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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon
the
son
of
David
was
strengthened
in
his
kingdom,
and
Jehovah
his
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
was
with
him
and
magnified
him
exceedingly.
\VS{2}And
Solomon
spoke
to
all
Israel,
to
the
captains
of
thousands
and
of
hundreds,
and
to
the
judges,
and
to
all
the
princes
of
all
Israel,
the
chief
fathers;
\VS{3}and
Solomon,
and
all
the
congregation
with
him,
went
to
the
high
place
at
Gibeon;
for
there
was
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God's
tent
of
meeting
which
Moses
the
servant
of
Jehovah
had
made
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{4}But
the
ark
of
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
David
brought
up
from Kirjath-jearim
to
the [place]
that
David
had
prepared
for
it;
for
he
had
spread
a
tent
for
it
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}And
the brazen
altar
that Bezaleel
the
son
of
Uri,
the
son
of
Hur,
had
made,
was
there
before
the
tabernacle
of
Jehovah;
and
Solomon
and
the
congregation
sought unto
it.
\VS{6}And
Solomon
offered
there
upon
the brazen
altar
before
Jehovah
which
was
at
the
tent
of
meeting;
and
he
offered
up
a
thousand burnt-offerings
upon
it.
\VS{7}In
that
night
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
appeared
to
Solomon,
and
said
to
him,
Ask
what
I
shall
give thee.
\VS{8}And
Solomon
said
to
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God, Thou hast shewn unto
David
my
father
great loving-kindness,
and hast
made
me
king
in
his
stead.
\VS{9}Now,
Jehovah
Elohim,
let thy
word unto
David
my
father
be
firm;
for thou hast made
me
king
over
a
people
numerous
as
the
dust
of
the
earth.
\VS{10}Give
me
now
wisdom
and
knowledge,
that
I
may
go
out
and
come
in
before
this
people;
for
who
can
judge
this thy
great
people?
\VS{11}And
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
said
to
Solomon,
Because
this
was
in thy
heart,
and thou hast
not
asked
riches,
wealth,
or honour,
nor
the
life
of
them
that
hate thee,
neither
yet hast
asked
long
life;
but hast
asked
for thyself
wisdom
and
knowledge,
that thou mayest
judge
my
people,
over
whom
I
have
made thee
king:
\VS{12}wisdom
and
knowledge
are
granted unto thee;
and
I
will
give thee
riches
and
wealth
and honour,
such
as
none
of
the
kings
have
had
that
have
been
before thee,
neither
shall
any
after thee
have
the
like.
\VS{13}Then
Solomon
came
back [from]
the
high
place
at
Gibeon
to
Jerusalem,
from
before
the
tent
of
meeting,
and
reigned
over
Israel.
\VS{14}And
Solomon
gathered
chariots
and
horsemen;
and
he
had
a
thousand
four
hundred
chariots
and
twelve
thousand
horsemen;
and
he
placed
them
in
the chariot-cities,
and
with
the
king
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{15}And
the
king
made
silver
and
gold
in
Jerusalem
as
stones,
and
cedars
made
he
as
the
sycamores
that
are
in
the
lowland
for
abundance.
\VS{16}And
the exportation
of
horses
that
Solomon
had
was
from
Egypt:
a caravan
of
the king's
merchants fetched
a drove [of
horses],
at
a
price.
\VS{17}And
they fetched
up
and
brought
forth
out
of
Egypt
a
chariot
for
six
hundred [shekels]
of
silver,
and
a
horse
for
a
hundred
and
fifty;
and
so
they
brought [them]
by
their
means,
for
all
the
kings
of
the
Hittites
and
for
the
kings
of
Syria.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon purposed
to build
a house
for
the name
of Jehovah,
and
a house
for
his kingdom.
\VS{2}And
Solomon numbered seventy thousand
men
to bear burdens,
and eighty thousand stone-masons
in
the mountain,
and three thousand six hundred
to superintend
them.
\VS{3}And Solomon sent
to Huram
king
of Tyre, saying,
As thou didst deal
with David
my father,
and didst send
him cedars
to
build
him
a
house
to dwell therein [so
do
for
me].
\VS{4}Behold,
I
build
a
house unto
the name
of Jehovah
my
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
to dedicate
it
to
him,
to burn
before
him sweet incense,
and
for
the continual arrangement [of
the shewbread],
and
for
the morning
and evening burnt-offerings [and]
on
the sabbaths
and
on
the new moons,
and
on
the
set feasts
of Jehovah
our
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
This
is [an ordinance]
for ever
to Israel.
\VS{5}And
the
house
that
I
will
build
is great;
for great
is
our
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Elohim}God
above all
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Elohim}gods.
\VS{6}But
who
is able
to build
him
a house, seeing
the heavens
and
the heaven
of heavens cannot contain
him?
And
who am
I
that
I
should build
him
a house, except
to burn sacrifice
before
him?
\VS{7}And
now
send
me
a man skilful
to work
in gold,
and
in silver,
and
in bronze,
and
in iron,
and
in purple
and crimson
and blue,
and
experienced
in carving,
besides
the skilful
men
that
are
with
me
in Judah
and
in Jerusalem,
whom
David
my father
provided.
\VS{8}Send
me
also cedar-trees, cypress-trees,
and sandal-wood
trees,
out
of Lebanon;
for
I know
that thy servants
are experienced
in cutting
timber
in Lebanon;
and behold,
my servants
shall
be
with thy servants,
\VS{9}even
to prepare
me
timber
in abundance:
for
the house
that
I build
shall
be great
and wonderful.
\VS{10}And behold,
I
will
give
to thy servants
the hewers
that
fell timber, twenty thousand measures
of beaten wheat,
and twenty thousand measures
of barley,
and twenty thousand baths
of wine,
and twenty thousand baths
of oil.
\VS{11}And
Huram
king
of Tyre
answered
in writing,
which
he
sent
to Solomon,
Because
Jehovah loved
his
people,
he
made thee
king
over
them.
\VS{12}And
Huram said, Blessed
be Jehovah
the
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Elohim}God
of Israel,
that
made
the heavens
and
the earth,
who
has given
to
David
the king
a
wise
son, endued
with prudence
and
understanding,
who
will build
a house
for Jehovah
and
a house
for
his kingdom.
\VS{13}And
now,
I
send
a skilful
man, endued
with understanding, Huram
Abi,
\VS{14}the son
of
a woman
of
the daughters
of Dan,
and
whose father
was
a man
of Tyre, experienced
in working
in gold,
and
in silver,
in bronze,
in iron,
in
stone,
and
in timber,
in purple,
in blue,
and
in byssus,
and
in crimson,
and
for doing any manner
of engraving,
and
for inventing every device
which
shall
be
put
to
him,
besides thy skilful
men,
and
the skilful
men
of
my
lord
David thy father.
\VS{15}And
now
the wheat
and
the barley,
the oil
and
the wine,
which
my lord hath
spoken
of, let
him
send unto
his servants.
\VS{16}And
we
will cut wood
out
of Lebanon,
as
much
as thou shalt
need;
and
we
will bring
it
to thee [in] floats
by sea
to Joppa,
and thou shalt carry
it
up
to Jerusalem.
\VS{17}And Solomon
numbered
all
the strangers
that
were
in
the land
of
Israel,
after
the account
that David
his father
had taken
of
them,
and
there
were found
a
hundred
and fifty-three
thousand
six
hundred.
\VS{18}And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stone-masons in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people to work.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon
began
to
build
the
house
of
Jehovah
at
Jerusalem
on
mount
Moriah,
where
he
appeared
to
David
his
father,
in
the
place
that
David
had
prepared
in
the threshing-floor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite.
\VS{2}And
he
began
to
build on
the
second
of
the
second
month,
in
the
fourth
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{3}And
this
was Solomon's
foundation
for
the
construction
of
the
house
of
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
The
length
by
cubits after
the
first
measure
was
sixty
cubits,
and
the
breadth
twenty
cubits.
\VS{4}And
the
porch
which
was
in
front
was
twenty
cubits
in
length,
in
front
of
the
house broadways,
and
the
height
was
a
hundred
and
twenty;
and
he
overlaid
it
within
with
pure
gold.
\VS{5}And
the
greater
house
he boarded
with cypress-wood,
which
he
overlaid
with fine
gold,
and
set
on
it palm-trees
and
chains.
\VS{6}And
he
overlaid
the
house
with
precious
stones
for
beauty;
and
the
gold
was
gold
of
Parvaim.
\VS{7}And
he
covered
the
house,
the
beams,
the threshold,
and
its
walls,
and
its
doors
with
gold,
and
engraved
cherubim
on
the
walls.
\VS{8}And
he
made
the
house
of
the
most
holy
place,
the
length
of
which
was
according
to
the
breadth
of
the
house,
twenty
cubits,
and
its
breadth
twenty
cubits;
and
he
covered
it
with fine
gold, amounting
to
six
hundred
talents.
\VS{9}And
the
weight
of
the
nails
was
fifty
shekels
of
gold.
And he
covered
the
upper
chambers
with
gold.
\VS{10}And
in
the
house
of
the
most
holy
place
he
made
two
cherubim
of image
work,
and
they
overlaid
them
with
gold.
\VS{11}And
the
wings
of
the
cherubim
were
twenty
cubits
long:
one
wing
of
five
cubits
touched
the
wall
of
the
house;
and
the
other
wing
of
five
cubits
touched
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub.
\VS{12}And
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub
of
five
cubits
touched
the
wall
of
the
house;
and
the
other
wing
was
five
cubits joining
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub.
\VS{13}The
wings
of
these
cherubim
spread forth
were
twenty
cubits;
and
they
stood
on
their
feet,
and
their
faces
were
toward
the
house.
\VS{14}And
he
made
the
veil
of
blue,
and
purple,
and
crimson,
and byssus,
and
made
cherubim
upon
it.
\VS{15}And
before
the
house
he
made
two
pillars thirty-five
cubits
long;
and
the
capital
that
was
on
the
top
of
each
of
them
was
five
cubits.
\VS{16}And
he
made
chains [as]
in
the oracle,
and
he
put
them
on
the
top
of
the
pillars;
and
he
made
a
hundred
pomegranates,
and
put
them
on
the
chains.
\VS{17}And
he
set
up
the
pillars
in
front
of
the
temple,
one
on
the
right
hand
and
the
other
on
the
left;
and
he
called
the
name
of
that
on
the
right
Jachin,
and
the
name
of
that
on
the
left
Boaz.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
he
made
a brazen
altar: its
length
was
twenty
cubits,
and its
breadth
twenty
cubits,
and its
height
ten
cubits.
\VS{2}And
he
made
the
sea,
molten,
ten
cubits
from
brim
to
brim,
round
all
about;
and
its
height
was
five
cubits;
and
a line
of
thirty
cubits encompassed
it
round
about.
\VS{3}And
under
it
was
the similitude
of
oxen,
encompassing
it
round
about,
ten
in
a
cubit enclosing
the
sea
round
about,
two
rows
of
oxen,
cast when
it
was
cast.
\VS{4}It
stood
upon
twelve
oxen,
three looking
toward
the
north,
and
three looking
toward
the
west,
and
three looking
toward
the
south,
and
three looking
toward
the
east;
and
the
sea
was
above
upon
them,
and
all
their hinder
parts
were
inward.
\VS{5}And its
thickness
was
a hand-breadth,
and its
brim
like
the
work
of
the
brim
of
a
cup,
with lily-blossoms;
in capacity
it
held
three
thousand
baths.
\VS{6}And
he
made
ten lavers,
and
put
five
on
the
right
and
five
on
the
left,
to
wash
in
them:
they rinsed
in
them
what
they
prepared
for
the burnt-offering;
and
the
sea
was
for
the
priests
to
wash
in.
\VS{7}And
he
made
ten candlesticks
of
gold
according
to
the
ordinance respecting
them,
and
set
them
in
the
temple,
five
on
the
right
hand
and
five
on
the
left.
\VS{8}And
he
made
ten
tables,
and
placed
them
in
the
temple,
five
on
the
right
hand
and
five
on
the
left.
And
he
made a
hundred
golden
bowls.
\VS{9}And
he
made
the
court
of
the
priests,
and
the
great
court,
and
doors
for
the
court,
and
overlaid
the
doors thereof
with
bronze.
\VS{10}And
he
set
the
sea
on
the
right
side
eastward,
over
against
the
south.
\VS{11}And
Huram
made
the
pots
and
the
shovels
and
the
bowls.
So
Huram
ended
doing
the
work
that
he
made
for
king
Solomon
in
the
house
of
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God:
\VS{12}two
pillars,
and
the globes
and
the
capitals
on
the
top
of
the
pillars,
two;
and
the
two
networks,
to
cover
the
two globes
of
the
capitals
which
were
on
the
top
of
the
pillars;
\VS{13}and
the
four
hundred
pomegranates
for
the
two
networks,
two
rows
of
pomegranates
for
one
network,
to
cover
the
two globes
of
the
capitals
which
were
upon
the
pillars.
\VS{14}And
he
made
the bases,
and
he
made
the lavers
on
the bases;
\VS{15}one
sea,
and
the
twelve
oxen
under
it.
\VS{16}And
the
pots,
and
the
shovels,
and
the forks,
and
all
their
instruments
did
Huram Abiv
make
king
Solomon
for
the
house
of
Jehovah,
of bright
brass.
\VS{17}In
the
plain
of
the
Jordan did
the
king
cast them,
in
the clay-ground
between
Succoth
and Zeredathah.
\VS{18}And
Solomon
made
all
these
vessels
in
great
number;
for
the
weight
of
the
brass
was
not
ascertained.
\VS{19}And
Solomon
made
all
the
vessels
that
were [in]
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God:
the
golden
altar;
and
the
tables whereon
was
the shewbread;
\VS{20}and
the candlesticks
with
their
lamps
to
burn
according
to
the
ordinance
before
the oracle,
of
pure
gold;
\VS{21}and
the
flowers,
and
the
lamps,
and
the
tongs,
of
gold (it
was perfect
gold);
\VS{22}and
the knives,
and
the
bowls,
and
the cups,
and
the
censers,
of
pure
gold;
and
the
entrance
of
the
house,
the
inner folding-doors thereof
for
the
most
holy
place,
and
the
doors
of
the
house,
of
the
temple,
of
gold.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
all
the
work
was
finished
that
Solomon
made
for
the
house
of
Jehovah.
And
Solomon
brought
in
the
things
that
David
his
father
had
dedicated;
and
the
silver,
and
the
gold,
and
all
the
vessels
he
put among
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:1 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{2}Then
Solomon
assembled
the
elders
of
Israel,
and
all
the
heads
of
the
tribes,
the
princes
of
the
fathers
of
the
children
of
Israel,
to
Jerusalem,
to
bring
up
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
Jehovah
out
of
the
city
of
David,
which
is
Zion.
\VS{3}And
all
the
men
of
Israel
assembled
themselves
to
the
king
at
the
feast,
that
of
the
seventh
month.
\VS{4}And
all
the
elders
of
Israel
came;
and
the
Levites
took
up
the
ark.
\VS{5}And
they
brought
up
the
ark,
and
the
tent
of
meeting,
and
all
the
holy
vessels
that
were
in
the
tent:
the
priests,
the
Levites,
brought
them
up.
\VS{6}And
king
Solomon,
and
all
the
assembly
of
Israel,
that
were
assembled
to
him
before
the
ark,
sacrificed
sheep
and
oxen
which could
not
be
counted
nor
numbered
for
multitude.
\VS{7}And
the
priests
brought
in
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
Jehovah
to
its
place,
into
the oracle
of
the
house,
into
the
most
holy
place,
under
the
wings
of
the
cherubim;
\VS{8}and
the
cherubim
stretched forth [their]
wings
over
the
place
of
the
ark,
and
the
cherubim
covered
the
ark
and
its staves
above.
\VS{9}And
the staves
were
long,
so
that
the
ends
of
the staves
were
seen
outside
the
ark
before
the oracle;
but
they
were
not
seen
without.
And
there
they
are
to
this
day.
\VS{10}There
was
nothing
in
the
ark save
the
two tables
which
Moses
put
there
at
Horeb,
when
Jehovah
made [a covenant]
with
the
children
of
Israel,
when
they
came
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{11}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
priests
were
come
out
of
the
holy
place (for
all
the
priests
that
were
present
were hallowed
without
observing
the courses;
\VS{12}and
the
Levites
the
singers,
all
they
of
Asaph,
of
Heman,
of
Jeduthun,
with
their
sons
and
their
brethren, clad
in byssus,
with
cymbals
and lutes
and
harps,
stood
at
the
east end
of
the
altar,
and
with
them
a
hundred
and
twenty
priests sounding
with
trumpets),
\VS{13}—
it
came
to
pass
when
the
trumpeters
and
singers
were
as
one,
to
make
one
voice
to
be
heard
in
praising
and thanking
Jehovah;
and
when
they
lifted
up
their
voice
with
trumpets,
and
cymbals,
and
instruments
of
music,
and
praised
Jehovah:
For
he
is
good,
for
his loving-kindness [endureth]
for
ever;
that
then
the
house,
the
house
of
Jehovah,
was
filled
with
a
cloud,
\VS{14}and
the
priests
could
not
stand
to
do
their
service
because
of
the
cloud;
for
the
glory
of
Jehovah
had
filled
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
said
Solomon:
Jehovah
said
that
he
would
dwell
in
the
thick
darkness.
\VS{2}But
I
have
built
a
house
of
habitation
for thee, even
a
settled
place
for thee
to
abide
in
for
ever.
\VS{3}And
the
king
turned
his
face
and
blessed
the
whole
congregation
of
Israel;
and
the
whole
congregation
of
Israel
stood.
\VS{4}And
he
said:
Blessed
be
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
who
spoke
with
his
mouth unto
David
my
father,
and hath
with
his
hands
fulfilled
it,
saying,
\VS{5}Since
the
day
that
I
brought
forth
my
people
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
I
chose
no
city
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
build
a
house
in,
that
my
name
might
be
there;
neither
chose
I
any
man
to
be
prince
over
my
people
Israel:
\VS{6}but
I
have
chosen
Jerusalem,
that
my
name
might
be
there;
and
I
have
chosen
David
to
be
over
my
people
Israel.
\VS{7}And
it
was
in
the
heart
of
David
my
father
to
build
a
house unto
the
name
of
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel.
\VS{8}But
Jehovah
said
to
David
my
father, Whereas
it
was
in thy
heart
to
build
a
house unto
my
name, thou didst
well
that
it
was
in thy
heart;
\VS{9}nevertheless thou shalt
not
build
the
house;
but thy
son
that
shall
come
forth
out
of thy
loins,
he
shall
build
the
house unto
my
name.
\VS{10}And
Jehovah
has performed
his
word
which
he
spoke;
and
I
am
risen
up
in
the
room
of
David
my
father,
and
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel,
as
Jehovah
promised,
and
I
have
built
the
house unto
the
name
of
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel.
\VS{11}And
in
it
have
I
put
the
ark,
wherein
is
the
covenant
of
Jehovah,
which
he
made
with
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{12}And
he
stood
before
the
altar
of
Jehovah
in
the
presence
of
the
whole
congregation
of
Israel,
and
spread forth
his
hands.
\VS{13}For
Solomon
had
made
a
platform
of
bronze,
five
cubits
long,
and
five
cubits
broad,
and
three
cubits
high,
and
had
set
it
in
the
midst
of
the
court;
and
upon
it
he
stood,
and
he
kneeled
down
on
his
knees
before
the
whole
congregation
of
Israel,
and
spread
forth
his
hands
toward
the
heavens,
\VS{14}and
said,
Jehovah,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel!
there
is
no
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
like thee,
in
the
heavens
or
on
the
earth,
who keepest
covenant
and
mercy
with thy
servants
that
walk
before thee
with
all
their
heart;
\VS{15}who hast
kept
with thy
servant
David
my
father
that
which thou didst
promise
him; thou spokest
with thy
mouth,
and hast
fulfilled [it]
with thy
hand
as
at
this
day.
\VS{16}And
now,
Jehovah,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
keep
with thy
servant
David
my
father
that
which thou hast
promised
him
saying,
There
shall
not
fail thee
a
man
in
my
sight
to
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel,
if
only thy
sons
take
heed
to
their
way
to
walk
in
my
law,
as thou hast
walked
before
me.
\VS{17}And
now,
Jehovah,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
let thy
word
be
verified
which thou hast
spoken unto thy
servant
David.
\VS{18}But
will
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
indeed
dwell
with
man
on
the
earth?
behold,
the
heavens
and
the
heaven
of
heavens
cannot
contain thee;
how
much
less
this
house
which
I
have
built!
\VS{19}Yet
have
respect unto
the
prayer
of thy
servant,
and
to
his
supplication,
Jehovah,
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
to hearken unto
the
cry
and
to
the
prayer
which thy
servant prayeth
before thee;
\VS{20}that thine
eyes
may
be
open
upon
this
house
day
and
night,
upon
the
place
in
which thou hast
said thou wouldest
put thy
name:
to hearken unto
the
prayer
which thy
servant prayeth
toward
this
place.
\VS{21}And hearken unto
the
supplications
of thy
servant,
and
of thy
people
Israel,
which
they
shall
pray
toward
this
place,
and
hear thou
from thy dwelling-place,
from
the
heavens,
and
when thou hearest,
forgive.
\VS{22}If
a
man
have
sinned
against
his neighbour,
and
an
oath
be
laid
upon
him
to adjure
him,
and
the
oath
come
before thine
altar
in
this
house;
\VS{23}then
hear thou
from
the
heavens,
and
do,
and
judge thy
servants, requiting
the
wicked,
to
bring
his
way upon
his own
head;
and
justifying
the
righteous,
giving
him
according
to
his
righteousness.
\VS{24}And
if thy
people
Israel
be
put
to
the worse
before
the
enemy,
because
they
have
sinned
against thee,
and
shall
turn
again
and
confess thy
name,
and
pray,
and
make
supplication
before thee
in
this
house;
\VS{25}then
hear thou
from
the
heavens,
and
forgive
the
sin
of thy
people
Israel,
and
bring
them
again unto
the
land
that thou gavest
to
them
and
to
their
fathers.
\VS{26}When
the
heavens
are
shut
up,
and
there
is
no
rain,
because
they
have
sinned
against thee;
if
they
pray
toward
this
place,
and
confess thy
name,
and
turn
from
their
sin,
because thou hast afflicted
them;
\VS{27}then
hear thou
in
the
heavens,
and
forgive
the
sin
of thy
servants,
and
of thy
people
Israel,
when thou teachest
them
the
good
way
wherein
they
should
walk;
and
give
rain
upon thy
land,
which thou hast
given
to thy
people
for
an
inheritance.
\VS{28}If
there
be
famine
in
the
land,
if
there
be
pestilence,
if
there
be
blight
or
mildew,
locust
or
caterpillar;
if
their
enemies besiege
them
in
the
land
of
their
gates;
whatever
plague
or
whatever
sickness
there
be:
\VS{29}what
prayer,
what
supplication soever
be
made
by
any
man,
or
by
all thy
people
Israel,
when
they
shall
know
every
man
his
own
plague,
and
his
own grief,
and
shall
spread
forth
his
hands
toward
this
house;
\VS{30}then
hear thou
from
the
heavens,
the
settled
place
of thy
dwelling,
and
forgive,
and
render unto
every
man
according
to
all
his
ways,
whose
heart thou knowest (for thou, thou
only, knowest
the
hearts
of
the
children
of
men),
\VS{31}that
they
may
fear thee,
to
walk
in thy
ways,
all
the
days
that
they
live
upon
the
land
which thou gavest unto
our
fathers.
\VS{32}And
as
to
the
stranger
also,
who
is
not
of thy
people
Israel,
but cometh
out
of
a
far
country
for thy
great name's
sake,
and thy
mighty
hand
and thy
stretched-out
arm;
when
they
shall
come
and
pray
toward
this
house,
\VS{33}then
hear thou
from
the
heavens,
the
settled
place
of thy
dwelling,
and
do
according
to
all
that
the
stranger calleth
to thee
for;
in
order
that
all
peoples
of
the
earth
may
know thy
name,
and
may
fear thee
as
do thy
people
Israel,
and
may
know
that
this
house
which
I
have
built
is
called
by thy
name.
\VS{34}If thy
people
go
out
to
battle
against
their
enemies
by
the
way
that thou shalt
send
them,
and
they
pray unto thee
toward
this
city
that thou hast
chosen,
and
the
house
that
I
have
built unto thy
name;
\VS{35}then
hear thou
from
the
heavens
their
prayer
and
their
supplication,
and maintain
their
right.
\VS{36}If
they
have
sinned
against thee (for
there
is
no
man
that sinneth
not),
and thou
be
angry
with
them,
and
give
them
up
to
the
enemy,
and
they
have
carried
them
away
captives unto
a
land
far
off
or
near;
\VS{37}and
if
they
shall
take
it
to
heart
in
the
land whither
they
were
carried
captive,
and
repent,
and
make supplication unto thee
in
the
land
of
their
captivity,
saying,
We
have
sinned,
we
have
done iniquity
and
have dealt perversely;
\VS{38}and
if
they
return unto thee
with
all
their
heart
and
with
all
their
soul
in
the
land
of
their
captivity, whither
they
have
carried
them
captives,
and
pray
toward
their
land
which thou gavest unto
their
fathers,
and
the
city
that thou hast
chosen,
and
the
house
that
I
have
built unto thy
name;
\VS{39}then
hear thou
from
the
heavens,
from
the
settled
place
of thy
dwelling,
their
prayer
and
their
supplications,
and maintain
their
right,
and
forgive thy
people
their
sin
against thee.
\VS{40}Now,
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:40 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
I
beseech thee,
let thine
eyes
be
open
and
let thine
ears
be
attentive unto
the
prayer [that
is
made]
in
this
place.
\VS{41}And
now,
arise,
Jehovah
Elohim, into thy resting-place, thou
and
the
ark
of thy
strength:
let thy
priests,
Jehovah
Elohim,
be
clothed
with
salvation,
and
let thy saints
rejoice
in [thy] goodness.
\VS{42}Jehovah
Elohim,
turn
not
away
the
face
of thine
anointed:
remember mercies
to
David thy
servant.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
Solomon
had
ended
praying,
the
fire
came
down
from
the
heavens
and
consumed
the burnt-offering
and
the
sacrifices;
and
the
glory
of
Jehovah
filled
the
house.
\VS{2}And
the
priests
could
not
enter
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
because
the
glory
of
Jehovah
filled Jehovah's
house.
\VS{3}And
all
the
children
of
Israel
saw
how
the
fire
came
down,
and
the
glory
of
Jehovah
upon
the
house,
and
bowed
themselves
with
their
faces
to
the
ground
on
the
pavement,
and worshipped
and thanked
Jehovah:
For
he
is
good,
for
his loving-kindness [endureth]
for
ever.
\VS{4}And
the
king
and
all
the
people
offered
sacrifices
before
Jehovah.
\VS{5}And
king
Solomon
sacrificed
a
sacrifice
of
twenty-two
thousand
oxen,
and
a
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
sheep.
So
the
king
and
all
the
people
dedicated
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 7:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{6}And
the
priests
stood
in
their charges,
and
the
Levites
with Jehovah's
instruments
of
music,
which
David
the
king
had
made
to
praise
Jehovah,
for
his loving-kindness [endureth]
for
ever,
when
David
praised
by
their
means;
and
the
priests
sounded
the
trumpets
opposite
to
them,
and
all
Israel
stood.
\VS{7}And
Solomon hallowed
the
middle
of
the
court
that
was
before
the
house
of
Jehovah;
for
there
he offered
the burnt-offerings,
and
the
fat
of
the peace-offerings,
because
the brazen
altar
which
Solomon
had
made
was
not
able
to receive
the burnt-offerings
and
the oblations
and
the
fat.
\VS{8}And
at
that
time
Solomon
held
the
feast
seven
days,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
a
very
great
congregation,
from
the
entrance
of
Hamath unto
the torrent
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}And
on
the
eighth
day
they
held
a
solemn
assembly;
for
they
kept
the
dedication
of
the
altar
seven
days,
and
the
feast
seven
days.
\VS{10}And
on
the
three
and
twentieth
day
of
the
seventh
month
he
sent
the
people
away
to
their
tents,
joyful
and
glad
of
heart
for
the goodness
that
Jehovah
had
done
to
David
and
to
Solomon,
and
to
Israel
his
people.
\VS{11}And
Solomon
completed
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the king's
house;
and
all
that
came
into Solomon's
heart
to
make
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
in
his own
house,
he
did prosperously.
\VS{12}Then
Jehovah
appeared
to
Solomon
by
night,
and
said
to
him:
I
have
heard thy
prayer,
and
I
have
chosen
for myself
this
place
for
a
house
of
sacrifice.
\VS{13}If
I
shut
up
the
heavens
that
there
be
no
rain,
or
if
I
command
the
locust
to
devour
the
land,
or
if
I
send
pestilence
among
my
people;
\VS{14}and
my
people,
who
are
called
by
my
name,
humble
themselves,
and
pray,
and
seek
my
face,
and
turn
from
their
wicked
ways;
then
will
I
hear
from
the
heavens,
and
forgive
their
sin,
and
heal
their
land.
\VS{15}Now mine
eyes
shall
be
open,
and mine
ears
attentive
to
the
prayer [made]
in
this
place;
\VS{16}for
I
have
now
chosen
and hallowed
this
house,
that
my
name
may
be
there
for
ever;
and mine
eyes
and
my
heart
shall
be
there
perpetually.
\VS{17}And [as
for] thee,
if thou wilt
walk
before
me,
as
David thy
father
walked,
to
do
according
to
all
that
I
have
commanded thee,
and wilt
keep
my
statutes
and mine
ordinances;
\VS{18}then
will
I
establish
the
throne
of thy
kingdom,
according
as
I
have
covenanted
with
David thy
father,
saying,
There
shall
not
fail thee
a
man
to
rule
over
Israel.
\VS{19}But
if ye
turn
away
and
forsake
my
statutes
and
my
commandments
which
I
have
set
before
you,
and
go
and
serve
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 7:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
and
worship
them;
\VS{20}then
will
I
pluck
them
up
by
the roots
out
of
my
land
which
I
have
given
them;
and
this
house,
which
I
have hallowed
to
my
name,
will
I
cast
out
of
my
sight,
and
will
make
it
a
proverb
and
a
byword
among
all
peoples.
\VS{21}And
this
house,
which
is high,
shall
be
an astonishment
to
every
one
that
passes
by
it;
so
that
he
shall
say,
Why
has
Jehovah
done
thus
to
this
land
and
to
this
house?
\VS{22}And
they
shall
say,
Because
they forsook
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 7:22 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers,
who
brought
them
forth
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
have attached
themselves
to
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 7:22 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
and
have worshipped
them
and
served
them;
therefore
he
has
brought
upon
them
all
this
evil.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
at
the
end
of
twenty
years,
when
Solomon
had
built
the
house
of
Jehovah
and
his
own
house,
\VS{2}that
the
cities
which
Huram
had
given
to
Solomon,
Solomon
built
them
and
caused
the
children
of
Israel
to
dwell
there.
\VS{3}And
Solomon went
to
Hamath-Zobah,
and overcame
it.
\VS{4}And
he
built
Tadmor,
in
the
wilderness,
and
all
the store-cities,
which
he
built
in
Hamath.
\VS{5}And
he
built
upper
Beth-Horon
and
lower
Beth-Horon,
fortified
cities,
with
walls,
gates,
and
bars;
\VS{6}and
Baalath,
and
all
the store-cities
that
Solomon
had,
and
all
the
cities
for
chariots,
and
the
cities
for
the
horsemen,
and
all
that
Solomon desired
to
build
in
Jerusalem,
and
on
Lebanon,
and
in
all
the
land
of
his dominion.
\VS{7}All
the
people
that
were
left
of
the
Hittites,
and
the
Amorites,
and
the
Perizzites,
and
the
Hivites,
and
the
Jebusites,
who
were
not
of
Israel,
\VS{8}their
children
that
were
left
after
them
in
the
land,
whom
the
children
of
Israel
had
not
destroyed, upon
them
did
Solomon impose tribute-service
until
this
day.
\VS{9}But
of
the
children
of
Israel,
of
them
did
Solomon
make
no bondmen
for
his
work;
but
they
were
men
of
war,
and
chief
of
his
captains,
and
captains
of
his
chariots
and
his
horsemen.
\VS{10}And
these
were
the
chief
of
king Solomon's superintendents,
two
hundred
and
fifty,
that
ruled
over
the
people.
\VS{11}And
Solomon
brought
up
the
daughter
of
Pharaoh
out
of
the
city
of
David
to
the
house
which
he
had
built
for
her;
for
he
said,
My
wife
shall
not
dwell
in
the
house
of
David
king
of
Israel,
because
the [places]
are
holy
to
which
the
ark
of
Jehovah
has
come.
\VS{12}Then
Solomon
offered
up burnt-offerings
to
Jehovah
on
the
altar
of
Jehovah,
which
he
had
built
before
the
porch;
\VS{13}even
as
the
duty
of
every
day
required,
offering according
to
the
commandment
of
Moses,
on
the
sabbaths,
and
on
the
new
moons,
and
at
the
set
feasts,
three
times
in
the
year, —
at
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread,
and
at
the
feast
of
weeks,
and
at
the
feast
of tabernacles.
\VS{14}And
he
appointed,
according
to
the
ordinance
of
David
his
father,
the
divisions
of
the
priests
for
their
service,
and
the
Levites
for
their charges,
to
praise
and
serve
before
the
priests,
as
the
duty
of
every
day
required;
and
the doorkeepers
by
their
divisions
at
every
gate:
for
such
was
the
commandment
of
David
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
\VS{15}and
they
did
not
depart
from
the
commandment
of
the
king
to
the
priests
and
the
Levites
concerning
any
matter,
nor
concerning
the
treasures.
\VS{16}And
all
the
work
of
Solomon
was
prepared,
to
the
day
of
the
foundation
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
and
to
its
completion. [So]
the
house
of
Jehovah
was
finished.
\VS{17}Then
went
Solomon
to
Ezion-geber,
and
to
Eloth,
on
the
seashore
in
the
land
of
Edom.
\VS{18}And
Huram
sent
him
by
his
servants
ships,
and
servants
that
had
knowledge
of
the
sea;
and
they
went
with
the
servants
of
Solomon
to
Ophir,
and fetched thence
four
hundred
and
fifty
talents
of
gold,
and
brought
them
to
king
Solomon.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
queen
of
Sheba
heard
of
the
fame
of
Solomon,
and
came
to
Jerusalem
to prove
Solomon
with enigmas;
with
a
very
great train,
and
camels
that
bore
spices
and
gold
in
great
abundance,
and
precious
stones;
and
she
came
to
Solomon,
and
spoke
with
him
of
all
that
was
in
her
heart.
\VS{2}And
Solomon explained
to
her
all
she
spoke
of,
and
there
was
not
a
thing
hidden
from
Solomon
that
he
did
not
explain
to
her.
\VS{3}And
when
the
queen
of
Sheba
saw
the
wisdom
of
Solomon,
and
the
house
that
he
had
built,
\VS{4}and
the
food
of
his
table,
and
the deportment
of
his
servants,
and
the order
of
service
of
his
attendants
and
their apparel,
and
his cupbearers
and
their apparel,
and
his
ascent
by
which
he
went
up
to
the
house
of
Jehovah,
there
was
no
more
spirit
in
her.
\VS{5}And
she
said
to
the
king,
It
was
a
true
report
that
I
heard
in mine own
land
of thine
affairs
and
of thy
wisdom;
\VS{6}but
I
gave
no credit
to
their
words,
until
I
came
and mine
eyes
had
seen;
and
behold,
the
half
of
the
greatness
of thy
wisdom
was
not
told
me: thou exceedest
the
report
that
I
heard.
\VS{7}Happy
are thy
men,
and
happy
are
these thy
servants,
who
stand
continually
before thee
and
hear thy
wisdom!
\VS{8}Blessed
be
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
who delighted
in thee,
to
set thee
on
his
throne,
to
be
king
to
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God!
Because thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God loved
Israel,
to
establish
them
for
ever,
therefore
did
he
make thee
king
over
them,
to
do
judgment
and
justice.
\VS{9}And
she
gave
the
king
a
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold,
and
spices
in
very
great
abundance,
and
precious
stones;
neither
was
there
any
such
spice
as
that
which
the
queen
of
Sheba
gave
to
king
Solomon.
\VS{10}(And
the
servants
also
of Huram,
and
the
servants
of
Solomon,
who
brought
gold
from
Ophir,
brought sandal-wood
and
precious
stones.
\VS{11}And
the
king
made
of
the sandal-wood stairs
for
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
for
the king's
house,
and
harps
and lutes
for
the
singers.
And
there
were
none
such
seen
before
in
the
land
of
Judah.)
\VS{12}And
king
Solomon
gave
to
the
queen
of
Sheba
all
her
desire,
whatever
she
asked,
besides
what
she
had
brought
to
the
king.
And
she
turned
and
went
to
her own
land,
she
and
her
servants.
\VS{13}And
the
weight
of
gold
that
came
to
Solomon
in
one
year
was
six
hundred
and sixty-six
talents
of
gold,
\VS{14}besides [what] dealers
and
merchants
brought,
and [what]
all
the
kings
of
Arabia
and
the
governors
of
the
country
brought
of
gold
and
silver
to
Solomon.
\VS{15}And
king
Solomon
made
two
hundred targets
of beaten
gold, —
he applied
six
hundred [shekels]
of beaten
gold
to
one target;
\VS{16}and
three
hundred
shields
of beaten
gold, —
he
applied
three
hundred [shekels]
of
gold
to
one
shield;
and
the
king
put
them
in
the
house
of
the
forest
of
Lebanon.
\VS{17}And
the
king
made
a
great
throne
of
ivory,
and
overlaid
it
with
pure
gold;
\VS{18}and
the
throne
had
six
steps,
with
a
footstool
of
gold
fastened
to
the
throne;
and
there
were
arms
on
each
side
at
the
place
of
the
seat,
and
two
lions
stood
beside
the
arms;
\VS{19}and
twelve
lions
stood
there
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other
upon
the
six
steps:
there
was
not
the
like
made
in
any
kingdom.
\VS{20}And
all
king Solomon's drinking
vessels
were
of
gold,
and
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
forest
of
Lebanon
were
of precious
gold:
silver
was
not
of
the least
account
in
the
days
of
Solomon.
\VS{21}For
the king's
ships
went
to
Tarshish
with
the
servants
of
Huram:
once
in
three
years
came
the
ships
of
Tarshish,
bringing
gold
and
silver,
ivory,
and
apes,
and
peacocks.
\VS{22}And
king
Solomon
was
greater
than
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
in
riches
and
wisdom.
\VS{23}And
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
sought
the
presence
of
Solomon,
to
hear
his
wisdom,
which
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
put
in
his
heart.
\VS{24}And
they
brought
every
man
his
present,
vessels
of
silver
and
vessels
of
gold,
and
clothing, armour,
and
spices,
horses
and
mules,
a rate
year
by
year.
\VS{25}And
Solomon
had
four
thousand
stalls
for
horses
and
chariots,
and
twelve
thousand
horsemen;
and
he
placed
them
in
the chariot-cities,
and
with
the
king
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}And
he
ruled
over
all
the
kings
from
the
river
as
far
as
the
land
of
the
Philistines,
and
up
to
the
border
of
Egypt.
\VS{27}And
the
king
made
silver
in
Jerusalem
as
stones,
and
cedars
made
he
as
the
sycamores
that
are
in
the
lowland
for
abundance.
\VS{28}And
they
brought
to
Solomon
horses
out
of
Egypt,
and
out
of
all
lands.
\VS{29}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Solomon
first
and
last,
are
they
not
written
in
the
words
of
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
in
the
prophecy
of
Ahijah
the
Shilonite,
and
in
the
visions
of
Iddo
the
seer
concerning
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat?
\VS{30}And
Solomon
reigned
in
Jerusalem
over
all
Israel
forty
years.
\VS{31}And
Solomon
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David
his
father;
and
Rehoboam
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Rehoboam
went
to
Shechem;
for
all
Israel
had
come
to
Shechem
to
make
him
king.
\VS{2}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
heard
it (now
he
was
in
Egypt, whither
he
had
fled
from
the
presence
of
king
Solomon)
that
Jeroboam
returned
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{3}And
they
sent
and
called
him;
and
Jeroboam
and
all
Israel
came
and
spoke
to
Rehoboam
saying,
\VS{4}Thy
father
made
our
yoke
grievous;
and
now
lighten
the
grievous
servitude
of thy
father,
and
his
heavy
yoke
that
he
put
upon
us,
and
we
will
serve thee.
\VS{5}And
he
said
to
them,
Come
again
to
me
after
three
days.
And
the
people departed.
\VS{6}And
king
Rehoboam
consulted
with
the
old
men,
who
had
stood
before
Solomon
his
father
while
he yet
lived,
saying,
How
do ye
advise
to
return
answer
to
this
people?
\VS{7}And
they
spoke
to
him
saying,
If thou
be
kind
to
this
people,
and
please
them,
and
speak
good
words
to
them,
they
will
be thy
servants
for
ever.
\VS{8}But
he forsook
the
advice
of
the
old
men
which
they
had
given
him,
and
consulted
with
the
young
men,
who
had
grown
up
with
him,
that
stood
before
him.
\VS{9}And
he
said
to
them,
What
advice
give ye
that
we
may
return
answer
to
this
people,
who
have
spoken
to
me
saying,
Lighten
the
yoke
which thy
father
put
upon
us?
\VS{10}And
the
young
men
that
had
grown
up
with
him
spoke
to
him
saying,
Thus shalt thou
say
to
the
people
who
have
spoken
to thee
saying, Thy
father
made
our
yoke
heavy,
and
lighten thou
it
for
us, —
thus shalt thou
say
to
them:
My
little [finger]
is
thicker
than
my father's
loins;
\VS{11}and
whereas
my
father laid
a
heavy
yoke
upon
you,
{\BD{
I}}
will
add
to
your
yoke:
my
father
chastised
you
with
whips,
but
{\BD{
I}} [will
chastise
you]
with
scorpions.
\VS{12}And
Jeroboam
and
all
the
people
came
to
Rehoboam
the
third
day,
as
the
king
had appointed
saying,
Come
again
to
me
on
the
third
day.
\VS{13}And
the
king
answered
them roughly;
and
king
Rehoboam forsook
the
advice
of
the
old
men,
\VS{14}and
spoke
to
them
according
to
the
advice
of
the
young
men,
saying,
My
father
made
your
yoke
heavy,
but
{\BD{
I}}
will
add
to
it;
my
father
chastised
you
with
whips,
but
{\BD{
I}} [will
chastise
you]
with
scorpions.
\VS{15}So
the
king hearkened
not
to
the
people;
for
it
was
brought
about
by
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 10:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
that
Jehovah
might
give
effect
to
his
word,
which
he
spoke
through
Ahijah
the
Shilonite
to
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat.
\VS{16}And
all
Israel
saw
that
the
king hearkened
not
to
them;
and
the
people
answered
the
king
saying,
What
portion
have
we
in
David?
and [we
have]
no
inheritance
in
the
son
of
Jesse:
every
man
to
your
tents,
O
Israel.
Now
see
to thine
own
house,
David!
And
all
Israel
went
to
their
tents.
\VS{17}But
as
for
the
children
of
Israel
that
dwelt
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
Rehoboam
reigned
over
them.
\VS{18}And
king
Rehoboam
sent
Hadoram,
who
was
over
the levy;
but
the
children
of
Israel
stoned
him
with
stones,
that
he
died.
And
king
Rehoboam hastened
to
mount
his
chariot,
to
flee
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}And
Israel
rebelled
against
the
house
of
David, unto
this
day.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Rehoboam
came
to
Jerusalem;
and
he
assembled
the
house
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
a
hundred
and
eighty
thousand chosen
men apt
for
war,
to
fight
against
Israel,
that
he
might
bring
the
kingdom
again
to
Rehoboam.
\VS{2}But
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
Shemaiah
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:2 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
saying,
\VS{3}Speak unto
Rehoboam,
the
son
of
Solomon,
king
of
Judah,
and unto
all
Israel
in
Judah
and
Benjamin,
saying,
\VS{4}Thus saith
Jehovah:
Go
not
up,
nor
fight
with
your
brethren;
return
every
man
to
his
house;
for
this
thing
is
from
me.
And
they hearkened
to
the
words
of
Jehovah,
and
returned
from
going
against
Jeroboam.
\VS{5}And
Rehoboam
dwelt
in
Jerusalem,
and
built
cities
for defence
in
Judah.
\VS{6}And
he
built
Bethlehem,
and
Etam,
and
Tekoa,
\VS{7}and
Beth-zur,
and
Soco,
and
Adullam,
\VS{8}and
Gath,
and
Mareshah,
and
Ziph,
\VS{9}and
Adoraim,
and
Lachish,
and
Azekah,
\VS{10}and
Zorah,
and Ajalon,
and
Hebron,
which
are
in
Judah
and
in
Benjamin,
fortified
cities.
\VS{11}And
he
fortified
the strongholds,
and
put captains
in
them,
and
stores
of victuals,
and
of
oil
and
wine;
\VS{12}and
in
every several
city, targets
and
spears,
and
made
them
exceedingly
strong.
And
Judah
and
Benjamin
were
his.
\VS{13}And
the
priests
and
the
Levites
that
were
in
all
Israel resorted
to
him
out
of
all
their
districts;
\VS{14}for
the
Levites
left
their suburbs
and
their
possessions,
and came
to
Judah
and
Jerusalem:
for
Jeroboam
and
his
sons
had cast
them
off
from exercising
the
priesthood
to
Jehovah;
\VS{15}and
he ordained
for himself
priests
for
the
high
places,
and
for
the he-goats
and
for
the
calves
that
he
had
made.
\VS{16}—
And
after
them,
those
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
that
set
their
heart
to
seek
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel
came
to
Jerusalem,
to
sacrifice
to
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{17}And
they
strengthened
the
kingdom
of
Judah,
and
made
Rehoboam
the
son
of
Solomon
strong
three
years;
for during
three
years
they
walked
in
the
way
of
David
and
Solomon.
\VS{18}And
Rehoboam
took
Mahalath
the
daughter
of Jerimoth
the
son
of
David
as
wife, [and
of]
Abihail
the
daughter
of
Eliab
the
son
of
Jesse.
\VS{19}And she
bore
him
children:
Jeush,
and
Shemariah,
and
Zaham.
\VS{20}And
after
her
he
took Maachah
the
daughter
of
Absalom;
and
she
bore
him
Abijah,
and
Attai,
and
Ziza,
and
Shelomith.
\VS{21}And
Rehoboam
loved Maachah
the
daughter
of
Absalom above
all
his
wives
and
his
concubines;
for
he
had
taken
eighteen
wives
and
sixty
concubines,
and
he
begot
twenty-eight
sons
and
sixty
daughters.
\VS{22}And
Rehoboam
established
Abijah
the
son
of Maachah
at
the
head,
to
be
ruler
among
his
brethren;
for [he thought]
to
make
him
king.
\VS{23}And
he dealt
wisely,
and dispersed
of
all
his
sons
throughout
all
the
lands
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
to
all
the
fortified
cities;
and
he
gave
them
food
in
abundance.
And
he
desired [for
them]
a
multitude
of
wives.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
kingdom
of
Rehoboam
was
established,
and
when
he
had
become
strong, [that]
he forsook
the
law
of
Jehovah,
and
all
Israel
with
him.
\VS{2}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
fifth
year
of
king
Rehoboam,
because
they
had transgressed
against
Jehovah,
that
Shishak
king
of
Egypt
came
up
against
Jerusalem,
\VS{3}with twelve
hundred
chariots
and
sixty
thousand
horsemen;
and
the
people
were
without
number
that
came
with
him
out
of
Egypt:
Libyans,
Sukkites,
and
Ethiopians.
\VS{4}And
he
took
the
fortified
cities
that belonged
to
Judah,
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}And
Shemaiah
the
prophet
came
to
Rehoboam
and [to]
the
princes
of
Judah
that
had
gathered
together
to
Jerusalem
because
of
Shishak,
and
said
to
them,
Thus saith
Jehovah: Ye
have forsaken
me,
and
therefore
have
I
also
left
you
in
the
hand
of
Shishak.
\VS{6}And
the
princes
of
Israel
and
the
king
humbled
themselves;
and
they
said,
Jehovah
is
righteous.
\VS{7}And
when
Jehovah
saw
that
they
humbled
themselves,
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
Shemaiah,
saying,
They
have
humbled
themselves:
I
will
not
destroy
them,
but
I
will
grant
them
a
little
deliverance;
and
my
wrath
shall
not
be
poured
out
upon
Jerusalem
by
the
hand
of
Shishak.
\VS{8}Nevertheless
they
shall
be
his
servants;
that
they
may
know
my
service,
and
the
service
of
the
kingdoms
of
the
countries.
\VS{9}And
Shishak
king
of
Egypt
came
up
against
Jerusalem,
and
took
away
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the
treasures
of
the king's
house;
he
took
away
all;
and
he
took
away
the
shields
of
gold
that
Solomon
had
made.
\VS{10}And
king
Rehoboam
made
in
their
stead
shields
of
bronze,
and
committed
them
to
the
hands
of
the
chief
of
the
couriers
who
kept
the
entrance
of
the king's
house.
\VS{11}And
it
was
so,
that
as
often
as
the
king
entered
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
the
couriers
came
and fetched
them,
and
brought
them
again
into
the chamber
of
the
couriers.
\VS{12}And
when
he
humbled
himself,
the
anger
of
Jehovah
turned
away
from
him,
that
he
would
not
destroy
him altogether;
and
also
in
Judah
there
were
good
things.
\VS{13}And
king
Rehoboam
strengthened
himself
in
Jerusalem,
and
reigned;
for
Rehoboam
was forty-one
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
seventeen
years
in
Jerusalem,
the
city
that
Jehovah
had
chosen
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
to
put
his
name
there:
and
his mother's
name
was
Naamah
an
Ammonitess.
\VS{14}And
he
did
evil,
for
he applied
not
his
heart
to
seek
Jehovah.
\VS{15}And
the
acts
of
Rehoboam,
first
and
last,
are
they
not
written
in
the
words
of
Shemaiah
the
prophet,
and
of
Iddo
the
seer,
in
the
genealogical
registers?
And
there
were
wars
between
Rehoboam
and
Jeroboam
continually.
\VS{16}And
Rehoboam
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
the
city
of
David.
And
Abijah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
eighteenth
year
of
king
Jeroboam began
Abijah
to
reign
over
Judah.
\VS{2}He
reigned
three
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was Michaiah,
the
daughter
of
Uriel
of
Gibeah.
And
there
was
war
between
Abijah
and
Jeroboam.
\VS{3}And
Abijah
began
the
war
with
an
army
of
men
of
war,
four
hundred
thousand chosen
men;
and
Jeroboam set
the
battle
in
array
against
him
with
eight
hundred
thousand chosen
men,
mighty
men
of valour.
\VS{4}And
Abijah
stood
up
on
the
top
of
mount
Zemaraim,
which
is
in
mount
Ephraim,
and
said,
Hear
me,
Jeroboam,
and
all
Israel!
\VS{5}Ought ye
not
to
know
that
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel
gave
the
kingdom
over
Israel
to
David
for
ever,
to
him
and
to
his
sons [by]
a
covenant
of
salt?
\VS{6}But
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
the
servant
of
Solomon
the
son
of
David,
rose
up
and
rebelled
against
his
lord.
\VS{7}And vain
men,
sons
of Belial,
gathered
to
him
and
strengthened
themselves
against
Rehoboam
the
son
of
Solomon,
and
Rehoboam
was
young
and faint-hearted,
and
did
not shew
himself
strong
against
them.
\VS{8}And
now ye
think
to shew
yourselves
strong
against
the
kingdom
of
Jehovah
in
the
hand
of
the
sons
of
David;
and ye
are
a
great
multitude,
and ye
have
with
you
the
golden
calves
that
Jeroboam
made
you
for
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods.
\VS{9}Have ye
not
cast
out
the
priests
of
Jehovah,
the
sons
of
Aaron,
and
the
Levites,
and
made
you
priests
as
the
peoples
of
the
lands?
whoever
comes
to consecrate
himself
with
a
young bullock
and
seven
rams,
he
becomes
a
priest
of
what
is
not
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{10}But
as
for us,
Jehovah
is
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
we
have
not forsaken
him;
and
the
priests
that
serve
Jehovah
are
the
sons
of
Aaron,
and
the
Levites
are
at
their
work:
\VS{11}and
they
burn
to
Jehovah
every
morning
and
every
evening burnt-offerings
and
sweet
incense;
the
loaves
also
are set
in order
upon
the
pure
table;
and
the candlestick
of
gold
with
its
lamps
to
burn
every
evening:
for
{\BD{
we}}
keep
the
charge
of
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:11 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
but
{\BD{ye}}
have forsaken
him.
\VS{12}And
behold,
we
have
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
with
us
at
our
head,
and
his
priests,
and
the loud-sounding
trumpets
to
sound
an
alarm
against
you.
Children
of
Israel,
do
not
fight
with
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
your
fathers;
for ye
shall
not
prosper.
\VS{13}But
Jeroboam
caused
an
ambush
to
come
about
behind
them;
and
they
were
before
Judah,
and
the
ambush
behind
them.
\VS{14}And
Judah
looked
back,
and
behold,
they
had
the
battle
in
front
and
behind;
and
they
cried
to
Jehovah,
and
the
priests
sounded
with
the
trumpets.
\VS{15}And
the
men
of
Judah
gave
a
shout;
and
as
the
men
of
Judah
shouted,
it
came
to
pass
that
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
smote
Jeroboam
and
all
Israel
before
Abijah
and
Judah.
\VS{16}And
the
children
of
Israel
fled
before
Judah;
and
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
delivered
them
into
their
hand.
\VS{17}And
Abijah
and
his
people
slew
them
with
a
great
slaughter;
and there
fell
down
slain
of
Israel
five
hundred
thousand chosen
men.
\VS{18}And
the
children
of
Israel
were
humbled
at
that
time,
and
the
children
of
Judah
were
strengthened,
because
they
relied
upon
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{19}And
Abijah
pursued
after
Jeroboam,
and
took
cities
from
him:
Bethel
with
its dependent
villages,
and
Jeshanah
with
its dependent
villages,
and
Ephron
with
its dependent
villages.
\VS{20}And
Jeroboam
did
not
recover
strength
again
in
the
days
of
Abijah;
and
Jehovah
smote
him,
and
he
died.
\VS{21}But
Abijah
strengthened
himself,
and
took
fourteen
wives,
and
begot
twenty-two
sons
and
sixteen
daughters.
\VS{22}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Abijah,
and
his
ways
and
his
sayings,
are
written
in
the
treatise
of
the
prophet
Iddo.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Abijah slept
with
his fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the city
of David.
And
Asa
his son reigned
in
his stead.
In
his days
the land
was quiet ten years.
\VS{2}And Asa did what was good
and right
in
the sight
of Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:2 }
Elohim}God;
\VS{3}and
he
took away
the altars
of
the strange [gods]
and
the high
places,
and broke
the columns,
and cut down
the Asherahs;
\VS{4}and commanded
Judah
to seek Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:4 }
Elohim}God
of
their fathers,
and
to practise
the law
and
the commandment.
\VS{5}And
he removed out
of all
the
cities
of
Judah
the high places
and
the sun-images;
and
the kingdom
was
quiet
before
him.
\VS{6}And
he
built
fortified
cities
in
Judah,
for
the
land
had
rest,
and
he
had no war
in
those years;
because
Jehovah
had
given
him
rest.
\VS{7}And
he said
to
Judah,
Let us build
these cities,
and surround
them
with walls
and
towers, gates
and bars,
while
the land
is yet before us;
for
we
have sought Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:7 }
Elohim}God;
we
have sought
him,
and
he
has given us
rest
on
every side.
And
they built
and prospered.
\VS{8}And Asa
had
an
army
that bore targets
and spears:
out
of Judah
three
hundred
thousand;
and
out
of Benjamin,
that bore shields
and drew
the bow,
two
hundred
and eighty
thousand:
all these,
mighty men
of valour.
\VS{9}And Zerah
the Ethiopian
came
out
against
him
with
a host
of
a thousand thousand,
and three hundred chariots,
and
he
came
to
Mareshah.
\VS{10}And
Asa
went
out
against
him,
and
they
set
the battle
in array
in
the valley
of Zephathah
near Mareshah.
\VS{11}And
Asa cried unto
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:11 }
Elohim}God,
and said,
Jehovah,
it maketh no difference
to thee
to help, whether
there
be much
or no power: help
us,
O
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:11 }
Elohim}God,
for we rely
on thee,
and
in thy name
have we come
against
this multitude.
Jehovah, thou art
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:11 }
Elohim}God; let not man prevail
against thee.
\VS{12}And
Jehovah smote
the
Ethiopians
before
Asa
and
before Judah;
and
the
Ethiopians fled.
\VS{13}And Asa
and
the people
that
were
with
him pursued
them
to
Gerar;
and
the Ethiopians
were
overthrown,
that
none
of
them
was
left alive;
for
they
were crushed
before
Jehovah
and
before
his army.
And
they
carried
away
very
much
spoil.
\VS{14}And
they
smote
all
the cities round
about Gerar,
for
the terror
of Jehovah
came upon
them;
and
they spoiled
all
the cities,
for
there
was
very
much spoil
in
them.
\VS{15}They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
Spirit
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:1 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
came
upon
Azariah
the
son
of
Oded.
\VS{2}And
he
went
out
to
meet
Asa,
and
said
to
him,
Hear ye
me,
Asa,
and
all
Judah
and
Benjamin:
Jehovah
is
with
you
while ye
are
with
him;
and
if ye
seek
him
he
will
be
found
of
you,
but
if ye
forsake
him
he
will
forsake
you.
\VS{3}Now
for
a
long
while
Israel [was]
without
the
true
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:3 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
without
a
teaching
priest,
and
without
law;
\VS{4}but
in
their
trouble
they
turned
to
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
and
sought
him,
and
he
was
found
of
them.
\VS{5}And
in
those times
there [was]
no
peace
to
him
that
went
out
nor
to
him
that
came
in,
but
great
disturbances
were amongst
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
countries.
\VS{6}And
nation
was
broken
against
nation,
and
city
against
city;
for
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God disturbed
them
with
all manner
of
distress.
\VS{7}But
as
for
you,
be
firm
and
let
not
your
hands
be weak;
for
there
is
a
reward
for
your
deeds.
\VS{8}And
when
Asa
heard
these
words
and
the
prophecy
of
Oded
the
prophet,
he
took
courage,
and
put
away
the
abominations
out
of
all
the
land
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
and
out
of
the
cities
that
he
had
taken
from
mount
Ephraim,
and
renewed
the
altar
of
Jehovah,
that
was
before
the
porch
of
Jehovah.
\VS{9}And
he
assembled
all
Judah
and
Benjamin,
and
the strangers
with
them
out
of
Ephraim
and
Manasseh,
and
out
of
Simeon;
for
they
fell
away
to
him
out
of
Israel
in
abundance,
when
they
saw
that
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
was
with
him.
\VS{10}And
they
assembled
themselves
at
Jerusalem
in
the
third
month
of
the fifteenth
year
of
the
reign
of
Asa.
\VS{11}And
they
sacrificed
to
Jehovah
in
that
day,
of
the
spoil
that
they
had
brought,
seven
hundred
oxen
and
seven
thousand
sheep.
\VS{12}And
they
entered
into
a
covenant
to
seek
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers,
with
all
their
heart,
and
with
all
their
soul,
\VS{13}and
that
whoever
would
not
seek
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel
should
be
put
to
death,
whether
small
or
great,
whether
man
or
woman.
\VS{14}And
they
swore
to
Jehovah
with
a
loud
voice,
and
with
shouting,
and
with
trumpets,
and
with cornets.
\VS{15}And
all
Judah
rejoiced
at
the
oath;
for
they
took
the
oath
with
all
their
heart,
and
sought
him
with
their
whole
desire;
and
he
was
found
of
them.
And
Jehovah
gave
them
rest
round
about.
\VS{16}And
also Maachah,
the
mother
of
Asa
the
king,
he
removed
from
being
queen,
because
she
had
made
an idol
for
the
Asherah;
and
Asa
cut
down
her idol,
and stamped
it,
and
burned
it
in
the
valley
Kidron.
\VS{17}But
the
high
places
were
not
removed
from
Israel;
only, Asa's
heart
was
perfect
all
his
days.
\VS{18}And
he
brought
into
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
the
things
which
his
father
had
dedicated,
and
the
things
which
he
himself
had
dedicated,
silver,
and
gold,
and
vessels.
\VS{19}And
there
was
no
war
until
the thirty-fifth
year
of
the
reign
of
Asa.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the thirty-sixth
year
of
the
reign
of
Asa,
Baasha
king
of
Israel
came
up
against
Judah,
and
built
Ramah,
in order
to
let none
go
out
or
come
in
to
Asa
king
of
Judah.
\VS{2}And
Asa
brought
out
silver
and
gold
out
of
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
and
of
the king's
house,
and
sent
to
Ben-hadad
king
of
Syria,
who
dwelt
at
Damascus,
saying,
\VS{3}There
is
a
league
between
me
and thee,
and
between
my
father
and thy
father:
behold,
I
send thee
silver
and
gold;
go,
break thy
league
with
Baasha
king
of
Israel,
that
he
may
depart
from
me.
\VS{4}And
Ben-hadad hearkened
to
king
Asa,
and
sent
the
captains
of
his
forces
against
the
cities
of
Israel;
and
they
smote
Ijon
and
Dan
and Abelmaim,
and
all
the store-magazines
of
the
cities
of
Naphtali.
\VS{5}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Baasha
heard
of
it,
that
he
left
off
building
Ramah,
and
let
his
work
cease.
\VS{6}And
king
Asa
took
all
Judah;
and
they
carried
away
the
stones
and
the
timber
from
Ramah,
with
which
Baasha
had
been
building,
and
he
built
with
them
Geba
and
Mizpah.
\VS{7}And
at
that
time
Hanani
the seer
came
to
Asa
king
of
Judah,
and
said unto
him,
Because thou hast
relied
on
the
king
of
Syria,
and hast
not
relied
on
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 16:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
therefore
has
the
army
of
the
king
of
Syria
escaped
out
of thy
hand.
\VS{8}Were
not
the
Ethiopians
and
the
Libyans
a huge
army,
with
very
many
chariots
and
horsemen?
but
when thou didst
rely
on
Jehovah,
he
delivered
them
into thy
hand.
\VS{9}For
the
eyes
of
Jehovah run
to
and fro
through
the
whole
earth,
to shew
himself
strong
in
the
behalf
of
those
whose
heart
is
perfect
toward
him. Herein thou hast
done
foolishly;
for
from henceforth thou shalt
have
wars.
\VS{10}And
Asa
was wroth
with
the seer,
and
put
him
in
the
prison;
for
he
was
enraged
with
him
because
of
this.
And
Asa
oppressed
some
of
the
people
at
the
same
time.
\VS{11}And
behold
the
acts
of
Asa,
first
and
last,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel.
\VS{12}And
Asa
in
the thirty-ninth
year
of
his
reign
was
diseased
in
his
feet,
until
his
disease
was extremely great;
yet
in
his
disease
he
did
not
seek
Jehovah,
but
the
physicians.
\VS{13}And
Asa
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
died
in
the one-and-fortieth
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{14}And
they
buried
him
in
his own sepulchre,
which
he
had excavated
for himself
in
the
city
of
David,
and
laid
him
in
a
bed
filled
with
spices,
a
mixture
of divers
kinds prepared
by
the perfumer's
art;
and
they
made
a
very
great
burning
for
him.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehoshaphat
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead,
and
strengthened
himself
against
Israel.
\VS{2}And
he
placed
forces
in
all
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah,
and
set
garrisons
in
the
land
of
Judah,
and
in
the
cities
of
Ephraim
that
Asa
his
father
had
taken.
\VS{3}And
Jehovah
was
with
Jehoshaphat,
for
he
walked
in
the
first
ways
of
his
father
David,
and
sought
not unto
the
Baals;
\VS{4}but
he
sought
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
his
father,
and
walked
in
his
commandments,
and
not
after
the doings
of
Israel.
\VS{5}And
Jehovah
established
the
kingdom
in
his
hand;
and
all
Judah
gave
gifts
to
Jehoshaphat;
and
he
had
riches
and honour
in
abundance.
\VS{6}And
he
took
courage
in
the
ways
of
Jehovah;
moreover,
he
removed
the
high
places
and Asherahs
out
of
Judah.
\VS{7}And
in
the
third
year
of
his
reign
he
sent
his
princes,
Ben-hail,
and
Obadiah,
and
Zechariah,
and Nethaneel,
and Micah,
to
teach
in
the
cities
of
Judah;
\VS{8}and
with them
the
Levites:
Shemaiah,
and
Nethaniah,
and
Zebadiah,
and
Asahel,
and
Shemiramoth,
and
Jonathan,
and
Adonijah,
and
Tobijah,
and Tob-Adonijah,
Levites;
and
with them
Elishama
and
Jehoram,
the
priests.
\VS{9}And
they
taught
in
Judah,
and
had
the
book
of
the
law
of
Jehovah
with
them;
and
they
went
about
through
all
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
taught
among
the
people.
\VS{10}And
the
terror
of
Jehovah
was
upon
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
lands
that
were
round
about
Judah,
and
they
made
no war
against
Jehoshaphat.
\VS{11}And
some
of
the
Philistines
brought
Jehoshaphat
gifts
and tribute-silver.
The Arabians
also
brought
him
flocks,
seven
thousand
seven
hundred
rams,
and
seven
thousand
seven
hundred he-goats.
\VS{12}And
Jehoshaphat waxed exceeding great;
and
he
built
in
Judah castles
and store-cities.
\VS{13}And
he
had
much
business
in
the
cities
of
Judah;
and
men
of
war,
strong
and
valiant,
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{14}And
these
are
the numbers
of
them according
to
their fathers'
houses.
Of
Judah
the
captains
of
thousands: Adnah
the
captain,
and
with
him
three
hundred
thousand
mighty
men
of valour;
\VS{15}and
next
to
him
was
Johanan
the
captain,
and
with
him
two
hundred
and
eighty
thousand;
\VS{16}and
next
to
him,
Amasiah
the
son
of
Zichri,
who
willingly
offered
himself
to
Jehovah;
and
with
him
two
hundred
thousand
mighty
men
of valour.
\VS{17}And
of
Benjamin:
Eliada,
a
mighty
man
of valour,
and
with
him
two
hundred
thousand,
armed
with
bow
and
shield;
\VS{18}and
next
to
him
was
Jehozabad,
and
with
him
a
hundred
and
eighty
thousand ready
prepared
for
war.
\VS{19}These
were
they
that waited
on
the
king,
besides
those
that
the
king
had
put
in
the
fortified
cities
throughout
Judah.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehoshaphat
had
riches
and honour
in
abundance;
and
he
allied himself
with
Ahab
by
marriage.
\VS{2}And
after [certain]
years
he
went
down
to
Ahab,
to
Samaria.
And
Ahab killed
sheep
and
oxen
for
him
in
abundance,
and
for
the
people
that
were
with
him,
and urged
him
to
go
up
against
Ramoth-Gilead.
\VS{3}And
Ahab
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah, Wilt thou go
with
me
to
Ramoth-Gilead?
And
he
said
to
him,
I am
as thou,
and
my
people
as thy
people;
and [I
will
be]
with thee
in
the
war.
\VS{4}And
Jehoshaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
Inquire,
I
pray thee,
this
day
of
the
word
of
Jehovah.
\VS{5}And
the
king
of
Israel
assembled
the
prophets,
four
hundred
men,
and
said
to
them,
Shall
we
go
against
Ramoth-Gilead
to
battle,
or
shall
I forbear?
And
they
said,
Go
up,
and
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
will
give
it
into
the king's
hand.
\VS{6}But
Jehoshaphat
said,
Is
there
not
here
a
prophet
of
Jehovah
besides,
that we
might
inquire
of
him?
\VS{7}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
There
is
yet
one
man
by
whom
we
may
inquire
of
Jehovah;
but
I
hate
him,
for
he
prophesies
no
good
concerning
me,
but
always
evil: [it
is]
Micah
the
son
of
Imlah.
And
Jehoshaphat
said,
Let
not
the
king
say
so.
\VS{8}Then
the
king
of
Israel
called
a chamberlain,
and
said, Fetch
quickly
Micah
the
son
of
Imlah.
\VS{9}And
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah,
having
put
on
their
robes,
sat
each
on
his
throne;
and
they
sat
in
an
open
place
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
Samaria;
and
all
the
prophets
prophesied
before
them.
\VS{10}And
Zedekiah
the
son
of
Chenaanah
made
for himself
horns
of
iron,
and
he
said,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
With
these shalt thou
push
the Syrians,
until thou
have
exterminated
them.
\VS{11}And
all
the
prophets
prophesied
so,
saying,
Go
up
to
Ramoth-Gilead,
and
prosper;
for
Jehovah
will
give
it
into
the king's
hand.
\VS{12}And
the
messenger
that
went
to
call
Micah
spoke
to
him
saying,
Behold,
the
words
of
the
prophets [declare]
good
to
the
king
with
one assent:
let thy
word
therefore,
I
pray thee,
be
like
one
of
theirs,
and
declare
good.
\VS{13}And
Micah
said,
As
Jehovah liveth,
even
what
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
shall
say,
that
will
I
declare.
\VS{14}And
he
came
to
the
king.
And
the
king
said
to
him,
Micah,
shall
we
go
against
Ramoth-Gilead
to
battle,
or
shall
I forbear?
And
he
said,
Go ye
up,
and
prosper;
and
they
will
be
given
into
your
hands.
\VS{15}And
the
king
said
to
him,
How
many
times
shall
I
adjure thee
that thou
tell
me
nothing
but
truth
in
the
name
of
Jehovah?
\VS{16}And
he
said,
I
saw
all
Israel
scattered
upon
the
mountains,
as
sheep
that
have
no
shepherd.
And
Jehovah
said,
These
have
no
master:
let
them
return
every
man
to
his
house
in
peace.
\VS{17}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
Did
I
not
tell thee
that
he
prophesies
no
good
concerning
me,
but
evil?
\VS{18}And
he
said,
Hear ye
therefore
the
word
of
Jehovah:
I
saw
Jehovah
sitting
upon
his
throne,
and
all
the
host
of
heaven
standing
on
his
right
hand
and
on
his
left;
\VS{19}and
Jehovah
said,
Who
shall entice
Ahab
king
of
Israel
that
he
may
go
up
and
fall
at
Ramoth-Gilead?
And
one
spoke
saying after
this
manner,
and
another
saying after
that
manner.
\VS{20}And
there
came
forth
a
spirit,
and
stood
before
Jehovah
and
said,
I
will entice
him.
And
Jehovah
said unto
him, Wherewith?
\VS{21}And
he
said,
I
will
go
forth,
and
will
be
a
lying
spirit
in
the
mouth
of
all
his
prophets.
And
he
said, Thou shalt entice [him],
and
also
succeed:
go
forth,
and
do
so.
\VS{22}And
now,
behold,
Jehovah
has
put
a
lying
spirit
in
the
mouth
of
these thy
prophets;
and
Jehovah
has
spoken
evil
concerning thee.
\VS{23}Then
Zedekiah
the
son
of
Chenaanah
went
near,
and
smote
Micah
upon
the
cheek,
and
said,
Which
way
now
went
the
Spirit
of
Jehovah
from
me
to
speak
to thee?
\VS{24}And
Micah
said,
Behold, thou shalt
see
on
that
day
when thou shalt
go
from
chamber
to
chamber
to
hide thyself.
\VS{25}And
the
king
of
Israel
said,
Take ye
Micah,
and
carry
him
back
to
Amon
the
governor
of
the
city,
and
to
Joash
the king's
son;
\VS{26}and ye
shall
say,
Thus
says
the
king:
Put
this [man]
in
the
prison,
and
feed
him
with
bread
of affliction
and
with
water
of affliction,
until
I
return
in
peace.
\VS{27}And
Micah
said,
If thou
return
at
all
in
peace,
Jehovah
has
not
spoken
by
me.
And
he
said, Hearken,
O
peoples,
all
of
you!
\VS{28}And
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah
went
up
to
Ramoth-Gilead.
\VS{29}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
I
will
disguise myself,
and
will
enter
into
the
battle;
but
put thou
on thy
robes.
And
the
king
of
Israel
disguised
himself;
and
they
went
into
the
battle.
\VS{30}And
the
king
of
Syria
commanded
the
captains
of
his
chariots
saying,
Fight
neither
with
small
nor
great,
but
with
the
king
of
Israel
only.
\VS{31}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
captains
of
the
chariots
saw
Jehoshaphat,
that
they
said,
That
is
the
king
of
Israel;
and
they
surrounded
him
to
fight;
and
Jehoshaphat
cried
out,
and
Jehovah
helped
him;
and
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:31 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
diverted
them
from
him.
\VS{32}And
it
came
to
pass
that
when
the
captains
of
the
chariots
perceived
that
it
was
not
the
king
of
Israel,
they
turned
back
from
pursuing
him.
\VS{33}And
a
man
drew
a
bow
at
a venture,
and
smote
the
king
of
Israel
between
the fastenings
and
the corslet.
And
he
said
to
the charioteer,
Turn thy
hand
and drive
me
out
of
the
camp;
for
I am
wounded.
\VS{34}And
the
battle increased
that
day;
and
the
king
of
Israel
stayed
himself
up
in
his
chariot
against
the Syrians
until
the
even;
and
about
the
time
of
the
going
down
of
the
sun
he
died.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah
returned
to
his
house
in
peace
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani,
the
seer,
went
out
to
meet
him,
and
said
to
king
Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou
help
the
ungodly,
and
love
them
that
hate
Jehovah?
Therefore
is
wrath
upon thee
from
Jehovah.
\VS{3}Nevertheless
there
are
good
things
found
in thee;
for thou hast
put
away
the Asherahs
out
of
the
land,
and hast
directed thy
heart
to
seek
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:3 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{4}And
Jehoshaphat
dwelt
in
Jerusalem;
and
he
went
out
again
among
the
people
from Beer-sheba
to
mount
Ephraim,
and
brought
them
back
to
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{5}And
he
set
judges
in
the
land
throughout
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah,
city
by
city.
\VS{6}And
he
said
to
the
judges,
Take
heed
what ye
do;
for ye
judge
not
for
man,
but
for
Jehovah,
who
will
be
with
you
in
the
matter
of
judgment.
\VS{7}And
now,
let
the
terror
of
Jehovah
be
upon
you;
be
careful
what ye
do,
for
there
is
no
iniquity
with
Jehovah,
nor
respect
of persons,
nor
taking
of presents.
\VS{8}—
And
moreover
in
Jerusalem did
Jehoshaphat
set
some
of
the
Levites
and
priests,
and
of
the
chief
fathers
of
Israel,
for
the
judgment
of
Jehovah
and
for causes. —
And
they
returned
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}And
he
charged
them
saying,
Thus
shall ye
do
in
the
fear
of
Jehovah
faithfully
and
with
a
perfect
heart.
\VS{10}And
what
cause soever
comes
to
you
of
your
brethren
that
dwell
in
their
cities,
between
blood
and
blood,
between
law
and
commandment,
statutes
and
ordinances, ye
shall
even
warn
them
that
they trespass
not
against
Jehovah,
and
so
wrath
come
upon
you
and
upon
your
brethren:
this
do
and ye
shall
not trespass.
\VS{11}And
behold,
Amariah
the
chief
priest
is
over
you
in
all
matters
of
Jehovah,
and
Zebadiah
the
son
of
Ishmael,
prince
of
the
house
of
Judah,
in
all
the king's
matters;
and ye
have
the
Levites
before
you
as
officers.
Be
strong
and
do
it,
and
Jehovah
will
be
with
the
good.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
after
this [that]
the
children
of
Moab,
and
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
with
them certain
of
the Maonites,
came
against
Jehoshaphat
to
battle.
\VS{2}And
they
came
and
told
Jehoshaphat
saying,
A
great
multitude
is
come
against thee
from
beyond
the
sea,
from
Syria;
and
behold,
they
are
in
Hazazon-tamar,
which
is
Engedi.
\VS{3}And
Jehoshaphat
feared,
and
set
himself
to
seek
Jehovah,
and
proclaimed
a
fast
throughout
Judah.
\VS{4}And
Judah
gathered
themselves
together
to ask [help]
of
Jehovah:
even
out
of
all
the
cities
of
Judah
they
came
to
seek
Jehovah.
\VS{5}And
Jehoshaphat
stood
in
the
congregation
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
before
the
new
court;
\VS{6}and
he
said,
Jehovah,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
our
fathers, art
not thou
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
in
the
heavens,
and rulest thou
not
over
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
nations?
And
in thy
hand
there
is
power
and
might,
and
none
can withstand thee.
\VS{7}Hast
not thou,
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
dispossessed
the
inhabitants
of
this
land
before thy
people
Israel,
and
given
it
for
ever
to
the
seed
of
Abraham, thy
friend?
\VS{8}And
they
have
dwelt therein,
and
have
built thee
a
sanctuary therein
for thy
name,
saying,
\VS{9}If
evil
come
upon
us,
sword,
judgment,
or
pestilence,
or
famine,
and
we
stand
before
this
house
and
before thee —
for thy
name
is
in
this
house —
and
cry unto thee
in
our
distress,
then thou wilt
hear
and
save.
\VS{10}And
now,
behold,
the
children
of
Ammon
and
Moab,
and
those
of
mount
Seir, amongst
whom thou wouldest
not
let
Israel
go
when
they
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt, (for
they
turned
from
them,
and
destroyed
them
not,)
\VS{11}behold,
they reward
us,
in
coming
to
cast
us
out
of thy
possession,
which thou hast
given
us
to
possess.
\VS{12}Our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God, wilt thou
not
judge
them?
for
we
have
no
might
in
presence
of
this
great company
which cometh
against
us,
neither
know
we
what
to
do;
but
our
eyes
are
upon thee.
\VS{13}And
all
Judah
stood
before
Jehovah,
with
their
little
ones,
their
wives,
and
their
sons.
\VS{14}And
upon
Jahaziel
the
son
of
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jeiel,
the
son
of
Mattaniah,
a
Levite
of
the
sons
of
Asaph,
upon
him
came
the
Spirit
of
Jehovah,
in
the
midst
of
the
congregation;
\VS{15}and
he
said,
Be
attentive,
all
Judah,
and ye
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
and thou
king
Jehoshaphat!
Thus saith
Jehovah unto
you:
Fear
not,
nor
be
dismayed
by reason
of
this
great
multitude;
for
the
battle
is
not
yours,
but
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God's.
\VS{16}To-morrow
go
down
against
them:
behold,
they
come
up
by
the
ascent
of
Ziz;
and ye
shall
find
them
at
the
end
of
the
valley,
before
the
wilderness
of Jeruel.
\VS{17}Ye
shall
not
have
to
fight
on
this occasion:
set
yourselves,
stand
and
see
the
salvation
of
Jehovah [who
is]
with
you!
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
fear
not
nor
be
dismayed; to-morrow
go
out
against
them,
and
Jehovah
will
be
with
you.
\VS{18}And
Jehoshaphat
bowed
his
head
with
his
face
to
the
ground;
and
all
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
fell
down
before
Jehovah, worshipping
Jehovah.
\VS{19}And
the
Levites,
of
the
sons
of
the
Kohathites,
and
of
the
sons
of
the
Korahites,
stood
up
to
praise
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel
with
an exceeding
loud
voice.
\VS{20}And
they
rose
early
in
the
morning,
and
went
forth towards
the
wilderness
of
Tekoa;
and
as
they
went
forth,
Jehoshaphat
stood
and
said,
Hear
me,
Judah,
and ye
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem!
Believe
in
Jehovah
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and ye
shall
be
established;
believe
his
prophets,
and ye
shall
prosper!
\VS{21}And
he
consulted
with
the
people,
and
appointed
singers
to
Jehovah,
and
those
that
should
praise
in
holy splendour,
as
they
went
forth
before
the
armed
men,
and
say,
Give
thanks
to
Jehovah;
for
his loving-kindness [endureth]
for
ever!
\VS{22}And
when
they
began
the
song
of triumph
and
praise,
Jehovah
set liers-in-wait
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
Moab,
and
mount
Seir,
who
had
come
against
Judah,
and
they
were smitten.
\VS{23}And
the
children
of
Ammon
and
Moab
stood
up
against
the
inhabitants
of
mount
Seir,
to
exterminate
and
destroy [them];
and
when
they
had made
an
end
of
the
inhabitants
of
Seir,
they
helped
to
destroy
one
another.
\VS{24}And
Judah
came
on
to
the mountain-watch
in
the
wilderness,
and
they
looked
toward
the
multitude;
and
behold,
they
were
dead
bodies
fallen
to
the
earth,
and
none
had
escaped.
\VS{25}And
Jehoshaphat
and
his
people
came
to
plunder
the
spoil
of
them,
and
they
found
among
them
in
abundance, both riches
with
the
dead
bodies,
and
precious
things,
and
they
stripped
off
for themselves
more
than
they
could
carry
away;
and
they
were
three
days
in plundering
the
spoil,
it
was
so
much.
\VS{26}And
on
the
fourth
day
they
assembled
themselves
in
the
valley
of
Berachah,
for
there
they
blessed
Jehovah;
therefore
the
name
of
that
place
was
called
The
valley
of
Berachah,
to
this
day.
\VS{27}And
they
returned,
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
and
Jehoshaphat
at
their
head,
to
go
again
to
Jerusalem
with
joy;
for
Jehovah
had
made
them
to
rejoice
over
their
enemies.
\VS{28}And
they
came
to
Jerusalem
with lutes
and
harps
and
trumpets,
to
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{29}And
the
terror
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:29 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
was
on
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
lands,
when
they
had
heard
that
Jehovah
fought
against
the
enemies
of
Israel.
\VS{30}And
the
realm
of
Jehoshaphat
was
quiet;
and
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:30 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
gave
him
rest
round
about.
\VS{31}And
Jehoshaphat
reigned
over
Judah:
he
was thirty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
twenty-five
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Azubah,
daughter
of
Shilhi.
\VS{32}And
he walked
in
the
way
of
Asa
his
father,
and
turned
not
aside
from
it,
doing
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah.
\VS{33}Only,
the
high
places
were
not
removed;
and
as
yet
the
people
had
not
directed
their
hearts
to
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:33 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{34}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoshaphat,
first
and
last,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
words
of
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani,
which
are inserted
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{35}And
after
this
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah
joined
himself
with
Ahaziah
king
of
Israel,
who
did very
wickedly.
\VS{36}And
he
joined himself
with
him
to
make
ships
to go
to
Tarshish;
and
they
made
the
ships
in
Ezion-geber.
\VS{37}And
Eliezer
the
son
of Dodavah,
of
Mareshah,
prophesied
against
Jehoshaphat,
saying,
Because thou hast
joined thyself
with
Ahaziah,
Jehovah
has
broken thy
works.
And
the
ships
were
broken,
and
could
not go
to
Tarshish.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehoshaphat
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David;
and
Jehoram
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{2}And
he
had
brethren,
the
sons
of
Jehoshaphat:
Azariah
and
Jehiel,
and
Zechariah,
and
Azariah,
and
Michael,
and
Shephatiah:
all
these
were
sons
of
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Israel.
\VS{3}And
their
father
had
given
them
great
gifts
of
silver
and
of
gold
and
of
precious
things,
besides
fortified
cities
in
Judah;
but
the
kingdom
he
gave
to
Jehoram,
for
he
was
the
firstborn.
\VS{4}And
Jehoram
established
himself
over
the
kingdom
of
his
father,
and
strengthened
himself;
and
he
slew
all
his
brethren
with
the
sword,
and [certain]
also
of
the
princes
of
Israel.
\VS{5}Jehoram
was thirty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
eight
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{6}And
he walked
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
as
did
the
house
of
Ahab,
for
the
daughter
of
Ahab
was
his
wife;
and
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah.
\VS{7}But
Jehovah
would
not
destroy
the
house
of
David,
because
of
the
covenant
that
he
had
made
with
David,
and
as
he
had
promised
to
give
to
him
always
a
lamp,
and
to
his
sons.
\VS{8}In
his
days
Edom
revolted
from
under
the
hand
of
Judah,
and
they set
a
king
over
themselves.
\VS{9}And
Jehoram
went
over
with
his
captains,
and
all
the
chariots
with
him;
and
he
rose
up
by
night,
and
smote
the
Edomites
who
had
surrounded
him,
and
the
captains
of
the
chariots.
\VS{10}But
the
Edomites
revolted
from
under
the
hand
of
Judah unto
this
day.
Then
Libnah
revolted
at
the
same
time
from
under
his
hand,
because
he
had forsaken
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 21:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
his
fathers.
\VS{11}Moreover
he
made
high
places
on
the
mountains
of
Judah,
and caused
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
to
commit fornication,
and compelled
Judah [thereto].
\VS{12}And
there
came
a
writing
to
him
from
Elijah
the
prophet
saying,
Thus saith
Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 21:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
David thy
father:
Because thou hast
not
walked
in
the
ways
of
Jehoshaphat thy
father,
nor
in
the
ways
of
Asa
king
of
Judah,
\VS{13}but hast walked
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and hast
made
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
to
commit fornication,
like
the fornications
of
the
house
of
Ahab,
and
also hast
slain thy
brethren, thy father's
house
who
were
better
than thyself:
\VS{14}behold,
Jehovah
will
smite
with
a
great stroke thy
people,
and thy
children,
and thy
wives,
and
all thy substance,
\VS{15}and thyself
with sore
sicknesses,
with
a
disease
of thy
bowels,
until thy
bowels fall
out
by
reason
of
the
sickness
day
by
day.
\VS{16}And
Jehovah
stirred
up
against
Jehoram
the
spirit
of
the
Philistines,
and
of
the Arabians,
who [are]
near
the
Ethiopians;
\VS{17}and
they
came
up
into
Judah,
and
broke
into
it,
and
carried
away
all
the substance
that
was
found
in
the king's
house,
and
his
sons
also,
and
his
wives;
so
that
there
was
no
son
left
him,
except
Jehoahaz
the
youngest
of
his
sons.
\VS{18}And
after
all
this,
Jehovah
smote
him
in
his
bowels
with
an incurable
sickness.
\VS{19}And
it
came
to
pass,
from
day
to
day,
and
at
the
time
when
the
second
year
was drawing
to
a
close,
that
his
bowels
fell
out
by reason
of
his
sickness,
and
he
died
in cruel sufferings.
And
his
people
made
no
burning
for
him,
like
the
burning
of
his
fathers.
\VS{20}He
was thirty-two
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
in
Jerusalem
eight
years,
and departed
without
being regretted.
And
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David,
but
not
in
the sepulchres
of
the
kings.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
made
Ahaziah
his
youngest
son
king
in
his
stead;
for
the
band
of
men
that
came
in
the
camp
with
the Arabians
had
slain
all
the elder
ones.
And
Ahaziah
the
son
of
Jehoram
king
of
Judah
reigned.
\VS{2}Ahaziah
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
one
year
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Athaliah,
daughter
of
Omri.
\VS{3}He
also
walked
in
the
ways
of
the
house
of
Ahab;
for
his
mother
was
his counsellor
to
do
wickedly.
\VS{4}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah
like
the
house
of
Ahab;
for
they
were
his counsellors
after
the
death
of
his
father,
to
his
destruction.
\VS{5}He
walked
also
after
their
counsel,
and
went
with
Jehoram
the
son
of
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
to
the
war
against
Hazael
the
king
of
Syria
at
Ramoth-Gilead;
and
the Syrians
wounded
Joram.
\VS{6}And
he
returned
to
be
healed
in Jizreel
because
of
the
wounds
that
were given
him
at
Ramah,
when
he
fought
with
Hazael
king
of
Syria.
And
Azariah
the
son
of
Jehoram,
king
of
Judah,
went
down
to
see
Jehoram
the
son
of
Ahab
at Jizreel;
for
he
was
sick.
\VS{7}But
his
coming
to
Joram
was
from
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 22:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
the complete ruin
of
Ahaziah.
And
when
he
had
come,
he
went
out
with
Jehoram
against
Jehu
the
son
of
Nimshi,
whom
Jehovah
had
anointed
to
cut
off
the
house
of
Ahab.
\VS{8}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Jehu
was
executing
judgment
upon
the
house
of
Ahab,
that
he
found
the
princes
of
Judah,
and
the
sons
of
the
brethren
of
Ahaziah,
that
attended
upon
Ahaziah,
and
he
slew
them.
\VS{9}And
he
sought
Ahaziah;
and
they
caught
him (for
he
had
hid
himself
in
Samaria),
and
brought
him
to
Jehu,
and slew
him;
and
they
buried
him,
for
they
said,
He
is
a
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
who
sought
Jehovah
with
all
his
heart.
And
in
the
house
of
Ahaziah
there
was
no
one
who
was able
to [hold]
the
kingdom.
\VS{10}And
when
Athaliah
the
mother
of
Ahaziah
saw
that
her
son
was
dead,
she
rose
up
and exterminated
all
the
royal
seed
of
the
house
of
Judah.
\VS{11}But
Jehoshabeath
the
daughter
of
the
king
took
Joash
the
son
of
Ahaziah
and
stole
him
from
among
the king's
sons
that
were slain,
and
put
him
and
his
nurse
in
the bedchamber.
So
Jehoshabeath,
the
daughter
of
king
Jehoram,
the
wife
of
Jehoiada
the
priest (for
she
was
the
sister
of
Ahaziah),
hid
him
from
Athaliah,
so
that
she
did
not
slay
him;
\VS{12}and
he
was
with
them
hid
in
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 22:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
six
years.
And
Athaliah
reigned
over
the
land.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
in
the
seventh
year
Jehoiada
strengthened
himself,
and
took
the
captains
of
the
hundreds,
Azariah
the
son
of
Jeroham,
and
Ishmael
the
son
of
Jehohanan,
and
Azariah
the
son
of
Obed,
and
Maaseiah
the
son
of
Adaiah,
and
Elishaphat
the
son
of
Zichri,
into
covenant
with
him.
\VS{2}And
they
went
about
in
Judah
and
gathered
together
the
Levites
out
of
all
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
the
chief
fathers
of
Israel;
and
they
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}And
all
the
congregation
made
a
covenant
with
the
king
in
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 23:3 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
And
he
said
to
them,
Behold,
the king's
son
shall
reign,
as
Jehovah
has
said
of
the
sons
of
David.
\VS{4}This
is
the
thing
which ye
shall
do:
a
third
part
of
you
that
come
in
on
the
sabbath,
of
the
priests
and
of
the
Levites,
shall
be keepers
of
the doors;
\VS{5}and
a
third
part
shall
be
at
the king's
house;
and
a
third
part
at
the
gate
of
the
foundation;
and
all
the
people
shall
be
in
the
courts
of
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{6}But
let
none
come
into
the
house
of
Jehovah
except
the
priests
and
those
of
the
Levites
that
do
the
service;
they
shall
go
in,
for
they
are
holy;
but
all
the
people
shall
keep
the
watch
of
Jehovah.
\VS{7}And
the
Levites
shall encompass
the
king
round
about,
every
man
with
his
weapons
in
his
hand;
and
he
that
comes
into
the
house
shall
be
put
to
death;
and ye
shall
be
with
the
king
when
he
comes
in
and
when
he
goes
out.
\VS{8}And
the
Levites
and
all
Judah
did
according
to
all
that
Jehoiada
the
priest
commanded;
and
they
took
every
man
his
men,
those
that
were
to
come
in
on
the
sabbath,
with
them
that
were
to
go
forth
on
the
sabbath;
for
Jehoiada
the
priest
did
not liberate
the
divisions.
\VS{9}And
Jehoiada
the
priest
gave
to
the
captains
of
the
hundreds
king David's
spears
and
shields
and targets,
which
were
in
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 23:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{10}And
he
set
all
the
people,
every
man
with
his javelin
in
his
hand,
from
the
right
side
of
the
house
to
the
left
side
of
the
house,
toward
the
altar
and
the
house,
by
the
king
round
about.
\VS{11}And
they
brought
forth
the king's
son,
and
put
the
crown
upon
him,
and [gave
him]
the
testimony,
and
made
him
king.
And
Jehoiada
and
his
sons
anointed
him,
and
said, Long
live
the
king!
\VS{12}And
Athaliah
heard
the
noise
of
the
people
running
and
praising
the
king,
and she
came
to
the
people
into
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{13}And she
looked,
and
behold,
the
king
stood
on
his dais
at
the
entrance,
and
the
princes
and
the
trumpets
were
by
the
king;
and
all
the
people
of
the
land
rejoiced,
and
blew
with
trumpets;
and
the
singers [were
there]
with
the
instruments
of
music,
and
such
as
taught
to
sing
praise.
And
Athaliah rent
her
garments,
and
said,
Conspiracy!
Conspiracy!
\VS{14}And
Jehoiada
the
priest
brought
out
the
captains
of
the
hundreds
that
were
set
over
the host,
and
said
to
them,
Lead
her
forth
without
the
ranks;
and whosoever
follows
her,
let
him
be slain
with
the
sword;
for
the
priest
said, Ye
shall
not
put
her
to
death
in
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{15}And
they
made way
for
her,
and she
went
through
the
entrance
of
the horse-gate
into
the king's
house,
and
they
put
her
to
death
there.
\VS{16}And
Jehoiada
made
a
covenant
between himself
and
all
the
people
and
the
king,
that
they
should
be
the
people
of
Jehovah.
\VS{17}And
all
the
people
went
into
the
house
of
Baal,
and
broke
it
down;
and
they
broke
his
altars
and
his
images
in
pieces,
and
slew
Mattan
the
priest
of
Baal
before
the
altars.
\VS{18}And
Jehoiada
appointed
the
offices
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
under
the
hand
of
the
priests,
the
Levites,
whom
David
had
set
by classes
over
the
house
of
Jehovah
to
offer
up Jehovah's burnt-offerings,
as
it
is
written
in
the
law
of
Moses, —
with
rejoicing
and
with
singing
according
to
the
directions
of
David.
\VS{19}And
he
set
the doorkeepers
at
the
gates
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
that
no
one
unclean
in
anything
should
enter
in.
\VS{20}And
he
took
the
captains
of
the
hundreds,
and
the
nobles,
and
the
governors
of
the
people,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land,
and
brought
down
the
king
from
the
house
of
Jehovah;
and
they
came
through
the
upper
gate
into
the king's
house,
and
set
the
king
upon
the
throne
of
the
kingdom.
\VS{21}And
all
the
people
of
the
land
rejoiced,
and
the
city
was
quiet;
and
they
had slain
Athaliah
with
the
sword.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Joash
was
seven
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
forty
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Zibiah
of Beer-sheba.
\VS{2}And
Joash
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah
all
the
days
of
Jehoiada
the
priest.
\VS{3}And
Jehoiada
took
for
him
two
wives;
and
he
begot
sons
and
daughters.
\VS{4}And
it
came
to
pass
after
this,
that
Joash
was minded
to
renew
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{5}And
he
gathered
together
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
said
to
them,
Go
out
to
the
cities
of
Judah
and
collect
of
all
Israel
money
for
the
repair
of
the
house
of
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
from
year
to
year,
and ye
shall
hasten
the
matter.
But
the
Levites
hastened
it
not.
\VS{6}And
the
king
called
for
Jehoiada
the
chief,
and
said
to
him,
Why hast thou
not
required
of
the
Levites
to
bring
in
out
of
Judah
and
out
of
Jerusalem
the
tribute
of
Moses
the
servant
of
Jehovah [laid
upon]
the
congregation
of
Israel,
for
the
tent
of
the
testimony?
\VS{7}For
the
wicked
Athaliah [and]
her
sons
had devastated
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
and
also
all
the hallowed
things
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
had
they employed
for
the
Baals.
\VS{8}And
the
king
commanded,
and
they
made
a
chest,
and
set
it
at
the
gate
of
the
house
of
Jehovah without,
\VS{9}and
they
made
a
proclamation
through
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
to
bring
to
Jehovah
the
tribute
of
Moses
the
servant
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God [laid
upon]
Israel
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{10}And
all
the
princes
and
all
the
people
rejoiced,
and
brought
in
and
cast
into
the
chest,
until
they
had
finished.
\VS{11}And
it
came
to
pass
at
the
time
the
chest
was
brought
for
the king's
control
by
the
hand
of
the
Levites,
and
when
they
saw
that
there
was
much
money,
the king's
scribe
and
high priest's
officer
came,
and
they
emptied
the
chest,
and
took
it,
and
carried
it
to
its
place
again.
Thus
they
did
day
by
day,
and
gathered
money
in
abundance.
\VS{12}And
the
king
and
Jehoiada
gave
it
to
such
as
did
the
work
of
the
service
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
they
hired
masons
and
carpenters
to
renew
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
also
such
as wrought
in
iron
and
bronze,
to
repair
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{13}So
the
workmen wrought,
and
the
work
was perfected
by
them,
and
they
set
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
in
its state,
and
strengthened
it.
\VS{14}And
when
they
had
finished,
they
brought
the
rest
of
the
money
before
the
king
and
Jehoiada;
and
they
made
of
it
vessels
for
the
house
of
Jehovah,
utensils
to minister,
and
with
which
to
offer
up,
and cups,
and
utensils
of
gold
and
silver.
And
they
offered
up burnt-offerings
in
the
house
of
Jehovah
continually
all
the
days
of
Jehoiada.
\VS{15}And
Jehoiada
grew
old
and
was
full
of
days,
and
he
died;
he
was
a
hundred
and
thirty
years
old
when
he
died.
\VS{16}And
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David
among
the
kings,
because
he
had
done
good
in
Israel, both
toward
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
and
toward
his
house.
\VS{17}And
after
the
death
of
Jehoiada
the
princes
of
Judah
came
and
made obeisance
to
the
king;
then
the
king hearkened
to
them.
\VS{18}And
they forsook
the
house
of
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers,
and
served
the Asherahs
and
idols;
and
wrath
came
upon
Judah
and
Jerusalem
for
this
their trespass.
\VS{19}And
he
sent
prophets
among
them
to
bring
them
again
to
Jehovah,
and
they
testified
against
them;
but
they
would
not
give
ear.
\VS{20}And
the
Spirit
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
came
upon
Zechariah
the
son
of
Jehoiada
the
priest;
and
he
stood
up
above
the
people
and
said unto
them,
Thus saith
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God: Wherefore
do ye
transgress
the
commandments
of
Jehovah?
And ye
cannot
prosper;
for ye
have forsaken
Jehovah,
and
he hath forsaken
you.
\VS{21}And
they
conspired
against
him,
and
stoned
him
with
stones
at
the
command
of
the
king
in
the
court
of
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{22}And
king
Joash
remembered
not
the
kindness
which
Jehoiada
his
father
had
done
to
him,
but
slew
his
son.
And
when
he
died,
he
said,
Jehovah
see
and
require [it]!
\VS{23}And
it
came
to
pass
at
the end
of
the
year [that]
the
army
of
Syria
came
up
against
him;
and
they
entered
into
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
and
destroyed
all
the
princes
of
the
people
from
among
the
people,
and
sent
all
the
spoil
of
them
to
the
king
at
Damascus.
\VS{24}Truly
with
a
small company
of
men
came
the
army
of
the Syrians,
but
Jehovah
delivered
a
very
great
army
into
their
hand,
because
they
had forsaken
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:24 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers;
and
they executed
judgment
upon
Joash.
\VS{25}And
when
they
had departed
from
him (for
they
left
him
in
great diseases),
his own
servants
conspired
against
him
for
the
blood
of
the
sons
of
Jehoiada
the
priest,
and
slew
him
on
his
bed,
and
he
died;
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David,
but
they
did
not
bury
him
in
the sepulchres
of
the
kings.
\VS{26}And
these
are
they
that
conspired
against
him:
Zabad
the
son
of
Shimeath
an
Ammonitess,
and
Jehozabad
the
son
of
Shimrith
a
Moabitess.
\VS{27}And
as
to
his
sons,
and
the
greatness
of
the burdens [laid]
upon
him,
and
the building
of
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 24:27 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
treatise
of
the
book
of
the
kings.
And
Amaziah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Amaziah
was
twenty-five
years
old [when]
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
twenty-nine
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Jehoaddan
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
yet
not
with
a
perfect
heart.
\VS{3}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
kingdom
was
established unto
him,
that
he
killed
his
servants
who
had
smitten
the
king
his
father.
\VS{4}But
their
children
he
did
not
put
to
death,
but [did]
according
to
that
which
is
written
in
the
law
in
the
book
of
Moses,
wherein
Jehovah
commanded
saying,
The
fathers
shall
not
die
for
the
children,
nor
shall
the
children
die
for
the
fathers,
but
every
man
shall
die
for
his
own
sin.
\VS{5}And
Amaziah
gathered
Judah
together
and arranged
them according
to
the fathers'
houses, according
to
the
captains
of
thousands
and
the
captains
of
hundreds,
throughout
Judah
and
Benjamin;
and
he
numbered
them
from
twenty
years
old
and
upwards,
and
found
them
three
hundred
thousand
choice
men, able
for military
service,
that could
handle
spear
and target.
\VS{6}He
hired
also
a
hundred
thousand
mighty
men
of valour out
of
Israel
for
a
hundred
talents
of
silver.
\VS{7}But
there
came
a
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
to
him,
saying,
O
king,
let
not
the
host
of
Israel
go
with thee;
for
Jehovah
is
not
with
Israel, [with]
all
the
children
of
Ephraim.
\VS{8}But
if thou wilt
go,
do [it];
be
strong
for
the
battle:
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
will
make thee
fall
before
the
enemy,
for
there
is
with
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
power
to
help
and
to
cast
down.
\VS{9}And
Amaziah
said
to
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
But
what
is
to
be
done
for
the
hundred
talents
which
I
have
given
to
the
troop
of
Israel?
And
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
said,
Jehovah
is able
to
give thee
much
more
than
this.
\VS{10}Then
Amaziah
separated
them, —
the
troop
that
was
come
to
him
out
of
Ephraim, —
to
go
home
again.
And
their
anger
was
greatly
kindled
against
Judah,
and
they
returned
home
in
fierce
anger.
\VS{11}But
Amaziah
strengthened
himself,
and
led forth
his
people,
and went
to
the
valley
of
salt,
and
smote
of
the
children
of
Seir
ten
thousand.
\VS{12}And
the
children
of
Judah
took
ten
thousand
captive,
alive,
and
brought
them
to
the
top
of
the
cliff,
and
cast
them
down
from
the
top
of
the
cliff,
so
that
they
all
were
broken
in
pieces.
\VS{13}But
those
of
the
troop
that
Amaziah
had
sent
back,
that
they should
not
go
with
him
to
battle, fell upon
the
cities
of
Judah
from
Samaria
as
far
as
Beth-horon,
and
smote
three
thousand
of
them,
and
took
much
spoil.
\VS{14}And
it
came
to
pass
after
Amaziah
was
come
from
the
slaughter
of
the
Edomites,
that
he
brought
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
the
children
of
Seir,
and
set
them
up
to
be
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
and
bowed
himself
down
before
them,
and
burned
incense
to
them.
\VS{15}And
the
anger
of
Jehovah
was
kindled
against
Amaziah,
and
he
sent
to
him
a
prophet,
who
said
to
him,
Why dost thou
seek
after
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
a
people
who
have
not
delivered
their own
people
out
of thy
hand?
\VS{16}And
it
came
to
pass
as
he
talked
with
him,
that [Amaziah]
said
to
him, Hast thou
been
made
the king's counsellor? Forbear;
why shouldest thou
be
smitten?
Then
the
prophet forbore,
and
said,
I
know
that
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
has determined
to
destroy thee,
because thou hast
done
this,
and hast
not hearkened
to
my
counsel.
\VS{17}And
Amaziah
king
of
Judah
took
counsel,
and
sent
to
Joash
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
the
son
of
Jehu,
king
of
Israel,
saying,
Come,
let
us
look
one another
in
the
face.
\VS{18}And
Joash
king
of
Israel
sent
to
Amaziah
king
of
Judah,
saying,
The thorn-bush
that
is
in
Lebanon
sent
to
the
cedar
that
is
in
Lebanon,
saying,
Give thy
daughter
to
my
son
as
wife;
and
there
passed
by
the
wild
beast
that
is
in
Lebanon,
and trode
down
the thorn-bush.
\VS{19}Thou thinkest,
Lo, thou hast
smitten
Edom;
and thy
heart
has
lifted thee
up
to boast:
abide
now
at
home;
why shouldest thou
contend
with
misfortune,
that thou shouldest
fall, thou
and
Judah
with thee?
\VS{20}But
Amaziah would
not
hear;
for
it
was
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
that
he
might
deliver
them
into [the enemy's]
hand,
because
they
had
sought
after
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
Edom.
\VS{21}And
Joash
king
of
Israel
went
up;
and
they
looked
one another
in
the
face,
he
and
Amaziah
king
of
Judah,
at
Beth-shemesh,
which
is
in
Judah.
\VS{22}And
Judah
was
routed
before
Israel;
and
they
fled
every
man
to
his
tent.
\VS{23}And
Joash
king
of
Israel
took
Amaziah
king
of
Judah,
the
son
of
Joash
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
at
Beth-shemesh,
and
brought
him
to
Jerusalem,
and
he
broke
down
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
from
the
gate
of
Ephraim
to
the corner
gate,
four
hundred
cubits.
\VS{24}And
he [took]
all
the
gold
and
the
silver,
and
all
the
vessels
that
were
found
in
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 25:24 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
with
Obed-Edom,
and
the
treasures
of
the king's
house,
and
hostages,
and
returned
to
Samaria.
\VS{25}And
Amaziah
the
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Judah,
lived
after
the
death
of
Joash
son
of
Jehoahaz,
king
of
Israel,
fifteen
years.
\VS{26}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Amaziah,
first
and
last,
behold,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel?
\VS{27}And
from
the
time
that
Amaziah
turned
aside
from
following
Jehovah,
they
made
a
conspiracy
against
him
in
Jerusalem;
and
he
fled
to
Lachish;
and
they
sent
after
him
to
Lachish,
and slew
him
there.
\VS{28}And
they
brought
him
on
horses,
and
buried
him
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
Judah.

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
all
the
people
of
Judah
took
Uzziah,
who
was
sixteen
years
old,
and
made
him
king
instead
of
his
father
Amaziah.
\VS{2}It
was
he
that
built
Eloth,
and
restored
it
to
Judah,
after
the
king
slept
with
his
fathers.
\VS{3}Uzziah
was
sixteen
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
fifty-two
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was Jecholiah
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah, according
to
all
that
his
father
Amaziah
had
done.
\VS{5}And
he
sought
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 26:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
in
the
days
of
Zechariah,
who
had
understanding
in
the visions
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 26:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
and
in
the
days
that
he
sought
Jehovah,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 26:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
made
him
to
prosper.
\VS{6}And
he
went
forth
and
fought
against
the
Philistines,
and
broke
down
the
wall
of
Gath,
and
the
wall
of
Jabneh,
and
the
wall
of
Ashdod;
and
built
cities
about
Ashdod,
and among
the
Philistines.
\VS{7}And
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 26:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
helped
him
against
the
Philistines,
and
against
the Arabians
that
dwelt
in
Gur-Baal,
and
the Maonites.
\VS{8}And
the
Ammonites
gave
gifts
to
Uzziah:
and
his
name
spread abroad
to
the
entrance
of
Egypt;
for
he
became exceeding
strong.
\VS{9}And
Uzziah
built
towers
in
Jerusalem
at
the
corner
gate,
and
at
the
valley
gate,
and
at
the
angle,
and
fortified
them.
\VS{10}And
he
built
towers
in
the
desert
and digged
many
cisterns;
for
he
had
much
cattle, both
in
the
lowland
and
on
the
plateau, husbandmen [also]
and
vinedressers
on
the
mountains
and
in
Carmel;
for
he
loved husbandry.
\VS{11}And
Uzziah
had
an
army
of fighting
men,
that
went
out
to
war
by
bands,
according
to
the
number
of
their
account
by
the
hand
of
Jeiel
the
scribe
and
Maaseiah
the
ruler,
under
the
hand
of
Hananiah,
one
of
the king's
captains.
\VS{12}The
whole
number
of
the
chief
fathers
of
the
mighty
men
of valour
was
two
thousand
six
hundred.
\VS{13}And
under
their
hand
was
an army-host
of
three
hundred
and
seven
thousand
five
hundred,
that
made
war
with
mighty
power
to
help
the
king
against
the
enemy.
\VS{14}And
Uzziah
prepared
for
them,
throughout
the
host,
shields,
and
spears,
and
helmets,
and coats
of mail,
and
bows,
and even slinging-stones.
\VS{15}And
he
made
in
Jerusalem machines
invented
by skilful
men,
to
be
upon
the
towers
and
upon
the bulwarks, wherewith
to
shoot
arrows
and
great
stones.
And
his
name
spread
far abroad;
for
he
was marvellously
helped,
till
he
became
strong.
\VS{16}But
when
he
became
strong
his
heart
was
lifted
up
to [his] downfall;
and
he transgressed
against
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 26:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
went
into
the
temple
of
Jehovah
to
burn
incense
upon
the
altar
of
incense.
\VS{17}And
Azariah
the
priest
went
in
after
him,
and
with
him
priests
of
Jehovah,
eighty
valiant
men;
\VS{18}and
they withstood
Uzziah
the
king,
and
said
to
him,
It
is
not
for thee,
Uzziah,
to
burn
incense
to
Jehovah,
but
for
the
priests
the
sons
of
Aaron,
that
are
consecrated
to
burn
incense.
Go
out
of
the
sanctuary;
for thou hast transgressed;
neither
shall
it
be
for thine honour
from
Jehovah
Elohim.
\VS{19}And
Uzziah
was wroth;
and
he
had
a
censer
in
his
hand
to
burn
incense;
and
while
he
was wroth
with
the
priests,
the
leprosy
rose
up
in
his
forehead
before
the
priests
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
beside
the
incense
altar.
\VS{20}And
Azariah
the
chief
priest
and
all
the
priests
looked
upon
him,
and
behold,
he
was
leprous
in
his
forehead,
and
they thrust
him
out
from thence;
even
he
himself hasted
to
go
out,
because
Jehovah
had
smitten
him.
\VS{21}And
Uzziah
the
king
was
a
leper
to
the
day
of
his
death,
and
dwelt
in
a
separate
house,
being
a
leper;
for
he
was
cut
off
from
the
house
of
Jehovah.
And
Jotham
his
son
was
over
the king's
house,
judging
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{22}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Uzziah,
first
and
last, did
the
prophet
Isaiah
the
son
of
Amoz
write.
\VS{23}And
Uzziah
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
they
buried
him
with
his
fathers
in
the burial-ground
of
the
kings,
for
they
said,
He
is
a
leper.
And
Jotham
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Jotham
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Jerushah,
daughter
of
Zadok.
\VS{2}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
according
to
all
that
his
father
Uzziah
had
done;
only
he
entered
not
into
the
temple
of
Jehovah.
And
the
people
still
acted
corruptly.
\VS{3}It
was
he
who
built
the
upper
gate
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
on
the
wall
of
Ophel
he
built
much.
\VS{4}And
he
built
cities
in
the hill-country
of
Judah,
and
in
the forests
he
built castles
and
towers.
\VS{5}And
he
fought
against
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and overcame
them.
And
the
children
of
Ammon
gave
him
the
same
year
a
hundred
talents
of
silver,
and
ten
thousand measures
of
wheat,
and
ten
thousand
of
barley.
This
the
children
of
Ammon
brought
again
to
him
also
in
the
second
year,
and
in
the
third.
\VS{6}And
Jotham
became
strong,
for
he
prepared
his
ways
before
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 27:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{7}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jotham,
and
all
his
wars,
and
his
ways,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
Judah.
\VS{8}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}And
Jotham
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David;
and
Ahaz
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ahaz
was
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
And
he
did
not
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
like
David
his
father,
\VS{2}but walked
in
the
ways
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and
even
made molten
images
for
the
Baals;
\VS{3}and
he
burned
incense
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
and
burned
his
sons
in
the
fire, according
to
the
abominations
of
the
nations
that Jehovah
had
dispossessed
from
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{4}And
he
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
on
the
high
places,
and
on
the
hills,
and
under
every
green
tree.
\VS{5}Therefore
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
gave
him
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Syria;
and
they
smote
him,
and
carried
away
a
great multitude
of
them
captives,
and
brought
them
to
Damascus.
And
he
was
also
given
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Israel,
who
smote
him
with
a
great
slaughter.
\VS{6}And
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah
slew
in
Judah
a
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
in
one
day,
all
valiant
men,
because
they
had forsaken
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{7}And
Zichri,
a
mighty
man
of
Ephraim,
slew
Maaseiah
the king's
son,
and
Azrikam
the governor
of
the
house,
and
Elkanah
the
second
to
the
king.
\VS{8}And
the
children
of
Israel
carried
away
captive
of
their
brethren
two
hundred
thousand,
women,
sons,
and
daughters,
and
took
away
also
much
spoil
from
them,
and
brought
the
spoil
to
Samaria.
\VS{9}But
a
prophet
of
Jehovah
was
there,
whose
name
was
Oded;
and
he
went
out
before
the
host
that
came
to
Samaria,
and
said unto
them,
Behold,
because
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
your
fathers
was wroth
with
Judah,
he
gave
them
into
your
hand,
and ye
have
slain
them
in
a
rage
that
reaches
up
to
heaven.
\VS{10}And
now ye
think
to
subjugate
the
children
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
as
your bondmen
and bondwomen.
Are
there
not
with
you,
even
with
you, trespasses
against
Jehovah
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God?
\VS{11}And
now
hear
me,
and send
back
the
captives
again,
whom ye
have
taken
captive
of
your
brethren;
for
the
fierce
wrath
of
Jehovah
is
upon
you.
\VS{12}And
certain
of
the
heads
of
the
children
of
Ephraim,
Azariah
the
son
of
Johanan,
Berechiah
the
son
of
Meshillemoth,
and Hezekiah
the
son
of
Shallum,
and
Amasa
the
son
of
Hadlai,
stood
up
against
them
that
came
from
the
war,
\VS{13}and
said
to
them, Ye
shall
not
bring
in
the
captives hither;
because,
for
our
guilt
before
Jehovah, ye
think
to
increase
our
sins
and
our trespasses:
for
our trespass
is
great,
and
fierce
wrath
is
upon
Israel.
\VS{14}Then
the
armed
men
left
the
captives
and
the
spoil
before
the
princes
and
all
the
congregation.
\VS{15}And
the
men
that
have
been expressed
by
name
rose
up,
and
took
the
captives,
and
with
the
spoil
clothed
all
that
were
naked
among
them,
and
arrayed
them,
and shod
them,
and
gave
them
to
eat
and
to
drink,
and anointed
them,
and
carried
all
the
feeble
of
them
on asses,
and
brought
them
to
Jericho
the
city
of palm-trees,
to
their
brethren.
And
they
returned
to
Samaria.
\VS{16}At
that
time
king
Ahaz
sent
to
the
kings
of
Assyria
to
help
him.
\VS{17}And
again
the
Edomites
came
and
smote
Judah,
and
carried
away
captives.
\VS{18}And
the
Philistines
invaded
the
cities
of
the
lowland,
and
of
the
south
of
Judah,
and
took
Beth-shemesh,
and Ajalon,
and
Gederoth,
and Socho
and
its dependent
villages,
and
Timnah
and
its dependent
villages,
and Guimzo
and
its dependent
villages;
and
they
dwelt
there.
\VS{19}For
Jehovah
humbled
Judah
because
of
Ahaz
king
of
Israel,
for
he
had made
Judah lawless,
and transgressed much
against
Jehovah.
\VS{20}And
Tilgath-Pilneser
king
of
Assyria
came
to
him,
and troubled
him,
and
did
not
support
him.
\VS{21}For
Ahaz stripped
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the
house
of
the
king
and
of
the
princes,
and
gave
to
the
king
of
Assyria;
but
he
was
of
no
help
to
him.
\VS{22}And
in
the
time
of
his
trouble
he transgressed
yet
more against
Jehovah,
this
king
Ahaz.
\VS{23}And
he
sacrificed
to
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
Damascus, which
had
smitten
him;
and
he
said,
Since
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
the
kings
of
Syria
help
them,
I
will
sacrifice
to
them,
that
they
may
help
me.
But
they
were
the ruin
of
him,
and
of
all
Israel.
\VS{24}And
Ahaz
gathered
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:24 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
cut
in
pieces
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:24 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
closed
the
doors
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
he
made
for himself
altars
in
every
corner
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{25}And
in
every several
city
of
Judah
he
made
high
places
to
burn
incense
to
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:25 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
and
provoked
to
anger
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 28:25 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
his
fathers.
\VS{26}And
the
rest
of
his
acts,
and
all
his
ways,
first
and
last,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel.
\VS{27}And
Ahaz
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city,
in
Jerusalem;
but
they
brought
him
not
into
the sepulchres
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
And
Hezekiah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hezekiah began
to
reign
being
twenty-five
years
old;
and
he
reigned
twenty-nine
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Abijah,
daughter
of
Zechariah.
\VS{2}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah, according
to
all
that
David
his
father
had
done.
\VS{3}He,
in
the
first
year
of
his
reign,
in
the
first
month,
opened
the
doors
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
repaired
them.
\VS{4}And
he
brought
in
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
gathered
them
into
the
open
place
eastward;
\VS{5}and
he
said
to
them,
Hear
me, ye
Levites: hallow
yourselves
now,
and hallow
the
house
of
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 29:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
your
fathers,
and
carry
forth
the filthiness
out
of
the
sanctuary.
\VS{6}For
our
fathers
have transgressed,
and
done
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 29:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
have forsaken
him
and
turned
away
their
faces
from
the habitation
of
Jehovah,
and
have
turned
their
backs.
\VS{7}Also
they
have
shut
up
the
doors
of
the
porch,
and
put
out
the
lamps,
and
have
not
burned
incense
nor
offered
up burnt-offerings
in
the
sanctuary
to
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 29:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel.
\VS{8}Therefore
the
wrath
of
Jehovah
has
been
upon
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
and
he
has
delivered
them
to vexation,
to
desolation,
and
to
hissing,
as ye
see
with
your
eyes.
\VS{9}And
behold,
our
fathers
have
fallen
by
the
sword,
and
our
sons
and
our
daughters
and
our
wives
are
in
captivity
for
this.
\VS{10}Now
it
is
in
my
heart
to
make
a
covenant
with
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 29:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
that
his
fierce
anger
may
turn
away
from
us.
\VS{11}My
sons,
be
not
now negligent;
for
Jehovah
has chosen
you
to
stand
before
him,
to
do
service unto
him,
and
to
be
his
ministers
and incense-burners.
\VS{12}Then
the
Levites
rose
up,
Mahath
the
son
of
Amasai,
and
Joel
the
son
of
Azariah,
of
the
sons
of
the
Kohathites;
and
of
the
sons
of
Merari,
Kish
the
son
of
Abdi,
and
Azariah
the
son
of Jehalleleel;
and
of
the
Gershonites,
Joah
the
son
of
Zimmah,
and
Eden
the
son
of
Joah;
\VS{13}and
of
the
sons
of
Elizaphan,
Shimri
and
Jeiel;
and
of
the
sons
of
Asaph,
Zechariah
and
Mattaniah;
\VS{14}and
of
the
sons
of
Heman,
Jehiel
and
Shimei;
and
of
the
sons
of
Jeduthun,
Shemaiah
and
Uzziel.
\VS{15}And
they
gathered
their
brethren,
and hallowed
themselves,
and
came, according
to
the
commandment
of
the
king
by
the
words
of
Jehovah,
to
cleanse
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{16}And
the
priests
went
into
the
inner
part
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
to
cleanse
it,
and
carried
forth
all
the
uncleanness
that
they
found
in
the
temple
of
Jehovah,
into
the
court
of
the
house
of
Jehovah.
And
the
Levites
took
it
to
carry
it
forth
into
the
brook
Kidron.
\VS{17}And
they
began
on
the
first
of
the
first
month
to hallow,
and
on
the
eighth
day
of
the
month
they
came
to
the
porch
of
Jehovah;
and
they hallowed
the
house
of
Jehovah
eight
days;
and
on
the sixteenth
day
of
the
first
month
they
made
an
end.
\VS{18}And
they
went
in
to
king
Hezekiah,
and
said,
We
have
cleansed
all
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the
altar
of burnt-offering
with
all
its
vessels,
and
the
table
of
the [bread]
to
be
set
in
rows,
and
all
its
vessels;
\VS{19}and
all
the
vessels
that
king
Ahaz
in
his
reign cast
away
in
his transgression
have
we
prepared
and hallowed,
and
behold,
they
are
before
the
altar
of
Jehovah.
\VS{20}And
Hezekiah
the
king
arose
early,
and
gathered
the
princes
of
the
city,
and
went
up
to
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{21}And
they
brought
seven bullocks,
and
seven
rams,
and
seven
lambs,
and
seven he-goats
for
a sin-offering
for
the
kingdom,
and
for
the
sanctuary,
and
for
Judah.
And
he
commanded
the
priests
the
sons
of
Aaron
to
offer [them]
upon
the
altar
of
Jehovah.
\VS{22}And
they
slaughtered
the bullocks,
and
the
priests
received
the
blood,
and
sprinkled
it
on
the
altar;
and
they
slaughtered
the
rams,
and
sprinkled
the
blood
on
the
altar;
and
they
slaughtered
the
lambs,
and
sprinkled
the
blood
on
the
altar.
\VS{23}And
they
brought
near
the he-goats
of
the sin-offering
before
the
king
and
the
congregation;
and
they
laid
their
hands
upon
them.
\VS{24}And
the
priests
slaughtered
them,
and
they
made
purification
for
sin
with
their
blood
upon
the
altar,
to
make
an
atonement
for
all
Israel;
because
for
all
Israel,
said
the
king,
is
the burnt-offering
and
the sin-offering.
\VS{25}And
he
set
the
Levites
in
the
house
of
Jehovah
with
cymbals,
with lutes,
and
with
harps,
according
to
the
commandment
of
David,
and
of
Gad
the king's
seer,
and
of
Nathan
the
prophet;
for
the
commandment
was
of
Jehovah
through
his
prophets.
\VS{26}And
the
Levites
stood
with
the
instruments
of
David,
and
the
priests
with
the
trumpets.
\VS{27}And
Hezekiah
commanded
to
offer
up
the burnt-offering
on
the
altar.
And
at
the moment
the burnt-offering
began,
the
song
of
Jehovah
began,
and
the
trumpets, accompanied
by
the
instruments
of
David
king
of
Israel.
\VS{28}And
all
the
congregation worshipped,
and
the
singers
sang,
and
the
trumpeters
sounded,
all [the
time]
until
the burnt-offering
was
finished.
\VS{29}And
when
they
had
ended
offering
the burnt-offering,
the
king
and
all
that
were
present
with
him
bowed
themselves
and worshipped.
\VS{30}And
king
Hezekiah
and
the
princes
commanded
the
Levites
to sing
praise
to
Jehovah
with
the
words
of
David,
and
of
Asaph
the
seer.
And
they sang
praises
with
gladness,
and
bowed
their
heads
and worshipped.
\VS{31}And
Hezekiah
answered
and
said,
Now ye
have consecrated
yourselves
to
Jehovah,
come
near
and
bring
sacrifices
and thank-offerings
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
And
the
congregation
brought
in
sacrifices
and thank-offerings;
and
as many
as
were
of
a
willing
heart, burnt-offerings.
\VS{32}And
the
number
of
the burnt-offerings,
which
the
congregation
brought,
was
seventy bullocks,
a
hundred
rams,
two
hundred
lambs:
all
these
were
for
a burnt-offering
to
Jehovah.
\VS{33}And
the
consecrated
things
were
six
hundred
oxen
and
three
thousand
sheep.
\VS{34}Only
the
priests
were
too
few,
and
they
could
not flay
all
the burnt-offerings;
therefore
their
brethren
the
Levites
helped
them,
until
the
work
was
ended,
and
until
the
priests
had hallowed
themselves;
for
the
Levites
were
more
upright
in
heart
to hallow
themselves
than
the
priests.
\VS{35}And
also
the burnt-offerings
were
in
abundance,
with
the
fat
of
the peace-offerings,
and
with
the drink-offerings
for
the burnt-offering.
And
the
service
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
was
set
in
order.
\VS{36}And
Hezekiah
rejoiced,
and
all
the
people,
that
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 29:36 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
prepared
the
people;
for
the
thing
was
done
suddenly.

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Hezekiah
sent
to
all
Israel
and
Judah,
and
wrote
letters
also
to
Ephraim
and
Manasseh,
that
they
should
come
to
the
house
of
Jehovah
at
Jerusalem,
to
hold
the
passover
to
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:1 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel.
\VS{2}And
the
king
took
counsel,
and
his
princes,
and
the
whole
congregation
in
Jerusalem,
to hold
the
passover
in
the
second
month.
\VS{3}For
they
could
not
keep
it
at
that
time,
because
the
priests
had
not hallowed
themselves
in sufficient number,
neither
had
the
people
been
gathered
together
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}And
the
thing
pleased
the
king
and
the
whole
congregation.
\VS{5}So
they
established
a
decree
to
make
proclamation
throughout
Israel
from Beer-sheba
even
to
Dan,
that
they
should
come
to hold
the
passover
to
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
at
Jerusalem;
because
they
had
not
held
it
for
a
long
time
as
it
was
written.
\VS{6}And
the
couriers
went
with
the
letters
from
the
king
and
his
princes
throughout
Israel
and
Judah,
and
according
to
the
commandment
of
the
king,
saying, Ye
children
of
Israel,
return
to
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Israel,
and
he
will
return
to
the
remnant
of
you
that
are
escaped
out
of
the
hand
of
the
kings
of
Assyria.
\VS{7}And
be
not
like
your
fathers
and
like
your
brethren,
who transgressed against
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers,
so
that
he
gave
them
up
to
desolation,
as ye
see.
\VS{8}Now,
harden
not
your
necks,
as
your
fathers;
yield
yourselves
to
Jehovah,
and
come
to
his
sanctuary,
which
he
has
sanctified
for
ever;
and
serve
Jehovah
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
that
the
fierceness
of
his
anger
may
turn
away
from
you.
\VS{9}For
if ye
return
to
Jehovah,
your
brethren
and
your
children
shall find
compassion
with
those
that
have
carried
them
captive,
so
that
they
shall
come
again unto
this
land;
for
Jehovah
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
is
gracious
and
merciful,
and
will
not
turn
away
his
face
from
you,
if ye
return
to
him.
\VS{10}And
the
couriers
passed
from
city
to
city
through
the
country
of
Ephraim
and
Manasseh,
even
to
Zebulun;
but
they
laughed
them
to
scorn
and
mocked
them.
\VS{11}Nevertheless
certain
of
Asher
and
Manasseh
and
of
Zebulun
humbled
themselves
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}The
hand
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
was
also
upon
Judah
to
give
them
one
heart
to
do
the
commandment
of
the
king
and
of
the
princes,
by
the
word
of
Jehovah.
\VS{13}And
there
assembled
at
Jerusalem
much
people
to hold
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
in
the
second
month,
a
very
great
congregation.
\VS{14}And
they
rose
up
and
took
away
the
altars
that
were
in
Jerusalem;
and
they
took
away
all
the incense-altars,
and
cast
them
into
the torrent
Kidron.
\VS{15}And
they
slaughtered
the
passover
on
the fourteenth
of
the
second
month;
and
the
priests
and
the
Levites
were
ashamed,
and hallowed
themselves;
and
they
brought
the burnt-offerings
into
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{16}And
they
stood
in
their
place
after
their
custom,
according
to
the
law
of
Moses
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God:
the
priests
sprinkled
the
blood [receiving
it]
from
the
hand
of
the
Levites.
\VS{17}For
there
were
many
in
the
congregation
that
were
not hallowed;
therefore
the
Levites
had
the
charge
of
the slaughtering
of
the passover-lambs
for
every
one
not
clean,
to hallow
them unto
Jehovah.
\VS{18}For
a
multitude
of
the
people,
many
of
Ephraim
and
Manasseh,
Issachar
and
Zebulun,
had
not
cleansed
themselves,
and
they
ate
the
passover
otherwise
than
it
was
written.
But
Hezekiah
prayed
for
them
saying,
Jehovah,
who
is
good,
forgive every
one
\VS{19}that
has
directed
his
heart
to
seek
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
his
fathers,
although
not according
to
the
purification
of
the
sanctuary.
\VS{20}And
Jehovah hearkened
to
Hezekiah,
and
healed
the
people.
\VS{21}And
the
children
of
Israel,
that
were
present
at
Jerusalem,
held
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
seven
days
with
great
gladness;
and
the
Levites
and
the
priests
praised
Jehovah
day
by
day,
with
the
instruments
of
praise
to
Jehovah.
\VS{22}And
Hezekiah
spoke consolingly
to
all
the
Levites
that
had
understanding
in
the
good knowledge
of
Jehovah;
and
they
ate
the feast-offerings
the
seven
days,
sacrificing peace-offerings,
and extolling
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 30:22 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{23}And
the
whole
congregation
took
counsel
to
observe
other
seven
days;
and
they
observed
the
seven
days
with
gladness.
\VS{24}For
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah gave
to
the
congregation
as heave-offering:
a
thousand bullocks
and
seven
thousand
sheep;
and
the
princes gave
to
the
congregation
a
thousand bullocks
and
ten
thousand
sheep;
and
a
great
number
of
priests hallowed
themselves.
\VS{25}And
the
whole
congregation
of
Judah,
with
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
all
the
congregation
that
came
out
of
Israel,
and
the
strangers
that
came
out
of
the
land
of
Israel,
and
that
dwelt
in
Judah,
rejoiced.
\VS{26}And
there
was
great
joy
in
Jerusalem;
for
since
the
time
of
Solomon
the
son
of
David,
king
of
Israel,
there
had
not
been
the
like
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{27}And
the
priests
the
Levites
arose
and
blessed
the
people;
and
their
voice
was
heard,
and
their
prayer
came
up
to
his
holy
habitation,
to
the
heavens.

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
all
this
was
finished,
all
Israel
that
were
present
went
out
to
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
broke
the columns,
and hewed
down
the Asherahs,
and
demolished
the
high
places
and
the
altars
in
all
Judah
and
Benjamin,
in
Ephraim
also
and
Manasseh,
until
they
had
destroyed
them
all.
And
all
the
children
of
Israel
returned
every
man
to
his
possession,
into
their
cities.
\VS{2}And
Hezekiah
appointed
the
divisions
of
the
priests,
and
the
Levites
after
their
divisions,
every
man
according
to
his
service,
as well
the
priests
as
the
Levites,
for burnt-offerings
and
for peace-offerings,
to
serve
and
to
give
thanks
and
to
praise
in
the
gates
of
the
courts
of
Jehovah.
\VS{3}And [he ordered]
that
the king's
portion [should
be taken]
from
his substance
for
the burnt-offerings:
for
the
morning
and
evening burnt-offerings,
for
the burnt-offerings
of
the
sabbaths,
and
of
the
new
moons,
and
of
the
set
feasts,
as
it
is
written
in
the
law
of
Jehovah.
\VS{4}And
he
commanded
the
people
that
dwelt
in
Jerusalem
to
give
the
portion
of
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
that
they
might
be
encouraged
in
the
law
of
Jehovah.
\VS{5}And
as soon
as
the
commandment
was published,
the
children
of
Israel
gave
in
abundance
the firstfruits
of corn,
new
wine
and
oil
and
honey,
and
of
all
the
increase
of
the
field;
and
they
brought
in
abundantly
the
tithe
of
all [things].
\VS{6}And
the
children
of
Israel
and
of
Judah,
that
dwelt
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
they
also
brought
the
tithe
of
oxen
and
sheep,
and
the
tithe
of
holy
things which
were
consecrated
to
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 31:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
laid
them
by
heaps.
\VS{7}In
the
third
month
they
began
to
lay
the
heaps,
and
finished
them
in
the
seventh
month.
\VS{8}And
Hezekiah
and
the
princes
came
and
saw
the
heaps,
and
they
blessed
Jehovah,
and
his
people
Israel.
\VS{9}And
Hezekiah
questioned
the
priests
and
the
Levites
concerning
the
heaps.
\VS{10}And
Azariah
the
chief
priest
of
the
house
of
Zadok
spoke
to
him
and
said,
Since
they
began
to
bring
the heave-offerings
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
we
have
eaten
and
been
satisfied
and
have
left
plenty;
for
Jehovah
has
blessed
his
people;
and
what
is
left
is
this
great store.
\VS{11}And
Hezekiah
commanded
to
prepare
chambers
in
the
house
of
Jehovah;
and
they
prepared [them],
\VS{12}and
brought
in
the heave-offerings
and
the
tithes
and
the
dedicated
things
faithfully;
and
over these Cononiah
the
Levite
was
ruler,
and
Shimei
his
brother
was
second.
\VS{13}And
Jehiel,
and
Azaziah,
and
Nahath,
and
Asahel,
and
Jerimoth,
and
Jozabad,
and
Eliel,
and Jismachiah,
and
Mahath,
and
Benaiah
were
overseers
under
the
hand
of Cononiah
and
Shimei
his
brother,
at
the
command
of
Hezekiah
the
king
and
Azariah
the
ruler
of
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 31:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{14}And
Kore
the
son
of Jimnah
the
Levite,
the doorkeeper
toward
the
east,
was
over
the voluntary-offerings
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 31:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
to
distribute
the heave-offerings
of
Jehovah,
and
the
most
holy
things.
\VS{15}And
under
him
were
Eden
and
Miniamin
and
Jeshua
and
Shemaiah,
Amariah
and
Shecaniah,
in
the
cities
of
the
priests,
in [their]
set
trust,
to
make distributions
to
their
brethren
by [their]
divisions,
to
the
great
as
to
the
small,
\VS{16}besides
those
from
three
years
old
and
upward
who
as
males
were
entered
in
the
genealogical register, —
all
that
came
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
as
the
duty
of
every
day
required,
for
their
service
in
their charges, according
to
their
divisions,
\VS{17}— both
to
the
priests enregistered according
to
their fathers'
houses,
and
to
the
Levites
from
twenty
years
old
and
upward,
in
their charges,
by
their
divisions;
\VS{18}and
to
all
their
little
ones,
their
wives,
and
their
sons,
and
their
daughters,
the
whole
congregation
of
those entered
in
the register;
for
in
their
trust
they hallowed
themselves
to
be
holy.
\VS{19}And
for
the
sons
of
Aaron
the
priests
who
were
in
the
country,
in
the suburbs
of
their
cities,
there
were,
in
every several
city,
men expressed
by
name,
to
give
portions
to
all
the
males
among
the
priests,
and
to
all
the
Levites
that
were entered
in
the register.
\VS{20}And thus
did
Hezekiah
throughout
Judah,
and wrought
what
was
good
and
right
and
true
before
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 31:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{21}And
in
every
work
that
he undertook
in
the
service
of
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 31:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
in
the
law,
and
in
the
commandments,
to
seek
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 31:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
he
did
it
with
all
his
heart
and prospered.

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
these
things
and
this
faithfulness,
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
came
and
entered
into
Judah,
and
encamped
against
the
fortified
cities,
and
thought
to
break
into
them.
\VS{2}And
when
Hezekiah
saw
that
Sennacherib
was
come,
and
that
he
was minded
to
fight
against
Jerusalem,
\VS{3}he
took
counsel
with
his
princes
and
his
mighty
men
to
stop
the
fountains
of
waters
that
were
outside
the
city;
and
they
helped
him.
\VS{4}And
there
was
gathered
together
much
people,
and
they
stopped
all
the
fountains,
and
the torrent
that
flows
through
the
midst
of
the
land,
saying,
Why
should
the
kings
of
Assyria
come
and
find
much
water?
\VS{5}And
he
strengthened
himself,
and
built
up
all
the
wall
that
was
broken
down,
and
raised
it
up
to
the
towers,
and [built]
another
wall
outside,
and
fortified
the
Millo
of
the
city
of
David,
and
made darts
and
shields
in
abundance.
\VS{6}And
he
set
captains
of
war
over
the
people,
and
assembled
them
to
him
on
the
open
place
at
the
gate
of
the
city,
and
spoke consolingly
to
them
saying,
\VS{7}Be
strong
and
courageous,
be
not
afraid
nor
dismayed
for
the
king
of
Assyria,
nor
for
all
the
multitude
that
is
with
him;
for
there
are
more
with
us
than
with
him:
\VS{8}with
him
is
an
arm
of
flesh,
but
with
us
is
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
to
help
us
and
to
fight
our
battles.
And
the
people depended
upon
the
words
of
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah.
\VS{9}After
this,
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
sent
his
servants
to
Jerusalem (but
he
himself
was
before
Lachish,
and
all
his power
with
him), unto
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah,
and unto
all
Judah
that
were
at
Jerusalem,
saying,
\VS{10}Thus
says
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria:
On
what
do ye
rely
that ye
abide
in
the
siege
in
Jerusalem?
\VS{11}Does
not
Hezekiah persuade
you,
to
give
yourselves
over
to
die
by
famine
and
by
thirst,
saying,
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:11 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
will
deliver
us
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria?
\VS{12}Has
not
the
same
Hezekiah
removed
his
high
places
and
his
altars,
and
commanded
Judah
and
Jerusalem
saying, Ye
shall
worship
before
{\BD{
one}}
altar,
and
burn
incense
upon
it?
\VS{13}Do ye
not
know
what
I
and
my
fathers
have
done
to
all
the
peoples
of
the
countries?
Were
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
the
nations
of
the
countries
in
any wise
able
to
deliver
their
country
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{14}Who
is
there
among
all
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
those
nations
that
my
fathers
have utterly destroyed,
that
was
able
to
deliver
his
people
out
of
my
hand,
that
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
should
be
able
to
deliver
you
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{15}And
now,
let
not
Hezekiah
deceive
you,
nor persuade
you
in
this manner,
neither
yet
believe
him;
for
no
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 32:15 }
Eloah}god
of
any
nation
or
kingdom
was
able
to
deliver
his
people
out
of
my
hand,
nor
out
of
the
hand
of
my
fathers:
how
much
less
shall
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0433"}God
deliver
you
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{16}And
his
servants
spoke
yet
more
against
Jehovah,
the [true]
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
against
his
servant
Hezekiah.
\VS{17}And
he
wrote
a
letter
to rail
at
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
and
to
speak
against
him
saying,
As
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
the
nations
of
the
countries
have
not
delivered
their
people
out
of
my
hand,
so
shall
not
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Hezekiah
deliver
his
people
out
of
my
hand.
\VS{18}And
they
cried
with
a
loud
voice
in
the Jewish [language]
to
the
people
of
Jerusalem
that
were
on
the
wall,
to frighten
them
and
to trouble
them;
that
they
might
take
the
city.
\VS{19}And
they
spoke
of
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Jerusalem
as
of
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
the
peoples
of
the
earth,
the
work
of man's
hand.
\VS{20}And
because
of
this,
king
Hezekiah
and
the
prophet
Isaiah
the
son
of
Amoz
prayed
and
cried
to
heaven.
\VS{21}And
Jehovah
sent
an
angel,
who
cut
off
all
the
mighty
men
of valour,
and
the
princes
and
the
captains
in
the
camp
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
And
he
returned
with
shame
of
face
to
his
own
land.
And
when
he
was
come
into
the
house
of
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god,
they
that
came
forth
of
his
own
bowels
made
him
fall
there
with
the
sword.
\VS{22}And
Jehovah
saved
Hezekiah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
from
the
hand
of
Sennacherib
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
from
the
hand
of
all,
and
protected
them
on
every
side.
\VS{23}And
many
brought
gifts unto
Jehovah
to
Jerusalem,
and
precious
things
to
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah;
and
he
was thenceforth magnified
in
the
sight
of
all
the
nations.
\VS{24}In
those
days
Hezekiah
was
sick unto
death,
and
he
prayed
to
Jehovah;
and
he
spoke
to
him
and
gave
him
a
sign.
\VS{25}But
Hezekiah rendered
not
again
according
to
the
benefit [done]
to
him,
for
his
heart
was lifted
up;
and
there
was
wrath
upon
him,
and
upon
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}And
Hezekiah
humbled
himself
for
the
pride
of
his
heart,
he
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
so
that
the
wrath
of
Jehovah
came
not
upon
them
in
the
days
of
Hezekiah.
\VS{27}And
Hezekiah
had
very
much
riches
and honour;
and
he
made himself
treasuries
for
silver,
and
for
gold,
and
for
precious
stones,
and
for
spices,
and
for
shields,
and
for
all manner
of
pleasant
vessels;
\VS{28}storehouses also
for
the
increase
of corn
and
new
wine
and
oil,
and
stalls
for
all manner
of
beasts,
and [he procured]
flocks
for
the
stalls.
\VS{29}And
he
provided
for himself
cities,
and
possessions
of
flocks
and
herds
in
abundance;
for
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:29 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
gave
him
very
much substance.
\VS{30}And
he,
Hezekiah,
stopped
the
upper
outlet
of
the
waters
of
Gihon,
and brought
it
straight
down
to
the
west
side
of
the
city
of
David.
And
Hezekiah prospered
in
all
his
works.
\VS{31}However
in [the matter
of]
the ambassadors
of
the
princes
of
Babylon,
who
sent
to
him
to
inquire
of
the
wonder
that
was
done
in
the
land,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 32:31 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
left
him,
to
try
him,
that
he
might
know
all [that
was]
in
his
heart.
\VS{32}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Hezekiah
and
his
good
deeds,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
vision
of
the
prophet
Isaiah
the
son
of
Amoz
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel.
\VS{33}And
Hezekiah
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the highest
place
of
the sepulchres
of
the
sons
of
David;
and
all
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
did
him honour
at
his
death.
And
Manasseh
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Manasseh
was
twelve
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
fifty-five
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
like
the
abominations
of
the
nations
that
Jehovah
had
dispossessed
from
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{3}And
he
built
again
the
high
places
that
Hezekiah
his
father
had
broken
down;
and
he reared
up
altars
to
the
Baals,
and
made Asherahs,
and worshipped
all
the
host
of
heaven
and
served
them.
\VS{4}And
he
built
altars
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
of
which
Jehovah
had
said,
In
Jerusalem
shall
my
name
be
for
ever.
\VS{5}And
he
built
altars
to
all
the
host
of
heaven
in
both courts
of
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{6}He
also caused
his
children
to
pass
through
the
fire
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom;
and
he
used magic
and
divination
and
sorcery,
and appointed necromancers
and soothsayers:
he wrought
evil
beyond measure
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
to
provoke
him
to
anger.
\VS{7}And
he
set
the
graven
image
of
the
idol
that
he
had
made,
in
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
of
which
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
said
to
David
and
to
Solomon
his
son,
In
this
house,
and
in
Jerusalem,
which
I
have chosen
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
will
I
put
my
name
for
ever;
\VS{8}neither
will
I
any
more
remove
the
foot
of
Israel
from
out
of
the
land
that
I
have
appointed
to
your
fathers;
if
they
will
only
take
heed
to
do
all
that
I
commanded
them
through
Moses,
according
to
all
the
law
and
the
statutes
and
the
ordinances.
\VS{9}And
Manasseh
led
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
astray,
to
do
more
evil
than
the
nations
that
Jehovah
had
destroyed
from
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{10}And
Jehovah
spoke
to
Manasseh
and
to
his
people;
but
they
did
not hearken.
\VS{11}And
Jehovah
brought
upon
them
the
captains
of
the
host
of
the
king
of
Assyria,
who
took
Manasseh
with
fetters,
and
bound
him
with
chains
of
brass,
and
carried
him
to
Babylon.
\VS{12}And
when
he
was
in affliction,
he besought
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
humbled
himself
greatly
before
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
his
fathers,
\VS{13}and
prayed
to
him.
And
he
was intreated
of
him
and
heard
his
supplication,
and
brought
him
again
to
Jerusalem
into
his
kingdom.
Then
Manasseh
knew
that
Jehovah,
he
was
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{14}And
after
this
he
built
the
outer
wall
of
the
city
of
David,
on
the
west,
toward
Gihon,
in
the
valley,
even
to
the
entrance
of
the fish-gate,
and
carried
it
round
Ophel,
and raised
it
up
a
very
great height;
and
he
put
captains
of war
in
all
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah.
\VS{15}And
he
removed
the
strange
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
and
the
idol
out
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
all
the
altars
that
he
had
built
on
the
mount
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
and
in
Jerusalem,
and
cast [them]
out
of
the
city.
\VS{16}And
he reinstated
the
altar
of
Jehovah,
and
sacrificed
on
it peace-offerings
and thank-offerings,
and
commanded
Judah
to
serve
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel.
\VS{17}Nevertheless,
the
people
sacrificed
still
on
the
high
places,
although
to
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
only.
\VS{18}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Manasseh,
and
his
prayer
to
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
the
words
of
the
seers
that
spoke
to
him
in
the
name
of
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
behold,
they [are written]
in
the
acts
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{19}And
his
prayer,
and [how
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 33:19 }
Elohim}God]
was intreated
of
him,
and
all
his
sin
and
his
unfaithfulness,
and
the
places
in
which
he
built
high
places,
and
set
up Asherahs
and
graven
images,
before
he
was
humbled,
behold,
they
are
written
among
the
words
of
Hozai.
\VS{20}And
Manasseh
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
his
own
house;
and
Amon
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{21}Amon
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
two
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{22}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
as
Manasseh
his
father
had
done;
and
Amon
sacrificed
to
all
the
graven
images
that
Manasseh
his
father
had
made,
and
served
them.
\VS{23}And
he
did
not
humble
himself
before
Jehovah,
as
Manasseh
his
father
had
humbled
himself;
for
he,
Amon,
multiplied trespass.
\VS{24}And
his
servants
conspired
against
him,
and slew
him
in
his own
house.
\VS{25}But
the
people
of
the
land
smote
all
them
that
had
conspired
against
king
Amon;
and
the
people
of
the
land
made
Josiah
his
son
king
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Josiah
was
eight
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned thirty-one
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
and walked
in
the
ways
of
David
his
father,
and
turned
not
aside
to
the
right
hand
nor
to
the
left.
\VS{3}And
in
the
eighth
year
of
his
reign,
while
he
was
yet
young,
he
began
to
seek
after
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:3 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
David
his
father;
and
in
the twelfth
year
he
began
to
purge
Judah
and
Jerusalem
from
the
high
places,
and
the Asherahs,
and
the
graven
images,
and
the molten
images.
\VS{4}And
they
broke
down
the
altars
of
the
Baals
in
his
presence;
and
the sun-pillars
that
were
on
high
above
them
he
cut
down;
and
the Asherahs
and
the
graven
images
and
the molten
images
he
broke
in
pieces,
and
made dust [of
them]
and strewed
it
upon
the
graves
of
those
that
had
sacrificed
to
them;
\VS{5}and
he
burned
the
bones
of
the
priests
upon
their
altars,
and
purged
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{6}And [so did
he]
in
the
cities
of
Manasseh
and
Ephraim
and
Simeon,
even
to
Naphtali,
in
their
ruins
round
about;
\VS{7}and
he
broke
down
the
altars,
and
beat
the Asherahs
and
the
graven
images
into
powder,
and
cut
down
all
the sun-pillars
throughout
the
land
of
Israel,
and
returned
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{8}And
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
his
reign,
when
he
purged
the
land
and
the
house,
he
sent
Shaphan
the
son
of
Azaliah,
and
Maaseiah
the
governor
of
the
city,
and
Joah
the
son
of
Joahaz
the chronicler,
to
repair
the
house
of
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{9}And
they
came
to Hilkijah
the
high
priest,
and
they
delivered [to
them]
the
money
that
had
been
brought
into
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
which
the
Levites
that
kept
the doors
had
gathered
of
the
hand
of
Manasseh
and
Ephraim,
and
of
all
the
remnant
of
Israel,
and
of
all
Judah
and
Benjamin,
and
of
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}And
they
gave [it]
into
the
hand
of
them
that
did
the
work,
that
had
the
oversight
of
the
house
of
Jehovah;
and
they
gave
it
to
the
workmen
who wrought
in
the
house
of
Jehovah
to reinstate
and
repair
the
house:
\VS{11}they
gave [it]
to
the
carpenters
and
the
builders,
to
buy
hewn
stone,
and
timber
for
the joists,
and
to floor
the
houses
that
the
kings
of
Judah
had
destroyed.
\VS{12}And
the
men
did
the
work
faithfully.
And
over
them
were
appointed
Jahath
and
Obadiah,
Levites,
of
the
children
of
Merari,
and
Zechariah
and
Meshullam,
of
the
children
of
the
Kohathites,
for
the
oversight;
and
all
these
Levites
were
skilled
in
instruments
of
music.
\VS{13}They
were
also
over
the
bearers
of burdens,
and
were overseers
of
all
that
worked
in
any manner
of
service.
And
of
the
Levites
were
the
scribes,
and
officers,
and doorkeepers.
\VS{14}And
when
they
brought
out
the
money
that
had
been
brought
into
the
house
of
Jehovah, Hilkijah
the
priest
found
the
book
of
the
law
of
Jehovah
by
Moses.
\VS{15}Then Hilkijah
spoke
and
said
to
Shaphan
the
scribe,
I
have
found
the
book
of
the
law
in
the
house
of
Jehovah.
And Hilkijah
gave
the
book
to
Shaphan.
\VS{16}And
Shaphan
carried
the
book
to
the
king.
And
moreover
he
brought
the
king
word
again
saying,
All
that
was
committed
to
the
hand
of thy
servants,
they
do;
\VS{17}and
they
have
emptied
out
the
money
that
was
found
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
have
delivered
it
into
the
hand
of
the
overseers,
and
into
the
hand
of
the
workmen.
\VS{18}And
Shaphan
the
scribe
informed
the
king
saying, Hilkijah
the
priest
has
given
me
a
book.
And
Shaphan
read
out
of
it
before
the
king.
\VS{19}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
king
heard
the
words
of
the
law,
that
he rent
his
garments.
\VS{20}And
the
king
commanded Hilkijah,
and
Ahikam
the
son
of
Shaphan,
and
Abdon
the
son
of
Micah,
and
Shaphan
the
scribe,
and
Asaiah
a
servant
of
the
king,
saying,
\VS{21}Go,
inquire
of
Jehovah
for
me,
and
for
them
that
are
left
in
Israel
and
in
Judah,
concerning
the
words
of
the
book
which
is
found;
for
great
is
the
wrath
of
Jehovah
that
is
poured
out
upon
us,
because
our
fathers
have
not
kept
the
word
of
Jehovah,
to
do
according
to
all
that
is
written
in
this
book.
\VS{22}And Hilkijah
and
they
that
the
king [had appointed]
went
to
Huldah
the
prophetess,
the
wife
of
Shallum
the
son
of Tokehath,
son
of
Hasrah,
keeper
of
the wardrobe:
now
she
dwelt
in
Jerusalem
in
the
second quarter [of
the town];
and
they
spoke
with
her
to
that effect.
\VS{23}And
she
said
to
them,
Thus saith
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel:
Tell
the
man
that
sent
you
to
me,
\VS{24}Thus saith
Jehovah:
Behold,
I
will
bring
evil
upon
this
place,
and
upon
the
inhabitants thereof,
all
the
curses
that
are
written
in
the
book
which
they
have
read
before
the
king
of
Judah.
\VS{25}Because
they
have forsaken
me,
and
have
burned
incense unto
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:25 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
that
they
might
provoke
me
to
anger
with
all
the
works
of
their
hands;
therefore
my
fury
shall
be
poured
out
upon
this
place,
and
shall
not
be
quenched.
\VS{26}But
to
the
king
of
Judah,
who
sent
you
to
inquire
of
Jehovah,
thus
shall ye
say
to
him:
Thus saith
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:26 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel touching
the
words
which thou hast
heard:
\VS{27}Because thy
heart
was
tender,
and thou didst
humble thyself
before
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:27 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
when thou heardest
his
words
against
this
place
and
against
the
inhabitants thereof,
and humbledst thyself
before
me,
and didst
rend thy
garments
and
weep
before
me,
I
also
have
heard [thee], saith
Jehovah.
\VS{28}Behold,
I
will
gather thee unto thy
fathers,
and thou shalt
be
gathered
to thy
grave
in
peace;
and thine
eyes
shall
not
see
all
the
evil
that
I
will
bring
upon
this
place,
and
upon
the
inhabitants thereof.
And
they
brought
the
king
word
again.
\VS{29}And
the
king
sent
and
gathered
all
the
elders
of
Judah
and
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{30}And
the
king
went
up
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
and
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
all
the
people,
great
and
small;
and
he
read
in
their
ears
all
the
words
of
the
book
of
the
covenant
which
had
been
found
in
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{31}And
the
king
stood
in
his
place,
and
made
a
covenant
before
Jehovah,
to walk
after
Jehovah,
and
to
keep
his
commandments
and
his
testimonies
and
his
statutes
with
all
his
heart
and
with
all
his
soul,
to
perform
the
words
of
the
covenant
that
are
written
in
this
book.
\VS{32}And
he
caused
all
that
were
present
in
Jerusalem
and
Benjamin
to
stand [to
it].
And
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
did according
to
the
covenant
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:32 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:32 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{33}And
Josiah
removed
all
the
abominations
out
of
all
the
countries
that belonged
to
the
children
of
Israel,
and
made
to
serve
all
that
were
found
in
Israel, —
to
serve
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:33 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God:
all
his
days
they
did
not
depart
from
following
Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 34:33 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers.

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Josiah
held
a
passover
to
Jehovah
in
Jerusalem;
and
they
slaughtered
the
passover
on
the fourteenth
of
the
first
month.
\VS{2}And
he
set
the
priests
in
their charges,
and
encouraged
them
to
the
service
of
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{3}And
he
said
to
the
Levites,
that
taught
all
Israel, [and]
who
were
holy
to
Jehovah,
Put
the
holy
ark
in
the
house
that
Solomon
the
son
of
David,
king
of
Israel,
built; ye
have
not
to
carry
it upon
your
shoulders.
Serve
now
Jehovah
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 35:3 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
his
people
Israel;
\VS{4}and
prepare yourselves
by
your fathers'
houses,
in
your
divisions, according
to
the
writing
of
David
king
of
Israel,
and according
to
the
writing
of
Solomon
his
son;
\VS{5}and
stand
in
the
sanctuary
for
the classes
of
the fathers'
houses,
for
your
brethren,
the
children
of
the
people,
and [according]
to
the
divisions
of
the fathers'
houses
of
the
Levites;
\VS{6}and
slaughter
the
passover,
and hallow
yourselves,
and
prepare
it
for
your
brethren,
that
they
may
do
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah
through
Moses.
\VS{7}And
Josiah gave
for
the
children
of
the
people
a heave-offering
of
the
flocks,
lambs
and
goats,
all
for
the passover-offerings,
for
all
that
were
present —
to
the
number
of
thirty
thousand,
and
three
thousand bullocks:
these
were
of
the king's substance.
\VS{8}And
his
princes
gave
a
voluntary heave-offering
for
the
people,
for
the
priests,
and
for
the
Levites: Hilkijah
and
Zechariah
and
Jehiel,
rulers
of
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 35:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
gave
to
the
priests
for
the passover-offerings
two
thousand
six
hundred [small
cattle]
and
three
hundred
oxen;
\VS{9}and
Conaniah,
and
Shemaiah
and Nethaneel,
his
brethren,
and
Hashabiah
and
Jeiel
and
Jozabad,
chief
of
the
Levites, gave
as heave-offering
to
the
Levites
for
the passover-offerings
five
thousand [small
cattle]
and
five
hundred
oxen.
\VS{10}And
the
service
was
prepared,
and
the
priests
stood
in
their
place,
and
the
Levites
in
their
divisions,
according
to
the king's
commandment.
\VS{11}And
they
slaughtered
the
passover,
and
the
priests
sprinkled [the blood]
from
their
hand,
and
the
Levites flayed
them.
\VS{12}And
they
set apart
the burnt-offerings
to
give
them
to
the classes
of
the fathers'
houses
of
the
children
of
the
people,
to
present
them
to
Jehovah,
as
it
is
written
in
the
book
of
Moses.
And
so [did
they]
with
the
oxen.
\VS{13}And
they
roasted
the
passover
with
fire
according
to
the
ordinance;
and
the
consecrated
things
they
boiled
in
pots
and
in cauldrons
and
in
pans,
and divided
them
speedily among
all
the
children
of
the
people.
\VS{14}And
afterwards
they
made
ready
for
themselves
and
for
the
priests;
because
the
priests,
the
sons
of
Aaron, [were engaged]
in
offering
up
the burnt-offerings
and
the
fat
until
night;
therefore
the
Levites
prepared
for
themselves,
and
for
the
priests,
the
sons
of
Aaron.
\VS{15}And
the
singers,
the
sons
of
Asaph,
were
in
their
place,
according
to
the
commandment
of
David,
and
Asaph,
and
Heman,
and
Jeduthun
the king's
seer;
and
the doorkeepers
were
at
every
gate;
they
had
not
to
depart
from
their
service,
for
their
brethren
the
Levites
prepared
for
them.
\VS{16}And
all
the
service
of
Jehovah
was
prepared
the
same
day,
to hold
the
passover,
and
to
offer burnt-offerings
on
the
altar
of
Jehovah
according
to
the
commandment
of
king
Josiah.
\VS{17}And
the
children
of
Israel
that
were
present
held
the
passover
at
that
time,
and
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
seven
days.
\VS{18}And
there
was
no
passover
like
to
that holden
in
Israel
from
the
days
of
Samuel
the
prophet;
neither
did
all
the
kings
of
Israel hold
such
a
passover
as
Josiah
held,
and
the
priests,
and
the
Levites,
and
all
Judah
and
Israel
that
were
present,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}In
the
eighteenth
year
of
the
reign
of
Josiah
was
this
passover holden.
\VS{20}After
all
this,
when
Josiah
had arranged
the
house,
Necho
king
of
Egypt
came
up
to
fight
against Karkemish
at
the
Euphrates;
and
Josiah
went
out
against
him.
\VS{21}And
he
sent
messengers
to
him,
saying,
What
have
I
to
do
with thee, thou
king
of
Judah?
I come
not
against thee
this
day,
but
against
the
house
with
which
I
have
war;
and
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 35:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
has
told
me
to
make haste: keep
aloof
from
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 35:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
who
is
with
me,
that
he
destroy thee
not.
\VS{22}But
Josiah
would
not
turn
his
face
from
him,
but
disguised
himself,
that
he might
fight
against
him;
and
he hearkened
not
to
the
words
of
Necho
from
the
mouth
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 35:22 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
and
he
came
to
fight
in
the
valley
of
Megiddo.
\VS{23}And
the
archers
shot
at
king
Josiah;
and
the
king
said
to
his
servants,
Have
me
away,
for
I am sore
wounded.
\VS{24}And
his
servants
took
him
out
from
the
chariot,
and
put
him
in
the
second
chariot
that
he
had,
and brought
him
to
Jerusalem.
And
he
died,
and
was
buried
in
the sepulchres
of
his
fathers.
And
all
Judah
and
Jerusalem
mourned
for
Josiah.
\VS{25}And
Jeremiah lamented
for
Josiah;
and
all
the
singing
men
and
singing
women
spoke
of
Josiah
in
their
lamentations
to
this
day;
and
they
made
them
an
ordinance
for
Israel.
And
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
lamentations.
\VS{26}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Josiah,
and
his good
deeds, according
to
that
which
is
written
in
the
law
of
Jehovah,
\VS{27}and
his
acts,
first
and
last,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
Judah.

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
people
of
the
land
took
Jehoahaz
the
son
of
Josiah,
and
made
him
king
in
his father's
stead,
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Jehoahaz
was twenty-three
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
three
months
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}And
the
king
of
Egypt
put
him down
at
Jerusalem,
and
imposed
a
fine upon
the
land
of
a
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
a
talent
of
gold.
\VS{4}And
the
king
of
Egypt
made
Eliakim
his
brother
king
over
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
and
changed
his
name
to
Jehoiakim.
And
Necho
took
Jehoahaz
his
brother,
and
carried
him
to
Egypt.
\VS{5}Jehoiakim
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{6}Against
him
came
up
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
and
bound
him
with
chains
of
brass
to
carry
him
to
Babylon.
\VS{7}And
Nebuchadnezzar
carried [part]
of
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
to
Babylon,
and
put
them
in
his
temple
at
Babylon.
\VS{8}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoiakim,
and
his
abominations
which
he
did,
and
that
which
was
found
in
him,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
Judah.
And
Jehoiachin
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{9}Jehoiachin
was eighteen
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
three
months
and
ten
days
in
Jerusalem;
and
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah.
\VS{10}And
at
the
turn
of
the
year
king
Nebuchadnezzar
sent
and
had
him
brought
to
Babylon,
with
the
precious
vessels
of
the
house
of
Jehovah;
and
he
made
Zedekiah
his
brother
king
over
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{11}Zedekiah
was twenty-one
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
he
humbled
not
himself
before
the
prophet
Jeremiah speaking
from
the
mouth
of
Jehovah.
\VS{13}And
he
also
rebelled
against
king
Nebuchadnezzar,
who
had
made
him
take
oath
by
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
and
he
stiffened
his
neck,
and
hardened
his
heart
from
returning
to
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel.
\VS{14}All
the
chiefs
of
the
priests
also,
and
the
people,
increased
their transgressions, according
to
all
the
abominations
of
the
nations;
and
they
defiled
the
house
of
Jehovah
which
he
had hallowed
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{15}And
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
their
fathers
sent
to
them
by
his
messengers,
rising
up
early
and
sending;
because
he
had
compassion
on
his
people
and
on
his dwelling-place.
\VS{16}But
they
mocked
at
the
messengers
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
despised
his
words,
and scoffed
at
his
prophets,
until
the
fury
of
Jehovah
rose
against
his
people,
and
there
was
no
remedy.
\VS{17}And
he
brought
up [against]
them
the
king
of
the
Chaldees,
and
slew
their
young
men
with
the
sword
in
the
house
of
their
sanctuary,
and
spared
not
young
man
nor maiden,
old
man
nor
him
of hoary head:
he
gave [them]
all
into
his
hand.
\VS{18}And
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
great
and
small,
and
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the
treasures
of
the
king
and
of
his
princes,
he
brought
all
to
Babylon.
\VS{19}And
they
burned
the
house
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
broke
down
the
wall
of
Jerusalem,
and
burned
all
the
palaces thereof
with
fire,
and
all
the
precious
vessels thereof
were given
up
to
destruction.
\VS{20}And
them
that
had
escaped
from
the
sword
he
carried
away
to
Babylon;
and
they
became
servants
to
him
and
his
sons,
until
the
reign
of
the
kingdom
of
Persia;
\VS{21}to fulfil
the
word
of
Jehovah
by
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah,
until
the
land
had
enjoyed
its
sabbaths.
All
the
days
of
its
desolation
it kept
sabbath,
to fulfil
seventy
years.
\VS{22}And
in
the
first
year
of
Cyrus
king
of
Persia,
that
the
word
of
Jehovah
by
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah
might
be
accomplished,
Jehovah
stirred
up
the
spirit
of
Cyrus
king
of
Persia,
and
he
made
a
proclamation
throughout
his
kingdom,
and
also
in
writing,
saying,
\VS{23}Thus
says
Cyrus
king
of
Persia:
All
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
has
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
the
heavens
given
to
me,
and
he
has
charged
me
to
build
him
a
house
at
Jerusalem,
which
is
in
Judah. Whosoever
there
is
among
you
of
all
his
people,
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 36:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
be
with
him,
and
let
him
go
up.
\par }