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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Moab
rebelled
against
Israel
after
the
death
of
Ahab.
\VS{2}And
Ahaziah
fell
down
through
the
lattice
in
his
upper
chamber
which
was
in
Samaria,
and
was
sick;
and
he
sent
messengers
and
said
to
them,
Go,
inquire
of
Baal-zebub
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:2 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
Ekron,
whether
I
shall
recover
from
this
disease.
\VS{3}And
the
angel
of
Jehovah
said
to
Elijah
the Tishbite,
Arise,
go
up
to
meet
the
messengers
of
the
king
of
Samaria,
and
say
to
them,
Is
it
because
there
is
not
a
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:3 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
in
Israel,
that ye
go
to
inquire
of
Baal-zebub
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:3 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
Ekron?
\VS{4}Now
therefore
thus saith
Jehovah: Thou shalt
not
come
down
from
the
bed
on
which thou art
gone
up,
but shalt
certainly
die.
And
Elijah
departed.
\VS{5}And
the
messengers
returned
to
him;
and
he
said
to
them,
Why
have ye
returned?
\VS{6}And
they
said unto
him,
A
man
came
up
to
meet
us,
and
said
to
us,
Go,
return
to
the
king
that
sent
you
and
say
to
him,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
Is
it
because
there
is
not
a
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
in
Israel,
that thou sendest
to
inquire
of
Baal-zebub
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
Ekron?
therefore thou shalt
not
come
down
from
the
bed
on
which thou art
gone
up,
but shalt
certainly
die.
\VS{7}And
he
said
to
them,
What
manner
of
man
was
he
that
came
up
to
meet
you,
and
told
you
these
words?
\VS{8}And
they
said
to
him,
He
was
a
man
in
a
hairy [garment],
and girt
with
a
girdle
of
leather
about
his
loins.
And
he
said,
It
is
Elijah
the Tishbite.
\VS{9}And
he
sent
to
him
a
captain
of
fifty
with
his
fifty.
And
he
went
up
to
him,
and
behold,
he
sat
on
the
top
of
the
mount.
And
he
spoke
to
him:
Man
of
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
the
king
says,
Come
down!
\VS{10}And
Elijah
answered
and
said
to
the
captain
of
fifty,
And
if
I
be
a
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
let
fire
come
down
from
the
heavens
and
consume thee
and thy
fifty.
And there
came
down
fire
from
the
heavens,
and
consumed
him
and
his
fifty.
\VS{11}And
again
he
sent
to
him
another
captain
of
fifty
with
his
fifty.
And
he
spoke
and
said
to
him,
Man
of
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
thus
says
the
king:
Come
down
quickly!
\VS{12}And
Elijah
answered
and
said
to
them,
If
I
be
a
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
let
fire
come
down
from
the
heavens
and
consume thee
and thy
fifty.
And
the
fire
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
came
down
from
the
heavens,
and
consumed
him
and
his
fifty.
\VS{13}And
again
he
sent
the
captain
of
a
third
fifty
with
his
fifty.
And
the
third
captain
of
fifty
went
up,
and
came
and
fell
on
his
knees
before
Elijah,
and besought
him
and
said
to
him,
Man
of
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
I
pray thee,
let
my
life,
and
the
life
of
these
fifty thy
servants,
be
precious
in thy
sight.
\VS{14}Behold,
there
came
down
fire
from
the
heavens,
and
consumed
the
two
captains
of
the
former
fifties
with
their
fifties;
but
now,
let
my
life
be
precious
in thy
sight.
\VS{15}And
the
angel
of
Jehovah
said
to
Elijah,
Go
down
with
him:
be
not
afraid
of
him.
And
he
arose,
and
went
down
with
him
to
the
king.
\VS{16}And
he
said
to
him,
Thus saith
Jehovah: Forasmuch
as thou hast
sent
messengers
to
inquire
of
Baal-zebub
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
Ekron,
is
it
because
there
is
no
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
in
Israel
to
inquire
of
his
word?
therefore thou shalt
not
come
down
from
the
bed
on
which thou art
gone
up,
but shalt
certainly
die.
\VS{17}And
he
died according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah
that
Elijah
had
spoken.
And
Jehoram
began
to
reign
in
his
stead,
in
the
second
year
of
Jehoram
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah;
for
he
had
no
son.
\VS{18}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Ahaziah,
what
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Jehovah
would
take
up
Elijah
into
the
heavens
by
a whirlwind,
that
Elijah
went
with
Elisha
from
Gilgal.
\VS{2}And
Elijah
said
to
Elisha,
Abide
here,
I
pray thee;
for
Jehovah
has
sent
me
to
Bethel.
And
Elisha
said,
As
Jehovah liveth,
and
as thy
soul liveth,
I
will
not
leave thee!
So
they
went
down
to
Bethel.
\VS{3}And
the
sons
of
the
prophets
that
were
at
Bethel
came
forth
to
Elisha,
and
said
to
him, Dost thou
know
that
Jehovah
will
take
away thy
master
from
over thy
head to-day?
And
he
said,
I
also
know
it:
be
silent!
\VS{4}And
Elijah
said
to
him,
Elisha,
abide
here,
I
pray thee;
for
Jehovah
has
sent
me
to
Jericho.
And
he
said,
As
Jehovah liveth,
and
as thy
soul liveth,
I
will
not
leave thee!
And
they
came
to
Jericho.
\VS{5}And
the
sons
of
the
prophets
that
were
at
Jericho
drew
near
to
Elisha
and
said
to
him, Dost thou
know
that
Jehovah
will
take
away thy
master
from
over thy
head to-day?
And
he
said,
I
also
know
it:
be
silent!
\VS{6}And
Elijah
said
to
him,
Abide
here,
I
pray thee;
for
Jehovah
has
sent
me
to
the
Jordan.
And
he
said,
As
Jehovah liveth,
and
as thy
soul liveth,
I
will
not
leave thee!
And
they
two went
on.
\VS{7}And
fifty
men
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
went
and
stood
opposite
afar
off;
and
they
two
stood
by
the
Jordan.
\VS{8}And
Elijah
took
his
mantle,
and wrapped
it
together,
and
smote
the
waters,
and
they
were
divided hither
and thither;
and
they
two went
over
on
dry
ground.
\VS{9}And
it
came
to
pass
when
they
had
gone
over,
that
Elijah
said
to
Elisha,
Ask
what
I
shall
do
for thee,
before
I
am
taken
away
from thee.
And
Elisha
said,
I
pray thee,
let
a
double
portion
of thy
spirit
be
upon
me.
\VS{10}And
he
said, Thou hast
asked
a
hard
thing:
if thou
see
me
when
I
am
taken
from thee,
it
shall
be
so
to thee;
but
if
not,
it
shall
not
be [so].
\VS{11}And
it
came
to
pass
as
they
went
on,
and
talked,
that
behold,
a
chariot
of
fire
and
horses
of
fire;
and
they
parted
them
both asunder;
and
Elijah
went
up
by
a whirlwind
into
the
heavens.
\VS{12}And
Elisha
saw [it],
and
he
cried,
My
father,
my
father!
the
chariot
of
Israel
and
the
horsemen thereof!
And
he
saw
him
no
more.
Then
he
took
hold
of
his
own
garments
and rent
them
in
two
pieces.
\VS{13}And
he
took
up
the
mantle
of
Elijah
which
fell
from
him,
and
went
back
and
stood
by
the
bank
of
the
Jordan;
\VS{14}and
he
took
the
mantle
of
Elijah
which
had
fallen
from
him,
and
smote
the
waters,
and
said,
Where
is
Jehovah,
the
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Elijah?
He
also
smote
the
waters,
and
they parted hither
and thither,
and
Elisha went
over.
\VS{15}And
the
sons
of
the
prophets
who
were
at
Jericho
on
the
opposite
side
saw
him,
and
they
said,
The
spirit
of
Elijah
rests
on
Elisha.
And
they
came
to
meet
him,
and
bowed
themselves
to
the
ground
before
him,
\VS{16}and
said
to
him,
Behold
now,
there
are
with thy
servants
fifty
valiant
men;
let
them
go,
we
pray thee,
and
seek thy
master,
lest
perhaps
the
Spirit
of
Jehovah
have
taken
him
up,
and
cast
him
upon
some
mountain,
or
into
some ravine.
And
he
said, Ye
shall
not
send.
\VS{17}And
they
pressed
him
till
he
was
ashamed,
and
he
said,
Send.
They
sent
therefore
fifty
men,
and
they
sought
three
days,
but
did
not
find
him.
\VS{18}And
they
came
again
to
him (now
he
was
staying
at
Jericho);
and
he
said
to
them,
Did
I
not
say
to
you,
Go
not?
\VS{19}And
the
men
of
the
city
said
to
Elisha,
Behold
now,
the
situation
of
the
city
is
good,
as
my
lord
sees;
but
the
water
is
bad,
and
the
land
is barren.
\VS{20}And
he
said,
Bring
me
a
new cruse,
and
put
salt
in
it.
And
they
brought
it
to
him.
\VS{21}And
he
went
forth
to
the source
of
the
waters,
and
cast
the
salt
in
there,
and
said,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
I
have
healed
these
waters:
there
shall
not
be
from thence
any
more
death
or barrenness.
\VS{22}And
the
waters
were
healed
to
this
day, according
to
the
saying
of
Elisha
which
he
spoke.
\VS{23}And
he
went
up
from thence
to
Bethel,
and
as
he
went
up
by
the
way,
there
came
forth
little
boys
out
of
the
city,
and
mocked
him,
and
said
to
him,
Go
up,
bald head;
go
up,
bald head!
\VS{24}And
he
turned
back,
and
looked
on
them,
and
cursed
them
in
the
name
of
Jehovah.
And
there
came
forth
two she-bears
out
of
the wood,
and
tore
forty-two
children
of
them.
\VS{25}And
he
went
from thence
to
mount
Carmel,
and
from thence
he
returned
to
Samaria.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Jehoram
the
son
of
Ahab began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah;
and
he
reigned
twelve
years.
\VS{2}And
he wrought
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
but
not
like
his
father,
and
like
his
mother;
and
he
took
away
the column
of
Baal
that
his
father
had
made.
\VS{3}Only,
he clave
to
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
who
made
Israel
to
sin:
he
did
not
depart therefrom.
\VS{4}And
Mesha
king
of
Moab
was
a sheepmaster,
and rendered
to
the
king
of
Israel
a
hundred
thousand
lambs
and
a
hundred
thousand
rams,
with
the
wool.
\VS{5}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Ahab
was
dead,
that
the
king
of
Moab
rebelled
against
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{6}And
at
that
time
king
Jehoram
went
out
of
Samaria
and inspected
all
Israel.
\VS{7}And
he
went
and
sent
to
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah
saying,
The
king
of
Moab
has
rebelled
against
me: wilt thou
go
with
me
against
Moab
to
battle?
And
he
said,
I
will
go
up:
I am
as thou,
my
people
as thy
people,
my
horses
as thy
horses.
\VS{8}And
he
said,
Which
way
shall we
go
up?
And
he
said,
By
way
of
the
wilderness
of
Edom.
\VS{9}And
the
king
of
Israel
went,
and
the
king
of
Judah,
and
the
king
of
Edom,
and
they
made
a
circuit
of
seven days'
journey.
And
there
was
no
water
for
the
army,
and
for
the
cattle
that
followed
them.
\VS{10}And
the
king
of
Israel
said,
Alas!
that
Jehovah
has
called
these
three
kings together,
to
give
them
into
the
hand
of
Moab!
\VS{11}And
Jehoshaphat
said,
Is
there
not
here
a
prophet
of
Jehovah
that
we
may
inquire
of
Jehovah
by
him?
And
one
of
the
king
of Israel's
servants
answered
and
said,
Here
is
Elisha
the
son
of
Shaphat,
who
poured
water
on
the
hands
of
Elijah.
\VS{12}And
Jehoshaphat
said,
The
word
of
Jehovah
is
with
him.
And
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat
and
the
king
of
Edom
went
down
to
him.
\VS{13}And
Elisha
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
What
have
I
to
do
with thee? go
to
the
prophets
of thy
father
and
to
the
prophets
of thy
mother.
And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
him,
Not
so,
for
Jehovah
has
called
these
three
kings
to
give
them
into
the
hand
of
Moab.
\VS{14}And
Elisha
said,
As
Jehovah
of
hosts liveth,
before
whom
I
stand,
surely,
were
it
not
that
I
regard
the
presence
of
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah,
I
would
not
look
toward thee
nor
see thee.
\VS{15}And
now fetch
me
a
minstrel.
And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
minstrel
played,
that
the
hand
of
Jehovah
was
upon
him.
\VS{16}And
he
said,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
Make
this
valley full
of ditches.
\VS{17}For
thus saith
Jehovah: Ye
shall
not
see
wind,
neither
shall ye
see
rain;
yet
this
valley
shall
be
filled
with
water,
and ye
shall
drink, both ye,
and
your
cattle,
and
your
beasts.
\VS{18}And
this
is
a
light
thing
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah:
he
will
give
the
Moabites
also
into
your
hand.
\VS{19}And ye
shall
smite
every
fortified
city,
and
every
choice
city,
and
shall
fell
every
good
tree,
and
stop
all wells
of
water,
and
mar
every
good piece
of
land
with
stones.
\VS{20}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
morning,
when
the oblation
was
offered
up,
that
behold,
there
came
water
by
the
way
of
Edom,
and
the
country
was
filled
with
water.
\VS{21}And
all
the
Moabites
heard
that
the
kings
were
come
up
to
fight
against
them,
and
they
were
called
together,
all
that
were able
to
put
on armour,
and
upward,
and
stood
by
the
border.
\VS{22}And
they
rose
up
early
in
the
morning,
and
the
sun
rose
upon
the
water,
and
the
Moabites
saw
the
water
on
the
other
side
red
as
blood.
\VS{23}And
they
said,
This
is
blood:
the
kings
are entirely
destroyed,
and
have
smitten
one
another;
and
now,
Moab,
to
the
spoil!
\VS{24}And
when
they
came
to
the
camp
of
Israel,
the
Israelites
rose
up
and
smote
the
Moabites,
and
they
fled
before
them;
and
they
entered
in
and
smote
Moab.
\VS{25}And
they
beat
down
the
cities,
and
on
every
good piece
of
land
cast
every
man
his
stone
and
filled
it,
and
they
stopped
every
well
of
water,
and
felled
every
good
tree,
until
they
left [only]
the
stones
at Kirhareseth;
and
the
slingers
went
about
it,
and
smote
it.
\VS{26}And
the
king
of
Moab
saw
that
the
battle
was
too
severe
for
him,
and
he
took
with
him
seven
hundred
men
that
drew
swords,
to
break
through
to
the
king
of
Edom,
but
they
could
not.
\VS{27}And
he
took
his eldest
son,
that
should
have
reigned
in
his
stead,
and
offered
him
up
for
a burnt-offering
upon
the
wall.
And
there
was
great
wrath
against
Israel;
and
they
departed
from
him,
and
returned
to [their
own]
land.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
a
woman
of
the
wives
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
cried
to
Elisha
saying, Thy
servant
my
husband
is
dead,
and thou knowest
that thy
servant
feared
Jehovah;
and
the
creditor
is
come
to
take
my
two
children
to
be bondmen.
\VS{2}And
Elisha
said
to
her,
What
shall
I
do
for thee?
Tell
me,
what hast thou
in
the
house?
And
she
said, Thy handmaid
has
not
anything
at
all
in
the
house
but
a pot
of
oil.
\VS{3}And
he
said, Go,
borrow
for thyself
vessels
abroad
from
all thy neighbours,
empty
vessels;
let
it
not
be
few;
\VS{4}and
go
in,
and
shut
the
door
upon thee
and
upon thy
sons,
and
pour
out
into
all
those
vessels,
and
set
aside
what
is
full.
\VS{5}And
she
went
from
him,
and
shut
the
door
upon
her
and
upon
her
sons:
they
brought [the vessels]
to
her,
and
she
poured
out.
\VS{6}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
vessels
were
full,
that she
said
to
her
son,
Bring
me
yet
a
vessel.
And
he
said
to
her,
There
is
not
a
vessel
more.
And
the
oil
stayed.
\VS{7}And she
came
and
told
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
and
he
said,
Go,
sell
the
oil,
and
pay thy
debt,
and
live thou [and] thy
sons
on
the
rest.
\VS{8}And
it
came
to
pass
on
a
day,
that
Elisha
passed
to
Shunem,
where
was
a
wealthy
woman;
and she constrained
him
to
eat
bread.
And
so
it
was, [that]
as oft
as
he
passed
by,
he
turned
in thither
to
eat
bread.
\VS{9}And
she
said
to
her
husband,
Behold
now,
I
perceive
that
this
is
a
holy
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
who
passes
by
us
continually.
\VS{10}Let
us
make,
I
pray thee,
a
small
upper
chamber
with
walls,
and
let
us
set
for
him
there
a
bed,
and
a
table,
and
a
seat,
and
a
lampstand;
and
it shall
be
when
he cometh
to
us,
he shall
turn
in thither.
\VS{11}And
it
came
to
pass
on
a
day,
that
he
came thither,
and
he
turned
into
the
upper
chamber,
and
lay
there.
\VS{12}And
he
said
to
Gehazi
his
servant,
Call
this
Shunammite.
And
he
called
her,
and
she
stood
before
him.
\VS{13}And
he
said
to
him,
Say
now
to
her,
Behold, thou hast
been
careful
for
us
with
all
this
care;
what
is
to
be
done
for thee? wouldest thou
be
spoken
for
to
the
king,
or
to
the
captain
of
the
host?
And
she
said,
I
dwell
among mine own
people.
\VS{14}And
he
said,
What
then
is
to
be
done
for
her?
And
Gehazi
said, Verily,
she
has
no
son,
and
her
husband
is
old.
\VS{15}And
he
said,
Call
her;
and
he
called
her;
and
she
stood
in
the
doorway.
\VS{16}And
he
said,
At
this
appointed
time,
when thy term
is come, thou shalt
embrace
a
son.
And
she
said,
No,
my
lord,
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
do
not
lie
to thy handmaid.
\VS{17}And
the
woman
conceived,
and
bore
a
son
at
that
appointed
time
in
the
next
year
as
Elisha
had
said
to
her.
\VS{18}And
the
child
grew,
and
it
came
to
pass
one
day,
that
he
went
out
to
his
father
to
the reapers.
\VS{19}And
he
said
to
his
father,
My
head,
my
head!
And
he
said
to
the
servant,
Carry
him
to
his
mother.
\VS{20}And
he
carried
him,
and
brought
him
to
his
mother;
and
he
sat
on
her
knees
till
noon,
and
died.
\VS{21}And
she
went
up,
and
laid
him
on
the
bed
of
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
shut [the door]
upon
him,
and
went
out.
\VS{22}And
she
called
to
her
husband,
and
said,
Send
me,
I
pray thee,
one
of
the
young
men,
and
one
of
the asses,
and
I
will
run
to
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:22 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
come
again.
\VS{23}And
he
said,
Why wilt thou
go
to
him to-day?
It
is
neither
new
moon
nor
sabbath.
And
she
said, [It
is]
well.
\VS{24}Then
she
saddled
the ass,
and
said
to
her
servant, Drive
and go forward; slack
not
the
riding
for
me,
except
I bid thee.
\VS{25}And she
went
and
came
to
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:25 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
to
mount
Carmel.
And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:25 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
saw
her afar
off,
that
he
said
to
Gehazi
his
servant,
Behold,
there
is
the
Shunammite:
\VS{26}run
now,
I
pray thee,
to
meet
her,
and
say unto
her,
Is
it
well
with thee?
is
it
well
with thy
husband?
is
it
well
with
the
child?
And she
said,
It
is
well.
\VS{27}And
she
came
to
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:27 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
to
the
mountain,
and
caught
him
by
the
feet;
and
Gehazi
drew
near
to
thrust
her
away;
but
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:27 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
said,
Let
her
alone,
for
her
soul
is
troubled
within
her,
and
Jehovah
has
hidden
it
from
me,
and
has
not
told
me.
\VS{28}And
she
said,
Did
I desire
a
son
of
my
lord?
did
I
not
say, Do
not deceive
me?
\VS{29}And
he
said
to
Gehazi,
Gird
up thy
loins,
and
take
my
staff
in thy
hand,
and go thy
way.
If thou
meet
any
man,
salute
him
not,
and
if
any
salute thee,
answer
him
not
again;
and
lay
my
staff
upon
the
face
of
the
lad.
\VS{30}And
the
mother
of
the
lad
said,
As
Jehovah liveth,
and
as thy
soul liveth,
I
will
not
leave thee!
And
he
rose
up
and
followed
her.
\VS{31}And
Gehazi
passed
on
before
them,
and
laid
the
staff
upon
the
face
of
the
lad;
but
there
was
neither
voice,
nor sign
of
attention.
And
he
returned
to
meet
him,
and
told
him
saying,
The
lad
is
not awaked.
\VS{32}And
when
Elisha
came
into
the
house,
behold,
the
child
was
dead, [and]
laid
upon
his
bed.
\VS{33}And
he
went
in
and
shut
the
door
upon
them
both,
and
prayed
to
Jehovah.
\VS{34}And
he
went
up,
and
lay
upon
the
child,
and
put
his
mouth
upon
his
mouth,
and
his
eyes
upon
his
eyes,
and
his
hands
upon
his
hands,
and bent
over
him;
and
the
flesh
of
the
child
grew
warm.
\VS{35}And
he
returned,
and walked
in
the
house
to
and
fro;
and
went
up,
and bent
over
him.
And
the
lad
sneezed
seven
times,
and
the
lad
opened
his
eyes.
\VS{36}And
he
called
Gehazi,
and
said,
Call
this
Shunammite.
And
he
called
her;
and
she
came
to
him.
And
he
said,
Take
up thy
son.
\VS{37}And she
came
and
fell
at
his
feet,
and
bowed
herself
to
the
ground;
and she
took
up
her
son,
and
went
out.
\VS{38}And
Elisha
came
again
to
Gilgal.
And
there
was
a
famine
in
the
land;
and
the
sons
of
the
prophets
were
sitting
before
him.
And
he
said
to
his
servant,
Set
on
the
great
pot,
and
boil pottage
for
the
sons
of
the
prophets.
\VS{39}Then
one
went
out
into
the
field
to
gather herbs,
and
found
a
wild
vine,
and
gathered
from
it
his lap
full
of
wild colocynths,
and
came
and shred
them
into
the
pot
of pottage;
for
they
did
not
know
them.
\VS{40}And
they
poured
out
for
the
men
to
eat.
And
it
came
to
pass,
as
they
were
eating
of
the pottage,
that
they
cried
out
and
said,
Man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:40 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
there
is
death
in
the
pot!
And
they
could
not
eat [it].
\VS{41}And
he
said,
Then
bring
meal.
And
he
cast [it]
into
the
pot,
and
said,
Pour
out
for
the
people,
that
they
may
eat.
And
there
was
no
harm
in
the
pot.
\VS{42}And there
came
a
man
from
Baal-shalishah,
and
brought
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:42 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
bread
of
the first-fruits,
twenty
loaves
of
barley,
and
fresh
ears
of corn
in
his
sack.
And
he
said,
Give
to
the
people
that
they
may
eat.
\VS{43}And
his
attendant
said,
How
shall
I
set
this
before
a
hundred
men?
And
he
said,
Give
the
people
that
they
may
eat;
for
thus saith
Jehovah:
They
shall
eat,
and
shall
have
to
spare.
\VS{44}And
he
set [it]
before
them,
and
they
ate
and
left [thereof], according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Naaman,
captain
of
the
host
of
the
king
of
Syria,
was
a
great
man
before
his
master,
and honourable,
for
by
him
Jehovah
had
given
deliverance
to
Syria;
and
he
was
a
mighty
man
of valour, [but]
a
leper.
\VS{2}And
the Syrians
had
gone
out
in
bands,
and
had
brought
away
captive
out
of
the
land
of
Israel
a
little maid;
and
she
waited
on Naaman's
wife.
\VS{3}And
she
said
to
her
mistress,
Oh,
would
that
my
lord
were
before
the
prophet
that
is
in
Samaria!
then
he
would
cure
him
of
his
leprosy.
\VS{4}And
he
went
and
told
his
lord
saying, Thus
and thus
said
the maid
that
is
of
the
land
of
Israel.
\VS{5}And
the
king
of
Syria
said, Well!
go,
and
I
will
send
a
letter
to
the
king
of
Israel.
And
he
departed,
and
took
with
him
ten
talents
of
silver,
and
six
thousand [shekels]
of
gold,
and
ten
changes
of raiment.
\VS{6}And
he
brought
the
letter
to
the
king
of
Israel,
saying,
And
now,
when
this
letter
comes
to thee,
behold,
I
have
sent
Naaman
my
servant
to thee,
that thou mayest
cure
him
of
his
leprosy.
\VS{7}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
king
of
Israel
had
read
the
letter,
that
he rent
his
garments,
and
said,
Am
I
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
to
kill
and
to
make
alive,
that
this
man
sends
to
me
to
cure
a
man
of
his
leprosy? Wherefore
consider,
I
pray
you,
and
see
how
he seeks
an occasion
against
me.
\VS{8}And
it
was
so,
when
Elisha
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
heard
that
the
king
of
Israel
had rent
his
garments,
that
he
sent
to
the
king,
saying,
Why hast thou rent thy
garments?
let
him
come
now
to
me,
and
he
shall
know
that
there
is
a
prophet
in
Israel.
\VS{9}And
Naaman
came
with
his
horses
and
with
his
chariot,
and
stood
at
the
doorway
of
the
house
of
Elisha.
\VS{10}And
Elisha
sent
a
messenger
to
him,
saying,
Go
and
wash
in
the
Jordan
seven
times,
and thy
flesh
shall
come
again
to thee,
and thou shalt
be
clean.
\VS{11}And
Naaman
was wroth,
and
went
away
and
said,
Behold,
I
thought,
He
will
certainly
come
out
to
me,
and
stand,
and
call
on
the
name
of
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:11 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
wave
his
hand
over
the
place,
and
cure
the
leper.
\VS{12}Are
not
the
Abanah
and
the
Pharpar,
rivers
of
Damascus,
better
than
all
the
waters
of
Israel?
may
I
not
wash
in
them
and
be
clean?
And
he
turned
and went
away
in
a
rage.
\VS{13}And
his
servants
drew
near,
and
spoke
to
him
and
said,
My
father, [if]
the
prophet
had bidden thee [do
some]
great
thing, wouldest thou
not
have
done
it?
how
much
rather
then,
when
he
says
to thee,
Wash
and
be
clean?
\VS{14}Then
he
went
down,
and plunged
himself
seven
times
in
the
Jordan,
according
to
the
saying
of
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
And
his
flesh
became
again
like
the
flesh
of
a
little
child,
and
he
was
clean.
\VS{15}And
he
returned
to
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
he
and
all
his
company,
and
came
and
stood
before
him;
and
he
said,
Behold,
I
know
that
there
is
no
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
in
all
the
earth
but
in
Israel;
and
now,
I
pray thee,
take
a
present
of thy
servant.
\VS{16}But
he
said,
As
Jehovah liveth,
before
whom
I
stand,
I
will
receive
none!
And
he
urged
him
to
take
it;
but
he
refused.
\VS{17}And
Naaman
said,
If
not,
then
let
there,
I
pray thee,
be
given
to thy
servant
two mules'
burden
of [this]
earth;
for thy
servant
will
no
more
offer burnt-offering
and
sacrifice
to
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
but
to
Jehovah.
\VS{18}In
this
thing
Jehovah
pardon thy
servant:
when
my
master
goes
into
the
house
of
Rimmon
to
bow
down
there,
and
he
leans
on
my
hand,
and
I
bow
down myself
in
the
house
of
Rimmon —
when
I
bow
down myself
in
the
house
of
Rimmon,
Jehovah
pardon thy
servant,
I
pray thee,
in
this
thing.
\VS{19}And
he
said
to
him, Go
in
peace.
And
he departed
from
him
a little way.
\VS{20}And
Gehazi,
the
servant
of
Elisha
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
said,
Behold,
my
master
has
spared
Naaman,
this
Syrian,
in
not
receiving
at
his
hands
that
which
he
brought;
but
as
Jehovah liveth,
I
will
run
after
him
and
take somewhat
of
him.
\VS{21}And
Gehazi
followed
after
Naaman.
And
when
Naaman
saw
him
running
after
him,
he sprang
down
from
the
chariot
to
meet
him,
and
said,
Is
all
well?
\VS{22}And
he
said,
All
is
well.
My
master
has
sent
me
saying,
Behold, even
now
there
are
come
to
me
from
mount
Ephraim
two
young
men
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets;
give
them,
I
pray thee,
a
talent
of
silver,
and
two
changes
of raiment.
\VS{23}And
Naaman
said, Consent
to
take
two
talents.
And
he
urged
him,
and bound
two
talents
of
silver
in
two
bags,
with
two
changes
of raiment,
and
laid
them
upon
two
of
his
young
men;
and
they
bore
them
before
him.
\VS{24}And
when
he
came
to
the
hill,
he
took
them
from
their
hand,
and stowed
them
in
the
house;
and
he
let
the
men
go,
and
they
departed.
\VS{25}And
he
entered
in
and
stood
before
his
master.
And
Elisha
said
to
him, Whence [comest thou],
Gehazi?
And
he
said, Thy
servant
went
no whither.
\VS{26}And
he
said
to
him,
Did
not
my
heart
go,
when
the
man
turned again
from
his
chariot
to
meet thee?
Is
it
a
time
to
receive
money,
and
to
receive
garments,
and oliveyards,
and
vineyards,
and
sheep,
and
oxen,
and bondmen,
and bondwomen?
\VS{27}But
the
leprosy
of
Naaman
shall
fasten upon thee,
and upon thy
seed
for
ever.
And
he
went
out
from
his
presence
leprous,
as
snow.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
sons
of
the
prophets
said
to
Elisha,
Behold
now,
the
place
where
we
dwell
before thee
is
too strait
for
us.
\VS{2}Let
us
go,
we
pray thee,
to
the
Jordan,
and
take thence
every
man
a
beam,
and
let
us
make
us
a
place
there,
where
we
may
dwell.
And
he
said,
Go.
\VS{3}And
one
said, Consent,
I
pray thee,
to
go
with thy
servants.
And
he
said,
I
will
go.
\VS{4}And
he
went
with
them.
And
they
came
to
the
Jordan
and
cut
down
the
trees.
\VS{5}And
it
came
to
pass
as
one
was
felling
a
beam,
that
the
iron
fell
into
the
water;
and
he
cried
and
said,
Alas,
master,
and
it
was
borrowed!
\VS{6}And
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
said,
Where
did
it
fall?
And
he shewed
him
the
place.
And
he
cut
down
a
stick,
and
cast
it
in thither,
and
made
the
iron
to swim.
\VS{7}And
he
said,
Take [it]
up
to thee.
And
he
put
out
his
hand
and
took
it.
\VS{8}And
the
king
of
Syria warred
against
Israel;
and
he
took
counsel
with
his
servants,
saying,
In
such
and
such
a
place [shall
be]
my
camp.
\VS{9}And
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
sent
to
the
king
of
Israel,
saying,
Beware
that thou
pass
not
such
a
place,
for thither
the Syrians
are come
down.
\VS{10}And
the
king
of
Israel
sent
to
the
place
which
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
told
him
and
warned
him
of,
and
he
was
on
his
guard
there. [That
took
place]
not
once,
nor
twice.
\VS{11}And
the
heart
of
the
king
of
Syria
was troubled
because
of
this
thing;
and
he
called
his
servants,
and
said
to
them,
Will ye
not shew
me
which
of
us
is
for
the
king
of
Israel?
\VS{12}And
one
of
his
servants
said,
None,
my
lord, O
king;
but
Elisha,
the
prophet
that
is
in
Israel,
tells
the
king
of
Israel
the
words
that thou speakest
in thy bedchamber.
\VS{13}And
he
said,
Go
and
see
where
he
is,
and
I
will
send
and fetch
him.
And
it
was
told
him
saying,
Behold,
he
is
in
Dothan.
\VS{14}And
he
sent thither
horses
and
chariots,
and
a
great host,
and
they
came
by
night
and surrounded
the
city.
\VS{15}And
when
the
attendant
of
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
rose
early
and
went
forth,
behold,
an
army
surrounded
the
city,
with
horses
and
chariots.
And
his
servant
said
to
him,
Alas,
my
master!
how
shall
we
do?
\VS{16}And
he
said,
Fear
not,
for
they
that
are
with
us
are
more
than
they
that
are
with
them.
\VS{17}And
Elisha
prayed
and
said,
Jehovah,
I
pray thee,
open
his
eyes
that
he
may
see.
And
Jehovah
opened
the
eyes
of
the
young
man,
and
he
saw;
and,
behold,
the
mountain
was
full
of
horses
and
chariots
of
fire
round
about
Elisha.
\VS{18}And
they
came
down
to
him;
and
Elisha
prayed
to
Jehovah
and
said,
Smite
this
nation,
I
pray thee,
with
blindness.
And
he
smote
them
with
blindness
according
to
the
word
of
Elisha.
\VS{19}And
Elisha
said
to
them,
This
is
not
the
way,
neither
is
this
the
city:
follow
me,
and
I
will bring
you
to
the
man
whom ye
seek.
And
he led
them
to
Samaria.
\VS{20}And
it
came
to
pass
when
they
entered
into
Samaria,
that
Elisha
said,
Jehovah,
open
the
eyes
of
these [men]
that
they
may
see.
And
Jehovah
opened
their
eyes,
and
they
saw,
and
behold,
they
were
in
the
midst
of
Samaria.
\VS{21}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Elisha,
when
he
saw
them,
My
father,
shall
I
smite?
shall
I
smite [them]?
\VS{22}And
he
said, Thou shalt
not
smite [them]: wouldest thou
smite
those
whom thou hast
taken
captive
with thy
sword
and
with thy
bow?
Set
bread
and
water
before
them,
that
they
may
eat
and
drink,
and go
to
their
master.
\VS{23}And
he prepared
a
great repast
for
them,
and
they
ate
and
drank;
and
he
sent
them
away,
and
they
went
to
their
master.
And
the
bands
of
Syria
came
no
more
into
the
land
of
Israel.
\VS{24}And
it
came
to
pass
after
this
that
Ben-Hadad
king
of
Syria
gathered
all
his
army,
and
went
up
and besieged
Samaria.
\VS{25}And
there
was
a
great
famine
in
Samaria;
and
behold,
they besieged
it,
until
an ass's
head
was worth
eighty silver-pieces,
and
the
fourth
part
of
a cab
of dove's dung
five silver-pieces.
\VS{26}And
it
came
to
pass
as
the
king
of
Israel
was
passing
by
upon
the
wall,
there
cried
a
woman
to
him
saying,
Help,
my
lord O
king!
\VS{27}And
he
said,
If
Jehovah
do
not
help thee, whence
should
I
help thee?
Out
of
the threshing-floor,
or
out
of
the
winepress?
\VS{28}And
the
king
said
to
her,
What aileth thee?
And
she
said,
This
woman
said
to
me,
Give thy
son,
that
we
may
eat
him to-day,
and
we
will
eat
my
son to-morrow.
\VS{29}And
we
boiled
my
son,
and
ate
him:
and
I
said
to
her
on
the
next
day,
Give thy
son,
that
we
may
eat
him;
and she
has
hidden
her
son.
\VS{30}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
king
heard
the
words
of
the
woman,
that
he rent
his
garments;
and
he
was
passing
by
upon
the
wall,
and
the
people
looked,
and
behold,
he
had
sackcloth
within
upon
his
flesh.
\VS{31}And
he
said,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 6:31 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
do
so,
and
more
also
to
me,
if
the
head
of
Elisha
the
son
of
Shaphat
shall
remain
on
him
this
day!
\VS{32}And
Elisha
sat
in
his
house,
and
the
elders
sat
with
him.
And [the king]
sent
a
man
before
him.
Before
the
messenger
came
to
him,
he
himself
said
to
the
elders,
Do ye
see
how
this
son
of
a
murderer
has
sent
to
take
away
my
head?
See,
when
the
messenger
comes;
shut
the
door,
and
keep
him
off
with
the
door:
is
not
the
sound
of
his master's
feet
behind
him?
\VS{33}And
while
he
yet
talked
with
them,
behold,
the
messenger
came
down
to
him.
And [the king]
said,
Behold,
this
evil
is
of
Jehovah:
why
should
I
wait
for
Jehovah
any
longer?

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Elisha
said,
Hear
the
word
of
Jehovah.
Thus saith
Jehovah: To-morrow
about
this
time
shall
the
measure
of
fine
flour
be
at
a
shekel,
and two
measures
of
barley
at
a
shekel,
in
the
gate
of
Samaria.
\VS{2}And
the captain
on
whose
hand
the
king
leaned
answered
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 7:2 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
and
said,
Behold,
if
Jehovah
should
make
windows
in
the
heavens,
would
this
thing
be?
And
he
said,
Behold, thou shalt
see
it
with thine
eyes,
but shalt
not
eat thereof.
\VS{3}And
there
were
four
leprous
men
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate,
and
they
said
one
to
another,
Why
do
we
abide
here
until
we
die?
\VS{4}If
we
say,
Let
us
enter
into
the
city,
the
famine
is
in
the
city,
and
we
shall
die
there;
and
if
we
abide
here,
we
shall
die.
And
now
come,
let
us
fall
away
to
the
camp
of
the Syrians:
if
they save
us
alive,
we
shall
live;
and
if
they
put
us
to
death,
we
shall
but
die.
\VS{5}And
they
rose
up
in
the dusk
to
go
to
the
camp
of
the Syrians;
and
they
came
to
the extremity
of
the
camp
of
the Syrians;
and
behold,
there
was
no
man
there.
\VS{6}For
the
Lord
had
made
the
army
of
the Syrians
to
hear
a
noise
of
chariots,
and
a
noise
of
horses,
a
noise
of
a
great
host;
and
they
said
one
to
another,
Behold,
the
king
of
Israel
has
hired
against
us
the
kings
of
the
Hittites,
and
the
kings
of
the
Egyptians,
to
come
upon
us.
\VS{7}And
they
rose
up
and
fled
in
the dusk,
and
left
their
tents,
and
their
horses,
and
their asses,
the
camp
as
it
was,
and
fled
for
their
life.
\VS{8}And
those
lepers
came
to
the extremity
of
the
camp;
and
they
went
into
one
tent,
and
ate
and
drank,
and
carried thence
silver
and
gold,
and
garments,
and
went
and
hid
it;
and
they
came
again,
and
entered
into
another
tent,
and
carried thence,
and
went
and
hid [it].
\VS{9}And
they
said
one
to
another,
We
are
not
doing
right;
this
day
is
a
day
of good tidings,
and
we
hold
our peace:
if
we tarry
till
the
morning
light,
the
iniquity
will
find
us
out;
and
now
come,
let
us
go
and
tell
the king's
household.
\VS{10}And
they
came
and
called
to
the porters
of
the
city,
and
told
them
saying,
We
came
to
the
camp
of
the Syrians,
and
behold,
there
was
no
one
there,
no
sound
of
man,
but
the
horses
tied,
and
the asses
tied,
and
the
tents
as
they
were.
\VS{11}And
the porters
cried [it]
and
told [it]
to
the king's
house
within.
\VS{12}And
the
king
rose
up
in
the
night
and
said
to
his
servants,
Let
me
tell
you
what
the Syrians
have
done
to
us.
They
know
that
we
are
hungry,
and
they
have
gone
out
of
the
camp
to
hide themselves
in
the
field,
saying,
When
they
come
out
of
the
city,
we
shall catch
them
alive,
and
get
into
the
city.
\VS{13}And
one
of
his
servants
answered
and
said,
Let
some
one
take,
I
pray thee,
five
of
the
horses
that
remain,
which
are
left
in
the city (behold,
they
are
as
all
the
multitude
of
Israel
that
are
left
in
it:
behold,
they
are
even
as
all
the
multitude
of
the
Israelites
that
have
perished),
and
let
us
send
and
see.
\VS{14}And
they
took
two
chariots
with
their
horses;
and
the
king
sent
after
the
army
of
the Syrians,
saying,
Go
and
see.
\VS{15}And
they
went
after
them
to
the
Jordan;
and
behold,
all
the
way
was
full
of
garments
and materials,
which
the Syrians
had
cast
away
in
their
haste.
And
the
messengers
returned
and
told
the
king.
\VS{16}And
the
people
went
out
and
plundered
the
camp
of
the Syrians;
and
the
measure
of
fine
flour
was
at
a
shekel,
and two
measures
of
barley
at
a
shekel, according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah.
\VS{17}And
the
king
had
appointed
the captain
on
whose
hand
he
leaned
to
have
the
charge
of
the
gate;
and
the
people
trampled
upon
him
in
the
gate,
and
he
died,
according
to
what
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 7:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
said, —
what
he
had
said
when
the
king
came
down
to
him.
\VS{18}And
it
came
to
pass
as
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 7:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
spoken
to
the
king
saying, Two
measures
of
barley
shall
be
at
a
shekel,
and
the
measure
of
fine
flour
at
a
shekel, to-morrow
about
this
time
in
the
gate
of
Samaria.
\VS{19}And
the captain
answered
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 7:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
and
said,
Behold,
if
Jehovah
should
make
windows
in
the
heavens,
would
such
a
thing
be?
And
he
said,
Behold, thou shalt
see
it
with thine
eyes,
but shalt
not
eat thereof.
\VS{20}And
so
it
happened
to
him;
and
the
people
trampled
upon
him
in
the
gate,
and
he
died.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Elisha
had
spoken
to
the
woman
whose
son
he
had
restored
to
life,
saying,
Rise
up
and
go, thou
and thy
household,
and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn;
for
Jehovah
has
called
for
a
famine,
and
it
shall
also
come
upon
the
land
for
seven
years.
\VS{2}And
the
woman
rose
up,
and
did
according
to
the
saying
of
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:2 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
went,
she
and
her
household,
and sojourned
in
the
land
of
the
Philistines
seven
years.
\VS{3}And
it
came
to
pass
at
the
seven years'
end,
that
the
woman
returned
out
of
the
land
of
the
Philistines;
and she
went
forth
to
cry
to
the
king
for
her
house
and
for
her
land.
\VS{4}And
the
king
was
talking
with
Gehazi,
the
servant
of
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
saying,
Tell
me,
I
pray thee,
all
the
great
things
that
Elisha
has
done.
\VS{5}And
it
came
to
pass
as
he
was
telling
the
king
how
he
had
restored
a
dead
body
to
life,
that
behold,
the
woman
whose
son
he
had
restored
to
life
cried
to
the
king
for
her
house
and
for
her
land.
And
Gehazi
said,
My
lord,
O
king,
this
is
the
woman,
and
this
is
her
son,
whom
Elisha
restored
to
life.
\VS{6}And
the
king
asked
the
woman,
and
she
told
him.
And
the
king
appointed
a
certain chamberlain,
saying,
Restore
all
that
was hers,
and
all
the
revenue
of
the
land
since
the
day
that
she
left
the
country
even
until
now.
\VS{7}And
Elisha
came
to
Damascus;
and
Ben-Hadad
the
king
of
Syria
was
sick;
and
it
was
told
him
saying,
The
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
is
come hither.
\VS{8}And
the
king
said
to
Hazael,
Take
a
present
in thy
hand,
and go,
meet
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
inquire
of
Jehovah
by
him,
saying,
Shall
I
recover
from
this
disease?
\VS{9}And
Hazael
went
to
meet
him,
and
took
with
him
a
present, even
of
every
good
thing
of
Damascus,
forty camels'
burden;
and
he
came
and
stood
before
him,
and
said, Thy
son
Ben-Hadad
king
of
Syria
has
sent
me
to thee,
saying,
Shall
I
recover
from
this
disease?
\VS{10}And
Elisha
said
to
him, Go,
say
to
him, Thou wilt
certainly
recover.
But
Jehovah
has shewn
me
that
he
shall
certainly
die.
\VS{11}And
he settled
his
countenance stedfastly,
until
he
was
ashamed;
and
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:11 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
wept.
\VS{12}And
Hazael
said,
Why
does
my
lord
weep?
And
he
said,
Because
I
know
the
evil
that thou wilt
do
to
the
children
of
Israel:
their
strongholds wilt thou
set
on
fire,
and
their
young
men wilt thou
kill
with
the
sword,
and wilt
dash
in
pieces
their
children,
and
rip
up
their
women
with
child.
\VS{13}And
Hazael
said,
But
what,
is thy
servant
a
dog,
that
he
should
do
this
great
thing?
And
Elisha
said,
Jehovah
has shewn
me
that thou wilt
be
king
over
Syria.
\VS{14}And
he
departed
from
Elisha,
and
came
to
his
master,
who
said
to
him,
What
did
Elisha
say
to thee?
And
he
said,
He
told
me [that] thou wouldest
certainly
recover.
\VS{15}And
it
came
to
pass
the
next
day,
that
he
took
the coverlet
and
dipped [it]
in
water,
and
spread
it
over
his
face,
so
that
he
died;
and
Hazael
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{16}And
in
the
fifth
year
of
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
Jehoshaphat
being
then
king
of
Judah,
Jehoram
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah, began
to
reign.
\VS{17}He
was thirty-two
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
eight
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{18}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{19}But
Jehovah
would
not
destroy
Judah,
for
David
his servant's
sake,
as
he
had
promised
him
to
give
him
always
a
lamp
for
his
sons.
\VS{20}In
his
days
Edom
revolted
from
under
the
hand
of
Judah,
and
they set
a
king
over
themselves.
\VS{21}And
Joram
went
over
to
Zair,
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;
and
the
people
fled
into
their
tents.
\VS{22}But
the
Edomites
revolted
from
under
the
hand
of
Judah unto
this
day.
Then
Libnah
revolted
at
the
same
time.
\VS{23}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Joram
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{24}And
Joram
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David;
and
Ahaziah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{25}In
the twelfth
year
of
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
Ahaziah
the
son
of
Jehoram,
king
of
Judah, began
to
reign.
\VS{26}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,
the
daughter
of
Omri
king
of
Israel.
\VS{27}And
he walked
in
the
way
of
the
house
of
Ahab,
and
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
like
the
house
of
Ahab;
for
he
was
the
son-in-law
of
the
house
of
Ahab.
\VS{28}And
he went
with
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab
to
the
war
against
Hazael
the
king
of
Syria
at
Ramoth-Gilead;
and
the Syrians
wounded
Joram.
\VS{29}And
king
Joram
returned
to
be
healed
in Jizreel
of
the
wounds
that
the Syrians
had given
him
at
Ramah,
when
he
fought
with
Hazael
king
of
Syria.
And
Ahaziah
the
son
of
Jehoram,
king
of
Judah,
went
down
to
see
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab
at Jizreel,
for
he
was
sick.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Elisha
the
prophet
called
one
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets,
and
said
to
him,
Gird
up thy
loins,
and
take
this vial
of
oil
in thy
hand,
and go
to
Ramoth-Gilead.
\VS{2}And
when thou art
come thither,
look
out
there
Jehu
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
son
of
Nimshi,
and
go
in,
and
make
him
rise
up
from
among
his
brethren,
and
bring
him
to
an
inner
chamber;
\VS{3}then
take
the vial
of
oil,
and
pour
it
on
his
head
and
say,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
I
have
anointed thee
king
over
Israel;
and
open
the
door,
and
flee,
and tarry
not.
\VS{4}And
the
young
man,
the
young
prophet, went
to
Ramoth-Gilead.
\VS{5}And
when
he
came,
behold,
the
captains
of
the host
were
sitting.
And
he
said,
I
have
an errand
to thee,
captain.
And
Jehu
said,
To
which
of
all
of
us?
And
he
said,
To thee,
captain.
\VS{6}And
he
rose
up
and
went
into
the
house;
and
he
poured
the
oil
on
his
head,
and
said
to
him,
Thus saith
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel:
I
have
anointed thee
king
over
the
people
of
Jehovah,
over
Israel.
\VS{7}And thou shalt
smite
the
house
of
Ahab thy
master;
and
I
will
avenge
the
blood
of
my
servants
the
prophets,
and
the
blood
of
all
the
servants
of
Jehovah
at
the
hand
of
Jezebel.
\VS{8}And
the
whole
house
of
Ahab
shall
perish,
and
I
will
cut
off
from
Ahab
every male,
and
him
that
is
shut
up
and
left
in
Israel.
\VS{9}And
I
will
make
the
house
of
Ahab
as
the
house
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
and
as
the
house
of
Baasha
the
son
of
Ahijah.
\VS{10}And
the
dogs
shall
eat
Jezebel
in
the plot
of Jizreel,
and
none
shall
bury
her.
And
he
opened
the
door
and
fled.
\VS{11}And
Jehu
came
forth
to
the
servants
of
his
lord.
And
one
said
to
him,
Is
all
well?
why
came
this
madman
to thee?
And
he
said
to
them, Ye
know
the
man,
and
his
mind.
\VS{12}And
they
said,
It
is
false!
tell
us
now.
And
he
said,
Thus
and
thus
spoke
he
to
me
saying,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
I
have
anointed thee
king
over
Israel.
\VS{13}Then
they hasted
and
took
every
man
his
garment,
and
put
it
under
him
on
the very stairs,
and
blew
with
trumpets,
and
said,
Jehu
is
king!
\VS{14}And
Jehu
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
son
of
Nimshi,
conspired
against
Joram. (Now
Joram
kept
Ramoth-Gilead,
he
and
all
Israel,
because
of
Hazael
king
of
Syria;
\VS{15}and
king
Joram
had
returned
to
be
healed
in Jizreel
of
the
wounds
that
the Syrians
had given
him,
when
he
fought
against
Hazael
king
of
Syria.)
And
Jehu
said,
If
it
be
your
will,
let
not
a
fugitive
escape
out
of
the
city
to
go
to
tell [it]
in Jizreel.
\VS{16}And
Jehu
rode
in
a
chariot
and
went
to Jizreel;
for
Joram
lay
there.
And
Ahaziah
king
of
Judah
had
come
down
to
see
Joram.
\VS{17}And
the
watchman
stood
on
the
tower
in Jizreel,
and
saw Jehu's
company
as
he
came,
and
said,
I
see
a
company.
And
Joram
said,
Take
a
horseman,
and
send
to
meet
them,
and
let
him
say,
Is
it
peace?
\VS{18}So
there
went
one
on
horseback
to
meet
him;
and
he
said,
Thus saith
the
king:
Is
it
peace?
And
Jehu
said,
What hast thou
to
do
with
peace?
turn thee
behind
me.
And
the
watchman
told
saying,
The
messenger
came
to
them,
and
he
does
not
return.
\VS{19}And
he
sent
out
a
second
on
horseback;
and
he
came
to
them
and
said,
Thus saith
the
king:
Is
it
peace?
And
Jehu
said,
What hast thou
to
do
with
peace?
turn thee
behind
me.
\VS{20}And
the
watchman
told
saying,
He
came
to
them,
and
does
not
return.
And
the
driving
is
like
the
driving
of
Jehu
the
son
of
Nimshi;
for
he
drives
furiously.
\VS{21}Then
Joram
said, Make
ready!
And
they
made
ready
his
chariot.
And
Joram
king
of
Israel
and
Ahaziah
king
of
Judah
went
out,
each
in
his
chariot;
and
they
went
out
to
meet
Jehu,
and
met
him
in
the
plot
of
Naboth
the Jizreelite.
\VS{22}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Joram
saw
Jehu,
that
he
said,
Is
it
peace,
Jehu?
And
he
said,
What
peace,
so
long
as
the fornications
of thy
mother
Jezebel
and
her
sorceries
are
so
many?
\VS{23}Then
Joram
turned
his
hand,
and
fled,
and
said
to
Ahaziah,
Treachery,
Ahaziah!
\VS{24}And
Jehu
took
his
bow
in
his
hand,
and
smote
Jehoram
between
his
arms,
and
the
arrow
went
out
through
his
heart;
and
he
sank
down
in
his
chariot.
\VS{25}And
he
said
to
Bidkar
his captain,
Take
him
up [and]
cast
him
in
the
plot
of
the
field
of
Naboth
the Jizreelite.
For
remember
how,
when
I
and thou
rode
together
after
Ahab
his
father,
that
Jehovah
laid
this
burden
upon
him:
\VS{26}Certainly
I
have
seen
yesterday
the
blood
of
Naboth,
and
the
blood
of
his
sons, saith
Jehovah;
and
I
will requite thee
in
this
plot, saith
Jehovah.
And
now,
take [and]
cast
him
into
the
plot, according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah.
\VS{27}When
Ahaziah
king
of
Judah
saw [that],
he
fled
by
the
way
of
the garden-house.
And
Jehu
followed
after
him,
and
said,
Smite
him
also
in
his
chariot.
It
was
on
the
ascent
of
Gur,
which
is
by Jibleam.
And
he
fled
to
Megiddo,
and
died
there.
\VS{28}And
his
servants
carried
him
in
a
chariot
to
Jerusalem,
and
buried
him
in
his sepulchre
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David.
\VS{29}(And
in
the
eleventh
year
of
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab
had
Ahaziah begun
to
reign
over
Judah.)
\VS{30}And
Jehu
came
to Jizreel;
and
Jezebel
heard
of
it,
and
she
put
paint
to
her
eyes,
and decked
her
head,
and
looked
out
at
the
window.
\VS{31}And
when
Jehu
came
in
at
the
gate, she
said,
Is
it
peace,
Zimri,
murderer
of
his
master?
\VS{32}And
he
lifted
up
his
face
to
the
window,
and
said,
Who
is
on
my
side?
who?
And
two
or
three chamberlains
looked
out
to
him.
\VS{33}And
he
said,
Throw
her
down!
And
they
threw
her
down;
and some
of
her
blood
was sprinkled
on
the
wall,
and
on
the
horses;
and
he
trampled
on
her.
\VS{34}And
he
came
in,
and
ate
and
drank;
and
he
said,
Go,
look,
I
pray
you,
after
this
cursed [woman],
and
bury
her;
for
she
is
a king's
daughter.
\VS{35}And
they went
to
bury
her;
but
they
found
no
more
of
her
than
the
skull,
and
the
feet,
and
the
palms
of
the
hands.
\VS{36}And
they
came
back
and
told
him.
And
he
said,
This
is
the
word
of
Jehovah,
which
he
spoke
through
his
servant
Elijah
the Tishbite
saying,
In
the
plot
of Jizreel
shall
dogs
eat
the
flesh
of
Jezebel;
\VS{37}and
the carcase
of
Jezebel
shall
be
as
dung
upon
the
open
field
in
the plot
of Jizreel,
so
that
they
shall
not
say,
This
is
Jezebel.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Ahab
had
seventy
sons
in
Samaria.
And
Jehu
wrote
letters,
and
sent
to
Samaria,
to
the
princes
of Jizreel,
to
the
elders,
and
to Ahab's
guardians,
saying,
\VS{2}And
now,
when
this
letter
comes
to
you, seeing
your master's
sons
are
with
you,
and
there
are
with
you
chariots,
and
horses,
and
a
fortified
city,
and armour,
\VS{3}look
out
the
best
and worthiest
of
your master's
sons,
and
set
him
on
his father's
throne,
and
fight
for
your master's
house.
\VS{4}And
they
were
exceedingly
afraid,
and
said,
Behold,
the
two
kings
stood
not
before
him;
and
how
shall
we
stand?
\VS{5}And
he
that
was
over
the
house,
and
he
that
was
over
the
city,
and
the
elders,
and
the
guardians
sent
to
Jehu,
saying,
We
are thy
servants,
and
will
do
all
that thou shalt bid
us;
we
will
not
make
any
one
king;
do
what
is
good
in thy
sight.
\VS{6}And
he
wrote
a
letter
the
second
time
to
them
saying,
If ye
are mine,
and
will hearken
to
my
voice,
take
the
heads
of
the
men
your master's
sons,
and
come
to
me
to Jizreel to-morrow
at
this
time.
Now
the king's
sons,
seventy
persons,
were
with
the
great
men
of
the
city,
who
brought
them
up.
\VS{7}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
letter
came
to
them,
that
they
took
the king's
sons,
and
slaughtered
seventy
persons,
and
put
their
heads
in
baskets,
and
sent
them
to
him
to Jizreel.
\VS{8}And
a
messenger
came
and
told
him
saying,
They
have
brought
the
heads
of
the king's
sons.
And
he
said,
Lay
them
in
two
heaps
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
until
the
morning.
\VS{9}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
morning
that
he
went
out;
and
he
stood,
and
said
to
all
the
people, Ye
are
righteous!
behold,
I
conspired
against
my
master
and
killed
him;
but
who
smote
all
these?
\VS{10}Know
now
that
nothing
shall
fall
to
the
earth
of
the
word
of
Jehovah,
which
Jehovah
spoke
concerning
the
house
of
Ahab;
for
Jehovah
has
done
that
which
he
said
through
his
servant
Elijah.
\VS{11}And
Jehu
slew
all
that
remained
of
the
house
of
Ahab
in Jizreel,
and
all
his
great
men,
and
his
acquaintances,
and
his
priests,
until
he
left
him
none
remaining.
\VS{12}And
he
rose
up
and
departed,
and
came
to
Samaria.
And
as
he
was
at
the shepherds' meeting-place
on
the
way,
\VS{13}Jehu
found
the
brethren
of
Ahaziah
king
of
Judah,
and
said,
Who
are ye?
And
they
said,
We
are
the
brethren
of
Ahaziah;
and
have
come
down
to salute
the
children
of
the
king,
and
the
children
of
the
queen.
\VS{14}And
he
said,
Take
them
alive!
And
they
took
them
alive,
and
slew
them
at
the well
of
the meeting-place,
forty-two
men;
and
he
left
not
one
of
them
remaining.
\VS{15}And
he departed thence,
and
found
Jehonadab
the
son
of
Rechab [coming]
to
meet
him;
and
he
greeted
him,
and
said
to
him,
Is thy
heart
right,
as
my
heart
is
with thy
heart?
And
Jehonadab
said,
It
is. —
If
it
be,
give [me] thy
hand. —
And
he
gave [him]
his
hand;
and [Jehu]
took
him
up
to
him
into
the
chariot,
\VS{16}and
said,
Come
with
me,
and
see
my
zeal
for
Jehovah.
So
they made
him
ride
in
his
chariot.
\VS{17}And
he
came
to
Samaria,
and
smote
all
that
remained
to
Ahab
in
Samaria,
until
he
had
destroyed
him,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah
which
he
spoke
to
Elijah.
\VS{18}And
Jehu
gathered
all
the
people
together,
and
said
to
them,
Ahab
served
Baal
a
little:
Jehu
will
serve
him
much.
\VS{19}And
now
call
me
all
the
prophets
of
Baal,
all
his
servants,
and
all
his
priests:
let
none
be wanting;
for
I
have
a
great
sacrifice [to
do]
to
Baal;
whoever
shall
be wanting
shall
not
live.
But
Jehu
did
it
in subtilty,
in
order
that
he
might
bring
destruction
upon
the
servants
of
Baal.
\VS{20}And
Jehu
said, Hallow
a
solemn
assembly
for
Baal.
And
they
proclaimed [it].
\VS{21}And
Jehu
sent
into
all
Israel;
and
all
the
servants
of
Baal
came,
so
that
there
was
not
a
man
left
that
came
not:
and
they
entered
into
the
house
of
Baal;
and
the
house
of
Baal
was
full
from
one
end
to
the
other.
\VS{22}And
he
said
to
him
that
was
over
the
wardrobe,
Bring
forth vestments
for
all
the
servants
of
Baal.
And
he
brought
them
forth vestments.
\VS{23}And
Jehu
and
Jehonadab
the
son
of
Rechab
entered
into
the
house
of
Baal,
and
said
to
the
servants
of
Baal,
Search,
and
see
that
there
be
here
with
you
none
of
the
servants
of
Jehovah,
but
the
servants
of
Baal
only.
\VS{24}And
they
entered
in
to
offer
sacrifices
and burnt-offerings.
Now
Jehu
appointed
eighty
men
without,
and
said,
He
that allows
any
of
the
men
to
escape
that
I
have
brought
into
your
hands,
his
life
shall
be
for
the
life
of
him.
\VS{25}And
it
came
to
pass
as soon
as
they
had
ended offering
up
the burnt-offering,
that
Jehu
said
to
the
couriers
and
to
the captains,
Go
in,
slay
them;
let
none
come
forth.
And
they
smote
them
with
the
edge
of
the
sword;
and
the
couriers
and
the captains
cast [them]
there.
And
they
went
to
the
city
of
the
house
of
Baal,
\VS{26}and
brought
forth
the columns
out
of
the
house
of
Baal,
and
burned
them;
\VS{27}and
they
broke
down
the column
of
Baal,
and
broke
down
the
house
of
Baal,
and
made
it
a draught-house
to
this
day.
\VS{28}Thus
Jehu extirpated
Baal
out
of
Israel.
\VS{29}Only,
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin,
from
them
Jehu
departed
not: [from]
the
golden
calves
that
were
in
Bethel,
and
that
were
in
Dan.
\VS{30}And
Jehovah
said
to
Jehu,
Because thou hast executed
well
that
which
is
right
in
my
sight, [and] hast
done unto
the
house
of
Ahab
according
to
all
that
was
in
my
heart, thy
children
of
the
fourth [generation]
shall
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel.
\VS{31}But
Jehu
took
no
heed
to walk
in
the
law
of
Jehovah
the
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel
with
all
his
heart;
he
departed
not
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam,
who
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{32}In
those
days
Jehovah
began
to
cut
Israel short;
and
Hazael
smote
them
in
all
the
borders
of
Israel;
\VS{33}from
the
Jordan
eastward,
all
the
land
of
Gilead,
the
Gadites,
and
the
Reubenites,
and
the
Manassites,
from
Aroer,
which
is
by
the
river
Arnon,
both
Gilead
and
Bashan.
\VS{34}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehu,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
all
his
might,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{35}And
Jehu
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
Samaria:
and
Jehoahaz
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{36}Now
the
time
that
Jehu
reigned
over
Israel
in
Samaria
was
twenty-eight
years.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
Athaliah
the
mother
of
Ahaziah
saw
that
her
son
was
dead,
she
rose
up
and
destroyed
all
the
royal
seed.
\VS{2}But
Jehosheba,
the
daughter
of
king
Joram,
the
sister
of
Ahaziah,
took
Joash
the
son
of
Ahaziah
and
stole
him
from
among
the king's
sons
that
were slain, [and
hid]
him
and
his
nurse
in
the bedchamber;
and
they
hid
him
from
Athaliah,
so
that
he
was
not slain.
\VS{3}And
he
was
with
her
hid
in
the
house
of
Jehovah
six
years.
And
Athaliah
reigned
over
the
land.
\VS{4}And
in
the
seventh
year
Jehoiada
sent
and fetched
the
captains
of
the
hundreds,
of
the bodyguard
and
the
couriers,
and
brought
them
to
him
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
made
a
covenant
with
them,
and
took
an
oath
of
them
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and shewed
them
the king's
son.
\VS{5}And
he
commanded
them
saying,
This
is
the
thing
which ye
shall
do:
a
third
part
of
you,
that
come
in
on
the
sabbath,
shall
be
keepers
of
the
watch
of
the king's
house;
\VS{6}and
a
third
part
shall
be
at
the
gate
of
Sur;
and
a
third
part
at
the
gate
behind
the
couriers;
and ye
shall
keep
the
watch
of
the
house
for
a defence.
\VS{7}And
the
two
parts
of
you,
all
those
that
go
forth
on
the
sabbath,
even
they
shall
keep
the
watch
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
about
the
king.
\VS{8}And ye
shall encompass
the
king
round
about,
every
man
with
his
weapons
in
his
hand;
and
he
that
comes
within
the
ranks
shall
be
put
to
death;
and ye
shall
be
with
the
king
when
he
goes
out
and
when
he
comes
in.
\VS{9}And
the
captains
of
the
hundreds
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,
and
they
came
to
Jehoiada
the
priest.
\VS{10}And
the
priest
gave
to
the
captains
of
the
hundreds
king David's
spears
and
shields
which
were
in
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{11}And
the
couriers
stood
by
the
king
round
about,
every
man
with
his
weapons
in
his
hand,
from
the
right
side
of
the
house
to
the
left
side
of
the
house,
toward
the
altar
and
the
house.
\VS{12}And
he
brought
forth
the king's
son,
and
put
the
crown
upon
him,
and [gave
him]
the
testimony;
and
they
made
him
king,
and
anointed
him;
and
they
clapped
their
hands,
and
said, Long
live
the
king!
\VS{13}And
Athaliah
heard
the
noise
of
the
couriers [and]
of
the
people;
and she
came
to
the
people
into
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{14}And
she
looked,
and
behold,
the
king
stood
on
the dais,
according
to
the
custom,
and
the
princes
and
the
trumpeters
were
by
the
king;
and
all
the
people
of
the
land
rejoiced,
and
blew
with
trumpets.
And
Athaliah rent
her
garments
and
cried,
Conspiracy!
Conspiracy!
\VS{15}And
Jehoiada
the
priest
commanded
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,
slay
with
the
sword;
for
the
priest
said,
Let
her
not
be
put
to
death
in
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{16}And
they
made
way
for
her,
and she
went
by
the
way
by
which
the
horses
entered
the king's
house,
and
there
was she
put
to
death.
\VS{17}And
Jehoiada
made
a
covenant
between
Jehovah
and
the
king
and
the
people,
that
they
should
be
the
people
of
Jehovah;
and
between
the
king
and
the
people.
\VS{18}Then
all
the
people
of
the
land
went
into
the
house
of
Baal,
and
broke
it
down:
his
altars
and
his
images
they
broke
in
pieces
completely,
and
slew
Mattan
the
priest
of
Baal
before
the
altars.
And
the
priest
appointed
officers
over
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{19}And
he
took
the
captains
of
the
hundreds,
and
the bodyguard,
and
the
couriers,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land;
and
they
brought
down
the
king
from
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
came
by
the
way
through
the
gate
of
the
couriers
into
the king's
house.
And
he
sat
upon
the
throne
of
the
kings.
\VS{20}And
all
the
people
of
the
land
rejoiced,
and
the
city
was
quiet;
and
they
had slain
Athaliah
with
the
sword [beside]
the king's
house.
\VS{21}Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
seventh
year
of Jehu,
Jehoash began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned forty
years
in Jerusalem;
and
his mother's name
was Zibiah
of Beer-sheba.
\VS{2}And
Jehoash did what
was right
in
the sight
of Jehovah, all
the
days wherein Jehoiada
the priest instructed
him.
\VS{3}Only,
the high
places
were not removed:
the
people still sacrificed
and burned incense
on
the high
places.
\VS{4}And Jehoash said
to
the
priests,
All
the money
of
the hallowed
things
that
is brought
into
the house
of Jehovah,
the money
of every
one
that passes [the account],
the money
at which every man
is valued, [and]
all
the money
that comes
into
any man's heart
to bring
into
the house
of Jehovah,
\VS{5}let
the
priests
take
it,
every
man
of
his acquaintance;
and
let
them repair
the breaches
of
the
house,
wherever
any breach
is found.
\VS{6}And
it
was [so
that]
in
the twenty-third year
of king Jehoash,
the
priests
had not
repaired
the breaches
of
the
house.
\VS{7}Then
king
Jehoash called
for Jehoiada
the
priest,
and
the
priests,
and said
to
them,
Why
have ye
not
repaired
the breaches
of
the
house?
And
now
receive
no money
of
your acquaintances,
but
give
it
for
the breaches
of
the
house.
\VS{8}And
the
priests consented
to
receive
no
money
of
the
people,
and
that
they
should only
repair
the breaches
of
the
house.
\VS{9}And Jehoiada
the
priest
took
a chest,
and bored
a hole
in
the lid,
and set
it beside
the altar,
on
the right side
as
one comes
into
the
house
of Jehovah;
and
the
priests
that kept
the door
put
into
it all
the
money
brought
into
the
house
of Jehovah.
\VS{10}And
it
came
to
pass
when
they saw
that
there
was
much
money
in
the
chest,
that
the king's scribe
and
the high
priest
came
up,
and
they tied
up
and counted
the
money
that
was found
in
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{11}And
they
gave
the
money, weighed
out
into
the hands
of
them
that did
the work,
who
were
appointed
over
the
house
of
Jehovah;
and
they laid
it
out
to
the carpenters
and builders
that wrought
upon
the
house
of
Jehovah,
\VS{12}and
to
masons,
and hewers
of stone,
and
to buy
timber
and hewn stone
to repair
the breaches
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
for
all
that
had
to
be
laid
out
on
the
house
for repairs.
\VS{13}However
there
were not
made
for
the
house
of
Jehovah basons
of silver, knives, bowls, trumpets, nor
any utensil
of gold
or utensil
of silver,
of
the money
that
was
brought [into]
the
house
of
Jehovah;
\VS{14}but
they
gave
that
to
the workmen,
and repaired
the
house
of
Jehovah
with
it.
\VS{15}And
they
did
not reckon
with
the
men
into whose
hand
they
gave
the money
to
be
bestowed
on
workmen;
for
they dealt faithfully.
\VS{16}The
money
of trespass-offerings,
and
the
money
of sin-offerings,
was
not
brought
into
the house
of Jehovah:
it
was
for
the
priests.
\VS{17}Then Hazael king
of Syria
went
up,
and fought
against Gath,
and
took
it.
And Hazael
set
his face
to
go
up
against Jerusalem.
\VS{18}And Jehoash
king
of Judah
took
all
the hallowed things
that Jehoshaphat
and Jehoram
and Ahaziah,
his fathers,
kings
of Judah,
had dedicated,
and
his
own hallowed things,
and
all
the gold found
in
the treasures
of
the house
of Jehovah
and
in
the king's house,
and
sent
it
to
Hazael
king
of
Syria;
and
he
went
away
from
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}And
the rest
of
the acts
of
Joash,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they not written
in
the book
of
the chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{20}And
his servants rose
up
and
made
a conspiracy,
and smote
Joash
in
the house
of Millo,
at
the descent
of Silla.
\VS{21}And Jozachar
the son
of Shimeath
and Jehozabad
the son
of Shomer,
his
servants,
smote
him
and
he died;
and
they buried
him
with
his fathers
in
the city
of David.
And Amaziah
his son reigned
in
his stead.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the three-and-twentieth
year
of
Joash
the
son
of
Ahaziah,
king
of
Judah,
Jehoahaz
the
son
of
Jehu began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria,
for
seventeen
years.
\VS{2}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
and
followed
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin;
he
departed
not
from
them.
\VS{3}And
the
anger
of
Jehovah
was
kindled
against
Israel,
and
he
delivered
them
into
the
hand
of
Hazael
king
of
Syria,
and
into
the
hand
of
Ben-Hadad
the
son
of
Hazael,
all
those
days.
\VS{4}(And
Jehoahaz besought
Jehovah,
and
Jehovah hearkened
to
him;
for
he
saw
the
oppression
of
Israel,
because
the
king
of
Syria
oppressed
them.
\VS{5}And
Jehovah
gave
Israel
a saviour,
so
that
they
went
out
from
under
the
hand
of
the Syrians;
and
the
children
of
Israel
dwelt
in
their
tents
as
before.
\VS{6}Nevertheless
they
departed
not
from
the
sins
of
the
house
of
Jeroboam,
who
made
Israel
to
sin:
they
walked therein;
and
there
remained
also
the
Asherah
in
Samaria.)
\VS{7}For
he
had
left
of
the
people
to
Jehoahaz
but
fifty
horsemen,
and
ten
chariots,
and
ten
thousand
footmen;
for
the
king
of
Syria
had
destroyed
them,
and
had
made
them
like
the
dust
by
threshing.
\VS{8}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoahaz,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
might,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{9}And
Jehoahaz
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
Samaria;
and
Joash
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{10}In
the thirty-seventh
year
of
Joash
king
of
Judah began
Jehoash
the
son
of
Jehoahaz
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria,
for
sixteen
years.
\VS{11}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah;
he
departed
not
from
any
of
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin:
he
walked therein.
\VS{12}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Joash,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
might
with
which
he
fought
against
Amaziah
king
of
Judah,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{13}And
Joash
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
Jeroboam
sat
upon
his
throne;
and
Joash
was
buried
in
Samaria
with
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{14}And
Elisha
fell
sick
of
his
sickness
in
which
he
died.
And
Joash
the
king
of
Israel
came
down
to
him,
and
wept
over
his
face,
and
said,
My
father,
my
father!
the
chariot
of
Israel
and
the
horsemen thereof!
\VS{15}And
Elisha
said
to
him,
Take
bow
and
arrows.
And
he
took
a
bow
and
arrows.
\VS{16}And
he
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
Put thy
hand
upon
the
bow.
And
he
put
his
hand [upon
it];
and
Elisha
put
his
hands
upon
the king's
hands,
\VS{17}and
said,
Open
the
window
eastward.
And
he
opened [it].
And
Elisha
said,
Shoot.
And
he
shot.
And
he
said,
An
arrow
of Jehovah's
deliverance,
even
an
arrow
of
deliverance
from
the Syrians;
and thou shalt
smite
the Syrians
in
Aphek,
till thou hast
consumed [them].
\VS{18}And
he
said,
Take
the
arrows.
And
he
took [them].
And
he
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
Smite upon
the
ground.
And
he
smote thrice,
and
stayed.
\VS{19}And
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
was wroth
with
him,
and
said, Thou shouldest
have
smitten
five
or
six
times;
then wouldest thou
have
smitten
the Syrians
till thou hadst
consumed [them];
whereas
now thou shalt
smite
Syria
but thrice.
\VS{20}And
Elisha
died,
and
they
buried
him.
And
the
bands
of
the
Moabites
invaded
the
land
at
the
coming
in
of
the
year.
\VS{21}And
it
came
to
pass
as
they
were
burying
a
man,
that
behold,
they
saw
the
band,
and
they
cast
the
man
into
the sepulchre
of
Elisha;
and
the
man
went [down],
and
touched
the
bones
of
Elisha,
and
he
revived,
and
stood
upon
his
feet.
\VS{22}And
Hazael
king
of
Syria
oppressed
Israel
all
the
days
of
Jehoahaz.
\VS{23}And
Jehovah
was gracious
to
them,
and
had
compassion
on
them,
and
had
respect
to
them,
because
of
his
covenant
with
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob;
and
he
would
not
destroy
them,
neither
did
he
cast
them
from
his
presence
up
to
that
time.
\VS{24}And
Hazael
king
of
Syria
died,
and
Ben-Hadad
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{25}And
Jehoash
the
son
of
Jehoahaz
took
again
out
of
the
hand
of
Ben-Hadad
the
son
of
Hazael
the
cities
which
he
had
taken
out
of
the
hand
of
Jehoahaz
his
father
in
the
war.
Three
times
did
Joash
beat
him,
and
recovered
the
cities
of
Israel.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
second
year
of
Joash
son
of
Jehoahaz,
king
of
Israel, began
Amaziah
the
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Judah,
to
reign.
\VS{2}He
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{3}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
yet
not
like
David
his
father:
he
did according
to
all
that
Joash
his
father
had
done.
\VS{4}Only,
the
high
places were
not
removed:
the
people
still
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
on
the
high
places.
\VS{5}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
kingdom
was
established
in
his
hand,
that
he
slew
his
servants
who
had
smitten
the
king
his
father.
\VS{6}But
the
children
of
those
that
smote [him]
he
did
not
put
to
death;
according
to
that
which
is
written
in
the
book
of
the
law
of
Moses,
wherein
Jehovah
commanded
saying,
The
fathers
shall
not
be
put
to
death
for
the
children,
neither
shall
the
children
be
put
to
death
for
the
fathers;
but
every
man
shall
be
put
to
death
for
his
own
sin.
\VS{7}He
smote
of
Edom
in
the
valley
of
salt
ten
thousand,
and
took
Sela
in
the
war,
and
called
the
name
of
it
Joktheel
to
this
day.
\VS{8}Then
Amaziah
sent
messengers
to
Jehoash
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
son
of
Jehu,
king
of
Israel,
saying, Come,
let
us
look
one another
in
the
face.
\VS{9}And
Jehoash
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{10}Thou hast
indeed
smitten
Edom,
and thy
heart
has
lifted thee
up: boast thyself,
and
abide
at
home;
for
why shouldest thou
contend
with
misfortune,
that thou shouldest
fall, thou,
and
Judah
with thee?
\VS{11}But
Amaziah
would
not
hear.
And
Jehoash
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{12}And
Judah
was
routed
before
Israel;
and
they
fled
every
man
to
his
tent.
\VS{13}And
Jehoash
king
of
Israel
took
Amaziah
king
of
Judah,
the
son
of
Jehoash
son
of
Ahaziah,
at
Beth-shemesh,
and
came
to
Jerusalem,
and
broke
down
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
from
the
gate
of
Ephraim
to
the corner-gate,
four
hundred
cubits.
\VS{14}And
he
took
all
the
gold
and
the
silver,
and
all
the
vessels
that
were
found
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
in
the
treasures
of
the king's
house,
and
hostages,
and
returned
to
Samaria.
\VS{15}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoash,
what
he
did,
and
his
might,
and
how
he
fought
with
Amaziah
king
of
Judah,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{16}And
Jehoash
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
Samaria
with
the
kings
of
Israel;
and
Jeroboam
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{17}And
Amaziah
the
son
of
Joash
king
of
Judah
lived
after
the
death
of
Jehoash
son
of
Jehoahaz,
king
of
Israel,
fifteen
years.
\VS{18}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Amaziah,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{19}And
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{20}And
they
brought
him
on
horses,
and
he
was
buried
at
Jerusalem
with
his
fathers,
in
the
city
of
David.
\VS{21}And
all
the
people
of
Judah
took
Azariah,
who
was
sixteen
years
old,
and
made
him
king
instead
of
his
father
Amaziah.
\VS{22}It
was
he
that
built
Elath,
and
restored
it
to
Judah,
after
the
king
slept
with
his
fathers.
\VS{23}In
the fifteenth
year
of
Amaziah
the
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Judah,
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Israel, began
to
reign
in
Samaria,
for forty-one
years.
\VS{24}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah:
he
departed
not
from
any
of
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{25}He
restored
the
border
of
Israel
from
the
entrance
of
Hamath
as
far
as
the
sea
of
the
plain,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:25 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
which
he
had
spoken
through
his
servant
Jonah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amittai,
who
was
of
Gath-Hepher.
\VS{26}For
Jehovah
saw
that
the affliction
of
Israel
was
very
bitter;
and
that
there
was
not
any
shut
up,
nor
any
left,
nor
any
helper
for
Israel.
\VS{27}And
Jehovah
had
not
said
that
he
would blot
out
the
name
of
Israel
from
under
the
heavens;
and
he
saved
them
by
the
hand
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Joash.
\VS{28}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jeroboam,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
might,
how
he warred,
and
how
he
recovered
for
Israel
that [which
had belonged]
to
Judah
in
Damascus
and
in
Hamath,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{29}And
Jeroboam
slept
with
his
fathers,
with
the
kings
of
Israel;
and
Zechariah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the twenty-seventh
year
of
Jeroboam
king
of
Israel,
Azariah
son
of
Amaziah,
king
of
Judah, began
to
reign.
\VS{2}He
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{3}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah, according
to
all
that
his
father
Amaziah
had
done.
\VS{4}Only,
the
high
places were
not
removed:
the
people
still
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
on
the
high
places.
\VS{5}And
Jehovah smote
the
king,
so
that
he
was
a
leper
to
the
day
of
his
death,
and
dwelt
in
a
separate
house.
And
Jotham
the king's
son
was
over
the
house,
judging
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{6}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Azariah,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{7}And
Azariah
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David;
and
Jotham
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{8}In
the thirty-eighth
year
of
Azariah
king
of
Judah,
Zechariah
the
son
of
Jeroboam
reigned
over
Israel
in
Samaria,
six
months.
\VS{9}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah, according
as
his
fathers
had
done:
he
departed
not
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{10}And
Shallum
the
son
of
Jabesh
conspired
against
him,
and
smote
him
before
the
people,
and
slew
him,
and
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{11}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Zechariah,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{12}This
was
the
word
of
Jehovah
which
he
spoke
to
Jehu
saying, Thy
sons
shall
sit
upon
the
throne
of
Israel unto
the
fourth [generation].
And
so
it
came
to
pass.
\VS{13}Shallum
the
son
of
Jabesh began
to
reign
in
the thirty-ninth
year
of
Uzziah
king
of
Judah;
and
he
reigned
a
full
month
in
Samaria.
\VS{14}And
Menahem
the
son
of
Gadi
went
up
from
Tirzah,
and
came
to
Samaria,
and
smote
Shallum
the
son
of
Jabesh
in
Samaria,
and
slew
him,
and
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{15}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Shallum,
and
his
conspiracy
which
he
made,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{16}Then
Menahem
smote
Tiphsah,
and
all
that
were therein,
and
its
territory
from
Tirzah,
because
they
did
not
open [to
him];
and
he
smote [it]:
all
the
women
in
it
that
were
with
child
he
ripped
up.
\VS{17}In
the thirty-ninth
year
of
Azariah
king
of
Judah,
Menahem
the
son
of
Gadi began
to
reign
over
Israel,
for
ten
years,
in
Samaria.
\VS{18}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah:
he
departed
not,
all
his
days,
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{19}Pul
the
king
of
Assyria
came
against
the
land;
and
Menahem
gave
Pul
a
thousand
talents
of
silver,
that
his
hand
might
be
with
him
to
establish
the
kingdom
in
his
hand.
\VS{20}And
Menahem
exacted
the
money
of
Israel,
of
all
those
who
were
wealthy,
of
each
man
fifty
shekels
of
silver,
to
give
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
And
the
king
of
Assyria
turned
back,
and
stayed
not
there
in
the
land.
\VS{21}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Menahem,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{22}And
Menahem
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
Pekahiah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{23}In
the
fiftieth
year
of
Azariah
king
of
Judah,
Pekahiah
the
son
of
Menahem began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria,
for two
years.
\VS{24}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah:
he
departed
not
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{25}And
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
his captain,
conspired
against
him,
and
smote
him
in
Samaria,
in
the fortress
of
the king's
house,
with Argob
and Arieh,
and
with
him
fifty
men
of
the
Gileadites;
and
he
slew
him,
and
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{26}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Pekahiah,
and
all
that
he
did,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{27}In
the
fifty-second
year
of
Azariah
king
of
Judah,
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria,
for
twenty
years.
\VS{28}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah:
he
departed
not
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{29}In
the
days
of
Pekah
king
of
Israel,
Tiglath-Pileser
king
of
Assyria
came
and
took
Ijon,
and Abel-Beth-Maachah,
and
Janoah,
and
Kedesh,
and
Hazor,
and
Gilead,
and
Galilee,
all
the
land
of
Naphtali,
and
carried
them
captive
to
Assyria.
\VS{30}And
Hoshea
the
son
of
Elah
made
a
conspiracy
against
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
and
smote
him
and
slew
him;
and
he
reigned
in
his
stead,
in
the
twentieth
year
of
Jotham
the
son
of
Uzziah.
\VS{31}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Pekah,
and
all
that
he
did,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{32}In
the
second
year
of
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
king
of
Israel,
Jotham
the
son
of
Uzziah,
king
of
Judah, began
to
reign.
\VS{33}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Jerusha,
the
daughter
of
Zadok.
\VS{34}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah:
he
did according
to
all
that
his
father
Uzziah
had
done.
\VS{35}Only,
the
high
places
were
not
removed:
the
people
still
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
on
the
high
places.
It
was
he
who
built
the
upper
gate
of
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{36}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jotham,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{37}In
those
days
Jehovah
began
to
send
against
Judah
Rezin
the
king
of
Syria,
and
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah.
\VS{38}And
Jotham
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David
his
father;
and
Ahaz
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the seventeenth
year
of
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
Ahaz
the
son
of
Jotham,
king
of
Judah, began
to
reign.
\VS{2}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
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 16:2 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
like
David
his
father,
\VS{3}but walked
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and
even
caused
his
son
to
pass
through
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}Then
Rezin
the
king
of
Syria,
and
Pekah
son
of
Remaliah,
the
king
of
Israel,
came
up
to
Jerusalem
to
battle;
and
they besieged
Ahaz,
but
were
unable
to conquer
him.
\VS{6}At
that
time
Rezin
king
of
Syria
recovered
Elath
to
Syria,
and drove
the
Jews
from
Elath;
and
the
Syrians
came
to
Elath,
and
dwelt
there
to
this
day.
\VS{7}And
Ahaz
sent
messengers
to
Tiglath-Pileser
king
of
Assyria,
saying,
I
am thy
servant
and thy
son:
come
up,
and
save
me
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Syria,
and
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Israel,
who
have
risen
up
against
me.
\VS{8}And
Ahaz
took
the
silver
and
the
gold
that
was
found
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
in
the
treasures
of
the king's
house,
and
sent
it [as]
a
present
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{9}And
the
king
of
Assyria hearkened
to
him;
and
the
king
of
Assyria
went
up
against
Damascus,
and
took
it,
and
carried
it
captive
to
Kir,
and
put
Rezin
to
death.
\VS{10}And
king
Ahaz
went
to
Damascus
to
meet
Tiglath-Pileser
king
of
Assyria;
and
he
saw
the
altar
that
was
at
Damascus,
and
king
Ahaz
sent
to Urijah
the
priest
the
form
of
the
altar,
and
the
pattern
of
it,
according
to
all
its
workmanship.
\VS{11}And Urijah
the
priest
built
an
altar according
to
all
that
king
Ahaz
had
sent
from
Damascus;
thus Urijah
the
priest
made [it],
against
king
Ahaz
came
from
Damascus.
\VS{12}And
when
the
king
came
from
Damascus,
the
king
saw
the
altar;
and
the
king
approached
to
the
altar,
and
offered
upon
it.
\VS{13}And
he
burned
his burnt-offering
and
his oblation,
and poured
out
his drink-offering,
and
sprinkled
the
blood
of
his peace-offering
upon
the
altar.
\VS{14}And
the brazen
altar
which
was
before
Jehovah,
he
brought
forward
from
the forefront
of
the
house,
from
between [his]
altar
and
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
put
it
by
the
side
of [his]
altar
on
the
north.
\VS{15}And
king
Ahaz
commanded Urijah
the
priest
saying,
Upon
the
great
altar
burn
the
morning burnt-offering,
and
the
evening oblation,
and
the king's burnt-offering,
and
his oblation,
and
the burnt-offering
of
all
the
people
of
the
land,
and
their oblation,
and
their drink-offerings;
and
sprinkle
upon
it
all
the
blood
of
the burnt-offerings,
and
all
the
blood
of
the
sacrifices;
and
the brazen
altar
shall
be
for
me
to
inquire [by].
\VS{16}And Urijah
the
priest
did according
to
all
that
king
Ahaz
had
commanded.
\VS{17}And
king
Ahaz
cut
off
the panels
of
the bases,
and
removed
the lavers
from
off
them;
and
took
down
the
sea
from
off
the brazen
oxen
that
were
under
it,
and
put
it
upon
a
stone
pavement.
\VS{18}And
the covered
way
of
the
sabbath
that
they
had
built
in
the
house,
and
the king's
entry
outside,
he
turned
from
the
house
of
Jehovah
on
account
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{19}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Ahaz,
what
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{20}And
Ahaz
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David;
and
Hezekiah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the twelfth
year
of
Ahaz
king
of
Judah,
Hoshea
the
son
of
Elah began
to
reign
in
Samaria
over
Israel,
for
nine
years.
\VS{2}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
but
not
as
the
kings
of
Israel
that
had
been
before
him.
\VS{3}Against
him
came
up
Shalmaneser
king
of
Assyria,
and
Hoshea
became
his
servant,
and tendered
him
presents.
\VS{4}But
the
king
of
Assyria
found
conspiracy
in
Hoshea;
for
he
had
sent
messengers
to
So
king
of
Egypt,
and
sent
up
no
present
to
the
king
of
Assyria
as [he
had done]
from
year
to
year.
And
the
king
of
Assyria
shut
him
up
and
bound
him
in
prison.
\VS{5}And
the
king
of
Assyria overran
the
whole
land,
and
went
up
against
Samaria,
and besieged
it
three
years.
\VS{6}In
the
ninth
year
of
Hoshea,
the
king
of
Assyria
took
Samaria,
and
carried
Israel
away
into
Assyria,
and
placed
them
in
Halah
and
by
the
Habor,
the
river
of
Gozan,
and
in
the
cities
of
the
Medes.
\VS{7}And
so
it
was,
because
the
children
of
Israel
had
sinned
against
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
who
had
brought
them
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
from
under
the
hand
of
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt,
and
had
feared
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods;
\VS{8}and
they walked
in
the
statutes
of
the
nations
that
Jehovah
had
dispossessed
from
before
the
children
of
Israel,
and
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
which
they
had
made.
\VS{9}And
the
children
of
Israel
did
secretly
against
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
things
that
were
not
right;
and
they
built
them
high
places
in
all
their
cities,
from
the watchmen's
tower
to
the
fortified
city.
\VS{10}And
they
set
them
up columns
and Asherahs
on
every
high
hill
and
under
every
green
tree;
\VS{11}and
there
they
burned
incense
on
all
the
high
places,
as
did
the
nations
that
Jehovah
had
carried
away
from
before
them,
and
they wrought
wicked
things
to
provoke
Jehovah
to
anger;
\VS{12}and
they
served
idols,
as
to
which
Jehovah
had
said
to
them, Ye
shall
not
do
this
thing.
\VS{13}And
Jehovah
testified
against
Israel
and
against
Judah,
by
all
the
prophets,
all
the
seers,
saying,
Turn
from
your
evil
ways,
and
keep
my
commandments,
my
statutes,
according
to
all
the
law
which
I
commanded
your
fathers,
and
which
I
sent
to
you
through
my
servants
the
prophets.
\VS{14}But
they
would
not
hear,
and
hardened
their
necks,
like
to
the
neck
of
their
fathers,
who
did
not
believe
in
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{15}And
they
rejected
his
statutes,
and
his
covenant
which
he
had
made
with
their
fathers,
and
his
testimonies
which
he
had
testified unto
them;
and
they
followed
vanity
and
became
vain,
and [went]
after
the
nations
that
were
round
about
them,
concerning
whom
Jehovah
had
charged
them
that
they
should
not
do
like
them.
\VS{16}And
they forsook
all
the
commandments
of
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
made
them molten
images,
two
calves,
and
made
an
Asherah,
and worshipped
all
the
host
of
the
heavens,
and
served
Baal;
\VS{17}and
they caused
their
sons
and
their
daughters
to
pass
through
the
fire,
and
used
divination
and
enchantments,
and
sold
themselves
to
do
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
to
provoke
him
to
anger.
\VS{18}Therefore
Jehovah
was
very
angry
with
Israel,
and
removed
them
out
of
his
sight:
there
remained
but
the
tribe
of
Judah
only.
\VS{19}Also
Judah
kept
not
the
commandments
of
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
but walked
in
the
statutes
of
Israel
which
they
had
made.
\VS{20}And
Jehovah
rejected
all
the
seed
of
Israel;
and afflicted
them,
and
delivered
them
into
the
hand
of spoilers,
until
he
had
cast
them
out
of
his
sight.
\VS{21}For
Israel
had rent [the kingdom]
from
the
house
of
David;
and
they
had made
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
king;
and
Jeroboam violently
turned
Israel
from
following
Jehovah,
and made
them
sin
a
great
sin.
\VS{22}And
the
children
of
Israel walked
in
all
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
which
he
did;
they
did
not
depart
from
them:
\VS{23}until
Jehovah
had
removed
Israel
out
of
his
sight,
as
he
had
said
through
all
his
servants
the
prophets;
and
Israel
was
carried
away
out
of
their
own
land
to
Assyria, unto
this
day.
\VS{24}And
the
king
of
Assyria
brought [people]
from
Babylon,
and
from
Cuthah,
and
from
Avva,
and
from
Hamath,
and
from
Sepharvaim,
and made
them
dwell
in
the
cities
of
Samaria
instead
of
the
children
of
Israel;
and
they
possessed
Samaria,
and
dwelt
in
its
cities.
\VS{25}And
so
it
was,
at
the
beginning
of
their
dwelling
there,
that
they
feared
not
Jehovah;
and
Jehovah
sent
lions
among
them,
which
killed [some]
of
them.
\VS{26}And
they
spoke
to
the
king
of
Assyria
saying,
The
nations
that thou hast
removed
and
made
to
dwell
in
the
cities
of
Samaria
know
not
the
manner
of
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:26 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
the
land;
therefore
he
has
sent
lions
among
them,
and
behold,
they
slay
them,
because
they
know
not
the
manner
of
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:26 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
the
land.
\VS{27}And
the
king
of
Assyria
commanded
saying,
Carry thither
one
of
the
priests
whom ye
have brought
away
from thence;
and
let
them
go
and
abide
there,
and
let
him
teach
them
the
manner
of
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:27 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
the
land.
\VS{28}Then
one
of
the
priests
whom
they
had
carried
away
from
Samaria
came
and
abode
in
Bethel,
and
taught
them
how
they
should
fear
Jehovah.
\VS{29}And
every
nation
made
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:29 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
their
own,
and
put
them
in
the
houses
of
the
high
places
that
the Samaritans
had
made,
every
nation
in
their
cities
in
which
they
dwelt.
\VS{30}And
the
people
of
Babylon
made
Succoth-benoth,
and
the
people
of
Cuth
made
Nergal,
and
the
people
of
Hamath
made
Ashima,
\VS{31}and
the
Avvites
made
Nibhaz
and
Tartak,
and
the
Sepharvites
burned
their
children
in
the
fire
to
Adrammelech
and
Anammelech
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:31 }

Elohim|strong="H0433"}gods
of
Sepharvaim.
\VS{32}So
they
feared
Jehovah,
and
made
to
themselves
from
all classes
of
them
priests
of
the
high
places,
who offered [sacrifices]
for
them
in
the
houses
of
the
high
places.
\VS{33}They
feared
Jehovah,
and
served
their
own
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:33 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
after
the
manner
of
the
nations, whence
they
had
been
carried
away.
\VS{34}To
this
day
they
do
after
their
former
customs:
they
fear
not
Jehovah,
neither
do
they
after
their
statutes
or
after
their
ordinances,
nor
after
the
law
and
commandment
that
Jehovah
commanded
the
sons
of
Jacob,
whom
he
named
Israel.
\VS{35}And
Jehovah
had
made
a
covenant
with
them,
and
charged
them
saying, Ye
shall
not
fear
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:35 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
nor
bow
down
yourselves
to
them,
nor
serve
them,
nor
sacrifice
to
them;
\VS{36}but
Jehovah alone,
who
brought
you
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
with
great
power
and
a
stretched-out
arm,
him
shall ye
fear,
and
him
shall ye
worship,
and
to
him
shall ye
do
sacrifice.
\VS{37}And
the
statutes
and
the
ordinances
and
the
law,
and
the
commandment
which
he
wrote
for
you, ye
shall
observe
to
do
for evermore;
and ye
shall
not
fear
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:37 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods.
\VS{38}And ye
shall
not
forget
the
covenant
that
I
have
made
with
you,
neither
shall ye
fear
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:38 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods;
\VS{39}but ye
shall
fear
Jehovah
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:39 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
he
shall
deliver
you
out
of
the
hand
of
all
your
enemies.
\VS{40}And
they
did
not hearken,
but
did
after
their
former
customs.
\VS{41}And
these
nations
feared
Jehovah,
and
served
their
graven
images,
both
their
children
and
their children's
children:
as
did
their
fathers,
so
do
they, unto
this
day.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
third
year
of
Hoshea
the
son
of
Elah,
king
of
Israel,
that
Hezekiah
the
son
of
Ahaz,
king
of
Judah,
began
to
reign.
\VS{2}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
twenty-nine
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Abi,
daughter
of
Zechariah.
\VS{3}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah, according
to
all
that
David
his
father
had
done.
\VS{4}He
removed
the
high
places,
and
broke
the columns,
and
cut
down
the Asherahs,
and
broke
in
pieces
the
serpent
of
brass
that
Moses
had
made;
for
to
those
days
the
children
of
Israel
burned
incense
to
it:
and
he
called
it
Nehushtan.
\VS{5}He
trusted
in
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel;
so
that
after
him
was
none
like
him
among
all
the
kings
of
Judah,
nor [among
any]
that
were
before
him.
\VS{6}And
he clave
to
Jehovah,
and
did
not
turn
aside
from
following
him,
but
kept
his
commandments,
which
Jehovah
commanded
Moses.
\VS{7}And
Jehovah
was
with
him;
he prospered whithersoever
he
went
forth.
And
he
rebelled
against
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
served
him
not.
\VS{8}He
smote
the
Philistines unto Gazah
and
its
borders,
from
the watchmen's
tower
to
the
fortified
city.
\VS{9}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
fourth
year
of
king
Hezekiah,
which
was
the
seventh
year
of
Hoshea
the
son
of
Elah,
king
of
Israel, [that]
Shalmaneser
king
of
Assyria
came
up
against
Samaria
and besieged
it.
\VS{10}And
at
the
end
of
three
years
they
took
it;
in
the sixth
year
of
Hezekiah,
that
is,
the
ninth
year
of
Hoshea
king
of
Israel,
Samaria
was
taken.
\VS{11}And
the
king
of
Assyria
carried
away
Israel
to
Assyria,
and settled
them
in
Halah
and
by
the
Habor,
the
river
of
Gozan,
and
in
the
cities
of
the
Medes;
\VS{12}because
they hearkened
not
to
the
voice
of
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
but transgressed
his
covenant,
all
that
Moses
the
servant
of
Jehovah
commanded;
and
they
would
not
hear
nor
do
it.
\VS{13}And
in
the fourteenth
year
of
king
Hezekiah,
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
came
up
against
all
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah,
and
took
them.
\VS{14}And
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
sent
to
the
king
of
Assyria
to
Lachish,
saying,
I
have
sinned;
retire
from
me:
I
will
bear
what thou layest
upon
me.
And
the
king
of
Assyria
laid
upon
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
three
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
thirty
talents
of
gold.
\VS{15}And
Hezekiah
gave
all
the
silver
that
was
found
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
in
the
treasures
of
the king's
house.
\VS{16}At
that
time
Hezekiah
stripped
the
doors
of
the
temple
of
Jehovah,
and
the posts
that
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
had
overlaid,
and
gave
them
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{17}And
the
king
of
Assyria
sent
Tartan
and Rabsaris
and Rab-shakeh
from
Lachish,
with
a strong force,
against
king
Hezekiah,
to
Jerusalem.
And
they
went
up
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
And
when
they
were
come
up,
they
came
and
stood
by
the aqueduct
of
the
upper
pool,
which
is
on
the
highway
of
the fuller's
field.
\VS{18}And
they
called
to
the
king.
Then
came
forth
to
them
Eliakim
the
son
of Hilkijah,
who
was
over
the
household,
and
Shebnah
the
scribe,
and
Joah
the
son
of
Asaph,
the chronicler.
\VS{19}And Rab-shakeh
said
to
them,
Say
now
to
Hezekiah,
Thus
says
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria:
What
confidence
is
this
wherein thou trustest?
\VS{20}Thou sayest —
but
it
is
a
word
of
the
lips — There
is
counsel
and
strength
for
war.
Now
on
whom dost thou
rely,
that thou hast revolted
against
me?
\VS{21}Now
behold, thou reliest
upon
the
staff
of
that broken
reed,
upon
Egypt,
on
which
if
a
man
lean,
it
goes
into
his
hand
and pierces
it:
so
is
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt
to
all
that
rely
upon
him.
\VS{22}And
if ye
say
to
me,
We
rely
upon
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:22 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God:
is
it
not
he
whose
high
places
and
whose
altars
Hezekiah
has
removed,
saying
to
Judah
and
Jerusalem, Ye
shall
worship
before
this
altar
in
Jerusalem?
\VS{23}And
now,
engage,
I
pray thee,
with
my
master
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
I
will
give thee two
thousand
horses,
if thou canst
set
the
riders
upon
them.
\VS{24}How
then wilt thou
turn
away
the
face
of
one captain
of
the least
of
my master's
servants?
And thou reliest
upon
Egypt
for
chariots
and
for
horsemen!
\VS{25}Am
I
now
come
up
without
Jehovah
against
this
place
to
destroy
it?
Jehovah
said
to
me,
Go
up
against
this
land
and
destroy
it.
\VS{26}And
Eliakim
the
son
of Hilkijah,
and
Shebnah
and
Joah
said
to Rab-shakeh,
Speak,
we
pray thee,
to thy
servants
in Syriac,
for
we
understand
it,
and
talk
not
with
us
in
the Jewish [language]
in
the
ears
of
the
people
that
are
on
the
wall.
\VS{27}And Rab-shakeh
said
to
them,
Is
it
to thy
master
and
to thee
that
my
master
sent
me
to
speak
these
words?
Is
it
not
to
the
men
that
sit
on
the
wall,
that
they
may
eat
their
own dung
and
drink
their
own
urine
with
you?
\VS{28}And Rab-shakeh
stood
and
cried
with
a
loud
voice
in
the Jewish [language],
and
spoke
and
said,
Hear
the
word
of
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria!
\VS{29}Thus
says
the
king:
Let
not
Hezekiah
deceive
you;
for
he
will
not
be
able
to
deliver
you
out
of
the [king's]
hand.
\VS{30}Neither
let
Hezekiah
make
you
rely
upon
Jehovah,
saying,
Jehovah
will
certainly
deliver
us,
and
this
city
shall
not
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{31}Hearken
not
to
Hezekiah;
for
thus
says
the
king
of
Assyria:
Make
peace
with
me,
and
come
out
to
me;
and
eat
every
one
of
his
vine
and
every
one
of
his fig-tree,
and
drink
every
one
the
waters
of
his
own
cistern;
\VS{32}until
I
come
and
take
you
away
to
a
land
like
your own
land,
a
land
of corn
and
wine,
a
land
of
bread
and
vineyards,
a
land
of olive-trees
and
of
honey,
that ye
may
live
and
not
die;
and hearken
not
to
Hezekiah,
when
he persuades
you,
saying,
Jehovah
will
deliver
us.
\VS{33}Have
any
of
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:33 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
the
nations
delivered
at
all
his
land
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria?
\VS{34}Where
are
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:34 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
Hamath
and
of
Arpad?
Where
are
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:34 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
Sepharvaim,
Hena,
and
Ivvah?
and
have
they
delivered
Samaria
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{35}Which
are
they
among
all
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:35 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
the
countries,
who
have
delivered
their
country
out
of
my
hand,
that
Jehovah
should
deliver
Jerusalem
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{36}But
the
people
were
silent
and
answered
him
not
a
word;
for
the king's
command
was,
saying,
Answer
him
not.
\VS{37}And
Eliakim
the
son
of Hilkijah,
who
was
over
the
household,
and
Shebna
the
scribe,
and
Joah
the
son
of
Asaph,
the chronicler,
came
to
Hezekiah
with
their
garments rent,
and
told
him
the
words
of Rab-shakeh.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
when
king
Hezekiah
heard [it],
that
he rent
his
garments,
and
covered himself
with
sackcloth,
and
went
into
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{2}And
he
sent
Eliakim,
who
was
over
the
household,
and
Shebna
the
scribe,
and
the
elders
of
the
priests,
covered
with
sackcloth,
to
the
prophet
Isaiah
the
son
of
Amoz.
\VS{3}And
they
said
to
him,
Thus
says
Hezekiah:
This
day
is
a
day
of
trouble
and
of
rebuke
and
of reviling;
for
the
children
are
come
to
the
birth,
and
there
is
not
strength
to
bring
forth.
\VS{4}It
may
be
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
will
hear
all
the
words
of Rab-shakeh,
whom
the
king
of
Assyria
his
master
has
sent
to
reproach
the
living
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
and
will
rebuke
the
words
which
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
has
heard.
Therefore
lift
up
a
prayer
for
the
remnant
that
is
left.
\VS{5}And
the
servants
of
king
Hezekiah
came
to
Isaiah.
\VS{6}And
Isaiah
said
to
them,
Thus
shall ye
say
to
your
master:
Thus saith
Jehovah:
Be
not
afraid
of
the
words
that thou hast
heard, wherewith
the
servants
of
the
king
of
Assyria
have
blasphemed
me.
\VS{7}Behold,
I
will
put
a
spirit
into
him,
and
he
shall
hear
tidings,
and
shall
return
to
his own
land;
and
I
will
make
him
to
fall
by
the
sword
in
his own
land.
\VS{8}And Rab-shakeh
returned,
and
found
the
king
of
Assyria warring
against
Libnah;
for
he
had
heard
that
he
had
departed
from
Lachish.
\VS{9}And
he
heard
say
of
Tirhakah
king
of
Ethiopia,
Behold,
he
has
come
forth
to
make war
with thee.
And
he
sent
messengers
again
to
Hezekiah,
saying,
\VS{10}Thus
shall ye
speak
to
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
saying:
Let
not thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
upon
whom thou reliest,
deceive thee,
saying,
Jerusalem
shall
not
be
delivered
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{11}Behold, thou hast
heard
what
the
kings
of
Assyria
have
done
to
all
countries, destroying
them utterly;
and shalt thou
be
delivered?
\VS{12}Have
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
the
nations
which
my
fathers
have
destroyed
delivered
them:
Gozan,
and
Haran,
and
Rezeph,
and
the
children
of
Eden
that
were
in Thelassar?
\VS{13}Where
is
the
king
of
Hamath,
and
the
king
of
Arpad,
and
the
king
of
the
city
of
Sepharvaim,
of
Hena,
and
Ivvah?
\VS{14}And
Hezekiah
received
the
letter
from
the
hand
of
the
messengers,
and
read
it;
and
Hezekiah
went
up
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
spread
it
before
Jehovah.
\VS{15}And
Hezekiah
prayed
before
Jehovah
and
said,
Jehovah,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
who sittest [between]
the
cherubim, thou,
the
Same, thou
alone art
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth: thou hast
made
the
heavens
and
the
earth.
\VS{16}Incline thine
ear,
Jehovah,
and
hear;
open,
Jehovah, thine
eyes,
and
see;
and
hear
the
words
of
Sennacherib,
who hath
sent
him
to
reproach
the
living
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{17}Of
a
truth,
Jehovah,
the
kings
of
Assyria
have laid waste
the
nations
and
their
lands,
\VS{18}and
have
cast
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
into
the
fire;
for
they
were
no
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
but
the
work
of men's
hands,
wood
and
stone;
therefore
have
they
destroyed
them.
\VS{19}And
now,
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
I
beseech thee,
save
us
out
of
his
hand,
that
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
may
know
that thou,
Jehovah, art
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:19 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God, thou
only.
\VS{20}And
Isaiah
the
son
of
Amoz
sent
to
Hezekiah,
saying,
Thus saith
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel:
That
which thou hast
prayed
to
me
concerning
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
I
have
heard.
\VS{21}This
is
the
word
that
Jehovah
has
spoken
against
him:
The virgin-daughter
of
Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee
to scorn;
The
daughter
of
Jerusalem shaketh
her
head
at thee.
\VS{22}Whom hast thou reproached
and
blasphemed?
and
against
whom hast thou
exalted
the
voice?
Against
the
Holy
one
of
Israel hast thou
lifted
up thine
eyes
on
high.
\VS{23}By thy
messengers thou hast reproached
the
Lord,
and hast
said,
With
the multitude
of
my
chariots
have
I
come
up
To
the
height
of
the
mountain,
to
the
recesses
of
Lebanon,
And
I
will
cut
down
its
tall
cedars,
the
choice
of
its
cypresses;
And
I
will
enter
into
its furthest lodging-place, [into]
the
forest
of
its
fruitful
field.
\VS{24}I
have digged,
and
have
drunk
strange
waters,
And
with
the
sole
of
my
feet
have
I dried
up
all
the
streams
of Matsor.
\VS{25}Hast thou
not
heard
long
ago
that
I
have
done
it?
And
that
from ancient
days
I
formed
it?
Now
have
I
brought
it
to
pass,
that thou shouldest
lay waste
fortified
cities [into] ruinous
heaps.
\VS{26}And
their
inhabitants
were powerless,
They
were
dismayed
and
put
to
shame;
They
were [as]
the growing
grass,
and [as]
the
green
herb, [As]
the
grass
on
the
housetops,
and
grain blighted
before
it
be
grown
up.
\VS{27}But
I
know thine
abode,
and thy
going
out,
and thy
coming
in,
And thy
raging
against
me.
\VS{28}Because thy
raging
against
me
and thine
arrogance
is
come
up
into mine
ears,
I
will
put
my ring
in thy
nose,
and
my
bridle
in thy
lips,
And
I
will
make thee
go
back
by
the
way
by
which thou camest.
\VS{29}And
this [shall
be]
the
sign unto thee:
They
shall
eat
this
year
such
as groweth
of
itself,
And
in
the
second
year
that
which springeth
of
the
same; But
in
the
third
year
sow ye
and
reap,
And
plant
vineyards
and
eat
the
fruit thereof.
\VS{30}And
the
remnant
that
is
escaped
of
the
house
of
Judah
Shall
again
take
root
downward,
and bear
fruit
upward;
\VS{31}For
out
of
Jerusalem
shall
go
forth
a
remnant,
And
out
of
mount
Zion
they
that
escape:
The
zeal
of
Jehovah [of hosts]
shall
do
this.
\VS{32}Therefore
thus saith
Jehovah
concerning
the
king
of
Assyria:
He
shall
not
come
into
this
city,
Nor
shoot
an
arrow
there,
Nor
come
before
it
with
shield,
Nor
cast
a bank
against
it.
\VS{33}By
the
way
that
he
came,
by
the same
shall
he
return,
And
shall
not
come
into
this
city, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{34}And
I
will
defend
this
city,
to
save
it,
For mine own
sake,
and
for
my
servant David's
sake.
\VS{35}And
it
came
to
pass
that
night,
that
an
angel
of
Jehovah
went
forth,
and
smote
in
the
camp
of
the Assyrians
a
hundred
and
eighty-five
thousand.
And
when
they
arose
early
in
the
morning,
behold,
they
were
all
dead
bodies.
\VS{36}And
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
departed,
and
went
and
returned,
and
abode
at
Nineveh.
\VS{37}And
it
came
to
pass,
as
he
was worshipping
in
the
house
of
Nisroch
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:37 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god,
that
Adrammelech
and
Sharezer [his
sons]
smote
him
with
the
sword;
and
they
escaped
into
the
land
of
Ararat.
And
Esarhaddon
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
those
days
Hezekiah
was
sick unto
death.
And
the
prophet
Isaiah
the
son
of
Amoz
came
to
him
and
said
to
him,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
Set thy
house
in
order;
for thou shalt
die,
and
not
live.
\VS{2}And
he
turned
his
face
to
the
wall,
and
prayed
to
Jehovah
saying,
\VS{3}Ah!
Jehovah,
remember,
I
beseech thee,
how
I
have
walked
before thee
in
truth
and
with
a
perfect
heart,
and
have
done
what
is
good
in thy
sight.
And
Hezekiah
wept
much.
\VS{4}And
it
came
to
pass
before
Isaiah
had
gone
out
into
the
middle
city
that
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
him
saying,
\VS{5}Return,
and
tell
Hezekiah
the captain
of
my
people,
Thus saith
Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
David thy
father:
I
have
heard thy
prayer,
I
have
seen thy
tears;
behold,
I
will
heal thee:
on
the
third
day thou shalt
go
up
to
the
house
of
Jehovah;
\VS{6}and
I
will
add
to thy
days
fifteen
years;
and
I
will
deliver thee
and
this
city
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
I
will
defend
this
city
for mine own
sake,
and
for
my
servant David's
sake.
\VS{7}And
Isaiah
said,
Take
a
cake
of
figs.
And
they
took
and
laid
it
on
the
boil,
and
he recovered.
\VS{8}And
Hezekiah
said
to
Isaiah,
What [shall
be]
the
sign
that
Jehovah
will
heal
me,
and
that
I
shall
go
up
into
the
house
of
Jehovah
the
third
day?
\VS{9}And
Isaiah
said,
This [shall
be]
the
sign
to thee
from
Jehovah,
that
Jehovah
will
do
the
thing
that
he hath
spoken:
shall
the
shadow
go
forward
ten degrees,
or
go
back
ten degrees?
\VS{10}And
Hezekiah
said,
It
is
a
light
thing
for
the
shadow
to
go
down
ten degrees:
no,
but
let
the
shadow
return
backward
ten degrees.
\VS{11}And
Isaiah
the
prophet
cried
to
Jehovah,
and
he
brought
the
shadow
back
on
the degrees
by
which
it
had
gone
down
on
the dial
of
Ahaz,
ten degrees
backward.
\VS{12}At
that
time
Berodach-Baladan,
the
son
of
Baladan,
king
of
Babylon,
sent
a
letter
and
a
present
to
Hezekiah,
for
he
had
heard
that
Hezekiah
had been
sick.
\VS{13}And
Hezekiah hearkened
to
them,
and shewed
them
all
his treasure-house,
the
silver
and
the
gold,
and
the
spices
and
the
fine
oil,
and
all
the
house
of
his armour,
and
all
that
was
found
among
his
treasures:
there
was
nothing
in
his
house,
nor
in
all
his dominion,
that
Hezekiah
did
not shew
them.
\VS{14}Then
came
the
prophet
Isaiah
to
king
Hezekiah
and
said
to
him,
What
said
these
men?
and
from whence
came
they
to thee?
And
Hezekiah
said,
They
came
from
a
far
country,
from
Babylon.
\VS{15}And
he
said,
What
have
they
seen
in thy
house?
And
Hezekiah
said,
All
that
is
in
my
house
have
they
seen:
there
is
nothing
among
my
treasures
that
I
have
not shewn
them.
\VS{16}And
Isaiah
said
to
Hezekiah,
Hear
the
word
of
Jehovah:
\VS{17}Behold,
days
come
that
all
that
is
in thy
house,
and
what thy
fathers
have
laid
up
until
this
day,
shall
be
carried
to
Babylon;
nothing
shall
be
left, saith
Jehovah.
\VS{18}And
of thy
sons
that
shall
issue
from thee,
whom thou shalt
beget,
shall
they
take
away;
and
they
shall
be chamberlains
in
the
palace
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{19}And
Hezekiah
said
to
Isaiah,
Good
is
the
word
of
Jehovah
which thou hast
spoken.
And
he
said,
Is
it
not
so?
if
only
there
shall
be
peace
and
truth
in
my
days!
\VS{20}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Hezekiah,
and
all
his
might,
and
how
he
made
the
pool
and
the aqueduct,
and
brought
the
water
into
the
city,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{21}And
Hezekiah
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
Manasseh
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Manasseh
was
twelve
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
fifty-five
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Hephzibah.
\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
destroyed;
and
he reared
up
altars
to
Baal
and
made
an
Asherah,
as
did
Ahab
king
of
Israel;
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
will
I
put
my
name.
\VS{5}And
he
built
altars
to
all
the
host
of
heaven
in
both courts
of
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{6}And
he caused
his
son
to
pass
through
the
fire,
and
used magic
and
divination,
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
Asherah
that
he
had
made,
in
the
house
of
which
Jehovah
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
cause
the
foot
of
Israel
to
wander
away
from
the
land
that
I
gave
their
fathers;
if
they
will
only
take
heed
to
do
according
to
all
that
I
have
commanded
them,
and
according
to
all
the
law
that
my
servant
Moses
commanded
them.
\VS{9}But
they
would
not hearken,
and
Manasseh
led
them
astray
to
do
more
evil
than
the
nations
that
Jehovah
had
destroyed
from
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{10}And
Jehovah
spoke
by
his
servants
the
prophets
saying,
\VS{11}Because
Manasseh
king
of
Judah hath
done
these
abominations,
and hath
done wickedly
above
all
that
the
Amorites
did,
who
were
before
him,
and hath
made
Judah
also
to
sin
with
his
idols;
\VS{12}therefore
thus saith
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 21:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel:
Behold,
I
will
bring
evil
upon
Jerusalem
and
Judah,
that whosoever heareth
of
it,
both
his
ears
shall
tingle.
\VS{13}And
I
will
stretch
over
Jerusalem
the
line
of
Samaria,
and
the
plummet
of
the
house
of
Ahab,
and
I
will
wipe
Jerusalem
as
one wipeth
a pan, wiping
it
and
turning
it upside
down.
\VS{14}And
I
will
forsake
the
remnant
of mine
inheritance,
and
deliver
them
into
the
hand
of
their
enemies;
and
they
shall
become
a
prey
and
a
spoil
to
all
their
enemies;
\VS{15}because
they
have
done
evil
in
my
sight,
and
have
provoked
me
to
anger,
since
the
day
their
fathers
came
forth
out
of
Egypt
even
to
this
day.
\VS{16}And
Manasseh
shed
very
much
innocent
blood,
till
he
had
filled
Jerusalem [with
it]
from
one
end
to
another; beside
his
sin
with
which
he
made
Judah
to
sin,
in
doing
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah.
\VS{17}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Manasseh,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
sin
which
he
sinned,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{18}And
Manasseh
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
the
garden
of
his
own
house,
in
the
garden
of
Uzza;
and
Amon
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{19}Amon
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
two
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Meshullemeth,
daughter
of
Haruz
of
Jotbah.
\VS{20}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
as
Manasseh
his
father
had
done;
\VS{21}and
he
walked
in
all
the
way
that
his
father
had
walked
in,
and
served
the
idols
that
his
father
had
served,
and worshipped
them;
\VS{22}and
he forsook
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 21:22 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
his
fathers,
and
walked
not
in
the
way
of
Jehovah.
\VS{23}And
the
servants
of
Amon
conspired
against
him,
and slew
the
king
in
his own
house.
\VS{24}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.
\VS{25}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Amon,
what
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{26}And
he
was
buried
in
his sepulchre
in
the
garden
of
Uzza;
and
Josiah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Josiah
was
eight
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned thirty-one
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Jedidah,
daughter
of
Adaiah
of Bozcath.
\VS{2}And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
and walked
in
all
the
way
of
David
his
father,
and
turned
not
aside
to
the
right
hand
nor
to
the
left.
\VS{3}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
king
Josiah, [that]
the
king
sent
Shaphan
the
son
of
Azaliah,
son
of
Meshullam,
the
scribe,
to
the
house
of
Jehovah,
saying,
\VS{4}Go
up
to Hilkijah
the
high
priest,
that
he
may sum
up
the
money
which
is
brought
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
which
the
doorkeepers
have
gathered
of
the
people,
\VS{5}and
let
them
give
it
into
the
hand
of
them
that
do
the
work,
that
have
the
oversight
of
the
house
of
Jehovah;
and
let
them
give
it
to
those
that
do
the
work
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
to
repair
the breaches
of
the
house,
\VS{6}to
the
carpenters
and
the
builders
and
the
masons,
and
to
buy
timber
and
hewn
stone
to
repair
the
house.
\VS{7}But
no reckoning
was
made
with
them
of
the
money
that
was
given
into
their
hand,
because
they dealt
faithfully.
\VS{8}And Hilkijah
the
high
priest
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,
and
he
read
it.
\VS{9}And
Shaphan
the
scribe
came
to
the
king,
and
brought
the
king
word
again
and
said, Thy
servants
have
emptied
out
the
money
that
was
found
in
the
house,
and
have
delivered
it
into
the
hand
of
them
that
do
the
work,
that
have
the
oversight
of
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{10}And
Shaphan
the
scribe
informed
the
king
saying, Hilkijah
the
priest
has
given
me
a
book.
And
Shaphan
read
it
before
the
king.
\VS{11}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
king
heard
the
words
of
the
book
of
the
law,
that
he rent
his
garments.
\VS{12}And
the
king
commanded Hilkijah
the
priest,
and
Ahikam
the
son
of
Shaphan,
and
Achbor
the
son
of
Micaiah,
and
Shaphan
the
scribe,
and
Asaiah
a
servant
of
the
king,
saying,
\VS{13}Go,
inquire
of
Jehovah
for
me,
and
for
the
people,
and
for
all
Judah,
concerning
the
words
of
this
book
which
is
found;
for
great
is
the
wrath
of
Jehovah
that
is
kindled
against
us,
because
our
fathers
have
not hearkened
to
the
words
of
this
book,
to
do
according
to
all
that
is
written [there]
for
us.
\VS{14}And Hilkijah
the
priest,
and
Ahikam,
and
Achbor,
and
Shaphan,
and
Asaiah,
went
to
Huldah
the
prophetess,
the
wife
of
Shallum
the
son
of
Tikvah,
son
of
Harhas,
keeper
of
the wardrobe:
now
she
dwelt
in
Jerusalem
in
the
second quarter [of
the town];
and
they
spoke
with
her.
\VS{15}And
she
said
to
them,
Thus saith
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 22:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel:
Tell
the
man
that
sent
you
to
me,
\VS{16}Thus saith
Jehovah:
Behold,
I
will
bring
evil
upon
this
place
and
upon
the
inhabitants thereof,
all
the
words
of
the
book
that
the
king
of
Judah hath
read.
\VS{17}Because
they
have forsaken
me,
and
have
burned
incense unto
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 22:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
that
they
might
provoke
me
to
anger
with
all
the
work
of
their
hands,
therefore
my
fury
is
kindled
against
this
place,
and
shall
not
be
quenched.
\VS{18}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 22:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel touching
the
words
which thou hast
heard:
\VS{19}Because thy
heart
was
tender,
and thou didst
humble thyself
before
Jehovah,
when thou heardest
what
I
spoke
against
this
place
and
against
the
inhabitants thereof,
that
they
should
become
a
desolation
and
a
curse,
and didst
rend thy
garments
and
weep
before
me,
I
also
have
heard [thee], saith
Jehovah.
\VS{20}Therefore,
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
they
brought
the
king
word
again.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
king
sent,
and
they
gathered
to
him
all
the
elders
of
Judah
and
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
the
king
went
up
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
with
him,
and
the
priests
and
the
prophets,
and
all
the
people,
both
small
and
great;
and
he
read
in
their
ears
all
the
words
of
the
book
of
the
covenant
which
had
been
found
in
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{3}And
the
king
stood
on
the dais,
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
establish
the
words
of
this
covenant
that
are
written
in
this
book.
And
all
the
people
stood
to
the
covenant.
\VS{4}And
the
king
commanded Hilkijah
the
high
priest,
and
the
priests
of
the
second
order,
and
the
doorkeepers,
to
bring
forth
out
of
the
temple
of
Jehovah
all
the
vessels
that
had
been
made
for
Baal,
and
for
the
Asherah,
and
for
all
the
host
of
the
heavens;
and
he
burned
them
outside
Jerusalem
in
the
fields
of
Kidron,
and
carried
the
ashes
of
them
to
Bethel.
\VS{5}And
he abolished
the
idolatrous
priests,
whom
the
kings
of
Judah
had ordained
to
burn
incense
on
the
high
places
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
the environs
of
Jerusalem;
and
them
that
burned
incense
to
Baal,
to
the
sun,
and
to
the
moon,
and
to
the
constellations,
and
to
all
the
host
of
heaven.
\VS{6}And
he
brought
out
the
Asherah
from
the
house
of
Jehovah,
outside
Jerusalem,
to
the torrent
of
Kidron,
and
burned
it
at
the torrent
of
Kidron,
and stamped
it small
to
powder,
and
cast
the
powder
upon
the
graves
of
the
children
of
the
people.
\VS{7}And
he
broke
down
the
houses
of
the
sodomites,
which
were
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
where
the
women wove tents
for
the
Asherah.
\VS{8}And
he
brought
all
the
priests
out
of
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
defiled
the
high
places
where
the
priests
had
burned
incense,
from
Geba
even
to Beer-sheba;
and
he
broke
down
the
high
places
of
the
gates,
those
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
Joshua
the
governor
of
the
city, [and]
those
on
the
left
hand
of
any [going
in]
at
the
gate
of
the
city.
\VS{9}Nevertheless
the
priests
of
the
high
places
came
not
up
to
the
altar
of
Jehovah
in
Jerusalem,
but
they
ate
of
the
unleavened
bread
among
their
brethren.
\VS{10}And
he
defiled
Topheth,
which
is
in
the
valley
of
the
sons
of
Hinnom,
that
no
man
might cause
his
son
or
his
daughter
to
pass
through
the
fire
to
Molech.
\VS{11}And
he abolished
the
horses
that
the
kings
of
Judah
had
appointed
to
the
sun
at
the
entrance
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
by
the
chamber
of
Nathan-melech
the chamberlain,
which
was
in
the suburbs,
and
burned
the
chariots
of
the
sun,
with
fire.
\VS{12}And
the
king
broke
down
the
altars
that
were
on
the
roof
of
the
upper
chamber
of
Ahaz,
which
the
kings
of
Judah
had
made,
and
the
altars
that
Manasseh
had
made
in
the
two courts
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
he shattered
them, [removing
them]
from thence,
and
cast
the powder
of
them
into
the torrent
of
Kidron.
\VS{13}And
the
high
places
that
were
before
Jerusalem,
which
were
on
the
right
hand
of
the
mount
of corruption,
which
Solomon
the
king
of
Israel
had
built
for Ashtoreth
the
abomination
of
the Zidonians,
and
for
Chemosh
the
abomination
of
the
Moabites,
and
for
Milcom
the
abomination
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
did
the
king
defile.
\VS{14}And
he
broke
in
pieces
the columns,
and
cut
down
the Asherahs,
and
filled
their
place
with
the
bones
of
men.
\VS{15}Moreover
the
altar
that
was
at
Bethel,
the
high
place
that
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
caused
Israel
to
sin,
had
made,
both
that
altar
and
the
high
place
he
broke
down;
and
burned
the
high
place, stamped
it small
to
powder,
and
burned
the
Asherah.
\VS{16}And
Josiah
turned
himself,
and
saw
the sepulchres
that
were
there
on
the
mount;
and
he
sent
and
took
the
bones
out
of
the sepulchres,
and
burned [them]
upon
the
altar,
and
defiled
it,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah,
that
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 23:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
proclaimed,
who
proclaimed
these
things.
\VS{17}Then
he
said,
What tombstone
is
that
which
I
see?
And
the
men
of
the
city
told
him,
It
is
the sepulchre
of
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 23:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
who
came
from
Judah
and
proclaimed
these
things
which thou hast
done
against
the
altar
of
Bethel.
\VS{18}And
he
said,
Let
him alone;
let
no
man move
his
bones.
And
they
saved
his
bones,
with
the
bones
of
the
prophet
that
came
out
of
Samaria.
\VS{19}And
all
the
houses
also
of
the
high
places
that
were
in
the
cities
of
Samaria,
which
the
kings
of
Israel
had
made
to
provoke [Jehovah]
to
anger,
Josiah
removed,
and
did
to
them according
to
all
the
acts
that
he
had
done
in
Bethel.
\VS{20}And
he
sacrificed
upon
the
altars
all
the
priests
of
the
high
places
that
were
there,
and
burned men's
bones
upon
them.
And
he
returned
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{21}And
the
king
commanded
all
the
people
saying, Hold
the
passover
to
Jehovah
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 23:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
as
it
is
written
in
this
book
of
the
covenant.
\VS{22}For
there
was
not holden
such
a
passover
from
the
days
of
the
judges
that
judged
Israel,
nor
in
all
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
nor
of
the
kings
of
Judah;
\VS{23}but
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
king
Josiah
was
this
passover holden
to
Jehovah
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{24}Moreover
the necromancers
and
the soothsayers,
and
the
teraphim
and
the
idols,
and
all
the
abominations
that
were
seen
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
Jerusalem,
Josiah
took
away,
that
he
might perform
the
words
of
the
law
which
were
written
in
the
book
that Hilkijah
the
priest
had
found
in
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{25}And
before
him
there
had
been
no
king
like
him
that
turned
to
Jehovah
with
all
his
heart
and
with
all
his
soul
and
with
all
his
might,
according
to
all
the
law
of
Moses;
neither
after
him
arose
there
his
like.
\VS{26}But
Jehovah
turned
not
from
the
fierceness
of
his
great
wrath, wherewith
his
anger
was
kindled
against
Judah,
because
of
all
the provocations
with
which
Manasseh
had
provoked
him.
\VS{27}And
Jehovah
said,
I
will
remove
Judah
also
out
of
my
sight,
as
I
have
removed
Israel,
and
will
reject
this
city
Jerusalem
which
I
have
chosen,
and
the
house
of
which
I
said,
My
name
shall
be
there.
\VS{28}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Josiah,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{29}In
his
days Pharaoh-Nechoh
king
of
Egypt
went
up
against
the
king
of
Assyria
to
the
river
Euphrates;
and
king
Josiah
went
against
him;
but [Nechoh] slew
him
at
Megiddo,
when
he
had
seen
him.
\VS{30}And
his
servants
carried
him
in
a
chariot
dead
from
Megiddo,
and
brought
him
to
Jerusalem,
and
buried
him
in
his own sepulchre.
And
the
people
of
the
land
took
Jehoahaz
the
son
of
Josiah,
and
anointed
him,
and
made
him
king
in
his father's
stead.
\VS{31}Jehoahaz
was twenty-three
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
three
months
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Hamutal,
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah.
\VS{32}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah, according
to
all
that
his
fathers
had
done.
\VS{33}And Pharaoh-Nechoh
had
him
bound
at
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath,
that
he might
not
reign
in
Jerusalem;
and
laid
a tribute
upon
the
land
of
a
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
a
talent
of
gold.
\VS{34}And Pharaoh-Nechoh
made
Eliakim
the
son
of
Josiah
king
instead
of
Josiah
his
father,
and
changed
his
name
to
Jehoiakim.
And
he
took
Jehoahaz;
and
he
came
to
Egypt,
and
died
there.
\VS{35}And
Jehoiakim
gave
the
silver
and
the
gold
to
Pharaoh;
but
he
laid
a proportional tax
on
the
land
to
give
the
money
according
to
the
command
of
Pharaoh:
he
exacted
the
silver
and
the
gold
of
the
people
of
the
land,
of
every
one
according
to
his estimation,
to
give
it
to Pharaoh-Nechoh.
\VS{36}Jehoiakim
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was Zebuddah,
daughter
of
Pedaiah
of
Rumah.
\VS{37}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah, according
to
all
that
his
fathers
had
done.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
his
days
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came
up,
and
Jehoiakim
was
his
servant
three
years;
then
he
turned
and
rebelled
against
him.
\VS{2}And
Jehovah
sent
against
him
the
bands
of
the
Chaldeans,
and
the
bands
of
the Syrians,
and
the
bands
of
the
Moabites,
and
the
bands
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
sent
them
against
Judah
to
destroy
it,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah,
which
he
spoke
through
his
servants
the
prophets.
\VS{3}Verily,
at
the
commandment
of
Jehovah
it
came
to
pass
against
Judah,
that
they
should
be
removed
out
of
his
sight,
for
the
sins
of
Manasseh,
according
to
all
that
he
had
done;
\VS{4}and
also [because
of]
the
innocent
blood
that
he
had
shed;
for
he
had
filled
Jerusalem
with
innocent
blood,
and
Jehovah
would
not
pardon.
\VS{5}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoiakim,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{6}And
Jehoiakim
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
Jehoiachin
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{7}And
the
king
of
Egypt
came
not
again
any
more
out
of
his
land,
for
the
king
of
Babylon
had
taken
all
that
belonged
to
the
king
of
Egypt,
from
the torrent
of
Egypt
to
the
river
Euphrates.
\VS{8}Jehoiachin
was
eighteen
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
three
months
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was Nehushta,
daughter
of
Elnathan
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah, according
to
all
that
his
father
had
done.
\VS{10}At
that
time
the
servants
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came
up
against
Jerusalem,
and
the
city
was
besieged.
\VS{11}And
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came
against
the
city,
while
his
servants
were
besieging
it.
\VS{12}And
Jehoiachin
king
of
Judah
went
out
to
the
king
of
Babylon,
he,
and
his
mother,
and
his
servants,
and
his
princes,
and
his chamberlains;
and
the
king
of
Babylon
took
him
in
the
eighth
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{13}And
he
brought
out thence
all
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the
treasures
of
the king's
house,
and
cut
in
pieces
all
the
vessels
of
gold
that
Solomon
king
of
Israel
had
made
in
the
temple
of
Jehovah,
as
Jehovah
had
said.
\VS{14}And
he
carried
away
all
Jerusalem,
and
all
the
princes,
and
all
the
mighty
men
of valour,
ten
thousand
captives,
and
all
the
craftsmen
and
smiths:
none
remained
but
the poorest sort
of
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{15}And
he
carried
away
Jehoiachin
to
Babylon,
and
the king's
mother,
and
the king's
wives,
and
his chamberlains,
and
the mighty
of
the
land,
he
led
into
captivity
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon;
\VS{16}and
all
the
men
of valour,
seven
thousand,
and
the
craftsmen
and
smiths
a
thousand,
all
strong
men apt
for
war,
and
the
king
of
Babylon
brought
them captive
to
Babylon.
\VS{17}And
the
king
of
Babylon
made
Mattaniah
his
uncle
king
in
his
stead,
and
changed
his
name
to
Zedekiah.
\VS{18}Zedekiah
was twenty-one
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Hamutal,
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah.
\VS{19}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah, according
to
all
that
Jehoiakim
had
done.
\VS{20}For,
because
the
anger
of
Jehovah
was
against
Jerusalem
and
against
Judah,
until
he
had
cast
them
out
from
his
presence,
Zedekiah
rebelled
against
the
king
of
Babylon.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
ninth
year
of
his
reign,
in
the
tenth
month,
on
the
tenth
of
the
month, [that]
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came,
he
and
all
his
army,
against
Jerusalem,
and
encamped
against
it;
and
they
built turrets
against
it
round
about.
\VS{2}And
the
city
was
besieged
until
the
eleventh
year
of
king
Zedekiah.
\VS{3}On
the
ninth
of
the [fourth]
month
the
famine
prevailed
in
the
city,
and
there
was
no
bread
for
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{4}And
the
city
was
broken
into;
and
all
the
men
of
war [fled]
by
night,
by
the
way
of
the
gate
between
the
two
walls,
which [leads]
to
the king's
garden (now
the
Chaldeans
were
by
the
city
round
about);
and
they
went
the
way
toward
the
plain.
\VS{5}And
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans
pursued
after
the
king,
and
overtook
him
in
the
plains
of
Jericho;
and
all
his
army
was
scattered
from
him.
\VS{6}And
they
took
the
king,
and
brought
him
up
to
the
king
of
Babylon unto
Riblah;
and
they
pronounced
judgment
upon
him,
\VS{7}and
slaughtered
the
sons
of
Zedekiah
before
his
eyes,
and
put
out
the
eyes
of
Zedekiah,
and
bound
him
with
chains
of
brass,
and
carried
him
to
Babylon.
\VS{8}And
in
the
fifth
month,
on
the
seventh
of
the
month,
which
was
in
the nineteenth
year
of
king
Nebuchadnezzar,
king
of
Babylon, Nebuzar-adan,
captain
of
the body-guard,
servant
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
came unto
Jerusalem;
\VS{9}and
he
burned
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the king's
house,
and
all
the
houses
of
Jerusalem;
and
every
great [man's]
house
he
burned
with
fire.
\VS{10}And
all
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans
that
were
with
the
captain
of
the body-guard
broke
down
the
walls
of
Jerusalem
round
about.
\VS{11}And Nebuzar-adan
the
captain
of
the body-guard
carried
away
captive
the
rest
of
the
people
that
were
left
in
the
city,
and
the
deserters
that
had
deserted
to
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
the
rest
of
the
multitude.
\VS{12}But
the
captain
of
the body-guard
left
of
the poor
of
the
land
for
vinedressers
and husbandmen.
\VS{13}And
the brazen
pillars
that
were
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the bases,
and
the brazen
sea
that
was
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
the
Chaldeans
broke
in
pieces,
and
carried
the
brass thereof
to
Babylon.
\VS{14}The cauldrons
also
and
the
shovels
and
the knives
and
the cups,
and
all
the
vessels
of
copper wherewith
they
ministered,
they
took
away.
\VS{15}And
the
censers
and
the
bowls,
that
which
was
of
gold
in
gold,
and
that
which
was
of
silver
in
silver,
the
captain
of
the body-guard
took
away.
\VS{16}The
two
pillars,
the
one
sea,
and
the bases
which
Solomon
had
made
for
the
house
of
Jehovah:
for
the
brass
of
all
these
vessels
there
was
no
weight.
\VS{17}The
height
of
one
pillar
was
eighteen
cubits,
and
the
capital
upon
it
was
brass,
and
the
height
of
the
capital
three
cubits;
and
the
network
and
the
pomegranates,
upon
the
capital
round
about,
all
of
brass:
and similarly
for
the
second
pillar
with
the
network.
\VS{18}And
the
captain
of
the body-guard
took
Seraiah
the high
priest,
and
Zephaniah
the
second
priest,
and
the
three
doorkeepers.
\VS{19}And
out
of
the
city
he
took
a chamberlain
that
was
set
over
the
men
of
war,
and
five
men
of
them
that
were
in
the king's
presence,
who
were
found
in
the
city,
and
the
scribe
of
the
captain
of
the
host,
who enrolled
the
people
of
the
land;
and
sixty
men
of
the
people
of
the
land
that
were
found
in
the
city.
\VS{20}And Nebuzar-adan
the
captain
of
the body-guard
took
them
and
brought
them
to
the
king
of
Babylon
to
Riblah;
\VS{21}and
the
king
of
Babylon
smote
them
and
put
them
to
death
at
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath.
Thus
Judah
was
carried
away
captive
out
of
his
land.
\VS{22}And [as
for]
the
people
that
remained
in
the
land
of
Judah,
whom
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
had
left
behind,
over
them
he
appointed
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan.
\VS{23}And
all
the
captains
of
the
forces,
they
and
their
men,
heard
that
the
king
of
Babylon
had
appointed
Gedaliah,
and
they
came
to
Gedaliah
to
Mizpah, namely,
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
and
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah,
and
Seraiah
the
son
of
Tanhumeth
the
Netophathite,
and
Jaazaniah
the
son
of
a Maachathite,
they
and
their
men.
\VS{24}And
Gedaliah
swore unto
them
and
to
their
men,
and
said
to
them,
Fear
not
to
be
servants
of
the
Chaldeans:
dwell
in
the
land,
and
serve
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
it
shall
be
well
with
you.
\VS{25}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
seventh
month,
that
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
the
son
of
Elishama,
of
the
royal
seed,
came,
and
ten
men
with
him,
and
smote
Gedaliah,
that
he
died,
and
the
Jews
and
the
Chaldeans
that
were
with
him
at
Mizpah.
\VS{26}And
all
the
people,
both
small
and
great,
and
the
captains
of
the
forces,
arose
and
came
to
Egypt;
for
they
were
afraid
of
the
Chaldeans.
\VS{27}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the thirty-seventh
year
of
the captivity
of
Jehoiachin
king
of
Judah,
in
the twelfth
month,
on
the twenty-seventh
of
the
month, [that]
Evil-Merodach
king
of
Babylon,
in
the
year
that
he
began
to
reign,
lifted
up
the
head
of
Jehoiachin
king
of
Judah
out
of
prison;
\VS{28}and
he
spoke
kindly
to
him,
and
set
his
seat
above
the
seat
of
the
kings
that
were
with
him
in
Babylon.
\VS{29}And
he
changed
his
prison
garments;
and
he
ate
bread
before
him
continually
all
the
days
of
his
life;
\VS{30}and
his
allowance
was
a
continual
allowance
given
him
by
the
king,
every
day
a
portion,
all
the
days
of
his
life.
\par }