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And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab spared the people.


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And he took Abessalom, and cast him into a great cavern in the wood, into a deep pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every man to his tent.


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Now Abessalom while yet alive had taken and set up for himself the pillar <n>[[Gr. ]] in, or by. </n> near which he was taken, and set it up so as to have the pillar in the king's dale; for he said he had no son to keep his name in remembrance: <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex. ]] insert 'and he called the pillar after his own name.' </n> and he called the pillar, Abessalom's <n><i>Heb. idiom for 'place.' </i></n> hand, until this day.


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And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said, Let me run now and carry glad tidings to the king, for the Lord has delivered him from the hand of his enemies.


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And Joab said to him, You <i>shall</i> not <i>be</i> a messenger of glad tidings this day; you shall bear them another day; but on this day you shall bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.


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And Joab said to Chusi, Go, report to the king all that you have seen. And Chusi did obeisance to Joab, and went out.


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And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said again to Joab, Nay, let me also run after Chusi. And Joab said, Why <n>[[Gr. ]] do. </n> would you thus run, my son? attend, you have no tidings for profit if you go.


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And he said, <n>[[Gr. ]] for what if I should run?. </n> Why should I not run? and Joab said to him, Run. And Achimaas ran along the way of Kechar, and outran Chusi.


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And David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up on the top of the gate of the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone before him.


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And the watchman cried out, and reported to the king. And the king said, If he be alone, <i>there are</i> good tidings in his mouth. And the man came and drew near.


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And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman cried at the gate, and said, And look, another man running alone. And the king said, He also brings glad tidings.


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And the watchman said, I see the running of the first as the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said, He <i>is</i> a good man, and will come to <i>report</i> glad tidings.


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And Achimaas cried out and said to the king, Peace. And he did obeisance to the king with his face to the ground, and said, Blessed <i>be</i> the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men that lifted up their hands against my lord the king.


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And the king said, <i>Is</i> the young man Abessalom safe? and Achimaas said, I saw a great multitude <i>at the time</i> of Joab's sending the king's servant and your servant, and I knew not what was there.


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And, behold, Chusi came up, and said to the king, Let my lord the king hear glad tidings, for the Lord has avenged you this day upon all them that rose up against you.


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And the king said to Chusi, Is it well with the young man Abessalom? and Chusi said, Let the enemies of my lord the king, and all whoever have risen up against him for evil, be as that young man.


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And the king was troubled, and went to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and thus he said as he went, My son Abessalom, my son, my son Abessalom; <n>[[Gr. ]] who will give my death for you?. </n> would God I had died for you, <i>even</i> I <i>had died</i> for you, Abessalom, my son, my son!<pb/>


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And the victory was turned that day into mourning to all the people, for the people heard say that day, The king grieves after his son.


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And the people stole away that day to go into the city, as people steal away when they are ashamed as they flee in the battle.


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And the king hid his face: and the king cried with a loud voice, My son Abessalom! Abessalom my son!


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And Joab went in to the king, into the house, and said, You have this day shamed the faces of all your servants that have delivered you this day, and <i>have saved</i> the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and of your concubines,


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forasmuch as you love them that hate you, and hate them that love you; and you have this day declared, that your princes and your servants are nothing <i>in your sight</i>: for I know this day, that if Abessalom were alive, <i>and</i> all of us dead today, then it would have been right in your sight.


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And now arise, and go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I have sworn by the Lord, that unless you will go forth today, there shall not a man remain with you this night: and know for yourself, this thing <i>will</i> indeed <i>be</i> evil to you beyond all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.


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Then the king arose, and sat in the gate: and all the people reported, saying, Behold, the king sits in the gate. And all the people went in before the king to the gate; for Israel had fled every man to his <n>[[Gr. ]] tents. </n> tent.


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And all the people disputed amongst all the tribes of Israel, saying, King David delivered us from all our enemies, and he rescued us from the hand of the Philistines: and now he has fled from the land, and from his kingdom, and from Abessalom.


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And Abessalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle: and now why are you° silent about bringing back the king? And the word of all Israel came to the king.


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And king David sent to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Israel, saying, Why are you° the last to bring back the king to his house? whereas the word of all Israel is come to the king to his house.


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You° <i>are</i> my brethren, you° <i>are</i> my bones and my flesh: why are you° the last to bring back the king to his house?


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And you° shall say to Amessai, <i>Are</i> you not my bone and my flesh? and now God do so to me, and more also, if you shall not be commander of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.


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And he bowed the heart of all the men of Juda as that of one man; and they sent to the king, saying, Return you, and all your servants.


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And the king returned, and came as far as Jordan. And the men of Juda came to Galgala on their way to meet the king, to cause the king to pass over Jordan.


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And Semei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Baurim, hasted and went down with <n>[[Gr. ]] the man. </n> the men of Juda to meet king David.


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And a thousand men of Benjamin <i>were</i> with him, and Siba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons with him, and his twenty servants with him: and they went directly down to Jordan before the king,


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and they performed the service of bringing the king over; and there went over a ferry-boat to remove the household of the king, and to do that which was right in his eyes. And Semei the son of Gera fell on his face before the king, as he went over Jordan;


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and said to the king, Let not my lord now impute iniquity, and remember not all the iniquity of your servant in the day in which my lord went out from Jerusalem, so that the king should mind it.


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For your servant knows that I have sinned: and, behold, I am come today before all Israel and the house of Joseph, to go down and meet my lord the king.


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And Abessai the son of Saruia answered and said, Shall not Semei therefore be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?


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And David said, What have I to do with you, you° sons of Saruia, that you° as it were lie in wait against me this day? today no man in Israel shall be put to death, for I know not if I this day reign over Israel.


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And Memphibosthe the son of Saul's son went down to meet the king, and had not dressed his feet, nor pared his nails, nor shaved himself, neither had he washed his garments, from the day that the king departed, until the day when he arrived in peace.


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And it came to pass when he went into Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why did you not go with me, Memphibosthe?


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And Memphibosthe said to him, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, Saddle me the ass, and I will ride upon it, and go with the king; for your servant <i>is</i> lame.


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And he has dealt deceitfully with your servant to my lord the king: but my lord the king <i>is</i> as an angel of God, and do you that which is good in your eyes.


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For all the house of my father were but as dead men before my lord the king; yet you have set your servant amongst them that eat at your table: and what right have I any longer even to cry to the king?


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And the king said to him, Why <n>[[Gr. ]] speak you your words any longer. </n> speak you any longer of your matters? I have said, You and Siba shall divide the land.


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And Memphibosthe said to the king, Yes, let him take all, since my lord the king has come in peace to his house.


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And Berzelli the Galaadite came down from Rogellim, and crossed over Jordan with the king, that he might conduct the king over Jordan.


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And Berzelli was a very old man, <n>[[Gr. ]] a son of eighty years. </n> eighty years old; and he had maintained the king when he lived in Manaim; for he was a very great man.


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And the king said to Berzelli, You shall go over with me, and I will nourish your old age with me in Jerusalem.


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And Berzelli said to the king, How many <i>are</i> the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?


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I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and therefore shall your servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king?


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Your servant will go <n>[[Gr. ]] as it were a little. </n> a little way over Jordan with the king: and why does the king return me this recompense?


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Let, I pray you, your servant remain, and I will die in my city, by the tomb of my father and of my mother. And, behold, your servant Chamaam shall go over with my lord the king; and do you to him as it seems good in your eyes.


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And the king said, Let Chamaam go over with me, and I will do to him what is good in my sight; and whatever you shall choose at my hand, I will do for you.


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And all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over; and the king kissed Berzelli, and blessed him; and he returned to his place.


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And the king went over to Galgala, and Chamaam went over with him: and all the men of Juda went over with the king, and also half the people of Israel.


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And behold, <n>[[Gr. ]] every man. </n> all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen you away, and caused the king and all his house to pass over Jordan, and all the men of David with him?


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And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel, and said, Because the king is near of kin to us: and why were you thus angry concerning this matter? have we indeed eaten of the king's food? or has he given us a gift, or has he sent us a portion?


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And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said, We have ten <n>[[Gr. ]] and <i>Heb. hands. </i></n> parts in the king, and we are older than you, we have also an interest in David above you: and why have you° thus insulted us, and why was not our advice taken before that of Juda, to bring back our king? And the speech of the men of Juda was sharper than the speech of the men of Israel.<pb/>


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And there was a transgressor <i>so</i> called there, and his name was Sabee, a Benjamite, the son of Bochori: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we <i>any</i> inheritance in the son of Jessae: to your tents, O Israel, every one.


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And all the men of Israel went up from following David after Sabee the son of Bochori: but the men of Juda adhered to their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.


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And David went into his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and he put them in a place of custody, and maintained them, and went not in to them; and they were kept living as widows, till the day of their death.


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And the king said to Amessai, Call to me the men of Juda for three days, and do you be present here.


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And David said to Amessai, Now shall Sabee the son of Bochori do us more harm than Abessalom: now then take you with you the servants of your lord, and follow after him, lest he find for himself strong cities, so will he <n>[[i.e. ]] escape us. </n> blind our eyes.


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And there went out after him Amessai and the men of Joab, and the Cherethites, and the Phelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sabee the son of Bochori.


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And they <i>were</i> by the great stone that is in Gabaon: and Amessai went in before them: and Joab <n>[[Gr. ]] was girded about with. </n> had upon him a military cloak over his apparel, and over it he was girded with a dagger fastened upon his loins in its scabbard: and the dagger came out, it even came out and fell.


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And Joab said to Amessai, Are you in health, <i>my</i> brother? and the right hand of Joab took hold of the beard of Amessai to kiss him.


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And Amessai observed not the dagger that was in the hand of Joab: and Joab struck him with it on the loins, and his <n>[[Gr. ]] belly. </n> bowels were shed out upon the ground, and he did not repeat the blow, and he died: and Joab and Abessai his brother pursued after Sabee the son of Bochori.


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And there stood over him one of the servants of Joab, and said, Who <i>is</i> he that is for Joab, and who <i>is</i> on the side of David following Joab?


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And Amessai <i>was</i> weltering in blood in the midst of the way. And a man saw that all the people stood still; and he removed Amessai out of the path into a field, and he cast a garment upon him, because he saw every one that came to him standing still.


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And when he was quickly removed from the road, every man of Israel passed after Joab to pursue after Sabee the son of Bochori.


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And he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Bethmacha; and all in Charri too were assembled, and followed after him.


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And they came and besieged him in Abel and Phermacha: and they raised a mound against the city and it stood close to the wall; and all the people with Joab proposed to throw down the wall.


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And a wise woman cried from the wall, and said, Hear, hear; say, I pray you°, to Joab, Draw near hither, and I will speak to him.


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And he drew near to her, and the woman said to him, Are you Joab? and he said, I <i>am</i>. And she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid; and Joab said, I do hear.


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And she spoke, saying, <n>[[Gr. ]] they spoke a word amongst the first, saying. </n> Of old time they said thus, Surely one was asked in Abel, and Dan, whether the faithful in Israel failed in what they purposed; they will surely ask in Abel, even in like manner, whether they have failed.


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I am a peaceful one of the strong ones in Israel; but you seek to destroy a city and a mother city in Israel: why do you seek to ruin the inheritance of the Lord?


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Is not the case thus, that a man of mount Ephraim, Sabee, son of Bochori by name, has even lifted up his hand against king David? Give him only to me, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.


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And the woman went in to all the people, and she spoke to all the city in her wisdom; and <n>[[Gr. ]] it or she. [[i.e. ]] ἡ πόλις. </n> they took off the head of Sabee the son of Bochori; and took it away and threw it to Joab: and he blew the trumpet, and the people separated from the city away from him, every man to his tent: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.


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And Joab <i>was</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] to. </n> over all the forces of Israel: and Banaias the son of Jodae <i>was</i> over the Cherethites and over the Phelethites.


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And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, <i>There is</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] iniquity. </n> guilt upon Saul and his house because of his <n>[[Lit. ]] the death of his bloods. </n> bloody murder, whereby he killed the Gabaonites.


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And King David called the Gabaonites, and said to them; —(now the Gabaonites are not the children of Israel, but <i>are</i> of the remnant of the Amorite, and the children of Israel had sworn to them: but Saul sought to strike them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Juda.)


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And David said to the Gabaonites, What shall I do to you? and wherewithal shall I make atonement, that you° may bless the inheritance of the Lord?


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And the Gabaonites said to him, We have no <i>question about</i> silver or gold with Saul and with his house; and there is no man for us to put to death in Israel.


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And he said, What say you°? speak, and I will do it for you. And they said to the king, The man who would have made an end of us, and persecuted us, who plotted against us to destroy us, let us utterly destroy him, so that he shall have no standing in all the coasts of Israel.


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Let one give us seven men of his sons, and let us hang them up in the sun to the Lord in Gabaon of Saul, as chosen out for the Lord. And the king said, I will give <i>them</i>.


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But the king spared Memphibosthe son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, even between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.


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And the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Hermonoi and Memphibosthe, and the five sons of Michol daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esdriel son of Berzelli the Moulathite.


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And he gave them into the hand of the Gabaonites, and they hanged them up to the sun in the mountain before the lord: and they fell, even the seven together: moreover they were put to death in the days of harvest at the commencement, in the beginning of barley harvest.


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And Respha the daughter of Aia took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and she did not suffer the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.


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And it was told David what Respha the daughter of Aia the concubine of Saul had done, <n><i>Heb. omits the words in italics. </i></n> <i>and they were faint, and Dan, the son of Joa of the offspring of the giants overtook them.</i>


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And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of the sons of Jabis Galaad, who stole them from the street of Baethsan; for the Philistines set them there in the day in which the Philistines struck Saul in Gelbue.


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And he carried up thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and gathered the bones of them that had been hanged.


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And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and the bones of them that had been hanged, in the land of Benjamin in the hill, in the sepulchre of Cis his father; and they did all things that the king commanded: and after this God listened to <i>the prayers of</i> the land.


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And there was yet war between the Philistines and Israel: and David went down and his servants with him, and they fought with the Philistines, and David went.


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And Jesbi, who was of the progeny of Rapha, and the head of whose spear <i>was</i> three hundred shekels of brass in weight, who also was girded with a club, even he thought to strike David.


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And Abessa the son of Saruia helped him and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore, saying, You shall not any longer go out with us to battle, and you shall not quench the lamp of Israel.


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And after this there was a battle again with the Philistines in Geth: then Sebocha the Astatothite killed Seph of the progeny of Rapha.


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And there was a battle in Rom with the Philistines; and Eleanan son of Ariorgim the Bethleemite killed Goliath the Gittite; and the staff of his spear <i>was</i> as a weaver's beam.


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And there was yet a battle in Geth: and there was <n>[[Gr. ]] The original is Hebrew in Greek letters. </n> a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands and the toes of his feet <i>were</i> six on each, four and twenty in number: and he also was born to Rapha.


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And he <n>[[Or, ]] reproached. </n> defied Israel, and Jonathan son of Semei brother of David, struck him.


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These four were born descendants of the giants in Geth, the family of Rapha; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.<pb/>


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And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song, in the day in which the Lord rescued him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.


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my God; he shall be to me my guard, I will trust in him: <i>he is</i> my protector, and the horn of my salvation, my helper, and my sure refuge; you shall save me from the unjust man.


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When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord, and will cry to my God, and he shall hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come into his ears.


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And the earth was troubled and quaked, and the foundations of heaven were confounded and torn asunder, because the Lord was angry with them.


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And he made darkness his hiding-place; his tabernacle round about him was the darkness of waters, he condensed it with the clouds of the air.


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And the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his anger.


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And the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me.


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And I shall be blameless <n>[[Gr. ]] to him. </n> before him, and will keep myself from my iniquity.


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And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands in his eye-sight.


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and with the <n>[[Or, ]] upon the haughty. </n> excellent you will be excellent, and with the froward you will be froward.


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And you will save the poor people, and will bring down the eyes <n>[[Or, ]] upon the haughty. </n> of the haughty.


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For by you shall I run <n>[[i.e. ]] a strong man [[or ]] warrior. </n> <i>as</i> a girded man, and by my God shall I leap over a wall.


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As for the Mighty One, his way <i>is</i> blameless: the word of the Lord <i>is</i> strong <i>and</i> tried in the fire: he is a protector to all that put their trust in him.


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I will pursue my enemies, and will utterly destroy them; and I will not turn again till I have consumed them.


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And <n>[[Alex. ]] and <i>Heb. consume. </i></n> I will crush them, and they shall not rise; and they shall fall under my feet.


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And you shall strengthen me with power for the war; you shall cause them that rise up against me to bow down under me.


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And you have caused <n>[[Gr. ]] as for my enemies, you have given me the back. </n> my enemies to flee before me, even them that hated me, and you have slain them.


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They shall cry, and there <n>[[Gr. ]] is. </n> shall be no helper; to the Lord, but he hearkens not to them.


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And you shall deliver me from the striving of the <n>[[A.V. ]] 'my people.' </n> peoples, you shall keep me <i>to be</i> the head of the Gentiles: a people which I knew not served me.


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The strange children feigned <i>obedience</i> to me; they listened to me <n>[[Gr. ]] at the hearing of the ear. </n> as soon as they heard.


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The Lord lives, and blessed <i>be</i> my guardian, and my God, <n>[[Gr. ]] the keeper of my salvation. </n> my strong keeper, shall be exalted.


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and bringing me out from my enemies: and you shall set me on high from amongst those that rise up against me: you shall deliver me from <n>[[Gr. ]] a man of wrongs. </n> the violent man.


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He magnifies the <n>[[Gr. ]] salvations. </n> salvation of his king, and works mercy for his anointed, even for David and for his seed for ever.<pb/>


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And these <i>are</i> the last words of David. Faithful <i>is</i> David the son of Jessae, and faithful the man whom the Lord raised up to be the anointed of the God of Jacob, and beautiful <i>are</i> the psalms of Israel.


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The God of Israel says, A watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said amongst men, How will you° strengthen the fear of the anointed?


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And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.


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For my house <i>is</i> not so with the Mighty One: for he has made an everlasting covenant with me, ready, guarded at every time; for all my salvation and all my desire <i>is</i>, that the wicked should not flourish.


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and a man shall not labour amongst them; and <i>one shall have</i> that which is fully armed with iron, and the staff of a spear, and he shall burn them with fire, and they shall be burnt in their shame.


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These <i>are</i> the names of the mighty men of David: Jebosthe the Chananite was a captain of the third <i>part</i>: Adinon the Asonite, he drew his sword against eight hundred soldiers at once.


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And after him Eleanan the son of his uncle, son of Dudi who was amongst the three mighty men with David; and when <n>[[Or, ]] they defied him amongst the Philistines. </n> he defied the Philistines they were gathered there to war, and the men of Israel went up.


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He arose an struck the Philistines, until his hand was weary, and his hand clave to the sword: and the Lord wrought a great salvation in that day, and the people <n><i>Heb. returned. </i></n> rested behind him only to strip <i>the slain</i>.


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And after him Samaia the son of Asa the Arachite: and the Philistines were gathered to Theria; and there was there a portion of ground full of lentiles; and the people fled before the Philistines.


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And he stood firm in the midst of the portion, and rescued it, and struck the Philistines; and the Lord wrought a great deliverance.


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And three out of the thirty went down, and came to Cason to David, to the cave of Odollam; and <i>there was</i> an army of the Philistines, and they encamped in the valley of Raphain.


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And David <i>was</i> then in the strong hold, and the garrison of the Philistines <i>was</i> then in Bethleem.


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And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink out of the well that is in Bethleem by the gate? now the band of the Philistines <i>was</i> then in Bethleem.


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And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well that was in Bethleem in the gate: and they took it, and brought it to David, and he would not drink it, but poured it out before the Lord.


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And he said, O Lord, forbid that I should do this, <n>[[Gr. ]] if. </n> that I should drink of the blood of the men who went at <i>the risk of</i> their lives: and he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.


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And Abessa the brother of Joab the son of Saruia, he <i>was</i> chief amongst the three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred whom he killed; and he had a name amongst three.


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Of those three <i>he was</i> most honourable, and he became a chief over them, but he reached not to the <i>first</i> three.


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And Banaeas the son of Jodae, he was abundant in <i>mighty</i> deeds, from Cabeseel, and he struck the two sons of Ariel of Moab: and he went down and struck a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.


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He was honourable amongst the <i>second</i> three, but he reached not to the <i>first</i> three: and David <n>[[Gr. ]] appointed him to his hearings. </n> made him his reporter. And these <i>are</i> the names of King David's mighty men.


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Selles <n>[[Or, ]] the  [[d son ]][[d* of Kelothi. ]]</n> the Kelothite: Iras the son of Isca the Thecoite.


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And the Lord caused his anger to burn forth again in Israel, and <i>Satan</i> stirred up David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Juda.


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And the king said to Joab commander of the host, who was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel and Juda, from Dan even to Bersabee, and number the people, and I will know the number of the people.


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And Joab said to the king, Now may the Lord add to the people a hundred-fold as many as they are, and <i>may</i> the eyes of my lord the king <n>[[Gr. ]] seeing. </n> see it: but why does my lord the king desire this thing?


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Nevertheless the word of the king prevailed against Joab an the captains of the host: And Joab and the captains of the host went out before the king to number the people of Israel.


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And they went over Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right of the city which is in the midst of the valley of Gad and Eliezer.


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And they came to Galaad, and into the land of Thabason, which is Adasai, and they came to Danidan and Udan, and compassed Sidon.


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And they came to Mapsar of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Evite and the Chananite: and they came by the South of Juda to Bersabee.


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And they compassed the whole land; and they arrived at Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.


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And Joab gave in the number of the census of the people to the king: and Israel consisted of eight hundred thousand men of might that drew sword; and the men of Juda, five hundred thousand fighting men.


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And the heart of David struck him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, <i>in</i> what I have now done: remove, I pray you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish.


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And David rose early in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, the seer, saying, Go, and speak to David, saying,


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Thus says the Lord, <n>The word εἰμὶ is simply redundant. </n> I bring <i>one of</i> three things upon you: now choose you one of them, and I will do <i>it</i> to you.


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And Gad went in to David, and told him, and said to him, Choose <i>one of these things</i> to befall you, whether there shall come upon you <i>for</i> three years famine in your land; or that you should flee three months before your enemies, and they should pursue you; or that there should be <i>for</i> three days mortality in your land. Now then decide, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.


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And David said to Gad, On every side <n>[[Gr. ]] things are very narrow to me. </n> I am much straitened: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his compassions <i>are</i> very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man.


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So David chose for himself the mortality: and <i>they were</i> the days of wheat harvest; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till <n>[[Lit. ]] dinner time. </n> noon, and the plague began amongst the people; and there died of the people from Dan even to Bersabee seventy thousand men.


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And the angel of the Lord stretched out his hand against Jerusalem to destroy it, and the Lord repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, <i>It is</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] much. </n> enough now, withhold your hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.


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And David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel striking the people, and he said, Behold, it is I that have done wrong, <n>[[Alex. ]] adds, 'and I the shepherd have done wickedly.' </n> but these sheep what have they done? Let your hand, I pray you, be upon me, and upon my father's house.


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And Gad came to David in that day, and said to him, Go up, and set up to the Lord an altar in the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.


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And Orna <n>[[Gr. ]] stooped. See 1 Pet. 1. 12.; also John 20. 5. </n> looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on before him: and Orna went forth, and did obeisance to the king with his face to the earth.


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And Orna said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? and David said, To buy of you the threshing floor, in order to build an altar to the Lord that the plague may be restrained from off the people.


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And Orna said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer to the Lord that which is good in his eyes: behold, <i>here are</i> oxen for a whole burnt offering, and the wheels and furniture of the oxen for wood.


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And the king said to Orna, Nay, but I will surely buy it of you at a fair price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God a whole burnt offering for nothing. So David purchased the threshing floor and the oxen for <n>[[Gr. ]] silver of fifty shekels. </n> fifty shekels of silver.


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And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole burnt offerings and peace-offerings: and Solomon made an addition to the altar afterwards, for it was little at first. And the Lord listened to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.


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And king David <i>was</i> old and advanced in days, and they covered him with clothes, and he was not warmed.


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And his servants said, Let them seek for the king a young virgin, and she shall wait on the king, and cherish him, and lie with him, and my lord the king shall be warmed.


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So they sought for a fair damsel out of all the coasts of Israel; and they found Abisag the Somanite, and they brought her to the king.


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And the damsel was extremely beautiful, and she cherished the king, and ministered to him, but the king knew her not.


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And Adonias the son of Aggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king; and he <n>[[Gr. ]] made. </n> prepared for himself chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.


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And his father never at any time checked him, saying, Why have you done <i>thus</i>? and he was also very handsome in appearance, and his mother bore him after Abessalom.


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And he conferred with Joab the son of Saruia, and with Abiathar the priest, and they <n>[[Gr. ]] came to his assistance. </n> followed after Adonias.


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But Sadoc the priest, and Banaeas the son of Jodae, and Nathan the prophet, and Semei, and Resi, and the <n>[[Lit. ]] mighty sons. [[Hebraism.]]</n> mighty men of David, did not follow Adonias.


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And Adonias sacrificed sheep and calves and lambs by the <n>So the [[Alex. ]] The [[Vat. ]] renders אבן as if it were אחי [[or ]] אחה. </n> stone of Zoelethi, which was near <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex. ]] the fountain of Rogel. </n> Rogel: and he called all his brethren, and all the adult <i>men</i> of Juda, servants of the king.


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But Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas, and the mighty <i>men</i>, and Solomon his brother, he did not call.


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And Nathan spoke to Bersabee the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast you not heard that Adonias the son of Aggith <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> reigns, and our lord David <n>[[Gr. ]] knew. </n> knows it not?


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And now come, let me, I pray, give you counsel, and you shall rescue your life, and the life of your son Solomon.


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Haste, and go in to king David, and you shall speak to him, saying, Hast not you, my lord, O king, sworn to your handmaid, saying, Your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then does Adonias reign?


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And behold, while you are still speaking there with the king, I also will come in after you, and will <n>[[Gr. ]] fulfil. </n> confirm your words.


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So Bersabee went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old, and Abisag the Somanite was ministering to the king.


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And she said, My lord, you did swear by the Lord your God to your handmaid, saying, Your son Solomon shall reign after me, and shall sit upon my throne.


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And he has sacrificed calves and lambs and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander-in-chief of the host; but Solomon your servant he has not called.


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And you, my lord, O king, —the eyes of all Israel <i>are</i> upon you, to tell them who shall sit upon the throne of my lord the king after him.


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And it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son shall be offenders.


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And behold, while she was yet talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came. And it was reported to the king,


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Behold, Nathan the prophet <i>is here</i>: and he came in to the king's presence, and did obeisance to the king with his face to the ground.


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And Nathan said, My lord, O king, did you say, Adonias shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?


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For he has gone down today, and has sacrificed calves and lambs and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the chiefs of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and they said, <i>Long</i> live king Adonias.


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But he has not invited me your servant, and Sadoc the priest, and Banaeas the son of Jodae, and Solomon your servant.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] if. </n> Has this matter happened by the authority of my lord the king, and have you not made known to your servant who shall sit upon the throne of my lord the king after him?


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And king David answered and said, Call me Bersabee: and she came in before the king, and stood before him.


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as I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead, so will I do this day.


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And Bersabee bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.


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And king David said, Call me Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas the son of Jodae: and they came in before the king.


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And the king said to them, Take the servants of your lord with you, and mount my son Solomon upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gion.


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And there let Sadoc the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him to be king over Israel, and do you° sound the trumpet, and you° shall say, Let king Solomon live.


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And he shall sit upon my throne, and reign in my stead: and I have given charge that he should be for a prince over Israel and Juda.


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And Banaeas the son of Jodae answered the king and said, So let it be: may the Lord God of my lord the king confirm <i>it</i>.


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As the Lord was with my lord the king, so let him be with Solomon, and let him <n>[[Gr. ]] magnify. </n> exalt his throne beyond the throne of my lord king David.


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And Sadoc the priest went down, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas son of Jodae, and the Cherethite, and the Phelethite, and they mounted Solomon upon the mule of king David, and led him away to Gion.


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And Sadoc the priest took the horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon, and blew the trumpet; and all the people said, Let king Solomon live.


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And all the people went up after him, and they danced in choirs, and rejoiced with great joy, and the earth <n>[[Gr. ]] burst. </n> quaked with their voice.


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And Adonias and all his guests heard, and they had <i>just</i> left off eating: and Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, and said, What <i>means</i> the voice of the city in tumult?


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While he was yet speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came in: and Adonias said, Come in, for you are a mighty man, and <i>you come</i> to bring glad tidings.


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and the king has sent with him Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas the son of Jodae, and the Cherethite, and the Phelethite, and they have mounted him on the king's mule;


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and Sadoc the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him in Gion, and have gone up thence rejoicing, and the city resounded: this <i>is</i> the sound which you° have heard.


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And the servants of the king have gone in to bless our lord king David, saying, God <n>[[Gr. ]] do good [[or ]] make good. </n> make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne; and the king worshipped upon his bed.


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Moreover thus said the king, Blessed <i>be</i> the Lord God of Israel, who has this day <n>[[Gr. ]] given. </n> appointed one of my seed sitting on my throne, and my eyes see it.


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And Adonias feared because of Solomon, and arose, and departed, and laid hold on the horns of the altar.


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And it was reported to Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonias fears king Solomon, and holds the horns of the altar, saying, Let Solomon swear to me this day, that he will not kill his servant with the sword.


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And Solomon said, If he should be a valiant man, there shall not a hair of his fall to the ground; but if evil be found in him, he shall die.


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And king Solomon sent, and they brought him away from the altar; and he went in and did obeisance to king Solomon: and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.<pb/>


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And the days of David drew near that he should die: and he <n>[[Gr. ]] answered. </n> addressed his son Solomon, saying, I go the way of all the earth:


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and keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, to keep the commandments and the ordinances and the judgements which are written in the law of Moses; that you may understand what you shall do in all things that I command you:


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Moreover you know all that Joab the son of Saruia did to me, what he did to the two captains of the forces of Israel, to Abenner the son of Ner, and to Amessai the son of Jether, that he killed them, and <n>[[Gr. ]] ordered. </n> shed the blood of war in peace, and put innocent blood on his girdle that was about his loins, and on his sandal that was on his foot.


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Therefore you shall deal <i>with him</i> according to your wisdom, and you shall not bring down his grey hairs in peace to <n>[[Gr. ]] Hades. </n> the grave.


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But you shall deal kindly with the sons of Berzelli the Galaadite, and they shall be amongst those that eat at your table; for thus they drew near to me when I fled from the face of your brother Abessalom.


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And, behold, <i>there is</i> with you Semei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Baurim: and he cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the <n>[[Gr. ]] camps. </n> camp; and he came down to Jordan to meet me, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.


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But you shall by no means hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and will know what you shall do to him, and shall bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.


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And the days which David reigned over Israel <i>were</i> forty years; he reigned seven years in Chebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.


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And Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was <n>[[Gr. ]] prepared. </n> established greatly.


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And he said to her, You know that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel turned their face towards me for a king; but the kingdom was turned <i>from me</i> and became my brother's: for it was <i>appointed</i> to him from the Lord.


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And now I make one request of you, do not turn away your face. And Bersabee said to him, Speak <i>on</i>.


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And Bersabee went in to king Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonias; and the king rose up to meet her, and kissed her, and sat on the throne, and a throne was set for the mother of the king, and she sat on his right hand.


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And she said to him, I ask of you one little request; turn not away my face from you. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, and I will not reject you.


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And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why have you asked Abisag for Adonias? ask for him the kingdom also; for he <i>is</i> my elder brother, and he has for his companion Abiathar the priest, and Joab the son of Saruia the commander-in-chief.


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And king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and <n>[[Gr. ]] add these things. </n> more also, <i>if it be not</i> that Adonias has spoken this word against his own life.


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And now <i>as</i> the Lord lives who has established me, and set me on the throne of my father David, and he has made me a house, as the Lord spoke, this day shall Adonias be put to death.


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And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Depart you quickly to Anathoth to your farm, for you are <n>[[Gr. ]] a man of death. </n> worthy of death this day; but I will not kill you, because you have borne the ark of the covenant of the Lord before my father, and because you was afflicted in all things wherein my father was afflicted.


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And it was told Solomon, saying, Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and behold! he has hold of the horns of the altar. And king Solomon sent to Joab, saying, <n>[[Gr. ]] What has happened to you? </n> What ails you, that you have fled to the altar? and Joab said, Because I was afraid of you, and fled for refuge to the Lord. And Solomon sent Banaeas son of Jodae, saying, Go and kill him, and bury him.


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And Banaeas son of Jodae came to Joab to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, Thus says the king, Come forth. And Joab said, I <n>[[Gr. ]] do not. </n> will not come forth, for I will die here. And Banaeas son of Jodae returned and spoke to the king, saying, Thus has Joab spoken, and thus has he answered me.


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And the king said to him, Go, and do to him as he has spoken, and kill him: and you shall bury him, and you shall remove this day the blood which he shed without cause, from me and from the house of my father.


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And the Lord has returned upon his own head the blood of his unrighteousness, inasmuch as he attacked two men more righteous and better than himself, and killed them with the sword, and my father David knew not of their blood, <i>even</i> Abenner the son of Ner the commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amessa the son of Jether the commander-in-chief of Juda.


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And their blood is returned upon his head, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but to David, and his seed, and his house, and his throne, may there be peace for ever from the Lord.


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And the wisdom of Solomon abounded exceedingly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt: and he took the daughter of Pharao, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the Lord first, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. In seven years he made and finished <i>them</i>. <pb/>And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eight thousand hewers of stone in the mountain: and Solomon made the sea, and the bases, and the great lavers, and the pillars, and the fountain of the court, and the brazen sea— <n>Probably some hiatus in the text. </n> and he built the citadel as a defence above it, he made a breach in the wall of the city of David: thus the daughter of Pharao went up out of the city of David to her house which he built for her. Then he built the citadel: and Solomon offered up three whole burnt offerings in the year, and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord, and finished the house. And these are the chief persons who presided over the works of Solomon; three thousand and six hundred masters of the people that wrought the works. And he burit Assur, and Magdo, and Gazer, and upper Baethoron, and Ballath: only after he had built the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about, afterwards he built these cities. <pb/>And when David was yet living, he charged Solomon, saying, Behold, there is with you Semei the son of Gera, of the seed of <n>[[Gr. ]] Jemini. </n> Benjamin out of Chebron: he cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the camp; and he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, <n>[[Gr. ]] if he shall be slain. </n> He shall not be slain with the sword. But now do not you hold him guiltless, for you are a man of understanding, and you will know what you shall do to him, and you shall bring down his <n>[[Gr. ]] hoary head. </n> grey hairs with blood to <n>[[Gr. ]] Hades. </n> the grave. <n>The verses below numbered 36) to 46) appear between verses one and two in Brenton. </n> <pb/>\vp 36) \vp* And the king called Semei, and said to him, Build you a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and you shall not go out thence any whither. <pb/>\vp 37) \vp* And it shall come to pass in the day <n>[[Gr. ]] of your going forth. </n> that you shall go forth and cross over the brook Kedron, <n>[[Gr. ]] knowing you shall know. </n> know assuredly that you shall certainly die: your blood shall be upon your head. And the king caused him to swear in that day. <pb/>\vp 38) \vp* And Semei said to the king, Good <i>is</i> the word that you have spoken, my lord O king: thus will your servant do. And Semei lived in Jerusalem three years. <pb/>\vp 39) \vp* And it came to pass after the three years, that two servants of Semei ran away to Anchus son of Maacha king of Geth: and it was told Semei, saying, Behold, your servants <i>are</i> in Geth. <pb/>\vp 40) \vp* And Semei rose up, and saddled his ass, and went to Geth to Anchus to seek out his servants: and Semei went, and brought his servants out of Geth. <pb/>\vp 41) \vp* And it was told Solomon, saying, Semei is gone out of Jerusalem to Geth, and has brought back his servants. <pb/>\vp 42) \vp* And the king sent and called Semei, and said to him, Did I not adjure you by the Lord, and testify to you, saying, In whatever day you shall go out of Jerusalem, and go to the right or left, know certainly that you shall assuredly die? <pb/>\vp 43) \vp* And why have you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment which I commanded <n>[[Gr. ]] against you. </n> you? <pb/>\vp 44) \vp* And the king said to Semei, You know all your mischief which your heart knows, which you did to David my father: and the Lord has recompensed your mischief on your <i>own</i> head. <pb/>\vp 45) \vp* And king Solomon <i>is</i> blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever. <pb/>\vp 46) \vp* And Solomon commanded Banaeas the son of Jodae, and he went forth and killed him. <pb/>And king Solomon was very prudent and wise: and Juda and Israel <i>were</i> very many, as the sand which is by the sea for multitude, eating, and drinking, and rejoicing: and Solomon was chief in all the kingdoms, and they brought gifts, and served Solomon all the days of his life. And Solomon began to open the domains of Libanus, and he built Thermae in the wilderness. And this was the <n>[[Gr. ]] dinner. </n> daily provision of Solomon, thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of ground meal, ten choice calves, and twenty oxen from the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and does, and choice fed birds. For he ruled in all the country on this side the river, from Raphi to Gaza, over all the kings <n>[[Gr. ]] beyond. </n> on this side the river: and he was at peace on all sides round about; and Juda and Israel lived <n>[[Gr. ]] trusting in confidence. See <i>Heb. </i></n> safely, every one under his vine and under his fig tree, eating and drinking and feasting, from Dan even to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon. <pb/>And these <i>were</i> the princes of Solomon; Azariu son of Sadoc the priest, and Orniu son of Nathan chief of the officers, and he <n>[[Gr. ]] ran. </n> went to his house; and Suba the scribe, and Basa son of Achithalam recorder, and Abi son of Joab commander-in-chief, and Achire son of Edrai <i>was</i> over the <n>[[Or. ]] tributes. </n> levies, and Banaeas son of Jodae over the household and over the brick work, and Cachur the son of Nathan <i>was</i> counsellor. <pb/>And Solomon had forty thousand brood mares for his chariots, and twelve thousand horses. And he reigned over all the kings from the river and to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt: so Solomon the son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem.


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And he arose and went to Gabaon to sacrifice there, for that <i>was</i> the highest place, and great: Solomon offered a whole burnt offering of a thousand <i>victims</i> on the altar in Gabaon.


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And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and the Lord said to Solomon, Ask some petition for yourself.


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And Solomon said, You have dealt very mercifully with your servant David my father according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you, and you have kept for him this great mercy, to <n>[[Gr. ]] give. </n> set his son upon his throne, <n>[[Gr. ]] as this day  [[d is. ]][[d* ]]</n> as <i>it is</i> this day.


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You shall give therefore to your servant a heart to hear and to judge your people justly, and to discern between good and evil: for who will be able to judge this your <n>[[Gr. ]] heavy. </n> great people?


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And the Lord said to him, Because you have asked this thing of me, and have not asked for yourself <n>[[Gr. ]] many days. </n> long life, and have not asked wealth, nor have asked the lives of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to hear judgement;


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behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you an understanding and wise heart: there has not been <i>any one</i> like you before you, and after you there shall not arise one like you.


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And I have given you what you have not asked, wealth and glory, so that there has not been any one like you amongst kings.


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And if you will walk in my way, to keep my commandments and my ordinances, as David your father walked, then will I multiply your days.


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And Solomon awoke, and, behold, <i>it was</i> a dream: and he arose and <n>[[Gr. ]] comes. </n> came to Jerusalem, and stood before the altar that was in front of the ark of the covenant of the Lord in Sion: and he offered whole burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings, and made a great banquet for himself and all his servants.


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And the one woman said, Hear me, <i>my</i> lord; I and this woman lived in one house, and we were delivered in the house.


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And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also was delivered: and we <i>were</i> together; and there <n>[[Gr. ]] is. </n> was no one with us besides our two selves in the house.


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and she arose in the middle of the night, <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex.+ ]] 'while your handmaid slept.' </n> and took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom, and <n>[[Gr. ]] caused to sleep. </n> laid her dead son in my bosom.


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and I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and he was dead: and, behold, I considered him in the morning, and, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.


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And the other woman said, No, but the living <i>is</i> my son, and the dead <i>is</i> your son. So they spoke before the king.


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and the king said to them, You say, This <i>is</i> my son, <i>even</i> the living <i>one</i>, and this woman's son <i>is</i> the dead one: and you say, No, but the living <i>is</i> my son, and the dead <i>is</i> your son.


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And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the other.


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And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her <n>[[Gr. ]] her womb was troubled. </n> bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray you, <i>my</i> lord, give her the child, and in nowise kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide <i>it</i>.


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Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her that said, 'Give it to her, and by no means kill it:' she <i>is</i> its mother.


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and all Israel heard this judgement which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God <i>was</i> in him, to execute judgement.<pb/>


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And Ornia the son of Nathan <i>was</i> over the <n>[[Gr. ]] appointed ones. </n> officers; and Zabuth son of Nathan <i>was</i> <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex. ]] insert 'priest.' </n> the king's <n>[[Or, ]] companion. </n> friend.


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And Achisar was steward, and Eliac the <i>chief</i> steward; and Eliab the son of Saph <i>was</i> over the family: and Adoniram the son of Audon over the tribute.


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And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, to provide for the king and his household; each one's turn came to supply for a month in the year.


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All Nephthador <i>belonged to</i> the son of Aminadab, Tephath daughter of Solomon was his wife, one.


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Bana son of Achiluth <i>had</i> Ithaanach, and Mageddo, and <i>his was</i> the whole house of San which was by Sesathan below Esrae, and from Bethsan as far as Sabelmaula, as far as Maeber Lucam, one.


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The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him <i>fell</i> the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen bars, one.


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Gaber son of Adai in the land of Gad, <i>the land</i> of Seon king of Esebon, and of Og king of Basan, and one officer in the land of Juda.


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\vp 27\vp* And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and <i>they execute</i> every one in his month all the orders for the table of the king, they <n>[[Gr. ]] change. </n> omit nothing.


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\vp 28\vp* And they carried the barley and the straw for the horses and the chariots to the place where the king might be, each according to his charge.


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And these <i>were</i> the requisite supplies for Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of fine pounded meal,


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and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.


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And the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the seashore.


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And Solomon abounded greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt.


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And he was wiser than all <i>other</i> men: and he was wiser than Gaethan the Zarite, and <i>than</i> Aenan, and <i>than</i> Chalcad and Darala the son of Mal.


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And he spoke of trees, from the cedar in Libanus even to the hyssop which comes out through the wall: he spoke also of cattle, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fishes.


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And all the nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and <i>ambassadors</i> from all the kings of the earth, as many as heard of his wisdom. <pb/><n>Here the chapter ends, according to <i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex.]]</n> And Solomon took to himself the daughter of Pharao to wife, and brought her into the city of David until he had finished the house of the Lord, and his own house, and the wall of Jerusalem. Then went up Pharao the king of Egypt, and took Gazer, and burnt it and the Chananite dwelling in Mergab; and Pharao gave them as a dowry to his daughter the wife of Solomon: and Solomon rebuilt Gazer.<pb/>


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And Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Chiram always loved David.


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You knew <n>[[Or, ]] that my father David, etc. </n> my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God <n>[[Gr. ]] from the face of. [[Hebraism.]]</n> because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the <n>[[Or, ]] steps. </n> soles of his feet.


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And now the Lord my God has given me rest round about; there is no one plotting against <i>me</i>, and there is no <n>[[Alex. ]] ἀπαντήμα. See συναντήματα, Ex. 9. 14. </n> evil trespass <i>against me</i>.


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And, behold, I intend to build a house to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord God spoke to my father David, saying, Your son whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build a house to my name.


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And now command, and let <i>men</i> cut wood for me out of Libanus: and, behold, my servants <i>shall be</i> with your servants, and I will give you the wages of your service, according to all that you shall say, because you know that we have no one skilled in cutting timber like the Sidonians.


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And it came to pass, as soon as Chiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed <i>be</i> God today, who has given to David a wise son over this numerous people.


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And he sent to Solomon, saying, I have listened concerning all that you have sent to me for: I will do all your will: <i>as for</i> timber of cedar and fir,


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my servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: I will form them <i>into</i> rafts, <i>and bring them</i> to the place which you shall send to me <i>about</i>; and I will <n>[[Lit. ]] shake them off. </n> land them there, and you shall take <i>them</i> up: and you shall do my will, in giving bread to my household.


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And Solomon gave to Chiram twenty thousand measures of wheat <n>Some read μαχὰλ, [[or ]] μαχὰθ, as if from מכרח <i>cibus.</i></n> as food for his house, and twenty thousand baths of beaten oil thus Solomon gave to Chiram yearly.


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And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon as he <n>[[Gr. ]] spoke to him. </n> promised him; and there was peace between Chiram and Solomon, and they made a covenant between them.


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And the king raised <n>[[Lit. ]] tribute, etc. </n> a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.


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And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand taking turn every month: they were a month in Libanus and two months at home: and Adoniram <i>was</i> over the levy.


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And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain;


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besides the rulers that were appointed over the works of Solomon, <i>there were</i> three thousand <n><i>Heb. 300. </i>[[Alex. ]] 500. </n> six hundred <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex. ]] overseers of the people. </n> masters who wrought in the works.


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<n>Verse 17 is not in [[Vat. ]] The following is from [[Alex.]]</n> <i>And the king commanded and they </i> <n>[[Gr. ]] bring. </n> <i>brought great stones, precious stones for the foundation of the house, and unhewn stones. </i>


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And it came to pass in the four hundred and forties year after the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second month <n>[[Gr. ]] of Solomon reigning. </n> of the reign of king Solomon over Israel, <n></n> <pb/>\vp 17) \vp* that the king commanded that they should take great <i>and</i> costly stones for the foundation of the house, and hewn stones. <pb/>\vp 18) \vp* And the men of Solomon, and the men of Chiram hewed <i>the stones</i>, and laid them <i>for a foundation</i>. In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month Ziu, even in the second month. In the eleventh year, in the month Baal, this <i>is</i> the eighth month, the house was completed according to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement.


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And the house which the king built to the Lord <n>[[Gr. ]] its length forty in cubit, etc. </n> <i>was</i> <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex. ]] 60 cubits. </n> forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex. ]] 30 cubits. </n> five and twenty cubits.


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And the porch in front of the temple—twenty cubits <i>was</i> its length according to the breadth of the house in front of the house: and he built the house, and finished it.


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And <n>[[Gr. ]] upon. </n> against the wall of the house he set chambers round about <n><i>Heb. and </i>[[Alex. ]] with (or against) the walls of the house round about. </n> the temple and the ark.


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The under side <i>was</i> five cubits broad, and the middle <i>part</i> six, and the third <i>was</i> seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house.


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And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in the building of it hammer <n>[[Gr. ]] and. </n> or axe, <n>[[Gr. ]] and. </n> or any iron tool.


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And the porch of the under side <i>was</i> below the right wing of the house, and <i>there was</i> a winding ascent into the middle <i>chamber</i>, and from the middle to the third story.


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And he framed the walls of the house within with cedar boards, from the floor of the house and on to the inner walls and to the beams: he lined the parts enclosed with boards within, and compassed the inward parts of the house with planks of fir.


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And he built the twenty cubits from the top of the wall, one side from the floor to the beams, and he made it from the <n>[[Or, ]] shrine. </n> oracle to the most holy place.


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in front of the oracle in the midst of the house within, <i>in order</i> to <n>[[Gr. ]] give. </n> put there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.


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The length <i>was</i> twenty cubits, and the breadth <i>was</i> twenty cubits, and the height of it was twenty cubits. And he covered it with <n>[[Gr. ]] and <i>Heb. shut up. </i></n> perfect gold, and he made an altar in front of the oracle, and covered it with gold.


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And the wing of one cherub was five cubits, and his other wing was five cubits; ten cubits <n>[[Gr. ]] from the tip of his wing to the tip of his wing. </n> from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other wing.


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And the height of the one cherub <i>was</i> ten cubits, and so <i>was it</i> with the second cherub.


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And both the cherubs <i>were</i> in the midst of the innermost part of the house; and they spread out their wings, and one wing touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings in the midst of the house touched each other.


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He graved all the walls of the house round about with the graving of cherubs, and <i>he sculptured</i> palm trees within and without <i>the house</i>.


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In both the doors <i>were</i> planks of fir; the one door had two leaves and their hinges, and the other door had two leaves and turned <i>on hinges</i>,


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being carved with cherubs, and <i>there were</i> palm-trees and open flower-leaves, and it <i>was</i> overlaid with gold gilt upon the engraving.


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the son of a widow woman; and he <i>was</i> of the tribe of Nephthalim, and his father <i>was</i> a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in art and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought all the works.


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And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the house: eighteen cubits <i>was</i> the height of <i>each</i> pillar, and a circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of the pillar: the <n>[[Or, ]] embossed [[or ]] hollow work. </n> flutings <i>were</i> four fingers <i>wide</i>, and thus <i>was</i> the other pillar <i>formed</i>.


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And he made two molten chapiters to <n>[[Gr. ]] give. </n> put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits <i>was</i> the height of one chapiter, and five cubits <i>was</i> the height of the other chapiter.


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And he made two <n>[[Gr. ]] nets. </n> ornaments of network to cover the <n>[[Gr. ]] chapiter. </n> chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter.


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And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, <n>[[q.d. ]] netted. </n> formed with network, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed <i>the ornaments</i> for the second chapiter. \vp 21\vp* And he set up the pillars of the porch of the temple: and he set up the one pillar, and called its name Jachum: and he set up the second pillar, and called its name Boloz.


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And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was <n>[[Gr. ]] round in a circle. </n> completely circular round about: its height <i>was</i> five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits.


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And <i>there were</i> twelve oxen under the sea: three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts <i>were</i> <n>[[Lit. ]] to [[or ]] into the house. </n> inward, and the sea <i>was</i> above upon them.


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and its rim <i>was</i> as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it <i>was</i> a span.


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And he made ten brazen bases: five cubits <i>was</i> the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and its height <i>was</i> six cubits.


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And this work of the bases <i>was</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] shut up. </n> formed with a border the them, and <i>there was</i> a border between the ledges.


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And upon their borders between the projection <i>were</i> lions, and oxen, and cherubs: and on the projections, even so above, and also below <i>were</i> the places of lions and oxen, hanging work.


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And <i>there were</i> four brazen wheels to one base; and <i>there were</i> brazen bases, and their four sides <i>answering to them</i>, side <n>[[Or, ]] bearings, [[or ]] shoulders; [[A.V. ]] undersetters. </n> pieces under the bases.


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And <i>there were</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] hands. </n> axles in the wheels <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> under the base.


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And the work of the wheels <i>was</i> as the work of chariot wheels: their <n>[[Gr. ]] their hands and their backs. </n> axles, and their felloes, and <i>the rest of</i> their work, <i>were</i> all molten.


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The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders <i>were formed</i> of the base.


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And on the top of the base half a cubit <i>was</i> the size of it, <i>there was</i> a circle on the top of the base, and <i>there was</i> the top of its spaces and its borders: and it <n>[[Gr. ]] was opened. </n> was open at the top of its spaces.


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And its borders <i>were</i> cherubs, and lions, and palm-trees, upright, each <i>was</i> joined in front <i>and</i> within and round about.


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And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty <n>[[Gr. ]] gallons. The [[Gr. ]] seems to have this meaning, but the <i>Heb. word means more. </i></n> baths, <i>and</i> measuring four cubits, each laver <i>placed</i> on a several base throughout the ten bases.


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And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed <n>[[Gr. ]] on the shoulder-piece of the house on the right. </n> on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.


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And Chiram made the cauldrons, and the pans, and the bowls; and Chiram finished making all the works that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of the Lord:


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two pillars and the wreathen works of the pillars on the heads of the two pillars; and the two <n>[[Gr. ]] nets. </n> networks to cover both the wreathen works of the flutings that were upon the pillars.


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The four hundred pomegranates for both the networks, two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover both the wreathen works of the bases belonging to both pillars.


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There was no <n>[[Gr. ]] weight. </n> reckoning of the brass of which he made all these works, from the very great abundance, there was no end of the <n>[[Gr. ]] weights. </n> weight of the brass. <pb/>\vp 46 \vp* In the country round about Jordan did he cast them, in the <n>thick  [[d part ]][[d* of the land. ]]</n> clay land between Socchoth and Sira.


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And king Solomon took the furniture which <i>Chiram</i> made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the golden table of show bread.


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And <i>he put</i> the five candlesticks on the left, and five on the right in front of the oracle, <i>being</i> of <n>[[Lit. ]] golden, shut up. </n> pure gold, and the lamp-stands, and the lamps, and the <n>Perhaps small vessels with lips for pouring oil. </n> snuffers of gold.


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And <i>there were made</i> the <n>[[Or, ]] rather work about the door. </n> porches, and the nails, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the golden censers, <n>[[Gr. ]] shut up. </n> of pure gold: and the panels of the doors of the innermost part of the house, <i>even</i> the holy of holies, and the golden doors of the temple.


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So the work of the house of the Lord which Solomon wrought was finished; and Solomon brought in the holy things of David his father, and all the holy things of Solomon; he <n>[[Gr. ]] gave. </n> put the silver, and the gold, and the furniture, into the treasures of the house of the Lord.<pb/>


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And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and his own house after twenty years, then king Solomon assembled all the elders of Israel in Sion, to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, this is Sion,


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And the king and all Israel <i>were occupied</i> before the ark, sacrificing sheep <i>and</i> oxen, without number.


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And the priests bring in the ark into its place, into the oracle of the house, even into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubs.


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For the cherubs <n>[[pass. part. ]] spread out with their wings. </n> spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its holy things above.


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And the <n><i>Heb. staves. </i></n> holy staves projected, and the ends of the holy staves appeared out of the holy places in front of the oracle, and were not seen without.


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There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Moses put <i>there</i> in Choreb, which <i>tables</i> the Lord made <i>as a covenant</i> with the children of Israel in their going forth from the land of Egypt.


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And it came to pass when the priests departed out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house.


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And the king <n>[[Gr. ]] 'turned away,' but probably not from the people. </n> turned his face, and the king blessed all Israel, (and the whole assembly of Israel stood:)


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and he said, Blessed <i>be</i> the Lord God <n>[[Gr. ]] in Israel. [[Hebraism.]]</n> of Israel today, who spoke by his mouth concerning David my father, and has fulfilled it with his hands, saying,


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From the day that I brought out my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in <i>any</i> one <n>[[Gr. ]] staff. </n> tribe of Israel to build a house, so that my name should be there: but I chose Jerusalem that my name should be there, and I chose David to be over my people Israel.


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And it was <n>[[Gr. ]] upon. </n> in the heart of my father to build a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.


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And the Lord said to David my father, Forasmuch as it came into your heart to build a house to my name, you did well that it came upon your heart.


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Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son that has proceeded out of your <n>[[Gr. ]] sides. </n> bowels, he shall build the house to my name.


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And the Lord has confirmed the word that he spoke, and I am risen up in the place of my father David, and I have sat down on the throne of Israel, as the Lord spoke, and I have built the house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.


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And I have set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord, which the Lord made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.


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And Solomon stood up in front of the altar before all the congregation of Israel; and he spread out his hands towards heaven:


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and he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above and on the earth beneath, keeping covenant and mercy with your servant who walks before you with all his heart;


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which you have kept towards your servant David my father: for you have spoken by your mouth and you have fulfilled it with your hands, as <i>at</i> this day.


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And now, O Lord God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father, <i>the promises</i> which you have spoken to him, saying, There shall not be taken from you a man sitting before me on the throne of Israel, provided only your children shall take heed to their ways, to walk before me as you have walked before me.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] 'that,' elliptical expression. </n> But will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and heaven of <n>[[Gr. ]] heaven. </n> heavens will not suffice you, how much less even this house which I have built to your name?


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Yet, O Lord God of Israel, you shall look upon my petition, to hear the prayer which your servant prays to you in your presence this day,


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that your eyes may be open towards this house day and night, even towards the place which you said, My name shall be there, to hear the prayer which your servant prays <n>[[Or, ]] towards. </n> at this place day and night.


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And you shall listen to the prayer of your servant, and of your people Israel, which they shall pray towards this place; and you shall hear in your dwelling-place in heaven, and you shall do and be gracious.


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Whatsoever trespasses <n>[[Gr. ]] each. </n> any <i>one</i> shall commit against his neighbour,—and if he shall take upon him an oath so that he should swear, and he shall come and make confession before your altar in this house,


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then shall you hear from heaven, and do, and you shall judge your people Israel, that the wicked should be <n>[[Or, ]] considered wicked [[or ]] lawless. </n> condemned, to recompense his way upon his head; and to justify the righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.


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When your people Israel falls before enemies, because they shall sin against you, and they shall return and confess to your name, and they shall pray and supplicate in this house,


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then shall you hear from heaven, and be gracious to the sins of your people Israel, and you shall restore them to the land which you gave to their fathers.


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When the heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall sin against you, and the shall pray towards this place, and they shall make confession to your name, and shall turn from their sins when you shall have humbled them,


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then you shall hear from heaven, and be merciful to the sins of your servant and of your people Israel; for you shall show them the good way to walk in it, and you shall give rain upon the earth which you have given to your people for an inheritance.


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If there should be famine, if there should be death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew, and if <n>[[Gr. ]] his. </n> their enemy oppress them in <i>any</i> one of their cities, <i>with regard to</i> every <n>[[Gr. ]] incident [[or ]] occurrence. </n> calamity, every trouble,


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every prayer, every supplication whatever shall be made by any man, as they shall know each the plague of his heart, and shall spread abroad his hands to this house,


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then shall you listen from heaven, out of your established dwelling-place, and shall be merciful, and shall do, and recompense to <i>every</i> man according to his ways, as you shall know his heart, for you alone know the heart of all the children of men:


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that they may fear you all the days that they live upon the land, which you have given to our fathers.


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then shall you hear <i>them</i> from heaven, out of your established dwelling-place, and you shall do according to all that the stranger shall call upon you for, that all the nations may know your name, and fear you, as <i>do</i> your people Israel, and may know that your name has been called on this house which I have builded.


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<i>If it be</i> that your people shall go forth to war against their enemies in the way by which you shall turn them, and pray in the name of the Lord <n>[[Gr. ]] by way of. </n> towards the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built to your name,


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then shall you hear from heaven their supplication and their prayer, and shall execute judgement for them.


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<i>If it be</i> that they shall sin against you, (for there is not a man who will not sin,) and you shall bring them and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take <i>them</i> captive shall carry <i>them</i> to a land far or near,


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and they shall turn their hearts in the land whither they have been carried captives, and turn in the land of their sojourning, and supplicate you, saying, We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have transgressed,


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and they shall turn to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies whither you have carried them captives, and shall pray to you towards their land which you have given to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built to your name:


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and you shall be merciful to their unrighteousness wherein they have trespassed against you, and according to all their transgressions wherewith they have transgressed against you, and you shall <n>[[Gr. ]] give them to compassions. </n> cause them to be pitied before them that carried them captives, and they shall have compassion on them:


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And let your eyes and your ears be opened to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them in all things for which they shall call upon you.


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Because you have set them apart for an inheritance to yourself out of all the nations of the earth, as you spoke by the hand of your servant Moses, when you brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, <n>[[Gr. ]] Lord, Lord, [[i.e. ]] according to the <i>Heb. Lord Jehovah. </i></n> O Lord God.—Then spoke Solomon concerning the house, when he had finished building it—He manifested the sun in the heaven: the Lord said he would dwell in darkness: build you my house, a beautiful house for yourself to dwell in anew. Behold, is not this written in the book of the song?


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And it came to pass when Solomon had finished praying to the Lord all this prayer and supplication, that he rose up from before the altar of the Lord, <i>after</i> having knelt upon his knees, and his hands <i>were</i> spread out towards heaven.


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Blessed <i>be</i> the Lord this day, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he said: there has not failed one word amongst all his good words which he spoke by the hand of his servant Moses.


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that he may turn our hearts towards him to walk in all his ways, and to keep all his commandments, and his ordinances which he commanded our fathers.


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And let these words, <n>[[Gr. ]] as. </n> which I have prayed before the Lord our God, <i>be</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] approaching. </n> near to the Lord our God day and night, to maintain the cause of your servant, and the cause of your people Israel <n>[[Gr. ]] a thing [[or ]] word of a day in a day of a year. But [[Alex. ]] reads ἡμέρᾳ αὐτοῦ, which agrees with the <i>Heb. </i></n> for ever.


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that all the nations of the earth may know that the Lord God, he <i>is</i> God, and there is none beside.


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And let our hearts be perfect towards the Lord our God, to walk also holily in his ordinances, and to keep his commandments, <n>[[Gr. ]] as this day is. </n> as at this day.


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And king Solomon offered for the sacrifices of peace-offering which he sacrificed to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and hundred and twenty thousand sheep: and the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.


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In that day the king consecrated the middle of the court in the front of the house of the Lord; for there he offered the whole burnt offering, and the sacrifices, and the <n>[[Gr. ]] fats. </n> fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which was before the Lord <i>was too</i> little to bear the whole burnt offering and the sacrifices of peace-offerings.


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And Solomon kept the feast in that day, and all Israel with him, even a great assembly from the entering in of Hemath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God in the house which he built, eating and drinking, and rejoicing before the Lord our God seven days.


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And on the eighth day he sent away the people: and they blessed the king, and each departed to his <n>[[Gr. ]] tabernacles. </n> tabernacle rejoicing, and <i>their</i> heart <i>was</i> glad because of the good things which the Lord had done to his servant David, and to Israel his people.<pb/>


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And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the work of Solomon, whatever he wished to perform,


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And the Lord said to him, I have heard the voice of your prayer, and your supplication which you made before me: I have done for you according to all your prayer: I have hallowed this house which you have built to put my name there for ever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.


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And if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shall keep my ordinances and my commandments:


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then will I <n>[[Gr. ]] raise up. </n> establish the throne of your kingdom in Israel for ever, as I spoke to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to rule in Israel.


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But if you° or your children do in any wise revolt from me, and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances, which Moses <n>[[Gr. ]] gave. </n> set before you, and you° go and serve other gods, and worship them:


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then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a byword to all nations.


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And this house, which is high, shall be <i>so that</i> every one that passes <n>[[Gr. ]] through it. </n> by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Therefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?


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And <i>men</i> shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and they attached themselves to strange gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore the Lord has brought this evil upon them. Then Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharao out of the city of David into his house which he built for himself in those days.


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Chiram king of Tyre helped Solomon with cedar <n>[[Gr. ]] woods. </n> wood, and fir <n>[[Gr. ]] woods. </n> wood, and with gold, and all that he wished for: then the king gave Chiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.


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What <i>are</i> these cities which you have given me, brother? And he called them Boundary until this day.


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even that for which king Solomon built a ship in Gasion Gaber near Aelath on the <n>[[Gr. ]] lip. </n> shore of the <n>[[Gr. ]] last sea, [[or ]] last part of the sea, [[q.d. ]] head of the gulf. </n> extremity of the sea in the land of Edom.


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And Chiram sent in the ship together with the servants of Solomon servants of his own, mariners to row, men acquainted with the sea.


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And they came to Sophira, and took thence a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.<pb/>


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And the queen of Saba heard of the name of Solomon, and the name of the Lord, and she came to try him with riddles.


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And she came to Jerusalem with a very great <n>[[Gr. ]] force. </n> train; and <i>there came</i> camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and she came in to Solomon, and told him all that was in her heart.


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And Solomon <n>[[Gr. ]] related to her all her words. </n> answered all her questions: and there was not a question overlooked by the king which he did not answer her.


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and the provision of Solomon and the sitting of his attendants, and the standing of his servants, and his raiment, and his cupbearers, and his whole burnt offering which he offered in the house of the Lord, and she was <n>[[Or, ]] in ecstasy. </n> utterly amazed.


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And she said to king Solomon, <i>It was</i> a true report which I heard in my land of your <n>[[Gr. ]] word. </n> words and your wisdom.


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But I believed not them that told me, until I came and my eyes saw: and, behold, the words as they reported to me are not the half: you have <n>[[Gr. ]] added good things to them. </n> exceeded in goodness all the report which I heard in my land.


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Blessed <i>are</i> your wives, blessed <i>are</i> these your servants who stand before you continually, who hear all your wisdom.


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Blessed be the Lord your God, who has taken pleasure in you, to set you upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel to establish <i>him</i> for ever; and he has made you king over them, to execute judgement with justice, and in their causes.


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And she gave to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and <n>[[Gr. ]] precious stone. </n> precious stones: there had not come any other spices so abundant as those which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.


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And the ship of Chiram which brought the gold from Suphir, brought very much hewn timber and precious stones.


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And the king made the hewn timber <i>into</i> buttresses of the house of the Lord and the king's house, and lyres and harps for singers: such hewn timber had not come upon the earth, nor have been seen anywhere until this day.


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And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired, whatever she asked, besides all that he had given her <n>of his royal bounty, [[A.V.]]</n> by the hand of king Solomon: and she returned, and came into her own land, she and her servants.


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And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold.


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Besides the tributes of them that were subjects, both merchants and all the kings of the <i>country</i> beyond <i>the river</i>, and of the princess of the land.


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And Solomon made three hundred spears of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold were upon one spear.


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And three hundred <n>[[Gr. ]] arms. </n> shields of beaten gold: and three pounds of gold were in one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.


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The throne <i>had</i> six steps, and calves in bold relief to the throne behind it, and side-pieces on either hand of the place of the seat, and two lions standing by the side-pieces,


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and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on either side: it was not so done in any <i>other</i> kingdom.


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And all the vessels made by Solomon <i>were</i> of gold, and the lavers <i>were</i> golden, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of <n>[[Lit. ]] 'shut up with gold,' a frequent phrase in <i>Heb. and </i>[[Gr. ]] for 'pure gold.' See chap. 6. 20. </n> pure gold; there was no silver, for it was not accounted of in the days of Solomon.


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For Solomon had a ship of Tharsis in the sea with the ships of Chiram: one ship came to the king every three years out of Tharsis, <i>laden with</i> gold and silver, and <n>[[Gr. ]] turned. </n> wrought stones, and hewn stones. <pb/>This was the arrangement of the <n>This word more commonly means 'spoil' in the O.T. </n> provision which king Solomon fetched to build the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, and the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; to fortify the city of David, and Assur, and Magdal, and Gazer, and Baethoron the upper, and Jethermath, and all the cities of the chariots, and all the cities of the horsemen, and the <n>[[Gr. ]] work. </n> fortification of Solomon which he purposed to build in Jerusalem and in all the land, so that none of the people should rule over him that was left of the Chettite and the Amorite, and the Pherezite, and the Chananite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite, who were not of the children of Israel, their descendants who had been left with him in the land, whom the children of Israel could not utterly destroy; and Solomon <n>[[Gr. ]] reduced them to tribute. </n> made them tributaries until this day. But of the children of Israel Solomon made nothing; for they were the warriors, and his servants and rulers, and captains of the third order, and the captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.


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And all the kings of the earth sought the <n>[[Gr. ]] face. </n> presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which the Lord <i>had</i> put into his heart.


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And they brought every one their gifts, vessels of gold, and raiment, and stacte, and spices, and horses, and mules, a rate year by year.


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And Solomon had four thousand mares for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he put them in the cities of his chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem: and he ruled over all the kings from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.


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And the king <n>[[Gr. ]] gave. </n> made gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores in the plain for multitude.


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And the goings forth of Solomon's horsemen <i>was</i> also out of Egypt, and the king's merchants <i>were</i> of Thecue; and they received them out of Thecue at a price.


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And that which proceeded out of Egypt went up <i>thus, even</i> a chariot for a hundred <i>shekels</i> of silver, and a horse for fifty <i>shekels</i> of silver: and thus for all the kings of the Chettians, and the kings of Syria, they came out by sea.<pb/>


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<n>This verse, or part verse is not numbered in Brenton's text. Verse 1 is in the position below, following verse 3. </n> And king Solomon was a lover of women. <n>Note that the verses between this point and the beginning of verse 9 are in the order chosen by Brenton, and are marked thus: 1) etc. as they are numbered by Brenton. </n> <pb/>\vp 3) \vp* And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. <pb/>\vp 1) \vp* And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharao, Moabitish, Ammanitish women, Syrians and Idumeans, Chettites, and Amorites;


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And it came to pass in the time of the old age of Solomon, that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as <i>was</i> the heart of David his father. <pb/>\vp 3 \vp* And the strange women turned away his heart after their gods. \vp 7 \vp* Then Solomon built a high place to Chamos the idol of Moab, and to their king the <n>See <i>Heb. </i></n> idol of the children of Ammon,<pb/>


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And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because he turned away his heart from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared twice to him,


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and charged him concerning this matter, by no means to go after other gods, but to take heed to do what the Lord God commanded him; neither was his heart perfect with the Lord, according to the heart of David his father.


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And the Lord said to Solomon, Because it has been thus with you, and you have not kept my commandments and my ordinances which I commanded you, I will surely rend your kingdom out of your hand, and give it to your servant.


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Only in your days I will not do <n>[[Gr. ]] them. </n> it for David your father's sake: <i>but</i> I will take it out of the hand of your son.


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Only I will not take away the whole kingdom: I will give one tribe to your son for David my servant's sake, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen.


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And the Lord raised up an enemy to Solomon, Ader the Idumaean, and Esrom son of Eliadae who <i>lived</i> in Raama, <i>and</i> Adadezer king of Suba his master; (and men gathered to him, and he was head of the conspiracy, and he seized on Damasec,) and they were adversaries to Israel all the days of Solomon: and Ader the Idumaean <i>was</i> of the seed royal in Idumaea.


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And it happened, that while David was utterly destroying Edom, while Joab captain of the host was going to bury the dead, when they killed every male in Idumaea;


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that Ader ran away, he and all the Idumaeans of the servants of his father with him; and they went into Egypt; and Ader <i>was then</i> a little child.


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And there rose up men out of the city of Madiam, and they came to Pharan, and took men with them, and came to Pharao king of Egypt: and Ader went in to Pharao, and he gave him a house, and appointed him provision.


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And Ader found great favour in the sight of Pharao, and he gave him his wife's sister in marriage, the elder sister of Thekemina.


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And the sister of Thekemina bore to him, <i>even</i> to Ader, Ganebath her son; and Thekemina brought him up in the midst of the sons of Pharao, and Ganebath was in the midst of the sons of Pharao.


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And Ader heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead; and Ader said to Pharao, Let me go, and I will return to my country.


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And Pharao said to Ader, <n>[[Gr. ]] wherein are you lacking?. </n> What lack you with me? that behold! you seek to depart to your country? and Ader said to him, By all means let me go.


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And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the Ephrathite of Sarira, the son of a widow, <i>was</i> servant of Solomon.


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And this <i>was</i> the occasion <n>[[Gr. ]] of his lifting. </n> of his lifting up <i>his</i> hands against king Solomon: now king Solomon built the citadel, he completed the fortification of the city of David his father.


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And the man Jeroboam was very strong; and Solomon saw the young man that he was <n>[[Gr. ]] a man of works. </n> active, and he set him over the levies of the house of Joseph.


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And it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went forth from Jerusalem, and Achia the Selonite the prophet found him in the way, and caused him to turn aside out of the way: and Achia was clad with a new garment, and they <n>[[Gr. ]] both. </n> two <i>were</i> alone in the field.


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and he said to Jeroboam, Take to yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten <n>[[Gr. ]] sceptres. See <i>Heb. </i></n> tribes.


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Yet he shall have two tribes, for my servant David's sake, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.


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Because he forsook me, and sacrificed to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, and to the idols of Moab, and to <n>[[Or, ]] Moloch, [[or ]] Milcom. </n> their king the <n>[[Or, ]] provocation. </n> abomination of the children of Ammon, and he walked not in my ways, to do that which was right before me, as David his father <i>did</i>.


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Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, (for I will certainly resist him all the days of his life,) for David my servant's sake, whom I have chosen.


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But to his son I will give the two <i>remaining</i> tribes, that my servant David may have an establishment continually before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.


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And I will take you, and you shall reign <n>[[Gr. ]] in all, [[or ]] amongst all which, etc. </n> as your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.


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And Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam: but he arose and fled into Egypt, to Susakim king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until Solomon died.


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And the rest of the <n>[[Gr. ]] words. </n> history of Solomon, and all that he did, and all his wisdom, behold are not these things written in the book of the <n>[[Gr. ]] words [[or ]] things. </n> life of Solomon?


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And the days <i>during</i> which Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel <i>were</i> forty years.


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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And it came to pass when Jeroboam son of Nabat heard <i>of it</i>, even while he was yet in Egypt as he fled from the face of Solomon and lived in Egypt, he straightway came into his own city, into the land of Sarira in the mount of Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers, and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.<pb/>


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And the king referred <i>the matter</i> to the elders, who stood before Solomon his father while he was yet living, saying, How do you° advise <n>[[Gr. ]] and I should answer a word, etc. </n> that I should answer this people?


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And they spoke to him, saying, If you will this day be a servant to this people, and will serve them, and will speak to them good words, then will they be your servants continually.


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But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they gave him, and consulted with the young men who were brought up with him, who stood in his presence.


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And he said to them, What counsel do you° give? And what shall I answer to this people who speak to me, saying, Lighten somewhat of the yoke which your father has put upon us?


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And the young men who had been brought up with him, who stood before his face, spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you say to this people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and do you now lighten it from off us: thus shall say to them, My <n>[[Gr. ]] littleness. </n> little <i>finger shall be</i> thicker than my father's loins.


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And all Israel came to king Roboam on the third day, as the king spoke to them, saying, Return to me on the third day.


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And the king answered the people harshly; and Roboam forsook the counsel of the old men which they counselled him.


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And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.


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And the king listened not to the people, because the change was from the Lord, that he might establish his word which he spoke <n>[[Gr. ]] by the hand of. </n> by Achia the Selonite concerning Jeroboam the son of Nabat.


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And the king sent Adoniram who was over the tribute; and they stoned him with stones, and he died: and king Roboam <n>[[Gr. ]] prevented. </n> made haste to rise to flee to Jerusalem.


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And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned out of Egypt, that they sent and called him to the assembly, and they made him king over Israel: and none followed the house of David except the tribe of Juda and Benjamin only.


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And Roboam went into Jerusalem, and he assembled the congregation of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and twenty thousand young men, warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to recover the kingdom to Roboam the son of Solomon.


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Thus says the Lord, You° shall not go up, neither shall you° fight with your brethren the sons of Israel: return each man to his own home; for this thing is from me; and they listened to the word of the Lord, and they ceased from going up, according to the word of the Lord. <pb/>So king Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Roboam his son reigned in his stead in Jerusalem, being sixteen years old <n>[[Gr. ]] in his reigning. </n> when he began to reign, and he reigned twelve years inJerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Naanan, daughter of Ana son of Naas king of the children of Ammon. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked not in the way of David his father. <pb/>And there was a man of mount Ephraim, a servant to Solomon, and his name was Jeroboam: and the name of his mother was Sarira, a harlot: and Solomon made him head of the levies of the house of Joseph: and he built for Solomon Sarira in mount Ephraim; and he had three hundred chariots of horses: he built the citadel with the levies of the house of Ephraim; he fortified the city of David, and aspired to the kingdom, And Solomon sought to kill him; and he was afraid, and escaped to Susakim king of Egypt, and was with him until Solomon died. <pb/>And Jeroboam heard in Egypt that Solomon was dead: and he spoke in the ears of Susakim king of Egypt, saying, Let me go, and I will depart into my land: and Susakim said to him, Ask and request, and I will grant it you. And Susakim gave to Jeroboam Ano the oldest sister of Thekemina his wife: she was great amongst the daughters of the king, and she bore to Jerobaom Abia his son: and Jeroboam said to Susakim, Let me indeed go, and I will depart. <pb/>And Jeroboam departed out of Egypt, and came into the land of Saria that was in mount Ephraim, and there the whole in mount Ephraim, and there the whole tribe of Ephraim assembled, and Jeroboam built a fortress there. <pb/>And his young child was sick with a very severe sickness; and Jeroboam went to enquire concerning the child: and he said to Ano his wife, Arise, go, enquire of God concerning the child, whether he shall <n>[[Gr. ]] live. </n> recover from his sickness. Now there was a man in Selom, and his name <i>was</i> Achia: and he was sixty years old, and the word of the Lord was with him. And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, and take in your hand loaves for the man of God, and cakes for his children, and grapes, and a pot of honey. And the woman arose, and took in her hand bread, and two cakes, and grapes, and a pot of honey, for Achia: and the man <i>was</i> old, and his <n>[[Gr. ]] were blunted from seeing. </n> eyes were dim, so that he could not see. And she arose, up from Sarira and went; and it came to pass when she had come into the city to Achia the Selonite, that Achia said to his servant, Go out now to meet Ano the wife of Jeroboam, and you shall say to her, Come in, and stand not <i>still</i>: for thus says the Lord, I send grievous tidings to you. And Ano went in to the man of God; and Achia said to her, Why have you brought me bread and grapes, and cakes, and a pot of honey? Thus says the Lord, Behold, you shall depart from me, and it shall come to pass when you have entered into the city, <i>even</i> into Sarira, that your maidens shall come out to meet you, and shall say to you, The child is dead: for thus says the Lord, Behold, I will destroy every male of Jeroboam, and there shall be the dead of Jeroboam in the city, <i>them</i> the dogs shall eat, and him that eat, and he shall lament for the child, saying, <i>Woe is me</i>, Lord! For there has been found in him some good thing touching the Lord. <pb/>And the woman departed, when she heard this: and it came to pass as she entered into Sarira, that the child died; and there came forth a wailing to meet <i>her</i>. And Jeroboam went to Sikima in mount Ephraim, and assembled there the tribes of Israel; and Roboam the son of Solomon went up there. And the word of the Lord came to Samaias son of Enlami, saying, Take to yourself a new garment which has not gone into the water, and rend it into twelve pieces; and you shall give some to Jeroboam, and shall say to him, thus says the Lord, Take to yourself ten pieces to cover you: and Jeroboam took <i>them</i>: and Samaias said, Thus says the Lord concerning the ten tribes of Israel. <pb/>And the people said to Roboam the son of Solomon, Your father make his yoke heavy upon us, and made the meat of his table heavy; and now you shall lighten them upon us, and we will serve you. And Roboam said to the people, Wait three days, and I will return you an answer: and Roboam said, Bring in to me the elders, and I will take counsel with them what I shall answer to the people on the third day, So Roboam spoke in their ears, as the people sent to him to <i>say</i>: and the elders of the people said, Thus the people have spoken to you. <pb/>And Roboam <n>[[Gr. ]] dispersed. </n> rejected their counsel, and it pleased him not: and he sent and brought in those who had been brought up with him; and he said to them, Thus and thus has the people sent to me to say: and they that had been brought up with him said, Thus shall you speak to the people saying, My <n>[[Gr. ]] littleness. </n> little <i>finger</i> shall be thicker than my father's loins; my father scourged you with whips, but I will rule you with scorpions. <pb/>And the saying pleased Roboam, and he answered the people as the young men, they that were brought up with him, counselled him: and all the people spoke as one man, every one to his neighbour, and they cried out all together, saying, We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jessae: to they tents, O Israel, every one; for this man is not for a prince or a ruler over us. And all the people was dispersed from Sikima, and they departed every one to his tent: and Roboam strengthened him self and departed, and mounted his chariot, and entered into Jerusalem: and there follow him the whole tribe of Juda, and the whole tribe of Benjamin. And it came to pass at the beginning of the year, that Roboam gathered all the men of Juda and Benjamin, and went up to fight with Jeroboam at Sikima. And the word of the Lord came to Sameas the man of God, saying, Speak to Roboam king of Juda, and to all the house of Juda and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, Thus says the Lord, You° shall not go up, neither shall you° fight with your brethren the sons of Israel: return every man to his house, for this thing is from me. And they listened to the word of the Lord, and forbore to go up, according to the word of the Lord.


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And Jeroboam built Sikima in mount Ephraim and lived in it, and went forth thence and built Phanuel.


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If this people shall go up to offer sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of the people will return to the Lord, and to their master, to Roboam king of Juda, and they will kill me.


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And the king took counsel, and went, and made two golden heifers, and said to the people, Let it suffice you <n>[[Gr. ]] to go. </n> to have gone <i>hitherto</i> to Jerusalem: behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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And this thing became a sin; and the people went before one as far as Dan, and left the house of the Lord.


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And he made houses on the high places, and made priests of any part of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.


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And Jeroboam appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast in the land of Juda;


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and went up to the altar which he made in Baethel to sacrifice to the heifers which he made, and he placed in Baethel the priests of the high places which he had made. And he went up to the altar which he had made, on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, at the feast which he devised out of his own heart; and he made a feast to the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to sacrifice.<pb/>


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And behold, there came a man of God out of Juda by the word of the Lord to Baethel, and Jeroboam stood at the altar to sacrifice.


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And he cried against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus says the Lord, Behold, a son is <i>to be</i> born to the house of David, <n>[[Gr. ]] Josias the name to him. </n> Josias by name; and he shall offer upon you the priests of the high places, <i>even</i> of them that sacrifice upon you, and <i>he</i> shall burn men's bones upon you.


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And in that day one shall give a sign, saying, This <i>is</i> the word which the Lord has spoken, saying, Behold, the altar is torn, and the fatness upon it shall be poured out.


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And it came to pass when king Jeroboam heard the words of the man of God who called on the altar that was in Baethel, that the king stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying, Take hold of him. And, behold, his hand, which he stretched forth against him, withered, and he could not draw it back to himself.


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And the altar was tore, and the fatness was poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God gave by the word of the Lord.


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And king Jeroboam said to the man of God, Intreat the Lord your God, and let my hand <n>[[Gr. ]] return to me. </n> be restored to me. And the man of God entreated the Lord, and he restored the king's hand to him, and it became as before.


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And the king said to the man of God, Enter with me into the house, and dine, and I will give you a gift.


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And the man of God said to the king, If you should give me the half of your house, I <n>[[Gr. ]] will not. </n> would not go in with you, neither will I eat bread, neither will I drink water in this place; for thus the Lord charged me by <i>his</i> word, saying,


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And there lived an old prophet in Baethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God did on that day in Baethel, and the words which he spoke to the king: and <n>Wide variation from the Hebrew. </n> they turned the face of their father.


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And their father spoke to them, saying, Which way went he? and his sons show him the way by which the man of God who came out of Juda went up.


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and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said to him, Are you the man of God that came out of Juda? And he said to him, I <i>am</i>.


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And he said, I shall not by any means be able to return with you, neither will I eat bread, neither will I drink water in this place.


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For thus the Lord commanded me by word, saying, Eat not bread there, and drink not water, and return not there by the way by which you came.


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And he said to him, I also am a prophet as you <i>are</i>; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back to you into your house, and let him eat bread and drink water: but he lied to him.


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And it came to pass while they were sitting at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back;


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and he spoke to the man of God that came out of Juda, saying, Thus says the Lord, Because you have <n>[[Gr. ]] embittered. </n> resisted the word of the Lord, and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you,


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but have returned, and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he spoke to you, saying, You shall not eat bread, and shall not drink water; <i>therefore</i> your body shall in nowise enter into the sepulchre of your fathers.


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And it came to pass after he had eaten bread and drunk water, that he saddled the ass for him, and he turned and departed.


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And a lion found him in the way, and killed him; and his body was cast out in the way, and the ass was standing by it, and the lion <i>also</i> was standing by the body.


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And, behold, men <i>were</i> passing by, and saw the carcass cast in the way, and the lion was standing near the carcase: and they went in and spoke <i>of it</i> in the city where the old prophet lived.


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And <i>the prophet</i> that turned him back out of the way heard, and said, This is the man of God who rebelled against the word of the Lord. <n>[[Vat. ]] has no verse 27. [[Alex. ]] reads as follows. </n>


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And he went and found the body cast in the way, and the ass and the lion were standing by the body: and the lion had not devoured the body of the man of God, and had not torn the ass.


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And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on his ass; and the prophet brought him back to his city, to bury him in his own tomb,


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And it came to pass after he had lamented him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, <n>[[Gr. ]] if I die. </n> Whenever I die, bury me in this tomb wherein the man of God is buried; lay me by his bones, that my bones may be preserved with his bones.


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For the word will surely come to pass which he spoke by the word of the Lord against the altar in Baethel, and against the high houses in Samaria.


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And after <n>[[Gr. ]] this word. </n> this Jeroboam turned not from his sin, but he turned and made of part of the people priests of the <i>high places</i>: whoever would, he consecrated him, and he became a priest for the high places.


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And this <n>[[Gr. ]] word. </n> thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to its destruction and its removal from the face of the earth.<pb/>


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<n>Brenton's footnote here says 'The first 20 verses of this chapter are supplied by the [[Alex.' ]] He does not, however include the text of these verses in the appendix, but simply points out the fact in the footnote above at v. 1, that the substance of the verses is found in the Vatican copy after [[v. ]] 24 [[chap. ]] 12. </n> And Roboam son of Solomon ruled over Juda. Roboam <n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 41 years in his reigning. </n> was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the tribes of Israel: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Naama the Ammonitess.


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And Roboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he provoked him in all the things which their fathers did in their sins which they sinned.


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And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and <i>planted</i> groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.


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And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did <n>[[Gr. ]] of. </n> according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed <n>[[Gr. ]] from the face of. </n> from before the children of Israel.


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And it came to pass in the fifth year <n>[[Gr. ]] of Roboam reigning. </n> of the reign of Roboam, Susakim king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;


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and took all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and the golden spears which David took out of the hand of the sons of Adrazaar king of Suba, and brought them into Jerusalem, even all that he took, <i>and</i> the <n>[[Gr. ]] arms. </n> golden shields which Solomon had made, <n>the remainder of this verse (here shown in italics) is not in <i>Heb. or </i>[[Alex. ]]</n> <i>and carried them away into Egypt.</i>


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And king Roboam made brazen shields instead of them; and the chiefs of the golden shields which Solomon had made, and the chiefs of the <n>[[Gr. ]] runners by the side of. </n> body guard, who kept the gate of the house of the king, were placed in charge over them.


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And it came to pass when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the body guard took them up, and fixed them in the <n>The <i>Heb. חא is retained in the </i>[[Gr. ]]</n> chamber of the body guard.


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And the rest of the <n>[[Gr. ]] words. </n> history of Roboam, and all that he did, behold, are they not written in the book of the chronicles <n>[[Gr. ]] to [[or ]] for. </n> of the kings of Juda?


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And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Abiu his son reigned in his stead.<pb/>


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And in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nabat, Abiu son of Roboam reigns over Juda.


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And he reigned <n>[[Alex. ]] 16 years. </n> three years over Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Maacha, daughter of Abessalom.


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And he walked in the sins of his father which he wrought in his presence, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as <i>was</i> the heart of his father <i>David</i>.


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Howbeit for David's sake the Lord gave him a remnant, that he might establish his children after him, and might establish Jerusalem.


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And the rest of the <n>[[Gr. ]] words. </n> history of Abiu, and all that he did, behold, are not these written in the <n>[[Lit. ]] the words of the days. </n> book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? And there was war between Abiu and Jeroboam.


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And Abiu slept with his fathers in the twenty-fourth year of Jeroboam; and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David: And Asa his son reigned in his stead.


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And he reigned forty-one <n>[[Gr. ]] year. [[Hebraism.]]</n> years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Ana, daughter of Abessalom.


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And he removed the <n>[[Lit. ]] sacrifices. </n> sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers <n>[[Gr. ]] did, [[or ]] wrought. </n> had kept up.


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And he removed Ana his mother from being queen, forasmuch as she <n>[[Gr. ]] made. </n> gathered a meeting in her grove: and Asa cut down her retreats, and burnt them with fire in the brook of Kedron.


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But he removed not the high places; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days.


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And he brought in the pillars of his father, he even brought in his gold and silver pillars into the house of the Lord, and <i>his</i> vessels.


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And Baasa king of Israel went up against Juda, and built Rama, so that no one should go out or come in for Asa king of Juda.


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And Asa took all the silver and the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house, and gave them into the hands of his servants; and king Asa sent them out to the son of Ader, the son of Taberema son of Azin king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,


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Make a covenant between me and you, and between my father and your father: behold! I have sent forth to you gold and silver <i>for</i> gifts: come, break your league with Baasa king of Israel, <n>[[Gr. ]] and he shall. </n> that he may go up from me.


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And the son of Ader listened to king Asa, and sent the chiefs of his forces to the cities of Israel; and they struck Ain, Dan, and Abel of the house of Maacha, and all Chennereth, as far as the whole land of Nephthali.


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And king Asa charged all Juda without exception: and they take up the stones of Rama and its timbers <i>with</i> which Baasa was building; and king Asa built with them upon the <n><i>Heb. Geba and Mizpeh. </i></n> whole hill of Benjamin, and the watch-tower.


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And the rest of the history of Asa, and all his <n>[[Gr. ]] might. </n> mighty deeds which he wrought, and the cities which he built, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles <n>[[Gr. ]] for. </n> of the kings of Juda? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.


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And Asa slept with his fathers, and <n>[[Gr. ]] is. </n> was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Josaphat his son reigns in his stead.


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And Nabat son of Jeroboam reigns over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Juda, and he reigned two years in Israel.


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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sins wherein he caused Israel to sin.


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And Baasa son of Achia, <i>who was</i> over the house of Belaan son of Achia, conspired against him, and struck him in Gabathon of the Philistines; for Nabat and all Israel were besieging Gabathon.


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And it came to pass when he reigned, that he struck the whole house of Jeroboam, and left <n>[[Gr. ]] no breath. </n> none that breathed of Jeroboam, until he has destroyed him utterly, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by his servant Achia the Selonite,


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And the rest of the history of Nabat, and all that he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles <n>[[Gr. ]] for. </n> of the kings of Israel? <n>Verse 32 is not in [[Vat., ]] it is here read from [[Alex.]]</n>


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And in the third year of Asa king of Juda, Baasa the son of Achia began to reign over Israel in Thersa, twenty and four years.


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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and in his sins, as he caused Israel to sin.<pb/>


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Forasmuch as I lifted you up from the earth, and made you ruler over my people Israel; and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have caused my people Israel to sin, to provoke me with their vanities;


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Behold, I raise up <i>enemies</i> after Baasa, and after his house; and I will <n>[[Gr. ]] give. </n> make your house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nabat.


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Now the rest of the history of Baasa, and all that he did, and his mighty acts, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


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And Baasa slept with his fathers, and <n>[[Gr. ]] he is buried. </n> they buried him in Thersa; and Ela his son reigned in his stead.


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And the Lord spoke by <n>[[Gr. ]] the hand of Ju. </n> Ju the son of Anani against Baasa, and against his house, <i>even</i> all the evil which he wrought before the Lord to provoke him to anger by the works of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he struck him.


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And Zambri, captain of half his cavalry, conspired against him, while he was in Thersa, drinking himself drunk in the house of Osa the steward at Thersa.


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that he struck all the house of Baasa, according to the word which the Lord spoke against the house of Baasa, and to Ju the prophet,


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for all the sins of Baasa and Ela his son, as he led Israel astray to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel with their vanities.


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And the rest of the <n>[[Gr. ]] words. </n> deeds of Ela which he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


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And Zambri reigned in Thersa seven days: and the army of Israel <i>was</i> encamped against Gabathon of the Philistines.


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And the people heard in the <n>[[Or. ]] camp. </n> army, saying, Zambri has conspired and struck the king: and the people <n>[[Gr. ]] in Israel. </n> of Israel made Ambri the captain of the host king in that day in the camp over Israel.


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And it came to pass when Zambri saw that his city was <n>[[Or, ]] surprised. </n> taken, that he went into the <n>[[Gr. ]] the cave of the house. </n> inner chamber of the house of the king, and burnt the king's house over him, and died.


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Because of his sins which he committed, doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, so as to walk in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and in his sins wherein he caused Israel to sin.


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The people that followed Ambri overpowered the people that <n>[[Gr. ]] was after. </n> followed Thamni son of Gonath; and Thamni died and Joram his brother at that time, and Ambri reigned after Thamni.


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And Ambri bought the mount Semeron of Semer the lord of the mountain for two talents of silver; and he built <i>upon</i> the mountain, and they called the name of the mountain <i>on</i> which he built, after the name of Semer the lord of the mount, Semeron.


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And Ambri did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and wrought wickedly beyond all that were before him.


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And Ambri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Achaab his son reigned in his stead. <pb/>And in the eleventh <n>The word ἔτει is redundant. </n> year of Ambri Josaphat the son of Asa reigned, <i>being</i> thirty-five years old <n>[[Gr. ]] in his kingdom. </n> in the beginning of his reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Gazuba, daughter of Seli. And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not from it, <i>even</i> from doing right in the eyes of the Lord: only they removed not <i>any</i> of the high places; they sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. Now the engagements which Josaphat made with the king of Israel, and all his <n>[[Gr. ]] might. </n> mighty deeds which he performed, and the enemies whom he fought against, behold, <i>are</i> not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? and the remains of the prostitution <n>See 1 Kings 22. 46-50. [[A.V.]]</n> which they practised in the days of Asa his father, he removed out of the land: and there was no king in Syria, <i>but</i> <n><i>Heb. כצב praefectus. </i></n> a deputy. <pb/>And king Josaphat made a ship <n>[[Or, ]] for. </n> at Tharsis to go to Sophir for gold: but it went not, for the ship was broken at Gasion Gaber. Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat, <n>[[Or, ]] let me. </n> I will send forth your servants and my servants in the ship: but Josaphat would not. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.


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And it was not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, but he took as wife, Jezabel the daughter of Jethebaal king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal, and worshipped him.


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And in his days Achiel the Baethelite built Jericho: he laid the foundation of it in Abiron his firstborn, and he set up the doors of it in Segub his younger son, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by Joshua the son of Naue.<pb/>


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And Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad, said to Achaab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, <n>[[Gr. ]] if there shall be, etc. </n> there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the <n>[[Gr. ]] mouth of my word. </n> word of my mouth.


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And he arose and went to Sarepta, and came to the gate of the city: and, behold, a widow-woman was there gathering sticks; and Eliu cried after her, and said to her, <n>[[Gr. ]] take etc. into. </n> Fetch me, I pray you, a little water in a vessel, <n>[[Gr. ]] and I will etc. </n> that I may drink.


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And Eliu said to the woman, Give me your son. And he took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he himself lodged, and <n>[[Gr. ]] caused him to sleep. </n> laid him on the bed.


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And Eliu cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, you have wrought evil <i>for her</i> in slaying her son.


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And he breathed on the child thrice, and called on the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, let, I pray you, the soul of this child return to him.


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and he brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; and Eliu said, See, your son lives.


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And the woman said to Eliu, Behold, I know that you <i>are</i> a man of God, and the word of the Lord in your mouth <i>is</i> true.<pb/>


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And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Eliu in the third year, saying, Go, and appear before Achaab, and I will bring rain upon the face of the earth.


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And it came to pass when Jezabel struck the prophets of the Lord, that Abdiu took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.


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And Achaab said to Abdiu, Come, and let us go through the land, and to the fountains of water, and to the brooks, if by any means we may find grass, and may save the horses and mules, and so they will not perish from the tents.


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And they made a division of the way between them to pass through it: Achaab went one way, and Abdiu went by another way alone.


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And Abdiu was alone in the way; and Eliu came alone to meet him: and Abdiu hasted, and fell upon his face, and said, My lord Eliu, <n>[[Gr. ]] if you are, etc. </n> are you <i>indeed</i> he?


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And Abdiu said, What sin have I committed, that you give your servant into the hand of Achaab to kill me?


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<i>As</i> the Lord your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom, whither my lord has not sent to seek you; and if they said, He is not <i>here</i>, then has he set fire to the kingdom and its territories, because he has not found you.


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And it shall come to pass when I shall have departed from you, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry you to a land which I know not, and I shall go in to tell the matter to Achaab, and he will not find you and will kill me: yet your servant fears the Lord from his youth.


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Has it not been told to you my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?


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And Eliu said, <i>As</i> the Lord of Hosts before whom I stand lives, today I will appear before him.


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And Abdiu went to meet Achaab, and told him: and Achaab <n>[[Gr. ]] ran forth. </n> hasted forth, and went to meet Eliu.


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And it came to pass when Achaab saw Eliu, that Achaab said to Eliu, Are you he that perverts Israel?


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And Eliu said, I do not pervert Israel; but it is you and your father's house, in that you° forsake the Lord your God, and you have gone after Baalim.


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And now send, gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of <n><i>Heb. Baal. See Jer. 11. 13. Hos. 9. 10. </i></n> shame four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, that eat <i>at</i> Jezabel's table.


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And Eliu drew near to them all: and Eliu said to them, How long will you° halt on both <n>[[Gr. ]] the hams, from γόνν, the knee. </n> feet? if the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, follow him. And the people answered not a word.


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And Eliu said to the people, I am left, the <n>[[Or, ]] quite alone. </n> only one prophet of the Lord; and the prophets of Baal <i>are</i> four hundred and fifty men, and the prophets of the groves four hundred.


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Let them give us two oxen, and let them choose one for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire <i>on</i> the wood: and I will dress the other bullock, and put on no fire.


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And do you° call loudly on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord my God, and it shall come to pass that the God who shall answer by fire, he <i>is</i> God. And all the people answered and said, The word which you have spoken <i>is</i> good.


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And Eliu said to the prophets of shame, Choose to yourselves one calf, and dress it first, for you° <i>are</i> many; and call you° on the name of your god; but apply no fire.


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And they took the calf and dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning till noon, and said, hear us, O Baal, hear us. And there was no voice, neither was there hearing, and they ran up and down on the altar which they <i>had</i> made.


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And it was noon, and Eliu the Thesbite mocked them, and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is meditating, or else perhaps he is <n>[[Or, ]] preparing an answer. </n> engaged in business, or perhaps he is asleep, and <n>[[Gr. ]] will awake or arise. </n> is to be awaked.


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And they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves according to their custom with knives and lancets until the <n>[[Gr. ]] shedding of blood upon them. </n> blood gushed out upon them.


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And they prophesied until the evening came; and it came to pass as it was the time of the <n>[[Gr. ]] the sacrifice going up. </n> offering of the sacrifice, that Eliu the Thesbite spoke to the prophets of the abominations, saying, Stand by for the present, and I will offer my sacrifice. And they stood aside and departed.


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And Eliu took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of Israel, as the Lord spoke to him, saying, Israel shall be your name.


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And he built up the stones in the name of the Lord, and <n>[[Gr. ]] healed. </n> repaired the altar that had been broken down; and he made a <n>[[Gr. ]] sea. </n> trench that would hold two measures of seed round about the altar.


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And he piled the cleft wood on the altar which he <i>had</i> made, and divided the whole burnt offering, and laid <i>it</i> on the wood, and laid <i>it</i> in order on the altar, and said, Fetch me four pitchers of water, and pour <i>it</i> on the whole burnt offering, and on the wood. And they did so.


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And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.


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And Eliu cried aloud to the heaven, and said, Lord God of Abraam, and Isaac, and Israel, answer me, O Lord, <n>[[Or, ]] listen to me. </n> answer me this day by fire, and let all this people know that you are the Lord, the God of Israel, and I <i>am</i> your servant, and for your sake I have wrought these works.


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Hear me, O Lord, hear me, and let this people know that you are the Lord God, and you have turned back the heart of this people.


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Then fire fell from the Lord out of heaven, and devoured the whole burnt offerings, and the wood and the water that was in the trench, and the fire licked up the stones and the earth.


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And Eliu said to the people, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Eliu brought them down to the brook Kisson, and he killed them there.


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And Eliu said to Achaab, Go up, and eat and drink, for <i>there is</i> a sound of the <n>[[Gr. ]] feet of rain. </n> coming of rain.


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And Achaab went up to eat and to drink; and Eliu went up to Carmel, and stooped to the ground, and put his face between his knees,


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and said to his servant, Go up, and look towards the sea. And the servant looked, and said, There is nothing: and Eliu said, Do you then go again seven times.


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And the servant went again seven times: and it came to pass at the seventh time, that, behold, a little cloud like the sole of a man's foot <n>[[Gr. ]] bringing. </n> brought water; and he said, Go up, and say to Achaab, make ready your chariot, and go down, lest the rain overtake you.


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And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Achaab wept, and went to Jezrael.


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And the hand of the Lord <i>was</i> upon Eliu, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Achaab to Jezrael.<pb/>


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And Achaab told Jezabel his wife all that Eliu <i>had</i> done, and how he <i>had</i> slain the prophets with the sword.


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And Jezabel sent to Eliu, and said, If you are Eliu and I am Jezabel, God <n>[[Lit. ]] do these things to me, and add these things. </n> do so to me, and more also, if I do not make your life by this time to-morrow as the life of one of them.


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And Eliu feared, and rose, and departed for his life: and he comes to Bersabee <i>to</i> the land of Juda, and he left his servant there.


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And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray you, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.


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And he lay down and slept there under a tree; and behold, some one touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.


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And Eliu looked, and, behold, at his head there was a cake of meal and a cruse of water; and he arose, and ate and drank, and returned and lay down.


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And the angel of the Lord returned again, and touched him, and said to him, Arise, and eat, for the journey <i>is</i> far from you.


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And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to mount Choreb.


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And he entered there into a cave, and rested there; and, behold, the word of the Lord <i>came</i> to him, and he said, What <i>do</i> you here, Eliu?


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And Eliu said,  I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken you: they have digged down your altars, and have slain your prophets with the sword; and I only am left alone, and they seek my life to take it.


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And he said, You shall go forth to-morrow, and shall stand before the Lord in the mount; behold, the Lord will pass by. And, behold, a great <i>and</i> strong wind rending the mountains, and crushing the rocks before the Lord; <i>but</i> the Lord <i>was</i> not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; <i>but</i> the Lord <i>was</i> not in the earthquake:


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and after the earthquake a fire; <i>but</i> the Lord <i>was</i> not in the fire: and after the fire the voice of a gentle breeze.


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And it came to pass when Eliu heard, that he wrapt his face in his mantle, and went forth and stood in the cave: and, behold, a voice <i>came</i> to him and said, What <i>do</i> you here, Eliu?


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And Eliu said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, and they have overthrown your altars, and have slain your prophets with the sword! and I am left entirely alone, and they seek my life to take it.


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And the Lord said to him, Go, return, and you shall come into the way of the wilderness of Damascus: and you shall go and anoint Azael to be king over Syria.


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And Ju the son of Namessi shall you anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisaie the son of Saphat shall you anoint to be prophet in your room.


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And it shall come to pass, that him that escapes from the sword of Azael, Ju shall kill; and him that escapes from the sword of Ju, Elisaie shall kill.


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And you shall leave in Israel seven thousand men, all the knees which had not bowed <n>[[Gr. ]] the knee. </n> themselves to Baal, and every mouth which had not worshipped him.


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And he departed thence, and finds Elisaie the son of Saphat, and he was ploughing with oxen; <i>there were</i> twelve yoke before him, and he <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> with the twelve, and he <n>[[Gr. ]] departed. </n> passed by to him, and cast his mantle upon him.


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And Elisaie left the cattle, and ran after Eliu and said, I will kiss my father, and follow after you. And Eliu said, Return, for I have done <i>a work</i> for you.


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And he returned <n>[[Gr. ]] from behind him. </n> from following him, and took <n>[[Gr. ]] the yokes. </n> a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled them with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and he arose, and went after Eliu, and ministered to him.<pb/>


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And Achaab spoke to Nabuthai, saying, Give me your vineyard, and I will have it for a garden of herbs, for it <i>is</i> near my house: and I will give you another vineyard better than it; or if <n>[[Gr. ]] it is pleasing before you. </n> it please you, I will give you money, the price of this your vineyard, and I will have it for a garden of herbs.


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And the spirit of Achaab was troubled, and he lay down upon his bed, and covered his face, and ate no bread.


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And Jezabel his wife went in to him, and spoke to him, <i>saying</i>, Why <i>is</i> your spirit troubled, and <i>why</i> do you eat no bread?


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And he said to her, Because I spoke to Nabuthai the Jezraelite, saying, Give me your vineyard for money; or if you will, I will give you another vineyard for it: and he said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.


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And Jezabel his wife said to him, Do you now thus act the king over Israel? arise, and eat bread, and be <n>[[Or, ]] like yourself. </n> your own <i>master</i>, and I will give you the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite.


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And she wrote a <n>[[Gr. ]] book. </n> letter in the name of Achaab, and sealed it with his seal, and sent the letter to the elders, and to the <n>Possibly nobles is here meant. </n> freemen who lived with Nabuthai.


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And <n>[[Gr. ]] had been written. </n> it was written in the letters, saying, Keep a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place amongst the people.


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And set two men, sons of transgressors, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, He <n>See [[Prof. Lee ]] on the word ברך in Job 2. 9. [[Heb. Gram. p.92. ]]</n> blessed God and the king: and let them lead him forth, and stone him, and let them die.


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And the men of his city, the elders, and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezabel sent to them, and as it had been written in the letters which she sent to them.


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And they <n>[[Gr. ]] called. </n> proclaimed a fast, and set Nebuthai in a chief place amongst the people.


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And two men, sons of transgressors, came in, and sat opposite him, and bore witness against him, saying, You have blessed God and the king. And they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, and he died.


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And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard <i>it</i>, that she said to Achaab, Arise, <n>[[Gr. ]] inherit. </n> take possession of the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite, who <n>[[Gr. ]] sold it not. </n> would not sell it to you: for Nebuthai is not alive, for he is dead.


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And it came to pass, when Achaab heard that Nabuthai the Jezraelite was dead, that he tore his garments, and put on sackcloth. And it came to pass afterward, that Achaab arose and went down to the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite, <n>[[Gr. ]] to inherit it. </n> to take possession of it.


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Arise, and go down to meet Achaab king of Israel, who is in Samaria, for he <i>is</i> in the vineyard of Nabuthai, for he has gone down there to take possession of it.


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And you shall speak to him, saying, <n>[[Gr. ]] these things. </n> Thus says the Lord, Forasmuch as you have slain and taken possession, therefore thus says the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked the blood of Nabuthai, there shall the dogs lick your blood; and the harlots shall wash themselves in your blood.


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And Achaab said to Eliu, Hast you found me, my enemy? and he said, I have found <i>you</i>: because you have <n>[[Gr. ]] foolishly, [[or ]] in vain. </n> wickedly sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger;


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And I will <n>[[Gr. ]] give. </n> make your house as the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and as the house of Baasa son of Achia, because of the provocations wherewith you have provoked <i>me</i>, and caused Israel to sin.


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And the Lord spoke <n>[[Or, ]] to Jezabel. </n> of Jezabel, saying, The dogs shall devour her <n>[[Or, ]] by. </n> within the fortification of Jezrael.


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Him that is dead of Achaab in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that is dead of him in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.


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But Achaab <i>did</i> wickedly, <n>[[Gr. ]] who sold, etc. </n> in that he sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his wife Jezabel led him astray.


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And he did very abominably in following after the abominations, according to all that the Amorite did, whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.


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And because of the word, Achaab was pierced with sorrow <n>[[Gr. ]] the face, as it were, of the Lord. </n> before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and tore his garment, and girded sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he struck Nabuthai the Jezraelite, and went his way.


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And the son of Ader gathered all his forces, and went up and besieged Samaria, <i>he</i> and thirty-two kings with him, and all <i>his</i> horse and <n>[[Gr. ]] chariot. </n> chariots: and they went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.


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And the king of Israel answered and said, As you have said, my lord, O king, I am yours, and all mine <i>also</i>.


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And the messengers came again, and said, Thus says the son of Ader, I sent to you, saying, You shall give me your silver and your gold, and your wives and your children.


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For at this time to-morrow I will send my servants to you, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants, and it shall be that all the desirable objects of their eyes on which they shall lay their hands, they shall even take <i>them</i>.


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And the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Take notice now and consider, that this man seeks mischief: for he has sent to me concerning my wives, and concerning my sons, an concerning my daughters: I have not kept back from him my silver and my gold.


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And he said to the messengers of the son of Ader, Say to your master, All things that you have sent to your servant about at first I will do; but this thing I shall not be able to do. And the men departed, and carried back the answer to him.


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And the son of Ader sent to him, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for <n>The LXX. read שועליס for שעליס. </n> foxes to all the people, even my infantry.


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And the king of Israel answered and said, Let it be sufficient; let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright.


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And it came to pass when he returned him this answer, he and all the kings with him were drinking in tents: and he said to his servants, <n>[[Or, ]] build a mound or fortification. </n> Form a trench. And they made a trench against the city.


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And, behold, a prophet came to Achaab king of Israel, and said, Thus says the Lord, Hast you seen this great multitude? behold, I give it this day into your hands; and you shall know that I <i>am</i> the Lord.


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And Achaab said, Whereby? And he said, Thus says the Lord, by the young men of the heads of the districts. And Achaab said, Who shall <n>[[Gr. ]] engage in the war. </n> begin the battle? and he said, You.


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And Achaab <n>[[Or, ]] reviewed. </n> numbered the young men the heads of the districts, and they were two hundred and thirty: and afterwards he numbered the people, <i>even</i> every <n>[[Gr. ]] son of strength. </n> man fit for war, seven thousand.


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And he went forth at noon, an the son of Ader was drinking <i>and</i> getting drunk in Socchoth, he and the kings, <i>even</i> thirty and two kings, his allies.


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And the young men the heads of the districts went forth <n>[[Gr. ]] amongst the first. </n> first; and they sent and reported to the king of Syria, saying, There are men coming out of Samaria.


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struck each one the man next to him; and each one a second time struck the man next to him: and Syria fled, and Israel pursued them; and the son of Ader, <i>even</i> the king of Syria, escaped on the horse of a horseman.


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And the king of Israel went forth, and took all the horses and the chariots, and struck <i>the enemy</i> with a great slaughter in Syria.


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And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said, Strengthen yourself, and observe, and see what you shall do; for at the return of the year the son of Ader king of Syria comes up against you.


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And the servants of the king of Syria, even they said, The God of Israel <i>is</i> a God of mountains, and not a God of valleys; therefore has he prevailed against us: but if we should fight against them in the plain, verily we shall prevail against them.


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And we will <n>[[Gr. ]] change. </n> give you <i>another</i> army according to the army that was destroyed, and cavalry according to the cavalry, and chariots according to the chariots, and we will fight against them in the plain, and we shall prevail against them. And he listened to <n>[[Gr. ]] his. </n> their voice, and did so.


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And it came to pass at the return of the year, that the son of Ader reviewed Syria, and went up to Apheca to war against Israel.


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And the children of Israel were numbered, and came to meet them: and Israel encamped before them as two little flocks of goats, but Syria filled the land.


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And there came the man of God, and said to the king of Israel, Thus says the Lord, Because Syria has said, The Lord God of Israel <i>is</i> a God of the hills, and he <i>is</i> not a God of the valleys, therefore will I give this great army into your hand, and you shall know that I <i>am</i> the Lord.


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And they encamp one over against the other before <n>[[Gr. ]] these. </n> them seven days. And it came to pass on the seventh day that the battle drew on, and Israel struck Syria, <i>even</i> a hundred thousand footmen in one day.<pb/>


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And the king of Israel said to his servants, Know you° that Remmath Galaad <i>is</i> ours, and we are <n>[[Gr. ]] silent. </n> slow to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?


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And Josaphat said, As I <i>am</i>, so <i>are</i> you also; as my people, <i>so is</i> your people; as my horses, <i>so are</i> your horses. And Josaphat king of Juda said to the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray you, of the Lord today.


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And the king of Israel gathered all the prophets together, about four hundred men; and the king said to them, Shall I go up to Remmath Galaad to battle, or shall I forbear? and they said, Go up, and the Lord will surely give <i>it</i> into the hands of the king.


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And Josaphat said to the king of Israel, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, <n>[[Gr. ]] and we will enquire. </n> that we may enquire of the Lord by him?


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And the king of Israel said to Josaphat, There is one man here <i>for us</i> to enquire of the Lord <n>[[Gr. ]] by him. </n> by; but I hate him, for he does not speak good of me, but only evil; Michaias son of Jemblaa. And Josaphat king of Juda said, Let not the king say so.


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And the king of Israel called a eunuch and said, <i>Bring hither</i> quickly Michaias son of Jemblaa.


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And the king of Israel and Josaphat king of Juda <n>See <i>Heb. </i></n> sat, each on his throne, armed in the gates of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.


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And Sedekias son of Chanaan made for himself iron horns, and said, Thus says the Lord, With these you shall <n>[[Gr. ]] gore. </n> push Syria, until it be consumed.


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And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying, Go up to Remmath Galaad, and <i>the thing</i> shall prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it and the king of Syria into your hands.


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And the messenger that went to call Michaias spoke to him, saying, Behold now, all the prophets speak with one mouth good concerning the king, let now your words be like the words of one of them, and speak good things.


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And Michaias said, <i>As</i> the Lord lives, whatever the Lord shall say to me, <n>[[Gr. ]] these things. </n> that will I speak.


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And he came to the king: and the king said to him, Michaias, shall I go up to Remmath Galaad to battle, or shall I forbear? and he said, Go up, and the Lord shall <n>[[Gr. ]] prosper the work, etc. </n> deliver it into the hand of the king.


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And the king said to him, How often shall I adjure you, that you speak to me truth in the name of the Lord?


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And he said, Not so. I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains as a flock <n>[[Gr. ]] which has no shepherd. </n> without a shepherd: and the Lord said, <i>Is</i> not God lord of these? let each one return to his home in peace.


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And the king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda, Did I not say to you that this man does not prophesy good to me, for <i>he speaks</i> nothing but evil?


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And Michaias said, Not so, <i>it is</i> not I: hear the word of the Lord; <i>it is</i> not so. I saw the God of Israel sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven stood about him on his right hand and on his left.


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And the Lord said, Who will deceive Achaab king of Israel, <n>[[Gr. ]] and he shall, etc. </n> that he may go up and fall in Remmath Galaad? and one spoke one way, and another another way.


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And the Lord said to him, Whereby? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall deceive him, yes, and shall prevail: go forth, and do so.


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And now, behold, the Lord has put a false spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil against you.


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And Sedekias the son of Chanaan came near and struck Michaias on the cheek, and said, What sort of a spirit of the Lord <i>has</i> spoken in you?


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And Michaias said, Behold, you shall see in that day, when you shall go into an innermost chamber to hide yourself there.


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And the king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle, and do you put on my raiment. So the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.


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And the king of Syria had charged the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight not <i>against</i> small <n>[[Gr. ]] and. </n> or great, but against the king of Israel only.


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And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat king of Juda, that they said, this seems <i>to be</i> the king of Israel. And they compassed him about to fight <i>against</i> him; and Josaphat cried out.


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And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that this was not the king of Israel, that they returned from him.


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And one drew a bow with a good aim, and struck the king of Israel between the lungs and the breast-plate: and he said to his charioteer, Turn your hands, and carry me away out of the battle, for I am wounded.


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And the war was turned in that day, and the king was <n>[[Lit. ]] remaining. </n> standing on the chariot, against Syria from morning till evening; and he shed the blood out of his wound, into the bottom of the chariot, and died at even, and the blood ran out of the wound into the <n>[[Gr. ]] bosom. </n> bottom of the chariot.


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And the herald of the army stood at sunset, saying, Let every man go to his own city and his own land,


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And they washed the chariot at the fountain of Samaria; and the swine and the dogs licked up the blood, and the harlots washed themselves in the blood, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.


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And the rest of the acts of Achaab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities which he <n>[[Gr. ]] made. </n> built, behold, <i>are</i> not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


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And Josaphat the son of Asa reigned over Juda: in the fourth year of Achaab king of Israel <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began Josaphat to reign.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of thirty and five years in his reigning. </n> Thirty and five years old <i>was he</i> when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name <i>was</i> Azuba daughter of Salai.


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And he walked in all the way of Asa his father: he turned not from it, even from doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord.


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Only he took not away <i>any</i> of the high places: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.


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And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried by his fathers in the city of David his father, and Joram his son reigned in his stead.


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And Ochozias son of Achaab reigned over Israel in Samaria: in the seventeenth year of Josaphat king of Juda, Ochozias son of Achaab reigned over Israel in Samaria two years.


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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Achaab his father, and in the way of Jezabel his mother, and in the sins of the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who caused Israel to sin.


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And Ochozias fell through the lattice that was in his upper chamber in Samaria and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go and enquire of Baal fly, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my sickness. And they went to enquire of him.


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And an angel of the Lord called Eliu the Thesbite, saying, Arise, and go to meet the messengers of Ochozias king of Samaria, and you shall say to them, <i>Is it</i> because there is no God in Israel, <i>that</i> you° go to enquire of Baal fly, the God of Accaron? but <i>it shall</i> not <i>be</i> so.


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For thus says the Lord, The bed on which you are gone up, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die. And Eliu went, and said <i>so</i> to them.


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And they said to 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 says the Lord, <i>Is it</i> because there is no God in Israel, <i>that</i> you go to enquire of Baal fly, the God of Accaron? <i>it shall</i> not <i>be</i> so: the bed on which you are gone up, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die.


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So they returned and reported to the king as Eliu said: and he said to them, What <i>was</i> the manner of the man who went up to meet you, and spoke to you these words?


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And they said to him, <i>He was</i> a hairy man, and girded with a leather girdle about his loins. And he said, This is Eliu the Thesbite.


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And he sent to him a captain of fifty and his fifty; and he went up to him: and, behold, Eliu sat on the top of a mountain. And the captain of fifty spoke to him, and said, O man of God, the king has called you, come down.


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And Eliu answered and said to the captain of fifty, And if I <i>am</i> a man of God, fire shall come down out of heaven, and devour you and your fifty. And fire came down out of heaven, and devoured him and his fifty.


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And the king <n>[[Gr. ]] added and sent. </n> sent a second time to him another captain of fifty, and his fifty. And the captain of fifty spoke to him, and said, O man of God, thus says the king, Come down quickly.


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And Eliu answered and spoke to him, and said, If I <i>am</i> a man of God, fire shall come down out of heaven, and devour you and your fifty. And fire came down out of heaven, and devoured him and his fifty.


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And the king <n>[[Gr. ]] added yet to send. </n> sent yet again a captain and his fifty. And the third captain of fifty came, and knelt on his knees before Eliu, and entreated him, and spoke to him and said, O man of God, let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your eyes.


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Behold, fire came down from heaven, and devoured the two first captains of fifty: and now, I pray, let my life be precious in your eyes.


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And the angel of the Lord spoke to Eliu, and said, Go down with him, be not afraid of them. And Eliu rose up, and went down with him to the king.


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And Eliu spoke to him, and said, Thus says the Lord, Why have you sent messengers to enquire of Baal fly, the god of Accaron? <i>it shall</i> not <i>be</i> so: the bed on which you are gone up, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die.


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And the rest of the <n>[[Gr. ]] words. </n> acts of Ochozias which he did, behold, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? and Joram son of Achaab reigned over Israel in Samaria twelve years <i>beginning</i> in the eighteenth year of Josaphat king of Juda: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, only not as his brethren, nor as his mother: and he removed the pillars of Baal which his father made, and broke them in pieces: only he was joined to the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who led Israel to sin; he departed not from them. And the Lord was very angry with the house of Achaab.<pb/>


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And it came to pass, when the Lord was going to take Eliu with a whirlwind as it were into heaven, that Eliu and Elisaie went out of Galgala.


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And Eliu said to Elisaie, Stay here, I pray you; for God has sent me to Baethel. And Elisaie said, <n>[[Gr. ]] the Lord lives if, etc. </n> <i>As</i> the Lord lives and your soul lives, I will not leave you; so they came to Baethel.


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And the sons of the prophets who were in Baethel came to Elisaie, and said to him, <n>[[Gr. ]] if you know. </n> Do you know, that the Lord this day <n>[[Gr. ]] takes. </n> is going to take your lord away from your head? And he said, Yes, I know <i>it</i>; be silent.


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And Eliu said to Elisaie, Stay here, I pray you; for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. And he said, <n>[[Gr. ]] the Lord lives if, etc. </n> <i>As</i> the Lord lives and your soul lives, I will not leave you. And they came to Jericho.


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And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho drew near to Elisaie, and said to him, Do you know that the Lord is about to take away your master today from your head? And he said, Yes, I know <i>it</i>; hold your peace.


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And Eliu said to him, Stay here, I pray you, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan. And Elisaie said, <i>As</i> the Lord lives and your soul lives, I will not leave you: and they both went on.


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And fifty men of the sons of the prophets <i>went also</i>, and they stood opposite afar off: and both stood on <i>the bank</i> of Jordan.


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And Eliu took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the water: and the water was divided on this side and on that side, and they both went over <n>[[Lit. ]] 'into the wilderness.' </n> on dry ground.


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And it came to pass while they were crossing over, that Eliu said to Elisaie, Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken up from you. And Elisaie said, Let there be, I pray you, <n>[[Gr. ]] double  [[d portions ]][[d* in your spirit. ]]</n> a double <i>portion</i> of your spirit upon me.


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And Eliu said, You have <n>[[Gr. ]] hardened in asking. </n> asked a hard thing: if you shall see me when I am taken up from you, then shall it be so to you; and if not, it shall not be <i>so</i>.


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And it came to pass as they were going, they <n>[[Gr. ]] went and talked. </n> went on talking; and, behold, a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and it separated between them both; and Eliu was taken up in a whirlwind as it were into heaven.


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And Elisaie saw, and cried, Father, father, the chariot of Israel, and the horseman thereof! And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his garments, and tore them into two pieces.


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And Elisaie took up the mantle of Eliu, which fell from off him upon Elisaie; and Elisaie returned, and stood upon the brink of Jordan;


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and he took the mantle of Eliu, which fell from off him, and struck the water, and said, Where is the Lord God of Eliu? <n>The [[Gr. ]] here copies the <i>Heb. אח הו 'he also'. </i></n> and he struck the waters, and they were divided hither and there; and Elisaie went over.


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And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho on the opposite side saw him, and said, The spirit of Eliu has rested upon Elisaie. And they came to meet him, and did obeisance to him to the ground.


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And they said to him, Behold now, <i>there are</i> with your servants fifty men <n>[[Gr. ]] sons of strength [[Hebraism.]]</n> of strength: let them go now, and seek your lord: <n>[[Gr. ]] lest at any time. </n> perhaps the Spirit of the Lord has taken him up, and cast him into Jordan, or on one of the mountains, or on one of the hills. And Elisaie said, You° shall not send.


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And they pressed him until he was ashamed; and he said, Send. And they sent fifty men, and sought three days, and found him not.


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And the men of the city said to Elisaie, Behold, the situation of the city <i>is</i> good, as <i>our</i> lord sees; but the waters <i>are</i> bad, and the ground barren.


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And Elisaie said, Bring me a new pitcher, and put salt in it. And they took <i>one</i>, and brought <i>it</i> to him.


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And Elisaie went out to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and says, Thus says the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be any longer death thence or barren <i>land</i>.


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And he went up thence to Baethel: and as he was going up by the way there came up also little children from the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, bald-head, go up.


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And he turned after them, and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And, behold, there came out two bears out of the wood, and they tore forty and two children of them.


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And Joram the son of Achaab <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began to reign in Israel in the eighteenth year of Josaphat king of Juda, and he reigned twelve years.


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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, only not as his father, nor as his mother: and he removed the pillars of Baal which his father had made.


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Only he adhered to the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin; he departed not from it.


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And Mosa king of Moab was a sheep-master, and he rendered to the king of Israel <n>[[Lit. ]] in the rising up. </n> in the beginning <i>of the year</i>, a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with the wool.


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And it came to pass, after the death of Achaab, that the king of Moab <n>[[Gr. ]] despised. </n> rebelled against the king of Israel.


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And he went and sent to Josaphat king of Juda, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to war? And he said, I will go up: you are as I, I am as you; as my people, so <i>is</i> your people, as my horses, so <i>are</i> your horses.


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And the king of Israel went, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom: and <n>[[Gr. ]] compassed a journey of seven days. </n> they fetched a compass of seven days' journey; and there was no water for the army, and for the cattle <n>[[Gr. ]] at their feet. </n> that went with them.


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And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord should have called the three kings on their way, to give them into the hand of Moab.


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And Josaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, <n>[[Gr. ]] and we will. </n> that we may enquire of the Lord by him? And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, <i>There is</i> here Elisaie son of Saphat, who poured water on the hands of Eliu.


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And Josaphat said, He has the word of the Lord. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went down to him.


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And Elisaie said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father, and the prophets of your mother. And the king of Israel said to him, <n>[[Gr. ]] is it that. </n> Has the Lord called the three kings to deliver them into the hands of Moab?


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And Elisaie said, <i>As</i> the Lord of hosts before whom I <n>[[Gr. ]] stood. </n> stand lives, unless I <n>[[Gr. ]] regard. </n> regarded the presence of Josaphat the king of Juda, I would not have looked on you, nor seen you.


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And now fetch me a harper. And it came to pass, as the harper harped, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.


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For thus says the Lord, You° shall not see wind, neither shall you° see rain, yet this valley shall be filled with water, and you°, and your <n>[[Lit. ]] posessions. </n> flocks, and your cattle shall drink.


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And this <i>is</i> a light <i>thing</i> in the eyes of the Lord: I will also deliver Moab <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> into your hand.


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And you° shall strike every strong city, and you° shall <n>[[Gr. ]] throw down. </n> cut down every good tree, and you° shall stop all wells of water, and spoil every good piece <i>of land</i> with stones.


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And it came to pass in the morning, when the sacrifice was <n>[[Gr. ]] going up. </n> offered, that, behold! waters came from the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.


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And all Moab heard that the three kings were come up to fight against them; and they cried out <n>[[Gr. ]] from. </n> on every <i>side, even</i> all that were girded with a girdle, <n>[[Alex. ]] καὶ ἐπάνα, 'and above.' </n> and they said, Ho! and stood upon the border.


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And they rose early in the morning, and the sun rose upon the waters, and Moab saw the waters on the opposite side red as blood.


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And they said, This <i>is</i> the blood of the sword; and the kings have fought, and each man has struck his neighbour; now then to the spoils, Moab.


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And they entered into the camp of Israel; and Israel arose and struck Moab, and they fled from before them; and they <n>[[Gr. ]] went in, going in and striking. </n> went on and struck Moab as they went.


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And they razed the cities, and cast every man his stone on every good piece <i>of land</i> and filled it; and they stopped every well, and <n>[[Gr. ]] threw down. </n> cut down every good tree, until they left <i>only</i> the stones of the wall cast down; and the slingers compassed <i>the land</i>, and struck it.


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And the king of Moab saw that the battle prevailed against him; and he took with him seven hundred men that drew sword, to cut through to the king of Edom: and they could not.


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And he took his oldest son whom he had designed to reign in his stead, and offered him up for a whole burnt offering on the walls. And there was a great <n>[[Gr. ]] repentance. </n> indignation against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their land.<pb/>


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And one of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisaie, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord: and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his servants.


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And Elisaie said, What shall I do for you? tell me what you have in the house. And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house, except oil wherewith I <n>[[Gr. ]] shall anoint. </n> anoint myself.


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And he said to her, Go, borrow for yourself vessels without of all your neighbours, <i>even</i> empty vessels; borrow not a few.


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And you shall go in and shut the door upon you and upon your sons, and you shall pour forth into these vessels, and remove that which is filled.


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And she departed from him, and shut the door upon herself and upon her sons: they brought the vessels near to her, and she poured in until the vessels were filled.


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And she said to her sons, Bring me yet a vessel. And they said to her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.


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And she came and told the man of God: and Elisaie said, Go, and sell the oil, and you shall pay your <n>[[Gr. ]] interest, [[pl.]]</n> debts, and you and your sons shall live of the remaining oil.


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And a day came, when Elisaie passed over to Soman, and <i>there was</i> a great lady there, and she constrained him to eat bread: and it came to pass as often as he went into <i>the city, that</i> he turned aside to eat there.


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And the woman said to her husband, See now, I know that this <i>is</i> a holy man of God who comes over continually to us.


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Let us now make for him an upper chamber, a small place; and let us put there for him a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall come to pass that when he comes in to us, he shall <n>[[Or, ]] turn aside. </n> turn in there.


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And he said to Giezi his servant, Call me this Somanite. and he called her, and she stood before him.


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And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have <n>[[Gr. ]] been astonished with all this astonishment. </n> taken all this trouble for us; what should I do for you? Hast you any <n>[[Gr. ]] word [[or ]] business. </n> request <i>to make</i> to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she said, I dwell in the midst of my people.


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And he said to Giezi, What must we do for her? and Giezi his servant said, Indeed she has no son, and her husband <i>is</i> old.


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And Elisaie said to her, At this time <i>next year</i>, as the season <i>is</i>, you <i>shall be</i> alive, and embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, do not lie to your servant.


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And the woman conceived, and bore a son at the very time, as the season was, being alive, as Elisaie said to her.


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that he said to his father, My head, my head. and <i>his father</i> said to a servant, carry him to his mother.


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And she carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of god; and she shut the door upon him, and went out.


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And she called her husband, and said, Send now for me one of the young men, and one of the asses, and I will <n>[[Gr. ]] run. </n> ride quickly to the man of God, and return.


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And he said, Why are you going to him today? It is neither new moon, nor the Sabbath. And she said, <n>[[Gr. ]] peace. </n> <i>It is</i> well.


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And she saddled the ass, and said to her servant, Be quick, proceed: spare not on my account to ride, unless I shall tell you. Go, and you shall proceed, and come to the man of God to mount Carmel.


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And she <n>[[Gr. ]] went. </n> rode and came to the man of God to the mountain: and it came to pass when Elisaie saw her coming, that he said to Giezi his servant, See now, that Somanite comes.


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Now run to meet her, and you shall say, <i>Is it</i> well with you? <n>[[Gr. ]] peace. </n> <i>is it</i> well with your husband? <i>is it</i> well with the child? and she said, <i>It is</i> well.


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And she came to Elisaie to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Giezi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisaie said, Let her alone, for her soul <i>is</i> much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden <i>it</i> from me, and has not told <i>it</i> me.


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And she said, Did I ask a son of my lord? For did I not say, <n>[[Gr. ]] You shall not. </n> Do not deal deceitfully with me?


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And Elisaie said to Giezi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go: if you meet any man, you shall not <n>[[Gr. ]] bless. </n> salute him, and if a man salute you you shall not answer him: and you shall lay my staff on the child's face.


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And the mother of the child said, <i>As</i> the Lord lives and <i>as</i> your soul lives, I will not leave you. And Elisaie arose, and went after her.


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And Giezi went on before her, and laid his staff on the child's face: but there was neither voice nor any hearing. So he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.


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And Elisaie went into the house, and shut the door upon themselves, the two, and prayed to the Lord.


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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 bowed himself upon him, and the flesh of the child grew warm.


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And he returned, and walked up and down in the house: and he went up, and bowed himself on the child seven times; and the child opened his eyes.


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And Elisaie cried out to Giezi, and said, Call this Somanite. So he called her, and she came in to him: and Elisaie said, Take your son.


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And the woman went in, and fell at his feet, and did obeisance <i>bowing</i> to the ground; and she took her son, and went out.


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And Elisaie returned to Galgala: and a famine <i>was</i> in the land; and the sons of the prophets sat before him: and Elisaie said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.


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And he went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a vine in the field, and gathered of it wild <n>[[Gr. sing. ]] colosynth. </n> gourds, his garment full; and he cast it into the cauldron of pottage, for they knew <i>them</i> not.


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And he poured it out for the men to eat: and it came to pass, when they were eating of the pottage, that behold! they cried out, and said, <i>There is</i> death in the pot, O man of God. And they could not eat.


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And he said, Take meal, and cast it into the pot. And Elisaie said to his servant Giezi, Pour out for the people, and let them eat. And there was no longer there any hurtful thing in the pot.


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And there came a man over from Baetharisa, and brought to the man of God twenty barley loaves and cakes of figs, of the first fruits. And he said, Give to the people, and let them eat.


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And his servant said, Why should I set this before a hundred men? and he said, Give to the people, and let them eat; for thus says the Lord, They shall eat and leave.


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Now Naiman, the captain of the host of Syria, was a great man before his master, and <n>[[Gr. ]] wondered at in countenance. </n> highly respected, because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syria, and the man was mighty in strength, <i>but</i> a leper.


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And the Syrians went forth <n>[[Gr. ]] light armed, etc. </n> in small bands, and took captive out of the land of Israel a little maid: and she <n>[[Gr. ]] was before. </n> waited on Naiman's wife.


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And she said to her mistress, O that my lord were before the prophet of God in Samaria; then he <n>[[Gr. ]] will detach him. </n> would recover him from his leprosy.


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And the king of Syria said to Naiman, Go to, go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, and took in his hand ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten <n>[[Gr. ]] changing robes. </n> changes of raiment.


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And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now then, as soon as this letter shall reach you, behold, I have sent to you my servant Naiman, and you shall recover him from his leprosy.


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And it came to pass, when the king of Israel read the letter, <i>that</i> he tore his garments, and said, <i>Am</i> I God, to kill and to make alive, that this <i>man</i> sends to me to recover a man of his leprosy? consider, however, I pray you, and see that this <i>man</i> seeks an occasion against me.


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And it came to pass, when Elisaie heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments, that he sent to the king of Israel, saying, Therefore have you tore your garments? Let Naiman, I pray you, come to me, and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel.


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And Elisaie sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash seven times in Jordan, and your flesh shall return to you, and you shall be cleansed.


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And Naiman was angry, and departed, and said, Behold, I said, He will by all means come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of his God, and lay his hand upon the place, and recover the leper.


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<i>Are</i> not the Abana and Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? <n>[[Gr. ]] shall I not, etc. </n> may I not go and wash in them, and be cleansed? and he turned and went away in a rage.


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And his servants came near and said to him, <i>Suppose</i> the prophet had spoken a great thing to you, <n>[[Gr. ]] will you. </n> would you not perform it? yet he has but said to you, Wash, and be cleansed.


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So Naiman went down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the word of Elisaie: and his flesh returned to him as the flesh of a little child, and he was cleansed.


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And he and all his <n>[[Gr. ]] army [[or ]] camp. </n> company returned to Elisaie, and he came and stood before him, and said, Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth, save only in Israel: and now receive a blessing of your servant.


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And Elisaie said, <i>As</i> the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will not take <i>one</i>. And he pressed him to take <i>one</i>: but he would not.


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And Naiman said, Well then, if not, let there be given to your servant, I pray you, the load <i>of a</i> yoke of mules; and you shall give me of the red earth: for henceforth your servant will not offer whole burnt offering or sacrifice to other gods, but only to the Lord <n>Probably this last clause belongs to [[ver. ]] 18. </n> by <i>reason of</i> this thing.


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And <n>[[Or, ]] The Lord shall be, etc. </n> let the Lord be propitious to your servant when my master goes into the house of Remman to worship there, and he shall lean on my hand, and I shall bow down in the house of Remman when he bows down in the house of Remman; even let the Lord, I pray, be merciful to your servant in this matter.


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And Giezi the servant of Elisaie said, Behold, my Lord has spared this Syrian Naiman, so as not to take of his hand what he has brought: as the Lord lives, I will surely run after him, and take somewhat of him.


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So Giezi followed after Naiman: and Naiman saw him running after him, and turned back from his chariot to meet him. <n>[[Alex.+ ]] 'Is all well?' </n>


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And <i>Giezi</i> said, All is well: my master has sent me, saying, Behold, now are there come to me two young men of the sons of the prophets from mount Ephraim; give them, I pray you, a talent of silver, and two <n>[[Gr. ]] changing robes. </n> changes of raiment.


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And <i>Naiman</i> said, Take two talents of silver. And he took two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of raiment, and <n>[[Gr. ]] gave. </n> put them upon two of his servants, and they bore them before him.


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And he came to <n>[[Gr. ]] a dark place, or the dark. </n> a secret place, and took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and dismissed the men.


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Whence <i>come you</i>, Giezi? and Giezi said, Your servant has not been hither or there. And Elisaie said to him, Went not my heart with you, when the man returned from his chariot to meet you? and now you have received silver, and now you have received raiment, and olive yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants.


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The leprosy also of Naiman shall cleave to you, and to your seed for ever. And he went out from his presence leprous, like snow.<pb/>


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And the sons of the prophets said to Elisaie, Behold now, the place wherein we dwell before you is too narrow for us.


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Let us go, we pray you, to Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and make for ourselves a <n>[[Gr. ]] a place of inhabiting. </n> habitation there.


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And behold, one was cutting down a beam, and the <n>[[Gr. ]] iron. </n> axe head fell into the water: and he cried out, Alas! master: and it was hidden.


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And the man of God said, Where did it fall? and he showed him the place: and he <n>[[Lit. ]] pinched off with the nail, etc. </n> broke off a stick, and threw it in there, and the iron came to the surface.


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And the king of Syria was at war with Israel: and he consulted with his servants, saying, I will encamp in such a place.


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And Elisaie sent to the king of Israel, saying, Take heed that you pass not by <n>[[Gr. ]] this. </n> that place, for the Syrians are hidden there.


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And the king of Israel sent to the place which Elisaie mentioned to him, and saved himself thence not once or twice.


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And the mind of the king of Syria was very much disturbed concerning this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Will you° not tell me who betrays me to the king of Israel?


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And one of his servants said, Nay, my Lord, O king, for Elisaie the prophet that is in Israel reports to the king of Israel all the words whatever you may say in <n>[[Gr. ]] closet of your bedchamber. </n> your bedchamber.


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And he said, Go, see where this man <i>is</i>, and I will send and take him. And they sent word to him, saying, Behold, <i>he is</i> in Dothaim.


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And he sent there horses, and chariots, and a mighty host: and they came by night, and compassed about the city.


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And the servant of Elisaie <n>[[Gr. ]] was early to rise. </n> rose up early and went out; and, behold, a host compassed the city, and horses and chariots: and the servant said to him, O master, <n>[[Gr. ]] how shall we do? </n> what shall we do?


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And Elisaie prayed, and said, Lord, open, I pray you, the eyes of the servant, and let him see. And the Lord opened his eyes, and he saw: and, behold, the mountain <i>was</i> full of horses, and there were chariots of fire round about Elisaie.


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And they came down to him; and he prayed to the Lord, and said, Strike, I pray you, this <n>[[Gr. ]] nation. </n> people with blindness. And he struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisaie.


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And Elisaie said to them, This <i>is</i> not the city, and this <i>is</i> not the way: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you° seek. And he led them away to Samaria.


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And it came to pass when they entered into Samaria, that Elisaie said, Open, I pray you, O Lord, their eyes, and let them see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.


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And the king of Israel said to Elisaie, when he saw them, Shall I <i>not</i> verily strike them, <i>my</i> father?


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And he said, You shall not strike them, unless you <n>[[Gr. ]] smite. </n> would strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow: set bread and water before them, and let them eat and drink, and depart to their master.


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And he set before them a great feast, and they ate and drank: and he dismissed them and they departed to their master. And the bands of Syria came no longer into the land of Israel.


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And it came to pass after this, that the son of Ader king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.


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And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was <i>valued</i> at fifty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung at five pieces of silver.


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And the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, and a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.


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And he said to her, Unless the Lord help you, whence shall I help you? from the corn-floor, or from the wine-press?


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And the king said to her, What is <i>the matter</i> with you? And the woman said to him, This <i>woman</i> said to me, Give your son, and we will eat him today, and we will eat my son to-morrow.


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So we boiled my son, and ate him; and I said to her on the second day, Give your son, and let us eat him: and she has hidden her son.


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And it came to pass, when the king of Israel heard the words of the woman, <i>that</i> he tore his garments; and he passed by on the wall, and the people saw sackcloth within upon his flesh.


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And he said, God <n>[[Gr. ]] do these things to me and add these things. </n> do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisaie shall stand upon him this day.


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And Elisaie was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and <i>the king</i> sent a man before him: before the messenger came to him, he also said to the elders, Do you° see that this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? See, as soon as the messenger shall have come, shut the door, and forcibly detain him at the door: <i>is</i> not the sound of his master's feet behind him?


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While he was yet speaking with them, behold, a messenger came to him: and he said, Behold, this evil <i>is</i> of the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?<pb/>


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And Elisaie said, Hear you the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord, <n>[[Gr. ]] As is this, etc. </n> As at this time, to-morrow a measure of fine flour <i>shall be sold</i> for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gates of Samaria.


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And the officer on whose hand the king rested, answered Elisaie, and said, Behold, <i>if</i> the Lord shall make flood-gates in heaven, <n>[[Gr. ]] shall. </n> might this thing be? and Elisaie said, Behold, you shall see with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof.


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And there were four leprous men by the gate of the city: and one said to his neighbour, Why sit we here until we die?


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If we should say, Let us go into the city, then <i>there is</i> famine in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, then we shall die. Now then come, and let us fall upon the camp of the Syrians: if they should take us alive, then we shall live; and if they should put us to death, then we shall <i>only</i> die.


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And they rose up <n>[[Gr. ]] in the dark. </n> while it was yet night, to go into the camp of Syria; and they came into a part of the camp of Syria, and behold, there <n>[[Gr. ]] is. </n> <i>was</i> no man there.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] and. </n> For the Lord had made the army of Syria to hear a sound of chariots, and a sound of horses, <i>even</i> the sound of a great host: and <i>each</i> man said to his fellow, Now has the king of Israel hired against us the kings of the Chettites, and the kings of Egypt, to come against us.


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And they arose and fled while it was yet dark, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses in the camp, <n>[[Gr. ]] as it is. </n> as they were, and fled <n>[[Gr. ]] to their life. </n> for their lives.


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And these lepers entered a little way into the camp, and went into one tent, and ate and drank, and took thence silver, and gold, and raiment; and they went and returned thence, and entered into another tent, and took thence, and went and hid <i>the spoil</i>.


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And <i>one</i> man said to his neighbour, We are not doing <i>well</i> thus: this day is a day of glad tidings, and we hold our peace, and are waiting till the morning light, and shall find mischief: now then come, and let us go into <i>the city</i>, and report to the house of the king.


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So they <n>[[Gr. ]] went in. </n> went and cried towards the gate of the city, and reported to them, saying, We went into the camp of Syria, and, behold, there is not there a man, nor voice of man, only <n>[[Gr. ]] horse. </n> horses tied and <n>[[Gr. ]] ass. </n> asses, and their tents as they were.


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And the king rose up by night, and said to his servants, I will now tell you what <n>[[Gr. ]] Syria. </n> the Syrians have done to us. They knew that we are hungry; and they have gone forth from the camp and hidden themselves in the field, saying, They will come out of the city, and we shall catch them alive, and go into the city.


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And one of his servants answered and said, Let them now take five of the horses that were left, which were left here; behold, they are the number left to all the multitude of Israel; and we will send there and see.


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So they took two horsemen; and the king of Israel sent after the king of Syria, saying, Go, and see.


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And they went after them even to Jordan: and, behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their panic. and the messengers returned, and brought word to the king.


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And the people went out, and plundered the camp of Syria: and a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord, and two measures of barley for a shekel.


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And the king appointed the officer on whose hand the king leaned <i>to have charge</i> over the gate: and the people trampled on him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God <i>had</i> said, who spoke when the messenger came down to him.


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So it came to pass as Elisaie had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley <i>shall be sold</i> for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel; and it shall be <n>[[Gr. ]] as this time is. </n> as at this time to-morrow in the gate of Samaria.


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And the officer answered Elisaie, and said, Behold, <i>if</i> the Lord makes flood-gates in heaven, shall this thing be? and Elisaie said, Behold, you shall see <i>it</i> with your eyes, but you shall not eat thereof.


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And Elisaie spoke to the woman, whose son he <i>had</i> <n>The [[Gr. ]] signifies, to rekindle a fire. </n> restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your house, and sojourn wherever you may sojourn: for the Lord has called for a famine upon the land; indeed it is come upon the land <i>for</i> seven years.


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And the woman arose, and did according to the word of Elisaie, both she and her house; and they sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.


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And it came to pass after the expiration of the seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines to the city; and came to cry to the king for her house and for her lands.


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And the king spoke to Giezi the servant of Elisaie the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray you, all the great things which Elisaie has done.


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And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life the dead son, behold, the woman whose son Elisaie restored to life <i>came</i> crying to the king for her house and for her lands. And Giezi said, My lord, O king, this <i>is</i> the woman, and this <i>is</i> her son, whom Elisaie restored to life.


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And the king asked the woman, and she told him: and the king appointed her a eunuch, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field from the day that she left the land until now.


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And Elisaie came to Damascus; and the king of Syria the son of Ader was ill, and they brought him word, saying, The man of God is come here.


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And the king said to Azael, Take in your hand <n>The [[Gr. ]] retains the <i>Heb. word. </i></n> a present, and go to meet the man of God, and enquire of the Lord by him, saying, Shall I <n>[[Gr. ]] live? </n> recover of this my disease?


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And Azael went to meet him, and he took a present in his hand, and all the good things of Damascus, forty camels' load, and came and stood before him, and said to Elisaie, Your son the son of Ader, the king of Syria, has sent me to you to enquire, saying, Shall I recover of this my disease?


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And Elisaie said, Go, say, You shall certainly live; yet the Lord has showed me that <n>[[Complut. ]] and [[Ald. ]] ἀποθανεῖται. </n> you shall surely die.


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And he stood before him, and fixed <i>his countenance</i> till he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.


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And Azael said, Why does my lord weep? And he said, Because I know all the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: you will <n>[[Gr. ]] send away. </n> utterly destroy their strong holds with fire, and you will kill their choice men with the sword, and you will dash their infants <i>against the ground</i>, and their women with child you will rip up.


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And Azael said, Who is your servant? a dead dog, that he <n>[[Gr. ]] shall. </n> should do this thing? And Elisaie said, The Lord has shown me you ruling over Syria.


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And he departed from Elisaie, and went in to his lord; and he said to him, What said Elisaie to you? and he said, He said to me, You shall surely live.


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And it came to pass on the next day that he took a <n>The [[Gr. ]] is from the <i>Heb. rug </i>[[or ]] quilt, etc. </n> thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and put it on his face, and he died: and Azael reigned in his stead.


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In the fifth year <n>[[Gr. ]] to. </n> of Joram son of Achaab king of Israel, and while Josaphat was king of Juda, Joram the son of Josaphat king of Juda <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began to reign.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 32 years in his reigning. </n> Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.


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And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Achaab; for the daughter of Achaab was his wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.


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But the Lord would not destroy Juda for David his servant's sake, as he said he would give a light to him and to his sons continually.


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In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Juda, and they made a king over <n>[[Gr. ]] himself. </n> themselves.


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And Joram went up to Sior, and all the chariots that were with him: and it came to pass after he had arisen, that he struck Edom who compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.


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And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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So Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David: and Ochozias his son reigned in his stead.


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In the twelfth year <n>[[Gr. ]] to. </n> of Joram son of Achaab king of Israel, Ochozias son of Joram <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began to reign.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 22 years in his reigning. </n> Twenty and two years old <i>was</i> Ochozias when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother <i>was</i> Gotholia, daughter of Ambri king of Israel.


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And he walked in the way of the house of Achaab, and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Achaab.


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And he went with Joram the son of Achaab to war <n>[[Gr. ]] with. </n> against Azael king of <n>The [[Gr. ]] word ἀλλοφύλοι is almost always applied elsewhere to the Philistines. </n> the Syrians in Remmoth Galaad; and the Syrians wounded Joram.


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And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezrael of the wounds with which they wounded him in Remmoth, when he fought with Azael king of Syria. And Ochozias son of Joram went down to see Joram the son of Achaab in Jezrael, because he was sick.<pb/>


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And Elisaie the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your loins, and take this cruse of oil in your hand, and go to Remmoth Galaad.


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And you shall enter there, and shall see there Ju the son of Josaphat son of Namessi, and shall go in and make him rise up from amongst his brethren, and shall bring him into a secret chamber.


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And you shall take the cruse of oil, and pour <i>it</i> on his head, and say you, Thus says the Lord, I have anointed you king over Israel: and you shall open the door, and flee, and not wait.


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And he went in, and, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have a message to you, O captain. And Ju said, To which of all us? And he said, To you, O captain.


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And he arose, and went into the house: and he poured the oil upon his head, and said to him, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I have anointed you to be king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel.


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And you shall utterly destroy the house of Achaab your master from before me, and shall avenge the <n>[[Gr. ]] bloods. </n> blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel,


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and at the hand of the whole house of Achaab: and you shall utterly cut off from the house of Achaab every male, and him that is shut up and left in Israel.


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And I will <n>[[Gr. ]] give. </n> make the house of Achaab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and as the house of Baasa the son of Achia.


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And the dogs shall eat Jezabel in the portion of Jezreel, and <n>[[Gr. ]] there is not a buryer. </n> there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.


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And Ju went forth to the servants of his lord, and they said to him, <i>Is</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] peace. </n> all well? Why came this mad fellow in to you? And he said to them, You° know the man, and his communication.


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And they said, <i>It is</i> wrong: tell us now. And Ju said to them, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, —and he said, Thus says the Lord, I have anointed you to be king over Israel.


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And when they heard it, they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the <n><i>Heb. word in </i>[[Gr.]]</n> top of the stairs, and blew with the trumpet, and said, Ju <n>[[Lit. ]] has reigned. </n> is king.


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So Ju the son of Josaphat the son of Namessi conspired against Joram, and Joram was defending Remmoth Galaad, he and all Israel, <n>[[Gr. ]] from the face of. </n> because of Azael king of Syria.


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And king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezrael of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, in his war with Azael king of Syria. <pb/>And Ju said, If your heart is with me, let there not go forth out of the city <n>[[Gr. ]] one having escaped. </n> one fugitive to go and report to Jezrael.


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And Ju rode and advanced, and came down to Jezrael; for Joram king of Israel was getting healed in Jezrael of the arrow-wounds wherewith the Syrians <i>had</i> wounded him in Rammath in the war with Azael king of Syria; for he <i>was</i> strong and a mighty man: and Ochozias king of Juda was come down to see Joram.


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And there went up a watchman upon the tower of Jezrael, and saw the dust <i>made by</i> Ju as he approached; and he said, I see dust. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send <n>[[Gr. ]] before them. </n> to meet them, and let him say, Peace.


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And there went a horseman to meet them, and said, Thus says the king, Peace. And Ju said, What have you to do with peace? turn behind me. And the watchman reported, saying, The messenger came up to them, and has not returned.


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And he sent another horseman, and he came to him, and said, Thus says the king, Peace. And Ju said, What have you to do with peace? turn behind me.


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And the watchman reported, saying, He came up to them, and has not returned: and the driver <n>[[Gr. ]] has driven. </n> drives Ju the son of Namessi, for it is with furious <i>haste</i>.


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And Joram said, Make ready. And one made ready the chariot: and Joram the king of Israel went forth, and Ochozias king of Juda, each in his chariot, and they went to meet Ju, and found him in the portion of Nabuthai the Jezraelite.


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And it came to pass when Joram saw Ju, that he said, <i>Is it</i> peace, Ju? And Ju said, How <i>can it be</i> peace? as yet <i>there are</i> the whoredoms of your mother Jezabel, and her abundant witchcrafts.


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And Ju <n>[[Lit. ]] filled his hand with the bow. </n> bent his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms, and his arrow went out at his heart, and he bowed upon his knees.


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And <i>Ju</i> said to Badecar his chief officer, Cast him into the portion of ground of Nabuthai the Jezraelite, for I and you remember, riding <i>as we were</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] on yokes, [[or ]] chariots with pairs of horses. </n> on chariots after Achaab his father, <n>[[Gr. ]] and the Lord. </n> that the Lord took up this burden against him, <i>saying</i>,


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<n>[[Gr. ]] If I have not seen. </n> Surely, I have seen yesterday the blood of Nabuthai, and the blood of his sons, says the Lord; and I will recompense him in this portion, says the Lord. Now then, I pray you, take him up and cast him into the portion, according to the word of the Lord.


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And Ochozias king of Juda saw <i>it</i>, and fled by the way of <n><i>Heb. the garden house. </i></n> Baethgan. And Ju pursued after him, and said, <i>Slay</i> him also. And one struck him in the chariot at the going up of Gai, which is Jeblaam: and he fled to Mageddo, and died there.


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And his servants put him on a chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his sepulchre in the city of David.


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And Ju came to Jezrael; and Jezabel heard <i>of it</i>, and coloured her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked through the window.


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And he lifted up his face towards the window, and saw her, and said, Who are you? Come down with me. And two eunuchs looked down towards him.


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And he said, Throw her <i>down</i>. And they threw her <i>down</i>; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and they trampled on her.


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And <i>Ju</i> went in and ate and drank, and said, Look now, after this cursed woman, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.


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And they went to bury her; but they found nothing of her but the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.


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And they returned and told him. And he said, <i>It is</i> the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of Eliu the Thesbite, saying, In the portion of Jezrael shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezabel.


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And the carcass of Jezabel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezrael, so that they shall not say, <i>This is</i> Jezabel.<pb/>


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And Achaab <i>had</i> seventy sons in Samaria. And Ju wrote a letter, and sent it into Samaria to the rulers of Samaria, and to the elders, and to the guardians of <i>the children of</i> Achaab, saying.


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Now then, as soon as this letter shall have reached you, whereas <i>there are</i> with you the sons of your master, and with you <n>[[Gr. ]] the chariot and the horses. </n> chariots and horses, and strong cities, and arms,


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do you° accordingly look out the best and <n>[[Gr. ]] upright, [[q.d. ]] unblemished </n> fit amongst your master's sons, and set him on the throne of his father, and fight for the house of your master.


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So they that were over the house, and they that were over the city, and the elders and the guardians, sent to Ju, saying, We also <i>are</i> your servants, and whatever you shall say to us we will do; we will not make <i>any</i> man king: we will do that which is right in your eyes.


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And Ju wrote them a second letter, saying, If you° <i>are</i> for me, and listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and bring <i>them</i> to me at this time to-morrow in Jezrael. Now the sons of the king were seventy men; these great men of the city brought them up.


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And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, <i>even</i> seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezrael.


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And a messenger came and told <i>him</i>, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay them <i>in</i> two heaps by the door of the gate until the morning.


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And the morning came, and he went forth, and stood, and said to all the people, You° are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him: but who killed all these?


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See now that there shall not fall to the ground anything of the word of the Lord which the Lord spoke against the house of Achaab: for the Lord has performed all that he spoke of by the hand of his servant Eliu.


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And Ju struck all that were left of the house of Achaab in Jezrael, and all his great men, and his acquaintance, and his priests, so as not to leave him <i>any</i> remnant.


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And he arose and went to Samaria, <i>and</i> he <i>was</i> in the house of sheep-shearing in the way.


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And Ju found the brethren of Ochozias king of Juda, and said, Who <i>are</i> you°? And they said, We <i>are</i> the brethren of Ochozias, and we have come down to salute the sons of the king, and the sons of the queen.


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And he said, Take them alive. And they killed them at the shearing-house, forty and two men: he left not a man of them.


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And he went thence and found Jonadab the son of Rechab <i>coming</i> to meet him; and he <n>[[Gr. ]] blessed him. </n> saluted him, and Ju said to him, Is your heart right with my heart, as my heart <i>is</i> with your heart? And Jonadab said, It is. And Ju said, If it is then, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him <n>[[Gr. ]] upon. </n> into the chariot.


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And he said to him, Come with me, and see me zealous for the Lord. And he caused him to sit in his chariot.


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And he entered into Samaria, and struck all that were left of Achaab in Samaria, until he had utterly destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Eliu.


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And Ju gathered all the people, and said to them, Achaab served Baal a little; Ju shall serve him much.


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Now then do all <i>you°</i> the prophets of Baal call all his servants and his priests to me; let not a man be lacking: for I have a great sacrifice <i>to offer</i> to Baal; every one who shall be missing shall die. But Ju did it in subtilty, that he might destroy the servants of Baal.


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And Ju sent throughout all Israel, saying, Now then let all <i>Baal's</i> servants, and all his priests, and all his prophets <i>come</i>, let none be lacking: for I am <n>[[Gr. ]] offering. </n> going to offer a great sacrifice; whoever shall be missing, shall not live. So all the servants of Baal came, and all his priests, and all his prophets: there was not one left who came not. And they entered into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled <n>[[Gr. ]] mouth to mouth. </n> from one end to the other.


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And he said to the man who was over the house of the <n>The [[Gr. ]] is from the [[Hebrew ]] word. </n> wardrobe, Bring forth a robe for all the servants of Baal. And the keeper of the robes brought forth to them.


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And Ju and Jonadab the son of Rechab entered into the house of Baal, and said to the servants of Baal, Search, and see whether there is amongst you any of the servants of the Lord, or only the servants of Baal, by themselves.


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And he went in to offer sacrifices and whole burnt offerings; and Ju set for himself eighty men without, and said, Every man who shall escape of the men whom I bring into your hand, the life of him <i>that spares him</i> shall go for his life.


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And it came to pass, when he had finished offering the whole burnt offering, that Ju said to the footmen and to the officers, Go you° in and kill them; let not a man of them escape. So they struck them with the edge of the sword, and the footmen and the officers cast <i>the bodies</i> forth, and went to the city of the house of Baal.


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And they tore down the pillars of Baal, and made <n>[[Gr. ]] him. </n> his house a draught-house until this day.


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Nevertheless Ju departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin: <i>these were</i> the golden heifers in Baethel and in Dan.


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And the Lord said to Ju, Because of all your deeds wherein you have acted well in doing that which was right in my eyes, according to all things which you have done to the house of Achaab <i>as they were</i> in my heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.


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But Ju took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.


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In those days the Lord began to cut <n>[[Gr. ]] in Israel. [[Hebraism.]]</n> Israel short; and Azael struck them in every coast of Israel;


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from Jordan eastward all the land of Galaad belonging to the Gadites, of Gaddi and that of Ruben, and of Manasses, from Aroer, which is on the brink of the brook of Arnon, and Galaad and Basan.


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And the rest of the acts of Ju, and all that he did, and all his might, and the wars wherein he engaged, <i>are</i> not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


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And Ju slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joachaz his son reigned in his stead.


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And Gotholia the mother of Ochozias saw that her son was dead, and she destroyed all the <n>[[Gr. ]] seed of the kingdom. </n> seed royal.


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And Josabee daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took Joas the son of her brother, and stole him from amongst the king's sons that were put to death, <i>secreting</i> him and his nurse in the bedchamber, and hid him from the face of Gotholia, and he was not slain.


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And he remained with her hid in the house of the Lord six years: and Gotholia reigned over the land.


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And in the seventh year Jodae sent and took the captains of hundreds of the <n><i>Heb. guards. </i></n> Chorri and of the <n><i>Heb. runners. </i></n> Rhasim, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant of the Lord with them, and adjured them, and Jodae showed them the king's son.


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Let a third part of you go in <i>on</i> the sabbath-day, and keep you° the watch of the king's house in the porch; and another third in the gate of the high way, and a third at the gate behind the footmen; and keep you° the guard of the house.


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And there <i>shall be</i> two parties amongst you, even every one that goes out on the Sabbath, and they shall keep the guard of the Lord's house before the king.


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And do you° compass the king about every man with his weapon in his hand, and he that goes into the ranges shall die: and they shall be with the king in his going out and in his coming in.


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And the captains of hundreds did all things that the wise Jodae commanded; and they took each his men, both those that went in on the sabbath-day, <n>[[Gr. ]] hands. </n> and those that went out on the sabbath-day, and went in to Jodae the priest.


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And the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the swords and spears of king David that were in the house of the Lord.


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And the footmen stood each <n>[[Gr. ]] and his weapon. </n> with his weapon in his hand from the right corner of the house to the left corner of the house, <i>by</i> the altar and the house round about the king.


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And he <n>[[Gr. ]] sent forth. </n> brought forth the king's son, and <n>[[Gr. ]] gave. </n> put upon him the crown and <i>gave him</i> the testimony; and he made him king, and anointed him: and they clapped <i>their</i> hands, and said, Long live the king.


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And Gotholia heard the sound of the people running, and she went in to the people to the house of the Lord.


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And she looked, and, behold, the king stood near a pillar according to the manner; and the singers and the <n>[[Gr. ]] trumpets. </n> trumpeters were before the king and all the people of the land <i>even</i> rejoicing and sounding with trumpets: and Gotholia tore her garments, and cried, A conspiracy, a conspiracy.


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And Jodae the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were over the host, and said to them, Bring her forth without the ranges, <i>and</i> he that goes in after her shall certainly die by the sword. For the priest said, Let her not however be slain in the house of the Lord.


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And they laid hands upon her, and went in by the way of the horses' entrance into the house of the Lord, and she was slain there.


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And Jodae made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord's people; also between the king and the people.


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And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and tore it down, and completely broke in pieces his altars and his images, and they killed Mathan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest <n>[[Gr. ]] placed. See John 15. 16. </n> appointed overseers <n>[[Gr. ]] in [[or ]] into. </n> over the house of the Lord.


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And he took the captains of the hundreds, and the Chorri, and the Rhasim, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king out of the house of the Lord; and they went in by the way of the gate of the <n>[[Or, ]] guard, [[A.V.]]</n> footmen of the king's house, and seated him there on the throne of the kings.


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And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was at rest: and they killed Gotholia with the sword in the house of the king.


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Joas <i>was</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] a son of seven years in his reigning. </n> seven years old when he began to reign.<pb/>


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Joas <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began to reign in the seventh year of Ju, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Sabia of Bersabee.


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And Joas did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days that Jodae the priest instructed him.


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Only there were not <i>any</i> of the high places removed, and the people still sacrificed there, and burnt incense on the high places.


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And Joas said to the priests, <i>As for</i> all the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money of valuation, <i>as</i> each man brings the money of valuation, all the money which <n>[[Gr. ]] it may come into the heart, etc. </n> any man may feel disposed to bring into the house of the Lord,


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let the priests take it to themselves, every man from <i>the proceeds of</i> his sale: and they shall repair the breaches of the house in all <i>places</i> wherever a breach shall be found.


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And it came to pass in the twenty-third year of king Joas the priests <i>had</i> not repaired the breaches of the house.


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And king Joas called Jodae the priest, and the <i>other</i> priests, and said to them, Why have you° not repaired the <n>[[Gr. ]] breach. </n> breaches of the house? now then receive no <i>more</i> money from your sales, for you° shall give it to <i>repair the</i> breaches of the house.


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And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, and not to repair the breaches of the house.


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And Jodae the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it by the <n>The [[Gr. ]] is a Hebrew word in Greek letters. </n> altar in the house of a man <i>belonging to</i> the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the door put <i>therein</i> all the money that was found in the house of the Lord.


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And it came to pass, when they saw that <i>there was</i> much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest went up, and they tied up and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.


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And they gave the money that had been <n>[[Gr. ]] prepared. </n> collected into the hands of them that wrought the works, the overseers of the house of the Lord; and they gave it out to the carpenters and to the builders that wrought in the house of the Lord.


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And to the <n>[[Gr. ]] wall-builders. </n> masons, and to the hewers of stone, to purchase timber and hewn stone to repair the <n>[[Gr. ]] breach. </n> breaches of the house of the Lord, for all that was spent on the house of the Lord to repair <i>it</i>.


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Only there <n>[[Gr. ]] shall not be made. This change of future and past is frequent. </n> were not to be made for the house of the Lord silver <n>[[Gr. ]] doors. </n> plates, studs, bowls, or trumpets, any vessel of gold or vessel of silver, of the money that was brought <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> into the house of the Lord:


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for they <n>[[Gr. ]] will give, [[vide ]] v. 13. </n> were to give it to the workmen, and they repaired therewith the house of the Lord.


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Also they took no account of the men into whose hands they gave the money to give to the workmen, for they <n><i>Heb. באמכה הס. </i></n> acted faithfully.


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Money for a sin-offering, and money for a trespass-offering, whatever happened to be brought into the house of the Lord, went to the priests.


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Then went up Azael king of Syria, and fought against Geth, and took it: and Azael set his face to go against Jerusalem.


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And Joas king of Juda took all the holy things which Josaphat, and Joram, Ochozias, his fathers, and kings of Juda <i>had</i> consecrated, and <n>[[Gr. ]] his own holy things. </n> what he had himself dedicated, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the Lord's house and the king's house, and he sent <i>them</i> to Azael king of Syria; and he went up from Jerusalem.


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And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, behold, <i>are</i> not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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And his servants rose up and made a <n>[[Complut. ]] πάντα. </n> conspiracy, and struck Joas in the house of Mallo that is in Sela.


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And Jezirchar the son of Jemuath, and Jezabuth Somer's son, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amessias his son reigned in his stead.<pb/>


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In the twenty-third year of Joas son of Ochozias king of Juda <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began Joachaz the son of Ju to reign in Samaria, <i>and he reigned</i> seventeen years.


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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin; he departed not from <n>[[Gr. ]] it. </n> them.


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And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and delivered them into the hand of Azael king of Syria, and into the hand of the son of Ader son of Azael, all their days.


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And Joachaz implored the Lord, and the Lord listened to him, for he saw the affliction of Israel, because the king of Syria afflicted them.


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And the Lord gave deliverance to Israel, and they escaped from under the hand of Syria: and the children of Israel lived in their tents as <n>[[Gr. ]] yesterday and today. </n> heretofore.


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Only they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who led Israel to sin: they walked in <n>[[Gr. ]] it, [[sc. ]] ἀμαρτία. </n> them—moreover the grove also remained in Samaria.


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Whereas there was not left any <n>[[Gr. ]] people. </n> army to Joachaz, except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.


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And the rest of the acts of Joachaz, and all that he did, and his mighty acts <i>are</i> not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


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And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joas his son reigned in his stead.


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In the thirty-seventh year of Joas king of Juda, Joas the son of Joachaz <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began to reign over Israel in Samaria sixteen years.


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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord; he departed not from all the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin: he walked in it.


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And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, and his mighty acts which he performed together with Amessias king of Juda, <i>are</i> not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


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And Joas slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat upon his throne, and he was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.


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Now Elisaie was sick of his sickness, whereof he died: and Joas king of Israel went down to him, and wept over his face, and said, <i>My</i> father, <i>my</i> father, the chariot of Israel, and the horseman thereof!


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And Elisaie said to him, Take bow and <n>[[Gr. ]] weapons. </n> arrows. And he took to himself a bow and arrows.


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And he said to the king, Put your hand on the bow. And Joas put his hand upon <i>it</i>: and Elisaie put his hands upon the king's hands.


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And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. And Elisaie said, Shoot. And he shot. And <i>Elisaie</i> said, The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> from Syria; and you shall strike the Syrians in Aphec until you have consumed them.


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And Elisaie said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took them. And <i>he</i> said to the king of Israel, Strike upon the ground. And the king struck three times, and stayed.


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And the man of God was grieved at him, and said, If you had struck five or six times, then you should have struck Syria till you had consumed them; but now you shall strike Syria <i>only</i> thrice.


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And Elisaie died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites came into the land, <n>[[Gr. ]] the year having come. </n> at the beginning of the year.


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And it came to pass as they were burying a man, that behold, they saw a band <i>of men</i>, and they cast the man into the grave of Elisaie: and as soon as he touched the bones of Elisaie, he revived and stood up on his feet.


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And the Lord had mercy and compassion upon them, and had respect to them because of his covenant with Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob; and the Lord would not destroy them, and did not cast them out from his presence.


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And Joas the son of Joachaz returned, and took the cities out of the hand of the son of Ader the son of Azael, which he had taken out of the hand of Joachaz his father in the war: thrice did Joas strike him, and he recovered the cities of Israel.<pb/>


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In the second year of Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, Amessias also the son of Joas the king of Juda began to reign.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 25 years in his reigning. </n> Twenty and five years old was he when he <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Joadim of Jerusalem.


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And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not as David his father: he did according to all things that his father Joas did.


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Only he removed not the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.


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And it came to pass when the kingdom was established in his hand, that he <n>[[Gr. ]] struck. </n> killed his servants that had <n>[[Gr. ]] struck. </n> slain the king his father.


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But he killed not the sons of those that had slain him; according as it is written in the book of the laws of Moses, as the Lord gave commandment, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the children shall not be put to death for the fathers; but every one <n>[[Or. ]] be put to death, etc. </n> shall die for his own sins.


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He struck of Edom ten thousand in the <n>The [[Gr. ]] is from בוי מלח Keri. </n> valley of salt, and took <n><i>Heb. Selah </i></n> the Rock in the war, and called its name Jethoel until this day.


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Then Amessias sent messengers to Joas son of Joachaz son of Ju king of Israel, saying, Come, let us <n>[[Gr. ]] appear to faces. </n> look one another in the face.


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And Joas the king of Israel sent to Amessias king of Juda, saying, The thistle that was in Libanus sent to the cedar that was in Libanus, saying, Give my daughter to your son to wife: and the wild beasts of the field that were in Libanus passed by and trod down the thistle.


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You have struck and wounded Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: <n>[[Gr. ]] glorify yourself sitting in your house. </n> stay at home and glorify yourself; for therefore are you quarrelsome to your hurt? So <i>both</i> you will fall and Juda with you.


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Nevertheless Amessias listened not: so Joas king of Israel went up, and he and Amessias king of Juda looked one another in the face in Baethsamys of Juda.


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And Juda <n>[[Gr. ]] fell. </n> was overthrown before Israel, and <i>every</i> man fled to his tent.


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And Joas king of Israel took Amessias the son of Joas the son of Ochozias, in Baethsamys; and he came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, <i>beginning</i> at the gate of Ephraim as far as the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.


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And he took the gold, and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house, and the <n>[[Gr. ]] and <i>Heb. lit. sons of exchanges. </i></n> hostages, and returned to Samaria.


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And the rest of the acts of Joas, <i>even</i> all that he did in his might, how he warred with Amessias king of Juda, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


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And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.


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And Amessias the son of Joas king of Juda lived after the death of Joas son of Joachaz king of Israel fifteen years.


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And the rest of the acts of Amessias, and all that he did, <i>are</i> not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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And they <n>[[Gr. ]] conspired with a conspiracy. </n> formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachis: and they sent after him to Lachis, and killed him there.


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And they <n>[[Gr. ]] lifted him. </n> brought him upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.


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And all the people of Juda took Azarias, and he was <n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 16 years. </n> sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amessias.


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In the fifteenth year of Amessias son of Joas king of Juda <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began Jeroboam son of Joas to reign over Israel in Samaria forty and one years.


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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin.


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He recovered the coast of Israel from the entering in of Aemath to the sea of <n>[[i.e. ]] the plain. </n> Araba, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spoke by <n>[[Gr. ]] the hand of his servant. </n> his servant Jonas the son of Amathi, the prophet of Gethchopher.


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For the Lord saw <i>that</i> the affliction of Israel <i>was</i> very bitter, and that they were few in number, straitened and in lack, and <n>[[Or, ]] left alone. </n> destitute, and Israel had no helper.


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And the Lord <n>[[Or, ]] said not that he would. </n> said that he would not blot out the seed of Israel from under heaven; so he delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joas.


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And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zacharias his son reigned in his stead.<pb/>


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In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel Azarias the son of Amessias king of Juda <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began to reign.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 16 years was he in his reigning. </n> Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechelia of Jerusalem.


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And he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all things that Amessias his father did.


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Only he took not away <i>any</i> of the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.


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And the Lord <n>[[Gr. ]] touched. </n> plagued the king, and he was <n>[[Gr. ]] made leprous. </n> leprous till the day of his death; and he reigned in <n>The [[Gr. ]] is from החפשיח. </n> a separate house. And Joatham the king's son <i>was</i> over the household, judging the people of the land.


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And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, <i>are</i> not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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And Azarias slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Joatham his son reigned in his stead.


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In the thirty and eighth year of Azarias king of Juda Zacharias the son of Jeroboam <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began to reign over Israel in Samaria six months.


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And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.


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And Sellum the son of Jabis <i>and others</i> conspired against him, and they struck him <n><i>Heb. קבלעס before the people. </i></n> <i>in</i> Keblaam, and killed him, and he reigned in his stead.


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And the rest of the acts of Zacharias, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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<i>This was</i> the word of the Lord which he spoke to Ju, saying, Your sons of the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel: and it was so.


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And Sellum the son of Jabis reigned: and in the thirty and ninth year of Azarias king of Juda <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began Sellum to reign a full month in Samaria.


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And Manaem the son of Gaddi went up out of Tharsila, and came to Samaria, and struck Sellum the son of Jabis in Samaria, and killed him.


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And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy wherein he was engaged, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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Then Manaem struck both Thersa and all that was in it, and its borders extending beyond Thersa, because they opened not to him: and he struck it, and ripped up the women with child.


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In the thirty and ninth year of Azarias king of Juda began Manaem the son of Gaddi to reign over Israel in Samaria ten years.


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In his days went up Phua king of the Assyrians against the land: and Manaem gave to Phua a thousand talents of silver to aid him with his power.


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And Manaem raised the silver <i>by a tax</i> upon Israel, even on every mighty man in wealth, to give to the king of the Assyrians, fifty shekels <i>levied</i> on each man; and the king of the Assyrians departed, and remained not there in the land.


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In the fiftieth year of Azarias king of Juda, <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began Phakesias the son of Manaem to reign over Israel in Samaria two years.


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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.


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And Phakee the son of Romelias, his officer, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria in the front of the king's house, with Argob and Aria, and with him <i>there were</i> fifty men of the four hundred: and he killed him, and reigned in his stead.


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And the rest of the acts of Phakesias, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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In the fifty-second year of Azarias king of Juda <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began Phakee the son of Romelias to reign over Israel in Samaria twenty years.


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And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin.


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In the days of Phakee king of Israel came Thalgath-phellasar king of the Assyrians, and took Ain, and Abel, and Thamaacha, and Anioch, and Kenez, and Asor, and <n>[[Or, ]] Galaan. </n> Galaa, and Galilee, <i>even</i> all the land of Nephthali, and carried them away to the Assyrians.


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And Osee son of Ela <n>[[Gr. ]] conspired, etc. </n> formed a conspiracy against Phakee the son of Romelias, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Joatham the son of Azarias.


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And the rest of the acts of Phakee, and all that he did, behold, these <i>are</i> written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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In the second year of Phakee son of Romelias king of Israel <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began Joatham the son of Azarias king of Juda to reign.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 25 years in his reigning. </n> Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Jerusa daughter of Sadoc.


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And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all things that his father Azarias did.


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Nevertheless he took not away the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the Lord's house.


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And the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all that he did, <i>are</i> not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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In those days the Lord began to <n>[[Or, ]] let loose. </n> send forth against Juda Raasson king of Syria, and Phakee son of Romelias.


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And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.<pb/>


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In the seventeenth year of Phakee son of Romelias began Achaz the son of Joatham king of Juda to reign.


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Twenty years old was Achaz when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not that which was right in the eyes of the Lord his God faithfully, as David his father <i>had done</i>.


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And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.


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And he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places, and upon the hills, and under every <n>[[Or, ]] tree of the grove or wood. </n> shady tree.


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Then went up Raasson king of Syria and Phakee son of Romelias king of Israel against Jerusalem to war, and besieged Achaz, but could not <n>[[Gr. ]] fight. </n> prevail <i>against him</i>.


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At that time Raasson king of Syria recovered Aelath to Syria, and drove out the Jews from Aelath, and the Idumeans came to Aelath, and lived there until this day.


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And Achaz sent messengers to Thalgath-phellasar king of the Assyrians, saying, I am your servant and your son: come up, deliver me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.


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And Achaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king's house, and sent gifts to the king.


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And the king of the Assyrians listened to him: and the king of the Assyrians went up to Damascus and took it, and removed <n>[[Gr. ]] it. </n> the inhabitants, and killed king Raasson.


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And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Thalgath-phellasar king of the Assyrians at Damascus; and he saw <n>[[Or, ]] the altar. </n> an altar at Damascus. And king Achaz sent to Urias the priest the pattern of the altar, and its proportions, and all its workmanship.


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And Urias the priest built the altar, according to all <i>the directions</i> which king Achaz sent from Damascus.


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and <n>[[Gr. ]] and <i>Heb. offered </i>   [[d in way of incense. ]][[d* See 2Ch. 13.10. ]]</n> offered his whole burnt offering, and his meat-offering, and his drink-offering, and poured out the blood of his peace-offerings on the brazen altar that was before the Lord.


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And he brought forward <i>the one</i> before the house of the Lord from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and he <n>[[Or, ]] displayed it. </n> set it openly by the <n>[[Gr. ]] thigh. </n> side of the altar northwards.


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And king Achaz charged Urias the priest, saying, Offer upon the great altar the whole burnt offering in the morning and the meat-offering in the evening, and the whole burnt offering of the king, and his meat-offering, and the whole burnt offering of all the people, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offering; and you shall pour <n>[[Or, ]] the blood of every, etc. </n> all the blood of the whole burnt offering, and all the blood of <i>any other</i> sacrifice upon it: and the brazen altar shall be for me in the morning.


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And king Achaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from the brazen oxen that were under it, and set it upon a base of stone.


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And he made a base for the throne in the house of the Lord, and he turned the king's entrance without in the house of the Lord because of the king of the Assyrians.


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And the rest of the acts of Achaz, even all that he did, <i>are</i> not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Ezekias his son reigned in his stead.<pb/>


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In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began Osee the son of Ela to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.


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Against him came up Salamanassar king of the Assyrians; and Osee became his servant, and rendered him tribute.


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And the king of the Assyrians found iniquity in Osee, in that he sent messengers to Segor king of Egypt, and brought not a tribute to the king of the Assyrians in that year: and the king of the Assyrians besieged him, and bound him in the prison-house.


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And the king of the Assyrians went up <n>[[Or, ]] through. </n> against all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it <i>for</i> three years.


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In the ninth year of Osee the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to the Assyrians, and settled them in Alae, and in Abor, <i>near</i> the rivers of Gozan, and <i>in</i> the mountains of the Medes.


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For it came to pass that the children of Israel <i>had</i> transgressed against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and they feared other gods,


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and walked in the <n>[[Or, ]] customs. </n> statutes of the nations which the Lord cast out before the face of the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel as many as did <i>such things</i>,


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and <i>in those</i> of the children of Israel as many as <n>[[Gr. ]] cloaked matters. </n> secretly practised customs, not as <i>they should have done</i>, against the Lord their God:


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and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the <n>[[Gr. ]] strong. </n> fortified city. And they made for themselves pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.


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And burnt incense there on all high places, as the nations <i>did</i> whom the Lord removed from before them, and dealt with familiar spirits, and they carved <i>images</i> to provoke the Lord to anger.


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And they served the idols, of which the Lord said to them, You° shall not do this thing <i>against</i> the Lord.


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And the Lord testified against Israel and against Juda, even by the hand of all his prophets, <i>and</i> of every seer, saying, Turn you° from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, <i>and</i> all that I sent to them by the hand of my servants the prophets.


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But they listened not, and made their <n>[[Gr. ]] back. <i>Heb. back part of the neck. </i></n> neck harder than the neck of their fathers.


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And they kept not any of his testimonies which he charged them; and they walked after vanities, and became vain, and after the nations round about them, concerning which the Lord had charged them not to do accordingly.


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They forsook the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves <n>[[Gr. ]] a graven image. </n> graven images, <i>even</i> two heifers, and they made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.


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And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and <n>[[Gr. ]] were sold. </n> sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.


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And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; and there was only left the tribe of Juda quite alone.


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Nay even Juda kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but they walked according to the customs of Israel which they practised, and rejected the Lord.


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And the Lord was angry with the whole seed of Israel, and <n>[[Or, ]] unsettled them. </n> troubled them, and gave them into the hand of them that spoiled them, until he cast them out of his presence.


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<n>The [[Complut. ]] is better, πλὴν ὅτι ἐῤῤάγη ὁ Ἰσραὴλ ἀπ᾿οἴκου κ.τ.λ. </n> Forasmuch as Israel revolted from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nabat king: and Jeroboam drew off Israel from following the Lord, and led them to sin a great sin.


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And the children of Israel walked in all the sin of Jeroboam which he committed; they departed not from it,


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until the Lord removed Israel from his presence, as the Lord spoke by <n>[[Gr. ]] by the hand of. </n> all his servants the prophets; and Israel was removed from off their land to the Assyrians until this day.


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And the king of Assyria brought from Babylon the men of Chutha, <i>and men</i> from Aia, and from Aemath, and Seppharvaim, and they were settled in the cities of Samaria in the place of the children of Israel: and they inherited Samaria, and were settled in its cities.


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And it was so at the beginning of their establishment there <i>that</i> they feared not the Lord, and the Lord sent lions amongst them, and they killed some of them.


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And they spoke to the king of the Assyrians, saying, The nations whom you have removed and substituted in the cities of Samaria <i>for the Israelites</i>, know not <n>[[Gr. ]] judgement. [[Hebraism.]]</n> the manner of the God of the land: and he has sent the lions against them, and, behold, they are slaying them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.


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And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying, Bring some <i>Israelites</i> thence, and let them go and dwell there, and they shall teach them the manner of the God of the land.


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And they brought one of the priests whom they had removed from Samaria, and he settled in Baethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.


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But the nations made each their own gods, and put them in the house of the high places which the Samaritans <i>had</i> made, each nation in the cities in which they lived.


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And the men of Babylon made Socchoth Benith, and the men of Chuth made Ergel, and the men of Haemath made Asimath.


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And the Evites made Eblazer and Tharthac, and the <i>inhabitant</i> of Seppharvaim <i>did evil</i> when they burnt their sons in the fire to Adramelech and Anemelech, the gods of Seppharvaim.


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And they feared the Lord, yet they established their abominations in the houses of the high places which they made in Samaria, each nation in the city in which they lived: and they feared the Lord, and they made for themselves priests of the high places, and sacrificed for themselves in the house of the high places.


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And they feared the Lord, and served their gods according to the manner of the nations, whence <i>their lords</i> brought them.


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Until this day they did according to their manner: they fear <i>the Lord</i>, and they do according to their customs, and according to their manner, and according to the law, and according to the commandment which the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, whose name he made Israel.


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And the Lord made a covenant with them, and charged them, saying, You° shall not fear other gods, neither shall you° worship them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:


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but only to the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great strength and with a high arm: him shall you° fear, and him shall you° worship; to him shall you° sacrifice.


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You° shall observe continually the ordinances, and the judgements, and the law, and the commandments which he wrote for you to do; and you° shall not fear other gods.


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So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images: yes, their sons and their son's sons do until this day even as their fathers did.<pb/>


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And it came to pass in the third year of Osee son of Ela king of Israel <i>that</i> Ezekias son of Achaz king of Juda <n>[[Gr. ]] reigned. </n> began to reign.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 25 years in his reigning. </n> Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Abu, daughter of Zacharias.


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And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David did.


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He <n>[[Or, ]] destroyed. </n> removed the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and the brazen serpent which Moses made: because until those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Neesthan.


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He <n>[[Gr. ]] hoped. </n> trusted in the Lord God of Israel; and after him there was not any like him amongst the kings of Juda, <n>[[Gr. ]] and. </n> nor amongst those that were before him.


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And he clave to the Lord, he departed not <n>[[Gr. ]] from behind him. </n> from following him; and he kept his commandments, as many as he commanded Moses.


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And the Lord was with him; and he was wise in all that he undertook: and he revolted from the king of the Assyrians, and served him not.


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He struck the Philistines <i>even</i> to Gaza, and to the border of it, from the tower of the watchmen even to the strong city.


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Ezekias (this is the seventh year of Osee son of Ela king of Israel,) <i>that</i> Salamanassar king of the Assyrians came up against Samaria, and besieged it.


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And he took it <n>[[Gr. ]] from. </n> at the end of three years, in the sixth year of Ezekias, (this <i>is</i> the ninth year of Osee king of Israel, when Samaria was taken.)


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And the king of the Assyrians carried away the <n>[[Gr. ]] Samaria to the Assyrians. </n> Samaritans to Assyria, and put them in Alae and in Abor, <i>by</i> the river Gozan, and <i>in</i> the mountains of the Medes;


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because they listened not to the voice of the Lord their God, and transgressed his covenant, <i>even</i> in all things that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and listened not <i>to them</i>, nor did <i>them</i>.


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And in the fourteenth year of king Ezekias came up Sennacherim king of the Assyrians against the strong cities of Juda, and took them.


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And Ezekias king of Juda sent messengers to the king of the Assyrians to Lachis, saying, I have offended; depart from me: whatever you shall lay upon me, I will bear. And the king of Assyria laid upon Ezekias king of Juda <i>a tribute of</i> three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold.


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And Ezekias gave all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house.


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At that time Ezekias cut off <i>the gold from</i> the doors of the temple, and <i>from</i> the pillars which Ezekias king of Juda <i>had</i> overlaid with gold, and gave <n>[[Gr. ]] them. </n> it to the king of the Assyrians.


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And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan and Raphis and Rapsakes from Lachis to king Ezekias with a <n>[[Gr. ]] heavy. </n> strong force against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is by the way of the fuller's field.


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And they cried to Ezekias: and there came to him Heliakim the son of Chelcias the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and Joas the son of Saphat the recorder.


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And Rapsakes said to them, Say now to Ezekias, Thus says the king, the great king of the Assyrians, What <i>is</i> this confidence wherein you trust?


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You have said, (but <i>they are</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] words of lips. </n> mere words,) <i>I have</i> counsel and strength for war. Now then <n>[[Gr. ]] in whom trusting, etc. </n> in whom do you trust, that you have revolted from me?


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See now, are you trusting for yourself on this broken staff of reed, <i>even</i> upon Egypt? whoever shall stay himself upon it, it shall even go into his hand, and pierce it: so <i>is</i> Pharao king of Egypt to all that trust on him.


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And whereas you have said to me, We trust on the Lord God: <i>is</i> not this he, <n>[[Gr. ]] his. </n> whose high places and altars Ezekias has removed, and has said to Juda and Jerusalem, You° shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?


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And now, I pray you, make and agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you shall be able on your part to <n>[[Gr. ]] give. </n> set riders upon them.


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How then will you turn away the face of one <n>[[Gr. ]] local ruler. </n> petty governor, from amongst the least of my lord's servants? whereas you trust for yourself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen.


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And now have we come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.


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And Heliakim the son of Chelkias, and Somnas, and Joas, said to Rapsakes, Speak now to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it; and speak not with us in the Jewish language: and why do you speak in the ears of the people that are on the wall?


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And Rapsakes said to them, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? <i>has he</i> not <i>sent me</i> to the men who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own water together with you.


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And Rapsakes stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and spoke, and said, Hear the words of the great king of the Assyrians:


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thus says the king, Let not Ezekias encourage you with words: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand.


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And let not Ezekias cause you to trust on the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly deliver us; this city shall not be delivered <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> into the hand of the king of the Assyrians: listen not to Ezekias:


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for thus says the king of the Assyrians, <n>[[Lit. ]] make a blessing with me. </n> Gain my favour, and come forth to me, and every man shall drink <i>of the wine</i> of his own vine, and every man shall eat of his own fig tree, and shall drink water out of his own cistern;


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until I come and remove you to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil, and honey, and you° shall live and not die: and do not you° listen to Ezekias, for he deceives you, saying, The Lord shall deliver you.


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Have the Gods of the nations at all delivered each their own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?


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Where is the god of Haemath, and of Arphad? where is the god of Seppharvaim, Ana, and Aba? for have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?


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Who <i>is there</i> amongst all the gods of the countries, who have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the Lord <n>[[Gr. ]] shall deliver. </n> should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


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But <i>the men</i> were silent, and answered him not a word: for <i>there was</i> a commandment of the king, saying, You° shall not answer him.


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And Heliakim the son of Chelcias, the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and Joas the son of Saphat the recorder came in to Ezekias, having torn their garments; and they reported to him the words of Rapsakes.<pb/>


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And it came to pass when king Ezekias heard it, that he tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth, an went into the house of the Lord.


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And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed with <n>[[Gr. ]] sackcloth. </n> sackcloth, to Esaias the prophet the son of Amos.


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And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, This day <i>is</i> a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-<i>pangs</i>, but the mother has no strength.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] if by any means. </n> Peradventure the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rapsakes, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God and to revile him with the words which the Lord your God has heard: and you shall <n>[[Gr. ]] take. </n> offer <i>your</i> prayer for the remnant that is found.


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And Esaias said to them, Thus shall you° say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which you have heard, wherewith the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed.


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Behold, I <n>[[Gr. ]] give. </n> send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.


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So Rapsakes returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Lobna: for he heard that he <i>had</i> departed from Lachis.


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And he heard concerning Tharaca king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold, he is come forth to fight with you: and he returned, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,


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Let not your God on whom you trust encourage you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.


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Behold, you have heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done in all the lands, to <n>[[Gr. ]] curse them. [[q.d. ]] devote to destruction. </n> waste them utterly: and shall you be delivered?


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Have the gods of the nations at all delivered them, whom my fathers destroyed; both Gozan, and Charran, and Raphis, and the sons of Edem who were in Thaesthen?


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Where is the king of Haemath, and the king of Arphad? and where is the king of the city of Seppharvaim, of Ana, and Aba?


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And Ezekias took <n>[[Gr. ]] the books. </n> the letter from the hand of the messengers, and <n>[[Gr. ]] them. </n> read it: and he went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezekias spread it before the Lord,


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and said, O Lord God of Israel that dwell over the cherubs, you are the only god in all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.


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Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear: open, Lord, your eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.


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and <n>[[Gr. ]] gave. </n> have cast their gods into the fire: because they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.


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And now, O Lord our God, deliver us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that you alone <i>are</i> the Lord God.


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And Esaias the son of Amos sent to Ezekias, saying, Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, I have heard <n>[[Lit. ]] what things you have prayed. </n> your prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.


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This <i>is</i> the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.


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Whom have you reproached, and whom have you reviled? and against whom have you lifted up your voice, and raised your eyes on high? <i>Is it</i> against the Holy One of Israel?


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By <n>[[Gr. ]] by the hand of. </n> your messengers you have reproached the Lord, and have said, I will go up with the multitude of my chariots, to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Libanus, and I have cut down the <n>[[Gr. ]] bulk or size. </n> height of his cedar, <i>and</i> his choice cypresses; and I have come into the midst of the forest and of Carmel.


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I have <n>[[Alex. ]] reads ἐφύλαξα. </n> refreshed <i>myself</i>, and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.


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I have brought about <i>the matter</i>, I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the <n>[[Gr. ]] captivities. </n> destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, <i>even of</i> strong cities.


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And they that lived in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became <i>as</i> grass of the field, or <i>as</i> the green herb, the grass <i>growing on</i> houses, and that which is trodden down <n>[[Or, ]] before it stands up. </n> by him that stands <i>upon it</i>.


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But I know your <n>[[Gr. ]] seat. </n> down-sitting, and your going forth, and your rage against me.


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Because you was angry against me, and your fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in your nostrils, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.


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And this shall be a sign to you; eat this year the things that grow of themselves, and in the second year the things which spring up: and in the third year <i>let there be</i> sowing, and reaping, and planting of vineyards, and eat you° the fruit of them.


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And he shall <n>[[Gr. ]] add. </n> increase <n>[[Gr. ]] τὸ διασες. οἴκον. </n> him that has escaped of the house of Juda: and the remnant <i>shall strike</i> root beneath, and it shall produce fruit above.


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For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and he that escapes from the mountain of Sion: the zeal of the Lord of host shall do this.


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<i>Is it</i> not so? <pb/>Thus says the Lord <n>[[Or, ]] of. <i>Heb. </i></n> concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot <n>[[Gr. ]] a weapon. </n> an arrow there, neither shall a shield <n>[[Gr. ]] come against it beforehand, etc. </n> come against it, neither shall he heap a mound against it.


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By the way by which he comes, by it shall he return, and he shall not enter into this city, says the Lord.


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And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, <i>these were</i> all dead corpses.


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And it came to pass, while he was worshipping in the house of Meserach his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararath; and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.<pb/>


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In those days was Ezekias sick <i>even</i> to death. And the prophet Esaias the son of Amos came in to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give charge to your household; <i>for</i> you <n>[[Gr. ]] die. </n> shall die, and not live.


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Lord, remember, I pray you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a <n>[[Gr. ]] full. </n> perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your eyes. And Ezekias wept with a great weeping.


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Turn back, and you shall say to Ezekias the ruler of my people, Thus says the Lord God of your father David, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you: on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.


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And I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant's David sake.


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And Ezekias said to Esaias, What <i>is</i> the sign that the Lord will heal me, and I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?


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And Esaias said, This <i>is</i> the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will perform the word which he has spoken, the shadow <i>of the dial</i> shall advance ten degrees: <i>or</i> if it should go back ten degrees <i>this would also be the sign</i>.


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And Ezekias said, <i>It is</i> a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return ten degrees backward <n>[[Or. ]] in the degrees. </n> on the dial.


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At that time Marodach Baladan, son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Ezekias, because he had heard that Ezekias was sick.


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And Ezekias rejoiced at them, and showed all the house of his spices, the silver and the gold, the spices, and the fine oil, and the armoury, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing which Ezekias did not show them in his house, and in all his dominion.


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And Esaias the prophet went in to king Ezekias, and said to him, What said these men? and whence came they to you? And Ezekias said, they came to me from a distant land, <i>even</i> from Babylon.


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And he said, What saw they in your house? And he said, They saw all things that <i>are</i> in my house: there was nothing in my house which I showed not to them; yes, all that was in my treasures also.


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Behold, the days come, that all things that are in your house shall be taken, and all that your fathers have treasured up until this day, to Babylon; and there shall not <n>[[Gr. ]] be left behind. </n> fail a word, which the Lord has spoken.


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And as for your sons which shall come forth of you, which you shall beget, <i>the enemy</i> shall take them, and they shall be eunuchs in the house of the king of Babylon.


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And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good <i>is</i> the word of the Lord which he has spoken: <i>only</i> let there be peace in my days.


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And the rest of the acts of Ezekias, and all his might, and all that he made, the fountain and the aqueduct, and <i>how</i> he brought water into the city, <i>are</i> not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 12 years in his reigning. </n> Manasses <i>was</i> twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Apsiba.


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And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.


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And he <n>[[Gr. ]] returned and built. </n> built again the high places, which Ezekias his father <i>had</i> demolished; and <n>[[Or. ]] built. </n> set up an altar to Baal, and made groves as Achaab king of Israel <i>made them</i>; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.


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And he built an altar in the house of the Lord, whereas he had said, In Jerusalem I will place my name.


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And he caused his sons to pass through the fire, and used divination and auspices, and made <n>[[Lit. ]] peculiar places cut off. </n> groves, and multiplied <n>[[Alex. ]] θελητὴν. </n> wizards, so as to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.


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And he set up the graven image of the grove in the house of which the Lord 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 even place my name for ever.


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And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, <i>even of those</i> who shall keep all that I commanded, according to all the commandments which my servant Moses commanded them.


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But they listened not; and Manasses led them astray to do evil in the sight of the Lord, beyond the nations whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.


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Forasmuch as Manasses the king of Juda has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did, who lived before <i>him</i>, and has led Juda also into sin by their idols,


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<i>it shall</i> not <i>be</i> so. Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I bring calamities upon Jerusalem and Juda, so that both the ears of every one that hears shall <n>[[Gr. ]] sound. </n> tingle.


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And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measure of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Achaab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a jar is wiped, and turned upside down in the wiping.


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And I will reject the remnant of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies; and they shall be for a plunder and for a spoil to all their enemies:


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forasmuch as they have done wickedly in my sight, and have provoked me from the day that I brought out their fathers out of Egypt, even until this day.


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Moreover Manasses shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem <i>with it</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] mouth to mouth. </n> from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Juda to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.


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And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, <i>are</i> not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, <i>even</i> in the garden of Oza: and Amos his son reigned in his stead.


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Twenty and two years old <i>was</i> Amos when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Mesollam, daughter of Arus of Jeteba.


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And he walked in all the way in which his father walked, and served the idols which his father served, and worshipped them.


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And the people of the land <n>[[Gr. ]] struck. </n> killed all that had conspired against king Amos; and the people of the land made Josias king in his room.


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And the rest of the acts of Amos, <i>even</i> all that he did, behold, <i>are</i> not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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Josias <i>was</i> eight years old when he began to <n>[[Gr. ]] a son of eight years in his reigning. </n> reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Jedia, daughter of Edeia of Basuroth.


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And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father; he turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.


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And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josias, in the eighth month, the king sent Sapphan the son of Ezelias the son of Mesollam, the scribe of the house of the Lord, saying,


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Go up to Chelcias the high priest, and <n>[[Gr. ]] seal. </n> take account of the money that is brought into the house of the Lord, which they that keep the door have collected of the people.


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And let them give it into the hand of the workmen that are appointed in the house of the Lord. And he gave it to the workmen in the house of the Lord, to <n>[[Gr. ]] strengthen. </n> repair the <n>[[Gr. ]] breach, as in ch. xii. </n> breaches of the house,


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<i>even</i> to the carpenters, and builders, and masons, <i>and</i> also to purchase timber and hewn stones, to repair the breaches of the house.


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Only they did not call them to account for the money that was given to them, because they dealt faithfully.


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And Chelcias the high priest said to Saphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Chelcias gave the book to Sapphan, and he read it.


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And he went into the house of the Lord to the king, and reported the matter to the king, and said, Your servants have <n>[[Gr. ]] melted down. </n> collected the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have given it into the hand of the workmen that are appointed in the house of the Lord.


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And Sapphan the scribe spoke to the king, saying, Chelcias the priest has given me a book. And Sapphan read it before the king.


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And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the book of the law, that he tore his garments.


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And the king commanded Chelcias the priest, and Achikam the son of Sapphan, and Achobor the son of Michaias, and Sapphan the scribe, and Asaias the king's servant, saying,


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Go, enquire of the Lord for me, and for all the people, and for all Juda, and concerning the words of this book that has been found: for the wrath of the Lord that has been kindled against us <i>is</i> great, because our fathers listened not to the words of this book, to do according to all the things written concerning us.


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So Chelcias the priest went, and Achicam, and Achobor, and Sapphan, and Asaias, to Olda the prophetess, the mother of Sellem the son of Thecuan son of Aras, keeper of the robes; and she lived in Jerusalem in <n>[[A.V. ]] 'the college'. [[Margin, ]] 'the second part.' </n> Masena; and they spoke to her.


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Thus says the Lord, Behold, I bring evil upon this place, and upon them that dwell in it, <i>even</i> all the words of the book which the king of Juda has read:


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because they have forsaken me, and burnt incense to other gods, that they might provoke me with the works of their hands: therefore my wrath shall burn forth against this place, and shall not be quenched.


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And to the king of Juda that sent you to enquire of the Lord, —thus shall you° say to him, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, <i>As for</i> the words which you have heard;


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because your heart was softened, and you were humbled before <i>me</i>, when you heard all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be <n>[[Gr. ]] for an abolition and a curse. </n> utterly destroyed and accursed, and you tore your garments, and wept before me; I also have heard, says the Lord.


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It shall not be so <i>therefore</i>: behold, I <i>will</i> add you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your tomb in peace, and your <n>[[Gr. ]] none etc. shall be seen by your eyes. </n> eyes shall not see <i>any</i> amongst all the evils which I bring upon this place.<pb/>


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So they reported the word to the king: and the king sent and gathered all the elders of Juda and Jerusalem <n>[[Or, ]] to his house. </n> to himself.


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And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and every man of Juda and all who lived in Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people small and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.


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And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his ordinances with all the heart and with all the soul, to confirm the words of this covenant; <i>even</i> the things written <n>[[Gr. ]] on. </n> in this book. And all the people stood <n>[[Gr. ]] in. </n> to the covenant.


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And the king commanded Chelcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and them that kept the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and all the host of heaven, and he burnt them without Jerusalem in the <n>The [[Gr. ]] is from the [[Heb. ]] word. </n> fields of Kedron, and <n>[[Gr. ]] cast. </n> took the ashes of them to Baethel.


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And he burnt the <n><i>Heb. הבמויס. </i></n> idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Juda <i>had</i> <n>[[Gr. ]] given. </n> appointed, (and they burnt incense in the high places and in the cities of Juda, and the places around about Jerusalem); and them that burnt incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to <n>[[Or. ]] the twelve signs. [[Heb. ]] ולמולות compare Job 38. 32. </n> Mazuroth, and to all the host of heaven.


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And he carried out the grove from the house of the Lord to the brook Kedron, and burnt it at the brook Kedron, and reduced it to <n>[[Or, ]] ashes. </n> powder, and cast its powder on the sepulchres of the sons of the people.


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And he pulled down the house of the <n>The [[Gr. ]] is from the [[Heb. ]] word. </n> sodomites that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove tents for the grove.


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And he brought up all the priest from the cities of Juda, and defiled the high places where the priests burnt incense, from Gaebal even to Bersabee; and he pulled down the house of the gates that was by the door of the gate of Joshua the ruler of the city, on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.


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Only the priests of the high places went not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, for they only ate leavened bread in the midst of their brethren.


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And he defiled Taphes which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, <i>constructed</i> for a man to cause his son or his daughter to pass through <n>[[Gr. ]] in fire. </n> fire to Moloch.


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And he burnt the horses which the king of Juda had given to the sun in the entrance of the house of the Lord, <n>[[Gr. ]] to. </n> by the treasury of Nathan the <n><i>Heb. Nathan-melech. </i></n> king's eunuch, in the <n>[[Gr. ]] again from the <i>Heb. </i></n> suburbs; and he burnt the chariot of the sun with fire.


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And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kedron.


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And the king defiled the house that was before Jerusalem, on the right hand of the mount of Mosthath, which Solomon king of Israel built to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos the abomination of Moab, and to Moloch the abomination of the children of Ammon.


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And he broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.


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Also the high altar in Baethel, which Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that high altar he tore down, and broke in pieces the stones of it, and reduced it to powder, and burnt the grove.


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And Josias turned aside, and saw the tombs that were there in the city, and sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burnt them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God spoke, when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the feast: and he turned and raised his eyes to the tomb of the man of God that spoke these words.


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And he said, What <i>is</i> that mound which I see? And the men of the city said to him, <i>It is the grave of</i> the man of God that came out of Juda, and uttered these imprecations which he imprecated upon the altar of Baethel.


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And he said, Let him alone; let no one disturb his bones. So his bones were <n>[[Gr. ]] delivered. </n> spared, together with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.


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Moreover Josias removed all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel made to provoke the Lord, and did to them all that he did in Baethel.


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And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places that were there on the altars, and burnt the bones of men upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.


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And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.


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For a passover <i>such as</i> this had not been kept from the days of the judges who judged Israel, even all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda.


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Moreover Josias removed the sorcerers, and the wizards, and the theraphin, and the idols, and all the abominations that had been set up in the land of Juda and in Jerusalem, that he might <n>[[Gr. ]] establish or confirm. </n> keep the words of the law that were written in the book, which Chelcias the priest found in the house of the Lord.


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There was no king like him before him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses; and after him there rose not one like him.


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Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great anger, wherewith he was angry in his anger against Juda, <n>[[Gr. ]] upon or against. </n> because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses provoked him.


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And the Lord said, I will also remove Juda from my presence, as I removed Israel, and will reject this city which I have chosen <i>even</i> Jerusalem, and the house <i>of</i> which I said, My name shall be there.


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And the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, <i>are</i> not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?


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And in his days went up Pharao Nechao king of Egypt against the king of the Assyrians to the river Euphrates: and Josias went out to meet him: and Nechao killed him in Mageddo when he saw him.


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And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre: and the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and anointed him, and made him king in the room of his father.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 23 years was Joachaz in his reigning. </n> Twenty and three years old was Joachaz when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Amital, daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.


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And Pharao Nechao removed him to Rablaam in the land of Emath, so that he should not reign in Jerusalem; and imposed a tribute on the land, a hundred talents of silver, and a hundred talents of gold.


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And Pharao Nechao made Eliakim son of Josias king of Juda king over them in the place of his father Josias, and he changed his name <i>to</i> Joakim, and he took Joachaz and brought him to Egypt, and he died there.


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And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao; but he assessed the land to give the money at the command of Pharao: they gave the silver and the gold <i>each</i> man according to his assessment together with the people of the land to give to Pharao Nechao.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 23 years was Joakim in his reigning. </n> Twenty-five years old <i>was</i> Joakim when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Jeldaph, daughter of Phadail of Ruma.


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And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the lord, according to all that his fathers had done.<pb/>


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In his days went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and Joakim became his servant three years; and <i>then</i> he turned and revolted from him.


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And the lord sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of Syria, and the bans of Moab, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them into the land of Juda to prevail <i>against it</i>, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.


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Moreover it was <n>[[Gr. ]] on the mind. </n> the purpose of the Lord concerning Juda, to remove <n>[[Gr. ]] him. </n> them from his presence, because of the sins of Manasses, according to all that he did.


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Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not <n>[[Gr. ]] be propitiated. </n> pardon <i>it</i>.


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And the king of Egypt came no more out of his land: for the king of Babylon took away all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the river of Egypt as far as the river Euphrates.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] Joachim a son of 18 years in his reigning. </n> Eighteen years old <i>was</i> Joachim when he began to reign, an he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Nestha, daughter of Ellanastham, of Jerusalem.


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At that time went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and the city <n>[[Gr. ]] came into seige. </n> was besieged.


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And Joachim king of Juda came forth to the king of Babylon, he and his servants, and his mother, and his princes, and his eunuchs; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.


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And he brought forth thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and he cut up all the golden vessels which Solomon the king of Israel <i>had</i> made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.


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And he carried away <i>the inhabitants of</i> Jerusalem, and all the captains, and the mighty men, taking captive ten thousand <n>[[Lit. ]] captivities. </n> prisoners, and every artificer and <n>[[Lit. ]] shutter-up. </n> smith: and only the poor of the land were left.


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And he carried Joachim away to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and he carried away the mighty men of the land into <n>[[Gr. ]] emigration. </n> captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.


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And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and one thousand artificers and smiths: all <i>were</i> mighty <i>men</i> fit for war; and the king of Babylon carried them captive to Babylon.


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And the king of Babylon made <n>[[A.V. ]] Mattanaiah. </n> Batthanias his son king in his stead, and called his name Sedekias.


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<n>[[Gr. ]] a son of 21 years, Sedekias. </n> Twenty and one years old <i>was</i> Sedekias when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Amital daughter of Jeremias.


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For it was <n>[[Lit. ]] it was in the Lord's mind to bring evil upon. </n> according to the Lord's anger against Jerusalem and on Juda, until he cast them out of his presence, that Sedekias revolted against the king of Babylon.<pb/>


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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, <i>that</i> Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem; and he encamped against it, and built a <n>[[Or, ]] circumvallation. </n> mound against it.


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And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went forth by night, by the way of the gate between the walls, this is <i>the gate</i> of the king's garden: and the Chaldeans <i>were set</i> against the city round about: and <i>the king</i> went by the way of <n>[[Gr. ]] from the <i>Heb. </i></n> the plain.


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And the force of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army was dispersed from about him.


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And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha; and he gave judgement upon him.


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And he killed the sons of Sedekias before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.


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And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (this <i>is</i> the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon), came Nabuzardan, <n>[[Gr. ]] chief cook. </n> captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.


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And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every house did the captain of the guard burn.


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And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard removed the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the <n>[[Gr. ]] deserters. </n> men who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.


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And the Chaldeans broke to pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and carried their brass to Babylon.


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And the cauldrons, and the shovels, and the bowls, and the censers, and all the brazen vessels with which they minister, he took.


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Two pillars, and one sea, and the bases which Solomon made for the house of the Lord: there was no weight of the brass of all the vessels.


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The height of one pillar <i>was</i> eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was of brass: and the height of the chapiter was three cubits: the border, and the pomegranates on the chapiter round about were all of brass: and so it was with the second pillar with its border.


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And the captain of the guard took Saraias the <n>[[Gr. ]] first priest. </n> high-priest, and Sophonias <n>[[Gr. ]] the son of the second rank. </n> the second in order, and the three doorkeepers.


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And they took out of the city one eunuch who was commander of the men of war, and five men that saw the face of the king, that were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander-in-chief, who took account of the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city.


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And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.


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And the king of Babylon struck them and killed them at Reblatha in the land of Aemath. So Juda was carried away from his land.


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And <i>as for</i> the people that were left in the land of Juda, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon left, even over them he set Godolias son of Achicam son of Saphan.


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And all the captains of the host, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had <i>thus</i> appointed Godolias, and they came to Godolias to Massephath, both Ismael the son of Nathanias, and Jona son of Careth, and Saraias, son of Thanamath the Netophathite, and Jezonias son of a Machathite, they and their men.


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And Godolias swore to them and their men, and said to them, Fear not the <n>[[Gr. ]] passage. </n> incursion of the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.


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And it came to pass in the seventh month <i>that</i> Ismael son of Nathanias son of Helisama, of the <n>[[Gr. ]] seed of the kings. </n> seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and he struck Godolias, that he died, <i>him</i> and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him in Massepha.


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And all the people, great and small rose up, <i>they</i> and the captains of the forces, and went into Egypt; because they were afraid of the Chaldeans.


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And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the carrying away of Joachim king of Juda, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, <i>that</i> Evialmarodec king of Babylon in the <i>first</i> year of his reign lifted up the head of Joachim king of Juda, and brought him out of his prison-house.


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And he spoke <n>[[Gr. ]] good things with him. </n> kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon;


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And his portion, a continual portion, was given him out of the house of the king, <n>[[Gr. ]] a rate of a day in his day. </n> a daily rate for every day all the days of his life.


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And the sons of Chus, Saba, and Evila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sebethaca: and the sons of Regma, Saba, and Dadan.


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And these <i>are</i> their generations: the firstborn of Ismael, Nabaeoth, and Kedar, Nabdeel, Massam,


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And the sons of Chettura Abraam's concubine:—and she bore him Zembram, Jexan, Madiam, Madam, Sobac, Soe: and the sons of Jexan; Daedan, and Sabai;


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and the sons of Madiam; Gephar, and Opher, and Enoch, and Abida, and Eldada; all these <i>were</i> the sons of Chettura.


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The sons of Sobal; Alon, Machanath, Taebel, Sophi, and Onan: and the sons of Sebegon; Aeth, and Sonan.


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And these <i>are</i> their kings, Balac the son of Beor; and the name of his city <i>was</i> Dennaba.


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And Asom died, and Adad the son of Barad reigned in his stead, who struck Madiam in the plain of Moab: and the name of his city <i>was</i> Gethaim.


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And Balaennor died, and Adad son of Barad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city <i>was</i> Phogor.


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The sons of Juda; Er, Aunan, Selom. <i>These</i> three were born to him of the daughter of Sava the Chananitish woman: and Er, the firstborn of Juda, <i>was</i> wicked before the Lord, and he killed him.


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And their sister <i>was</i> Saruia, and <i>another</i> Abigaia: and the sons of Saruia <i>were</i> Abisa, and Joab, and Asael, three.


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And Chaleb the son of Esrom took Gazuba to wife, and Jerioth: and these <i>were</i> her sons; Jasar, and Subab, and Ardon.


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And after this Esron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Galaad, and he took her when he was sixty-five years old; and she bore him Seruch.


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And he took Gedsur and Aram, the towns of Jair from them; <i>with</i> Canath and its towns, sixty cities. All these <i>belonged to</i> the sons of Machir the father of Galaad.


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And after the death of Esron, Chaleb came to Ephratha; and the wife of Esron <i>was</i> Abia; and she bore him Ascho the father of Thecoe.


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And the sons of Jerameel the firstborn of Esron <i>were</i>, the firstborn Ram, and Banaa, and Aram, and Asan his brother.


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And Sosan had no sons, but daughters. And Sosan had an Egyptian servant, and his name <i>was</i> Jochel.


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And the sons of Chaleb the brother of Jerameel <i>were</i>, Marisa his firstborn, he <i>is</i> the father of Ziph:—and the sons of Marisa the father of Chebron.


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She bore also Sagae the father of Madmena, and Sau the father of Machabena, and the father of Gaebal: and the daughter of Chaleb <i>was</i> Ascha.


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These were the sons of Chaleb: the sons of Or the firstborn of Ephratha; Sobal the father of Cariathiarim,


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and Umasphae, cities of Jair; Aethalim, and Miphithim, and Hesamathim, and Hemasaraim; from these went forth the Sarathaeans, and the sons of Esthaam.


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The sons of Salomon; Baethalaem, the Netophathite, Ataroth of the house of Joab, and half of the family of Malathi, Esari.


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The families of the scribes dwelling in Jabis; Thargathiim, and Samathiim, and Sochathim, these <i>are</i> the Kinaeans that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.<pb/>


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Now these were the sons of David that were born to him in Chebron; the firstborn Amnon, <i>born</i> of Achinaam the Jezraelitess; the second Damniel, of Abigaia the Carmelitess.


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The third, Abessalom, the son of Mocha the daughter of Tholmai king of Gedsur; the fourth, Adonia the son of Aggith.


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Six were born to him in Chebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months: and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.


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And these were born to him in Jerusalem; Samaa, Sobab, Nathan, and Solomon; four <i>of</i> Bersabee the daughter of Amiel:


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All <i>these were</i> the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines, and <i>there was also</i> Themar their sister.


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And the sons of Josia; the firstborn Joanan, the second Joakim, the third Sedekias, the fourth Salum.


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And the sons of Phadaias; Zorobabel, and Semei: and the sons of Zorobabel; Mosollam, and Anania, and Salomethi <i>was</i> their sister.


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And the sons of Anania, Phalettia, and Jesias his son, Raphal his son, Orna his son, Abdia his son, Sechenias his son.


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And the son of Sechenias; Samaia: and the sons of Samaia; Chattus, and Joel, and Berri and Noadia, and Saphath, six.


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And the sons of Elithenan; Odolia, and Heliasebon, and Phadaia, and Akub, and Joanan, and Dalaaia, and Anan, seven.<pb/>


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and Rada his son; and Subal begot Jeth; and Jeth begot Achimai, and Laad: these <i>are</i> the generations of the Arathites.


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And these <i>are</i> the sons of Aetam; Jezrael and Jesman, and Jebdas: and their sister's name <i>was</i> Eselebbon.


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And Phanuel the father of Gedor, and Jazer the father of Osan: these <i>are</i> the sons of Or, the firstborn of Ephratha, the father of Baethalaen.


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And Aoda bore to him Ochaia, and Ephal, and Thaeman, and Aasther: all these <i>were</i> the sons of Aoda.


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And Igabes was more famous than his brethren; and his mother called his name Igabes, saying, I have born as a sorrowful one.


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And Igabes called on the God of Israel, saying, O that you would indeed bless me, and enlarge my coasts, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would make me know that you will not grieve me! And God granted him all that he asked.


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He begot Bathraias, and Bessee, and Thaeman the founder of the city of Naas the brother of Eselom the Kenezite: these <i>were</i> the men of Rechab.


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And Manathi begot Gophera: and Saraia begot Jobab, the father of Ageaddair, for they were artificers.


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And the sons of Esri; Jether, Morad, and Apher, and Jamon: and Jether begot Maron, and Semei, and Jesba the father of Esthaemon.


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And his wife, that <i>is</i> Adia, bore Jared the father of Gedor, and Aber the father of Sochon, and Chetiel the father of Zamon: and these <i>are</i> the sons of Betthia the daughter of Pharao, whom Mored took.


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And the sons of the wife of Iduia the sister of Nachaim the father of Keila; Garmi, and Esthaemon the Nochathite.


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And the sons of Semon; Amnon, and Ana the son of Phana, and Inon: and the sons of Sei, Zoan, and the sons of Zoab.


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The sons of Selom the son of Juda; Er the father of Lechab, and Laada the father of Marisa, and the offspring of the family of Ephrathabac <i>belonging to</i> the house of Esoba.


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And Joakim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joas, and Saraph, who lived in Moab, and he changed their names to Abederin and Athukiim.


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These <i>are</i> the potters who lived in Ataim and Gadira with the king: they grew strong in his kingdom, and lived there.


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Semei <i>had</i> sixteen sons, and six daughters; and his brethren had not many sons, neither did all their families multiply as the sons of Juda.


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and in Baethmarimoth, and Hemisuseosin, and the house of Baruseorim: these <i>were</i> their cities until <i>the time of</i> king David.


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And all their villages <i>were</i> round about these cities, as far as Baal: this <i>was</i> their possession, and their distribution.


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and Zuza the son of Saphai, the son of Alon, the son of Jedia, the son of Semri, the son of Samaias.


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These went by the names of princes in their families, and they increased abundantly in their fathers' households.


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And they found abundant and good pastures, and the land before them <i>was</i> wide, and <i>there was</i> peace and quietness; for <i>there were</i> some of the children of Cham who lived there before.


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And these who are written by name came in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and they struck the people's houses, and the Minaeans whom they found there, and utterly destroyed them until this day: and they lived in their place, because <i>there was</i> pasture there for their cattle.


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And some of them, <i>even</i> of the sons of Symeon, went to mount Seir, <i>even</i> five hundred men; and Phalaettia, and Noadia, and Raphaia, and Oziel, sons of Jesi, <i>were</i> their rulers.


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And the sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel (for he <i>was</i> the firstborn; but because of his going up to his father's couch, <i>his father</i> gave his blessing to his son Joseph, <i>even</i> the son of Israel; and he was not reckoned as firstborn;


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for Judas <i>was</i> very mighty even amongst his brethren, and one was to be a ruler out of him: but the blessing <i>was</i> Joseph's).


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his son Beel, whom Thagla-phallasar king of Assyria carried away captive: he <i>is</i> the chief of the Rubenites.


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And his brethren in his family, in their distribution according to their generations; the chief, Joel, and Zacharia.


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And Balec the son of Azuz, the son of Sama, the son of Joel: he lived in Aroer, and even to Naban, and Beelmasson.


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And he lived eastward to the borders of the wilderness, from the river Euphrates: for they had much cattle in the land of Galaad.


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And in the days of Saul they made war upon the sojourners <i>in the land</i>; and they fell into their hands, all of them dwelling in their tents eastward of Galaad.


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And their brethren according to the houses of their fathers; Michael, Mosollam, and Sebee, and Joree, and Joachan, and Zue, and Obed, seven.


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These <i>are</i> the sons of Abichaia the son of Uri, the son of Idai, the son of Galaad, the son of Michael, the son of Jesai, the son of Jeddai, the son of Buz,


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<i>who was</i> the brother of the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, <i>he was</i> chief of the house of their families.


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They lived in Galaad, in Basan, and in their villages, and <i>in</i> all the country round about Saron to the border.


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The enumeration of <i>them</i> all took place in the days of Joatham king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.


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The sons of Ruben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasse, of mighty men, bearing shields and sword, and bending the bow, and skilled in war, <i>were</i> forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going forth to battle.


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and they prevailed against them: and the Agaraeans were given into their hands, <i>they</i> and all their tents: for they cried to God in the battle, and he listened to them, because they trusted on him.


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And they took captive their store; five thousand camels, and two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.


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For many fell slain, because the war <i>was</i> of God. And they lived in their place until the captivity.


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And the half-tribe of Manasse lived from Basan to Baal, Ermon, and Sanir, and <i>to</i> the mount Aermon: and they increased in Libanus.


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And these were the heads of the houses of their families; Opher, and Sei, and Eliel, and Jeremia, and Oduia, and Jediel, mighty men of valour, men of renown, heads of the houses of their families.


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But they rebelled against the God of their fathers, and went a-whoring after the gods of the nations of the land, whom God cast out from before them.


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And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Phaloch king of Assyria, and the spirit of Thagla-phallasar king of Assyria, and carried away Ruben and Gaddi, and the half-tribe of Manasse, and brought them to Chaach, and Chabor, and to the river Gozan, until this day.<pb/>


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And the sons of Ambram; Aaron, and Moses, and Mariam: and the sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abiud, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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The sons of Merari; Mooli and Musi: and these <i>are</i> the families of Levi, according to their families.


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And these <i>were the men</i> whom David set over the service of the singers in the house of the Lord when the ark was at rest.


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And they ministered in front of the tabernacle of witness <i>playing</i> on instruments, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they stood according to their order for their services.


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And these <i>were the men</i> that stood, and their sons, of the sons of Caath: Aeman the psalm singer, son of Joel, the son of Samuel,


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And the sons of Merari their brethren on the left hand: Aetham the son of Kisa, the son of Abai, the son of Maloch,


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And their brethren according to the houses of their fathers, <i>were</i> the Levites who were appointed to all the work of ministration of the tabernacle of the house of God.


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And Aaron and his sons <i>were</i> to burn incense on the altar of whole burnt offerings, and on the altar of incense, for all the ministry <i>in</i> the holy of holies, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all things that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.


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And these <i>are</i> their residences in their villages, in their coasts, to the sons of Aaron, to their family the Caathites: for they had the lot.


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And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, <i>even</i> Chebron, and Lobna and her suburbs round about, and Selna and her suburbs, and Esthamo and her suburbs,


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and of the tribe of Benjamin Gabai and her suburbs, and Galemath and her suburbs, and Anathoth and her suburbs: all their cities <i>were</i> thirteen cities according to their families.


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And to the sons of Caath that were left of their families, <i>there were given</i> out of the tribe, <i>namely</i>, out of the half-tribe of Manasse, by lot, ten cities.


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And to the sons of Gedson according to their families <i>there were given</i> thirteen cities of the tribe of Issachar, of the tribe of Aser, of the tribe of Nephthali, of the tribe of Manasse in Basan.


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And to the sons of Merari according to their families <i>there were given</i>, by lot, twelve cities of the tribe of Ruben, of the tribe of Gad, <i>and</i> of the tribe of Zabulon.


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And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Juda, and out of the tribe of the children of Symeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which they call by name.


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And <i>to the members</i> of the families of the sons of Caath there were also given the cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.


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And they gave them the cities of refuge, Sychem and her suburbs in mount Ephraim, and Gazer and her suburbs,


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and of the half-tribe of Manasse Anar and her suburbs, and Jemblaan and her suburbs, to the sons of Caath that were left, according to <i>each several</i> family.


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To the sons of Gedson from the families of the half-tribe of Manasse <i>they gave</i> Golan of Basan and her suburbs, and Aseroth and her suburbs.


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And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedes and her suburbs, and Deberi and her suburbs, and Dabor and her suburbs,


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And of the tribe of Nephthali; Kedes in Galilee and her suburbs, and Chamoth and her suburbs, and Kariathaim and her suburbs.


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To the sons of Merari that were left, <i>they gave</i> out of the tribe of Zabulon Remmon and her suburbs, and Thabor and her suburbs:


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out of <i>the country</i> beyond Jordan; Jericho westward of Jordan: out of the tribe of Ruben; Bosor in the wilderness and her suburbs, and Jasa and her suburbs,


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And <i>as</i> to the sons of Issachar, <i>they were</i> Thola, and Phua, and Jasub, and Semeron, four.


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And the sons of Thola; Ozi, Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jamai, and Jemasan, and Samuel, chiefs of their fathers' houses <i>belonging to</i> Thola, men of might according to their generations; their number in the days of David <i>was</i> twenty and two thousand and six hundred.


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And the sons of Ozi; Jezraia: and the sons of Jezraia; Michael, Abdiu, and Joel, and Jesia, five, all rulers.


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And with them, according to their generations, according to the houses of their families, <i>were men</i> mighty to set <i>armies</i> in array for war, thirty and six thousand, for they had multiplied <i>their</i> wives and children.


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And their brethren amongst all the families of Issachar, also mighty men, <i>were</i> eighty-seven thousand—<i>this was</i> the number of them all.


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And the sons of Bale; Esebon, and Ozi, and Oziel, and Jerimuth, and Uri, five; heads of houses of families, mighty men; and their number <i>was</i> twenty and two thousand and thirty-four.


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And the sons of Bachir; Zemira, and Joas, and Eliezer, and Elithenan, and Amaria, and Jerimuth, and Abiud, and Anathoth, and Eleemeth: all these <i>were</i> the sons of Bachir.


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And their number according to their generations, (<i>they were</i> chiefs of their fathers' houses, men of might), <i>was</i> twenty thousand and two hundred.


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And the sons of Jediel; Balaan: and the sons of Balaan; Jaus, and Benjamin, and Aoth, and Chanana, and Zaethan, and Tharsi, and Achisaar.


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All these <i>were</i> the sons of Jediel, chiefs of their families, men of might, seventeen thousand and two hundred, going forth to war with might.


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The sons of Manasse; Esriel, whom his Syrian concubine bore; and she bore to him also Machir the father of Galaad.


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And Machir took a wife for Apphin and Sapphin, and his sister's name was Moocha; and the name of the second <i>son</i> was Sapphaad; and to Sapphaad were born daughters.


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And Moocha the wife of Machir bore a son, and called his name Phares; and his brother's name <i>was</i> Surus; his sons <i>were</i> Ulam, and Rocom.


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And the sons of Ulam; Badam. These <i>were</i> the sons of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasse.


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And the sons of Ephraim; Sothalath, and Barad his son, and Thaath his son, Elada his son, Saath his son,


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and Zabad his son, Sothele his son, and Azer, and Elead: and the men of Geth who were born in the land killed them, because they went down to take their cattle.


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And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beria, because, <i>said he</i>, he was afflicted in my house.


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And his daughter <i>was</i> Saraa, and he was amongst them that were left, and he built Baethoron the upper and the lower. And the descendants of Ozan <i>were</i> Seera,


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And their possession and their dwelling <i>were</i> Baethel and her towns, to the east Noaran, westward Gazer and her towns, and Sychem and her towns, as far as Gaza and her towns.


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And as far as the borders of the sons of Manasse, Baethsaan and her towns, Thanach and her towns, Mageddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In this the children of Joseph the son of Israel lived.


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All these <i>were</i> the sons of Aser, all heads of families, choice, mighty men, chief leaders: their number for battle array—their number <i>was</i> twenty-six thousand men.<pb/>


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Now Benjamin begot Bale his firstborn, and Asbel his second <i>son</i>, Aara the third, Noa the fourth,


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These <i>were</i> the sons of Aod: these are the heads of families to them that dwell in Gabee, and they removed them to Machanathi:


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And Saarin begot <i>children</i> in the plain of Moab, after that he had sent away Osin and Baada his wives.


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and Beria, and Sama; these <i>were</i> heads of families amongst the dwellers in Elam, and they drove out the inhabitants of Geth.


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These <i>were</i> heads of families, chiefs according to their generations: these lived in Jerusalem.


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And Makeloth begot Samaa: for these lived in Jerusalem in the presence of their brethren with their brethren.


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And Ner begot Kis, and Kis begot Saul, and Saul begot Jonathan, and Melchisue, and Aminadab, and Asabal.


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And Esel <i>had</i> six sons, and these <i>were</i> their names; Ezricam his firstborn, and Ismael, and Saraia, and Abdia, and Anan, and Asa: all these <i>were</i> the sons of Esel.


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And the sons of Aelam were mighty men, bending the bow, and multiplying sons and grandsons, a hundred <i>and</i> fifty. All these <i>were</i> of the sons of Benjamin.<pb/>


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And <i>this is</i> all Israel, <i>even</i> their enrolment: and these <i>are</i> written down in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda, with the <i>names of them</i> that were carried away to Babylon for their transgressions.


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And they that lived before in their possessions in the cities of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the appointed ones.


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And there lived in Jerusalem some of the children of Juda, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasse.


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And Gnothi, and the son of Samiud, the son of Amri, the son of Ambraim, the son of Buni, son of the sons of Phares, the son of Juda.


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And Jemnaa son of Jeroboam, and Elo: these <i>are</i> the sons of Ozi the son of Machir: and Mosollam, son of Saphatia, son of Raguel, son of Jemnai;


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and their brethren according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six, all the men <i>were</i> heads of families according to the houses of their fathers.


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and Azaria the son of Chelcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of Sadoc, the son of Maraioth, the son of Achitob, the ruler of the house of God;


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and Adaia son of Iraam, son of Phascor, son of Melchia, and Maasaia son of Adiel, son of Ezira, son of Mosollam, son of Maselmoth, son of Emmer;


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and their brethren, chiefs of their families, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty, mighty <i>men</i> for the work of the ministration of the house of God.


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and Abdia, son of Samia, son of Galaal, son of Idithun, and Barachia son of Ossa, son of Helcana—who lived in the villages of the Notephatites.


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and <i>he waited</i> hitherto in the king's gate eastward: these <i>are</i> the gates of the companies of the sons of Levi.


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And Sellum the son of Core, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core, and his brethren belonging to the house of his father, the Corites <i>were</i> over the works of the service, keeping the watches of the tabernacle, and their fathers over the camp of the Lord, keeping the entrance.


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All the chosen porters in the gates <i>were</i> two hundred and twelve, these <i>were</i> in their courts, <i>this was</i> their distribution: these David and Samuel the seer established in their charge.


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And these and their sons <i>were</i> over the gates in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the tabernacle, to keep watch.


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For four strong <i>men</i> have the charge of the gates; and the Levites were over the chambers, and they keep watch over the treasures of the house of God.


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For the charge <i>was</i> upon them, and these <i>were</i> charged with the keys to open the doors of the temple every morning.


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And <i>some</i> of them <i>were appointed</i> over the vessels of service, that they should carry them in by number, and carry them out by number.


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And <i>some</i> of them <i>were</i> appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.


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And Matthathias of the Levites, (he <i>was</i> the firstborn of Salom the Corite,) <i>was set</i> in charge over the sacrifices of meat-offering of the pan belonging to the high priest.


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And Banaias the Caathite, from amongst their brethren, <i>was set</i> over the show bread, to prepare it every sabbath.


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And these <i>were</i> the singers, heads of families of the Levites, <i>to whom were</i> established daily courses, for they were employed in the services day and night.


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These <i>were</i> the heads of the families of the Levites according to their generations; these chiefs lived in Jerusalem.


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And his firstborn son <i>was</i> Abdon, and <i>he had</i> Sur, and Kis, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,


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And Makeloth begot Samaa: and these lived in the midst of their brethren in Jerusalem, <i>even</i> in the midst of their brethren.


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And Esel had six sons, and these <i>were</i> their names; Esricam his firstborn, and Ismael, and Saraia, and Abdia, and Anan, and Asa: these <i>were</i> the sons of Esel.<pb/>


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Now the Philistines warred against Israel; and they fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelbue.


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And the Philistines pursued after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines struck Jonathan, and Aminadab, and Melchisue, sons of Saul.


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And the battle prevailed against Saul, and the archers hit him with bows and arrows, and they were wounded of the bows.


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And Saul said to his armour-bearer, Draw your sword, and pierce me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mock me. But his armour-bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid: so Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.


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And all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, and they left their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and lived in them.


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And it came to pass on the next <i>day</i> that the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his sons fallen on mount Gelbue.


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And they stripped him, and took his head, and his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistines round about, to proclaim the glad tidings to their idols, and to the people.


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And all the mighty men rose up from Galaad, and they took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabis, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabis, and fasted seven days.


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So Saul died for his transgressions, wherein he transgressed against God, against the word of the Lord, forasmuch as he kept <i>it</i> not, because Saul enquired of a wizard to seek <i>counsel</i>, and Samuel the prophet answered him:


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and he sought not the Lord: so he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.<pb/>


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And heretofore when Saul was king, you were he that led Israel in and out, and the Lord of Israel said to you, You shall feed my people Israel, and you shall be for a ruler over Israel.


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And all the elders of Israel came to the king to Chebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Chebron before the Lord: and they anointed David to be king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel.


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And the king and his men went to Jerusalem, this <i>is</i> Jebus; and there the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land said to David,


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You shall not enter in hither. But he took the strong hold of Sion: this <i>is</i> the city of David.


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And David said, Whoever first smites the Jebusite, even he shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Saruia went up first, and became chief.


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And these <i>are</i> the chiefs of the mighty men, whom David had, who strengthened <i>themselves</i> with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.


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And this <i>is</i> the list of the mighty <i>men</i> of David; Jesebada, son of Achaman, first of the thirty: he drew his sword once against three hundred whom he killed at one time.


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He was with David in Phasodamin, and the Philistines were gathered there to battle, and <i>there was</i> a portion of the field full of barley; and the people fled before the Philistines.


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And he stood in the midst of the portion, and rescued it, and struck the Philistines; and the Lord wrought a great deliverance.


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And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Odollam, and the camp of the Philistines <i>was</i> in the giants' valley.


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And David <i>was</i> then in the hold, and the garrison of the Philistines <i>was</i> then in Bethleem.


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And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink of the well of Bethleem, that is in the gate?


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And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and they drew water out of the well that was in Bethleem, which was in the gate, and they took it, and came to David: but David would not drink it, and poured it out to the Lord, and said,


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God forbid that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men with their lives? for with <i>the peril of</i> their lives they brought it. So he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty <i>men</i>.


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And Abisa the brother of Joab, he was chief of three: he drew his sword against three hundred slain at one time, and he had a name amongst the <i>second</i> three.


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He was more famous than the two <i>others</i> of the three, and he was chief <i>over</i> them; yet he reached not to the <i>first</i> three.


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And Banaia the son of Jodae was the son of a mighty man: many <i>were</i> his acts for Cabasael: he struck two lion-like men of Moab, and he went down and struck a lion in a pit on a snowy day.


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And he struck an Egyptian, a wonderful man five cubits <i>high</i>; and in the hand of the Egyptian <i>there was</i> a spear like a weavers' beam; and Banaia went down to him with a staff, and took the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.


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He was distinguished beyond the thirty, yet he reached not to the <i>first</i> three: and David set him over his family.


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And the mighty <i>men</i> of the forces <i>were</i>, Asael the brother of Joab, Eleanan the son of Dodoe of Bethleem,


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And these <i>are</i> they that came to Sikelag, when he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kis; and these <i>were</i> amongst the mighty, aiding <i>him</i> in war,


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and <i>using</i> the bow with the right hand and with the left, and slingers with stones, and <i>shooters</i> with bows. Of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin,


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the chief <i>was</i> Achiezer, and Joas son of Asma the Gabathite, and Joel and Jophalet, sons of Asmoth, and Berchia, and Jeul of Anathoth,


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and Samaias the Gabaonite a mighty man amongst the thirty, and over the thirty; <i>and</i> Jeremia, and Jeziel, and Joanan, and Jozabath of Gadarathiim,


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And from Gad these separated themselves to David from the wilderness, strong mighty men of war, bearing shields and spears, and their faces <i>were as</i> the face of a lion, and they were nimble as roes upon the mountains in speed.


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These <i>were</i> chiefs of the army of the sons of Gad, the least one commander of a hundred, and the greatest one of a thousand.


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These <i>are</i> the <i>men</i> that crossed over Jordan in the first month, and it had overflowed all its banks; and they drove out all the inhabitants of the valleys, from the east to the west.


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And David went out to meet them, and said to them, If you° are come peaceably to me, let my heart be at peace with you: but if <i>you° are come</i> to betray me to my enemies unfaithfully, the God of your fathers look upon it, and reprove it.


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And the Spirit came upon Amasai, a captain of the thirty, and he said, Go, David, son of Jesse, you and your people, peace, peace be to you, and peace to your helpers, for your God has helped you. And David received them, and made them captains of the forces.


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And <i>some</i> came to David from Manasse, when the Philistines came against Saul to war: and he helped them not, because the captains of the Philistines took counsel, saying, With the heads of those men will he return to his master Saul.


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When David was going to Sikelag, there came to him of Manasse, Edna and Jozabath, and Rodiel, and Michael, and Josabaith, and Elimuth, and Semathi: <i>these</i> are the captains of thousands of Manasse.


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And they fought on the side of David against a troop, for they <i>were</i> all men of might; and they were commanders in the army, <i>because</i> of <i>their</i> might.


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And these <i>are</i> the names of the commanders of the army, who came to David to Chebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him according to the word of the Lord.


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And Sadoc, a young <i>man</i> mighty in strength, and <i>there were</i> twenty-two leaders of his father's house.


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And of the sons of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand: and still the greater part of them kept the guard of the house of Saul.


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And of the sons of Ephraim, twenty thousand and eight hundred mighty men, famous in the houses of their fathers.


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And of the half-tribe of Manasse, eighteen thousand, even <i>those</i> who were named by name, to make David king.


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And of the sons of Issachar having wisdom with regard to the times, knowing what Israel should do, two hundred; and all their brethren with them.


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And of Zabulon they that went out to battle, with all weapons of war, <i>were</i> fifty thousand to help David, not weak-handed.


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And of Nephthali a thousand captains, and with them <i>men</i> with shields and spears, thirty-seven thousand.


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And from the country beyond Jordan, from Ruben, and the Gadites, and from the half-tribe of Manasse, a hundred and twenty thousand, with all weapons of war.


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All these <i>were</i> men of war, setting <i>the army</i> in battle array, with a peaceful mind <i>towards him</i>, and they came to Chebron to make David king over all Israel: and the rest of Israel <i>were of</i> one mind to make David king.


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And they were there three days eating and drinking, for their brethren <i>had</i> made preparations.


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And their neighbours, as far as Issachar and Zabulon and Nephthali, brought to them upon camels, and asses, and mules, and upon calves, food, meal, cakes of figs, raisins, wine, and oil, calves and sheep abundantly: for <i>there was</i> joy in Israel.<pb/>


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And David took counsel with the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, <i>even with</i> every commander.


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And David said to the whole congregation of Israel, If it <i>seem</i> good to you, and it should be prospered by the Lord our God, let us send to our brethren that are left in all the land of Israel, and let the priests the Levites who are with them in the cities of their possession <i>come</i>, and let them be gathered to us.


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And let us bring over to us the ark of our God; for men have not enquired <i>at</i> it since the days of Saul.


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And all the congregation said that they would do thus; for the saying was right in the eyes of all the people.


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So David assembled all Israel, from the borders of Egypt even to the entering in of Hemath, to bring in the ark of God from the city of Jarim.


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And David brought it up: and all Israel went up to the city of David, which belonged to Juda, to bring up thence the ark of the Lord God who sits between the cherubim, whose name is called <i>on it</i>.


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And they set the ark of God on a new waggon <i>brought</i> out of the house of Aminadab: and Oza and his brethren drove the waggon.


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And David and all Israel <i>were</i> playing before the Lord with all their might, and <i>that</i> together with singers, and with harps, and with lutes, with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.


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And they came as far as the threshing floor: and Oza put forth his hand to hold the ark, because the bullock moved it from <i>its place</i>.


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And the Lord was very angry with Oza, and struck him there, because of his stretching forth his hand upon the ark: and he died there before God.


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And David was dispirited, because the Lord <i>had</i> made a breach on Oza: and he called that place the Breach of Oza until this day.


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So David brought not the ark home to himself into the city of David, but he turned it aside into the house of Abeddara the Gethite.


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And the ark of God abode in the house of Abeddara three months: and God blessed Abeddara and all that he had.<pb/>


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And Chiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar timbers, and masons, and carpenters, to build a house for him.


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And David knew that the Lord <i>had</i> designed him to be king over Israel; because his kingdom was highly exalted, on account of his people Israel.


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And these <i>are</i> the names of those that were born, who were <i>born</i> to him in Jerusalem; Samaa, Sobab, Nathan, and Solomon,


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And the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel: and all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard <i>it</i>, and went out to meet them.


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And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and will you deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said to him, Go up, and I will deliver them into your hands.


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And he went up to Baal Pharasin, and David struck them there; and David said, God has broken through enemies by my hand like a breach of water: therefore he called the name of that place, the Breach of Pharasin.


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And David enquired of God again; and God said to him, You shall not go after them; turn away from them, and you shall come upon them near the pear trees.


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And it shall be, when you shall hear the sound of their tumult in the tops of the pear trees, then you shall go into the battle: for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.


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And the name of David was <i>famous</i> in all the land; and the Lord put the terror of him on all the nations.<pb/>


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And <i>David</i> made for himself houses in the city of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and made a tent for it.


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Then said David, It is not <i>lawful for any</i> to bear the ark of God, but the Levites; for the Lord has chosen them to bear the ark of the Lord, and to minister to him for ever.


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And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord to the place which he <i>had</i> prepared for it.


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And David called Sadoc and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites, Uriel, Asaia, and Joel, and Semaia, and Eliel, and Aminadab,


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and said to them, You° <i>are</i> the heads of the families of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, and you° shall carry up the ark of the God of Israel, <i>to the place</i> which I have prepared for it.


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For because you° were not <i>ready</i> at the first, our God made a breach upon us, because we sought him not according to the ordinance.


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And the sons of the Levites took the ark of God, (as Moses commanded by the word of God according to the scripture) upon their shoulders with staves.


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And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy.


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So the Levites appointed Aeman the son of Joel; Asaph the son of Barachias <i>was one</i> of his brethren; and Aethan the son of Kisaeus was of the sons of Merari their brethren;


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and with them their brethren of the second rank, Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semiramoth, and Jeiel, and Elioel, and Eliab, and Banaia, and Maasaia, and Matthathia, and Eliphena, and Makellia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, the porters.


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And Mattathias, and Eliphalu, and Makenia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, with harps of Amasenith, to make a loud noise.


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And Somnia, and Josaphat, and Nathanael, and Amasai, and Zacharia, and Banaea, and Eliezer, the priests, were sounding with trumpets before the ark of God: and Abdedom and Jeia <i>were</i> doorkeepers of the ark of God.


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So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains of thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant from the house of Abdedom with gladness.


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And it came to pass when God strengthened the Levites bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they sacrificed seven calves and seven rams.


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And David <i>was</i> girded with a fine linen robe, and all the Levites <i>who were</i> bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the singers, and Chonenias the master of the band of singers; also upon David <i>there was</i> a robe of fine linen.


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And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of a horn, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, playing loudly on lutes and harps.


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And the ark of the covenant of the Lord arrived, and came to the city of David; and Melchol the daughter of Saul looked down through the window, and saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.<pb/>


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So they brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tabernacle which David pitched for it; and they offered whole burnt offerings and peace-offerings before God.


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And David finished offering up whole burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and blessed the people in the name of the Lord.


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And he divided to every man of Israel (both men and women), to <i>every</i> man one baker's loaf, and a cake.


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And he appointed before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, Levites to minister <i>and</i> lift up the voice, and to give thanks and praise the Lord God of Israel:


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Asaph <i>was</i> the chief, and next to him Zacharias, Jeiel, Semiramoth, and Jeiel, Mattathias, Eliab, and Banaeas, and Abdedom: and Jeiel sounding with musical instruments, lutes <i>and</i> harps, and Asaph with cymbals:


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and Banaeas and Oziel the priests <i>sounding</i> continually with trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God in that day.


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Song. Give thanks to the Lord, call upon him by his name, make known his designs amongst the people.


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Sing <i>songs</i> to him, and sing hymns to him, relate to all <i>people</i> his wonderful deeds, which the Lord has wrought.


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Give to the Lord the glory <i>belonging</i> to his name: take gifts and offer <i>them</i> before him; and worship the Lord in his holy courts.


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Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; and let them say amongst the nations, The Lord reigns.


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And say you°, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us, and rescue us from amongst the heathen, that we may praise your holy name, and glory in your praises.


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Blessed <i>be</i> the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting: And all the people shall say, Amen. So they praised the Lord.


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And they left there Asaph and his brethren before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to minister before the ark continually, according to the service of each day: from day to day.


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And Abdedom and his brethren <i>were</i> sixty and eight; and Abdedom the son of Idithun, and Osa, <i>were</i> to be doorkeepers.


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And <i>they appointed</i> Sadoc the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place in Gabaon,


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to offer up whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and according to all things written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded the children of Israel by Moses the servant of God.


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And with him <i>were</i> Aeman and Idithun, and the rest chosen out by name to praise the Lord, for his mercy <i>endures</i> for ever.


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And with them <i>there were</i> trumpets and cymbals to sound aloud, and musical instruments for the songs of God: and the sons of Idithun <i>were</i> at the gate.


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And it came to pass as David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord <i>is</i> under <i>curtains</i> of skins.


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Go and say to David my servant, Thus said the Lord, You shall not build me a house for me to dwell in it.


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in all places through which I have gone with all Israel: did I ever speak to <i>any</i> one tribe of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, <i>Why is it</i> that you° have not built me a house of cedar?


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And now thus shall you say to my servant David, Thus says the Lord Almighty, I took you from the sheepfold, from following the flocks, to be a ruler over my people Israel:


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and I was with you in all places whither you went, and I destroyed all your enemies from before you, and I made for you a name according to the name of the great ones that are upon the earth.


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And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant him, and he shall dwell by himself, and shall no longer be anxious; and the son of iniquity shall no longer afflict him, as at the beginning,


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and from the days when I appointed judges over my people Israel. Also I have humbled all your enemies, and I will increase you, and the Lord will build you a house.


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And it shall come to pass when your days shall be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, which shall be of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.


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I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and my mercy will I not withdraw from him, as I withdrew <i>it</i> from them that were before you.


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And I will establish him in my house and in his kingdom for ever; and his throne shall be set up for ever.


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And king David came and sat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what <i>is</i> my house, that you have loved me for ever?


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And these things were little in your sight, O God: you have also spoken concerning the house of your servant for a long time to come, and you have looked upon me as a man looks upon his fellow, and have exalted me, O Lord God.


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O Lord, there is none like you, and there is no God beside you, according to all things which we have heard with our ears.


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Neither is there another nation upon the earth <i>such</i> as your people Israel, whereas God led him in the way, to redeem a people for himself, to make for himself a great and glorious name, to cast out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed out of Egypt.


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And you have appointed your people Israel as a people to yourself for ever; and you, Lord, did become a God to them.


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And now, Lord, let the word which you spoke to your servant, and concerning his house, be confirmed for ever, and do you as you have spoken.


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And let your name <i>be</i> established and magnified for ever, <i>men</i> saying, Lord, Lord, Almighty God of Israel: and <i>let</i> the house of your servant David <i>be</i> established before you.


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For you, O Lord my God, have revealed to the ear of your servant that you will build him a house; therefore your servant has found a willingness to pray before you.


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And now you have begun to bless the house of your servant, so that it should continue for ever before you: for you, Lord, have blessed <i>it</i>, and do you bless <i>it</i> for ever.<pb/>


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And it came to pass afterwards, that David struck the Philistines, and routed them, and took Geth and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.


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And David struck Adraazar king of Suba of Emath, as he was going to establish power towards the river Euphrates.


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And David took of them a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand infantry: and David houghed all the chariot <i>horses</i>, but there were reserved of them a hundred chariots.


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And the Syrian came from Damascus to help Adraazar king of Suba; and David struck of the Syrian <i>army</i> twenty and two thousand men.


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And David put a garrison in Syria near Damascus; and they became tributary servants to David: and the Lord delivered David wherever he went.


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And David took the golden collars that were on the servants of Adraazar, and brought them to Jerusalem.


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And David took out of Matabeth, and out of the chief cities of Adraazar very much brass: of this Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the brazen vessels.


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And he sent Aduram his son to king David to ask how he was, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Adraazar, and struck him; for Thoa was the enemy of Adraazar.


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And all the golden and silver and brazen vessels, even these king David consecrated to the Lord, with the silver and the gold which he took from all the nations; from Idumaea, and Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalec.


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And Joab the son of Saruia <i>was</i> over the army, and Josaphat the son of Achilud <i>was</i> recorder.


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And David said, I will act kindly towards Anan the son of Naas, as his father acted kindly towards me. And David sent messengers to condole with him on the death of his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Anan, to comfort him.


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And the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Anan, Is it to honour your father before you, that David has sent comforters to you? Have not his servants come to you that they might search the city, and to spy out the land?


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And Anan took the servants of David, and shaved them, and cut off the half of their garments as far as their tunic, and sent them away.


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And there came men to report to David concerning the men: and he sent to meet them, for they were greatly disgraced: and the king said, Dwell in Jericho until your beards have grown, and return.


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And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed, and Anan and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen out of Syria of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria Maacha, and from Sobal.


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And they hired for themselves two and thirty thousand chariots, and the king of Maacha and his people; and they came and encamped before Medaba: and the children of Ammon assembled out of their cities, and came to fight.


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And the children of Ammon came forth, and set themselves in array for battle by the gate of the city: and the kings that were come forth encamped by themselves in the plain.


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And Joab saw that they were fronting <i>him</i> to fight against him before and behind, and he chose <i>some</i> out of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against the Syrian.


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And the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, and they also fled from before Abesai, and from before Joab his brother, and they came to the city: and Joab came to Jerusalem.


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And the Syrian saw that Israel had defeated him, and he sent messengers, and they brought out the Syrians from beyond the river; and Sophath the commander-in-chief of the forces of Adraazar <i>was</i> before them.


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And the Syrians fled from before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians seven thousand <i>riders in</i> chariots, and forty thousand infantry, and he killed Sophath the commander-in-chief of the forces.


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And David took the crown of Molchom their king off his head, and the weight of it was found <i>to be</i> a talent of gold, and on it were precious stones; and it was <i>placed</i> on the head of David: and he brought out the spoils of the city <i>which were</i> very great.


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And he brought out the people that were in it, and sawed them asunder with saws, and <i>cut them</i> with iron axes, and with harrows: and thus David did to all the children of Ammon. And David and all his people returned to Jerusalem.


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And it came to pass afterward that there was again war with the Philistines in Gazer: then Sobochai the Sosathite struck Saphut of the sons of the giants, and laid him low.


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And there <i>was</i> war again with the Philistines; and Eleanan the son of Jair struck Lachmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear <i>was</i> as a weavers' beam.


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And there was again war in Geth, and there was a man of extraordinary size, and his fingers <i>and toes were</i> six on each hand and foot, four and twenty; and he was descended from the giants.


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These were born to Rapha in Geth; all four were giants, and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.<pb/>


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And king David said to Joab and to the captains of the forces, Go, number Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me <i>the account</i>, and I shall know their number.


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And Joab said, May the Lord add to his people, a hundred-fold as many as they <i>are</i>, and <i>let</i> the eyes of my lord the king see <i>it</i>: all <i>are</i> the servants of my lord. Why does my lord seek this thing? <i>do it not</i>, lest it become a sin to Israel.


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Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab; and Joab went out and passed through all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.


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And Joab gave the number of the mustering of the people to David: and all Israel was a million and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and the sons of Juda <i>were</i> four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.


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And David said to God, I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing: and now, I pray you, remove the sin of your servant; for I have been exceedingly foolish.


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Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says the Lord, I bring three things upon you: choose one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you.


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either three years of famine, or that you should flee three months from the face of your enemies, and the sword of your enemies <i>shall be employed</i> to destroy you, or that the sword of the Lord and pestilence <i>should be</i> three days in the land, and the angel of the Lord <i>shall be</i> destroying in all the inheritance of Israel. And now consider what I shall answer to him that sent the message.


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And David said to Gad, They are very hard for me, even <i>all</i> the three: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies <i>are</i> very abundant, and let me not fall by any means into the hands of man.


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And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and repented for the evil, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice you; withhold your hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.


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And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord, standing between the earth and the heaven, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem: and David and the elders clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.


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And David said to God, <i>Was it</i> not I <i>that</i> gave orders to number the people? and I am the guilty one; I have greatly sinned: but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord God, let your hand be upon me, and upon my father's house, and not on your people for destruction, O Lord!


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And the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David, that he should go up to erect and altar to the Lord, in the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.


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And Orna turned and saw the king; and he hid himself and his four sons with him. Now Orna was threshing wheat.


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And David came to Orna; and Orna came forth from the threshing floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.


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And David said to Orna, Give me your place of the threshing floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from <i>amongst</i> the people.


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And Orna said to David, Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do what is right in his eyes: see, I have given the calves for a whole burnt offering, and the plough for wood, and the corn for a meat-offering; I have given all.


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And king David said to Orna, Nay; for I will surely buy it for its worth in money: for I will not take your property for the Lord, to offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord without cost <i>to myself</i>.


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And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole burnt offerings and peace-offerings: and he cried to the Lord, and he answered him by fire out of heaven on the altar of whole burnt offerings, and <i>it</i> consumed the whole burnt offering.


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At that time when David saw that the Lord answered him in the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite, he also sacrificed there.


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And the tabernacle of the Lord which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of whole burnt offerings, <i>were</i> at that time in the high place at Gabaon.


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And David could not go before it to enquire of God; for he hasted not because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.<pb/>


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And David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this <i>is</i> the altar for whole burnt offering for Israel.


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And David gave orders to gather all the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he appointed stone-hewers to hew polished stones to build the house to God.


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And David prepared much iron for the nails of the doors and the gate; the hinges also and brass in abundance, there was no weighing <i>of it</i>.


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And cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and the Tyrians brought cedar trees in abundance to David.


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And David said, My son Solomon <i>is</i> a tender child, and the house <i>for me</i> to build to the Lord <i>is</i> for superior magnificence for a name and for a glory through all the earth: I will make preparation for it. And David prepared abundantly before his death.


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And David said to Solomon, <i>My</i> child, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord God.


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But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have carried on great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood upon the earth before me.


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Behold, a son shall be born to you, he shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name <i>shall be</i> Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.


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He shall build a house to my name; and he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom in Israel for ever.


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And now, my son, the Lord shall be with you, and prosper <i>you</i>; and you shall build a house to the Lord your God, as he spoke concerning you.


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Only may the Lord give you wisdom and prudence, and strengthen you over Israel, both to keep and to do the law of the Lord your God.


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Then will he prosper <i>you</i>, if you take heed to do the commandments and judgements which the Lord commanded Moses for Israel: be courageous and strong; fear not, nor be terrified.


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And, behold, I according to my poverty have prepared for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver, and brass and iron without measure; for it is abundant; and I have prepared timber and stones; and do you add to these.


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And <i>of them that are</i> with you do you add to the multitude of workmen; <i>let there be</i> artificers and masons, and carpenters, and every skilful <i>workman</i> in every work;


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in gold and silver, brass and iron, <i>of which</i> there is no number. Arise and do, and the Lord <i>be</i> with you.


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<i>Is</i> not the Lord with you? and he has given you rest round about, for he has given into your hands the inhabitants of the land; and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.


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Now set your hearts and souls to seek after the Lord your God: and rise, and build a sanctuary to your God to carry in the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the Lord.<pb/>


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And the Levites numbered <i>themselves</i> from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls amounted to thirty and eight thousand men.


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Of the overseers over the works of the house of the Lord <i>there were</i> twenty-four thousand, and <i>there were</i> six thousand scribes and judges;


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and four thousand doorkeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.


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And David divided them <i>into</i> daily courses, for the sons of Levi, for Gedson, Caath, and Merari.


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The sons of Semei; Salomith, Jeiel, and Dan, three: these <i>were</i> the chiefs of the families of Edan.


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And to the sons of Semei, Jeth, and Ziza, and Joas, and Beria: these <i>were</i> the four sons of Semei.


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And Jeth was the chief, and Ziza the second: and Joas and Beria did not multiply sons, and they became <i>only</i> one reckoning according to the house of their father.


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The sons of Ambram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was appointed for the consecration of the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister and bless in his name for ever.


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And the sons of Eliezer were, Rabia the chief: and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rabia were very greatly multiplied.


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And Eleazar died, and he had no sons, but daughters: and the sons of Kis, their brethren, took them.


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These <i>are</i> the sons of Levi according to the houses of their fathers; chiefs of their families according to their numbering, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, doing the works of service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upward.


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For David said, The Lord God of Israel has given rest to his people, and has taken up his abode in Jerusalem for ever.


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For by the last words of David was the number of the Levites <i>taken</i> from twenty years old and upward.


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For he appointed them to wait on Aaron, to minister in the house of the Lord, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the purification of all the holy things, and over the works of the service of the house of God;


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and for the show-bread, and for the fine flour of the meat-offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for the fried cake, and for the dough, and for every measure;


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and <i>to be</i> over all the whole burnt offerings that were offered up to the Lord on the sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, by number, according to the order <i>given</i> to them, continually before the Lord.


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And they are to keep the charge of the tabernacle of witness, and the charge of the holy place, and the charges of the sons of Aaron their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.<pb/>


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And <i>they number</i> the sons of Aaron in <i>their</i> division, Nadab, and Abiud, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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And Nadab and Abiud died before their father, and they had no sons: so Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron ministered as priests.


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And David distributed them, even Sadoc of the sons of Eleazar, and Achimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their numbering, according to their service, according to the houses of their fathers.


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And there were found <i>amongst</i> the sons of Eleazar more chiefs of the mighty ones, than of the sons of Ithamar: and he divided them, sixteen heads of families to the sons of Eleazar, eight according to <i>their</i> families to the sons of Ithamar.


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And he divided them according to their lots, one with the other; for there were those who had charge of the holy things, and those who had charge of the <i>house</i> of the Lord amongst the sons of Eleazar, and amongst the sons of Ithamar.


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And Samaias the son of Nathanael, the scribe, <i>of the family</i> of Levi, wrote them down before the king, and the princes, and Sadoc the priest, and Achimelech the son of Abiathar <i>were present</i>; and the heads of the families of the priests and the Levites, each of a household <i>were assigned</i> one to Eleazar, and one to Ithamar.


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This <i>is</i> their numbering according to their service to go into the house of the Lord, according to their appointment by the hand of Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.


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And for the sons of Levi that were left, <i>even</i> for the sons of Ambram, Sobael: for the sons of Sobael, Jedia.


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And the sons of Musi; Mooli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These <i>were</i> the sons of the Levites according to the houses of their families.


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And they also received lots as their brethren the sons of Aaron before the king; Sadoc also, and Achimelech, and the chiefs of the families of the priests and of the Levites, principal heads of families, even as their younger brethren.<pb/>


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And king David and the captains of the host appointed to their services the sons of Asaph, and of Aeman, and of Idithun, prophesiers with harps, and lutes, and cymbals: and their number was according to their polls serving in their ministrations.


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The sons of Asaph; Sacchur, Joseph, and Nathanias, and Erael: the sons of Asaph <i>were</i> next the king.


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To Idithun <i>were reckoned</i> the sons of Idithun, Godolias, and Suri, and Iseas, and Asabias, and Matthathias, six after their father Idithun, sounding loudly on the harp thanksgiving and praise to the Lord.


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To Aeman <i>were reckoned</i> the sons of Aeman, Bukias, and Matthanias, and Oziel, and Subael, and Jerimoth, and Ananias, and Anan, and Heliatha, and Godollathi, and Rometthiezer, and Jesbasaca, and Mallithi, and Otheri, and Meazoth.


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All these <i>were</i> the sons of Aeman the king's chief player in the praises of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Aeman fourteen sons, and three daughters.


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All these sang hymns with their father in the house of God, with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, for the service of the house of God, near the king, and Asaph, and Idithun, and Aeman.


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And the number of them after their brethren, those instructed to sing to God, every one that understood <i>singing</i> was two hundred and eighty-eight.


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And they also cast lots for the daily courses, for the great and the small <i>of them</i>, of the perfect ones and the learners.


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And the first lot of his sons and of his brethren came forth to Asaph the son of Joseph, <i>namely</i>, Godolias: the second Heneia, his sons and his brethren <i>being</i> twelve.


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And for the divisions of the gates: the sons of the Corites <i>were</i> Mosellemia, of the sons of Asaph.


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And Mosellemia's firstborn son <i>was</i> Zacharias, the second Jadiel, the third Zabadia, the fourth Jenuel,


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And to Abdedom <i>there were born</i> sons, Samaias the firstborn, Jozabath the second, Joath the third, Sachar the fourth, Nathanael the fifth,


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And to Samaias his son were born the sons of his firstborn, chiefs over the house of their father, for they were mighty.


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The sons of Samai; Othni, and Raphael, and Obed, and Elzabath, and Achiud, mighty men, Heliu, and Sabachia, and Isbacom.


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All <i>these were</i> of the sons of Abdedom, they and their sons and their brethren, doing mightily in service: in all sixty-two <i>born</i> to Abdedom.


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And to Osa of the sons of Merari <i>there were born</i> sons, keeping the dominion; though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief of the second division.


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Chelcias the second, Tablai the third, Zacharias the fourth: all these <i>were</i> the sons and brethren of Osa, thirteen.


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To these <i>were assigned</i> the divisions of the gates, to the chiefs of the mighty men the daily courses, even their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.


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And they cast lots for the small as well as for the great, for the several gates, according to their families.


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And the lot of the east gates fell to Selemias, and Zacharias: the sons of Soaz cast lots for Melchias, and the lot came out northward.


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<i>They gave the lot</i> for the second to Osa westward, after the gate of the chamber by the ascent, watch against watch.


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Eastward <i>were</i> six <i>watchmen</i> in the day; northward four by the day; southward four by the day; and two at the Esephim,


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to relieve guard, also for Osa westward after the chamber-gate, three. <i>There was</i> a ward over against the ward of the ascent eastward, six <i>men</i> in a day, and four for the north, and four for the south, and at the Esephim two to relieve guard, and four by the west, and two to relieve guard at the pathway.


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And the Levites their brethren <i>were</i> over the treasures of the house of the Lord, and over the treasures of the hallowed things.


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These <i>were</i> the sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gersonite: to Ladan <i>belonged</i> the heads of the families: <i>the son</i> of Ladan the Gersonite <i>was</i> Jeiel.


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The sons of Jeiel <i>were</i> Zethom, and Joel; brethren <i>who were</i> over the treasures of the house of the Lord.


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And Rabias <i>was</i> son to his brother Eliezer, and <i>so was</i> Josias, and Joram, and Zechri, and Salomoth.


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This Salomoth and his brethren <i>were</i> over all the sacred treasures, which David the king and the heads of families consecrated, <i>and</i> the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and princes of the host,


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things which he took out of cities and from the spoils, and consecrated some of them, so that the building of the house of God should not lack <i>supplies</i>;


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and over all the holy things of God dedicated by Samuel the prophet, and Saul the son of Kis, and Abenner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Saruia, whatever they sanctified <i>was</i> by the hand of Salomoth and his brethren.


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For the Issaarites, Chonenia, and <i>his</i> sons <i>were over</i> the outward ministration over Israel, to record and to judge.


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For the Chebronites, Asabias and his brethren, a thousand and seven hundred mighty men, <i>were</i> over the charge of Israel beyond Jordan westward, for all the service of the Lord and work of the king.


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Of the <i>family</i> of Chebron Urias <i>was</i> chief, even of the Chebronites according to their generations, according to their families. In the forties year of his reign they were numbered, and there were found mighty men amongst them in Jazer of Galaad.


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And his brethren <i>were</i> two thousand and seven hundred mighty men, chiefs of their families, and king David set them over the Rubenites, and the Gaddites, and the half-tribe of Manasse, for every ordinance of the Lord, and business of the king.<pb/>


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Now the sons of Israel according to their number, heads of families, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and scribes ministering to the king, and for every affair of the king according to <i>their</i> divisions, <i>for</i> every ordinance of coming in and going out monthly, for all the months of the year, one division of them <i>was</i> twenty-four thousand.


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And over the first division of the first month <i>was</i> Isboaz the son of Zabdiel: in his division <i>were</i> twenty-four thousand.


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And over the division of the second month <i>was</i> Dodia the son of Ecchoc, and over his division <i>was</i> Makelloth also chief: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand, chief men of the host.


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The third for the third month <i>was</i> Banaias the son of Jodae the chief priest: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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This Banaeas <i>was</i> more mighty than the thirty, and over the thirty: and Zabad his son <i>was</i> over his division.


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The fourth for the fourth month <i>was</i> Asael the brother of Joab, and Zabadias his son, and his brethren: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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The fifth chief for the fifth month <i>was</i> Samaoth the Jezraite: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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The sixth for the sixth month <i>was</i> Hoduias the son of Ekkes the Thecoite: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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The seventh for the seventh month <i>was</i> Chelles of Phallus of the children of Ephraim: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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The eighth for the eighth month <i>was</i> Sobochai the Usathite, <i>belonging</i> to Zarai: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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The ninth for the ninth month <i>was</i> Abiezer of Anathoth, of the land of Benjamin: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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The tenth for the tenth month <i>was</i> Meera the Netophathite, <i>belonging</i> to Zarai: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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The eleventh for the eleventh month <i>was</i> Banaias of Pharathon, of the sons of Ephraim: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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The twelfth for the twelfth month <i>was</i> Choldia the Netophathite, <i>belonging</i> to Gothoniel: and in his division <i>were</i> twenty and four thousand.


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And over the tribes of Israel, the chief for Ruben <i>was</i> Eliezer the son of Zechri: for Symeon, Saphatias the son of Maacha:


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for the half-tribe of Manasse in the land of Galaad, Jadai the son of Zadaeas, for the sons of Benjamin, Jasiel the son of Abenner:


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But David took not their number from twenty years old and under: because the Lord said that he would multiply Israel as the stars of the heaven.


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And Joab the son of Saruia began to number the people, and did not finish the work, for there was hereupon wrath on Israel; and the number was not recorded in the book of the chronicles of king David.


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And over the king's treasures <i>was</i> Asmoth the son of Odiel; and over the treasures in the country, and in the towns, and in the villages, and in the towers, <i>was</i> Jonathan the son of Ozia.


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And over the fields <i>was</i> Semei of Rael; and over the treasures of wine in the fields <i>was</i> Zabdi the son of Sephni.


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And over the olive yards, and over the sycamores in the plain country <i>was</i> Ballanan the Gedorite; and over the stores of oil <i>was</i> Joas.


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And over the oxen pasturing in Saron <i>was</i> Satrai the Saronite; and over the oxen in the valleys <i>was</i> Sophat the son of Adli.


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And over the camels <i>was</i> Abias the Ismaelite; and over the asses <i>was</i> Jadias of Merathon.


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And over the sheep <i>was</i> Jaziz the Agarite. All these <i>were</i> superintendents of the substance of king David.


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And Jonathan, David's uncle by the father's side, <i>was</i> a counsellor, a wise man: and Jeel the son of Achami <i>was</i> with the king's sons.


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And David assembled all the chief <i>men</i> of Israel, the chief of the judges, and all the chief <i>men</i> of the courses <i>of attendance</i> on the person of the king, and the captains of thousands and hundreds, and the treasurers, and the lords of his substance, and of all the king's property, and of his sons, together with the eunuchs, and the mighty men, and the warriors of the army, at Jerusalem.


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And David stood in the midst of the assembly, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and a place for the feet of our Lord, and I prepared <i>materials</i> suitable for the building:


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but God said, You shall not build me a house to call my name upon it, for you are a man of war, and have shed blood.


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Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me out of the whole house of my father to be king over Israel for ever; and he chose Juda as the kingly <i>house</i>, and out of the house of Juda <i>he chose</i> the house of my father; and amongst the sons of my father he preferred me, that I should be king over all Israel.


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And of all my sons, (for the Lord has given me many sons,) he has chosen Solomon my son, to set him on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.


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And God said to me, Solomon your son shall build my house and my court: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be to him a father.


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And I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he continue to keep my commandments, and my judgements, as <i>at</i> this day.


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And now <i>I charge you</i> before the whole assembly of the Lord, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek all the commandments of the Lord our God, that you° may inherit the good land, and leave it for your sons to inherit after you for ever.


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And now, <i>my</i> son Solomon, know the God of your fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and willing soul: for the Lord searches all hearts, and knows every thought: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you should forsake him, he will forsake you for ever.


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See now, for the Lord has chosen you to build him a house for a sanctuary, be strong and do <i>it</i>.


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And David gave Solomon his son the plan of the temple, and its buildings, and its treasuries, and its upper chambers, and the inner store-rooms, and the place of the atonement,


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and the plan which he had in his mind of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the chambers round about, <i>designed</i> for the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the holy things, and of the chambers for resting:


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and <i>the plan</i> of the courses of the priests and Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and of the stores of vessels for ministration of the service of the house of the Lord.


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He gave him likewise the weight of the tables of show bread, of each table of gold, and likewise of the <i>tables of</i> silver:


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also of the flesh hooks, and vessels for drink-offering, and golden bowls: and the weight of the gold and silver <i>articles</i>, and censers, <i>and</i> bowls, according to the weight of each.


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And he showed him the weight <i>of the utensils</i> of the altar of incense, <i>which was</i> of pure gold, and the plan of the chariot of the cherubs that spread out their wings, and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the Lord.


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David gave all to Solomon in the Lord's handwriting, according to the knowledge given him of the work of the pattern.


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And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong, and play the man, and do: fear not, neither be terrified; for the Lord my God <i>is</i> with you; he will not forsake you, and will not fail you, until you have finished all the work of the service of the house of the Lord. And behold the pattern of the temple, even his house, and its treasury, and the upper chambers, and the inner store-rooms, and the place of propitiation, and the plan of the house of the Lord.


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And see, <i>here are</i> the courses of the priests and Levites for all the service of the house of the Lord, and <i>there shall be</i> with you <i>men</i> for every workmanship, and every one of ready skill in every art: also the chief men and all the people, <i>ready</i> for all your commands.<pb/>


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And David the king said to all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom the Lord has chosen, <i>is</i> young and tender, and the work <i>is</i> great; for <i>it is</i> not for man, but for the Lord God.


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I have prepared according to all <i>my</i> might for the house of my God gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, onyx stones, and costly and variegated stones for setting, and every precious stone, and much Parian <i>marble</i>.


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And still farther, because I took pleasure in the house of my God, I have gold and silver which I have procured for myself, and, behold, I have given them to the house of my God over and above, beyond what I have prepared for the holy house.


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Three thousand talents of gold of Suphir, and seven thousand talents of fine silver, for the overlaying of the walls of the sanctuary:


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<i>for you to use</i> the gold for <i>things of</i> gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for every work by the hand of the artificers. And who is willing to dedicate himself in work this day for the Lord?


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Then the heads of families, and the princes of the children of Israel, and the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and the overseers of the works, and the king's builders, offered willingly.


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And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord five thousand talents of gold, and ten thousand gold <i>pieces</i>, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.


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And they who had <i>precious</i> stone, gave it into the treasuries of the house of the Lord by the hand of Jeiel the Gedsonite.


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And the people rejoiced because of the willingness, for they offered willingly to the Lord with a full heart: and king David rejoiced greatly.


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And king David blessed the Lord before the congregation, saying, Blessed are you, O Lord God of Israel, our Father, from everlasting and to everlasting.


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Yours, O Lord, <i>is</i> the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the might: for you are Lord of all things that are in heaven and upon the earth: before your face every king and nation is troubled.


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From you <i>come</i> wealth and glory: you, O Lord, rule over all, the Lord of all dominion, and in your hand <i>is</i> strength and rule; and <i>you are</i> almighty with your hand to increase and establish all things.


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But who am I, and what <i>is</i> my people, that we have been able to be thus forward <i>in offering</i> to you? for all things <i>are</i> yours, and of your own have we given you,


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for we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as all our fathers <i>were</i>: our days upon the earth <i>are</i> as a shadow, and there is no remaining.


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O Lord our God, as for all this abundance which I have prepared that a house should be built to your holy name, it is of your hand, and all <i>is</i> yours.


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And I know, Lord, that you are he that searches the hearts, and you love righteousness. I have willingly offered all these things in simplicity of heart; and now I have seen with joy your people here present, willingly offering to you.


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O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, preserve these things in the thought of the heart of your people for ever, and direct their hearts to you.


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And to Solomon my son give a good heart, to perform your commandments, and <i>to observe</i> your testimonies, and your ordinances, and to accomplish the building of your house.


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And David said to the whole congregation, Bless you° the Lord our God. And all the congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and they bowed the knee and worshipped the Lord, and <i>did obeisance</i> to the king.


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And David sacrificed to the Lord, and offered up whole burnt offerings to the Lord on the morrow after the first day, a thousand calves, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, and their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.


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And they ate and drank joyfully that day before the Lord: and they made Solomon the son of David king a second time, and anointed him king before the Lord, and Sadoc to the priesthood.


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And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and was highly honoured; and all Israel obeyed him.


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And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel, and gave him royal glory, such as was not upon any king before him.


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And he died in a good old age, full of days, in wealth, and glory: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.


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And the rest of the acts of David, the former and the latter, are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,


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concerning all his reign, and his power, and the times which went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And Solomon the son of David was established over his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and increased him exceedingly.


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And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands, and to the captains of hundreds, and to the judges, and to all the rulers over Israel, even the heads of the families;


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and Solomon and all the congregation went to the high place that was in Gabaon, where was God's tabernacle of witness, which Moses the servant of the Lord made in the wilderness.


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But David had brought up the ark of God out of the city of Cariathiarim; for David had prepared a place for it, for he had pitched a tabernacle for it in Jerusalem.


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And the brazen altar which Beseleel the son of Urias, the son of Or, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the congregation enquired at it.


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And Solomon brought <i>victims</i> there to the brazen altar that was before the Lord in the tabernacle, and offered upon it a thousand whole burnt offerings.


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And Solomon said to God, You have dealt very mercifully with my father David, and have made me king in his stead.


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And now, O Lord God, let, I pray you, your name be established upon David my father; for you have made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.


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Now give me wisdom and understanding, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who shall judge this your great people?


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And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked great wealth, nor glory, nor the life of your enemies, and you have not asked long life; but have asked for yourself wisdom and understanding, that you might judge my people, over whom I have made you king:


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I give you this wisdom and understanding; and I will give you wealth, and riches, and glory, so that there shall not have been <i>any</i> like you amongst the kings before you, neither shall there be such after you.


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And Solomon came from the high place that was in Gabaon to Jerusalem, <i>from</i> before the tabernacle of witness, and reigned over Israel.


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And Solomon collected chariots and horsemen: and he had fourteen hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he set them in the cities of chariots, and the people <i>were</i> with the king in Jerusalem.


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And the king made silver and gold in Jerusalem <i>to be</i> as stones, and cedars in Judea as sycamores in the plain for multitude.


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And Solomon imported horses from Egypt, and the charge of the king's merchants for going <i>was as follows</i>, and they traded,


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and went and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred <i>pieces</i> of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty <i>pieces</i> of silver: and so they brought for all the kings of the Chettites, and for the kings of Syria by their means.<pb/>


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And Solomon gathered seventy thousand men that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain, and <i>there were</i> three thousand and six hundred superintendents over them.


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And Solomon sent to Chiram king of Tyre, saying, Whereas you did deal <i>favourably</i> with David my father, and did send him cedars to build for himself a house to dwell in,


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behold, I also his son am building a house to the name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it to him, to burn incense before him, and <i>to offer</i> show bread continually, and to offer up whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts of the Lord our God: this <i>is</i> a perpetual <i>statute</i> for Israel.


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And the house which I am building <i>is to be</i> great: for the Lord our God <i>is</i> great beyond all gods.


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And who will be able to build him a house? for the heaven and heaven of heavens do not bear his glory: and who am I, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?


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And now send me a man wise and skilled to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in blue, and one that knows how to grave together with the craftsmen who are with me in Juda and in Jerusalem, which materials my father David prepared.


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And send me from Libanus cedar wood, and wood of juniper, and pine; for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber in Libanus: and, behold, your servants shall go with my servants,


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to prepare timber for me in abundance: for the house which I am building <i>must be</i> great and glorious.


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And, behold, I have given freely to your servants that work and cut the wood, corn for food, <i>even</i> twenty thousand measures of wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand measures of oil.


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And Chiram king of Tyre answered in writing, and sent to Solomon, saying, Because the Lord loved his people, he made you king over them.


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And Chiram said, Blessed <i>be</i> the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to king David a wise son, and one endowed with knowledge and understanding, who shall build a house for the Lord, and a house for his kingdom.


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(his mother <i>was</i> of the daughters of Dan, and his father <i>was</i> a Tyrian), skilled to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in stones and wood; and to weave with purple, and blue, and fine linen, and scarlet; and to engrave, and to understand every device, whatever you shall give him <i>to do</i> with your craftsmen, and the craftsmen of my lord David your father.


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And now, the wheat, and the barley, and the oil, and the wine which my lord mentioned, let him send to his servants.


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And we will cut timber out of Libanus according to all your need, and we will bring it on rafts to the sea of Joppa, and you shall bring it to Jerusalem.


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And Solomon gathered all the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father numbered them; and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.


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And he made of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers of stone, and three thousand and six hundred taskmasters over the people.<pb/>


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And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in the mount of Amoria, where the Lord appeared to his father David, in the place which David had prepared in the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.


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And thus Solomon began to build the house of God: the length in cubits—even the first measurement from end to end, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.


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And the portico in front of the house, its length in front of the breadth of the house <i>was</i> twenty cubits, and its height a hundred and twenty cubits: and he gilded it within with pure gold.


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And he lined the great house with cedar wood, and gilded it with pure gold, and carved upon it palm-trees and chains.


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And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty; and he gilded it with gold of the gold from Pharuim.


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And he gilded the house, and its <i>inner</i> walls, and the door-posts, and the roofs, and the doors with gold; and he carved cherubs on the walls.


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And he built the holy of holies, its length was according to the front <i>of the other house</i>, the breadth of the house <i>was</i> twenty cubits, and the length twenty cubits: and he gilded <i>it</i> with pure gold for cherubs, to <i>the amount of</i> six hundred talents.


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And the weight of the nails, <i>even</i> the weight of each was fifty shekels of gold: and he gilded the upper chamber with gold.


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And the wings of these cherubs expanded were of the length of twenty cubits: and they stood upon their feet, and their faces were towards the house.


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Also he made in front of the house two pillars, in height thirty-five cubits, and their chapters of five cubits.


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And he made chains, <i>as</i> in the oracle, and put <i>them</i> on the heads of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.


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And he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left: and he called the name of the one on the right hand 'Stability,' and the name of the one on the left 'Strength.'<pb/>


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And he made a brazen altar, the length of it twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, and the height ten cubits.


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And he made the molten sea, in diameter ten cubits, entirely round, and the height of it five cubits, and the circumference thirty cubits.


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And beneath it the likeness of calves, they compass it round about: ten cubits compass the laver round about, they cast the calves two rows in their casting,


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wherein they made them twelve calves, —three looking northwards, and three westwards, and three southwards, and three eastwards: and the sea was upon them above, <i>and</i> their hinder parts were inward.


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And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowers of lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finished <i>it</i>.


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And he made ten lavers, and set five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them the instruments of the whole burnt offerings, and to rinse <i>the vessels</i> in them; and the sea <i>was</i> for the priests to wash in.


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And he made the ten golden candlesticks according to their pattern, and he put them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.


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And he made ten tables, and put them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left: and he made a hundred golden bowls.


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Also he made the priests' court, and the great court, and doors to the court, and their panels <i>were</i> overlaid with brass.


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And Chiram made the flesh hooks, and the fire-pans, and the grate of the altar, and all its instruments: and Chiram finished doing all the work which he wrought for king Solomon in the house of God:


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two pillars, and upon them an embossed work for the chapiters on the heads of the two pillars, and two nets to cover the heads of the chapiters which are on the heads of the pillars;


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and four hundred golden bells for the two nets, and two rows of pomegranates in each net, to cover the two embossed rims of the chapiters which are upon the pillars.


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and the foot-baths, and the buckets, and the cauldrons, and the flesh hooks, and all their furniture (which Chiram made, and brought to king Solomon in the house of the Lord) of pure brass.


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In the country round about Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground in the house of Socchoth, and between <i>that and</i> Saredatha.


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And Solomon made all the vessels of the house of the Lord, and the golden altar, and the tables, and upon them <i>were to be</i> the loaves of show bread;


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also the candlesticks, and the lamps to give light according to the pattern, and in front of the oracle, of pure gold.


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And their snuffers, and their lamps <i>were made</i>, and <i>he made</i> the bowls, and the censers, and the fire-pans, of pure gold.


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And <i>there was</i> the inner door of the house <i>opening</i> into the holy of holies, and <i>he made</i> the inner doors of the temple of gold. So all the work which Solomon wrought for the house of the Lord was finished.<pb/>


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And Solomon brought in the holy things of his father David, the silver, and the gold, and the <i>other</i> vessels, and put them in the treasury of the house of the Lord.


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Then Solomon assembled all the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, <i>even</i> the leaders of the families of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, —this <i>is</i> Sion.


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and the tabernacle of witness, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle; and the priests and the Levites brought it up.


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And king Solomon, and all the elders of Israel, and the religious of them, and they of them that were gathered before the ark, <i>were</i> sacrificing calves and sheep, which could not be numbered or reckoned for multitude.


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And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the house, <i>even</i> into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubs.


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And the cherubs stretched out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark, and its staves above.


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And the staves projected, and the heads of the staves were seen from the holy place in front of the oracle, they were not seen without: and there they were to this day.


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There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses placed <i>there</i> in Choreb, which God gave in covenant with the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt.


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And it came to pass, when the priests went out of the holy place, (for all the priests that were found were sanctified, they were not <i>then</i> arranged according to their daily course,)


