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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
the
death
of
Ahab,
Moab made itself free
from
the authority
of
Israel.
\VS{2}Now
Ahaziah
had
a
fall
from
the window
of
his
room
in
Samaria,
and
was ill.
And
he
sent
men,
and
said
to
them,
Put
a question
to
Baal-zebub,
the
god
of
Ekron,
about
the outcome
of
my
disease,
to
see
if
I
will
get
well
or
not.
\VS{3}But
the
angel
of
the
Lord
said
to
Elijah
the Tishbite,
Go
now,
and, meeting
the
men
sent
by
the
king
of
Samaria,
say
to
them,
Is
it
because
there
is
no
God
in
Israel,
that
you
are
going
to
get directions
from
Baal-zebub,
the
god
of
Ekron?
\VS{4}Give ear
then
to
the words
of
the
Lord:
You
will
never again
get
down
from
the
bed
on
to
which
you
have
gone
up,
but
death
will
certainly
come
to
you.
Then
Elijah
went
away.
\VS{5}And
the
men
he
had
sent
came
back
to
the king;
and
he
said
to
them,
Why
have
you
come
back?
\VS{6}And
they
said
to
him,
On
our
way
we
had
a meeting
with
a
man
who
said,
Go
back
to
the
king
who
sent
you
and
say
to
him,
The
Lord
says,
Is
it
because
there
is
no
God
in
Israel
that
you
send
to
put
a question
to
Baal-zebub,
the
god
of
Ekron?
For
this
reason,
you
will
not
come
down
from
the
bed
on
to
which
you
have
gone
up,
but
death
will
certainly
come
to
you.
\VS{7}And
he
said
to
them,
What sort
of
a
man
was
it
who
came
and
said
these
words
to
you?
\VS{8}And
they
said
in
answer,
He
was
a
man clothed
in
a coat
of
hair,
with
a
leather band
about
his
body.
Then
he
said,
It
is
Elijah
the Tishbite.
\VS{9}Then
the
king
sent
to
him
a
captain
of
fifty
with
his
fifty
men;
and
he
went
up
to
him
where
he
was
seated
on
the
top
of
a
hill,
and
said
to
him,
O
man
of
God,
the
king
has
said,
Come
down.
\VS{10}And
Elijah
in
answer
said
to
the
captain
of
fifty,
If
I
am
a
man
of
God,
may
fire
come
down
from
heaven
on
you
and
on
your
fifty
men,
and
put
an end
to
you.
Then
fire
came
down
from
heaven
and
put
an end
to
him
and
his
fifty
men.
\VS{11}Then
the
king
sent
another
captain
of
fifty
with
his
fifty
men;
and
he
said
to
Elijah,
O
man
of
God,
the
king
says,
Come
down
quickly.
\VS{12}And
Elijah
in
answer
said,
If
I
am
a
man
of
God,
may
fire
come
down
from
heaven
on
you
and
on
your
fifty
men,
and
put
an end
to
you.
And
the
fire
of
God
came
down
from
heaven,
and
put
an end
to
him
and
his
fifty
men.
\VS{13}Then
he
sent
a
third
captain
of
fifty
with
his
fifty
men;
and
the
third
captain
of
fifty
went
up,
and falling
on
his
knees
before
Elijah, requesting
mercy
of
him,
said,
O
man
of
God,
let
my
life
and
the
life
of
these
your
fifty
servants
be
of
value
to
you.
\VS{14}For
fire
came
down
from
heaven
and
put
an end
to
the
first
two
captains
of
fifty
and
their
fifties;
but
now
let
my
life
be
of
value
in
your
eyes.
\VS{15}Then
the
angel
of
the
Lord
said
to
Elijah,
Go
down
with
him;
have
no
fear
of
him.
So
he
got
up
and
went
down
with
him
to
the
king.
\VS{16}And
he
said
to
him,
This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord:
Because
you
sent
men
to
put
a
question
to
Baal-zebub,
the
god
of
Ekron,
for
this
reason
you
will
never
again
get
down
from
the
bed
on
to
which
you
have
gone
up,
but
death
will
certainly
come
to
you.
\VS{17}So
death
came
to
him,
as
the
Lord
had
said
by
the mouth
of
Elijah.
And
Jehoram
became
king
in
his
place
in
the
second
year
of
the
rule
of
Jehoram,
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah;
because
he
had
no
son.
\VS{18}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Ahaziah,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
the
Lord
was
about
to
take
Elijah
up
to
heaven
in
a great wind,
Elijah
went
with
Elisha
from
Gilgal.
\VS{2}And
Elijah
said
to
Elisha,
Come
no farther
for
the
Lord
has
sent
me
to Beth-el.
But
Elisha
said,
As
the
Lord
is
living
and
as
your
soul
is
living,
I
will
not
be parted
from
you.
So
they
went
down
to Beth-el.
\VS{3}And
at Beth-el
the
sons
of
the
prophets
came
out
to
Elisha
and
said,
Has
it
been
made
clear
to
you
that
the
Lord
is
going
to
take
away
your
master
from
over
you
today?
And
he
said,
Yes,
I
have
knowledge
of
it:
say no
more.
\VS{4}Then
Elijah
said
to
him,
Come
no farther,
for
the
Lord
has
sent
me
to
Jericho.
But
he
said,
As
the
Lord
is
living
and
as
your
soul
is
living,
I
will
not
be parted
from
you.
So
they
went
on
to
Jericho.
\VS{5}And
at
Jericho
the
sons
of
the
prophets
came
up
to
Elisha
and
said
to
him,
Has
it
been
made clear
to
you
that
the
Lord
is going
to
take
away
your
master
from
over
you
today?
And
he
said
in
answer,
Yes,
I
have
knowledge
of
it:
say no
more.
\VS{6}Then
Elijah
said
to
him,
Come
no farther,
for
the
Lord
has
sent
me
to
Jordan.
But
he
said,
As
the
Lord
is
living
and
as
your
soul
is
living,
I
will
not
be parted
from
you.
So
they went
on together.
\VS{7}And
fifty
men
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
went
out
and
took
their places facing
them
a
long
way
off,
while
the
two
of
them
were
by
the edge
of
Jordan.
\VS{8}Then
Elijah
took
off
his
robe,
and, rolling
it
up,
gave
the
water
a blow
with
it,
and
the
waters
were parted,
flowing
back
this
way
and
that,
so
that
they went
over
on
dry
land.
\VS{9}And
when
they
had
come
to
the
other
side,
Elijah
said
to
Elisha,
Say
what
you
would
have
me
do
for
you
before
I
am
taken
from
you.
And
Elisha
said,
Be pleased
to
let
a special measure
of
your
spirit
be
on
me.
\VS{10}And
he
said,
You
have
made
a
hard
request:
still,
if
you
see
me
when
I
am
taken
from
you,
you
will
get
your desire;
but
if
not,
it
will
not
be
so.
\VS{11}And
while
they
went
on
their
way,
going
on
talking together,
suddenly
there
were carriages
and
horses
of
fire separating
them
from
one another
and
Elijah
went
up
to
heaven
in
a great wind.
\VS{12}And
when
Elisha
saw
it
he
gave
a
cry,
My
father,
my
father,
the carriages
of
Israel
and
its
horsemen!
And
he
saw
him
no
longer;
and
he
was full
of grief.
\VS{13}Then
he
took
up Elijah's
robe,
which
had
been
dropped
from
him,
and
went
back till
he
came
to
the
edge
of
Jordan.
\VS{14}And
he
took Elijah's
robe,
which
had
been
dropped
from
him,
and giving
the
water
a blow
with
it,
said,
Where
is
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Elijah?
and
at
his blow
the
waters
were parted
this
way
and
that;
and
Elisha went
over.
\VS{15}And
when
the
sons
of
the
prophets
who
were facing
him
at
Jericho
saw
him,
they
said,
The
spirit
of
Elijah
is
resting
on
Elisha.
And
they
came
out
to
him,
and
went
down
on
the
earth
before
him.
\VS{16}And
they
said,
Your
servants
have
with
us
here
fifty
strong
men;
be
pleased
to
let
them
go
in
search
of
Elijah;
for
it
may
be
that
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
has
taken
him
up
and
put
him
down
on
some
mountain
or
in
some
valley.
But
he
said,
Do
not
send
them.
\VS{17}But
when
they
kept
on requesting
him,
he
was
shamed
and
said,
Send,
then.
So
they
sent
fifty
men;
but
after
searching
for
three
days,
they
came back
without
having seen
him.
\VS{18}And
they
came
back
to
him,
while
he
was
still
at
Jericho;
and
he
said
to
them,
Did
I
not
say
to
you,
Go
not?
\VS{19}Now
the
men
of
the
town
said
to
Elisha,
You
see
that
the position
of
this
town
is
good;
but
the
water
is
bad, causing
the young
of
the cattle
to
come
to birth dead.
\VS{20}So
he
said,
Get
me
a
new vessel,
and
put
salt
in
it;
and
they
took
it
to
him.
\VS{21}Then
he
went
out
to
the
spring
from
which
the
water
came,
and
put
salt
in
it,
and
said,
The
Lord
says,
Now
I
have
made
this
water sweet;
no
longer
will
it
be death-giving
or unfertile.
\VS{22}And
the
water
was
made sweet
again
to
this
day,
as
Elisha
said.
\VS{23}Then
from
there
he
went
up
to Beth-el;
and
on
his
way,
some
little
boys
came
out
from
the
town
and
made sport
of
him, crying,
Go
up, old no-hair!
go
up, old no-hair!
\VS{24}And
turning
back,
he
saw
them,
and
put
a
curse
on
them
in
the
name
of
the
Lord.
And
two she-bears
came
out
of
the wood
and
put
forty-two
of
the
children
to death.
\VS{25}From
there
he
went
to
Mount
Carmel,
and
came
back
from
there
to
Samaria.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehoram,
the
son
of
Ahab,
became
king
over
Israel
in
Samaria
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
the
rule
of
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah;
and
he
was
king
for
twelve
years.
\VS{2}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord;
but
not
like
his
father
and
his
mother,
for
he
put
away
the
stone
pillar
of
Baal
which
his
father
had
made.
\VS{3}But still
he
did
the
same
sins
which
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
did
and
made
Israel
do;
he went
on
in
them.
\VS{4}Now
Mesha,
king
of
Moab,
was
a sheep-farmer;
and
he
gave regularly
to
the
king
of
Israel
the
wool
from
a
hundred
thousand
lambs
and
a
hundred
thousand
sheep.
\VS{5}But
when
Ahab
was
dead,
the
king
of
Moab got free
from
the authority
of
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{6}At
that
time,
King
Jehoram
went
out
from
Samaria
and
got
all
Israel together
in fighting order.
\VS{7}And
he
sent
to
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah,
saying,
The
king
of
Moab
has
got
free
from
my authority:
will
you
go
with
me
to make
war
on
Moab?
And
he
said,
I
will
go
with
you:
I am
as
you
are,
my
people
as
your
people,
and
my
horses
as
your
horses.
\VS{8}And
he
said,
Which
way
are we
to
go?
And
he
said
in
answer,
By
the waste land
of
Edom.
\VS{9}So
the
king
of
Israel
went
with
the
king
of
Judah
and
the
king
of
Edom
by
a roundabout
way
for
seven
days:
and
there
was
no
water
for
the
army
or
for
the
beasts
they
had
with
them.
\VS{10}And
the
king
of
Israel
said, Here
is trouble:
for
the
Lord
has got
these
three
kings together
to
give
them
into
the
hands
of
Moab.
\VS{11}But
Jehoshaphat
said,
Is
there
no
prophet
of
the
Lord
here,
through
whom
we
may get
directions
from
the
Lord?
And
one
of
the
king
of Israel's
men
said
in
answer,
Elisha,
the
son
of
Shaphat,
is
here,
who
was
servant
to
Elijah.
\VS{12}And
Jehoshaphat
said,
The
word
of
the
Lord
is
with
him.
So
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat
and
the
king
of
Edom
went
down
to
him.
\VS{13}But
Elisha
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
What
have
I
to
do
with
you? go
to
the
prophets
of
your
father
and
your
mother.
And
the
king
of
Israel
said,
No;
for
the
Lord
has got
these
three
kings together
to
give
them
up
into
the
hands
of
Moab.
\VS{14}Then
Elisha
said,
By
the
life
of
the
Lord
of
armies
whose servant
I
am,
if
it
was
not
for
the
respect
I
have
for
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah,
I
would
not
give
a
look
at
you,
or
see
you.
\VS{15}But
now,
get
me
a
player
of music,
and
it
will
come
about
that
while
the man
is
playing,
the
hand
of
the
Lord
will
come
on
me
and
I
will
give
you
the word
of
the
Lord:
and
they
got
a
player
of music,
and
while
the man
was
playing,
the
hand
of
the
Lord
was
on
him.
\VS{16}And
he
said,
The
Lord
says,
I
will
make
this
valley full
of water-holes.
\VS{17}For
the
Lord
says,
Though
you
see
no
wind
or
rain,
the
valley
will
be
full
of
water,
and
you
and
your
armies
and
your
beasts
will
have
drink.
\VS{18}And
this
will
be only
a
small
thing
to
the
Lord:
in addition
he
will
give
the
Moabites
into
your
hands.
\VS{19}And
you
are
to put
every walled
town
to destruction, cutting
down
every
good
tree,
and stopping
up
every water-spring,
and
making
all
the
good
land rough
with
stones.
\VS{20}Now
in
the
morning,
about
the
time
when
the
offering
was
made,
they
saw
water
flowing
from
the
direction
of
Edom till
the
country
was
full
of
water.
\VS{21}Now
all
Moab,
hearing
that
the
kings
had
come
to
make war
against
them,
got
together
all
who
were able
to
take
up arms
and
went
forward
to
the edge
of
the country.
\VS{22}And
early
in
the
morning
they
got
up,
when
the
sun
was shining
on
the
water,
and
they
saw
the
water facing
them
as
red
as
blood.
\VS{23}Then
they
said,
This
is
blood:
it
is clear
that destruction
has come
on
the
kings;
they
have
been fighting
one
another:
now come,
Moab,
let
us
take
their goods.
\VS{24}But
when
they
came
to
the tents
of
Israel,
the
Israelites
came
out
and
made
a violent
attack
on
the
Moabites,
so
that
they
went
in
flight
before
them;
and
they
went
forward still
attacking
them;
\VS{25}Pulling
down
the
towns, covering
every
good
field
with
stones, stopping
up
all
the water-springs,
and cutting
down
all
the
good
trees;
they
went
on driving Moab
before
them
till
only
in
Kir-hareseth
were
there
any Moabites;
and
the fighting-men
went
round
the
town raining
stones
on
it.
\VS{26}And
when
the
king
of
Moab
saw
that
the
fight
was going
against
him,
he
took
with
him
seven
hundred
men
armed
with
swords,
with
the idea
of forcing
a
way
through
to
the
king
of Aram,
but
they
were
not
able
to
do
so.
\VS{27}Then
he
took
his
oldest
son,
who
would
have
been
king
after
him,
offering
him
as
a burned
offering
on
the
wall.
So
there
was
great
wrath
against
Israel;
and
they
went
away
from
him,
back
to
their
country.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
a
certain
woman,
the
wife
of
one
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets,
came
crying
to
Elisha
and
said,
Your
servant
my
husband
is
dead;
and
to
your
knowledge
he
was
a worshipper
of
the
Lord;
but
now,
the
creditor
has
come
to
take
my
two
children
as
servants
in payment
of
his debt.
\VS{2}Then
Elisha
said
to
her,
What
am
I
to
do
for
you?
say
now,
what
have
you
in
the
house?
And
she
said,
Your
servant
has
nothing
in
the
house
but
a pot
of
oil.
\VS{3}Then
he
said, Go
out
to
all
your neighbours
and
get
vessels,
a very great number
of
them.
\VS{4}Then
go
in,
and, shutting
the
door
on
yourself
and
your
sons,
put oil
into
all
these
vessels,
putting
on
one side
the
full
ones.
\VS{5}So
she
went
away,
and
when
the
door
was
shut
on
her
and
her
sons,
they
took
the vessels
to
her
and
she
put oil
into
them.
\VS{6}And
when
all
the
vessels
were
full, she
said
to
her
son, Get
me
another
vessel.
And
he
said,
There
are
no
more.
And
the flow
of
oil
was
stopped.
\VS{7}So she
came
to
the
man
of
God
and
gave
him
word
of
what she
had done.
And
he
said,
Go
and
get money
for
the
oil
and
make payment
of
your
debt,
and
let
the
rest
be
for
the needs
of
yourself
and
your
sons.
\VS{8}Now
there
came
a
day
when
Elisha
went
to
Shunem,
and
there
was
a
woman
of
high position living
there,
who
made
him
come
in
and
have
a
meal
with
her.
And
after
that,
every
time
he
went
by,
he
went
into
her house
for
a
meal.
\VS{9}And
she
said
to
her
husband,
Now
I
see
that
this
is
a
holy
man
of
God,
who comes
by day
after day.
\VS{10}So
let
us
make
a
little
room
on
the
wall;
and
put
a
bed
there
for
him,
and
a
table
and
a
seat
and
a
light;
so
that
when
he
comes
to
us,
he
will
be able
to
go
in
there.
\VS{11}Now
one
day,
when
he
had
gone
there,
he
went
into
the little
room
and
took
his
rest
there.
\VS{12}And
he
said
to
Gehazi,
his
servant, Send
for
this
Shunammite.
So
in
answer
to
his voice
she
came
before
him.
\VS{13}And
he
said
to
him,
Now
say
to
her,
See,
you
have
taken
all
this trouble
for
us;
what
is
to
be
done
for
you?
will
you
have
any request
made
for
you
to
the
king
or
the
captain
of
the
army?
But
she
said,
I
am
living
among
my
people.
\VS{14}So
he
said,
What
then
is
to
be
done
for
her?
And
Gehazi
made
answer,
Still
there
is
this,
she
has
no
son
and
her
husband
is
old.
\VS{15}Then
he
said, Send
for
her.
And
in
answer
to
his voice
she
took
her
place
at
the
door.
\VS{16}And
Elisha
said,
At
this
time
in
the coming
year
you
will
have
a
son
in
your arms.
And
she
said,
No,
my
lord,
O
man
of
God,
do
not
say
what
is
false
to
your
servant.
\VS{17}Then
the
woman
became
with
child
and
gave
birth
to
a
son
at
the
time
named,
in
the
year
after,
as
Elisha
had
said
to
her.
\VS{18}Now
one
day,
when
the
child
was older,
he
went
out
to
his
father
to
where
the grain
was
being cut.
\VS{19}And
he
said
to
his
father,
My
head,
my
head!
And
the
father
said
to
a
servant,
Take
him
in
to
his
mother.
\VS{20}And
he
took
him
in
to
his
mother,
and
she
took
him
on
her
knees
and kept
him
there
till
the middle
of
the day,
when
his
life
went
from
him.
\VS{21}Then
she
went
up
and
put
him
on
the
bed
of
the
man
of
God, shutting
the door
on
him,
and
went
out.
\VS{22}And
she
said
to
her
husband,
Send
me
one
of
the
servants
and
one
of
the asses
so
that
I
may
go
quickly
to
the
man
of
God
and
come
back
again.
\VS{23}And
he
said,
Why
are
you
going
to
him
today?
it
is
not
a
new
moon
or
a
Sabbath.
But
she
said,
It
is
well.
\VS{24}Then
she made
the ass ready
and
said
to
her
servant, Keep driving
on;
do
not
make
a
stop
without
orders
from
me.
\VS{25}So she
went,
and
came
to
Mount
Carmel,
to
the
man
of
God.
And
when
the
man
of
God
saw
her
coming
in
his direction,
he
said
to
Gehazi,
his
servant,
See,
there
is
the
Shunammite;
\VS{26}Go
quickly
to
her,
and
on meeting
her
say
to
her,
Are
you
well?
and
your
husband
and
the
child,
are
they
well?
And she
said
in
answer,
All
is
well.
\VS{27}And
when
she
came
to
where
the
man
of
God
was
on
the
hill,
she
put
her hands round
his
feet;
and
Gehazi
came
near
with
the purpose
of pushing
her
away;
but
the
man
of
God
said,
Let
her
be,
for
her
soul
is
bitter
in
her;
and
the
Lord
has kept
it
secret
from
me,
and
has
not given
me
word
of
it.
\VS{28}Then
she
said,
Did
I make
a
request
to
my
lord
for
a
son?
did
I
not
say, Do
not give
me false words?
\VS{29}Then
he
said
to
Gehazi,
Make
yourself ready,
and
take
my stick
in
your
hand,
and go:
if
you
come
across
anyone
on
the
way,
give
him
no
blessing,
and
if
anyone gives
you
a
blessing,
give
him
no
answer.
And
put
my stick
on
the child's
face.
\VS{30}But
the
mother
of
the
child
said,
As
the
Lord
is
living
and
as
your
soul
is
living,
I
will
not
go
back without
you.
So
he
got
up
and
went
with
her.
\VS{31}And
Gehazi
went
on
before
them
and
put
the stick
on
the child's
face;
but
there
was
no
voice,
and
no
one
gave
attention.
So
he
went
back,
and meeting
him
gave
him
the
news,
saying,
The
child
is
not awake.
\VS{32}And
when
Elisha
came
into
the
house
he
saw
the
child
dead, stretched
on
his
bed.
\VS{33}So
he
went
in,
and shutting
the
door
on
the
two
of
them,
made prayer
to
the
Lord.
\VS{34}Then
he
got
up
on
the
bed, stretching himself
out
on
the
child,
and
put
his
mouth
on
the child's
mouth,
his
eyes
on
his
eyes
and
his
hands
on
his
hands;
and
the child's
body
became
warm.
\VS{35}Then
he
came
back,
and
after walking
once
through
the
house
and
back,
he
went
up, stretching himself
out
on
the
child
seven
times;
and
the child's
eyes
became
open.
\VS{36}And
he
gave
orders
to
Gehazi,
and
said, Send
for
the
Shunammite.
And
she
came
in
answer
to
his voice.
And
he
said,
Take
up
your
son.
\VS{37}And she
came
in,
and
went
down
on
her face
to
the
earth
at
his
feet;
then she
took
her
son
in
her arms
and
went
out.
\VS{38}And
Elisha
went
back
to
Gilgal,
now
there
was
very little
food
in
the
land;
and
the
sons
of
the
prophets
were
seated
before
him.
And
he
said
to
his
servant,
Put
the
great
pot
on
the fire,
and
make soup
for
the
sons
of
the
prophets.
\VS{39}And
one
went
out
into
the
field
to
get green
plants
and saw
a
vine
of
the
field,
and pulling
off
the
fruit
of
it till
the fold
of
his robe
was
full,
he
came
back
and
put
the
fruit, cut
up small,
into
the
pot
of soup,
having
no idea
what
it
was.
\VS{40}Then
they
gave
the
men soup
from
the
pot.
And
while
they
were drinking
the soup,
they
gave
a
cry,
and
said,
O
man
of
God,
there
is
death
in
the
pot;
and
they
were
not
able
to
take
any
more
food.
\VS{41}But
he
said,
Get
some
meal.
And
he
put
it
into
the
pot,
and
said,
Now
give
it
to
the
people
so
that
they
may
have
food.
And
there
was
nothing
bad
in
the
pot.
\VS{42}Now
a
man
came
from
Baal-shalishah
with
an offering
of first-fruits
for
the
man
of
God,
twenty
barley cakes
and
garden
fruit
in
his bag.
And
he
said,
Give
these
to
the
people
for
food.
\VS{43}But
his
servant
said,
How
am
I
to
put
this
before
a
hundred
men?
But
he
said,
Give
it
to
the
people
for
food;
for
the
Lord
says,
There
will
be
food
for
them
and
some
over.
\VS{44}So
he
put
it
before
them,
and
they
had
a meal
and
there
was
more
than
enough,
as
the
Lord
had
said.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Naaman,
chief
of
the
army
of
the
king
of
Aram,
was
a
man
of
high position
with
his
master,
and
greatly
respected,
because
by
him
the
Lord
had
given
salvation
to
Aram;
but
he
was
a
leper.
\VS{2}Now
the Aramaeans
had
gone
out
in
bands,
and
taken
prisoner
from
Israel
a
little
girl,
who
became servant
to Naaman's
wife.
\VS{3}And
she
said
to
her master's wife,
If only
my
lord
would
go
to
the
prophet
in
Samaria,
he
would make
him
well.
\VS{4}And someone
went
and
said
to
his
lord,
This
is
what
the
girl
from
the
land
of
Israel
says.
\VS{5}So
the
king
of
Aram
said,
Go
then;
and
I
will
send
a
letter
to
the
king
of
Israel.
And
he
went,
taking
with
him
ten
talents
of
silver
and
six
thousand
shekels
of
gold,
and
ten
changes
of
clothing.
\VS{6}And
he
took
the
letter
to
the
king
of
Israel,
in
which
the
king
of Aram
had
said,
See,
I
have
sent
my
servant
Naaman
to
you
to
be made well,
for
he
is
a leper.
\VS{7}But
the
king
of
Israel,
after
reading
the
letter,
was greatly troubled
and
said,
Am
I
God,
to
give
death
and
life?
why
does
this
man
send
a leper
to
me
to
be
made
well?
is
it
not clear
that
he
is
looking
for
a
cause
of war?
\VS{8}Now
Elisha,
the
man
of
God,
hearing
that
the
king
of
Israel
had
done
this,
sent
to
the
king,
saying,
Why
are
you troubled?
send
the
man
to
me,
so
that
he
may
see
that
there
is
a
prophet
in
Israel.
\VS{9}So
Naaman,
with all
his
horses
and
his carriages,
came
to
the
door
of Elisha's
house.
\VS{10}And
Elisha
sent
a servant
to
him,
saying,
Go
to
Jordan,
and
after
washing
seven
times
in
its waters
your
flesh
will
be well
again
and
you
will
be
clean.
\VS{11}But
Naaman
was
angry
and
went
away
and
said,
I
had
the idea
that
he
would
come
out
to
see such
an important
person
as
I
am,
and
make prayer
to
the
Lord
his
God,
and
with
a
wave
of
his
hand
over
the
place
make
the
leper well.
\VS{12}Are
not Abana
and
Pharpar,
rivers
of
Damascus,
better
than
all
the
waters
of
Israel?
may
I
not
be
washed
in
them
and
become
clean?
So
turning,
he went
away
in
wrath.
\VS{13}Then
his
servants
came
to
him
and
said,
If
the
prophet
had
given
you
orders
to
do
some
great
thing,
would
you
not
have
done
it?
how
much
more
then,
when
he
says
to
you,
Be
washed
and
become
clean?
\VS{14}Then
he
went
down
seven
times
into
the waters
of
Jordan,
as
the
man
of
God
had
said;
and
his
flesh
became
like
the
flesh
of
a
little
child
again,
and
he
was
clean.
\VS{15}Then
he
went
back
to
the
man
of
God,
with
all
his train,
and,
taking
his
place
before
him,
said,
Now
I
am
certain
that
there
is
no
God
in
all
the
earth,
but
only
in
Israel:
now
then,
take
an offering
from
me.
\VS{16}But
he
said,
By
the
life
of
the
Lord
whose servant
I
am,
I
will
take
nothing
from
you.
And
he
did
his best
to
make
him
take
it
but
he
would
not.
\VS{17}Then
Naaman
said,
If
you
will
not,
then
let
there
be
given
to
your
servant
as much
earth
as
two beasts
are able
to
take
on
their backs;
because
from
now
on,
your
servant
will
make
no
offering
or burned
offering
to
other
gods,
but
only
to
the
Lord.
\VS{18}But
may
your
servant
have
the Lord's forgiveness
for
this
one
thing:
when
my
master
goes
into
the
house
of
Rimmon
for
worship
there,
supported
on
my
arm,
and
my head
is bent
in
the
house
of
Rimmon;
when
his head
is bent
in
the
house
of
Rimmon,
may
your
servant
have
the Lord's forgiveness
for
this
thing.
\VS{19}And
he
said
to
him, Go
in
peace.
And
he went
from
him
some distance.
\VS{20}But
Gehazi,
the
servant
of
Elisha,
the
man
of
God,
said,
Now
my
master
has
taken
nothing
from
Naaman,
this Aramaean,
of
what
he
would
have
given
him:
by
the
living
Lord,
I
will
go
after
him
and
get
something
from
him.
\VS{21}So
Gehazi
went
after
Naaman.
And
when
Naaman
saw
him
running
after
him,
he got
down
from
his carriage
and
went
back
to
him
and
said,
Is
all
well?
\VS{22}And
he
said,
All
is
well:
but
my
master
has
sent
me,
saying, Even
now,
two
young
men
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
have
come
to
me
from
the hill-country
of
Ephraim;
will
you
give
me
a
talent
of
silver
and
two
changes
of
clothing
for
them?
\VS{23}And
Naaman
said,
Be good enough
to
take
two
talents.
And forcing
him
to
take
them,
he
put
two
talents
of
silver
in
two
bags,
with
two
changes
of
clothing,
and
gave
them
to
his
two
servants
to
take
before
him.
\VS{24}When
he
came
to
the
hill,
he
took
them
from
their
hands,
and
put
them
away
in
the
house;
and
he
sent
the
men
away,
and
they
went.
\VS{25}Then
he
came
in
and
took
his
place
before
his
master.
And
Elisha
said
to
him,
Where
have
you
come
from,
Gehazi?
And
he
said,
Your
servant
went nowhere.
\VS{26}And
he
said
to
him,
Did
not
my
heart
go
with
you,
when
the
man
got
down
from
his carriage
and
went
back
to
you?
Is
this
a
time
for getting
money,
and
clothing,
and olive-gardens
and vine-gardens,
and
sheep
and
oxen,
and men-servants
and women-servants?
\VS{27}Because
of
what
you have done,
the
disease
of
Naaman
the
leper
will
take
you
in
its
grip,
and
your
seed
after
you,
for
ever.
And
he
went
out
from
before
him
a
leper
as white
as
snow.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
the
sons
of
the
prophets
said
to
Elisha,
There
is
not
room enough
for
us
in
the
place
where
we
are
living
under
your care;
\VS{2}So
let
us
go
to
Jordan,
and
let
everyone
get
to work cutting boards,
and
we
will
make
a living-place
for ourselves
there.
And
he
said
to
them,
Go,
then.
\VS{3}And
one
of
them
said,
Be
pleased
to
go
with
your
servants.
And
he
said,
I
will
go.
\VS{4}So
he
went
with
them.
And
when
they
came
to
Jordan,
they got
to work cutting
down
trees.
\VS{5}But
one
of
them,
while cutting
a board,
let
the
head
of
his
axe
go
into
the
water;
and
he
gave
a
cry,
and
said,
This
is
a bad business,
my
master,
for
it
is another's.
\VS{6}And
the
man
of
God
said,
Where
did
it
go
in?
and
when
he
saw
the
place
where
it
had
gone
into
the water, cutting
a
stick,
he put
it
into
the water,
and
the
iron
came
up
to
the top
of
the water.
\VS{7}Then
he
said,
Take
it
up.
So
he
put
out
his
hand
and
took
it.
\VS{8}At
that
time
the
king
of
Aram
was making war
against
Israel;
and
he
had
a meeting
with
the chiefs
of
his army
and
said,
I
will
be waiting
in secret
in
some named
place.
\VS{9}And
the
man
of
God
sent
to
the
king
of
Israel,
saying,
Take
care
to
keep
away
from
that
place,
for
the Aramaeans
are
waiting
there
in secret.
\VS{10}So
the
king
of
Israel
sent
to
the
place
where
the
man
of
God
had
said
there
was danger,
and
kept clear
of
it
more
than
once.
\VS{11}And
at
this,
the
mind
of
the
king
of
Aram
was greatly troubled,
and
he
sent
for
his
servants
and
said
to
them,
Will
you
not
make clear
to
me
which
of
us
is helping
the
king
of
Israel?
\VS{12}And
one
of
them
said,
Not
one
of
us,
my
lord
king;
but
Elisha,
the
prophet
in
Israel, gives
the
king
of
Israel
news
of
the
words
you
say
even
in
your
bedroom.
\VS{13}Then
he
said,
Go
and
see
where
he
is,
so
that
I
may
send
and
get
him.
And
news
came
to
him
that
he
was
in
Dothan.
\VS{14}So
he
sent
there
horses
and carriages
and
a
great
army;
and
they
came
by
night, circling
the
town.
\VS{15}Now
the
servant
of
the
man
of
God,
having
got
up
early
and
gone
out,
saw
an
army
with
horses
and carriages
of war
all
round
the
town.
And
the
servant
said
to
him,
O
my
master,
what
are
we
to
do?
\VS{16}And
he
said
in
answer,
Have
no
fear;
those
who
are
with
us
are
more
than
those
who
are
with
them.
\VS{17}Then
Elisha
made
a prayer
to
the
Lord,
saying,
Lord,
let
his
eyes
be
open
so
that
he
may
see.
And
the
Lord
made
the
young man's
eyes
open;
and
he
saw
that
all
the
mountain
was
full
of
horses
and carriages
of
fire
round
Elisha.
\VS{18}Now
when
the Aramaeans
came
down
to
Elisha,
he
made
a prayer
to
the
Lord
saying,
Lord,
make
this
people blind.
And
he
made
them blind
at Elisha's
request.
\VS{19}And
Elisha
said
to
them,
This
is
not
the
way,
and
this
is
not
the
town: come
after
me
so
that
I
may take
you
to
the
man
you
are
searching
for.
And
he
took
them
to
Samaria.
\VS{20}And
when
they
had
come
into
Samaria,
Elisha
said,
Lord,
let
the
eyes
of
these
men
be
open
so
that
they
may
see.
And
the
Lord
made
their
eyes
open,
and
they
saw
that
they
were
in
the
middle
of
Samaria.
\VS{21}And
the
king
of
Israel,
when
he
saw
them,
said
to
Elisha,
My
father, am
I
to put
them
to
the sword?
\VS{22}But
he
said
in
answer,
You
are
not
to
put
them
to death;
have
you
any right
to
put
to death
those
whom
you
have
not
taken
prisoner
with
your
sword
and
your
bow?
put
bread
and
water
before
them,
so
that
they
may
have
food
and
drink
and go
to
their
master.
\VS{23}So
he made ready
a
great
feast
for
them,
and
when
they
had
had
food
and
drink,
he
sent
them
away
and
they
went
back
to
their
master.
And
no
more
bands
of Aramaeans
came
into
the
land
of
Israel.
\VS{24}Now
after
this,
Ben-hadad,
king
of
Aram,
got
together
all
his
army
and
went
up
to make
an
attack
on
Samaria, shutting
the town
in
on
all sides
with
his
forces.
\VS{25}And
they
became
very short
of food
in
Samaria;
for
they kept
it shut
in
till
the
price
of
an ass's
head
was
eighty
shekels
of
silver,
and
a small measure
of doves' droppings
was
five
shekels
of
silver.
\VS{26}And
when
the
king
of
Israel
was going
by
on
the
wall,
a
woman
came
crying
out
to
him,
and
said,
Help!
my
lord
king.
\VS{27}And
he
said,
If
the
Lord
does
not give
you
help,
where
am
I
to get
help
for
you?
from
the grain-floor
or
the grape-crusher?
\VS{28}And
the
king
said
to
her,
What
is troubling
you?
And
she
said
in
answer,
This
woman
said
to
me,
Give
your
son
to
be
our
food
today,
and
we
will
have
my
son
tomorrow.
\VS{29}So,
boiling
my
son,
we
had
a meal
of
him;
and
on
the
day
after
I
said
to
her,
Now
give
your
son
for
our
food;
but she
has
put
her
son
in
a secret
place.
\VS{30}Then
the
king,
hearing
what
the
woman
said,
took
his
robes
in
his hands, violently parting
them;
and,
while
he
was walking
on
the
wall,
the
people,
looking,
saw
that
under
his robe
he
had haircloth
on
his
flesh.
\VS{31}Then
he
said,
May God's punishment come
on
me
if
Elisha,
the
son
of
Shaphat, keeps
his
head
on
his body
after
this
day.
\VS{32}But
Elisha
was
in
his
house,
and
the
responsible
men
were
seated
there
with
him;
and
before
the king got
there,
Elisha
said
to
those
who
were
with
him,
Do
you
see
how
this cruel
and violent
man
has
sent
to
take
away
my life?
\VS{33}While
he
was
still
talking
to
them,
the king
came
down
and
said,
This
evil
is
from
the
Lord;
why
am
I
to
go
on waiting
any
longer
for
the
Lord?

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Elisha
said,
Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord:
the
Lord
says,
Tomorrow,
about
this
time,
a
measure
of good meal
will
be offered
for
the
price
of
a
shekel
and two
measures
of
barley
for
a
shekel,
in
the market-place
of
Samaria.
\VS{2}Then
the captain
whose
arm
was supporting
the
king
said
to
the
man
of
God,
Even
if
the
Lord
made
windows
in
heaven,
would
such
a
thing
be possible?
And
he
said,
Your
eyes
will
see
it,
but
you
will
not
have
a taste
of
the
food.
\VS{3}Now
there
were
four
lepers
seated
at
the
doorway
into
the
town:
and
they
said
to
one
another,
Why
are
we
waiting
here
for
death?
\VS{4}If
we
say,
We
will
go
into
the
town,
there
is
no food
in
the
town,
and
we
will
come
to
our end
there;
and
if
we
go
on waiting
here,
death
will
come
to
us.
Come
then,
let
us
give ourselves
up
to
the
army
of
Aram:
if
they
let
us
go
on
living,
then
life
will
be ours;
and
if
they
put
us
to
death,
then
death
will
be ours.
\VS{5}So
in
the half light
they
got
up
to
go
to
the tents
of
Aram;
but
when
they
came
to
the outer
line
of tents,
there
was
no
one
there.
\VS{6}For
the
Lord
had
made
the
sound
of carriages
and
horses,
and
the
noise
of
a
great
army,
come
to
the ears
of
the Aramaeans,
so
that
they
said
to
one
another,
Truly,
the
king
of
Israel
has got
the
kings
of
the
Hittites
and
of
the
Egyptians
for
a price
to
make
an
attack
on
us.
\VS{7}So
they
got
up
and
went
in
flight,
in
the half light, without
their
tents
or
their
horses
or
their asses
or
any
of
their goods;
they
went
in
flight, fearing
for
their
lives.
\VS{8}And
when
those
lepers
came
to
the outer
line
of
tents,
they
went
into
one
tent,
and
had
food
and
drink,
and
took
from
it
silver
and
gold
and
clothing,
which
they
put
in
a secret
place;
then
they
came
back
and
went
into
another
tent
from
which
they
took
more goods,
which
they
put
away
in
a secret
place.
\VS{9}Then
they
said
to
one
another,
We
are
not
doing
right.
Today
is
a
day
of good
news,
and
we
say
nothing:
if
we
go
on
waiting
here
till
the
morning,
punishment
will
come
to
us.
So
let
us
go
and
give
the
news
to
those
of
the king's
house.
\VS{10}So
they
came
in,
and,
crying
out
to
the door-keepers
of
the
town,
they
gave
them
the
news,
saying,
We
came
to
the
tents
of
the Aramaeans,
and
there
was
no
one
there
and
no
voice
of
man,
only
the
horses
and
the asses
in
their
places,
and
the
tents
as
they
were.
\VS{11}Then
the door-keepers,
crying out,
gave
the news
to those
inside
the king's
house.
\VS{12}Then
the
king
got
up
in
the
night
and
said
to
his
servants,
This
is
my idea
of
what
the Aramaeans
have
done
to
us.
They
have
knowledge
that
we
are
without food;
and
so
they
have
gone
out
of
their tents,
and
are waiting secretly
in
the open
country,
saying,
When
they
come
out
of
the
town,
we
will
take
them
living
and
get
into
the
town.
\VS{13}And
one
of
his
servants
said
in
answer,
Send
men
and
let
them
take
five
of
the
horses
which
we
still
have
in
the town;
if
they
keep
their lives
they
will
be
the
same
as
those
of
Israel
who
are
still living
here;
if
they
come
to
their death
they
will
be
the
same
as
all
those
of
Israel
who
have
gone
to destruction:
let
us
send
and
see.
\VS{14}So
they
took
two
horsemen;
and
the
king
sent
them
after
the
army
of
the Aramaeans,
saying,
Go
and
see.
\VS{15}And
they
went
after
them
as
far
as
Jordan;
and
all
the
road
was covered
with
clothing
and
vessels
dropped
by
the Aramaeans
in
their flight.
So
those
who
were
sent
went
back
and
gave
the news
to
the
king.
\VS{16}Then
the
people
went
out
and
took
the goods
from
the tents
of
the Aramaeans.
So
a
measure
of good meal
was
to
be
had
for
the
price
of
a
shekel,
and two
measures
of
barley
for
a
shekel,
as
the
Lord
had
said.
\VS{17}And
the
king
gave
authority
to
that captain,
on
whose
arm
he
was
supported,
to
have
control
over
the doorway
into
the
town;
but
he
was crushed
to
death
there
under
the feet
of
the
people,
as
the
man
of
God
had
said
when
the
king
went
down
to
him.
\VS{18}So
the words
of
the
man
of
God
came true, which
he
said
to
the
king: Two
measures
of
barley
will
be offered
for
the
price
of
a
shekel
and
a
measure
of good meal
for
a
shekel,
tomorrow
about
this
time
in
the market-place
of
Samaria.
\VS{19}And
that captain
said
to
the
man
of
God,
Even
if
the
Lord
made
windows
in
heaven,
would
such
a
thing
be possible?
And
he
said
to
him,
Your
eyes
will
see
it,
but
you
will
not
have
a taste
of
the
food.
\VS{20}And
such
was
his fate;
for
he
was crushed
to
death
under
the feet
of
the
people,
in
the doorway
into
the
town.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Elisha
had
said
to
the
woman
whose
son
he
had
given
back
to
life,
Go
now,
with
all
the
people
of
your
house,
and
get
a living-place
for
yourselves
wherever
you
are able;
for
by
the
word
of
the
Lord,
there
will
be great need
of
food
in
the
land;
and
this
will
go
on
for
seven
years.
\VS{2}So
the
woman
got
up
and
did
as
the
man
of
God
said;
and
she
and
the
people
of
her
house
were
living
in
the
land
of
the
Philistines
for
seven
years.
\VS{3}And
when
the
seven
years
were ended,
the
woman
came
back
from
the
land
of
the
Philistines
and
went
to
the
king
with
a request
for
her
house
and
her
land.
\VS{4}Now
the
king
was
talking
with
Gehazi,
the
servant
of
the
man
of
God,
saying,
Now,
give
me
an
account
of
all
the
great
things
Elisha
has
done.
\VS{5}And
while
he
was giving
the
king
the story
of
how
Elisha
had given
life
to
the
dead,
the
woman
whose
son
had
come
back
to
life
came
to
the
king
with
a request
for
her
house
and
her
land.
And
Gehazi
said,
My
lord
king,
this
is
the
woman
and
this
is
her
son,
whose
life
Elisha
gave
back
to
him.
\VS{6}And
in
answer
to
the king's questions,
the
woman
gave
him
all
the story.
So
the
king
gave
orders
to
one
of
his unsexed servants,
saying,
Give
her
back
all
her
property,
and
all
the
produce
of
her
fields
from
the
day
when
she
went
away
from
the
land
up
till
now.
\VS{7}And
Elisha
came
to
Damascus;
and
Ben-hadad,
king
of
Aram,
was ill;
and
they
said
to
him,
The
man
of
God
has
come.
\VS{8}Then
the
king
said
to
Hazael,
Take
an
offering
with
you,
and go
to see
the
man
of
God
and
get
directions
from
the
Lord
by
him,
saying,
Am
I going
to
get
better
from
my
disease?
\VS{9}So
Hazael
went
to
see
him,
taking
with
him
forty
camels
with
offerings
on
their backs
of
every sort
of
good
thing
from
Damascus;
and
when
he
came
before
him,
he
said,
Your
son
Ben-hadad,
king
of
Aram,
has
sent
me
to
you,
saying,
Will
I
get
better
from
this
disease?
\VS{10}And
Elisha
said
to
him, Go,
say
to
him,
You
will
certainly get better;
but
the
Lord
has made
it clear
to
me
that only
death
is
before
him.
\VS{11}And
he
kept
his eyes
fixed
on
him
till
he
was
shamed,
and
the
man
of
God
was overcome
with
weeping.
\VS{12}And
Hazael
said,
Why
is
my
lord
weeping?
Then
he
said
in
answer,
Because
I
see
the
evil
which
you
will
do
to
the
children
of
Israel:
burning
down
their strong towns,
putting
their
young
men
to death
with
the
sword, smashing
their
little
ones
against
the stones,
and cutting
open
the
women
who
are
with
child.
\VS{13}And
Hazael
said,
How
is
it possible
that
your
servant,
who
is only
a
dog,
will
do
this
great
thing?
And
Elisha
said,
The
Lord
has
made
it clear
to
me
that
you
will
be
king
over
Aram.
\VS{14}Then
he
went
away
from
Elisha
and
came
in
to
his
master,
who
said
to
him,
What
did
Elisha
say
to
you?
And
his
answer
was,
He
said
that
you
would
certainly
get well.
\VS{15}Now
on
the
day
after,
Hazael
took
the bed-cover,
and making
it wet
with
water,
put
it
over Ben-hadad's
face, causing
his
death:
and
Hazael
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{16}In
the
fifth
year
of
Joram,
the
son
of
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
Jehoram,
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah,
became
king.
\VS{17}He
was thirty-two
years
old
when
he
became
king;
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
eight
years.
\VS{18}He
went
in
the
ways
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
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{19}But
it
was
not
the Lord's
purpose
to
send
destruction
on
Judah,
because
of
David
his
servant,
to
whom
he
had
given
his
word
that
he
would
have
a light
for ever.
\VS{20}In
his
time,
Edom made
themselves free
from
the
rule
of
Judah,
and took
a
king
for
themselves.
\VS{21}Then
Joram
went
over
to
Zair,
with
all
his war-carriages; ...
made
an
attack
by
night
on
the
Edomites,
whose
forces
were
all
round
him, ...
the
captains
of
the war-carriages;
and
the
people
went
in
flight
to
their
tents.
\VS{22}So
Edom made themselves free
from
the
rule
of
Judah
to
this
day.
And
at
the
same
time,
Libnah made
itself free.
\VS{23}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Joram,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{24}And
Joram went
to
rest
with
his
fathers
and
was put into
the earth
with
his
fathers
in
the
town
of
David:
and
Ahaziah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{25}In
the twelfth
year
that
Joram,
the
son
of
Ahab,
was
king
of
Israel,
Ahaziah,
the
son
of
Jehoram,
king
of
Judah,
became
king;
\VS{26}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,
king
of
Israel.
\VS{27}He
went
in
the
ways
of
the
family
of
Ahab,
and
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
as
the
family
of
Ahab
did,
for
he
was
a
son-in-law
of
the
family
of
Ahab.
\VS{28}He went
with
Joram,
the
son
of
Ahab,
to make
war
on
Hazael,
king
of
Aram,
at
Ramoth-gilead:
and
Joram
was
wounded
by
the Aramaeans.
\VS{29}So
King
Joram
went
back
to
Jezreel
to
get
well
from
the
wounds
which
the bowmen
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
see
Joram,
the
son
of
Ahab,
in
Jezreel,
because
he
was ill.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Elisha
the
prophet
sent
for
one
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets,
and
said
to
him,
Make yourself ready
for
a journey,
and
take
this bottle
of
oil
in
your
hand,
and go
to
Ramoth-gilead.
\VS{2}And
when
you
get
there,
go
in
search
of
Jehu,
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
the
son
of
Nimshi;
and
go
in
and
make
him
get
up
from
among
his
brothers,
and
take
him
to
an
inner
room.
\VS{3}Then
take
the bottle
and
put
the
oil
on
his
head,
and
say,
The
Lord
says,
I
have
put
the holy
oil
on
you
to
make
you
king
over
Israel.
Then,
opening
the
door, go
in
flight,
without
waiting.
\VS{4}So
the
young
prophet went
to
Ramoth-gilead.
\VS{5}And
when
he
came,
he
saw
the
captains
of
the
army
seated together;
and
he
said,
I
have
something
to
say
to
you,
O
captain.
And
Jehu
said,
To
which
of
us?
And
he
said,
To
you,
O
captain.
\VS{6}And
he
got
up
and
went
into
the
house;
then
he
put
the holy
oil
on
his
head
and
said
to
him,
The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
says,
I
have made
you
king
over
the
people
of
the
Lord,
over
Israel.
\VS{7}You
are
to see
that
the
family
of
Ahab
your
master
is cut
off,
so
that
I
may
take
from
Jezebel payment
for
the
blood
of
my
servants
the
prophets,
and
for
the
blood
of
all
the
servants
of
the
Lord.
\VS{8}For
the
family
of
Ahab
will come
to
an end;
every male
of Ahab's
family
will
be
cut
off,
he
who
is
shut
up
and
he
who goes free
in
Israel.
\VS{9}I
will
make
the
family
of
Ahab
like
that
of
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
and
Baasha,
the
son
of
Ahijah.
\VS{10}And
Jezebel
will become
food
for
the
dogs
in
the heritage
of
Jezreel,
and
there
will
be
no
one
to
put
her body into
the earth.
Then,
opening
the
door,
he went
in
flight.
\VS{11}Then
Jehu
came
out again
to
the
servants
of
his
lord,
and
one
said
to
him,
Is
all
well?
why
did
this
man,
who
is
off
his head,
come
to
you?
And
he
said
to
them,
You
have
knowledge
of
the
man
and
of
his
talk.
\VS{12}And
they
said,
That
is not
true;
now
give
us
his story.
Then
he
said,
This
is
what
he
said
to
me:
The
Lord
says,
I
have
made
you
king
over
Israel.
\VS{13}Then straight
away
everyone
took
his robe
and
put
it
under
him
on
the top
of
the
steps,
and, sounding
the
horn,
they
said,
Jehu
is
king.
\VS{14}So
Jehu,
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
the
son
of
Nimshi,
made designs
against
Joram. (Now
Joram
and
all
the army
of
Israel
were
keeping
watch
on
Ramoth-gilead
because
of
Hazael,
king
of
Aram:
\VS{15}But
King
Joram
had
gone
back
to
Jezreel
to
get
well
from
the
wounds
which
the Aramaeans
had given
him
when
he
was
fighting
against
Hazael,
king
of
Aram.)
And
Jehu
said,
If
this
is
your purpose,
then
let
no
one
get
away
and
go
out
of
the
town
to
give
news
of
it
in
Jezreel.
\VS{16}So
Jehu got
into
his carriage
and
went
to
Jezreel,
for
Joram
was ill
in
bed
there;
and
Ahaziah,
king
of
Judah,
had
come
down
to
see
Joram.
\VS{17}And
the
watchman
on
the
tower
in
Jezreel
saw
Jehu
and
his band
coming,
and
said,
I
see
a band
of
people.
And
Joram
said,
Send
out
a
horseman
to
them,
and
let
him
say,
Is
it
peace?
\VS{18}So
a
horseman
went
out
to
them
and
said,
The
king
says,
Is
it
peace?
And
Jehu
said,
What
have
you
to
do
with
peace?
come
after
me.
And
the
watchman
gave
them
word,
saying,
The
horseman
went
up
to
them,
but
has
not
come
back.
\VS{19}Then
he
sent
out
a
second
horseman,
who
came
up
to
them
and
said,
The
king
says,
Is
it
peace?
And
Jehu
said
in
answer,
What
have
you
to
do
with
peace?
come
after
me.
\VS{20}And
the
watchman
gave
them
word,
saying,
He
went
up
to
them
and
has
not
come
back
again;
and
the
driving
is
like
the
driving
of
Jehu,
son
of
Nimshi,
for
he
is
driving violently.
\VS{21}Then
Joram
said, Make
ready.
So
they
made
his carriage
ready;
and
Joram,
king
of
Israel,
with
Ahaziah,
king
of
Judah,
went
out
in
their carriages
for
the purpose
of meeting
Jehu;
and
they
came face
to face
with
him
at
the
field
of
Naboth
the
Jezreelite.
\VS{22}Now
when
Joram
saw
Jehu
he
said,
Is
it
peace,
Jehu?
And
he
said
in
answer,
What
peace
is possible
while
all
the land
is
full
of
the disgusting sins
of
your
mother
Jezebel,
and
her secret arts?
\VS{23}Then
Joram,
turning
his horses
in
flight,
said
to
Ahaziah, Broken faith, O
Ahaziah!
\VS{24}Then
Jehu
took
his
bow
in
his
hand,
and
with all
his
strength
sent
an
arrow, wounding
Joram
between
the
arms;
and
the
arrow
came
out
at
his
heart,
and
he
went
down
on
his face
in
his carriage.
\VS{25}Then
Jehu
said
to
Bidkar,
his captain,
Take
him
up,
and
put
him
in
the
field
of
Naboth
the
Jezreelite:
for
is
not
that day
in
your memory
when
you
and
I
together
on
our horses
were going
after
Ahab,
his
father,
and
the
Lord
put
this fate
on
him,
saying:
\VS{26}I
saw
the
blood
of
Naboth
and
of
his
sons
yesterday;
and
I
will
give
you full payment
in
this
field,
says
the
Lord?
So
now,
take
him
and
put
him
in
this
field,
as
the
Lord
said.
\VS{27}Now
when
Ahaziah,
king
of
Judah,
saw
this,
he
went
in
flight
by
the
way
of
the
garden
house.
And
Jehu
came
after
him
and
said,
Put
him
to
death
in
the
same
way;
and
they
gave
him
a death-wound
in
his carriage,
on
the
slope
up
to
Gur,
by
Ibleam;
and
he
went
in
flight
to
Megiddo,
where
death
came
to
him.
\VS{28}And
his
servants
took
him
in
a carriage
to
Jerusalem,
and
put
him into
the earth
with
his
fathers
in
the
town
of
David.
\VS{29}(In
the
eleventh
year
of
the
rule
of
Joram,
the
son
of
Ahab,
Ahaziah
became
king
over
Judah.)
\VS{30}And
when
Jehu
came
to
Jezreel,
Jezebel
had news
of
it;
and, painting
her
eyes
and dressing
her
hair
with ornaments,
she
put
her
head
out
of
the
window.
\VS{31}And
when
Jehu
was
coming
into
the
town, she
said,
Is all
well, O
Zimri, taker
of
your master's life?
\VS{32}Then, looking
up
to
the
window,
he
said,
Who
is
on
my
side,
who?
and
two
or
three unsexed servants
put
out
their heads.
\VS{33}And
he
said, Take
her
and put
her
out
of
the window. So
they
sent
her
down
with force,
and
her
blood
went
in
a shower
on
the
wall
and
on
the
horses;
and she
was crushed
under
their feet.
\VS{34}And
he
came
in,
and
took
food
and
drink;
then
he
said,
Now
see
to
this
cursed
woman,
and
put
her body
into
the earth,
for
she
is
a king's
daughter.
\VS{35}And
they went
out
to
put
her body
into
the earth,
but
nothing
of
her
was
to
be seen,
only
the bones
of
her
head,
and
her
feet,
and
parts
of
her
hands.
\VS{36}So
they
came
back
and
gave
him
word
of
it.
And
he
said,
This
is
what
the
Lord
said
by
his
servant
Elijah
the Tishbite,
saying,
In
the heritage
of
Jezreel
the
flesh
of
Jezebel
will
become
food
for
dogs;
\VS{37}And
the
dead
body
of
Jezebel
will
be
like waste dropped
on
the
face
of
the earth
in
the heritage
of
Jezreel;
so
that
they
will
not
be able
to
say,
This
is
Jezebel.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now there
were
in
Samaria
seventy
of Ahab's
sons.
And
Jehu
sent
letters
to
Samaria,
to
the
rulers
of
the town,
and
to
the responsible
men,
and
to
those
who
had
the care
of
the
sons
of
Ahab,
saying,
\VS{2}Straight
away,
when
you
get
this
letter, seeing
that
your master's
sons
are
with
you,
and
that
you
have carriages
and
horses
and
a walled
town
and arms;
\VS{3}Take
the
best
and most
upright
of
your master's
sons,
and
make
him
king
in
his father's
place,
and
put
up
a
fight
for
your master's
family.
\VS{4}But
they
were full
of
fear,
and
said,
The
two
kings
have
gone
down
before
him:
how
may
we keep
our
place?
\VS{5}So
the controller
of
the king's
house,
with
the ruler
of
the
town,
and
the
responsible
men,
and
those
who
had
the
care
of Ahab's sons,
sent
to
Jehu,
saying,
We
are
your
servants
and
will
do
all
your
orders;
we
will
not
make
any
man
king;
do
whatever
seems
best
to
you.
\VS{6}Then
he
sent
them
a
second
letter,
saying,
If
you
are
on
my
side,
and
if
you
will
do
my
orders,
come
to
me
at
Jezreel
by
this
time
tomorrow,
with
the
heads
of
your master's
sons.
Now
the king's
seventy
sons
were
with
the
great
men
of
the
town,
who
had
the care
of
them.
\VS{7}And
when
the
letter
came
to
them,
they
took
the king's
sons
and
put
them
to death,
all
the
seventy,
and
put
their
heads
in
baskets
and
sent
them
to
him
at
Jezreel.
\VS{8}And
a
man
came
and
said
to
him,
They
have
come
with
the
heads
of
the king's
sons.
And
he
said,
Put
them
down
in
two masses
at
the
doorway
of
the
town
till
the
morning.
\VS{9}And
in
the
morning
he
went
out
and, stopping,
said
to
all
the
people
there,
You
are
upright
men:
it
is true
that
I
made designs
against
my
master,
and
put
him
to death;
but
who
is responsible
for
the death
of
all
these?
\VS{10}You
may
be
certain
that
nothing
which
the
Lord
has
said
about
the
family
of
Ahab
will
be
without effect;
for
the
Lord
has
done
what
he
said
by
his
servant
Elijah.
\VS{11}So
Jehu put
to death
all
the
rest
of
the seed
of
Ahab
in
Jezreel,
and
all
his
relations
and
his
near
friends
and
his
priests,
till
there
were
no
more
of
them.
\VS{12}Then
he
got
up
and
came
to
Samaria.
And
he
was
at
the meeting-place
of
the keepers
of sheep,
by
the
way,
\VS{13}When
he
came across
the
brothers
of
Ahaziah,
king
of
Judah,
and
said,
Who
are
you?
And
they
said,
We
are
the
brothers
of
Ahaziah,
king
of
Judah;
we
are
going
down
to see
the
children
of
the
king
and
of
the
queen.
\VS{14}And
he
said,
Take
them
living.
So
they
took
them
living,
and
put
them
to death
in
the water-hole
of
Beth-eked;
of
the
forty-two
men
he
put
every
one
to death;
\VS{15}And
when
he
had
gone
away
from
there,
he
came across
Jehonadab,
the
son
of
Rechab:
and
he
said good-day
to
him,
and
said
to
him,
Is
your
heart true
to
mine,
as
mine
is
to
yours?
And
Jehonadab
in
answer
said,
It
is;
and
Jehu
said,
If
it
is,
give
me
your
hand.
And
he
gave
him
his
hand,
and
he
made
him
come
up
into
his carriage.
\VS{16}And
he
said,
Come
with
me
and
see how
I
am
on fire
for
the Lord's
cause.
So
he made
him go
with
him
in
his carriage.
\VS{17}And
when
he
came
to
Samaria,
he
put
to death
all
those
of Ahab's family
who
were
still
in
Samaria,
till
there
were
no more
of
them,
as
the
Lord
had
said
to
Elijah.
\VS{18}Then
Jehu got
all
the
people
together
and
said
to
them,
Ahab
was Baal's
servant
in
a
small
way,
but
Jehu
will
be
his
servant
on
a great scale.
\VS{19}Now send
for
all
the
prophets
of
Baal
and
all
his
servants
and
all
his
priests,
to come
to
me;
let
no
one
keep
away:
for
I
have
a
great
offering
to
make
to
Baal;
anyone
who
is
not present,
will
be
put
to death.
This
Jehu
did
with deceit,
his
purpose
being
the
destruction
of
the
servants
of
Baal.
\VS{20}And
Jehu
said, Let there be
a special
holy meeting
for
the
worship
of
Baal.
So
a public statement
was
made.
\VS{21}And
Jehu
sent
out
through
all
Israel;
and
all
the
servants
of
Baal
came,
not
one kept
away.
And
they
came
into
the
house
of
Baal,
so
that
it
was
full
from
end
to
end.
\VS{22}And
Jehu
said
to
him
who kept
the
robes,
Get
out
robes
for
all
the
servants
of
Baal.
So
he
got
out
robes
for
them.
\VS{23}And
Jehu,
with
Jehonadab,
the
son
of
Rechab,
went
into
the
house
of
Baal;
and
he
said
to
the
servants
of
Baal,
Make
a
search
with care,
to
see
that
no
servant
of
the
Lord
is
with
you,
but
only
servants
of
Baal.
\VS{24}Then
they
went
in
to
make
offerings
and burned
offerings.
Now
Jehu
had
put
eighty
men
outside,
and
said
to
them,
If
any
man
whom
I
give
into
your
hands
gets
away,
the
life
of
him
who lets
him
go
will
be
the price
of
his
life.
\VS{25}Then
when
the burned offering
was
ended,
straight
away
Jehu
said
to
the armed
men
and
the captains,
Go
in
and
put
them
to death;
let
not
one
come
out.
So
they
put
them
to
the
sword;
and, pulling
the images
to
the earth,
they
went
into
the holy
place
of
the
house
of
Baal.
\VS{26}And
they
took
out
the image
of Asherah
from
the
house
of
Baal,
and
had
it
burned.
\VS{27}The altar
of
Baal
was
pulled
down
and
the
house
of
Baal
was
broken
up
and
made
an unclean
place,
as
it
is
to
this
day.
\VS{28}So
Jehu put an end
to
the
worship
of
Baal
in
Israel.
\VS{29}But
Jehu
did
not
keep
himself
from
all
the
sins
of
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
and
the evil
he
made
Israel
do;
the
gold oxen
were still
in Beth-el
and
in
Dan.
\VS{30}And
the
Lord
said
to
Jehu,
Because
you
have
done
well
in
doing
what
is
right
in
my
eyes
and effecting
all
my
purpose
for
the
family
of
Ahab,
your
sons
will
be kings
of
Israel
to
the
fourth generation.
\VS{31}But
Jehu
did
not
take
care
to
keep
the
law
of
the
Lord
with
all
his
heart:
he
did
not
keep
himself
from
the
sin
which
Jeroboam
did
and
made
Israel
do.
\VS{32}In
those
days
the
Lord
was angry
first
with
Israel;
and
Hazael
made
attacks
on
all
the
land
of
Israel,
\VS{33}East
of
Jordan,
in
all
the
land
of
Gilead,
the
Gadites
and
the
Reubenites
and
the
Manassites,
from
Aroer
by
the
valley
of
the
Arnon,
all
Gilead
and
Bashan.
\VS{34}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehu,
and
all
he
did,
and
his great
power,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{35}And
Jehu went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
in
Samaria.
And
Jehoahaz
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{36}And
the
time
of Jehu's
rule
over
Israel
in
Samaria
was
twenty-eight
years.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
Athaliah,
the
mother
of
Ahaziah,
saw
that
her
son
was
dead,
she
had
all
the rest
of
the
seed
of
the
kingdom
put
to
death.
\VS{2}But
Jehosheba,
the
daughter
of
King
Joram,
sister
of
Ahaziah, secretly
took
Joash,
the
son
of
Ahaziah,
with
the
woman
who
took care
of
him,
away
from
among
the king's
sons
who
were
put
to
death,
and
put
him
in
the
bedroom;
and
they kept
him safe
from
Athaliah,
so
that
he
was
not
put
to
death.
\VS{3}And
for
six
years she kept
him safe
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
while
Athaliah
was ruling
over
the
land.
\VS{4}Then
in
the
seventh
year,
Jehoiada
sent
for
the
captains
of
hundreds
of
the Carians,
and
the armed
men,
and
taking
them
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
made
an
agreement
with
them,
and
made
them
take
an
oath
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
let
them
see
the king's
son.
\VS{5}And
he
gave
them
orders,
saying,
This
is
what
you
are
to
do:
the
third
part
of
you,
who
come
in
on
the
Sabbath
and
keep
the
watch
of
the king's
house,
\VS{6}...
\VS{7}And
the
two
divisions
of
you,
who
go
out
on
the
Sabbath
and
keep
the
watch
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
\VS{8}Will
make
a circle
round
the
king,
every
man
being armed;
and
whoever
comes
inside
your lines
is
to
be
put
to
death;
keep
with
the
king,
when
he
goes
out
and
when
he
comes
in.
\VS{9}And
the
captains
of
hundreds
did
as
Jehoiada
the
priest
gave
them
orders;
every
one
took
with
him
his
men,
those
who
came
in
and
those
who
went
out
on
the
Sabbath,
and
they
came
in
to
Jehoiada
the
priest.
\VS{10}And
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
the
Lord.
\VS{11}Then
the armed
men
took
up
their positions,
every
man
with
his
instruments
of war
in
his
hand,
from
the
right
side
of
the
house
to
the
left,
round
about
the
altar
and
the
house.
\VS{12}Then
he
made
the king's
son
come
out,
and
put
the
crown
on
him
and
the arm-bands,
and
made
him
king,
and
put
the holy
oil
on
him;
and
they all,
making
sounds
of
joy
with
their
hands,
said, Long
life
to
the
king.
\VS{13}Now
Athaliah,
hearing
the
noise
made
by
the
people,
came
to
the
people
in
the
house
of
the
Lord;
\VS{14}And
looking,
she
saw
the
king
in
his regular
place
by
the
pillar,
and
the
captains
and
the horns
near
him;
and
all
the
people
of
the
land giving signs
of
joy
and sounding
the horns.
Then
Athaliah, violently parting
her
robes,
gave
a
cry, saying, Broken faith, broken faith!
\VS{15}Then
Jehoiada
the
priest
gave
orders
to
those
who
were placed
in 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
he
said,
Let
her
not
be
put
to
death
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{16}So
they
put
their
hands
on
her,
and she
went
to
the king's
house
by
the doorway
of
the
horses,
and
there she
was
put
to
death.
\VS{17}And
Jehoiada
made
an
agreement
between
the
Lord
and
the
king
and
the
people,
that
they
would
be
the Lord's
people;
and
in
the
same way
between
the
king
and
the
people.
\VS{18}Then
all
the
people
of
the
land
went
to
the
house
of
Baal
and
had
it
pulled
down:
its
altars
and
images
were
all
broken
to bits,
and
Mattan,
the
priest
of
Baal,
they
put
to death
before
the
altars.
And
the
priest
put overseers
over
the Lord's
house.
\VS{19}Then
he
took
the
captains
of
hundreds,
and
the Carians,
and
the armed
men,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land;
and
they
came
down
with
the
king
from
the
house
of
the
Lord,
through
the doorway
of
the armed
men,
to
the king's
house.
And
he
took
his
place
on
the
seat
of
the
kings.
\VS{20}So
all
the
people
of
the
land
were
glad,
and
the
town
was
quiet;
and
they
had
put
Athaliah
to
death
with
the
sword
at
the king's
house.
\VS{21}And Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
seventh
year
of Jehu's
rule,
Jehoash
became
king;
and
he
was ruling
for forty
years
in Jerusalem;
his mother's name
was Zibiah
of Beer-sheba.
\VS{2}Jehoash did what
was right
in
the eyes
of
the Lord all
his
days, because
he
was guided
by
the teaching
of Jehoiada
the priest.
\VS{3}But
the high
places
were not taken
away;
the
people went
on
making
offerings
and burning
them
in
the high
places.
\VS{4}And Jehoash said
to
the
priests,
All
the money
of
the holy
things, which comes
into
the house
of
the Lord, (the amount fixed
for every man's payment,)
and
all
the money given
by
any man freely
from
the impulse
of
his heart,
\VS{5}Let
the
priests
take,
every
man
from
his friends
and neighbours,
to make good
what
is damaged
in
the
house,
wherever
it
is
to
be seen.
\VS{6}But
in
the twenty-third year
of King Jehoash,
the
priests
had not
made good
the damaged parts
of
the
house.
\VS{7}Then
King
Jehoash sent
for Jehoiada
the
priest,
and
the other
priests,
and said
to
them,
Why
have
you
not
made good what
is damaged
in
the
house?
now
take
no
more money
from
your neighbours,
but
give
it
for
the building
up
of
the
house.
\VS{8}So
the
priests
made
an agreement
to
take
no
more
money
from
the
people,
and
not
to
make good
what
was damaged
in
the
house.
\VS{9}But Jehoiada
the
priest
took
a chest,
and
making
a hole
in
the cover
of
it,
put
it
by
the altar,
on
the right side when
one comes
into
the
house
of
the Lord;
and
the
priests
who kept
the door
put
in
it regularly all
the
money
which
was
taken
into
the
house
of
the Lord.
\VS{10}And
when
they saw
that
there
was
much
money
in
the
chest,
the king's scribe
and
the high
priest
came
and
put
it
in bags, noting
the amount
of
all
the
money
there
was
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{11}And
the
money
which
was measured
out
they
gave regularly
to
those
who
were responsible
for overseeing
the work,
and these
gave
it
in payment
to
the woodworkers
and
the builders
who
were working
on
the
house
of
the
Lord,
\VS{12}And
to
the wall-builders
and
the stone-cutters,
and
to
get
wood
and cut stone
for
building
up
the broken
parts
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
for everything needed
to
put
the
house
in good
order.
\VS{13}But
the money
was not
used
for
making silver cups
or scissors
or basins
or wind-instruments
or
any vessels
of gold
or silver
for
the
house
of
the
Lord;
\VS{14}But
it
was
all given
to
the workmen
who
were building
up
the
house.
\VS{15}And
they
did
not get
any statement
of accounts
from
the
men
to whom
the money
was
given
for
the
workmen,
for
they
made
use
of
it
with good faith.
\VS{16}The
money
of
the
offerings
for error
and
the sin-offerings
was
not
taken
into
the house
of
the Lord;
it
was
the priests'.
\VS{17}Then Hazael, king
of Aram,
went
up
against Gath
and
took
it;
and
his purpose
was
to
go
up
to Jerusalem.
\VS{18}Then Jehoash,
king
of Judah,
took
all
the holy things which Jehoshaphat
and Jehoram
and Ahaziah
his fathers,
the
kings
of Judah,
had given
to
the Lord,
together
with
the things
he
himself
had given,
and
all
the gold
in
the Temple store
and
in
the king's house,
and
sent
it
to
Hazael,
king
of
Aram;
and
he
went
away
from
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}Now
the rest
of
the acts
of
Joash,
and
all
he
did,
are
they not
recorded
in
the book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of Israel?
\VS{20}And
his servants
made
a secret design
and put
Joash
to death
at
the house
of Millo
on
the
way
down
to Silla.
\VS{21}And Jozacar,
the son
of Shimeath,
and Jehozabad,
the son
of Shomer,
his
servants,
came
to
him
and
put
him
to death;
and
they
put
him
into
the earth
with
his fathers
in
the town
of David;
and Amaziah
his son became king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
twenty-third
year
of
Joash,
the
son
of
Ahaziah,
king
of
Judah,
Jehoahaz,
the
son
of
Jehu,
became
king
over
Israel
in
Samaria, ruling
for
seventeen
years.
\VS{2}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, copying
the
sins
of
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
which
he
did
and
made
Israel
do;
he
did
not
keep
himself
from
them.
\VS{3}So
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was burning
against
Israel,
and
he
gave
them
up
into
the
power
of
Hazael,
king
of
Aram,
and
into
the
power
of
Ben-hadad,
the
son
of
Hazael, again
and again.
\VS{4}Then
Jehoahaz
made prayer
to
the
Lord,
and
the
Lord
gave ear
to
him,
for
he
saw
how cruelly
Israel
was crushed
by
the
king
of
Aram.
\VS{5}(And
the
Lord
gave
Israel
a saviour,
so
that
they
became
free
from
the
hands
of
the Aramaeans;
and
the
children
of
Israel
were
living
in
their
tents
as
in
the
past.
\VS{6}But
still
they
did
not give
up
the
sin
of
Jeroboam,
which
he
made
Israel
do,
but
went
on
with
it;
and
there
was
an image
of
Asherah
in
Samaria.)
\VS{7}For
out
of
all
his
army,
Jehoahaz
had
only
fifty
horsemen
and
ten carriages
and
ten
thousand
footmen;
the
king
of
Aram
had given
them
up
to
destruction, crushing
them
like
dust.
\VS{8}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoahaz,
and
all
he
did,
and
his great
power,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{9}And
Jehoahaz went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
in
Samaria;
and
Joash
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{10}In
the thirty-seventh
year
of
the
rule
of
Joash,
king
of
Judah,
Joash,
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
became
king
over
Israel
in
Samaria, ruling
for
sixteen
years.
\VS{11}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
not
turning
away
from
the
sin
of
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
which
he
did
and
made
Israel
do,
but
he
went
on
with
it.
\VS{12}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Joash,
and
all
he
did,
and
the force
with
which
he went
to war
against
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{13}And
Joash went
to
rest
with
his
fathers
and
Jeroboam took
his place
as
king;
and
Joash
was put
into
the earth
in
Samaria
with
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{14}Now
Elisha became ill
with
the
disease
which
was
the cause
of
his
death:
and
Joash,
king
of
Israel,
came
down
to
him,
and
weeping
over
him
said,
My
father,
my
father,
the war-carriages
of
Israel
and
its
horsemen!
\VS{15}Then
Elisha
said
to
him,
Take
bow
and
arrows:
and
he
took
bow
and
arrows.
\VS{16}And
he
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
Put
your
hand
on
the
bow:
and
he
put
his
hand
on
it;
and
Elisha
put
his
hands
on
the king's
hands.
\VS{17}Then
he
said; Let
the
window
be
open
to
the
east:
and
he got
it
open.
Then
Elisha
said, Let
the
arrow go;
and
he let
it go.
And
he
said,
The Lord's
arrow
of
salvation,
of
salvation
over
Aram;
for
you
will overcome
the Aramaeans
in
Aphek
and
put
an
end
to
them.
\VS{18}And
he
said,
Take
the
arrows:
and
he
took
them.
And
he
said
to
the
king
of
Israel, Send
them
down
into
the
earth;
and
he did
so
three
times
and no
more.
\VS{19}Then
the
man
of
God
was
angry
with
him
and
said,
If
you
had done
it
five
or
six
times,
then
you
would
have overcome
Aram
completely;
but
now
you
will
only overcome
them
three
times.
\VS{20}And
death
came
to
Elisha
and
they
put
his
body
into
the
earth.
Now
in
the
spring
of
the
year, armed
bands
of
Moabites frequently
came, overrunning
the
land.
\VS{21}And
while
they
were putting
a dead
man
into
the earth,
they
saw
a
band
coming;
and
they put
the
man quickly
into
the
place
where Elisha's
body
was;
and
the dead
man,
on
touching Elisha's
bones,
came
to
life
again,
and
got
up
on
his
feet.
\VS{22}And
Israel
was crushed under
the
power
of
Hazael,
king
of
Aram,
all
the
days
of
Jehoahaz.
\VS{23}But
the
Lord
was kind
to
them
and
had
pity
on
them, caring
for
them,
because
of
his
agreement
with
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob;
he
would
not put
them
to
destruction
or send
them
away
from
before
his
face
till
now.
\VS{24}Then
Hazael,
king
of
Aram, came
to
his end;
and
Ben-hadad
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{25}And
Jehoash,
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
took
again
from
Ben-hadad,
the
son
of
Hazael,
the
towns
which
he
had
taken
from
Jehoahaz
his
father
in
war.
Three
times
Jehoash overcame
him
and
got
back
the
towns
of
Israel.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
second
year
of
Joash,
son
of
Joahaz,
king
of
Israel,
Amaziah,
the
son
of
Joash,
became
king
of
Judah.
\VS{2}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king;
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
twenty-nine
years;
his mother's
name
was
Jehoaddin
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}He
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, though
not
like
David
his
father;
he
did
as
Joash
his
father
had
done.
\VS{4}But
still
the
high
places were
not
taken
away;
the
people went
on making offerings
and
burning
them
in
the
high
places.
\VS{5}Now
when
he
became
strong
in
the
kingdom, straight away
he
put
to death
those
servants
who
had
taken
the life
of
the
king
his
father;
\VS{6}But
he
did
not
put
their
children
to
death;
for
the
orders
of
the
Lord
recorded
in
the
book
of
the
law
of
Moses
say,
The
fathers
are
not
to
be
put
to
death
for
the
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{7}He
put
to
the sword twelve
thousand
men
of
Edom
in
the
Valley
of
Salt,
and
took
Sela
in
war, naming
it
Joktheel,
as
it
is
to
this
day.
\VS{8}Then
Amaziah
sent representatives
to
Jehoash,
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
son
of
Jehu,
king
of
Israel,
saying, Come,
let
us
have
a meeting
face
to
face.
\VS{9}And
Jehoash,
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{10}It
is true
that
you
have
overcome
Edom
and
your
heart
is uplifted; let
that
glory
be enough
for
you,
and keep
in
your country;
why
do
you
make causes
of
trouble, putting
yourself,
and
Judah
with
you,
in
danger
of
downfall?
\VS{11}But
Amaziah
gave
no
attention.
So
Jehoash,
king
of
Israel,
went
up,
and
he
and
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah,
came
face
to
face
at
Beth-shemesh,
which
is
in
Judah.
\VS{12}And
Judah
was overcome
before
Israel,
so
that
they
went
in
flight,
every
man
to
his
tent.
\VS{13}And
Jehoash,
king
of
Israel,
made
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah,
the
son
of
Jehoash,
son
of
Ahaziah, prisoner
at
Beth-shemesh,
and
came
to
Jerusalem,
and
had
the
wall
of
Jerusalem pulled
down
from
the doorway
of
Ephraim
to
the door
in
the angle,
four
hundred
cubits.
\VS{14}And
he
took
all
the
gold
and
silver
and
all
the
vessels
which
were
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
in
the store-house
of
the
king, together
with
those
whose lives
would
be
the
price
of broken faith,
and
went
back
to
Samaria.
\VS{15}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoash,
and
his
power,
and
how
he went
to war
with
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{16}And
Jehoash went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
in
Samaria
with
the
kings
of
Israel;
and
Jeroboam
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{17}Amaziah,
the
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Judah, went
on living
for
fifteen
years
after
the
death
of
Jehoash,
son
of
Jehoahaz,
king
of
Israel.
\VS{18}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Amaziah,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{19}Now
they
made
a secret design
against
him
in
Jerusalem;
and
he went
in
flight
to
Lachish,
but
they
sent
after
him
to
Lachish
and
put
him
to
death
there.
\VS{20}And
they
took
his body
on
horseback
and
put
it
into
the earth
with
his
fathers
in
Jerusalem,
the
town
of
David.
\VS{21}Then
all
the
people
of
Judah
took
Azariah,
who
was
sixteen
years
old,
and
made
him
king
in
place
of
his
father
Amaziah.
\VS{22}He
was
the builder
of
Elath,
which
he got
back
for
Judah
after
the death
of
the
king.
\VS{23}In
the fifteenth
year
of
the
rule
of
Amaziah,
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Judah,
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Israel,
became
king
in
Samaria, ruling
for forty-one
years.
\VS{24}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
not
turning
away
from
the
sin
which
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
did
and
made
Israel
do.
\VS{25}He got
back
the
old limits
of
Israel
from
the
way
into
Hamath
to
the
sea
of
the
Arabah,
as
the
Lord
had
said
by
his
servant
Jonah,
the
son
of
Amittai,
the
prophet
of
Gath-hepher.
\VS{26}For
the
Lord
saw
how
bitter
was
the trouble
of
Israel,
and
that
everyone
was cut
off,
he
who
was
shut
up
and
he
who went free,
and
that
Israel
had
no
helper.
\VS{27}And
the
Lord
had
not
said
that
the
name
of
Israel
was
to
be taken away
from
the
earth;
but
he
gave
them
a saviour
in
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Joash.
\VS{28}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jeroboam,
and
all
he
did,
and
his
power,
and
how
he
went
to war
with
Damascus, causing
the wrath
of
the Lord
to
be
turned
away
from
Israel,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{29}And
Jeroboam went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
with
the
kings
of
Israel;
and
Zechariah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the twenty-seventh
year
of
the
rule
of
Jeroboam,
king
of
Israel,
Azariah,
son
of
Amaziah,
became
king
of
Judah.
\VS{2}He
was
sixteen
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
fifty-two
years;
his mother's
name
was
Jecoliah
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
his
father
Amaziah
had
done.
\VS{4}But
he
did
not
take
away
the
high
places,
and
the
people
still went
on making offerings
and
burning
them
in
the
high
places.
\VS{5}And
the
Lord sent disease
on
the
king
and
he
became
a
leper,
and
to
the
day
of
his
death
he
was
living separately
in
his private
house.
And
Jotham
his
son
was
over
his
house,
judging
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{6}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Azariah,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{7}And
Azariah went
to
rest
with
his
fathers
and
was put into
the earth
with
his
fathers
in
the
town
of
David;
and
Jotham
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{8}In
the thirty-eighth
year
of Azaliah,
king
of
Judah,
Zechariah,
son
of
Jeroboam,
was
king
over
Israel
for
six
months.
\VS{9}And
he
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
his
father
had
done,
not
turning
away
from
the
sin
which
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
did
and
made
Israel
do.
\VS{10}And
Shallum,
the
son
of
Jabesh,
made
a secret design
against
him,
and,
attacking
him
in Ibleam,
put
him
to
death
and
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{11}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Zechariah
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{12}This
was
what
the
Lord
had
said
to
Jehu,
Your
sons
to
the
fourth generation
will
be kings
of
Israel.
And
so
it
came
about.
\VS{13}Shallum,
the
son
of
Jabesh,
became
king
in
the thirty-ninth
year
of
Uzziah,
king
of
Judah;
and
he
was ruling
in
Samaria
for
the space
of
one
month.
\VS{14}Then
Menahem,
the
son
of
Gadi,
went
up
from
Tirzah
and
came
to
Samaria,
and
attacking
Shallum,
son
of
Jabesh,
in
Samaria,
put
him
to
death
and
made himself
king
in
his
place.
\VS{15}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Shallum,
and
the secret design
which
he
made,
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{16}Then
Menahem sent destruction
on Tappuah
and
all
the
people
in
it,
and
its limits,
from
Tirzah,
because
they
would
not
let
him come
in;
and
he
had
all
the
women
who
were
with
child cut
open.
\VS{17}In
the thirty-ninth
year
of
Azariah,
king
of
Judah,
Menahem,
the
son
of
Gadi,
became
king
over
Israel,
and
was ruling
in
Samaria
for
ten
years.
\VS{18}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord;
he
did
not
keep
himself
from
the
sin
which
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
did
and
made
Israel
do.
\VS{19}In
his day,
Pul,
the
king
of
Assyria,
came
up
against
the
land;
and
Menahem
gave
Pul
a
thousand
talents
of
silver
so
that
he
might
let
him
keep
the
kingdom.
\VS{20}And
Menahem
got
the
money
from
Israel,
from
all
the
men
of
wealth,
fifty
silver
shekels
from
every
man,
to
give
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
So
the
king
of
Assyria
went
back
without stopping
in
the
land.
\VS{21}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Menahem,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{22}And
Menahem went
to
rest
with
his
fathers;
and
Pekahiah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{23}In
the
fiftieth
year
of
Azariah
king
of
Judah,
Pekahiah,
the
son
of
Menahem,
became
king
over
Israel
in
Samaria, ruling
for two
years.
\VS{24}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
not
turning
from
the
sin
which
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
did
and
made
Israel
do.
\VS{25}And
Pekah,
the
son
of
Remaliah,
his captain,
made
a secret design
against
him,
attacking
him
in
the king's great
house
in
Samaria;
and
with
him
were
fifty
men
of Gilead;
and
he
put
him
to
death
and
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Pekahiah,
and
all
he
did,
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{27}In
the
fifty-second
year
of
Azariah,
king
of
Judah,
Pekah,
the
son
of
Remaliah,
became
king
over
Israel
in
Samaria, ruling
for
twenty
years.
\VS{28}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
not
turning
from
the
sin
which
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
did
and
made
Israel
do.
\VS{29}In
the
days
of
Pekah,
king
of
Israel,
Tiglath-pileser,
king
of
Assyria,
came
and
took
Ijon
and
Abel-beth-maacah
and
Janoah
and
Kedesh
and
Hazor
and
Gilead
and
Galilee
and
all
the
land
of
Naphtali;
and
he
took
the
people
away
to
Assyria.
\VS{30}And
Hoshea,
the
son
of
Elah,
made
a secret design
against
Pekah,
the
son
of
Remaliah,
and,
attacking
him,
put
him
to
death
and
became
king
in
his
place,
in
the
twentieth
year
of
Jotham,
the
son
of
Uzziah.
\VS{31}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Pekah,
and
all
he
did,
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{32}In
the
second
year
of
Pekah,
the
son
of
Remaliah,
king
of
Israel,
Jotham,
the
son
of
Uzziah,
became
king
of
Judah.
\VS{33}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was ruling
for
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Jerusha,
the
daughter
of
Zadok.
\VS{34}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
his
father
Uzziah
had
done.
\VS{35}But
he
did
not
take
away
the
high
places,
and
the
people
still
went
on making
offerings
and
burning
them
in
the
high
places.
He
was
the builder
of
the higher doorway
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{36}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jotham,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{37}In
those
days
the
Lord
first
sent
against
Judah,
Rezin,
the
king
of
Aram,
and
Pekah,
the
son
of
Remaliah.
\VS{38}And
Jotham went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David
his
father;
and
Ahaz
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the seventeenth
year
of
Pekah,
the
son
of
Remaliah,
Ahaz,
the
son
of
Jotham,
became
king
of
Judah.
\VS{2}Ahaz
was
twenty
years
old
when
he
became
king;
he
was ruling
for
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
He
did
not
do
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
his
God,
as
David
his
father
did.
\VS{3}But
he
went
in
the
ways
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and
even
made
his
son
go
through
the
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,
burning
them
in
the
high
places
and
on
the
hills
and
under
every
green
tree.
\VS{5}Then
Rezin,
king
of
Aram,
and
Pekah,
son
of
Remaliah,
king
of
Israel,
came
up
to
Jerusalem
to make
war;
and
they
made
an
attack
on
Ahaz, shutting
him
in,
but
were
not
able
to
overcome
him.
\VS{6}At
that
time
the
king
of
Edom got
Elath
back
for
Edom,
and
sent
the
Jews
out
of
Elath;
and
the Edomites
came
back
to
Elath
where
they
are
living
to
this
day.
\VS{7}So
Ahaz
sent representatives
to
Tiglath-pileser,
king
of
Assyria,
saying,
I
am
your
servant
and
your
son;
come
to
my
help
against
the
kings
of
Aram
and
Israel
who
have
taken
up arms
against
me.
\VS{8}And
Ahaz
took
the
silver
and
gold
which
were
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
in
the king's store-house,
and
sent
them
as
an
offering
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{9}And
the
king
of
Assyria,
in answer
to
his request,
went
up
against
Damascus
and
took
it,
and
took
its
people
away
as prisoners
to
Kir,
and
put
Rezin
to
death.
\VS{10}Then
King
Ahaz
went
to
Damascus
for
a meeting
with
Tiglath-pileser,
king
of
Assyria;
and
there
he
saw
the
altar
which
was
at
Damascus;
and
King
Ahaz
sent
to Urijah
the
priest
a
copy
of
the
altar, giving
the
design
of
it
and
all
the details
of
its structure.
\VS{11}And
from
the copy
King
Ahaz
sent
from
Damascus, Urijah
made
an
altar
and
had
it ready
by
the
time
King
Ahaz
came
back
from
Damascus.
\VS{12}And
when
the
king
came
from
Damascus,
he
saw
the
altar;
and
he
went
up
on
it
and
made
an
offering
on
it.
\VS{13}He
made
his
burned
offering
and
his
meal
offering
and
his drink
offering
there, draining
out
the
blood
of
his peace-offerings
on
the
altar.
\VS{14}And
the
brass
altar,
which
was
before
the
Lord,
he
took
from
the
front
of
the
house,
from
between
his
altar
and
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
put
it
on
the
north
side
of
his
altar.
\VS{15}And
King
Ahaz
gave
orders
to Urijah
the
priest,
saying,
Make
the
morning
burned
offering
and
the
evening
meal
offering
and
the king's
burned
offering
and
meal
offering,
with
the
burned
offerings
of
all
the
people
and
their
meal
offerings
and drink
offerings,
on
the
great
altar,
and
put
on
it
all
the
blood
of
the
burned
offerings
and
of
the beasts which
are
offered;
but
the
brass
altar
will
be
for
my
use
to get directions
from
the Lord.
\VS{16}So Urijah
the
priest
did
everything
as
the
king said
\VS{17}And
King
Ahaz
took
off
the sides
of
the wheeled bases,
and
took
down
the great water-vessel
from
off
the
brass
oxen
which
were
under
it
and
put
it
on
a floor
of
stone.
\VS{18}***the
house
of
the
Lord,
because
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{19}Now
the
rest
of
the
things
which
Ahaz
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{20}And
Ahaz went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
with
his
fathers
in
the
town
of
David;
and
Hezekiah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the twelfth
year
of
Ahaz,
king
of
Judah,
Hoshea,
the
son
of
Elah,
became
king
over
Israel
in
Samaria, ruling
for
nine
years.
\VS{2}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, though
not
like
the
kings
of
Israel
before
him.
\VS{3}Against
him
came
up
Shalmaneser,
king
of
Assyria,
and
Hoshea
became
his
servant
and
sent
him
offerings.
\VS{4}But Hoshea's broken faith became clear
to
the
king
of
Assyria
because
he
had
sent representatives
to
So,
king
of
Egypt,
and
did
not
send
his
offering
to
the
king
of
Assyria,
as
he
had done
year
by
year:
so
the
king
of
Assyria
had
him
shut
up
in
prison
and
put
in chains.
\VS{5}Then
the
king
of
Assyria
went
through
all
the
land
and
came
up
to
Samaria, shutting
it
in
with
his
forces
for
three
years.
\VS{6}In
the
ninth
year
of
Hoshea,
the
king
of
Assyria
took
Samaria,
and
took
Israel
away
to
Assyria, placing
them
in
Halah
and
in
Habor
on
the
river
Gozan,
and
in
the
towns
of
the
Medes.
\VS{7}And
the wrath
of
the
Lord
came
on
Israel
because
they
had
done evil
against
the
Lord
their
God,
who
took
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
from
under
the yoke
of
Pharaoh,
king
of
Egypt,
and
had
become worshippers
of
other
gods,
\VS{8}Living
by
the
rules
of
the
nations
whom
the
Lord
had sent
out
from
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{9}And
the
children
of
Israel
did
secretly
against
the
Lord
their
God
things
which
were
not
right,
building
high
places
for
themselves
in
all
their
towns,
from
the
tower
of
the
watchmen
to
the walled
town.
\VS{10}They put
up
pillars
of stone
and
wood
on
every
high
hill
and
under
every
green
tree:
\VS{11}Burning
their
offerings
in
all
the
high
places,
as
those
nations
did
whom
the
Lord
sent
away
from
before
them;
they
did
evil
things, moving
the
Lord
to wrath;
\VS{12}And
they
made themselves
servants
of disgusting
things, though
the
Lord
had
said,
You
are
not
to
do
this.
\VS{13}And
he
gave witness
to
Israel
and
Judah,
by
every
prophet
and
seer,
saying,
Come
back
from
your
evil
ways,
and
do
my
orders
and
keep
my
rules,
and
be guided
by
the
law
which
I
gave
to
your
fathers
and
sent
to
you
by
my
servants
the
prophets.
\VS{14}And
they
did
not
give ear,
but became stiff-necked,
like
their
fathers
who
had
no
faith
in
the
Lord
their
God.
\VS{15}And
they went
against
his
rules,
and
the
agreement
which
he
made
with
their
fathers,
and
his
laws
which
he
gave
them;
they
gave
themselves
up
to
things
without sense
or value,
and
became foolish
like
the
nations
round
them,
of
whom
the
Lord
had said,
Do
not
as
they
do.
\VS{16}And turning
their backs
on
all
the
orders
which
the
Lord
had
given
them,
they
made
for
themselves
images
of
metal,
and
the image
of
Asherah, worshipping
all
the stars
of
heaven
and becoming
servants
to
Baal.
\VS{17}And
they
made
their
sons
and
their
daughters
go
through
the
fire,
and
they
made
use
of secret arts
and unnatural powers,
and
gave
themselves
up
to
doing
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, till
he
was moved
to wrath.
\VS{18}So
the
Lord
was
very
angry
with
Israel,
and
his
face
was
turned
away
from
them:
only
the
tribe
of
Judah kept
its place.
\VS{19}(But
even
Judah
did
not
keep
the
orders
of
the
Lord
their
God,
but
were guided
by
the
rules
which
Israel
had
made.
\VS{20}So
the
Lord
would
have
nothing
to
do
with
all
the
offspring
of
Israel,
and
sent trouble
on
them,
and
gave
them
up
into
the
hands
of
their attackers,
till
he
had
sent
them
away
from
before
his
face.)
\VS{21}For
Israel
was broken
off
from
the
family
of
David,
and
they made
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
king,
who, driving
them
away
from
the laws
of
the
Lord, made
them do
a
great
sin.
\VS{22}And
the
children
of
Israel went
on
with
all
the
sins
which
Jeroboam
did;
they
did
not
keep themselves
from
them;
\VS{23}Till
the
Lord
put
Israel
away
from
before
his
face,
as
he
had
said
by
all
his
servants
the
prophets.
So
Israel
was
taken
away
from
their
land
to
Assyria,
to
this
day.
\VS{24}Then
the
king
of
Assyria
took
men
from
Babylon
and
from
Cuthah
and
Avva
and
Hamath
and
Sepharvaim,
and
put
them
in
the
towns
of
Samaria
in
place
of
the
children
of
Israel;
so
they got
Samaria
for
their heritage,
living
in
its
towns.
\VS{25}Now
when
first
they
were
living
there
they
did
not
give
worship
to
the
Lord.
So
the
Lord
sent
lions
among
them, causing
the death
of
some
of
them.
\VS{26}So
they
said
to
the
king
of
Assyria,
The
nations
whom
you
have
taken
as prisoners
and
put
in
the
towns
of
Samaria,
have
no
knowledge
of
the
way
of
the
god
of
the
land:
so
he
has
sent
lions
among
them, causing
their
death,
because
they
have
no
knowledge
of
his
way.
\VS{27}Then
the
king
of
Assyria
gave
orders,
saying, Send
there
one
of
the
priests
whom
you
took
away,
and
let
him
be
living
there
and
teaching
the
people
the
way
of
the
god
of
the
land.
\VS{28}So
one
of
the
priests
whom
they
had
taken
away
as
a prisoner
from
Samaria
came
back,
and,
living
in Beth-el,
became
their
teacher
in
the
worship
of
the
Lord.
\VS{29}And
every
nation
made
gods
for
themselves,
and
put
them
in
the
houses
of
the
high
places
which
the Samaritans
had
made,
every
nation
in
the
towns
where
they
were
living.
\VS{30}The
men
of
Babylon
made
Succoth-benoth,
and
the
men
of
Cuth
made
Nergal,
and
the
men
of
Hamath
made
Ashima,
\VS{31}The
Avvites
made
Nibhaz
and
Tartak,
and
the
Sepharvites
gave
their
children
to
be
burned
in
the
fire
to
Adrammelech
and
Anammelech,
the gods
of
Sepharvaim.
\VS{32}So
they
went
on worshipping
the
Lord,
and
made
for
themselves,
from
among
all
the people,
priests
for
the
high
places,
to
make
offerings
for
them
in
the
houses
of
the
high
places.
\VS{33}They
gave
worship
to
the
Lord,
but
they
gave honour
to
their
gods
like
the
nations
did
from
whom
they
had
been
taken
as prisoners.
\VS{34}So
to
this
day
they go
on
in
their
old ways,
not worshipping
the
Lord
or keeping
his
orders
or
his ways
or
the
law
and
the
rule
which
the
Lord
gave
to
the
children
of
Jacob,
to
whom
he
gave
the
name
Israel;
\VS{35}And
the
Lord
made
an
agreement
with
them
and
gave
them
orders,
saying,
You
are
to
have
no
other
gods;
you
are
not
to
give
worship
to
them
or
be
their
servants
or
make
them
offerings:
\VS{36}But
the
Lord,
who
took
you
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
with
his
great
power
and
his
outstretched
arm,
he
is
your
God,
to
whom
you
are
to
give
worship
and
make
offerings:
\VS{37}And
the
rules
and
the
orders
and
the
law
which
he put
in
writing
for
you,
you
are
to
keep
and
do
for ever;
you
are
to
have
no
other
gods.
\VS{38}And
you
are
to keep
in memory
the
agreement
which
I
have
made
with
you;
and
you
are
to
have
no
other
gods.
\VS{39}And
you
are
to give
worship
to
the
Lord
your
God;
for
it
is
he
who
will give
you salvation
from
the
hands
of
all
who
are
against
you.
\VS{40}But
they
gave
no
attention,
but went
on
in
their
old
way.
\VS{41}So
these
nations, worshipping
the
Lord,
still
were
servants
to
the
images
they
had
made;
their
children
and
their children's
children
did
the
same;
as
their
fathers
did,
so
do
they,
to
this
day.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
third
year
of
Hoshea,
son
of
Elah,
king
of
Israel,
Hezekiah,
the
son
of
Ahaz,
became
king
of
Judah.
\VS{2}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king, ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
twenty-nine
years;
his mother's
name
was
Abi,
the
daughter
of
Zechariah.
\VS{3}He
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
as
David
his
father
had
done.
\VS{4}He
had
the
high
places
taken
away,
and
the
stone
pillars
broken
to bits,
and
the
Asherah
cut
down;
and
the
brass
snake
which
Moses
had
made
was
crushed
to powder
at
his order,
because
in
those
days
the
children
of
Israel
had
offerings
burned
before
it,
and
he
gave
it
the
name
Nehushtan.
\VS{5}He
had faith
in
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel;
so
that
there
was
no
one
like
him
among
all
the
kings
of
Judah
who
were
before
him.
\VS{6}For
his heart
was fixed
on
the
Lord,
not
turning
from
his ways,
and
he
did
his
orders
which
the
Lord
gave
to
Moses.
\VS{7}And
the
Lord
was
with
him;
he
did
well
in
all
his undertakings:
and
he
took
up arms
against
the
king
of
Assyria
and
was
his
servant
no
longer.
\VS{8}He overcame
the
Philistines
as
far
as
Gaza
and
its limits,
from
the
tower
of
the
watchman
to
the walled
town.
\VS{9}Now
in
the
fourth
year
of
King
Hezekiah,
which
was
the
seventh
year
of
Hoshea,
son
of
Elah,
king
of
Israel,
Shalmaneser,
king
of
Assyria,
came
up
against
Samaria, shutting
it
in
with
his armies.
\VS{10}And
at
the
end
of
three
years
they
took
it;
in
the sixth
year
of Hezekiah's
rule,
which
was
the
ninth
year
of
Hoshea,
king
of
Israel,
Samaria
was
taken.
\VS{11}And
the
king
of
Assyria
took
Israel
away
as prisoners
into
Assyria, placing
them
in
Halah
and
in
Habor
on
the
river
Gozan,
and
in
the
towns
of
the
Medes;
\VS{12}Because
they
did
not
give ear
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord
their
God,
but went
against
his
agreement,
even
against
everything
ordered
by
Moses,
the
servant
of
the
Lord,
and
they
did
not
give ear
to
it
or
do
it.
\VS{13}Now
in
the fourteenth
year
of
king
Hezekiah,
Sennacherib,
king
of
Assyria,
came
up
against
all
the walled
towns
of
Judah
and
took
them.
\VS{14}And
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah,
sent
to
Lachish,
to
the
king
of
Assyria,
saying,
I
have
done
wrong;
give
up attacking
me,
and
whatever
you
put
on
me
I
will undergo.
And
the payment
he
was
to
make
was fixed
by
the
king
of
Assyria
at
three
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
thirty
talents
of
gold.
\VS{15}So
Hezekiah
gave
him
all
the
silver
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
in
the king's store-house.
\VS{16}And
at
that
time
Hezekiah
had
the gold
from
the
doors
of
the Lord's house,
and
from
the door-pillars
plated
by
him,
cut
off
and
gave
it
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{17}Then
the
king
of
Assyria
sent
the
Tartan
and
the
Rab-saris
and
the Rab-shakeh
from
Lachish
to
Jerusalem,
to
King
Hezekiah,
with
a strong force.
And
they
went
up
and
came
to
Jerusalem,
and
took
up
their
position
by
the stream
of
the higher
pool,
by
the
highway
of
the washerman's
field.
\VS{18}And
they
sent
for
the
king,
and
Eliakim,
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
who
was
over
the
house,
and
Shebna
the
scribe,
and
Joah,
the
son
of
Asaph,
the
recorder,
came
out
to
them.
\VS{19}And
the Rab-shakeh
said
to
them,
Say
now
to
Hezekiah,
These
are
the words
of
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria:
In
what
are
you placing
your
hope?
\VS{20}You
say
you
have
a design,
and
strength
for
war,
but these
are
only
words.
Now
to
whom
are
you looking
for support,
that
you
have gone
against
my
authority?
\VS{21}See,
now,
you
are basing
your hope
on
that broken
rod
of
Egypt,
which
will
go
through
a man's
hand
if
he makes use
of
it
for
a
support;
for
so
is
Pharaoh,
king
of
Egypt,
to
all
who
put
their faith
in
him.
\VS{22}And
if
you
say
to
me,
Our hope
is
in
the
Lord
our
God:
is
it
not
he,
whose
high
places
and
altars
Hezekiah
has
taken
away,
saying
to
Judah
and
Jerusalem
that
worship
may only
be given
before
this
altar
in
Jerusalem?
\VS{23}And
now,
take
a chance
with
my
master,
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
I
will
give
you two
thousand
horses,
if
you
are
able
to
put
horsemen
on
them.
\VS{24}How
then
may
you
put
to shame
the least
of
my master's
servants?
and
you
have
put
your hope
in
Egypt
for war-carriages
and
horsemen:
\VS{25}And
have
I
now
come
up
to
send
destruction
on
this
place
without
the Lord's
authority?
It
was
the
Lord
himself
who
said
to
me,
Go
up
against
this
land
and make
it
waste.
\VS{26}Then
Eliakim,
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
and
Shebna
and
Joah
said
to
the Rab-shakeh,
Will
you kindly
make use
of
the Aramaean
language
in
talking
to
your
servants,
for
we
are used
to
it,
and
do
not
make use
of
the Jews'
language
in
the
hearing
of
the
people
on
the
wall.
\VS{27}But
the Rab-shakeh
said
to
them,
Is
it
to
your
master
or
to
you
that
my
master
has
sent
me
to
say
these
words?
has
he
not
sent
me
to
the
men
seated
on
the
wall?
for
they
are
the
people
who
will
be short
of
food
with
you
when
the town
is shut
in.
\VS{28}Then
the Rab-shakeh got
up
and
said
with
a
loud
voice
in
the Jews'
language,
Give ear
to
the
words
of
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria;
\VS{29}This
is
what
the
king
says:
Do
not
be
tricked
by
Hezekiah,
for
there
is
no salvation
for
you
in
him.
\VS{30}And
do
not
let
Hezekiah
make
you
put
your faith
in
the
Lord,
saying,
The
Lord
will
certainly keep
us safe,
and
this
town
will
not
be
given
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{31}Do
not
give ear
to
Hezekiah,
for
this
is
what
the
king
of
Assyria
says:
Make
peace
with
me
and
come
out
to
me;
and
everyone
will
be
free
to
take
the fruit
of
his
vine
and
of
his fig-tree,
and
the
water
of
his
spring;
\VS{32}Till
I
come
and
take
you
away
to
a
land
like yours,
a
land
of
grain
and
wine,
a
land
of
bread
and vine-gardens,
a
land
of oil-giving
olives
and
of
honey,
so
that
life
and
not
death
may
be
your fate.
Give
no
attention
to
Hezekiah
when
he
says
to
you,
The
Lord
will
keep
us safe.
\VS{33}Has
any
one
of
the
gods
of
the
nations kept
his
land
from falling
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Assyria?
\VS{34}Where
are
the
gods
of
Hamath
and
of
Arpad?
where
are
the
gods
of
Sepharvaim,
of
Hena
and
Ivvah?
have
they kept
Samaria
out
of
my
hands?
\VS{35}Who
among
all
the
gods
of
these
countries
have kept
their
country
from falling
into
my
hands,
to give cause
for
the thought
that
the
Lord
will keep
Jerusalem
from falling
into
my
hands?
\VS{36}But
the
people kept quiet
and
gave
him
no
answer:
for
the king's
order
was,
Give
him
no
answer.
\VS{37}Then
Eliakim,
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
who
was
over
the
house,
and
Shebna
the
scribe,
and
Joah,
the
son
of
Asaph,
the
recorder,
came
to
Hezekiah,
with
their
clothing parted
as
a sign
of
grief,
and
gave
him
an
account
of
what
the Rab-shakeh
had
said.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
on
hearing
it,
King
Hezekiah
took
off
his robe,
and
put
on haircloth,
and
went
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{2}And
he
sent
Eliakim,
who
was
over
the
house,
and
Shebna
the
scribe,
and
the
chief
priests, dressed
in haircloth,
to
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz.
\VS{3}And
they
said
to
him,
Hezekiah
says,
This
day
is
a
day
of
trouble
and punishment
and shame;
for
the
children
are ready
to
come
to
birth,
but
there
is
no
strength
to
give
birth
to
them.
\VS{4}It
may
be
that
the
Lord
your
God
will
give ear
to
the
words
of
the Rab-shakeh,
whom
the
king
of
Assyria,
his
master,
sent
to
say evil
things
against
the
living
God,
and
will
make
his
words
come
to
nothing:
so
then
make
your
prayer
for
the
rest
of
the
people.
\VS{5}So
the
servants
of
King
Hezekiah
came
to
Isaiah.
\VS{6}And
Isaiah
said
to
them,
This
is
what
you
are
to
say
to
your
master:
The
Lord
says,
Be
not troubled
by
the
words
which
the
servants
of
the
king
of
Assyria
have
said
against
me
in
your
hearing.
\VS{7}See,
I
will
put
a
spirit
into
him,
and bad
news
will
come
to
his ears,
and
he
will
go
back
to
his
land;
and
there
I
will
have
him
put
to death
by
the
sword.
\VS{8}So
the Rab-shakeh
went
back,
and
when
he got
there
the
king
of
Assyria
was making war
against
Libnah,
for
it
had
come
to
his ears
that
he
had
gone
away
from
Lachish.
\VS{9}And
when
news
came
to
him
that
Tirhakah,
king
of
Ethiopia,
had
made
an
attack
on
him,
he
sent representatives
to
Hezekiah
again,
saying,
\VS{10}This
is
what
you
are
to
say
to
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah:
Let
not
your
God,
in
whom
is
your faith,
give
you
a false hope,
saying,
Jerusalem
will
not
be
given
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{11}No doubt
the story
has come
to
your ears
of
what
the
kings
of
Assyria
have
done
to
all
lands, putting
them
to
the curse;
and
will
you
be
kept safe?
\VS{12}Did
the
gods
of
the
nations keep safe
those
on
whom
my
fathers sent
destruction,
Gozan
and
Haran
and
Rezeph
and
the
children
of
Eden
who
were
in
Telassar?
\VS{13}Where
is
the
king
of
Hamath,
and
the
king
of
Arpad,
and
the
king
of
the
town
of
Sepharvaim,
of
Hena
and
of
Ivvah?
\VS{14}And
Hezekiah
took
the
letter
from
the
hands
of
those
who
had
come
with
it;
and after
reading
it,
Hezekiah
went
up
to
the
house
of
the
Lord, opening
the
letter
there
before
the
Lord.
\VS{15}And
Hezekiah
made
his prayer
to
the
Lord,
saying,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
seated between
the winged ones,
you
only
are
the
God
of
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth;
you
have
made
heaven
and
earth.
\VS{16}Let
your
ear
be
turned
to
us,
O
Lord,
and
let
your
eyes
be
open,
O
Lord,
and
see;
take
note
of
all
the
words
of
Sennacherib
who
has
sent men
to
say evil
against
the
living
God.
\VS{17}Truly,
O
Lord,
the
kings
of
Assyria
have made waste
the
nations
and
their
lands,
\VS{18}And
have
given
their
gods
to
the
fire;
for
they
were
no
gods,
but
wood
and
stone,
the
work
of men's
hands;
so
they
have
given
them
to
destruction.
\VS{19}But
now,
O
Lord
our
God,
give
us
salvation
from
his
hands,
so
that
it
may
be
clear
to
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
that
you
and
only
you,
O
Lord,
are
God.
\VS{20}Then
Isaiah,
the
son
of
Amoz,
sent
to
Hezekiah,
saying,
The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
says,
The prayer
which
you
have
made
to
me
against
Sennacherib,
king
of
Assyria,
has come
to
my ears.
\VS{21}This
is
the
word
which
the
Lord
has
said
about
him:
In
the eyes
of
the
virgin
daughter
of
Zion
you
are shamed
and laughed
at;
the
daughter
of
Jerusalem
has
made sport
of
you.
\VS{22}Against
whom
have
you said evil
and bitter
things?
against
whom
has
your
voice
been
loud
and
your
eyes
lifted
up?
even
against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{23}You
have
sent
your servants
with evil words
against
the
Lord,
and
have
said,
With
all
my war-carriages
I
have
come
up
to
the top
of
the
mountains,
to
the inmost
parts
of
Lebanon;
its
tall
cedars
will
be
cut
down,
and
the best
trees
of
its
woods;
I
will
come
up
into
his
highest
places,
into
his thick
woods.
\VS{24}I
have
made water-holes
and taken
their
waters,
and
with
my foot
I
have
made
all
the
rivers
of
Egypt
dry.
\VS{25}Has
it
not
come
to
your ears
how
I
did
it
long
before, purposing
it
in
times
long past?
Now
I
have
given
effect
to
my design,
so
that
by
you strong
towns might
be
turned
into masses
of broken walls.
\VS{26}This
is why
their townsmen
had no
power,
they
were broken
and
put
to
shame;
they
were
like
the
grass
of
the
field
and
the
green
plant,
like
grass
on
the house-tops.
\VS{27}But
I
have
knowledge
of
your getting
up
and
your resting,
of
your
going
out
and
your
coming
in.
\VS{28}Because
your
wrath
against
me
and
your
words
of pride
have
come
up
to
my
ears,
I
will
put
my
hook
in
your
nose
and
my cord
in
your
lips,
and
I
will
make
you
go
back
by
the
way
you
came.
\VS{29}And
this
will
be
the
sign
to
you:
you
will get
your
food
this
year
from
what comes
up
of
itself;
and
in
the
second
year
from
the
produce
of
the
same;
and
in
the
third
year
you
will put
in
your
seed
and get
in
the grain
and make vine-gardens
and take
of
their
fruit.
\VS{30}And those
of
Judah
who
are still living
will
again
take
root
in
the earth
and
give
fruit.
\VS{31}For
from
Jerusalem
those
who
have
been
kept safe
will
go
out,
and
those
who
are still living
will
go
out
of
Mount
Zion:
by
the fixed purpose
of
the
Lord
of armies
this
will
be
done.
\VS{32}For
this cause
the
Lord
says
about
the
king
of
Assyria,
He
will
not
come
into
this
town,
or
send
an
arrow
against
it;
he
will
not
come
before
it
with arms,
or
put
up
an earthwork
against
it;
\VS{33}By
the
way
he
came
he
will
go
back,
and
he
will
not
get
into
this
town,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{34}For
I
will keep
this
town
safe,
for
my honour,
and
for
the honour
of
my
servant
David.
\VS{35}And
that
night
the
angel
of
the
Lord
went
out
and
put
to
death
in
the
army
of
the Assyrians
a
hundred
and
eighty-five
thousand
men;
and
when
the
people
got
up
early
in
the
morning,
there
was
nothing
to
be seen
but
dead
bodies.
\VS{36}So
Sennacherib,
king
of
Assyria,
went
back
to
his place
at
Nineveh.
\VS{37}And
it
came
about,
when
he
was worshipping
in
the
house
of
Nisroch
his
god,
that
his
sons
Adrammelech
and
Sharezer put
him
to death
with
the
sword;
and
they
went
in flight
into
the
land
of
Ararat.
And Esar-haddon
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
those
days
Hezekiah
was ill
and
near
death.
And
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz,
came
to
him,
and
said
to
him,
The
Lord
says,
Put
your
house
in
order,
for
your
death
is
near.
\VS{2}Then,
turning
his
face
to
the
wall,
he
made
his prayer
to
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{3}O
Lord,
keep
in
mind
how
I
have
been
true
to
you
with
all
my
heart,
and
have
done
what
is
good
in
your
eyes.
And
Hezekiah
gave
way
to bitter
weeping.
\VS{4}Now
before
Isaiah
had
gone
out
of
the
middle
of
the
town,
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
him,
saying,
\VS{5}Go
back
and
say
to
Hezekiah,
the
ruler
of
my
people,
The
Lord,
the
God
of
David
your
father,
says,
Your
prayer
has
come
to
my ears,
and
I
have
seen
your weeping;
see,
I
will
make
you well:
on
the
third
day
you
will
go
up
to
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}I
will
give
you
fifteen
more
years
of
life;
and
I
will
keep
you
and
this
town safe
from
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Assyria;
I
will
keep
this
town safe,
for
my honour,
and
for
the honour
of
my
servant
David.
\VS{7}Then
Isaiah
said,
Take
a
cake
of
figs.
So
they
took
it
and
put
it
on
his wound,
and
he
got
better.
\VS{8}And
Hezekiah
said
to
Isaiah,
What
is
to
be
the
sign
that
the
Lord
will
make
me well,
and
that
I
will
go
up
to
the
house
of
the
Lord
on
the
third
day?
\VS{9}And
Isaiah
said,
This
is
the
sign
the
Lord
will
give
you,
that
he
will
do
what
he
has
said;
will
the
shade
go
forward
ten degrees
or
back?
\VS{10}And
Hezekiah
said
in
answer,
It
is
a simple
thing
for
the
shade
to
go forward;
but
let
it
go
back
ten degrees.
\VS{11}Then
Isaiah
the
prophet
made prayer
to
the
Lord,
and
he
made
the
shade
go
back
ten degrees
from
its position
on
the
steps
of
Ahaz.
\VS{12}At
that
time,
Merodach-baladan,
the
son
of
Baladan,
king
of
Babylon,
sent
letters
with
an
offering
to
Hezekiah,
because
he
had news
that
Hezekiah
had been ill.
\VS{13}And
Hezekiah
was glad
at
their coming
and
let
them
see
all
his store
of
wealth,
the
silver
and
the
gold
and
the
spices
and
the
oil
of
great
price,
and
the
house
of
his arms,
and
everything
there
was
in
his
stores;
there
was
nothing
in
all
his
house
or
his
kingdom
which
Hezekiah
did
not
let
them
see.
\VS{14}Then
Isaiah
the
prophet
came
to
King
Hezekiah
and
said
to
him,
What
did
these
men
say
and
where
did
they
come
from?
And
Hezekiah
said,
They
came
from
a
far
country,
even
from
Babylon.
\VS{15}And
he
said,
What
have
they
seen
in
your
house?
And
Hezekiah
said
in
answer,
They
saw
everything
in
my
house:
there
is
nothing
among
my
stores
which
I
did
not
let
them
see.
\VS{16}And
Isaiah
said
to
Hezekiah,
Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{17}Truly,
days
are
coming
when
everything
in
your
house,
and
whatever
your
fathers
have
put
in
store
till
this
day,
will
be
taken
away
to
Babylon:
all
will
be
gone,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{18}And
your
sons,
the
offspring
of
your body,
they
will
take
away
to
be unsexed servants
in
the house
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{19}Then
Hezekiah
said
to
Isaiah,
Good
is
the
word
of
the
Lord
which
you
have
said.
Then
he
said, ...
if
in
my
time
there
is
peace
and righteousness?
\VS{20}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Hezekiah,
and
his
power,
and
how
he
made
the
pool
and
the
stream,
to
take
water
into
the
town,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{21}And
Hezekiah went
to
rest
with
his
fathers;
and
Manasseh
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Manasseh
was
twelve
years
old
when
he
became
king;
for
fifty-five
years
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was Hephzi-bah.
\VS{2}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, copying
the
disgusting ways
of
those
nations
whom
the
Lord
had sent
out
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{3}He
put
up
again
the
high
places
which
had
been pulled
down
by
Hezekiah
his
father;
he
made
altars
for
Baal,
and
an
Asherah,
as
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
had
done;
he
was
a worshipper
and
servant
of
all
the stars
of
heaven.
\VS{4}And
he
put
up
altars
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
of
which
the
Lord
had
said,
In
Jerusalem
will
I
put
my
name.
\VS{5}And
he put
up
altars
for
all
the stars
of
heaven
in
the
two outer squares
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}And
he
made
his
son
go
through
the
fire,
and
made use
of secret arts
and signs
for
reading
the future;
he
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}He
put
the
image
of
Asherah
which
he
had
made
in
the
house
of
which
the
Lord
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,
I
will
put
my
name
for
ever.
\VS{8}And
never
again
will
I
send
the
feet
of
Israel wandering
from
the
land
which
I
gave
to
their
fathers;
if
only
they
will
take
care
to
do
all
my
orders,
and
keep
all
the
law
which
my
servant
Moses
gave
them.
\VS{9}But
they
did
not
give ear;
and
Manasseh
made
them
do
more
evil
than
those
nations
did,
whom
the
Lord
gave
up
to
destruction
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{10}And
the
Lord
said,
by
his
servants
the
prophets,
\VS{11}Because
Manasseh,
king
of
Judah,
has
done
these
disgusting
things,
doing
more
evil
than
all
the
Amorites
before
him,
and
making
Judah
do
evil
with
his false gods,
\VS{12}For
this cause,
says
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
I
will send
such
evil
on
Jerusalem
and
Judah
that
the
ears
of
all
to
whom
the
news
comes
will
be burning.
\VS{13}And
over
Jerusalem
will
be
stretched
the
line
of
Samaria
and
the weight
of
Ahab;
Jerusalem
will
be washed clean
as
a plate
is washed,
and
turned
over
on
its
face.
\VS{14}And
I
will
put
away
from
me
the
rest
of
my
heritage,
and
give
them
up
into
the
hands
of
their haters,
who
will
take
their
property
and
their goods
for themselves;
\VS{15}Because
they
have
done
evil
in
my
eyes, moving
me
to wrath,
from
the
day
when
their
fathers
came
out
of
Egypt
till
this
day.
\VS{16}More
than
this,
Manasseh
took
the lives
of upright
men,
till
Jerusalem
from
one
end
to
the
other
was
full
of
blood;
in
addition
to
his
sin
in
making
Judah
do
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord.
\VS{17}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Manasseh,
and
all
he
did,
and
his
sins,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{18}So
Manasseh
went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
in
the
garden
of
his
house,
in
the
garden
of
Uzza;
and
Amon
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{19}Amon
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he
became
king, ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
two
years;
his mother's
name
was
Meshullemeth,
the
daughter
of
Haruz
of
Jotbah.
\VS{20}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
Manasseh
his
father
had
done.
\VS{21}He
went
in
all
the
ways
of
his
father, being
a
servant
and worshipper
of
the false
gods
to
which
his
father
had
been
a
servant;
\VS{22}Turning
away
from
the
Lord,
the
God
of
his
fathers,
and
not
walking
in
his
ways.
\VS{23}And
the
servants
of
Amon
made
a secret design
against
him,
and
put
the
king
to
death
in
his
house.
\VS{24}But
the
people
of
the
land put
to death
all
those
who
had
taken
part
in
the design
against
the
king,
and
made
Josiah
his
son
king
in
his
place.
\VS{25}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
which
Amon
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{26}He
was put
in
his last resting-place
in
the
garden
of
Uzza,
and
Josiah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Josiah
was
eight
years
old
when
he
became
king;
and
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for thirty-one
years;
his mother's
name
was
Jedidah,
daughter
of
Adaiah
of
Bozkath.
\VS{2}He
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, walking
in
the
ways
of
David
his
father,
without
turning
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left.
\VS{3}Now
in
the
eighteenth
year
after
he
became
king,
Josiah
sent
Shaphan,
the
son
of
Azaliah,
the
son
of
Meshullam,
the
scribe,
to
the
house
of
the
Lord,
saying
to
him,
\VS{4}Go
up
to
Hilkiah,
the
chief
priest,
and let
him
give
out
the
money
which
is
taken
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
which
the
keepers
of
the door
have
got
together
from
the
people;
\VS{5}And
let
it
be
given
to
the
overseers
of
the
work
of
the Lord's
house,
to
give
to
the
workmen
who
are
making good
what
was damaged
in
the
house
of
the
Lord;
\VS{6}To
the woodworkers
and
the
builders
and
the stone-cutters;
and
for getting
wood
and cut
stones
for
the
building
up
of
the
house.
\VS{7}They
did
not
have
to
give
any
account
of
the
money which
was
handed
to
them,
for
they
made use
of
it
with good
faith.
\VS{8}Then
Hilkiah,
the
chief
priest,
said
to
Shaphan
the
scribe,
I
have
made
discovery
of
the
book
of
the
law
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
So
Hilkiah
gave
it
to
Shaphan;
\VS{9}Then,
after
reading
it,
Shaphan
the
scribe
went
in
to
the
king
and
gave
him
an
account
of
what
had
been
done,
saying,
Your
servants
have
given
out
the
money
which
was
in
the
house,
and
have
given
it
to
the
overseers
of
the
work
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{10}Then
Shaphan
the
scribe
said
to
the
king,
Hilkiah
the
priest
has
given
me
a
book;
and
he
was
reading
it
before
the
king.
\VS{11}And
the
king,
hearing
the
words
of
the
book
of
the
law,
took
his robe
in
his hands, violently parting
it
as
a sign
of
his
grief;
\VS{12}And
he
gave
orders
to
Hilkiah
the
priest,
and
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan,
and
Achbor,
the
son
of
Micaiah,
and
Shaphan
the
scribe,
and
Asaiah
the king's
servant,
saying,
\VS{13}Go
and get directions
from
the
Lord
for
me
and
for
the
people
and
for
all
Judah,
about
the
words
of
this
book
which
has
come
to light;
for
great
is
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
which
is
burning
against
us,
because
our
fathers
have
not
given ear
to
the
words
of
this
book,
to
do
all
the
things
which
are
recorded
in
it.
\VS{14}So
Hilkiah
the
priest,
and
Ahikam
and
Achbor
and
Shaphan
and
Asaiah,
went
to
Huldah
the
woman
prophet,
the
wife
of
Shallum,
the
son
of
Tikvah,
the
son
of
Harhas,
keeper
of
the
robes, (now
she
was
living
in
Jerusalem,
in
the
second
part
of
the town;)
and
they
had
talk
with
her.
\VS{15}And
she
said
to
them,
The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
says,
Say
to
the
man
who
sent
you
to
me,
\VS{16}These
are
the
words
of
the
Lord:
See,
I
will send
evil
on
this
place
and
on
its
people,
even
everything
which
the
king
of
Judah
has
been
reading
in
the
book;
\VS{17}Because
they
have
given
me
up,
burning offerings
to
other
gods
and moving
me
to
wrath
by
all
the
work
of
their
hands;
so
my
wrath
will
be
on
fire
against
this
place,
and
will
not
be
put
out.
\VS{18}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:
As
to
the
words
which
have come
to
your ears,
\VS{19}Because
your
heart
was soft,
and
you
made
yourself low
before
me,
when
you
had
word
of
what
I
said
against
this
place
and
its
people,
that
they
would
become
a
waste
and
a
curse,
and
you
gave signs
of grief,
weeping
before
me:
truly,
I
have
given ear
to
you,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{20}For
this
cause
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.
So
they
took
this news
back
to
the
king.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
the
king
sent
and got
together
all
the responsible
men
of
Judah
and
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
the
king
went
up
to
the
house
of
the
Lord,
with
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
all
the
people
of
Jerusalem,
and
the
priests
and
the
prophets
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{3}And
the
king
took
his
place
by
the
pillar,
and
made
an
agreement
before
the
Lord,
to
go
in
the
way
of
the
Lord,
and
keep
his
orders
and
his decisions
and
his
rules
with
all
his
heart
and
all
his
soul,
and
to
keep
the
words
of
the
agreement
recorded
in
the
book;
and
all
the
people gave
their
word
to
keep
the
agreement.
\VS{4}Then
the
king
gave
orders
to
Hilkiah,
the
chief
priest,
and
to
the
priests
of
the
second
order,
and
to
the
keepers
of
the door,
to
take
out
of
the house
of
the
Lord
all
the
vessels
made
for
Baal
and
for
the
Asherah
and
for
all
the stars
of
heaven;
and
he
had
them
burned
outside
Jerusalem
in
the
fields
of
Kidron,
and
took
the
dust
of
them
to Beth-el.
\VS{5}And
he
put
an end
to
the false
priests,
who
had
been
put
in
their positions
by
the
kings
of
Judah
to
see
to
the
burning
of offerings
in
the
high
places
in
the
towns
of
Judah
and
the outskirts
of
Jerusalem,
and
all
those
who
made offerings
to
Baal
and
to
the
sun
and
the
moon
and
the twelve signs
and
all
the stars
of
heaven.
\VS{6}And
he
took
the
Asherah
from
the
house
of
the
Lord,
outside
Jerusalem
to
the
stream
Kidron,
burning
it
by
the
stream
and crushing
it
to
dust,
and
he
put
the
dust
on
the
place
where
the bodies
of
the
common
people
were
put
to rest.
\VS{7}And
he
had
the
houses
pulled
down
of
those
who
were used
for sex purposes
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
where
women
were making robes
for
the
Asherah.
\VS{8}And
he
made
all
the
priests
from
the
towns
of
Judah
come
into Jerusalem,
and
he
made
unclean
the
high
places
where
the
priests
had
been
burning offerings,
from
Geba
to Beer-sheba;
and
he
had
the
high
places
of
the evil spirits
pulled
down
which
were
by
the
doorway
of
Joshua,
the
ruler
of
the
town,
on
the
left
side
of
the
way
into
the
town.
\VS{9}Still
the
priests
of
the
high
places
never
came
up
to
the
altar
of
the
Lord
in
Jerusalem;
but
they
took
their
food
of
unleavened
bread
among
their
brothers.
\VS{10}And
Topheth,
in
the
valley
of
the
sons
of
Hinnom,
he
made
unclean,
so
that
no
man
might
make
his
son
or
his
daughter
go
through
the
fire
to
Molech.
\VS{11}And
he
took
away
the
horses
which
the
kings
of
Judah
had
given
to
the
sun,
at
the way
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
by
the
room
of
Nathan-melech,
the unsexed servant,
which
was
in
the outer part
of
the building,
and
the carriages
of
the
sun
he
put
on
fire.
\VS{12}And
the
altars
on
the
roof
of
the high
room
of
Ahaz,
which
the
kings
of
Judah
had
made,
and
the
altars
which
Manasseh
had
made
in
the
two outer squares
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
were
pulled
down
and crushed
to bits,
and
the
dust
of
them
was put
into
the
stream
Kidron.
\VS{13}And
the
high
places
before
Jerusalem,
on
the
south
side
of
the
mountain
of
destruction,
which
Solomon,
king
of
Israel,
had
made
for Ashtoreth,
the
disgusting god
of
the Zidonians,
and
for
Chemosh,
the
disgusting god
of
Moab,
and
for
Milcom,
the
disgusting god
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
the
king
made
unclean.
\VS{14}The stone
pillars
were
broken
to bits
and
the
wood
pillars
cut
down,
and
the
places
where
they
had
been
were
made
full
of
the
bones
of
the dead.
\VS{15}And
the
altar
at Beth-el,
and
the
high
place put
up
by
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
do evil,
that
altar
and
that
high
place
were
pulled
down;
and
the
high
place
was
burned
and
crushed
to
dust
and
the
Asherah
was
burned.
\VS{16}Then
Josiah,
turning round,
saw
on
the
mountain
the places
of
the dead,
and
he
sent
and
had
the
bones
taken
out
of
their places
and
burned
on
the
altar,
so making
it
unclean,
as
the
Lord
had
said
by
the
man
of
God
when Jeroboam
was
in
his
place
by
the
altar
on
that feast-day.
And
he,
turning
his eyes
to
the resting-place
of
the
man
of
God
who
had
given
word
of
these
things,
said:
\VS{17}What
is
that headstone
I
see
over
there?
And
the
men
of
the
town
said
to
him,
It
is
the resting-place
of
the
man
of
God
who
came
from
Judah
and
gave
word
of
all
these
things
which
you
have
done
to
the
altar
of Beth-el.
\VS{18}So
he
said,
Let
him
be;
let
not
his
bones
be
moved.
So
they
let
his
bones
be
with
the
bones
of
the
prophet
who
came
from
Samaria.
\VS{19}Then
Josiah
took
away
all
the
houses
of
the
high
places
in
the
towns
of
Samaria,
which
the
kings
of
Israel
had
put
up, moving
the Lord
to wrath,
and
he
did
with
them
as
he
had
done
in Beth-el.
\VS{20}And
all
the
priests
of
the
high
places
there
he
put
to death
on
the
altars,
burning
the
bones
of
the dead
on
them;
and
then
he
went
back
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{21}And
the
king
gave
orders
to
all
the
people,
saying,
Keep
the
Passover
to
the
Lord
your
God,
as
it
says
in
this
book
of
the law.
\VS{22}Truly,
such
a
Passover
had
not
been
kept
in
all
the
days
of
the
judges
of
Israel
or
of
the
kings
of
Israel
or
the
kings
of
Judah;
\VS{23}In
the
eighteenth
year
of
the
rule
of
King
Josiah
this
Passover
was
kept
to
the
Lord
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{24}And
all
those
who
had control
of spirits,
and
the wonder-workers,
and
the images,
and
the false gods,
and
all
the disgusting
things
which
were
seen
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
Jerusalem,
Josiah put
away,
so
that
he
might
give
effect
to
the
words
of
the
agreement
recorded
in
the
book
which
Hilkiah
the
priest
made
discovery
of
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{25}Never
before
had
there
been
a
king
like
him,
turning
to
the
Lord
with
all
his
heart
and
with
all
his
soul
and
with
all
his power,
as
the
law
of
Moses says;
and
after
him
there
was
no
king
like
him.
\VS{26}But
still
the heat
of
the Lord's
wrath
was
not
turned
back
from
Judah,
because
of
all
Manasseh
had
done
in moving
him
to
wrath.
\VS{27}And
the
Lord
said,
I
will send
Judah
away
from
before
my
face,
as
I
have
sent
Israel;
I
will
have nothing
more
to
do
with
this
town,
which
I
had
made mine,
even
Jerusalem,
and
the holy
house
of
which
I
said,
My
name
will
be
there.
\VS{28}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Josiah,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{29}In
his
days, Pharaoh-necoh,
king
of
Egypt,
sent
his armies
against
the
king
of
Assyria
to
the
river
Euphrates;
and
King
Josiah
went
out
against
him;
and
he
put
him
to
death
at
Megiddo,
when
he
had
seen
him.
\VS{30}And
his
servants
took
his
body
in
a carriage
from
Megiddo
to
Jerusalem,
and
put
him
into
the
earth
there.
And
the
people
of
the
land
took
Jehoahaz,
the
son
of
Josiah,
and
put
the holy
oil
on
him
and
made
him
king
in
place
of
his
father.
\VS{31}Jehoahaz
was twenty-three
years
old
when
he
became
king, ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
three
months;
his mother's
name
was
Hamutal,
the
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah.
\VS{32}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
his
fathers
had
done.
\VS{33}And Pharaoh-necoh
put
him
in chains
at
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath,
so
that
he might
not
be
king
in
Jerusalem;
and
took
from
the
land
a tax
of
a
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
a
talent
of
gold.
\VS{34}Then Pharaoh-necoh
made
Eliakim,
the
son
of
Josiah,
king
in
place
of
Josiah
his
father, changing
his
name
to
Jehoiakim;
but
Jehoahaz
he
took
away
to
Egypt,
where
he
was till
his
death.
\VS{35}And
Jehoiakim
gave
the
silver
and
gold
to
Pharaoh, taxing
the
land
by
his orders
to get
the
money;
the
people
of
the
land
had
to
give
silver
and
gold,
everyone
as
he
was taxed,
to
make
the payment
to Pharaoh-necoh.
\VS{36}Jehoiakim
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king;
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
eleven
years;
his mother's
name
was
Zebidah,
the
daughter
of
Pedaiah
of
Rumah.
\VS{37}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
as
his
fathers
had
done.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
his
days,
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
came
up
and
Jehoiakim
was
his
servant
for
three
years;
then
he
took
up arms
against
him.
\VS{2}And
the
Lord
sent
against
him
bands
of
the Chaldaeans
and
of
the Edomites
and
of
the
Moabites
and
of
the
children
of
Ammon;
sending
them
against
Judah
for
its
destruction,
as
he
had
said
by
his
servants
the
prophets.
\VS{3}Only
by
the
word
of
the
Lord
did
this fate
come
on
Judah,
to
take
them
away
from
before
his
face;
because
of
the
sins
of
Manasseh
and
all
the evil
he
did;
\VS{4}And
because
of
the
death
of
those
who
had done
no wrong,
for
he
made
Jerusalem
full
of
the
blood
of
the upright;
and
the
Lord
had
no forgiveness
for
it.
\VS{5}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoiakim,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{6}So
Jehoiakim went
to
rest
with
his
fathers;
and
Jehoiachin
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{7}And
the
king
of
Egypt
did
not
come
out
of
his
land
again,
for
the
king
of
Babylon
had
taken
all
his
country,
from
the
stream
of
Egypt
to
the
river
Euphrates.
\VS{8}Jehoiachin
was
eighteen
years
old
when
he
became
king,
he
was ruling
in
Jerusalem
for
three
months,
and
his mother's
name
was Nehushta,
the
daughter
of
Elnathan
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
his
father
had
done.
\VS{10}At
that
time
the armies
of
Nebuchadnezzar
came
up
to
Jerusalem
and
the
town
was shut
in
on every side.
\VS{11}And
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
came
there,
while
his
servants
were shutting
in
the
town;
\VS{12}Then
Jehoiachin,
king
of
Judah,
went
out
to
the
king
of
Babylon,
with
his
mother
and
his
servants
and
his
chiefs
and
his unsexed
servants;
and
in
the
eighth
year
of
his
rule
the
king
of
Babylon
took
him.
\VS{13}And
he
took
away
all
the
stored
wealth
of
the Lord's
house,
and
the
goods
from
the king's store-house, cutting
up
all
the
gold
vessels
which
Solomon,
king
of
Israel,
had
made
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
as
the
Lord
had
said.
\VS{14}And
he
took
away
all
the
people
of
Jerusalem
and
all
the
chiefs
and
all
the
men
of war,
ten
thousand prisoners;
and
all
the expert workmen
and
the metal-workers;
only
the poorest sort
of
the
people
of
the
land
were
not
taken
away.
\VS{15}He
took
Jehoiachin
a prisoner
to
Babylon,
with
his
mother
and
his
wives
and
his unsexed servants
and
the great men
of
the
land;
he
took
them all
as prisoners
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon.
\VS{16}And
all
the
men
of
war,
seven
thousand
of
them,
and
a
thousand
expert workmen
and metal-workers,
all
of
them
strong
and
able
to
take
up arms,
the
king
of
Babylon
took
away
as prisoners
into
Babylon.
\VS{17}And
the
king
of
Babylon
made
Mattaniah,
his father's brother,
king
in
place
of Jehoiachin, changing
his
name
to
Zedekiah.
\VS{18}Zedekiah
was twenty-one
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was
king
in
Jerusalem
for
eleven
years;
his mother's
name
was
Hamutal,
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah.
\VS{19}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
Jehoiakim
had
done.
\VS{20}And
because
of
the
wrath
of
the
Lord,
this
came
about
in
Jerusalem
and
Judah,
till
he
had sent
them
all
away
from
before
him:
and
Zedekiah
took
up arms
against
the
king
of
Babylon.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
ninth
year
of
his
rule,
on
the
tenth
day
of
the
tenth
month,
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
came
against
Jerusalem
with
all
his
army
and
took
up
his position
before
it,
building earthworks
all
round
the town.
\VS{2}And
the
town
was shut
in
by
their forces
till
the
eleventh
year
of
King
Zedekiah.
\VS{3}Now
on
the
ninth
day
of
the fourth
month,
the store
of
food
in
the
town
was almost
gone,
so
that
there
was
no
food
for
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{4}So
an opening
was
made
in
the
wall
of
the
town,
and
all
the
men
of
war
went
in flight
by
night
through
the doorway
between
the
two
walls
which
was
by
the king's
garden; (now
the Chaldaeans
were stationed
round
the
town:)
and
the
king
went
by
the
way
of
the
Arabah.
\VS{5}But
the Chaldaean
army
went
after
the
king,
and
overtook
him
in
the lowlands
of
Jericho,
and
all
his
army
went
in
flight
from
him
in
every direction.
\VS{6}And
they
made
the
king
a prisoner
and
took
him
up
to
the
king
of
Babylon
at
Riblah
to
be
judged.
\VS{7}And
they
put
the
sons
of
Zedekiah
to death
before
his
eyes,
and
then
they
put
out
his
eyes,
and chaining
him
with iron bands,
took
him
to
Babylon.
\VS{8}Now
in
the
fifth
month,
on
the
seventh
day
of
the
month,
in
the nineteenth
year
of
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
a
servant
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
came
to
Jerusalem;
\VS{9}And
he
had
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
the king's
house
and
all
the
houses
of
Jerusalem,
even
every
great
house,
burned
with
fire;
\VS{10}And
the
walls
round
Jerusalem
were
broken
down
by
the Chaldaean
army
which
was
with
the
captain.
\VS{11}And
the
rest
of
the
people
who
were still
in
the
town,
and all
those
who
had given
themselves
up
to
the
king
of
Babylon,
and all
the
rest
of
the workmen,
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
took
away
as prisoners;
\VS{12}But
he let
the poorest
of
the
land go
on living
there,
to take care
of
the vines
and
the fields.
\VS{13}And
the
brass
pillars
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the wheeled bases,
and
the great
brass water-vessel
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
were
broken
up
by
the Chaldaeans,
who
took
the
brass
to
Babylon.
\VS{14}And
the
pots
and
the spades
and
the scissors
for
the lights
and
the
spoons,
and
all
the
brass
vessels
used
in
the Lord's house,
they
took
away.
\VS{15}And
the fire-trays
and
the
basins;
the
gold
of
the
gold vessels
and
the
silver
of
the
silver vessels,
were all
taken
away
by
the
captain
of
the armed
men.
\VS{16}The
two
pillars,
the great water-vessel
and
the wheeled bases,
which
Solomon
had
made
for
the
house
of
the
Lord:
the
brass
of
all
these
vessels
was
without
weight.
\VS{17}One
of
the
pillars
was
eighteen
cubits
high,
with
a
crown
of
brass
on
it;
the
crown
was
three
cubits
high, circled
with
a
network
and apples
all
of
brass;
and
the
second
pillar
had
the
same.
\VS{18}And
the
captain
of
the armed
men
took
Seraiah,
the
chief
priest,
and
Zephaniah,
the
second
priest,
and
the
three door-keepers;
\VS{19}And
from
the
town
he
took
the unsexed servant
who
was
over
the
men
of
war,
and
five
of
the king's
near friends
who
were
in
the
town,
and
the
scribe
of
the
captain
of
the
army,
who
was responsible
for getting
the
people
of
the
land
together
in
military order,
and
sixty
men
of
the
people
of
the
land
who
were
in
the
town.
\VS{20}These
Nebuzaradan,
the
captain
of
the armed
men,
took
with
him
to
the
king
of
Babylon
at
Riblah.
\VS{21}And
the
king
of
Babylon
put
them
to
death
at
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath.
So
Judah
was
taken
away prisoner
from
his
land.
\VS{22}As
for
the
people
who
were still living
in
the
land
of
Judah,
whom
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon,
did
not
take away,
he
made
Gedaliah,
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan, ruler
over
them.
\VS{23}Now
the
captains
of
the armed
forces,
hearing
that
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made
Gedaliah
ruler,
came
with
their
men
to
Gedaliah
at
Mizpah;
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
and
Johanan,
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
Seraiah,
the
son
of
Tanhumeth
the
Netophathite,
and
Jaazaniah,
the
son
of
the
Maacathite,
came
with
all
their
men.
\VS{24}Then
Gedaliah
gave
his
oath
to
them
and
their
men,
saying,
Have
no
fear
because
of
the
servants
of
the Chaldaeans;
go
on
living
in
the
land
under
the
rule
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
all
will
be
well.
\VS{25}But
in
the
seventh
month,
Ishmael,
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
the
son
of
Elishama,
of
the king's
seed,
came
with
ten
men
and
made
an
attack
on
Gedaliah,
causing
his
death
and
the
death
of
the
Jews
and
the Chaldaeans
who
were
with
him
at
Mizpah.
\VS{26}Then
all
the
people,
small
and
great,
and
the
captains
of
the
forces,
got
up
and
went
away
to
Egypt,
for
fear
of
the Chaldaeans.
\VS{27}And
in
the thirty-seventh
year
after
Jehoiachin,
king
of
Judah,
had
been
taken prisoner,
in
the twelfth
month,
on
the twenty-seventh
day
of
the
month,
Evil-merodach,
king
of
Babylon,
in
the
first
year
of
his
rule,
took
Jehoiachin,
king
of
Judah,
out
of
prison;
\VS{28}And
said
kind words
to
him,
and
put
his
seat higher
than
the seats
of
the other
kings
who
were
with
him
in
Babylon.
\VS{29}And
his
prison
clothing
was
changed,
and
he
was
a
guest
at
the king's
table
every
day
for
the rest
of
his
life.
\VS{30}And
for
his food,
the
king
gave
him
a
regular amount
every
day
for
the rest
of
his
life.
\par }