made
themselves
holy,
and
went
in,
as
the
king
had
said
by
the
word
of
the
Lord,
to make
the
house
of
the
Lord
clean.
\VS{16}And
the
priests
went
into
the
inner
part
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
to make
it
clean,
and
everything
unclean
which
was
to
be seen
in
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
they
took
out
into
the
outer square
of
the Lord's
house,
and
the
Levites
got
it together
and
took
it
away
to
the
stream
Kidron.
\VS{17}On
the
first
day
of
the
first
month
the work
of making
the
house
holy
was
started,
and
on
the
eighth
day
they
came
to
the covered way
of
the
Lord;
in
eight
days
they
made
the Lord's
house
holy,
and
on
the sixteenth
day
of
the
first
month
the work
was done.
\VS{18}Then
they
went
in
to
King
Hezekiah
and
said,
We
have
made
all
the
house
of
the
Lord
clean,
as well
as
the
altar
of burned
offerings
with
all
its
vessels,
and
the
table
for
the holy bread,
with
all
its
vessels.
\VS{19}And
all
the
vessels
which
were turned
out
by
King
Ahaz
in
his sin
while
he
was
king,
we
have
put
in
order
and
made
holy,
and
now
they
are
in
their
places
before
the
altar
of
the
Lord.
\VS{20}Then
Hezekiah
the
king
got
up
early,
and
got
together
the great
men
of
the
town,
and
went
up
to
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{21}And
they
took
with
them
seven
oxen
and
seven
male
sheep
and
seven
lambs
and
seven he-goats
as
a sin-offering
for
the
kingdom
and
for
the
holy house
and
for
Judah.
And
he
gave
orders
to
the
sons
of
Aaron,
the
priests,
that
these
were
to
be
offered
on
the
altar
of
the
Lord.
\VS{22}So
they put
the
oxen
to
death
and
their
blood
was given
to
the
priests
to
be drained
out against
the
altar;
then
they put
the
male
sheep
to
death, draining
out
their
blood against
the
altar,
and
they put
the
lambs
to
death, draining
out
their
blood against
the
altar.
\VS{23}Then
they
took
the he-goats
for
the sin-offering, placing
them
before
the
king
and
the meeting
of
the people,
and
they
put
their
hands
on
them:
\VS{24}And
the
priests put
them
to
death,
and
made
a sin-offering
with
their
blood
on
the
altar,
to take
away
the
sin
of
all
Israel:
for
the
king
gave
orders
that
the burned
offering
and
the sin-offering
were
for
all
Israel.
\VS{25}Then
he
put
the
Levites
in
their
places
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
with brass
and corded instruments
of music
as ordered
by
David
and
Gad,
the king's
seer,
and
Nathan
the
prophet:
for
the
order
was
the Lord's,
given
by
his
prophets.
\VS{26}So
the
Levites
took
their places
with David's
instruments,
and
the
priests
with
their horns.
\VS{27}And
Hezekiah
gave
the
word
for
the burned
offering
to
be
offered
on
the
altar.
And
when
the burned
offering
was
started,
then
the
song
of
the
Lord
was
started,
with
the blowing
of horns
and
with
all
the
instruments
of
David,
king
of
Israel.
\VS{28}And
all
the people gave
worship,
to
the sound
of
songs
and
the
blowing
of horns;
and
this went
on
till
the burned offering
was
ended.
\VS{29}And
at
the
end
of
the
offering,
the
king
and
all
who
were
present
with
him gave
worship
with bent heads.
\VS{30}Then
King
Hezekiah
and
the
captains
gave
orders
to
the
Levites
to give
praise
to
God
in
the
words
of
David
and
Asaph
the
seer.
And
they made songs
of
praise
with
joy,
and
with bent
heads
gave
worship.
\VS{31}Then
Hezekiah
made
answer
and
said,
Now
that
you
have
given
yourselves
to
the
Lord,
come
near
and
take
offerings
and praise-offerings
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
So
all
the
people
took
in
offerings
and praise-offerings:
and
those
whose
hearts
were
moved,
took
in burned
offerings.
\VS{32}The
number
of burned
offerings
which
the
people
took
in
was
seventy
oxen,
a
hundred
male
sheep,
and
two
hundred
lambs:
all
these
were
for burned
offerings
to
the
Lord.
\VS{33}And
the
holy
things
were
six
hundred
oxen
and
three
thousand
sheep.
\VS{34}There
were
not
enough
priests
for
the
work
of cutting
up
all
the burned
offerings;
so
their
brothers
the
Levites
gave
them help
till
the
work
was
done
and
the
priests
had
made
themselves
holy:
for
the
Levites
were
more
upright
in
heart
to
make
themselves
holy
than
the
priests.
\VS{35}And
there
was
a
great
amount
of burned
offerings,
with
the
fat
of
the peace-offerings
and
the drink
offerings
for every burned
offering.
So
the
work
of
the Lord's
house
was
put
in
order.
\VS{36}And
Hezekiah
and
all
the
people
were
full
of
joy,
because
God
had
made
the
people
ready:
for
the
thing
was
done
suddenly.

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Hezekiah
sent word
to
all
Israel
and
Judah,
and
sent
letters
to
Ephraim
and
Manasseh, requesting
them
to
come
to
the
house
of
the
Lord
at
Jerusalem,
to
keep
the
Passover
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{2}For
the
king,
after discussion
with
his
chiefs
and
all
the body
of
the people
in
Jerusalem,
had
made
a decision
to
keep
the
Passover
in
the
second
month.
\VS{3}It
was
not possible
to
keep
it
at
that
time,
because
not
enough
priests
had
made
themselves
holy,
and
the
people
had
not come
together
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}And
the
thing
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
king
and
all
the
people.
\VS{5}So
it
was ordered
that
word
was
to
be sent
out
through
all
Israel,
from Beer-sheba
to
Dan,
that
they
were
to
come
to
keep
the
Passover
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
at
Jerusalem:
because
they
had
not
kept
it
in
great
numbers
in
agreement
with
the law.
\VS{6}So
runners
went
with
letters
from
the
king
and
his
chiefs
through
all
Israel
and
Judah,
by
the
order
of
the
king,
saying,
O
children
of
Israel,
come
back
again
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Israel,
so
that
he
may
come
again
to
that small band
of
you which
has
been kept safe
out
of
the
hands
of
the
kings
of
Assyria.
\VS{7}Do
not
be
like
your
fathers
and
your
brothers,
who
were sinners against
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
so
that
he
made
them
a
cause
of fear,
as
you
see.
\VS{8}Now
do
not
be hard-hearted,
as
your
fathers
were;
but
give
yourselves
to
the
Lord,
and
come
into
his
holy
place,
which
he
has
made
his
for
ever,
and
be
the
servants
of
the
Lord
your
God,
so
that
the heat
of
his
wrath
may
be
turned
away
from
you.
\VS{9}For
if
you
come
back
to
the
Lord,
those
who
took
away
your
brothers
and
your
children
will
have pity
on
them,
and
let
them
come
back
to
this
land:
for
the
Lord
your
God
is
full
of grace
and
mercy,
and
his
face
will
not
be
turned
away
from
you
if
you
come
back
to
him.
\VS{10}So
the
runners
went
from
town
to
town
through
all
the
country
of
Ephraim
and
Manasseh
as
far
as
Zebulun:
but
they
were
laughed
at
and
made
sport
of.
\VS{11}However,
some
of
Asher
and
Manasseh
and
Zebulun
put
away
their pride
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}And
in
Judah
the
power
of
God
gave
them
one
heart
to
do
the
orders
of
the
king
and
the
captains,
which
were
taken
as
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{13}So
a
very
great
number
of
people came
together
at
Jerusalem
to
keep
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
in
the
second
month.
\VS{14}And
they
got
to work
and
took
away
all
the
altars
in
Jerusalem,
and
they
put
all
the vessels
for
burning perfumes
into
the
stream
Kidron.
\VS{15}Then
on
the fourteenth
day
of
the
second
month
they
put
the
Passover lambs
to death:
and
the
priests
and
the
Levites
were shamed,
and
made
themselves
holy
and
took burned
offerings
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{16}And
they
took
their places
in
their
right
order,
as
it
was ordered
in
the
law
of
Moses,
the
man
of
God:
the
priests draining
out
on
the altar
the
blood
given
them
by
the
Levites.
\VS{17}For
there
were still
a number
of
the
people
there
who
had
not
made
themselves
holy:
so
the
Levites
had
to put
Passover lambs
to death
for
those
who
were
not
clean,
to
make
them
holy
to
the
Lord.
\VS{18}For
a
great number
of
the
people
from
Ephraim
and
Manasseh,
Issachar
and
Zebulun,
had
not
made
themselves
clean,
but
they
took
the
Passover meal,
though
not
in
the
right
way.
For
Hezekiah
had
made prayer
for
them,
saying,
May
the
good
Lord
have
mercy
on everyone
\VS{19}Who,
with
all
his
heart,
is turned
to
God
the
Lord,
the
God
of
his
fathers,
even if
he
has
not
been
made
clean
after
the rules
of
the
holy
place.
\VS{20}And
the
Lord
gave ear
to
Hezekiah,
and
made
the
people well.
\VS{21}So
the
children
of
Israel
who
were
present
in
Jerusalem
kept
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
for
seven
days
with
great
joy:
and
the
Levites
and
the
priests
gave
praise
to
the
Lord
day
by
day,
making melody
to
the
Lord
with
loud
instruments.
\VS{22}And
Hezekiah
said
kind words
to
the
Levites
who
were expert
in
the ordering
of
the worship
of
the
Lord:
so
they
kept
the
feast
for
seven
days,
offering peace-offerings
and praising
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{23}And
by
the desire
of
all
the people,
the feast went
on
for
another
seven
days,
and
they
kept
the
seven
days
with
joy.
\VS{24}For
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah, gave
to
the people
for
offerings,
a
thousand
oxen
and
seven
thousand
sheep;
and
the
rulers gave
a
thousand
oxen
and
ten
thousand
sheep;
and
a
great
number
of
priests
made
themselves
holy.
\VS{25}And
all
the
people
of
Judah,
with
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
those
who
had
come
from
Israel,
and
men
from
other
lands
who
had
come
from
Israel
or
who
were
living
in
Judah,
were
glad
with great
joy.
\VS{26}So
there
was
great
joy
in
Jerusalem:
for
nothing
like
this
had
been seen
in
Jerusalem
from
the
time
of
Solomon,
the
son
of
David,
king
of
Israel.
\VS{27}Then
the
priests
and
the
Levites
gave
the
people
a
blessing:
and
the
voice
of
their
prayer
went
up
to
the
holy
place
of
God
in
heaven.

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
all
this
was
over,
all
the
men
of
Israel
who
were
present
went
out
into
the
towns
of
Judah, causing
the stone
pillars
to
be
broken
up
and
the wood
pillars
to
be
cut
down, pulling
down
the
high
places
and
the
altars
in
all
Judah
and
Benjamin,
as well
as
in
Ephraim
and
Manasseh,
till
all
were
gone.
Then
all
the
children
of
Israel
went
back
to
their
towns,
every
man
to
his
property.
\VS{2}Then
Hezekiah
put
in order
the
divisions
of
the
priests
and
Levites,
every
man
in
his
division,
in relation
to
his
work,
for
the burned
offerings
and peace-offerings,
and
for
the ordering
of worship
and
for
giving
praise
at
the doors
of
the Lord's house.
\VS{3}And
he gave
the king's
part
of
his private
property
for
the burned
offerings,
that
is,
for
the
morning
and
evening
offerings,
and
the
offerings
for
the
Sabbath
and
the
new
moons
and
the regular
feasts,
as
it
is
recorded
in
the
law
of
the
Lord.
\VS{4}In addition,
he
gave
orders
to
the
people
of
Jerusalem
to
give
to
the
priests
and
Levites
that part which
was theirs
by right,
so
that
they
might
be
strong
in
keeping
the
law
of
the
Lord.
\VS{5}And
when
the
order
was
made public, straight
away
the
children
of
Israel
gave,
in
great amounts,
the first-fruits
of
their
grain
and
wine
and
oil
and
honey,
and
of
the
produce
of
their
fields;
and
they
took
in
a
tenth
part
of
everything,
a
great store.
\VS{6}And
the
children
of
Israel
and
Judah,
who
were
living
in
the
towns
of
Judah
came
with
the
tenth
part
of
their
oxen
and
sheep,
and
a
tenth
of
all
the
holy
things which
were
to
be
given
to
the
Lord
their
God,
and
put
them
in
great masses.
\VS{7}The first store
of things was
put down
in
the
third
month,
and
in
the
seventh
month
the masses were
complete.
\VS{8}And
when
Hezekiah
and
the
rulers
came
and
saw
all
the store
of goods,
they
gave
praise
to
the
Lord
and
to
his
people
Israel.
\VS{9}Then
Hezekiah put questions
to
the
priests
and
Levites
about
the store
of goods.
\VS{10}And
Azariah,
the
chief
priest,
of
the
family
of
Zadok,
said
in
answer,
From
the
time
when
the
people
first
came
with
their
offerings
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
we
have
had
food
enough,
and
more
than
enough:
for
the
blessing
of
the
Lord
is
on
his
people;
and
there
is
this
great store
which
has
not
been used.
\VS{11}Then
Hezekiah
said
that store-rooms
were
to
be
made
ready
in
the
house
of
the
Lord;
and
this
was
done.
\VS{12}And
in
them
they
put all
the
offerings
and
the tenths
and
the
holy
things, keeping nothing
back,
and
over
them
was
Conaniah
the
Levite,
with
Shimei
his
brother
second
to
him.
\VS{13}And
Jehiel
and
Azaziah
and
Nahath
and
Asahel
and
Jerimoth
and
Jozabad
and
Eliel
and
Ismachiah
and
Mahath
and
Benaiah
were
overseers,
under
the
directions
of
Conaniah
and
Shimei
his
brother,
by
the
order
of
Hezekiah
the
king
and
Azariah,
the
ruler
of
the
house
of
God.
\VS{14}And
Kore,
the
son
of
Imnah
the
Levite,
the
keeper
of
the
east door,
had control
of
the
offerings
freely
given
to
God,
and
the distribution
of
the
offerings
of
the
Lord
and
the
most
holy
things.
\VS{15}And
under
him
were
Eden
and
Miniamin
and
Jeshua
and
Shemaiah
and
Amariah
and
Shecaniah,
in
the
towns
of
the
priests,
who
were
made responsible
for
giving
it
to
all
their
brothers,
by
divisions,
to
small
and
great:
\VS{16}As well
as
to
all
the
males,
of
three
years
old
and
over,
listed
by
their
families,
who
went
into
the
house
of
the
Lord
to
do
what
was needed
day
by
day,
for
their special
work
with
their
divisions.
\VS{17}And
the
families
of
the
priests
were
listed
by
their fathers' names,
but
the
Levites,
of
twenty
years
old
and
over,
were
listed
in relation
to
their work
in
their
divisions;
\VS{18}And
in
the lists
were
all
their
little
ones
and
their
wives
and
their
sons
and
daughters,
through
all
the
people:
they
made
themselves
holy
in
the positions
which
they
were given.
\VS{19}And
as
for
the
sons
of
Aaron,
the
priests,
living
in
the
country
on
the outskirts
of
their
towns,
every different
town
there
were
men, marked
out
by
name,
to
give
their part
of
the goods
to
all
the
males
among
the
priests,
and
to
all
who
were
listed
among
the
Levites.
\VS{20}This
Hezekiah
did
through
all
Judah;
he
did
what
was
good
and
right
and
true
before
the
Lord
his
God.
\VS{21}And
for
everything
he undertook,
in connection
with
the
work
of
the
house
of
God
and
his
law
and
orders,
he got directions
from
God
and
did
it
with serious
purpose;
and
things
went
well
for
him.

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
these
things
and
this true-hearted
work,
Sennacherib,
king
of
Assyria,
came
into
Judah,
and
put
his army
in
position
before
the walled
towns
of
Judah, designing
to
make
his
way
into
them
by force.
\VS{2}And
when
Hezekiah
saw
that
Sennacherib
had
come
for
the purpose
of fighting
against
Jerusalem,
\VS{3}He
took
up
with
his
rulers
and
men
of war
the question
of stopping
up
the water-springs
outside
the
town;
and
they
gave
him
their
support.
\VS{4}So
they got
together
a
great number
of
people,
and
had
all
the water-springs
and
the
stream
flowing
through
the
land
stopped
up,
saying,
Why let
the
kings
of
Assyria
come
and
have
much
water?
\VS{5}Then
he
took heart,
building
up
the
wall
where
it
was
broken
down,
and
making
its
towers higher,
and
building
another
wall
outside;
and
he
made
strong
the
Millo
in
the
town
of
David,
and
got
together
a
great store
of
all sorts
of instruments
of war.
\VS{6}And
he
put
war
chiefs
over
the
people,
and
sent
for
them all
to come
together
to
him
in
the wide
place
at
the doorway
into
the
town,
and
to
give
them
heart
he
said
to
them,
\VS{7}Be
strong
and
take heart;
have
no
fear,
and
do
not
be troubled
on
account
of
the
king
of
Assyria
and
all
the
great
army
with
him:
for
there
is
a
greater
with
us.
\VS{8}With
him
is
an
arm
of
flesh;
but
we
have
the
Lord
our
God,
helping
us
and
fighting
for
us.
And
the
people put
their faith
in
what
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah,
said.
\VS{9}After
this,
Sennacherib,
king
of
Assyria,
sent
his
servants
to
Jerusalem (at
that time
he
was stationed
with
all
his
army
in front
of
Lachish),
to
say
to
Hezekiah
and
all
the
men
of
Judah
in
Jerusalem,
\VS{10}Sennacherib,
king
of
Assyria,
says,
In
what
are
you placing
your hope, waiting
here
in
the walled town
of
Jerusalem?
\VS{11}Is
it
not
Hezekiah
who
has got
you
to do
it, causing
your
death
from need
of food
and water,
by
saying,
The
Lord
our
God
will
give
us salvation
out
of
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Assyria?
\VS{12}Has
not
this
same
Hezekiah
taken
away
his
high
places
and
his
altars,
saying
to
Judah
and
Jerusalem, Give
worship
before
one
altar
only,
burning offerings
on
it?
\VS{13}Have
you
no
knowledge
of
what
I
and
my
fathers
have
done
to
all
the
peoples
of
every
land?
were
the
gods
of
the
nations
of
those
lands
able
to
keep
their
land
from falling
into
my
hands?
\VS{14}Who
was
there
among
all
the
gods
of
those
nations,
which
my
fathers
put
to destruction,
who
was
able
to keep
his
people safe
from
my
hands?
and
is
it possible
that
your
God
will keep
you safe
from
my
hands?
\VS{15}So
do
not
be
tricked
by
Hezekiah
or
let
him get
you
to
do
this,
and
do
not
put
any
faith
in
what
he says:
for
no
god
of
any
nation
or
kingdom
has
been
able
to keep
his
people safe
from
my
hands,
or
the
hands
of
my
fathers:
how
much
less
will
your
God keep
you safe
from
my
hands!
\VS{16}And
his
servants
said
even
more
against
the
Lord
God
and
against
his
servant
Hezekiah.
\VS{17}And
he
sent
letters,
in
addition,
to
put shame
on
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
and
to
say evil
against
him,
saying,
As
the
gods
of
the
nations
of other
lands
have
not
been
able
to keep
their
people safe
from
my
hands,
no
more
will
the
God
of
Hezekiah keep
his
people safe
from
my
hands.
\VS{18}These
things
they said,
crying
out
with
a
loud
voice
in
the Jews'
language,
to
the
people
of
Jerusalem
who
were
on
the
wall,
with
the
purpose
of troubling
them
and putting
fear
into
them,
so
that
they
might
take
the
town;
\VS{19}Talking
of
the
God
of
Jerusalem
as if
he
was
like
the
gods
of
the
peoples
of
the
earth,
the
work
of men's
hands.
\VS{20}And
Hezekiah
the
king,
and
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz,
made prayer
because
of
this,
crying
out
to
heaven.
\VS{21}And
the
Lord
sent
an
angel
who
put
to death
all
the
men
of
war
and
the
chiefs
and
the
captains
in
the
army
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
So
he
went
back
to
his
country
in
shame.
And
when
he
came
into
the
house
of
his
god,
his sons,
the offspring
of
his
body,
put
him
to death
there
with
the
sword.
\VS{22}So
the
Lord
gave
Hezekiah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem
salvation
from
the
power
of
Sennacherib,
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
from
all others, giving
them rest
on
every
side.
\VS{23}And
great numbers
came
to
Jerusalem
with
offerings
for
the
Lord,
and
things
of
great price
for
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah:
so
that
he
was honoured among
all
nations
from
that time.
\VS{24}In
those
days
Hezekiah
was ill
and
near
death;
and
he
made prayer
to
the
Lord,
and
the
Lord
in
answer
gave
him
a
sign.
\VS{25}But
Hezekiah
did
not do
as
had
been
done
to
him;
for
his
heart
was lifted
up
in pride;
and
so
wrath
came
on
him
and
on
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}But
then,
Hezekiah,
in
sorrow
for
what
he
had
done,
put
away
his
pride;
and
he
and
all
Jerusalem made
themselves low,
so
that
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
did
not
come
on
them
in Hezekiah's life-time.
\VS{27}And
Hezekiah
had
very
great
wealth
and honour;
and
he
made himself store-houses
for
his
gold
and
silver
and
jewels
and
spices,
and
for body-covers
and
all sorts
of
beautiful
vessels.
\VS{28}And store-houses
for
the
produce
of
grain
and
wine
and
oil;
and buildings
for
all sorts
of
beasts
and
flocks.
\VS{29}And
he
made
towns
for himself,
and got together
much
property
in
flocks
and
herds:
for
God
had
given
him
great
wealth.
\VS{30}It
was
Hezekiah
who
had
the higher
spring
of
the
water
of
Gihon
stopped,
and
the
water taken
down
on
the
west
side
of
the
town
of
David.
In
everything
he undertook,
Hezekiah
did well.
\VS{31}However,
in
the business
of
the representatives
sent
by
the
rulers
of
Babylon
to
get news
of
the
wonder
which
had
taken
place
in
the
land,
God
gave
up guiding
him,
testing
him
to
see
what
was
in
his
heart.
\VS{32}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Hezekiah,
and
the
good
he did,
are
recorded
in
the
vision
of
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz,
and
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel.
\VS{33}So
Hezekiah went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
they put
his body
into
the higher part
of
the resting-places
of
the
sons
of
David:
and
all
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem
gave
him honour
at
his
death.
And
Manasseh
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Manasseh
was
twelve
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
for
fifty-five
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, copying
the
disgusting ways
of
the
nations
whom
the
Lord
had sent
out
of
the
land
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{3}For
he
put
up
again
the
high
places
which
had
been
pulled
down
by
his
father
Hezekiah;
and
he
made
altars
for
the
Baals,
and pillars
of wood,
and
was
a worshipper
and
servant
of
all
the stars
of
heaven;
\VS{4}And
he
made
altars
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
of
which
the
Lord
had
said,
In
Jerusalem
will
my
name
be
for
ever.
\VS{5}And
he
made
altars
for
all
the stars
of
heaven
in
the
two outer squares
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}More
than
this,
he
made
his
children
go
through
the
fire
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom;
and
he
made
use
of secret arts,
and signs
for
reading
the future,
and unnatural powers,
and
gave positions
to
those
who
had control
of spirits
and
to wonder-workers:
he
did
much
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, moving
him
to wrath.
\VS{7}And
he
put
the
image
he
had
made
in
the
house
of
God,
the
house
of
which
God
had
said
to
David
and
to
Solomon
his
son,
In
this
house,
and
in
Jerusalem,
the town
which
I
have
made mine
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
will
I
put
my
name
for
ever:
\VS{8}And
never
again
will
I
let
the
feet
of
Israel
be moved
out
of
the
land
which
I
have
given
to
their
fathers;
if
only
they
will
take
care
to
do
all
my
orders,
even
all
the
law
and
the
orders
and
the
rules
given
to
them
by
Moses.
\VS{9}And
Manasseh
made
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem
go
out
of
the
true
way,
so
that
they
did
more
evil
than
those
nations
whom
the
Lord
gave
up
to
destruction
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{10}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Manasseh
and
his
people,
but
they
gave
no
attention.
\VS{11}So
the
Lord sent
against
them
the
captains
of
the
army
of
Assyria,
who
made
Manasseh
a
prisoner
and
took
him
away
in
chains
to
Babylon.
\VS{12}And crying
out
to
the
Lord
his
God
in
his
trouble,
he made
himself low
before
the
God
of
his
fathers,
\VS{13}And
made
prayer
to
him;
and
in
answer
to
his
prayer
God let
him
come
back
to
Jerusalem
and
to
his
kingdom.
Then
Manasseh
was
certain
that
the
Lord
was
God.
\VS{14}After
this
he
made
an
outer
wall
for
the
town
of
David,
on
the
west
side
of
Gihon
in
the
valley,
as
far
as
the
way
into
the
town
by
the
fish doorway;
and
he
put
a
very
high
wall
round
the
Ophel;
and
he
put
captains
of
the
army
in
all
the
walled
towns
of
Judah.
\VS{15}He
took
away
the
strange
gods
and
the image
out
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
all
the
altars
he
had
put
up
on
the
hill
of
the Lord's
house
and
in
Jerusalem,
and
put
them
out
of
the
town.
\VS{16}And
he
put
the
altar
of
the
Lord
in
order,
offering peace-offerings
and praise-offerings
on
it,
and
said
that all
Judah
were
to
be
servants
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{17}However,
the
people
still
made
offerings
in
the
high
places,
but
only
to
the
Lord
their
God.
\VS{18}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Manasseh,
and
his
prayer
to
his
God,
and
the
words
which
the
seers
said
to
him
in
the
name
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
are recorded
among
the
acts
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{19}And
the
prayer
which
he
made
to God,
and
how God gave
him
an
answer,
and
all
his
sin
and
his wrongdoing,
and
the
places
where
he
made
high
places
and put
up pillars
of wood
and
images,
before
he put
away
his pride,
are
recorded
in
the history
of
the seers.
\VS{20}So
Manasseh
went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
they put
his body
to
rest
in
his
house,
and
Amon
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{21}Amon
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he
became
king;
and
he
was ruling
for
two
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{22}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
Manasseh
his
father
had
done;
and
Amon
made
offerings
to
all
the
images
which
his
father
Manasseh
had
made,
and
was
their
servant.
\VS{23}He
did
not
make
himself low
before
the
Lord,
as
his
father
Manasseh
had
done,
but
went
on sinning
more
and
more.
\VS{24}And
his
servants
made
a secret design
against
him,
and
put
him
to
death
in
his
house.
\VS{25}But
the
people
of
the
land put
to death
all
those
who
had
taken
part
in
the design
against
King
Amon,
and
made
his
son
Josiah
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Josiah
was
eight
years
old
when
he
became
king;
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for thirty-one
years.
\VS{2}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, walking
in
the
ways
of
his
father
David,
without
turning
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left.
\VS{3}In
the
eighth
year
of
his
rule,
while
he
was
still
young,
his heart
was first turned
to
the
God
of
his
father
David;
and
in
the twelfth
year
he undertook
the clearing
away
of
all
the
high
places
and
the pillars
and
the
images
of wood
and
metal
from
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}He
had
the
altars
of
the
Baals
broken
down,
while
he
himself
was
present;
and
the sun-images
which
were
placed
on
high
over
them
he
had
cut
down;
and
the pillars
of wood
and
the
metal
images
he
had
broken
up
and
crushed
to dust, dropping
the dust
over
the resting-places
of
the dead
who
had
made offerings
to
them.
\VS{5}And
he
had
the
bones
of
the
priests
burned
on
their
altars,
and
so
he
made
Judah
and
Jerusalem
clean.
\VS{6}And
in
all
the
towns
of
Manasseh
and
Ephraim
and
Simeon
as
far
as
Naphtali,
he made waste
their
houses
round
about.
\VS{7}He
had
the
altars
and
the pillars
of wood
pulled
down
and
the
images
crushed
to
dust,
and
all
the sun-images
cut
down,
through
all
the
land
of
Israel,
and
then
he
went
back
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{8}Now
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
his
rule,
when
the
land
and
the
house
had
been
made
clean,
he
sent
Shaphan,
the
son
of
Azaliah,
and
Maaseiah,
the
ruler
of
the
town,
and
Joah,
the
son
of
Joahaz,
the
recorder,
to
make good what
was damaged
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
his
God.
\VS{9}And
they
came
to
Hilkiah,
the
chief
priest,
and
gave
him
all
the
money
which
had
been
taken
into
the
house
of
God,
which
the
Levites,
the
keepers
of
the door,
had got
from
Manasseh
and
Ephraim
and
those
of
Israel
who
had not
been
taken
away
as prisoners,
and
from
all
Judah
and
Benjamin
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}And
they
gave
it
to
the
overseers
of
the
work
of
the Lord's
house,
and
the
overseers
gave
it
to
the
workmen working
in
the
house,
for building
it
up
and
making good
what
was damaged;
\VS{11}Even
to
the woodworkers
and
builders
to
get cut
stone
and
wood
for joining
the structure together
and
for
making boards
for
the
houses
which
the
kings
of
Judah
had
given
up
to
destruction.
\VS{12}And
the
men
did
the
work well;
and
those
who
had
authority
over
them
were
Jahath
and
Obadiah,
Levites
of
the
sons
of
Merari,
and
Zechariah
and
Meshullam,
of
the
sons
of
the
Kohathites,
who
were
to
be
responsible
for seeing
that
the
work
was
done;
and others
of
the
Levites,
who
were
expert
with
instruments
of
music,
\VS{13}Had
authority
over
the transport
workers, giving directions
to
all
who
were
doing
any sort
of
work;
and
among
the
Levites
there
were
scribes
and overseers
and door-keepers.
\VS{14}Now
when
they
were
taking
out
the
money
which
had
come
into
the Lord's
house,
Hilkiah
the
priest
came across
the
book
of
the
law
of
the
Lord,
which
he
had
given
by
the mouth
of
Moses.
\VS{15}Then
Hilkiah
said
to
Shaphan
the
scribe,
I
have
made
discovery
of
the
book
of
the
law
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
And
Hilkiah
gave
the
book
to
Shaphan.
\VS{16}And
Shaphan
took
the
book
to
the
king;
and
he
gave
him
an
account
of
what
had
been
done,
saying,
Your
servants
are
doing
all
they
have
been
given
to
do;
\VS{17}They
have
taken
out
all
the
money
which
was
in
the Lord's
house
and
have
given
it
to
the
overseers
and
to
the
workmen.
\VS{18}Then
Shaphan
the
scribe
said
to
the
king,
Hilkiah
the
priest
has
given
me
a
book;
and
he
made
a start
at
reading some
of
it
to
the
king.
\VS{19}And
the
king,
hearing
the
words
of
the
law,
took
his robe
in
his hands, violently parting
it
as
a sign
of
his
grief.
\VS{20}And
he
gave
orders
to
Hilkiah
and
to
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
and
Abdon,
the
son
of
Micah,
and
Shaphan
the
scribe
and
Asaiah,
the king's
servant,
saying,
\VS{21}Go
and get directions
from
the
Lord
for
me
and
for
those
who
are still
in
Israel
and
for
Judah,
about
the
words
of
this
book
which
has
come
to light;
for
great
is
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
which
has
been
let
loose
on
us,
because
our
fathers
have
not
kept
the
word
of
the
Lord
or
done
what
is
recorded
in
this
book.
\VS{22}So
Hilkiah,
and
those
whom
the
king sent,
went
to
Huldah
the
woman
prophet,
the
wife
of
Shallum,
the
son
of
Tokhath,
the
son
of
Hasrah,
the
keeper
of
the
robes (now
she
was
living
in
Jerusalem,
in
the
second
part
of
the town);
and
they
had
talk
with
her
about
this
thing.
\VS{23}And
she
said
to
them,
The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said,
Say
to
the
man
who
sent
you
to
me,
\VS{24}These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
See,
I
will send
evil
on
this
place
and
on
its
people,
even
all
the
curses
in
the
book
which
they
have
been
reading
before
the
king
of
Judah;
\VS{25}Because
they
have
given
me
up,
burning offerings
to
other
gods
and moving
me
to
wrath
by
all
the
works
of
their
hands;
so
my
wrath
is
let
loose
on
this
place
and
will
not
be
put
out.
\VS{26}But
to
the
king
of
Judah
who
sent
you
to
get directions
from
the
Lord,
say,
This
is
what
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said:
Because
you
have
given ear
to
my
words,
\VS{27}And
your
heart
was soft,
and
you
made
yourself low
before
God,
on
hearing
his
words
about
this
place
and
its
people,
and
with
weeping
and signs
of
grief
have
made
yourself low
before
me,
I
have
given ear
to
you,
says
the
Lord
God.
\VS{28}See,
I
will
let
you
go
to
your
fathers,
and
be
put
in
your last resting-place
in
peace,
and
your
eyes
will
not
see
all
the
evil
which
I
will send
on
this
place
and
on
its
people.
So
they
took
this news
back
to
the
king.
\VS{29}Then
the
king
sent
and got
together
all
the responsible
men
of
Judah
and
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{30}And
the
king
went
up
to
the
house
of
the
Lord,
with
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem,
and
the
priests
and
the
Levites
and
all
the
people,
small
and
great;
and
they
were
present
at
his
reading
of
the
book
of
the law
which
had
come
to light
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{31}Then
the
king, taking
his
place
by
the pillar,
made
an
agreement
before
the
Lord,
to go
in
the
way
of
the
Lord,
and
to
keep
his
orders
and
his decisions
and
his
rules
with
all
his
heart
and
with
all
his
soul,
and
to
keep
the
words
of
the
agreement
recorded
in
this
book.
\VS{32}And
he
made
all
the
people
in
Jerusalem
and
Benjamin give
their word
to
keep
it.
And
the
people
of
Jerusalem
kept
the
agreement
of
God,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{33}Josiah
took
away
all
the
disgusting
things
out
of
all
the
lands
of
the
children
of
Israel,
and
made
all
who
were
in
Israel
servants
of
the
Lord
their
God.
And
as
long
as
he
was living
they
were
true
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers.

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Josiah
kept
a
Passover
to
the
Lord
in
Jerusalem;
on
the fourteenth
day
of
the
first
month
they put
the
Passover lamb
to death.
\VS{2}And
he
gave
the
priests
their
places,
making
them
strong
for
the
work
of
the
house
of
God.
\VS{3}And
he
said
to
the
Levites,
the
teachers
of
all
Israel,
who
were
holy
to
the
Lord,
See,
the
holy
ark
is
in
the
house
which
Solomon,
the
son
of
David,
king
of
Israel,
made;
it
will
no
longer
have
to
be transported
on
your
backs:
now
be
the
servants
of
the
Lord
your
God
and
his
people
Israel,
\VS{4}And
make yourselves
ready
in
your
divisions,
by
your
families,
as
it
is
ordered
in
the writings
of
David,
king
of
Israel,
and
of
Solomon
his
son;
\VS{5}And
take
your positions
in
the
holy
place, grouped
in
the
families
of
your
brothers,
the
children
of
the
people,
and
for every
division let
there
be
a part
of
a
family
of
the
Levites.
\VS{6}And
put
the
Passover lamb
to death,
and
make
yourselves
holy,
and
make
it
ready
for
your
brothers,
so
that
the
orders
given
by
the
Lord
through
Moses
may
be
done.
\VS{7}And
Josiah gave
lambs
and
goats
from
the
flock
as
Passover
offerings
for
all
the
people
who
were
present,
to
the
number
of
thirty
thousand,
and
three
thousand
oxen:
these
were
from
the king's private
property.
\VS{8}And
his
captains
freely
gave
an
offering
to
the
people,
the
priests,
and
the
Levites.
Hilkiah
and
Zechariah
and
Jehiel,
the
rulers
of
the
house
of
God,
gave
to
the
priests
for
the
Passover
offerings
two
thousand,
six
hundred small
cattle
and
three
hundred
oxen.
\VS{9}And
Conaniah
and
Shemaiah
and
Nethanel,
his
brothers,
and
Hashabiah
and
Jeiel
and
Jozabad,
the
chiefs
of
the
Levites, gave
to
the
Levites
for
the
Passover
offerings
five
thousand small
cattle
and
five
hundred
oxen.
\VS{10}So everything
was
made
ready
and
the
priests
took
their places
with
the
Levites
in
their
divisions,
as
the
king
had said.
\VS{11}And
they
put
the
Passover lambs
to death,
the blood being drained
out
by
the
priests
when
it
was
given
to
them,
and
the
Levites did
the skinning.
\VS{12}And
they
took
away
the burned
offerings,
so
that
they
might
give
them
to
be
offered
to
the
Lord
for
the
divisions
of
the
families
of
the
people,
as
it
is
recorded
in
the
book
of
Moses.
And
they
did
the
same
with
the
oxen.
\VS{13}And
the
Passover lamb
was cooked
over
the
fire,
as
it says
in
the law;
and
the
holy
offerings
were cooked
in
pots
and basins
and vessels,
and taken
quickly
to
all
the
people.
\VS{14}And
after
that,
they
made
ready
for
themselves
and
for
the
priests;
for
the
priests,
the
sons
of
Aaron,
were
offering
the burned
offerings
and
the
fat
till
night;
so
the
Levites
made
ready
what
was needed
for
themselves
and
for
the
priests,
the
sons
of
Aaron.
\VS{15}And
the
sons
of
Asaph,
the makers
of melody,
were
in
their places,
as
ordered
by
David
and
Asaph
and
Heman
and
Jeduthun,
the king's
seer;
and
the door-keepers
were stationed
at
every door:
there
was
no need
for
them
to
go
away
from
their places,
for
their
brothers
the
Levites
made
ready
for
them.
\VS{16}So
everything needed
for
the worship
of
the
Lord
was
made
ready
that
same
day,
for
the keeping
of
the
Passover
and
the
offering
of burned
offerings
on
the
altar
of
the
Lord,
as
King
Josiah
had
given
orders.
\VS{17}And
all
the
children
of
Israel
who
were
present
kept
the
Passover
and
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
at
that
time
for
seven
days.
\VS{18}No
Passover
like
it
had
been
kept
in
Israel
from
the
days
of
Samuel
the
prophet;
and
not
one
of
the
kings
of
Israel
had ever
kept
a
Passover
like
the
one
kept
by
Josiah
and
the
priests
and
the
Levites
and
all
those
of
Judah
and
Israel
who
were
present,
and
the
people
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}In
the
eighteenth
year
of
the
rule
of
Josiah
this
Passover
was
kept.
\VS{20}After
all
this,
and
after
Josiah
had
put
the
house
in
order,
Neco,
king
of
Egypt,
went
up
to
make war
at
Carchemish
by
the river
Euphrates;
and
Josiah
went
out
against
him.
\VS{21}But
he
sent representatives
to
him,
saying,
What
have
I
to
do
with
you,
O
king
of
Judah?
I
have
not come
against
you
this
day,
but
against
those
with
whom
I
am
at
war;
and
God
has given
me
orders
to
go forward
quickly: keep
out
of God's
way,
for
he
is
with
me,
or
he
will
send
destruction
on
you.
\VS{22}However,
Josiah
would
not
go
back;
but keeping
to
his
purpose
of
fighting
against
him,
and giving
no
attention
to
the
words
of
Neco,
which
came
from
God,
he
went
forward
to
the
fight
in
the
valley
of
Megiddo.
\VS{23}And
the bowmen
sent
their arrows
at
King
Josiah,
and
the
king
said
to
his
servants, Take
me
away,
for
I am
badly
wounded.
\VS{24}So
his
servants
took
him
out
of
the line
of war-carriages,
and
put
him
in
his
second carriage
and
took
him
to
Jerusalem,
where
he came
to
his end,
and
they
put
his
body
in
the resting-place
of
his
fathers.
And
in
all
Judah
and
Jerusalem
there
was great weeping
for
Josiah.
\VS{25}And
Jeremiah
made
a
song
of grief
for
Josiah;
and
to
this
day
Josiah
is named
by
all
the makers
of melody,
men
and
women,
in
their songs
of grief;
they
made
it
a rule
in
Israel;
and
the songs
are
recorded
among
the songs
of grief.
\VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Josiah,
and
the good
he did,
in keeping
with
what
is
recorded
in
the
law
of
the
Lord,
\VS{27}And
all
his
acts,
first
and
last,
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
Judah.

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
the
people
of
the
land
took
Jehoahaz,
the
son
of
Josiah,
and
made
him
king
in
Jerusalem
in
place
of
his
father.
\VS{2}Jehoahaz
was twenty-three
years
old
when
he
became
king;
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
three
months.
\VS{3}Then
the
king
of
Egypt
took
the
kingdom
from
him
in
Jerusalem,
and
put
on
the
land
a tax
of
a
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
a
talent
of
gold.
\VS{4}And
the
king
of
Egypt
made
Eliakim
his
brother
king
over
Judah
and
Jerusalem, changing
his
name
to
Jehoiakim.
And
Neco
took
his
brother
Jehoahaz
away
to
Egypt.
\VS{5}Jehoiakim
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king;
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
eleven
years,
and
he
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
his
God.
\VS{6}Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
came
up
against
him,
and
took
him
away
in
chains
to
Babylon.
\VS{7}And
Nebuchadnezzar
took
away some
of
the
vessels
of
the Lord's
house,
and
put
them
in
the
house
of
his
god
in
Babylon.
\VS{8}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoiakim
and
the
disgusting
things
he
did,
and
all
there
is
to
be
said
against
him,
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
Judah;
and
Jehoiachin
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{9}Jehoiachin
was eighteen
years
old
when
he
became
king;
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
three
months
and
ten
days,
and
he
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord.
\VS{10}In
the
spring
of
the
year
King
Nebuchadnezzar
sent
and
took
him
away
to
Babylon,
with
the
beautiful
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
made
Zedekiah,
his father's
brother,
king
over
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{11}Zedekiah
was twenty-one
years
old
when
he
became
king;
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
eleven
years.
\VS{12}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
and
did
not
make
himself low
before
Jeremiah
the
prophet
who
gave
him
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{13}And
he
took
up arms
against
King
Nebuchadnezzar,
though
he
had
made
him
take
an
oath
by
God;
but
he
made
his
neck stiff
and
his
heart
hard,
turning
away
from
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{14}And
more
than
this,
all
the great
men
of Judah
and
the
priests
and
the
people
made
their sin great, turning
to
all
the
disgusting ways
of
the
nations;
and
they
made
unclean
the
house
of
the
Lord
which
he
had
made
holy
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{15}And
the
Lord,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
sent word
to
them
by
his servants,
sending
early
and frequently,
because
he
had
pity
on
his
people
and
on
his living-place;
\VS{16}But
they
put shame
on
the servants
of
God,
making sport
of
his
words
and laughing
at
his
prophets,
till
the
wrath
of
God
was moved
against
his
people,
till
there
was
no
help.
\VS{17}So
he
sent
against
them
the
king
of
the Chaldaeans,
who
put
their
young
men
to death
with
the
sword
in
the
house
of
their
holy
place,
and
had
no
pity
for
any,
young
man
or
virgin,
old
man
or white-haired:
God
gave
them
all
into
his
hands.
\VS{18}And
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
God,
great
and
small,
and
the
stored
wealth
of
the Lord's
house
and
the
wealth
of
the
king
and
his
chiefs,
he
took
away
to
Babylon.
\VS{19}And
the
house
of
God
was
burned
and
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
broken
down;
all
its
great
houses
were
burned
with
fire
and
all
its beautiful
vessels given
up
to
destruction.
\VS{20}And
all
who
had
not
come
to death
by
the
sword
he
took
away prisoners
to
Babylon;
and
they
became
servants
to
him
and
to
his
sons
till
the
kingdom
of
Persia
came
to power:
\VS{21}So
that
the
words
of
the
Lord,
which
he
said
by
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah,
might
come
true,
till
the
land
had
had
pleasure
in
her
Sabbaths;
for
as
long
as
she
was
waste
the
land kept
the
Sabbath,
till
seventy
years
were
complete.
\VS{22}Now
in
the
first
year
of
Cyrus,
king
of
Persia,
in
order
that
the
words
which
the
Lord
had
said
by
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah
might
come
true,
the
spirit
of
Cyrus,
king
of
Persia,
was
moved
by
the
Lord,
and
he
made
a
public statement
and
had
it given
out
through
all
his
kingdom
and
put
in
writing,
saying,
\VS{23}Cyrus,
king
of
Persia,
has
said,
All
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
have
been
given
to
me
by
the
Lord,
the
God
of
heaven;
and
he
has
made
me responsible
for
building
a
house
for
him
in
Jerusalem,
which
is
in
Judah.
Whoever
there
is
among
you
of
all
his
people,
may
the
Lord
his
God
be
with
him
and
let
him
go
up.
\par }