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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Solomon
the
son
of
David
was
firmly
established
in
his
kingdom,
and
Yahweh\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:1 }
“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.}
his
God\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:1 }
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).}
was
with
him,
and
made
him
exceedingly
great.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Solomon
spoke
to
all
Israel,
to
the
captains
of
thousands
and
of
hundreds,
to
the
judges,
and
to
every
prince
in
all
Israel,
the
heads
of
the
fathers’
households.
\VS{3}Then
Solomon,
and
all
the
assembly
with
him,
went
to
the
high
place
that
was
at
Gibeon;
for
God’s
Tent
of
Meeting
was
there,
which
Yahweh’s
servant
Moses
had
made
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{4}But
David
had
brought
God’s
ark
up
from
Kiriath Jearim
to
the
place
that
David
had
prepared
for
it;
for
he
had
pitched
a
tent
for
it
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}Moreover
the
bronze
altar
that
Bezalel
the
son
of
Uri,
the
son
of
Hur,
had
made
was
there
before
Yahweh’s
tabernacle;
and
Solomon
and
the
assembly
were
seeking counsel
there.
\VS{6}Solomon
went
up
there
to
the
bronze
altar
before
Yahweh,
which
was
at
the
Tent
of
Meeting,
and
offered
one
thousand
burnt
offerings
on
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}That
night,
God
appeared
to
Solomon
and
said
to
him, “Ask
for
what
you want
me
to
give
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Solomon
said
to
God, “You
have
shown
great loving
kindness
to
David
my
father,
and
have
made
me
king
in
his
place.
\VS{9}Now,
Yahweh
God,
let
your
promise
to
David
my
father
be
established;
for
you
have made
me
king
over
a
people
like
the
dust
of
the
earth
in multitude.
\VS{10}Now
give
me
wisdom
and
knowledge,
that
I
may
go
out
and
come
in
before
this
people;
for
who
can
judge
this
great
people
of
yours?”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}God
said
to
Solomon, “Because
this
was
in
your
heart,
and
you
have
not
asked
riches,
wealth,
honor,
or
the
life
of
those
who
hate
you,
nor
yet
have
you
asked
for
long
life;
but
have
asked
for
wisdom
and
knowledge
for
yourself,
that
you
may
judge
my
people,
over
whom
I
have
made
you
king,
\VS{12}therefore
wisdom
and
knowledge
is
granted
to
you.
I
will
give
you
riches,
wealth,
and
honor,
such
as
none
of
the
kings
have
had
who
have
been
before
you,
and
none
after
you
will
have.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}So
Solomon
came
from
the
high
place
that
was
at
Gibeon,
from
before
the
Tent
of
Meeting,
to
Jerusalem;
and
he
reigned
over
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Solomon
gathered
chariots
and
horsemen.
He
had
one
thousand
four
hundred
chariots
and
twelve
thousand
horsemen
that
he
placed
in
the
chariot
cities,
and
with
the
king
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{15}The
king
made
silver
and
gold
to
be
as common
as
stones
in
Jerusalem,
and
he
made
cedars
to
be
as common
as
the
sycamore
trees
that
are
in
the
lowland.
\VS{16}The
horses
which
Solomon
had
were
brought out
of
Egypt
and
from Kue.
The
king’s
merchants purchased
them
from Kue.
\VS{17}They imported
from
Egypt
then
exported
a
chariot
for
six
hundred pieces
of
silver
and
a
horse
for
one
hundred
fifty.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:17 }
The pieces of silver were probably shekels, so 600 pieces would be about 13.2 pounds or 6 kilograms of silver, and 150 would be about 3.3 pounds or 1.5 kilograms of silver.}
They
also
exported
them
to
the
Hittite
kings
and
the
Syrian\FTNT{§}{{\FR 1:17 }
or, Aramean}
kings.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Solomon decided
to build
a house
for Yahweh’s name,
and
a house
for
his kingdom.
\VS{2}Solomon counted
out seventy thousand
men
to bear burdens, eighty thousand
men
who
were
stone cutters
in
the mountains,
and three thousand six hundred
to oversee
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Solomon sent
to Huram
the
king
of Tyre, saying, “As
you dealt
with David
my father,
and sent
him cedars
to
build
him
a
house
in
which
to dwell,
so deal
with
me.
\VS{4}Behold,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:4 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
I
am
about
to
build
a
house
for
the name
of Yahweh
my
God,
to dedicate
it
to
him,
to burn
before
him incense
of sweet spices,
for
the continual show bread,
and
for
the burnt
offerings morning
and evening,
on
the Sabbaths,
on
the new moons,
and
on
the
set feasts
of Yahweh
our
God.
This
is
an ordinance forever
to Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“The
house
which
I
am
building
will
be great,
for
our
God
is greater
than all gods.
\VS{6}But
who
is able
to build
him
a house,
since heaven
and
the heaven
of heavens
can’t contain
him?
Who am
I
then,
that
I
should build
him
a house, except
just
to burn incense
before
him?
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“Now
therefore
send
me
a man
skillful
to work
in gold,
in silver,
in bronze,
in iron,
and
in purple, crimson,
and blue,
and
who
knows
how
to engrave engravings,
to
be
with
the
skillful
men
who
are
with
me
in Judah
and
in Jerusalem,
whom
David
my father
provided.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“Send
me
also cedar
trees, cypress
trees,
and algum
trees
out
of Lebanon,
for
I know
that
your servants know
how
to cut
timber
in Lebanon. Behold,
my servants
will
be
with
your servants,
\VS{9}even
to prepare
me
timber
in abundance;
for
the house
which
I am
about
to build
will
be great
and wonderful.
\VS{10}Behold,
I
will
give
to
your servants,
the cutters
who cut timber, twenty thousand cors\FTNT{†}{{\FR 2:10 }
1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels, so 20,000 cors of wheat would weigh about 545 metric tons}
of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 2:10 }
1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 20,000 baths of barley would weigh about 262 metric tons.}
of barley, twenty thousand baths
of wine,
and twenty thousand baths
of oil.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Then
Huram
the
king
of Tyre
answered
in writing,
which
he
sent
to Solomon, “Because
Yahweh loves
his
people,
he
has
made
you
king
over
them.”
\VS{12}Huram continued, “Blessed
be Yahweh,
the
God
of Israel,
who
made heaven
and earth,
who
has given
to
David
the king
a
wise
son,
endowed
with discretion
and
understanding,
who
would build
a house
for Yahweh
and
a house
for
his kingdom.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Now
I
have
sent
a
skillful
man,
endowed
with understanding, Huram-abi,\FTNT{§}{{\FR 2:13 }
or, Huram, my father}
\VS{14}the son
of
a woman
of
the daughters
of Dan;
and
his father
was
a man
of Tyre.
He
is skillful
to work
in gold,
in silver,
in bronze,
in iron,
in
stone,
in timber,
in purple,
in blue,
in fine linen,
and
in crimson,
also
to engrave any kind
of engraving
and
to devise any device,
that
there
may
be
a place appointed
to
him
with
your skillful
men,
and
with
the skillful
men
of
my
lord
David
your father.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“Now
therefore,
the wheat,
the barley,
the oil,
and
the wine
which
my lord
has
spoken
of, let
him
send
to
his servants;
\VS{16}and
we
will cut wood
out
of Lebanon,
as
much
as
you
need.
We
will bring
it
to
you
in rafts
by sea
to Joppa;
then
you
shall carry
it
up
to Jerusalem.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Solomon counted
all
the foreigners
who
were
in
the land
of
Israel,
after
the census
with
which David
his father
had counted
them;
and
they found
one
hundred fifty-three
thousand
six
hundred.
\VS{18}He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Solomon
began
to
build
Yahweh’s
house
at
Jerusalem
on
Mount
Moriah,
where
Yahweh
appeared
to
David
his
father,
which
he
prepared
in
the
place
that
David
had
appointed,
on
the
threshing
floor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite.
\VS{2}He
began
to
build
in
the
second
day
of
the
second
month,
in
the
fourth
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{3}Now
these
are
the
foundations
which
Solomon
laid
for
the
building
of
God’s
house:
the
length
by
cubits\FTNT{*}{{\FR 3:3 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.} after
the
first
measure
was
sixty
cubits,
and
the
width
twenty
cubits.
\VS{4}The
porch
that
was
in
front,
its
length,
across
the
width
of
the
house,
was
twenty
cubits,
and
the
height
one
hundred
twenty;
and
he
overlaid
it
within
with
pure
gold.
\VS{5}He
made
the
larger
room
with
a ceiling
of
cypress
wood,
which
he
overlaid
with fine
gold,
and ornamented
it
with
palm
trees
and
chains.
\VS{6}He decorated
the
house
with
precious
stones
for
beauty.
The
gold
was
gold
from
Parvaim.
\VS{7}He
also
overlaid
the
house,
the
beams,
the
thresholds,
its
walls,
and
its
doors
with
gold,
and
engraved
cherubim
on
the
walls.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}He
made
the
most
holy
place.
Its
length,
according
to
the
width
of
the
house,
was
twenty
cubits,
and
its
width
twenty
cubits;
and
he
overlaid
it
with fine
gold, amounting
to
six
hundred
talents.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 3:8 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 600 talents is about 18 metric tons}
\VS{9}The
weight
of
the
nails
was
fifty
shekels\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 3:9 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or about 16 Troy ounces.}
of
gold. He
overlaid
the
upper
rooms
with
gold.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}In
the
most
holy
place
he
made
two
cherubim
by carving,
and
they
overlaid
them
with
gold.
\VS{11}The
wings
of
the
cherubim
were
twenty
cubits
long:
the
wing
of
the
one
was
five
cubits,
reaching
to
the
wall
of
the
house;
and
the
other
wing
was
five
cubits,
reaching
to
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub.
\VS{12}The
wing
of
the
other
cherub
was
five
cubits,
reaching
to
the
wall
of
the
house;
and
the
other
wing
was
five
cubits, joining
to
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub.
\VS{13}The
wings
of
these
cherubim
spread
themselves
out
twenty
cubits.
They
stood
on
their
feet,
and
their
faces
were
toward
the
house.
\VS{14}He
made
the
veil
of
blue,
purple,
crimson,
and
fine
linen,
and ornamented
it
with
cherubim.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Also
he
made
before
the
house
two
pillars thirty-five
cubits high,
and
the
capital
that
was
on
the
top
of
each
of
them
was
five
cubits.
\VS{16}He
made
chains
in
the
inner
sanctuary,
and
put
them
on
the
tops
of
the
pillars;
and
he
made
one
hundred
pomegranates,
and
put
them
on
the
chains.
\VS{17}He
set
up
the
pillars
before
the
temple,
one
on
the
right
hand
and
the
other
on
the
left;
and
called
the
name
of
that
on
the
right
hand
Jachin,
and
the
name
of
that
on
the
left
Boaz.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
he
made an
altar
of
bronze,
twenty
cubits\FTNT{*}{{\FR 4:1 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.}
long,
twenty
cubits
wide,
and
ten
cubits
high.
\VS{2}Also
he
made
the
molten
sea\FTNT{†}{{\FR 4:2 }
or, pool, or, reservoir}
of
ten
cubits
from
brim
to
brim.
It
was
round,
five
cubits
high,
and
thirty
cubits
in
circumference.
\VS{3}Under
it
was
the
likeness
of
oxen,
which
encircled
it,
for
ten
cubits,
encircling
the
sea.
The
oxen
were
in
two
rows,
cast when
it
was
cast.
\VS{4}It
stood
on
twelve
oxen,
three looking
toward
the
north,
three looking
toward
the
west,
three looking
toward
the
south,
and
three looking
toward
the
east;
and
the
sea
was
set
on
them
above,
and
all
their
hindquarters
were
inward.
\VS{5}It
was
a
handbreadth
thick. Its
brim
was
made
like
the
brim
of
a
cup,
like
the
flower
of
a
lily.
It
received
and
held
three
thousand
baths.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 4:5 }
A bath is about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21.1 liters, so 3,000 baths is about 16,800 gallons or 63.3 kiloliters.}
\VS{6}He
also
made
ten
basins,
and
put
five
on
the
right
hand
and
five
on
the
left,
to
wash
in
them.
The
things
that belonged
to
the
burnt
offering were
washed
in
them,
but
the
sea
was
for
the
priests
to
wash
in.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}He
made
the
ten lamp stands
of
gold
according
to
the
ordinance concerning
them;
and
he
set
them
in
the
temple,
five
on
the
right
hand
and
five
on
the
left.
\VS{8}He
made
also
ten
tables,
and
placed
them
in
the
temple,
five
on
the
right
side
and
five
on
the
left.
He
made
one
hundred
basins
of
gold.
\VS{9}Furthermore
he
made
the
court
of
the
priests,
the
great
court,
and
doors
for
the
court,
and
overlaid
their
doors
with
bronze.
\VS{10}He
set
the
sea
on
the
right
side
of
the house
eastward, toward
the
south.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Huram
made
the
pots,
the
shovels,
and
the
basins.
\par }{\PP So
Huram
finished
doing
the
work
that
he
did
for
King
Solomon
in
God’s
house:
\VS{12}the
two
pillars,
the
bowls,
the
two
capitals
which
were
on
the
top
of
the
pillars,
the
two
networks
to
cover
the
two
bowls
of
the
capitals
that
were
on
the
top
of
the
pillars,
\VS{13}and
the
four
hundred
pomegranates
for
the
two
networks—two
rows
of
pomegranates
for
each
network,
to
cover
the
two
bowls
of
the
capitals
that
were
on
the
pillars.
\VS{14}He
also
made
the bases,
and
he
made
the
basins
on
the bases—
\VS{15}one
sea,
and
the
twelve
oxen
under
it.
\VS{16}Huram-abi\FTNT{§}{{\FR 4:16 }
“abi” means “his father”}
also
made
the
pots,
the
shovels,
the forks,
and
all
its
vessels
for
King
Solomon,
for
Yahweh’s
house,
of bright
bronze.
\VS{17}The
king
cast them
in
the
plain
of
the
Jordan,
in
the clay
ground
between
Succoth
and
Zeredah.
\VS{18}Thus
Solomon
made
all
these
vessels
in
great
abundance,
so
that
the
weight
of
the
bronze could
not
be determined.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Solomon
made
all
the
vessels
that
were
in
God’s
house:
the
golden
altar,
the
tables
with
the
show
bread
on
them,
\VS{20}and
the
lamp stands
with
their
lamps
to
burn
according
to
the
ordinance
before
the
inner
sanctuary,
of
pure
gold;
\VS{21}and
the
flowers,
the
lamps,
and
the
tongs
of
gold
that
was
purest
gold;
\VS{22}and
the
snuffers,
the
basins,
the
spoons,
and
the fire
pans
of
pure
gold.
As
for
the
entry
of
the
house, its
inner
doors
for
the
most
holy
place
and
the
doors
of
the main
hall
of
the
temple
were
of
gold.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus
all
the
work
that
Solomon
did
for
Yahweh’s
house
was
finished.
Solomon
brought
in
the
things
that
David
his
father
had
dedicated,
even
the
silver,
the
gold,
and
all
the
vessels,
and
put
them
in
the
treasuries
of
God’s
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Then
Solomon
assembled
the
elders
of
Israel
and
all
the
heads
of
the
tribes,
the
princes
of
the
fathers’
households
of
the
children
of
Israel,
to
Jerusalem,
to
bring
up
the
ark
of
Yahweh’s
covenant
out
of
David’s
city,
which
is
Zion.
\VS{3}So
all
the
men
of
Israel
assembled
themselves
to
the
king
at
the
feast,
which
was
in
the
seventh
month.
\VS{4}All
the
elders
of
Israel
came.
The
Levites
took
up
the
ark.
\VS{5}They
brought
up
the
ark,
the
Tent
of
Meeting,
and
all
the
holy
vessels
that
were
in
the
Tent.
The
Levitical
priests
brought
these
up.
\VS{6}King
Solomon
and
all
the
congregation
of
Israel
who
were
assembled
to
him
were
before
the
ark,
sacrificing
sheep
and
cattle
that could
not
be
counted
or
numbered
for
multitude.
\VS{7}The
priests
brought
in
the
ark
of
Yahweh’s
covenant
to
its
place,
into
the
inner
sanctuary
of
the
house,
to
the
most
holy
place,
even
under
the
wings
of
the
cherubim.
\VS{8}For
the
cherubim
spread
out
their
wings
over
the
place
of
the
ark,
and
the
cherubim
covered
the
ark
and
its
poles
above.
\VS{9}The
poles
were
so
long
that
the
ends
of
the
poles
were
seen
from
the
ark
in
front
of
the
inner
sanctuary,
but
they
were
not
seen
outside;
and
it
is
there
to
this
day.
\VS{10}There
was
nothing
in
the
ark
except
the
two
tablets
which
Moses
put
there
at
Horeb,
when
Yahweh
made
a covenant
with
the
children
of
Israel,
when
they
came
out
of
Egypt.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}When
the
priests
had
come
out
of
the
holy
place (for
all
the
priests
who
were
present
had
sanctified
themselves,
and didn’t
keep
their
divisions;
\VS{12}also
the
Levites
who
were
the
singers,
all
of
them, even
Asaph,
Heman,
Jeduthun,
and
their
sons
and
their
brothers,
arrayed
in
fine
linen,
with
cymbals
and stringed instruments
and
harps,
stood
at
the
east end
of
the
altar,
and
with
them
one
hundred
twenty
priests sounding
with
trumpets);
\VS{13}when
the
trumpeters
and
singers
were
as
one,
to
make
one
sound
to
be
heard
in
praising
and thanking
Yahweh;
and
when
they
lifted
up
their
voice
with
the
trumpets
and
cymbals
and
instruments
of
music,
and
praised
Yahweh,
saying,
\par }{\Q “For
he
is
good,
\par }{\QB for
his loving
kindness
endures
forever!”
\par }{\MM then
the
house
was
filled
with
a
cloud,
even
Yahweh’s
house,
\VS{14}so
that
the
priests
could
not
stand
to
minister
by reason
of
the
cloud;
for
Yahweh’s
glory
filled
God’s
house.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Solomon
said, “Yahweh
has
said
that
he
would
dwell
in
the
thick
darkness.
\VS{2}But
I
have
built
you
a
house
and
home,
a
place
for
you
to
dwell
in
forever.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}The
king
turned
his
face,
and
blessed
all
the
assembly
of
Israel;
and
all
the
assembly
of
Israel
stood.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}He
said, “Blessed
be
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
who
spoke
with
his
mouth
to
David
my
father,
and
has
with
his
hands
fulfilled
it,
saying,
\VS{5}‘Since
the
day
that
I
brought
my
people
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
I
chose
no
city
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
build
a
house
in,
that
my
name
might
be
there,
and
I
chose
no
man
to
be
prince
over
my
people
Israel;
\VS{6}but
now
I
have
chosen
Jerusalem,
that
my
name
might
be
there;
and
I
have
chosen
David
to
be
over
my
people
Israel.’
\VS{7}Now
it
was
in
the
heart
of
David
my
father
to
build
a
house
for
the
name
of
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{8}But
Yahweh
said
to
David
my
father, ‘Whereas
it
was
in
your
heart
to
build
a
house
for
my
name,
you
did
well
that
it
was
in
your
heart;
\VS{9}nevertheless
you
shall
not
build
the
house,
but
your
son
who
will
come
out
of
your body,
he
shall
build
the
house
for
my
name.’
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“Yahweh
has performed
his
word
that
he
spoke;
for
I
have
risen
up
in
the
place
of
David
my
father,
and
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel,
as
Yahweh
promised,
and
have
built
the
house
for
the
name
of
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{11}There
I
have
set
the
ark,
in
which
is
Yahweh’s
covenant,
which
he
made
with
the
children
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}He
stood
before
Yahweh’s
altar
in
the
presence
of
all
the
assembly
of
Israel,
and
spread
out
his
hands
\VS{13}(for
Solomon
had
made
a
bronze
platform,
five
cubits\FTNT{*}{{\FR 6:13 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.}
long,
five
cubits
wide,
and
three
cubits
high,
and
had
set
it
in
the
middle
of
the
court;
and
he
stood
on
it,
and
knelt
down
on
his
knees
before
all
the
assembly
of
Israel,
and
spread
out
his
hands
toward
heaven).
\VS{14}Then
he
said, “Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
there
is
no
God
like
you
in
heaven
or
on
earth—you
who
keep
covenant
and loving
kindness
with
your
servants
who
walk
before
you
with
all
their
heart;
\VS{15}who
have
kept
with
your
servant
David
my
father
that
which
you
promised
him. Yes,
you
spoke
with
your
mouth,
and
have
fulfilled
it
with
your
hand,
as
it
is
today.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“Now
therefore,
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
keep
with
your
servant
David
my
father
that
which
you
have
promised
him,
saying, ‘There
shall
not
fail
you
a
man
in
my
sight
to
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel,
if
only
your
children
take
heed
to
their
way,
to
walk
in
my
law
as
you
have
walked
before
me.’
\VS{17}Now
therefore,
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
let
your
word
be
verified,
which
you
spoke
to
your
servant
David.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“But
will
God
indeed
dwell
with
men
on
the
earth?
Behold,
heaven
and
the
heaven
of
heavens
can’t
contain
you;
how
much
less
this
house
which
I
have
built!
\VS{19}Yet
have
respect
for
the
prayer
of
your
servant
and
to
his
supplication,
Yahweh
my
God,
to
listen
to
the
cry
and
to
the
prayer
which
your
servant
prays
before
you;
\VS{20}that
your
eyes
may
be
open
toward
this
house
day
and
night, even
toward
the
place
where
you
have
said
that
you
would
put
your
name,
to
listen
to
the
prayer
which
your
servant
will
pray
toward
this
place.
\VS{21}Listen
to
the petitions
of
your
servant
and
of
your
people
Israel,
when
they
pray
toward
this
place. Yes,
hear
from
your
dwelling
place, even
from
heaven;
and
when
you
hear,
forgive.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“If
a
man
sins
against
his
neighbor,
and
an
oath
is
laid
on
him
to cause
him
to swear,
and
he
comes
and swears
before
your
altar
in
this
house,
\VS{23}then
hear
from
heaven,
act,
and
judge
your
servants,
bringing retribution
to
the
wicked,
to
bring
his
way
on
his own
head;
and
justifying
the
righteous,
to
give
him
according
to
his
righteousness.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“If
your
people
Israel
are
struck
down
before
the
enemy
because
they
have
sinned
against
you,
and
they
turn
again
and
confess
your
name,
and
pray
and
make
supplication
before
you
in
this
house,
\VS{25}then
hear
from
heaven,
and
forgive
the
sin
of
your
people
Israel,
and
bring
them
again
to
the
land
which
you
gave
to
them
and
to
their
fathers.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}“When
the
sky
is
shut
up
and
there
is
no
rain
because
they
have
sinned
against
you,
if
they
pray
toward
this
place
and
confess
your
name,
and
turn
from
their
sin
when
you
afflict
them,
\VS{27}then
hear
in
heaven,
and
forgive
the
sin
of
your
servants,
your
people
Israel,
when
you
teach
them
the
good
way
in
which
they
should
walk,
and
send
rain
on
your
land,
which
you
have
given
to
your
people
for
an
inheritance.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“If
there
is
famine
in
the
land,
if
there
is
pestilence,
if
there
is
blight
or
mildew,
locust
or
caterpillar;
if
their
enemies besiege
them
in
the
land
of
their
cities;
whatever
plague
or
whatever
sickness
there
is—
\VS{29}whatever
prayer
and
supplication
is
made
by
any
man,
or
by
all
your
people
Israel,
who
will
each
know
his
own
plague
and
his
own
sorrow,
and
shall
spread
out
his
hands
toward
this
house,
\VS{30}then
hear
from
heaven
your
dwelling
place
and
forgive,
and
render
to
every
man
according
to
all
his
ways,
whose
heart
you
know (for
you,
even
you
only,
know
the
hearts
of
the
children
of
men),
\VS{31}that
they
may
fear
you,
to
walk
in
your
ways
as
long
as
they
live
in
the
land
which
you
gave
to
our
fathers.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}“Moreover,
concerning
the
foreigner,
who
is
not
of
your
people
Israel,
when
he
comes
from
a
far
country
for
your
great
name’s
sake
and
your
mighty
hand
and
your
outstretched
arm,
when
they
come
and
pray
toward
this
house,
\VS{33}then
hear
from
heaven,
even
from
your
dwelling
place,
and
do
according
to
all
that
the
foreigner
calls
to
you
for;
that
all
the
peoples
of
the
earth
may
know
your
name
and
fear
you,
as
do
your
people
Israel,
and
that
they
may
know
that
this
house
which
I
have
built
is
called
by
your
name.
\par }{\PP \VS{34}“If
your
people
go
out
to
battle
against
their
enemies,
by
whatever
way
you
send
them,
and
they
pray
to
you
toward
this
city
which
you
have
chosen,
and
the
house
which
I
have
built
for
your
name;
\VS{35}then
hear
from
heaven
their
prayer
and
their
supplication,
and maintain
their
cause.
\par }{\PP \VS{36}“If
they
sin
against
you (for
there
is
no
man
who
doesn’t
sin),
and
you
are
angry
with
them
and
deliver
them
to
the
enemy,
so
that
they carry
them
away
captive
to
a
land
far
off
or
near;
\VS{37}yet
if
they
come
to
their senses
in
the
land
where
they
are
carried
captive,
and
turn
again,
and
make supplication
to
you
in
the
land
of
their
captivity,
saying, ‘We
have
sinned,
we
have
done perversely,
and
have dealt
wickedly;’
\VS{38}if
they
return
to
you
with
all
their
heart
and
with
all
their
soul
in
the
land
of
their
captivity,
where
they
have
been
taken
captive,
and
pray
toward
their
land
which
you
gave
to
their
fathers,
and
the
city
which
you
have
chosen,
and
toward
the
house
which
I
have
built
for
your
name;
\VS{39}then
hear
from
heaven,
even
from
your
dwelling
place,
their
prayer
and
their petitions,
and maintain
their
cause,
and
forgive
your
people
who
have
sinned
against
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{40}“Now,
my
God,
let,
I
beg
you,
your
eyes
be
open,
and
let
your
ears
be
attentive
to
the
prayer
that
is
made
in
this
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{41}“Now
therefore
arise,
Yahweh
God, into
your resting place,
you,
and
the
ark
of
your
strength.
Let
your
priests,
Yahweh
God,
be
clothed
with
salvation,
and
let
your saints
rejoice
in goodness.
\par }{\PP \VS{42}“Yahweh
God,
don’t
turn
away
the
face
of
your
anointed.
Remember
your loving kindnesses
to
David
your
servant.”

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
Solomon
had
finished
praying,
fire
came
down
from
heaven
and
consumed
the
burnt
offering
and
the
sacrifices;
and
Yahweh’s
glory
filled
the
house.
\VS{2}The
priests
could
not
enter
into
Yahweh’s
house,
because
Yahweh’s
glory
filled
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{3}All
the
children
of
Israel
looked
on,
when
the
fire
came
down,
and
Yahweh’s
glory
was
on
the
house.
They
bowed
themselves
with
their
faces
to
the
ground
on
the
pavement,
worshiped,
and
gave
thanks
to
Yahweh, saying,
\par }{\Q “For
he
is
good,
\par }{\QB for
his loving
kindness
endures
forever!”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Then
the
king
and
all
the
people
offered
sacrifices
before
Yahweh.
\VS{5}King
Solomon
offered
a
sacrifice
of
twenty-two
thousand head
of
cattle
and
a
hundred
twenty
thousand
sheep.
So
the
king
and
all
the
people
dedicated
God’s
house.
\VS{6}The
priests
stood,
according
to
their positions;
the
Levites
also
with
instruments
of
music
of
Yahweh,
which
David
the
king
had
made
to
give
thanks
to
Yahweh,
when
David
praised
by
their ministry, saying “For
his loving
kindness
endures
forever.”
The
priests
sounded
trumpets
before
them;
and
all
Israel
stood.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Moreover
Solomon
made
the
middle
of
the
court
that
was
before
Yahweh’s
house
holy;
for
there
he offered
the
burnt
offerings
and
the
fat
of
the
peace
offerings,
because
the
bronze
altar
which
Solomon
had
made
was
not
able
to receive
the
burnt
offering,
the
meal
offering,
and
the
fat.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}So
Solomon
held
the
feast
at
that
time
for
seven
days,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
a
very
great
assembly,
from
the
entrance
of
Hamath
to
the
brook
of
Egypt.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}On
the
eighth
day,
they
held
a
solemn
assembly;
for
they
kept
the
dedication
of
the
altar
seven
days,
and
the
feast
seven
days.
\VS{10}On
the
twenty-third
day
of
the
seventh
month,
he
sent
the
people
away
to
their
tents,
joyful
and
glad
of
heart
for
the goodness
that
Yahweh
had
shown
to
David,
to
Solomon,
and
to
Israel
his
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Thus
Solomon
finished
Yahweh’s
house
and
the
king’s
house;
and
he successfully
completed
all
that
came
into
Solomon’s
heart
to
make
in
Yahweh’s
house
and
in
his own
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
Yahweh
appeared
to
Solomon
by
night,
and
said
to
him, “I
have
heard
your
prayer,
and
have
chosen
this
place
for myself
for
a
house
of
sacrifice.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“If
I
shut
up
the
sky
so
that
there
is
no
rain,
or
if
I
command
the
locust
to
devour
the
land,
or
if
I
send
pestilence
among
my
people,
\VS{14}if
my
people
who
are
called
by
my
name
will
humble
themselves,
pray,
seek
my
face,
and
turn
from
their
wicked
ways,
then
I
will
hear
from
heaven,
will
forgive
their
sin,
and
will
heal
their
land.
\VS{15}Now
my
eyes
will
be
open
and
my
ears
attentive
to
prayer
that
is
made
in
this
place.
\VS{16}For
now
I
have
chosen
and
made
this
house
holy,
that
my
name
may
be
there
forever;
and
my
eyes
and
my
heart
will
be
there
perpetually.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“As
for
you,
if
you
will
walk
before
me
as
David
your
father
walked,
and
do
according
to
all
that
I
have
commanded
you,
and
will
keep
my
statutes
and
my
ordinances,
\VS{18}then
I
will
establish
the
throne
of
your
kingdom,
according
as
I
covenanted
with
David
your
father,
saying, ‘There
shall
not
fail
you
a
man
to
be
ruler
in
Israel.’
\par }{\PP \VS{19}But
if
you
turn
away
and
forsake
my
statutes
and
my
commandments
which
I
have
set
before
you,
and
go
and
serve
other
gods
and
worship
them,
\VS{20}then
I
will
pluck
them
up
by
the roots
out
of
my
land
which
I
have
given
them;
and
this
house,
which
I
have
made
holy
for
my
name,
I
will
cast
out
of
my
sight,
and
I
will
make
it
a
proverb
and
a
byword
among
all
peoples.
\VS{21}This
house,
which
is
so high,
everyone
who
passes
by
it
will
be
astonished
and
say, ‘Why
has
Yahweh
done
this
to
this
land
and
to
this
house?’
\VS{22}They
shall
answer, ‘Because
they
abandoned
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
who
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
took
other
gods,
worshiped
them,
and
served
them.
Therefore
he
has
brought
all
this
evil
on
them.’ ”

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
the
end
of
twenty
years,
in
which
Solomon
had
built
Yahweh’s
house
and
his
own
house,
\VS{2}Solomon
built
the
cities
which
Huram
had
given
to
Solomon,
and
caused
the
children
of
Israel
to
dwell
there.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Solomon went
to Hamath Zobah,
and
prevailed
against
it.
\VS{4}He
built
Tadmor
in
the
wilderness,
and
all
the
storage
cities,
which
he
built
in
Hamath.
\VS{5}Also
he
built Beth Horon
the
upper
and Beth Horon
the
lower,
fortified
cities
with
walls,
gates,
and
bars;
\VS{6}and
Baalath,
and
all
the
storage
cities
that
Solomon
had,
and
all
the
cities
for
his
chariots,
the
cities
for
his
horsemen,
and
all
that
Solomon desired
to
build
for
his pleasure
in
Jerusalem,
in
Lebanon,
and
in
all
the
land
of
his dominion.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}As
for
all
the
people
who
were
left
of
the
Hittites,
the
Amorites,
the
Perizzites,
the
Hivites,
and
the
Jebusites,
who
were
not
of
Israel—
\VS{8}of
their
children
who
were
left
after
them
in
the
land,
whom
the
children
of
Israel
didn’t
consume—of
them
Solomon
conscripted
forced
labor
to
this
day.
\VS{9}But
of
the
children
of
Israel,
Solomon
made
no
servants
for
his
work,
but
they
were
men
of
war,
chief
of
his
captains,
and
rulers
of
his
chariots
and
of
his
horsemen.
\VS{10}These
were
the
chief
officers
of
King
Solomon, even two-hundred
fifty,
who
ruled
over
the
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Solomon
brought
up
Pharaoh’s
daughter
out
of
David’s
city
to
the
house
that
he
had
built
for
her;
for
he
said, “My
wife
shall
not
dwell
in
the
house
of
David
king
of
Israel,
because
the
places
where
Yahweh’s
ark
has
come
are
holy.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
Solomon
offered
burnt
offerings
to
Yahweh
on
Yahweh’s
altar
which
he
had
built
before
the
porch,
\VS{13}even
as
the
duty
of
every
day
required,
offering according
to
the
commandment
of
Moses
on
the
Sabbaths,
on
the
new
moons,
and
on
the
set
feasts,
three
times per
year,
during
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread,
during
the
feast
of
weeks,
and
during
the
feast
of
booths.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 8:13 }
or, feast of tents (Sukkot)}
\par }{\PP \VS{14}He
appointed,
according
to
the
ordinance
of
David
his
father,
the
divisions
of
the
priests
to
their
service,
and
the
Levites
to
their
offices,
to
praise
and
to
minister
before
the
priests,
as
the
duty
of
every
day
required,
the doorkeepers
also
by
their
divisions
at
every
gate,
for
David
the
man
of
God
had
so
commanded.
\VS{15}They
didn’t
depart
from
the
commandment
of
the
king
to
the
priests
and
Levites
concerning
any
matter
or
concerning
the
treasures.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Now
all
the
work
of
Solomon
was
accomplished
from
the
day
of
the
foundation
of
Yahweh’s
house
until
it
was
finished.
So
Yahweh’s
house
was
completed.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then
Solomon
went
to Ezion Geber
and
to
Eloth,
on
the
seashore
in
the
land
of
Edom.
\VS{18}Huram
sent
him
ships
and
servants
who
had
knowledge
of
the
sea
by
the
hands
of
his
servants;
and
they
came
with
the
servants
of
Solomon
to
Ophir,
and
brought
from
there
four
hundred
fifty
talents\FTNT{†}{{\FR 8:18 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 450 talents is about 13.5 metric tons}
of
gold,
and
brought
them
to
King
Solomon.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
the
queen
of
Sheba
heard
of
the
fame
of
Solomon,
she
came
to
test
Solomon
with
hard
questions
at
Jerusalem,
with
a
very
great caravan,
including
camels
that
bore
spices,
gold
in
abundance,
and
precious
stones.
When
she
had
come
to
Solomon,
she
talked
with
him
about
all
that
was
in
her
heart.
\VS{2}Solomon
answered
all
her
questions.
There wasn’t
anything
hidden
from
Solomon
which
he
didn’t
tell
her.
\VS{3}When
the
queen
of
Sheba
had
seen
the
wisdom
of
Solomon,
the
house
that
he
had
built,
\VS{4}the
food
of
his
table,
the
seating
of
his
servants,
the
attendance
of
his
ministers,
their clothing,
his cup bearers
and
their clothing,
and
his
ascent
by
which
he
went
up
to
Yahweh’s
house,
there
was
no
more
spirit
in
her.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 9:4 }
or, she was breathless.}
\par }{\PP \VS{5}She
said
to
the
king, “It
was
a
true
report
that
I
heard
in
my own
land
of
your
acts
and
of
your
wisdom.
\VS{6}However
I
didn’t
believe
their
words
until
I
came,
and
my
eyes
had
seen
it;
and
behold
half
of
the
greatness
of
your
wisdom wasn’t
told
me.
You
exceed
the fame
that
I
heard!
\VS{7}Happy
are
your
men,
and
happy
are
these
your
servants,
who
stand
continually
before
you
and
hear
your
wisdom.
\VS{8}Blessed
be
Yahweh
your
God,
who delighted
in
you
and
set
you
on
his
throne
to
be
king
for
Yahweh
your
God,
because
your
God loved
Israel,
to
establish
them
forever.
Therefore
he
made
you
king
over
them,
to
do
justice
and
righteousness.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}She
gave
the
king
one
hundred
and
twenty
talents\FTNT{†}{{\FR 9:9 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons}
of
gold,
spices
in
great
abundance,
and
precious
stones.
There
was
never
before
such
spice
as
the
queen
of
Sheba
gave
to
King
Solomon.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}The
servants
of Huram
and
the
servants
of
Solomon,
who
brought
gold
from
Ophir,
also
brought
algum
trees\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 9:10 }
possibly Indian sandalwood, which has nice grain and a pleasant scent and is good for woodworking}
and
precious
stones.
\VS{11}The
king
used
algum
tree
wood
to
make terraces
for
Yahweh’s
house
and
for
the
king’s
house,
and
harps
and stringed instruments
for
the
singers.
There
were
none
like
these
seen
before
in
the
land
of
Judah.
\VS{12}King
Solomon
gave
to
the
queen
of
Sheba
all
her
desire,
whatever
she
asked, more
than
that
which
she
had
brought
to
the
king.
So
she
turned
and
went
to
her own
land,
she
and
her
servants.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Now
the
weight
of
gold
that
came
to
Solomon
in
one
year
was
six
hundred sixty-six
talents\FTNT{§}{{\FR 9:13 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 666 talents is about 20 metric tons}
of
gold,
\VS{14}in addition
to
that which
the
traders
and
merchants
brought.
All
the
kings
of
Arabia
and
the
governors
of
the
country
brought
gold
and
silver
to
Solomon.
\VS{15}King
Solomon
made
two
hundred large
shields
of beaten
gold.
Six
hundred shekels\FTNT{*}{{\FR 9:15 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.}
of beaten
gold
went
to
one large
shield.
\VS{16}He
made
three
hundred
shields
of beaten
gold.
Three
hundred shekels\FTNT{†}{{\FR 9:16 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 300 shekels was about 3 kilograms or about 96 Troy ounces.}
of
gold
went
to
one
shield.
The
king
put
them
in
the
House
of
the
Forest
of
Lebanon.
\VS{17}Moreover
the
king
made
a
great
throne
of
ivory,
and
overlaid
it
with
pure
gold.
\VS{18}There
were
six
steps
to
the
throne,
with
a
footstool
of
gold,
which
were
fastened
to
the
throne,
and armrests
on
either
side
by
the
place
of
the
seat,
and
two
lions
standing
beside
the armrests.
\VS{19}Twelve
lions
stood
there
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other
on
the
six
steps.
There
was
nothing
like
it
made
in
any
other
kingdom.
\VS{20}All
King
Solomon’s drinking
vessels
were
of
gold,
and
all
the
vessels
of
the
House
of
the
Forest
of
Lebanon
were
of
pure
gold.
Silver
was
not
considered
valuable
in
the
days
of
Solomon.
\VS{21}For
the
king
had
ships
that
went
to
Tarshish
with
Huram’s
servants.
Once
every
three
years,
the
ships
of
Tarshish
came
bringing
gold,
silver,
ivory,
apes,
and
peacocks.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}So
King
Solomon exceeded
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
in
riches
and
wisdom.
\VS{23}All
the
kings
of
the
earth
sought
the
presence
of
Solomon
to
hear
his
wisdom,
which
God
had
put
in
his
heart.
\VS{24}They
each
brought
tribute:
vessels
of
silver,
vessels
of
gold,
clothing,
armor,
spices,
horses,
and
mules
every
year.
\VS{25}Solomon
had
four
thousand
stalls
for
horses
and
chariots,
and
twelve
thousand
horsemen
that
he stationed
in
the
chariot
cities
and
with
the
king
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}He
ruled
over
all
the
kings
from
the
River
even
to
the
land
of
the
Philistines,
and
to
the
border
of
Egypt.
\VS{27}The
king
made
silver
as common
in
Jerusalem
as
stones,
and
he
made
cedars
to
be
as
abundant
as
the
sycamore
trees
that
are
in
the
lowland.
\VS{28}They
brought
horses
for
Solomon
out
of
Egypt
and
out
of
all
lands.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Solomon,
first
and
last, aren’t
they
written
in
the history
of
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
in
the
prophecy
of
Ahijah
the
Shilonite,
and
in
the
visions
of
Iddo
the
seer
concerning
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat?
\VS{30}Solomon
reigned
in
Jerusalem
over
all
Israel
forty
years.
\VS{31}Solomon
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
he
was
buried
in
his
father
David’s
city;
and
Rehoboam
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Rehoboam
went
to
Shechem,
for
all
Israel
had
come
to
Shechem
to
make
him
king.
\VS{2}When
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
heard
of
it (for
he
was
in
Egypt,
where
he
had
fled
from
the
presence
of
King
Solomon),
Jeroboam
returned
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{3}They
sent
and
called
him;
and
Jeroboam
and
all
Israel
came,
and
they
spoke
to
Rehoboam,
saying,
\VS{4}“Your
father
made
our
yoke
grievous.
Now
therefore
make
the
grievous
service
of
your
father
and
his
heavy
yoke
which
he
put
on
us,
lighter,
and
we
will
serve
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}He
said
to
them, “Come
again
to
me
after
three
days.”
\par }{\PP So
the
people departed.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}King
Rehoboam
took
counsel
with
the
old
men,
who
had
stood
before
Solomon
his
father
while
he yet
lived,
saying, “What
counsel
do
you
give
me
about
how
to
answer
these
people?”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}They
spoke
to
him,
saying, “If
you
are
kind
to
these
people,
please
them,
and
speak
good
words
to
them,
then
they
will
be
your
servants
forever.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}But
he
abandoned
the
counsel
of
the
old
men
which
they
had
given
him,
and
took
counsel
with
the
young
men
who
had
grown
up
with
him,
who
stood
before
him.
\VS{9}He
said
to
them, “What
counsel
do
you
give,
that
we
may
give
an
answer
to
these
people,
who
have
spoken
to
me,
saying, ‘Make
the
yoke
that
your
father
put
on
us
lighter?’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}The
young
men
who
had
grown
up
with
him
spoke
to
him,
saying, “Thus
you
shall
tell
the
people
who
spoke
to
you,
saying, ‘Your
father
made
our
yoke
heavy,
but
make
it
lighter
on
us;’
thus
you
shall
say
to
them, ‘My
little
finger
is
thicker
than
my
father’s
waist.
\VS{11}Now
whereas
my
father burdened
you
with
a
heavy
yoke,
I
will
add
to
your
yoke.
My
father
chastised
you
with
whips,
but
I
will
chastise
you
with
scorpions.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}So
Jeroboam
and
all
the
people
came
to
Rehoboam
the
third
day,
as
the
king
asked,
saying, “Come
to
me
again
the
third
day.”
\VS{13}The
king
answered
them roughly;
and
King
Rehoboam
abandoned
the
counsel
of
the
old
men,
\VS{14}and
spoke
to
them
after
the
counsel
of
the
young
men,
saying, “My
father
made
your
yoke
heavy,
but
I
will
add
to
it.
My
father
chastised
you
with
whips,
but
I
will
chastise
you
with
scorpions.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}So
the
king
didn’t
listen
to
the
people;
for
it
was
brought
about
by
God,
that
Yahweh
might
establish
his
word,
which
he
spoke
by
Ahijah
the
Shilonite
to
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}When
all
Israel
saw
that
the
king
didn’t
listen
to
them,
the
people
answered
the
king,
saying, “What
portion
do
we
have
in
David?
We
don’t
have
an
inheritance
in
the
son
of
Jesse!
Every
man
to
your
tents,
Israel!
Now
see
to
your
own
house,
David.”
So
all
Israel departed
to
their
tents.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}But
as
for
the
children
of
Israel
who
lived
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
Rehoboam
reigned
over
them.
\VS{18}Then
King
Rehoboam
sent
Hadoram,
who
was
over
the
men subject
to
forced
labor;
and
the
children
of
Israel
stoned
him
to
death
with
stones.
King
Rehoboam
hurried
to
get himself
up
to
his
chariot,
to
flee
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}So
Israel
rebelled
against
David’s
house
to
this
day.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Rehoboam
had
come
to
Jerusalem,
he
assembled
the
house
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
one
hundred
eighty
thousand chosen
men
who
were
warriors,
to
fight
against
Israel,
to
bring
the
kingdom
again
to
Rehoboam.
\VS{2}But
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Shemaiah
the
man
of
God,
saying,
\VS{3}“Speak
to
Rehoboam
the
son
of
Solomon,
king
of
Judah,
and
to
all
Israel
in
Judah
and
Benjamin,
saying,
\VS{4}‘Yahweh
says, “You
shall
not
go
up,
nor
fight
against
your
brothers!
Every
man
return
to
his
house;
for
this
thing
is
of
me.” ’ ”
So
they
listened
to
Yahweh’s
words,
and
returned
from
going
against
Jeroboam.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Rehoboam
lived
in
Jerusalem,
and
built
cities
for
defense
in
Judah.
\VS{6}He
built
Bethlehem,
Etam,
Tekoa,
\VS{7}Beth Zur,
Soco,
Adullam,
\VS{8}Gath,
Mareshah,
Ziph,
\VS{9}Adoraim,
Lachish,
Azekah,
\VS{10}Zorah,
Aijalon,
and
Hebron,
which
are
fortified
cities
in
Judah
and
in
Benjamin.
\VS{11}He
fortified
the strongholds
and
put captains
in
them
with
stores
of
food,
oil
and
wine.
\VS{12}He
put
shields
and
spears
in
every
city,
and
made
them
exceedingly
strong.
Judah
and
Benjamin
belonged
to
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}The
priests
and
the
Levites
who
were
in
all
Israel
stood
with
him
out
of
all
their
territory.
\VS{14}For
the
Levites
left
their
pasture
lands
and
their
possessions,
and came
to
Judah
and
Jerusalem;
for
Jeroboam
and
his
sons cast
them
off,
that
they
should
not execute
the priest’s office
to
Yahweh.
\VS{15}He himself
appointed
priests
for
the
high
places,
for
the
male
goat
and
calf idols
which
he
had
made.
\VS{16}After
them,
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
those
who
set
their
hearts
to
seek
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
came
to
Jerusalem
to
sacrifice
to
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{17}So
they
strengthened
the
kingdom
of
Judah
and
made
Rehoboam
the
son
of
Solomon
strong
for
three
years,
for
they
walked
three
years
in
the
way
of
David
and
Solomon.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Rehoboam
took
a
wife
for himself,
Mahalath
the
daughter
of Jerimoth
the
son
of
David
and
of
Abihail
the
daughter
of
Eliab
the
son
of
Jesse.
\VS{19}She
bore
him
sons:
Jeush,
Shemariah,
and
Zaham.
\VS{20}After
her,
he
took
Maacah
the
granddaughter
of
Absalom;
and
she
bore
him
Abijah,
Attai,
Ziza,
and
Shelomith.
\VS{21}Rehoboam
loved
Maacah
the
granddaughter
of
Absalom above
all
his
wives
and
his
concubines;
for
he
took
eighteen
wives
and
sixty
concubines,
and
became
the
father
of
twenty-eight
sons
and
sixty
daughters.
\VS{22}Rehoboam
appointed
Abijah
the
son
of
Maacah
to
be
chief,
the
prince
among
his
brothers,
for
he intended
to
make
him
king.
\VS{23}He dealt
wisely,
and dispersed
some
of
his
sons
throughout
all
the
lands
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
to
every
fortified
city.
He
gave
them
food
in
abundance;
and
he
sought
many
wives
for
them.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
the
kingdom
of
Rehoboam
was
established
and
he
was
strong,
he
abandoned
Yahweh’s
law,
and
all
Israel
with
him.
\VS{2}In
the
fifth
year
of
King
Rehoboam,
Shishak
king
of
Egypt
came
up
against
Jerusalem,
because
they
had trespassed
against
Yahweh,
\VS{3}with twelve
hundred
chariots
and
sixty
thousand
horsemen.
The
people
were
without
number
who
came
with
him
out
of
Egypt:
the
Lubim,
the
Sukkiim,
and
the
Ethiopians.
\VS{4}He
took
the
fortified
cities
which belonged
to
Judah,
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}Now
Shemaiah
the
prophet
came
to
Rehoboam
and
to
the
princes
of
Judah,
who
were
gathered
together
to
Jerusalem
because
of
Shishak,
and
said
to
them, “Yahweh
says, ‘You
have forsaken
me,
therefore
I
have
also
left
you
in
the
hand
of
Shishak.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Then
the
princes
of
Israel
and
the
king
humbled
themselves;
and
they
said, “Yahweh
is
righteous.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}When
Yahweh
saw
that
they
humbled
themselves,
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
Shemaiah,
saying, “They
have
humbled
themselves.
I
will
not
destroy
them,
but
I
will
grant
them
some
deliverance,
and
my
wrath
won’t
be
poured
out
on
Jerusalem
by
the
hand
of
Shishak.
\VS{8}Nevertheless
they
will
be
his
servants,
that
they
may
know
my
service,
and
the
service
of
the
kingdoms
of
the
countries.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}So
Shishak
king
of
Egypt
came
up
against
Jerusalem
and
took
away
the
treasures
of
Yahweh’s
house
and
the
treasures
of
the
king’s
house.
He
took
it
all
away.
He
also
took
away
the
shields
of
gold
which
Solomon
had
made.
\VS{10}King
Rehoboam
made
shields
of
bronze
in
their
place,
and
committed
them
to
the
hands
of
the
captains
of
the
guard,
who
kept
the
door
of
the
king’s
house.
\VS{11}As
often
as
the
king
entered
into
Yahweh’s
house,
the
guard
came
and
bore
them,
then
brought
them
back
into
the
guard
room.
\VS{12}When
he
humbled
himself,
Yahweh’s
wrath
turned
from
him,
so
as
not
to
destroy
him altogether.
Moreover,
there
were
good
things
found
in
Judah.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}So
King
Rehoboam
strengthened
himself
in
Jerusalem
and
reigned;
for
Rehoboam
was forty-one
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
seventeen
years
in
Jerusalem,
the
city
which
Yahweh
had
chosen
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
put
his
name
there.
His
mother’s
name
was
Naamah
the
Ammonitess.
\VS{14}He
did
that which
was
evil,
because
he
didn’t
set
his
heart
to
seek
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Now
the
acts
of
Rehoboam,
first
and
last, aren’t
they
written
in
the histories
of
Shemaiah
the
prophet
and
of
Iddo
the
seer,
in
the
genealogies?
There
were
wars
between
Rehoboam
and
Jeroboam
continually.
\VS{16}Rehoboam
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
David’s
city;
and
Abijah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
eighteenth
year
of
King
Jeroboam,
Abijah began
to
reign
over
Judah.
\VS{2}He
reigned
three
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Micaiah
the
daughter
of
Uriel
of
Gibeah.
There
was
war
between
Abijah
and
Jeroboam.
\VS{3}Abijah joined
battle
with
an
army
of
valiant
men
of
war,
even
four
hundred
thousand chosen
men;
and
Jeroboam set
the
battle
in
array
against
him
with
eight
hundred
thousand chosen
men,
who
were
mighty
men
of
valor.
\VS{4}Abijah
stood
up
on
Mount
Zemaraim,
which
is
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim,
and
said, “Hear
me,
Jeroboam
and
all
Israel:
\VS{5}Ought
you
not
to
know
that
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
gave
the
kingdom
over
Israel
to
David
forever,
even
to
him
and
to
his
sons
by
a
covenant
of
salt?
\VS{6}Yet
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
the
servant
of
Solomon
the
son
of
David,
rose
up,
and
rebelled
against
his
lord.
\VS{7}Worthless
men
were
gathered
to
him,
wicked
fellows
who
strengthened
themselves
against
Rehoboam
the
son
of
Solomon,
when
Rehoboam
was
young
and
tender hearted,
and
could
not
withstand
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“Now
you
intend
to
withstand
the
kingdom
of
Yahweh
in
the
hand
of
the
sons
of
David.
You
are
a
great
multitude,
and
the
golden
calves
which
Jeroboam
made
you
for
gods
are
with
you.
\VS{9}Haven’t
you
driven
out
the
priests
of
Yahweh,
the
sons
of
Aaron,
and
the
Levites,
and
made
priests
for
yourselves
according
to
the ways
of
the
peoples
of
other
lands?
Whoever
comes
to consecrate
himself
with
a
young
bull
and
seven
rams
may
be
a
priest
of
those
who
are
no
gods.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“But
as
for us,
Yahweh
is
our
God,
and
we
have
not forsaken
him.
We
have
priests
serving
Yahweh,
the
sons
of
Aaron,
and
the
Levites
in
their
work.
\VS{11}They
burn
to
Yahweh
every
morning
and
every
evening
burnt
offerings
and
sweet
incense.
They
also set
the show
bread
in order
on
the
pure
table,
and
care
for
the
gold
lamp stand
with
its
lamps,
to
burn
every
evening;
for
we
keep
the instruction
of
Yahweh
our
God,
but
you
have forsaken
him.
\VS{12}Behold,
God
is
with
us
at
our
head,
and
his
priests
with
the
trumpets
of
alarm
to
sound
an
alarm
against
you.
Children
of
Israel,
don’t
fight
against
Yahweh,
the
God
of
your
fathers;
for
you
will
not
prosper.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}But
Jeroboam
caused
an
ambush
to
come
about
behind
them;
so
they
were
before
Judah,
and
the
ambush
was
behind
them.
\VS{14}When
Judah
looked
back,
behold,
the
battle
was
before
and
behind
them;
and
they
cried
to
Yahweh,
and
the
priests
sounded
with
the
trumpets.
\VS{15}Then
the
men
of
Judah
gave
a
shout.
As
the
men
of
Judah
shouted,
God
struck
Jeroboam
and
all
Israel
before
Abijah
and
Judah.
\VS{16}The
children
of
Israel
fled
before
Judah,
and
God
delivered
them
into
their
hand.
\VS{17}Abijah
and
his
people
killed
them
with
a
great
slaughter, so
five
hundred
thousand chosen
men
of
Israel
fell
down
slain.
\VS{18}Thus
the
children
of
Israel
were brought
under
at
that
time,
and
the
children
of
Judah
prevailed,
because
they
relied
on
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{19}Abijah
pursued
Jeroboam,
and
took
cities
from
him:
Bethel
with
its
villages,
Jeshanah
with
its
villages,
and
Ephron
with
its
villages.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Jeroboam
didn’t
recover
strength
again
in
the
days
of
Abijah.
Yahweh
struck
him,
and
he
died.
\VS{21}But
Abijah
grew
mighty
and
took
for
himself
fourteen
wives,
and
became
the
father
of
twenty-two
sons
and
sixteen
daughters.
\VS{22}The
rest
of
the
acts
of
Abijah,
his
ways,
and
his
sayings
are
written
in
the commentary
of
the
prophet
Iddo.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}So Abijah slept
with
his fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in David’s city;
and
Asa
his son reigned
in
his place.
In
his days,
the land
was quiet ten years.
\VS{2}Asa did
that which was good
and right
in Yahweh
his God’s eyes,
\VS{3}for
he
took away
the foreign altars
and
the high
places, broke down
the pillars, cut down
the Asherah poles,
\VS{4}and commanded
Judah
to seek Yahweh,
the God
of
their fathers,
and
to obey
his law
and command.
\VS{5}Also
he took
away out
of all
the
cities
of
Judah
the high places
and
the sun images;
and
the kingdom
was
quiet
before
him.
\VS{6}He
built
fortified
cities
in
Judah;
for
the
land
was quiet,
and
he
had no war
in
those years,
because
Yahweh
had
given
him
rest.
\VS{7}For
he said
to
Judah, “Let’s build
these cities
and
make walls around
them,
with
towers, gates,
and bars.
The land
is yet before us,
because
we
have sought Yahweh
our God.
We
have sought
him,
and
he
has given us
rest
on
every side.”
So
they built
and prospered.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Asa
had
an
army
of
three
hundred
thousand
out
of Judah who bore bucklers
and spears,
and
two
hundred eighty
thousand
out
of Benjamin who bore shields
and drew bows.
All these
were
mighty men
of
valor.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Zerah
the Ethiopian
came
out
against
them
with
an
army
of
a million troops
and three hundred chariots,
and
he
came
to
Mareshah.
\VS{10}Then
Asa
went
out
to meet
him,
and
they
set
the battle
in array
in
the valley
of Zephathah
at Mareshah.
\VS{11}Asa cried
to
Yahweh
his
God,
and said, “Yahweh,
there
is no
one besides
you
to help, between
the mighty
and
him
who
has no strength. Help
us,
Yahweh
our
God;
for we rely
on
you,
and
in
your name
are we come
against
this multitude.
Yahweh,
you
are
our
God. Don’t let man prevail
against
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}So
Yahweh
struck
the
Ethiopians
before
Asa
and
before Judah;
and
the
Ethiopians fled.
\VS{13}Asa
and
the people
who
were
with
him pursued
them
to
Gerar.
So
many
of
the Ethiopians
fell
that
they could
not recover
themselves,
for
they
were
destroyed
before
Yahweh
and
before
his army. Judah’s army
carried
away
very
much
booty.
\VS{14}They
struck
all
the cities
around Gerar,
for
the fear
of Yahweh
came
on
them.
They plundered
all
the cities,
for
there
was
much plunder
in
them.
\VS{15}They also struck the tents of those who had livestock, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, then returned to Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
Spirit
of
God
came
on
Azariah
the
son
of
Oded.
\VS{2}He
went
out
to
meet
Asa,
and
said
to
him, “Hear
me,
Asa,
and
all
Judah
and
Benjamin!
Yahweh
is
with
you
while
you
are
with
him;
and
if
you
seek
him,
he
will
be
found
by
you;
but
if
you
forsake
him,
he
will
forsake
you.
\VS{3}Now
for
a
long
time
Israel
was
without
the
true
God,
without
a
teaching
priest,
and
without
law.
\VS{4}But
when
in
their
distress
they
turned
to
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
and
sought
him,
he
was
found
by
them.
\VS{5}In
those times
there
was
no
peace
to
him
who
went
out,
nor
to
him
who
came
in;
but
great troubles
were
on
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
lands.
\VS{6}They
were
broken
in
pieces,
nation
against
nation,
and
city
against
city;
for
God
troubled
them
with
all
adversity.
\VS{7}But
you
be
strong!
Don’t
let
your
hands
be
slack,
for
your
work
will
be
rewarded.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}When
Asa
heard
these
words
and
the
prophecy
of
Oded
the
prophet,
he
took
courage,
and
put
away
the
abominations
out
of
all
the
land
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
and
out
of
the
cities
which
he
had
taken
from
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim;
and
he
renewed
Yahweh’s
altar
that
was
before
Yahweh’s
porch.
\VS{9}He
gathered
all
Judah
and
Benjamin,
and
those
who
lived
with
them
out
of
Ephraim,
Manasseh,
and
Simeon;
for
they
came
to
him
out
of
Israel
in
abundance
when
they
saw
that
Yahweh
his
God
was
with
him.
\VS{10}So
they
gathered
themselves
together
at
Jerusalem
in
the
third
month,
in
the fifteenth
year
of
Asa’s
reign.
\VS{11}They
sacrificed
to
Yahweh
in
that
day,
of
the
plunder
which
they
had
brought,
seven
hundred head
of
cattle
and
seven
thousand
sheep.
\VS{12}They
entered
into
the
covenant
to
seek
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
with
all
their
heart
and
with
all
their
soul;
\VS{13}and
that
whoever
would
not
seek
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
should
be
put
to
death,
whether
small
or
great,
whether
man
or
woman.
\VS{14}They
swore
to
Yahweh
with
a
loud
voice,
with
shouting,
with
trumpets,
and
with cornets.
\VS{15}All
Judah
rejoiced
at
the
oath,
for
they
had
sworn
with
all
their
heart
and
sought
him
with
their
whole
desire;
and
he
was
found
by
them.
Then
Yahweh
gave
them
rest
all
around.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Also
Maacah,
the
mother
of
Asa
the
king,
he
removed
from
being
queen
mother,
because
she
had
made
an abominable
image
for
an
Asherah;
so
Asa
cut
down
her
image,
ground
it
into dust,
and
burned
it
at
the
brook
Kidron.
\VS{17}But
the
high
places
were
not
taken
away
out
of
Israel; nevertheless
the
heart
of
Asa
was
perfect
all
his
days.
\VS{18}He
brought
the
things
that
his
father
had
dedicated
and
that
he
himself
had
dedicated,
silver,
gold,
and
vessels
into
God’s
house.
\VS{19}There
was
no
more
war
to
the thirty-fifth
year
of
Asa’s
reign.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the thirty-sixth
year
of
Asa’s
reign,
Baasha
king
of
Israel
went
up
against
Judah,
and
built
Ramah,
that
he
might
not
allow anyone
to
go
out
or
come
in
to
Asa
king
of
Judah.
\VS{2}Then
Asa
brought
out
silver
and
gold
out
of
the
treasures
of
Yahweh’s
house
and
of
the
king’s
house,
and
sent
to Ben Hadad
king
of
Syria,
who
lived
at
Damascus,
saying,
\VS{3}“Let
there
be
a
treaty
between
me
and
you,
as
there
was
between
my
father
and
your
father.
Behold,
I
have
sent
you
silver
and
gold.
Go,
break
your
treaty
with
Baasha
king
of
Israel,
that
he
may
depart
from
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Ben Hadad
listened
to
King
Asa,
and
sent
the
captains
of
his
armies
against
the
cities
of
Israel;
and
they
struck
Ijon,
Dan, Abel Maim,
and
all
the
storage
cities
of
Naphtali.
\VS{5}When
Baasha
heard
of
it,
he
stopped
building
Ramah,
and
let
his
work
cease.
\VS{6}Then
Asa
the
king
took
all
Judah,
and
they
carried
away
the
stones
and
timber
of
Ramah,
with
which
Baasha
had
built;
and
he
built
Geba
and
Mizpah
with
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}At
that
time
Hanani
the seer
came
to
Asa
king
of
Judah,
and
said
to
him, “Because
you
have
relied
on
the
king
of
Syria,
and
have
not
relied
on
Yahweh
your
God,
therefore
the
army
of
the
king
of
Syria
has
escaped
out
of
your
hand.
\VS{8}Weren’t
the
Ethiopians
and
the
Lubim
a huge
army,
with
chariots
and
exceedingly
many
horsemen?
Yet,
because
you
relied
on
Yahweh,
he
delivered
them
into
your
hand.
\VS{9}For
Yahweh’s
eyes run
back
and forth
throughout
the
whole
earth,
to
show
himself
strong
in
the
behalf
of
them
whose
heart
is
perfect
toward
him.
You
have
done
foolishly
in
this;
for
from
now
on
you
will
have
wars.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Then
Asa
was
angry
with
the seer,
and
put
him
in
the
prison;
for
he
was
in
a
rage
with
him
because
of
this
thing.
Asa
oppressed
some
of
the
people
at
the
same
time.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Behold,
the
acts
of
Asa,
first
and
last,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel.
\VS{12}In
the thirty-ninth
year
of
his
reign,
Asa
was
diseased
in
his
feet.
His
disease
was
exceedingly great;
yet
in
his
disease
he
didn’t
seek
Yahweh,
but
just
the
physicians.
\VS{13}Asa
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
died
in
the forty-first
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{14}They
buried
him
in
his own
tomb,
which
he
had
dug
out
for himself
in
David’s
city,
and
laid
him
in
the
bed
which
was
filled
with
sweet odors
and various
kinds
of
spices prepared
by
the perfumers’
art;
and
they
made
a
very
great
fire
for
him.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Jehoshaphat
his
son
reigned
in
his
place,
and
strengthened
himself
against
Israel.
\VS{2}He
placed
forces
in
all
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah,
and
set
garrisons
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
the
cities
of
Ephraim,
which
Asa
his
father
had
taken.
\VS{3}Yahweh
was
with
Jehoshaphat,
because
he
walked
in
the
first
ways
of
his
father
David,
and
didn’t
seek
the
Baals,
\VS{4}but
sought
the
God
of
his
father,
and
walked
in
his
commandments,
and
not
in
the ways
of
Israel.
\VS{5}Therefore
Yahweh
established
the
kingdom
in
his
hand.
All
Judah
brought
tribute
to
Jehoshaphat,
and
he
had
riches
and
honor
in
abundance.
\VS{6}His
heart
was lifted
up
in
the
ways
of
Yahweh.
Furthermore,
he
took
away
the
high
places
and
the
Asherah poles
out
of
Judah.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Also
in
the
third
year
of
his
reign
he
sent
his
princes, even Ben Hail,
Obadiah,
Zechariah,
Nethanel,
and
Micaiah,
to
teach
in
the
cities
of
Judah;
\VS{8}and
with them
Levites, even
Shemaiah,
Nethaniah,
Zebadiah,
Asahel,
Shemiramoth,
Jehonathan,
Adonijah,
Tobijah,
and Tobadonijah,
the
Levites;
and
with them
Elishama
and
Jehoram,
the
priests.
\VS{9}They
taught
in
Judah, having
the
book
of
Yahweh’s
law
with
them.
They
went
about
throughout
all
the
cities
of
Judah
and
taught
among
the
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}The
fear
of
Yahweh
fell
on
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
lands
that
were
around
Judah,
so
that
they
made
no war
against
Jehoshaphat.
\VS{11}Some
of
the
Philistines
brought
Jehoshaphat
presents
and
silver
for
tribute.
The Arabians
also
brought
him
flocks:
seven
thousand
seven
hundred
rams
and
seven
thousand
seven
hundred
male
goats.
\VS{12}Jehoshaphat
grew great
exceedingly;
and
he
built
fortresses
and
store
cities
in
Judah.
\VS{13}He
had
many
works
in
the
cities
of
Judah;
and
men
of
war,
mighty
men
of
valor,
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{14}This
was
the numbering
of
them according
to
their
fathers’
houses:
From
Judah,
the
captains
of
thousands: Adnah
the
captain,
and
with
him
three
hundred
thousand
mighty
men
of
valor;
\VS{15}and
next
to
him
Jehohanan
the
captain,
and
with
him
two
hundred
eighty
thousand;
\VS{16}and
next
to
him
Amasiah
the
son
of
Zichri,
who
willingly
offered
himself
to
Yahweh,
and
with
him
two
hundred
thousand
mighty
men
of
valor.
\VS{17}From
Benjamin:
Eliada,
a
mighty
man
of
valor,
and
with
him
two
hundred
thousand
armed
with
bow
and
shield;
\VS{18}and
next
to
him
Jehozabad,
and
with
him
one
hundred
eighty
thousand ready
and
prepared
for
war.
\VS{19}These
were
those
who waited
on
the
king,
in addition
to
those
whom
the
king
put
in
the
fortified
cities
throughout
all
Judah.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Jehoshaphat
had
riches
and
honor
in
abundance;
and
he
allied himself
with
Ahab.
\VS{2}After
some
years,
he
went
down
to
Ahab
to
Samaria.
Ahab killed
sheep
and
cattle
for
him
in
abundance,
and
for
the
people
who
were
with
him,
and
moved
him
to
go
up
with
him
to
Ramoth
Gilead.
\VS{3}Ahab
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah, “Will
you go
with
me
to
Ramoth
Gilead?”
\par }{\PP He
answered
him, “I am
as
you
are,
and
my
people
as
your
people. We
will
be
with
you
in
the
war.”
\VS{4}Jehoshaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel, “Please
inquire
first
for
Yahweh’s
word.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Then
the
king
of
Israel
gathered
the
prophets
together,
four
hundred
men,
and
said
to
them, “Shall
we
go
to
Ramoth
Gilead
to
battle,
or
shall
I forbear?”
\par }{\PP They
said, “Go
up,
for
God
will
deliver
it
into
the
hand
of
the
king.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}But
Jehoshaphat
said, “Isn’t
there
here
a
prophet
of
Yahweh
besides,
that we
may
inquire
of
him?”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}The
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat, “There
is
yet
one
man
by
whom
we
may
inquire
of
Yahweh;
but
I
hate
him,
for
he
never
prophesies
good
concerning
me,
but
always
evil.
He
is
Micaiah
the
son
of
Imla.”
\par }{\PP Jehoshaphat
said, “Don’t
let
the
king
say
so.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Then
the
king
of
Israel
called
an
officer,
and
said, “Get
Micaiah
the
son
of
Imla
quickly.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Now
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah
each
sat
on
his
throne,
arrayed
in
their
robes,
and
they
were
sitting
in
an
open
place
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
Samaria;
and
all
the
prophets
were
prophesying
before
them.
\VS{10}Zedekiah
the
son
of
Chenaanah
made himself
horns
of
iron
and
said, “Yahweh
says, ‘With
these
you
shall
push
the Syrians,
until
they
are
consumed.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}All
the
prophets
prophesied
so,
saying, “Go
up
to
Ramoth
Gilead,
and
prosper;
for
Yahweh
will
deliver
it
into
the
hand
of
the
king.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}The
messenger
who
went
to
call
Micaiah
spoke
to
him,
saying, “Behold,
the
words
of
the
prophets
declare
good
to
the
king
with
one
mouth.
Let
your
word
therefore,
please
be
like
one
of
theirs,
and
speak
good.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Micaiah
said, “As
Yahweh
lives,
I
will
say
what
my
God
says.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}When
he
had
come
to
the
king,
the
king
said
to
him, “Micaiah,
shall
we
go
to
Ramoth
Gilead
to
battle,
or
shall
I forbear?”
\par }{\PP He
said, “Go
up,
and
prosper.
They
shall
be
delivered
into
your
hand.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}The
king
said
to
him, “How
many
times
shall
I
adjure
you
that
you
speak
to
me
nothing
but
the
truth
in
Yahweh’s
name?”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}He
said, “I
saw
all
Israel
scattered
on
the
mountains,
as
sheep
that
have
no
shepherd.
Yahweh
said, ‘These
have
no
master.
Let
them
each
return
to
his
house
in
peace.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}The
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t
I
tell
you
that
he
would
not
prophesy
good
concerning
me,
but
evil?”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Micaiah
said, “Therefore
hear
Yahweh’s
word:
I
saw
Yahweh
sitting
on
his
throne,
and
all
the
army
of
heaven
standing
on
his
right
hand
and
on
his
left.
\VS{19}Yahweh
said, ‘Who
will entice
Ahab
king
of
Israel,
that
he
may
go
up
and
fall
at
Ramoth
Gilead?’
One
spoke
saying
in
this
way,
and
another
saying
in
that
way.
\VS{20}A
spirit
came
out,
stood
before
Yahweh,
and
said, ‘I
will entice
him.’
\par }{\PP “Yahweh
said
to
him, ‘How?’
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“He
said, ‘I
will
go,
and
will
be
a
lying
spirit
in
the
mouth
of
all
his
prophets.’
\par }{\PP “He
said, ‘You
will entice
him,
and
will
prevail
also.
Go
and
do
so.’
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“Now
therefore,
behold,
Yahweh
has
put
a
lying
spirit
in
the
mouth
of
these
your
prophets;
and
Yahweh
has
spoken
evil
concerning
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}Then
Zedekiah
the
son
of
Chenaanah
came
near,
and
struck
Micaiah
on
the
cheek,
and
said, “Which
way did
Yahweh’s
Spirit
go
from
me
to
speak
to
you?”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Micaiah
said, “Behold,
you
shall
see
on
that
day,
when
you
go
into
an
inner
room
to
hide yourself.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}The
king
of
Israel
said, “Take
Micaiah,
and
carry
him
back
to
Amon
the
governor
of
the
city,
and
to
Joash
the
king’s
son;
\VS{26}and
say, ‘The
king
says, “Put
this fellow
in
the
prison,
and
feed
him
with
bread
of affliction
and
with
water
of affliction,
until
I
return
in
peace.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{27}Micaiah
said, “If
you
return
at
all
in
peace,
Yahweh
has
not
spoken
by
me.”
He
said, “Listen,
you
people,
all
of
you!”
\par }{\PP \VS{28}So
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah
went
up
to
Ramoth
Gilead.
\VS{29}The
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat, “I
will
disguise myself,
and
go
into
the
battle;
but
you
put
on
your
robes.”
So
the
king
of
Israel
disguised
himself;
and
they
went
into
the
battle.
\VS{30}Now
the
king
of
Syria
had
commanded
the
captains
of
his
chariots,
saying, “Don’t
fight
with
small
nor
great,
except
only
with
the
king
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{31}When
the
captains
of
the
chariots
saw
Jehoshaphat,
they
said, “It
is
the
king
of
Israel!”
Therefore
they
turned
around
to
fight
against
him.
But
Jehoshaphat
cried
out,
and
Yahweh
helped
him;
and
God
moved
them
to depart
from
him.
\VS{32}When
the
captains
of
the
chariots
saw
that
it
was
not
the
king
of
Israel,
they
turned
back
from
pursuing
him.
\VS{33}A
certain
man
drew
his
bow
at
random,
and
struck
the
king
of
Israel
between
the joints
of
the
armor.
Therefore
he
said
to
the
driver
of
the
chariot, “Turn
around
and
carry
me
out
of
the battle,
for
I am severely
wounded.”
\VS{34}The
battle increased
that
day. However,
the
king
of
Israel
propped
himself
up
in
his
chariot
against
the Syrians
until
the
evening;
and
at
about
sunset,
he
died.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah
returned
to
his
house
in
peace
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani
the
seer
went
out
to
meet
him,
and
said
to
King
Jehoshaphat, “Should
you
help
the
wicked,
and
love
those
who
hate
Yahweh?
Because
of
this,
wrath
is
on
you
from
before
Yahweh.
\VS{3}Nevertheless
there
are
good
things
found
in
you,
in
that
you
have
put
away
the
Asheroth
out
of
the
land,
and
have
set
your
heart
to
seek
God.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Jehoshaphat
lived
at
Jerusalem;
and
he
went
out
again
among
the
people
from
Beersheba
to
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim,
and
brought
them
back
to
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{5}He
set
judges
in
the
land
throughout
all
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah,
city
by
city,
\VS{6}and
said
to
the
judges, “Consider
what
you
do,
for
you
don’t
judge
for
man,
but
for
Yahweh;
and
he
is
with
you
in
the
judgment.
\VS{7}Now
therefore
let
the
fear
of
Yahweh
be
on
you.
Take
heed
and
do
it;
for
there
is
no
iniquity
with
Yahweh
our
God,
nor
respect
of persons,
nor
taking
of
bribes.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Moreover
in
Jerusalem
Jehoshaphat
appointed certain
Levites,
priests,
and
heads
of
the
fathers’
households
of
Israel
to
give
judgment
for
Yahweh
and
for controversies.
They
returned
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}He
commanded
them,
saying, “You
shall
do
this
in
the
fear
of
Yahweh,
faithfully,
and
with
a
perfect
heart.
\VS{10}Whenever
any
controversy
comes
to
you
from
your
brothers
who
dwell
in
their
cities,
between
blood
and
blood,
between
law
and
commandment,
statutes
and
ordinances,
you
must
warn
them,
that
they
not
be
guilty
toward
Yahweh,
and
so
wrath
come
on
you
and
on
your
brothers.
Do
this,
and
you
will
not
be
guilty.
\VS{11}Behold,
Amariah
the
chief
priest
is
over
you
in
all
matters
of
Yahweh;
and
Zebadiah
the
son
of
Ishmael,
the
ruler
of
the
house
of
Judah,
in
all
the
king’s
matters.
Also
the
Levites
shall
be
officers
before
you.
Deal courageously,
and
may
Yahweh
be
with
the
good.”

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
this,
the
children
of
Moab,
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
with
them some
of
the
Ammonites,
came
against
Jehoshaphat
to
battle.
\VS{2}Then
some
came
who
told
Jehoshaphat,
saying, “A
great
multitude
is
coming
against
you
from
beyond
the
sea
from
Syria.
Behold,
they
are
in Hazazon Tamar” (that
is, En Gedi).
\VS{3}Jehoshaphat
was alarmed,
and
set
himself
to
seek
to
Yahweh.
He
proclaimed
a
fast
throughout
all
Judah.
\VS{4}Judah
gathered
themselves
together
to
seek help
from
Yahweh.
They
came
out
of
all
the
cities
of
Judah
to
seek
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Jehoshaphat
stood
in
the
assembly
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
in
Yahweh’s
house,
before
the
new
court;
\VS{6}and
he
said, “Yahweh,
the
God
of
our
fathers,
aren’t
you
God
in
heaven?
Aren’t
you
ruler
over
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
nations?
Power
and
might
are
in
your
hand,
so
that
no
one
is
able
to withstand
you.
\VS{7}Didn’t
you,
our
God,
drive
out
the
inhabitants
of
this
land
before
your
people
Israel,
and
give
it
to
the
offspring\FTNT{*}{{\FR 20:7 }
or, seed}
of
Abraham
your
friend
forever?
\VS{8}They
lived
in
it,
and
have
built
you
a
sanctuary
in
it
for
your
name,
saying,
\VS{9}‘If
evil
comes
on
us—the
sword,
judgment,
pestilence,
or
famine—we
will
stand
before
this
house,
and
before
you (for
your
name
is
in
this
house),
and
cry
to
you
in
our affliction,
and
you
will
hear
and
save.’
\VS{10}Now,
behold,
the
children
of
Ammon
and
Moab
and
Mount
Seir,
whom
you
would
not
let
Israel
invade
when
they
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
but
they
turned
away
from
them,
and
didn’t
destroy
them;
\VS{11}behold,
how
they reward
us,
to
come
to
cast
us
out
of
your
possession,
which
you
have
given
us
to
inherit.
\VS{12}Our
God,
will
you
not
judge
them?
For
we
have
no
might
against
this
great company
that
comes
against
us.
We
don’t
know
what
to
do,
but
our
eyes
are
on
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}All
Judah
stood
before
Yahweh,
with
their
little
ones,
their
wives,
and
their
children.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
Yahweh’s
Spirit
came
on
Jahaziel
the
son
of
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jeiel,
the
son
of
Mattaniah,
the
Levite,
of
the
sons
of
Asaph,
in
the
middle
of
the
assembly;
\VS{15}and
he
said, “Listen,
all
Judah,
and
you
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
and
you,
King
Jehoshaphat.
Yahweh
says
to
you, ‘Don’t
be
afraid,
and
don’t
be
dismayed
because
of
this
great
multitude;
for
the
battle
is
not
yours,
but
God’s.
\VS{16}Tomorrow,
go
down
against
them.
Behold,
they
are
coming
up
by
the
ascent
of
Ziz.
You
will
find
them
at
the
end
of
the
valley,
before
the
wilderness
of Jeruel.
\VS{17}You
will
not need
to
fight
this
battle.
Set
yourselves,
stand
still,
and
see
the
salvation
of
Yahweh
with
you,
O
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
Don’t
be
afraid,
nor
be
dismayed.
Go
out
against
them
tomorrow,
for
Yahweh
is
with
you.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Jehoshaphat
bowed
his
head
with
his
face
to
the
ground;
and
all
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
fell
down
before
Yahweh,
worshiping
Yahweh.
\VS{19}The
Levites,
of
the
children
of
the
Kohathites
and
of
the
children
of
the
Korahites,
stood
up
to
praise
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
with
an
exceedingly
loud
voice.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}They
rose
early
in
the
morning
and
went
out
into
the
wilderness
of
Tekoa.
As
they
went
out,
Jehoshaphat
stood
and
said, “Listen
to
me,
Judah
and
you
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem!
Believe
in
Yahweh
your
God,
so
you
will
be
established!
Believe
his
prophets,
so
you
will
prosper.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}When
he
had
taken
counsel
with
the
people,
he
appointed
those
who
were
to
sing
to
Yahweh
and
give
praise
in
holy array
as
they
go
out
before
the
army,
and
say, “Give
thanks
to
Yahweh,
for
his loving
kindness
endures
forever.”
\VS{22}When
they
began
to sing
and
to
praise,
Yahweh
set ambushers
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
Moab,
and
Mount
Seir,
who
had
come
against
Judah;
and
they
were
struck.
\VS{23}For
the
children
of
Ammon
and
Moab
stood
up
against
the
inhabitants
of
Mount
Seir
to
utterly kill
and
destroy
them.
When
they
had
finished
the
inhabitants
of
Seir,
everyone
helped
to
destroy
each
other.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}When
Judah
came
to
the
place
overlooking
the
wilderness,
they
looked
at
the
multitude;
and
behold,
they
were
dead
bodies
fallen
to
the
earth,
and
there
were
none
who
escaped.
\VS{25}When
Jehoshaphat
and
his
people
came
to
take
their
plunder,
they
found
among
them
in
abundance both riches
and
dead
bodies
with
precious
jewels,
which
they
stripped
off
for themselves,
more
than
they
could
carry
away.
They
took
plunder
for
three
days,
it
was
so
much.
\VS{26}On
the
fourth
day,
they
assembled
themselves
in
Beracah\FTNT{†}{{\FR 20:26 }
“Beracah” means “blessing”.}
Valley,
for
there
they
blessed
Yahweh.
Therefore
the
name
of
that
place
was
called “Beracah
Valley”
to
this
day.
\VS{27}Then
they
returned,
every
man
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
with
Jehoshaphat
in front
of
them,
to
go
again
to
Jerusalem
with
joy;
for
Yahweh
had
made
them
to
rejoice
over
their
enemies.
\VS{28}They
came
to
Jerusalem
with stringed instruments,
harps,
and
trumpets
to
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{29}The
fear
of
God
was
on
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
countries
when
they
heard
that
Yahweh
fought
against
the
enemies
of
Israel.
\VS{30}So
the
realm
of
Jehoshaphat
was
quiet,
for
his
God
gave
him
rest
all
around.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}So
Jehoshaphat
reigned
over
Judah.
He
was thirty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign.
He
reigned
twenty-five
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Azubah
the
daughter
of
Shilhi.
\VS{32}He walked
in
the
way
of
Asa
his
father,
and
didn’t
turn
away
from
it,
doing
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes.
\VS{33}However
the
high
places
were
not
taken
away,
and
the
people
had
still
not
set
their
hearts
on
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\par }{\PP \VS{34}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoshaphat,
first
and
last,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the history
of
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani,
which
is
included
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{35}After
this,
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah
joined
himself
with
Ahaziah
king
of
Israel.
The
same
did very
wickedly.
\VS{36}He
joined himself
with
him
to
make
ships
to go
to
Tarshish.
They
made
the
ships
in Ezion Geber.
\VS{37}Then
Eliezer
the
son
of
Dodavahu
of
Mareshah
prophesied
against
Jehoshaphat,
saying, “Because
you
have
joined
yourself
with
Ahaziah,
Yahweh
has
destroyed
your
works.”
The
ships
were wrecked,
so
that
they
were
not
able
to go
to
Tarshish.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Jehoshaphat
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
David’s
city;
and
Jehoram
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\VS{2}He
had
brothers,
the
sons
of
Jehoshaphat:
Azariah,
Jehiel,
Zechariah,
Azariah,
Michael,
and
Shephatiah.
All
these
were
the
sons
of
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Israel.
\VS{3}Their
father
gave
them
great
gifts
of
silver,
of
gold,
and
of
precious
things,
with
fortified
cities
in
Judah;
but
he
gave
the
kingdom
to
Jehoram,
because
he
was
the
firstborn.
\VS{4}Now
when
Jehoram
had
risen
up
over
the
kingdom
of
his
father,
and
had
strengthened
himself,
he
killed
all
his
brothers
with
the
sword,
and
also
some
of
the
princes
of
Israel.
\VS{5}Jehoram
was thirty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
eight
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{6}He walked
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
as
did
Ahab’s
house,
for
he
had
Ahab’s
daughter
as
his
wife.
He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
\VS{7}However
Yahweh
would
not
destroy
David’s
house,
because
of
the
covenant
that
he
had
made
with
David,
and
as
he
promised
to
give
a
lamp
to
him
and
to
his
children
always.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}In
his
days
Edom
revolted
from
under
the
hand
of
Judah,
and made
a
king
over
themselves.
\VS{9}Then
Jehoram
went
there
with
his
captains
and
all
his
chariots
with
him.
He
rose
up
by
night
and
struck
the
Edomites
who
surrounded
him,
along
with
the
captains
of
the
chariots.
\VS{10}So
Edom
has
been
in revolt
from
under
the
hand
of
Judah
to
this
day.
Then
Libnah
revolted
at
the
same
time
from
under
his
hand,
because
he
had forsaken
Yahweh,
the
God
of
his
fathers.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Moreover
he
made
high
places
in
the
mountains
of
Judah,
and
made
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
play
the
prostitute,
and
led
Judah
astray.
\VS{12}A
letter
came
to
him
from
Elijah
the
prophet,
saying, “Yahweh,
the
God
of
David
your
father,
says, ‘Because
you
have
not
walked
in
the
ways
of
Jehoshaphat
your
father,
nor
in
the
ways
of
Asa
king
of
Judah,
\VS{13}but
have walked
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and
have
made
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
to
play
the
prostitute
like
Ahab’s
house did,
and
also
have
slain
your
brothers
of
your
father’s
house,
who
were
better
than yourself,
\VS{14}behold,
Yahweh
will
strike
your
people
with
a
great
plague,
including
your
children,
your
wives,
and
all
your
possessions;
\VS{15}and
you
will
have
great
sickness
with
a
disease
of
your
bowels,
until
your
bowels fall
out
by
reason
of
the
sickness,
day
by
day.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Yahweh
stirred
up
against
Jehoram
the
spirit
of
the
Philistines
and
of
the Arabians
who
are
beside
the
Ethiopians;
\VS{17}and
they
came
up
against
Judah,
broke
into
it,
and
carried
away
all
the
possessions
that
were
found
in
the
king’s
house,
including
his
sons
and
his
wives,
so
that
there
was
no
son
left
to
him
except
Jehoahaz,
the
youngest
of
his
sons.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}After
all
this
Yahweh
struck
him
in
his
bowels
with
an incurable
disease.
\VS{19}In process
of
time,
at
the
end
of
two
years,
his
bowels
fell
out
by reason
of
his
sickness,
and
he
died
of severe
diseases.
His
people
made
no
burning
for
him,
like
the
burning
of
his
fathers.
\VS{20}He
was thirty-two
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
in
Jerusalem
eight
years.
He departed
with
no
one’s
regret.
They
buried
him
in
David’s
city,
but
not
in
the
tombs
of
the
kings.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
made
Ahaziah
his
youngest
son
king
in
his
place,
because
the
band
of
men
who
came
with
the Arabians
to
the
camp
had
slain
all
the oldest.
So
Ahaziah
the
son
of
Jehoram
king
of
Judah
reigned.
\VS{2}Ahaziah
was
forty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
one
year
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Athaliah
the
daughter
of
Omri.
\VS{3}He
also
walked
in
the
ways
of
Ahab’s
house,
because
his
mother
was
his
counselor
in
acting
wickedly.
\VS{4}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
as
did
Ahab’s
house,
for
they
were
his
counselors
after
the
death
of
his
father,
to
his
destruction.
\VS{5}He
also
followed
their
counsel,
and
went
with
Jehoram
the
son
of
Ahab
king
of
Israel
to
war
against
Hazael
king
of
Syria
at
Ramoth
Gilead;
and
the Syrians
wounded
Joram.
\VS{6}He
returned
to
be
healed
in
Jezreel
of
the
wounds
which
they
had given
him
at
Ramah,
when
he
fought
against
Hazael
king
of
Syria.
Azariah
the
son
of
Jehoram,
king
of
Judah,
went
down
to
see
Jehoram
the
son
of
Ahab
in
Jezreel,
because
he
was
sick.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Now
the
destruction
of
Ahaziah
was
of
God,
in
that
he
went
to
Joram;
for
when
he
had
come,
he
went
out
with
Jehoram
against
Jehu
the
son
of
Nimshi,
whom
Yahweh
had
anointed
to
cut
off
Ahab’s
house.
\VS{8}When
Jehu
was
executing
judgment
on
Ahab’s
house,
he
found
the
princes
of
Judah
and
the
sons
of
the
brothers
of
Ahaziah
serving
Ahaziah,
and
killed
them.
\VS{9}He
sought
Ahaziah,
and
they
caught
him (now
he
was
hiding
in
Samaria),
and
they
brought
him
to
Jehu
and
killed
him;
and
they
buried
him,
for
they
said, “He
is
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat,
who
sought
Yahweh
with
all
his
heart.”
The
house
of
Ahaziah
had
no
power
to
hold
the
kingdom.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Now
when
Athaliah
the
mother
of
Ahaziah
saw
that
her
son
was
dead,
she
arose
and destroyed
all
the
royal
offspring
of
the
house
of
Judah.
\VS{11}But
Jehoshabeath,
the
king’s
daughter,
took
Joash
the
son
of
Ahaziah,
and
stealthily rescued
him
from
among
the
king’s
sons
who
were slain,
and
put
him
and
his
nurse
in
the
bedroom.
So
Jehoshabeath,
the
daughter
of
King
Jehoram,
the
wife
of
Jehoiada
the
priest (for
she
was
the
sister
of
Ahaziah),
hid
him
from
Athaliah,
so
that
she
didn’t
kill
him.
\VS{12}He
was
with
them
hidden
in
God’s
house
six
years
while
Athaliah
reigned
over
the
land.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
seventh
year,
Jehoiada
strengthened
himself,
and
took
the
captains
of
hundreds—Azariah
the
son
of
Jeroham,
Ishmael
the
son
of
Jehohanan,
Azariah
the
son
of
Obed,
Maaseiah
the
son
of
Adaiah,
and
Elishaphat
the
son
of
Zichri—into
a
covenant
with
him.
\VS{2}They
went
around
in
Judah
and
gathered
the
Levites
out
of
all
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
the
heads
of
fathers’
households
of
Israel,
and
they
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}All
the
assembly
made
a
covenant
with
the
king
in
God’s
house.
Jehoiada\FTNT{*}{{\FR 23:3 }
Hebrew
He}
said
to
them, “Behold,
the
king’s
son
must
reign,
as
Yahweh
has
spoken
concerning
the
sons
of
David.
\VS{4}This
is
the
thing
that
you must
do:
a
third
part
of
you,
who
come
in
on
the
Sabbath,
of
the
priests
and
of
the
Levites,
shall
be
gatekeepers
of
the
thresholds.
\VS{5}A
third
part
shall
be
at
the
king’s
house;
and
a
third
part
at
the
gate
of
the
foundation.
All
the
people
will
be
in
the
courts
of
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{6}But
let
no
one
come
into
Yahweh’s
house
except
the
priests
and
those
who
minister
of
the
Levites.
They
shall
come
in,
for
they
are
holy,
but
all
the
people
shall
follow
Yahweh’s
instructions.
\VS{7}The
Levites
shall
surround
the
king,
every
man
with
his
weapons
in
his
hand.
Whoever
comes
into
the
house,
let
him
be slain.
Be
with
the
king
when
he
comes
in
and
when
he
goes
out.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}So
the
Levites
and
all
Judah
did
according
to
all
that
Jehoiada
the
priest
commanded.
They
each
took
his
men,
those
who
were
to
come
in
on
the
Sabbath,
with
those
who
were
to
go
out
on
the
Sabbath,
for
Jehoiada
the
priest
didn’t
dismiss
the shift.
\VS{9}Jehoiada
the
priest
delivered
to
the
captains
of
hundreds
the
spears, bucklers,
and
shields
that
had
been
king
David’s,
which
were
in
God’s
house.
\VS{10}He
set
all
the
people,
every
man
with
his
weapon
in
his
hand,
from
the
right
side
of
the
house
to
the
left
side
of
the
house,
near
the
altar
and
the
house,
around
the
king.
\VS{11}Then
they
brought
out
the
king’s
son,
put
the
crown
on
him,
gave
him
the covenant,
and
made
him
king.
Jehoiada
and
his
sons
anointed
him,
and
they
said, “Long
live
the
king!”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}When
Athaliah
heard
the
noise
of
the
people
running
and
praising
the
king, she
came
to
the
people
into
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{13}Then she
looked,
and
behold,
the
king
stood
by
his
pillar
at
the
entrance,
with
the
captains
and
the
trumpeters
by
the
king.
All
the
people
of
the
land
rejoiced
and
blew
trumpets.
The
singers
also played
musical
instruments,
and led
the
singing
of
praise.
Then
Athaliah
tore
her
clothes,
and
said, “Treason!
treason!”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Jehoiada
the
priest
brought
out
the
captains
of
hundreds
who
were
set
over
the
army,
and
said
to
them, “Bring
her
out between
the
ranks;
and
whoever
follows
her,
let
him
be slain
with
the
sword.”
For
the
priest
said, “Don’t
kill
her
in
Yahweh’s
house.”
\VS{15}So
they
made way
for
her. She
went
to
the
entrance
of
the
horse
gate
to
the
king’s
house;
and
they
killed
her
there.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Jehoiada
made
a
covenant
between himself,
all
the
people,
and
the
king,
that
they
should
be
Yahweh’s
people.
\VS{17}All
the
people
went
to
the
house
of
Baal,
broke
it
down,
broke
his
altars
and
his
images
in
pieces,
and
killed
Mattan
the
priest
of
Baal
before
the
altars.
\VS{18}Jehoiada
appointed
the
officers
of
Yahweh’s
house
under
the
hand
of
the
Levitical
priests,
whom
David
had distributed
in
Yahweh’s
house,
to
offer
the
burnt
offerings
of
Yahweh,
as
it
is
written
in
the
law
of
Moses,
with
rejoicing
and
with
singing,
as
David
had ordered.
\VS{19}He
set
the
gatekeepers
at
the
gates
of
Yahweh’s
house,
that
no
one
who
was
unclean
in
anything
should
enter
in.
\VS{20}He
took
the
captains
of
hundreds,
the
nobles,
the
governors
of
the
people,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land,
and
brought
the
king
down
from
Yahweh’s
house.
They
came
through
the
upper
gate
to
the
king’s
house,
and
set
the
king
on
the
throne
of
the
kingdom.
\VS{21}So
all
the
people
of
the
land
rejoiced,
and
the
city
was
quiet.
They
had slain
Athaliah
with
the
sword.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Joash
was
seven
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
forty
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Zibiah,
of
Beersheba.
\VS{2}Joash
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes
all
the
days
of
Jehoiada
the
priest.
\VS{3}Jehoiada
took
for
him
two
wives,
and
he
became
the
father
of
sons
and
daughters.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}After
this,
Joash intended
to
restore
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{5}He
gathered
together
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
said
to
them, “Go
out
to
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
gather
money
to
repair
the
house
of
your
God
from
all
Israel
from
year
to
year. See
that
you expedite
this
matter.” However
the
Levites
didn’t
do
it right
away.
\VS{6}The
king
called
for
Jehoiada
the
chief,
and
said
to
him, “Why
haven’t
you
required
of
the
Levites
to
bring
in
the
tax
of
Moses
the
servant
of
Yahweh,
and
of
the
assembly
of
Israel,
out
of
Judah
and
out
of
Jerusalem,
for
the
Tent
of
the
Testimony?”
\VS{7}For
the
sons
of
Athaliah,
that
wicked
woman,
had
broken
up
God’s
house;
and
they
also
gave
all
the
dedicated
things
of
Yahweh’s
house
to
the
Baals.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}So
the
king
commanded,
and
they
made
a
chest,
and
set
it
outside
at
the
gate
of
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{9}They
made
a
proclamation
through
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
to
bring
in
for
Yahweh
the
tax
that
Moses
the
servant
of
God
laid
on
Israel
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{10}All
the
princes
and
all
the
people
rejoiced,
and
brought
in,
and
cast
into
the
chest,
until
they
had filled
it.
\VS{11}Whenever
the
chest
was
brought
to
the
king’s
officers
by
the
hand
of
the
Levites,
and
when
they
saw
that
there
was
much
money,
the
king’s
scribe
and
the
chief
priest’s
officer
came
and
emptied
the
chest,
and
took
it,
and
carried
it
to
its
place
again.
Thus
they
did
day
by
day,
and
gathered
money
in
abundance.
\VS{12}The
king
and
Jehoiada
gave
it
to
those
who
did
the
work
of
the
service
of
Yahweh’s
house.
They
hired
masons
and
carpenters
to
restore
Yahweh’s
house,
and
also
those
who
worked
iron
and
bronze
to
repair
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{13}So
the
workmen
worked,
and
the
work
of repairing
went forward
in
their
hands.
They
set
up
God’s
house
as
it
was designed,
and
strengthened
it.
\VS{14}When
they
had
finished,
they
brought
the
rest
of
the
money
before
the
king
and
Jehoiada,
from
which
were
made
vessels
for
Yahweh’s
house,
even
vessels
with
which
to minister
and
to
offer,
including
spoons
and
vessels
of
gold
and
silver.
They
offered
burnt
offerings
in
Yahweh’s
house
continually
all
the
days
of
Jehoiada.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}But
Jehoiada
grew
old
and
was
full
of
days,
and
he
died.
He
was
one
hundred
thirty
years
old
when
he
died.
\VS{16}They
buried
him
in
David’s
city
among
the
kings,
because
he
had
done
good
in
Israel,
and
toward
God
and
his
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Now
after
the
death
of
Jehoiada,
the
princes
of
Judah
came
and
bowed
down
to
the
king.
Then
the
king
listened
to
them.
\VS{18}They
abandoned
the
house
of
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
and
served
the
Asherah poles
and
the
idols,
so
wrath
came
on
Judah
and
Jerusalem
for
this
their guiltiness.
\VS{19}Yet
he
sent
prophets
to
them
to
bring
them
again
to
Yahweh,
and
they
testified
against
them;
but
they
would
not
listen.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}The
Spirit
of
God
came
on
Zechariah
the
son
of
Jehoiada
the
priest;
and
he
stood
above
the
people,
and
said
to
them, “God
says, ‘Why
do
you disobey
Yahweh’s
commandments,
so
that
you
can’t
prosper?
Because
you
have forsaken
Yahweh,
he
has
also forsaken
you.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}They
conspired
against
him,
and
stoned
him
with
stones
at
the
commandment
of
the
king
in
the
court
of
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{22}Thus
Joash
the
king
didn’t
remember
the
kindness
which
Jehoiada
his
father
had
done
to
him,
but
killed
his
son.
When
he
died,
he
said, “May
Yahweh
look
at
it,
and repay
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}At
the end
of
the
year,
the
army
of
the Syrians
came
up
against
him.
They
came
to
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
and
destroyed
all
the
princes
of
the
people
from
among
the
people,
and
sent
all
their
plunder
to
the
king
of
Damascus.
\VS{24}For
the
army
of
the Syrians
came
with
a
small company
of
men;
and
Yahweh
delivered
a
very
great
army
into
their
hand,
because
they
had forsaken
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
So
they executed
judgment
on
Joash.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}When
they
had departed
from
him (for
they
left
him seriously wounded),
his own
servants
conspired
against
him
for
the
blood
of
the
sons
of
Jehoiada
the
priest,
and
killed
him
on
his
bed,
and
he
died.
They
buried
him
in
David’s
city,
but
they
didn’t
bury
him
in
the
tombs
of
the
kings.
\VS{26}These
are
those
who
conspired
against
him:
Zabad
the
son
of
Shimeath
the
Ammonitess
and
Jehozabad
the
son
of
Shimrith
the
Moabitess.
\VS{27}Now
concerning
his
sons,
the
greatness
of
the burdens laid
on
him,
and
the rebuilding
of
God’s
house,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the commentary
of
the
book
of
the
kings.
Amaziah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Amaziah
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
twenty-nine
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Jehoaddan,
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes,
but
not
with
a
perfect
heart.
\VS{3}Now
when
the
kingdom
was
established
to
him,
he
killed
his
servants
who
had
killed
his
father
the
king.
\VS{4}But
he
didn’t
put
their
children
to
death,
but
did
according
to
that
which
is
written
in
the
law
in
the
book
of
Moses,
as
Yahweh
commanded,
saying, “The
fathers
shall
not
die
for
the
children,
neither
shall
the
children
die
for
the
fathers;
but
every
man
shall
die
for
his
own
sin.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Moreover
Amaziah
gathered
Judah
together
and
ordered
them according
to
their
fathers’
houses,
under
captains
of
thousands
and
captains
of
hundreds,
even
all
Judah
and
Benjamin.
He
counted
them
from
twenty
years
old
and
upward,
and
found
that
there
were
three
hundred
thousand chosen
men, able
to
go
out
to
war,
who could
handle
spear
and
shield.
\VS{6}He
also
hired
one
hundred
thousand
mighty
men
of
valor out
of
Israel
for
one
hundred
talents\FTNT{*}{{\FR 25:6 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds}
of
silver.
\VS{7}A
man
of
God
came
to
him,
saying, “O
king,
don’t
let
the
army
of
Israel
go
with
you,
for
Yahweh
is
not
with
Israel,
with
all
the
children
of
Ephraim.
\VS{8}But
if
you
will
go,
take action,
and
be
strong
for
the
battle.
God
will overthrow
you
before
the
enemy;
for
God
has
power
to
help,
and
to overthrow.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Amaziah
said
to
the
man
of
God, “But
what
shall
we
do
for
the
hundred
talents\FTNT{†}{{\FR 25:9 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds}
which
I
have
given
to
the army
of
Israel?”
\par }{\PP The
man
of
God
answered, “Yahweh
is able
to
give
you
much
more
than
this.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Then
Amaziah
separated
them,
the army
that
had
come
to
him
out
of
Ephraim,
to
go
home
again.
Therefore
their
anger
was
greatly
kindled
against
Judah,
and
they
returned
home
in
fierce
anger.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Amaziah
took
courage,
and
led
his
people
out
and went
to
the
Valley
of
Salt,
and
struck
ten
thousand
of
the
children
of
Seir.
\VS{12}The
children
of
Judah
carried
away
ten
thousand
alive,
and
brought
them
to
the
top
of
the
rock,
and
threw
them
down
from
the
top
of
the
rock,
so
that
they
all
were
broken
in
pieces.
\VS{13}But
the
men
of
the
army
whom
Amaziah
sent
back,
that
they should
not
go
with
him
to
battle, fell
on
the
cities
of
Judah
from
Samaria
even
to Beth Horon,
and
struck
of
them
three
thousand,
and
took
much
plunder.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Now
after
Amaziah
had
come
from
the
slaughter
of
the
Edomites,
he
brought
the
gods
of
the
children
of
Seir,
and
set
them
up
to
be
his
gods,
and
bowed
down
himself
before
them
and
burned
incense
to
them.
\VS{15}Therefore
Yahweh’s
anger
burned
against
Amaziah,
and
he
sent
to
him
a
prophet
who
said
to
him, “Why
have
you
sought
after
the
gods
of
the
people,
which
have
not
delivered
their own
people
out
of
your
hand?”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}As
he
talked
with
him,
the
king
said
to
him, “Have
we
made
you
one
of
the
king’s
counselors?
Stop!
Why
should
you
be
struck
down?”
\par }{\PP Then
the
prophet
stopped,
and
said, “I
know
that
God
has determined
to
destroy
you,
because
you
have
done
this
and
have
not
listened
to
my
counsel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then
Amaziah
king
of
Judah
consulted
his
advisers,
and
sent
to
Joash,
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
the
son
of
Jehu,
king
of
Israel,
saying, “Come!
Let’s
look
one another
in
the
face.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Joash
king
of
Israel
sent
to
Amaziah
king
of
Judah,
saying, “The thistle
that
was
in
Lebanon
sent
to
the
cedar
that
was
in
Lebanon,
saying, ‘Give
your
daughter
to
my
son
as
his
wife.
Then
a
wild
animal
that
was
in
Lebanon
passed
by
and
trampled
down
the thistle.
\VS{19}You
say
to
yourself
that
you
have
struck
Edom;
and
your
heart
lifts
you
up
to boast.
Now
stay
at
home.
Why
should
you meddle
with
trouble,
that
you
should
fall,
even
you
and
Judah
with
you?’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}But
Amaziah would
not
listen;
for
it
was
of
God,
that
he
might
deliver
them
into
the
hand
of
their enemies,
because
they
had
sought
after
the
gods
of
Edom.
\VS{21}So
Joash
king
of
Israel
went
up,
and
he
and
Amaziah
king
of
Judah
looked
one another
in
the
face
at Beth Shemesh,
which belongs
to
Judah.
\VS{22}Judah
was
defeated
by
Israel;
so
every
man
fled
to
his
tent.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}Joash
king
of
Israel
took
Amaziah
king
of
Judah,
the
son
of
Joash
the
son
of
Jehoahaz,
at Beth Shemesh
and
brought
him
to
Jerusalem,
and
broke
down
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
from
the
gate
of
Ephraim
to
the corner
gate,
four
hundred
cubits.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 25:23 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters, so 400 cubits is about 200 yards or 184 meters.}
\VS{24}He
took
all
the
gold
and
silver,
and
all
the
vessels
that
were
found
in
God’s
house
with
Obed-Edom,
and
the
treasures
of
the
king’s
house,
and
the
hostages,
and
returned
to
Samaria.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}Amaziah
the
son
of
Joash,
king
of
Judah,
lived
for
fifteen
years
after
the
death
of
Joash,
son
of
Jehoahaz,
king
of
Israel.
\VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Amaziah,
first
and
last,
behold, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel?
\VS{27}Now
from
the
time
that
Amaziah
turned
away
from
following
Yahweh,
they
made
a
conspiracy
against
him
in
Jerusalem.
He
fled
to
Lachish,
but
they
sent
after
him
to
Lachish
and
killed
him
there.
\VS{28}They
brought
him
on
horses
and
buried
him
with
his
fathers
in
the
City
of
Judah.

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}All
the
people
of
Judah
took
Uzziah,
who
was
sixteen
years
old,
and
made
him
king
in
the
place
of
his
father
Amaziah.
\VS{2}He
built
Eloth
and
restored
it
to
Judah.
After
that
the
king
slept
with
his
fathers.
\VS{3}Uzziah
was
sixteen
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
fifty-two
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Jechiliah,
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes, according
to
all
that
his
father
Amaziah
had
done.
\VS{5}He set
himself
to
seek
God
in
the
days
of
Zechariah,
who
had
understanding
in
the
vision
of
God;
and
as
long
as
he
sought
Yahweh,
God
made
him
prosper.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}He
went
out
and
fought
against
the
Philistines,
and
broke
down
the
wall
of
Gath,
the
wall
of
Jabneh,
and
the
wall
of
Ashdod;
and
he
built
cities
in
the country
of
Ashdod,
and among
the
Philistines.
\VS{7}God
helped
him
against
the
Philistines,
and
against
the Arabians
who
lived
in Gur Baal,
and
the
Meunim.
\VS{8}The
Ammonites
gave
tribute
to
Uzziah.
His
name
spread abroad
even
to
the
entrance
of
Egypt,
for
he grew
exceedingly
strong.
\VS{9}Moreover
Uzziah
built
towers
in
Jerusalem
at
the
corner
gate,
at
the
valley
gate,
and
at
the turning
of
the wall,
and
fortified
them.
\VS{10}He
built
towers
in
the
wilderness,
and dug
out
many
cisterns,
for
he
had
much
livestock, both
in
the lowlands
and
in
the
plains.
He
had
farmers
and vineyard keepers
in
the
mountains
and
in
the fruitful
fields,
for
he
loved farming.
\VS{11}Moreover
Uzziah
had
an
army
of fighting
men
who
went
out
to
war
by
bands,
according
to
the
number
of
their reckoning
made
by
Jeiel
the
scribe
and
Maaseiah
the
officer,
under
the
hand
of
Hananiah,
one
of
the
king’s
captains.
\VS{12}The
whole
number
of
the
heads
of
fathers’
households, even
the
mighty
men
of
valor,
was
two
thousand
six
hundred.
\VS{13}Under
their
hand
was
an
army,
three
hundred
seven
thousand
five
hundred,
who
made
war
with
mighty
power,
to
help
the
king
against
the
enemy.
\VS{14}Uzziah
prepared
for
them, even
for
all
the
army,
shields,
spears,
helmets, coats
of mail,
bows,
and
stones
for slinging.
\VS{15}In
Jerusalem,
he
made
devices,
invented
by
skillful
men,
to
be
on
the
towers
and
on
the battlements,
with which
to
shoot
arrows
and
great
stones.
His
name
spread
far abroad,
because
he
was
marvelously
helped
until
he
was
strong.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}But
when
he
was
strong,
his
heart
was
lifted
up,
so
that
he did
corruptly
and
he trespassed
against
Yahweh
his
God,
for
he
went
into
Yahweh’s
temple
to
burn
incense
on
the
altar
of
incense.
\VS{17}Azariah
the
priest
went
in
after
him,
and
with
him
eighty
priests
of
Yahweh,
who
were
valiant
men.
\VS{18}They resisted
Uzziah
the
king,
and
said
to
him, “It
isn’t
for
you,
Uzziah,
to
burn
incense
to
Yahweh,
but
for
the
priests
the
sons
of
Aaron,
who
are
consecrated
to
burn
incense.
Go
out
of
the
sanctuary,
for
you
have trespassed.
It
will
not
be
for
your
honor
from
Yahweh
God.”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Then
Uzziah
was angry.
He
had
a
censer
in
his
hand
to
burn
incense,
and
while
he
was angry
with
the
priests,
the
leprosy
broke
out
on
his
forehead
before
the
priests
in
Yahweh’s
house,
beside
the
altar
of
incense.
\VS{20}Azariah
the
chief
priest
and
all
the
priests
looked
at
him,
and
behold,
he
was
leprous
in
his
forehead;
and
they thrust
him
out
quickly
from
there.
Indeed,
he
himself
also
hurried
to
go
out,
because
Yahweh
had
struck
him.
\VS{21}Uzziah
the
king
was
a
leper
to
the
day
of
his
death,
and
lived
in
a
separate
house,
being
a
leper;
for
he
was
cut
off
from
Yahweh’s
house.
Jotham
his
son
was
over
the
king’s
house,
judging
the
people
of
the
land.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Uzziah,
first
and
last,
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz,
wrote.
\VS{23}So
Uzziah
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
they
buried
him
with
his
fathers
in
the
field
of
burial
which belonged
to
the
kings,
for
they
said, “He
is
a
leper.”
Jotham
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Jotham
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Jerushah
the
daughter
of
Zadok.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes,
according
to
all
that
his
father
Uzziah
had
done.
However
he
didn’t
enter
into
Yahweh’s
temple.
The
people
still
acted
corruptly.
\VS{3}He
built
the
upper
gate
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and
he
built
much
on
the
wall
of
Ophel.
\VS{4}Moreover
he
built
cities
in
the
hill
country
of
Judah,
and
in
the forests
he
built
fortresses
and
towers.
\VS{5}He
also
fought
with
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
prevailed
against
them.
The
children
of
Ammon
gave
him
the
same
year
one
hundred
talents\FTNT{*}{{\FR 27:5 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds}
of
silver,
ten
thousand
cors\FTNT{†}{{\FR 27:5 }
1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels. 10,000 cors of wheat would weigh about 1,640 metric tons.}
of
wheat,
and
ten
thousand
cors
of
barley.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 27:5 }
10,000 cors of barley would weigh about 1,310 metric tons.}
The
children
of
Ammon
also
gave
that
much
to
him
in
the
second
year,
and
in
the
third.
\VS{6}So
Jotham
became
mighty,
because
he
ordered
his
ways
before
Yahweh
his
God.
\VS{7}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jotham,
and
all
his
wars
and
his
ways,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
Judah.
\VS{8}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}Jotham
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
David’s
city;
and
Ahaz
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ahaz
was
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
He
didn’t
do
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes,
like
David
his
father,
\VS{2}but
he walked
in
the
ways
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and
also
made molten
images
for
the
Baals.
\VS{3}Moreover
he
burned
incense
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
and
burned
his
children
in
the
fire, according
to
the
abominations
of
the
nations
whom Yahweh
cast
out
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{4}He
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
in
the
high
places,
and
on
the
hills,
and
under
every
green
tree.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Therefore
Yahweh
his
God
delivered
him
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Syria.
They
struck
him,
and
carried
away
from
him
a
great multitude
of
captives,
and
brought
them
to
Damascus.
He
was
also
delivered
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Israel,
who
struck
him
with
a
great
slaughter.
\VS{6}For
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah
killed
in
Judah
one
hundred
twenty
thousand
in
one
day,
all
of
them
valiant
men,
because
they
had forsaken
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{7}Zichri,
a
mighty
man
of
Ephraim,
killed
Maaseiah
the
king’s
son,
Azrikam
the
ruler
of
the
house,
and
Elkanah
who
was
next
to
the
king.
\VS{8}The
children
of
Israel
carried
away
captive
of
their
brothers
two
hundred
thousand
women,
sons,
and
daughters,
and
also
took
away
much
plunder
from
them,
and
brought
the
plunder
to
Samaria.
\VS{9}But
a
prophet
of
Yahweh
was
there,
whose
name
was
Oded;
and
he
went
out
to
meet
the
army
that
came
to
Samaria,
and
said
to
them, “Behold,
because
Yahweh,
the
God
of
your
fathers,
was
angry
with
Judah,
he
has
delivered
them
into
your
hand,
and
you
have
slain
them
in
a
rage
which
has
reached
up
to
heaven.
\VS{10}Now
you
intend
to degrade
the
children
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem
as
male
and
female
slaves
for
yourselves. Aren’t
there
even
with
you trespasses
of
your
own
against
Yahweh
your
God?
\VS{11}Now
hear
me
therefore,
and send
back
the
captives
that
you
have
taken
captive
from
your
brothers,
for
the
fierce
wrath
of
Yahweh
is
on
you.”
\VS{12}Then
some
of
the
heads
of
the
children
of
Ephraim,
Azariah
the
son
of
Johanan,
Berechiah
the
son
of
Meshillemoth,
Jehizkiah
the
son
of
Shallum,
and
Amasa
the
son
of
Hadlai,
stood
up
against
those
who
came
from
the
war,
\VS{13}and
said
to
them, “You
must
not
bring
in
the
captives
here,
for
you
intend
that which
will
bring
on
us
a trespass
against
Yahweh,
to
add
to
our
sins
and
to
our
guilt;
for
our
guilt
is
great,
and
there
is
fierce
wrath
against
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}So
the
armed
men
left
the
captives
and
the
plunder
before
the
princes
and
all
the
assembly.
\VS{15}The
men
who
have
been
mentioned
by
name
rose
up
and
took
the
captives,
and
with
the
plunder
clothed
all
who
were
naked
among
them,
dressed
them,
gave
them
sandals,
gave
them something
to
eat
and
to
drink, anointed
them,
carried
all
the
feeble
of
them
on
donkeys,
and
brought
them
to
Jericho,
the
city
of
palm
trees,
to
their
brothers.
Then
they
returned
to
Samaria.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}At
that
time
King
Ahaz
sent
to
the
kings
of
Assyria
to
help
him.
\VS{17}For
again
the
Edomites
had
come
and
struck
Judah,
and
carried
away
captives.
\VS{18}The
Philistines
also
had
invaded
the
cities
of
the
lowland
and
of
the
South
of
Judah,
and
had
taken Beth Shemesh,
Aijalon,
Gederoth,
Soco
with
its
villages,
Timnah
with
its
villages,
and
also
Gimzo
and
its
villages;
and
they
lived
there.
\VS{19}For
Yahweh brought
Judah low
because
of
Ahaz
king
of
Israel,
because
he
acted without restraint
in
Judah
and trespassed severely
against
Yahweh.
\VS{20}Tilgath-pilneser
king
of
Assyria
came
to
him
and
gave
him trouble,
but
didn’t
strengthen
him.
\VS{21}For
Ahaz
took away
a portion
out
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and
out
of
the
house
of
the
king
and
of
the
princes,
and
gave
it
to
the
king
of
Assyria;
but
it
didn’t
help
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}In
the
time
of
his distress,
he trespassed
yet
more against
Yahweh,
this
same
King
Ahaz.
\VS{23}For
he
sacrificed
to
the
gods
of
Damascus which
had
defeated
him.
He
said, “Because
the
gods
of
the
kings
of
Syria
helped
them,
I
will
sacrifice
to
them,
that
they
may
help
me.”
But
they
were
the ruin
of
him
and
of
all
Israel.
\VS{24}Ahaz
gathered
together
the
vessels
of
God’s
house,
cut
the
vessels
of
God’s
house
in
pieces,
and
shut
up
the
doors
of
Yahweh’s
house;
and
he
made himself
altars
in
every
corner
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{25}In
every
city
of
Judah
he
made
high
places
to
burn
incense
to
other
gods,
and
provoked
Yahweh,
the
God
of
his
fathers,
to
anger.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
his
acts,
and
all
his
ways,
first
and
last,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel.
\VS{27}Ahaz
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city,
even
in
Jerusalem,
because
they
didn’t
bring
him
into
the
tombs
of
the
kings
of
Israel;
and
Hezekiah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hezekiah began
to
reign
when
he
was
twenty-five
years
old,
and
he
reigned
twenty-nine
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Abijah,
the
daughter
of
Zechariah.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes, according
to
all
that
David
his
father
had
done.
\VS{3}In
the
first
year
of
his
reign,
in
the
first
month,
he
opened
the
doors
of
Yahweh’s
house
and
repaired
them.
\VS{4}He
brought
in
the
priests
and
the
Levites
and
gathered
them
together
into
the wide
place
on
the
east,
\VS{5}and
said
to
them, “Listen
to
me,
you
Levites!
Now
sanctify
yourselves,
and
sanctify
the
house
of
Yahweh,
the
God
of
your
fathers,
and
carry
the filthiness
out
of
the
holy
place.
\VS{6}For
our
fathers
were
unfaithful,
and
have
done
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh
our
God’s
sight,
and
have forsaken
him,
and
have
turned
away
their
faces
from
the habitation
of
Yahweh,
and
turned
their
backs.
\VS{7}Also
they
have
shut
up
the
doors
of
the
porch,
and
put
out
the
lamps,
and
have
not
burned
incense
nor
offered
burnt
offerings
in
the
holy
place
to
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{8}Therefore
Yahweh’s
wrath
was
on
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
and
he
has
delivered
them
to
be tossed back
and
forth,
to
be
an astonishment
and
a
hissing,
as
you
see
with
your
eyes.
\VS{9}For
behold,
our
fathers
have
fallen
by
the
sword,
and
our
sons
and
our
daughters
and
our
wives
are
in
captivity
for
this.
\VS{10}Now
it
is
in
my
heart
to
make
a
covenant
with
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
that
his
fierce
anger
may
turn
away
from
us.
\VS{11}My
sons,
don’t
be negligent
now;
for
Yahweh
has chosen
you
to
stand
before
him,
to
minister
to
him,
and
that
you
should
be
his
ministers
and
burn
incense.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
the
Levites
arose:
Mahath,
the
son
of
Amasai,
and
Joel
the
son
of
Azariah,
of
the
sons
of
the
Kohathites;
and
of
the
sons
of
Merari,
Kish
the
son
of
Abdi,
and
Azariah
the
son
of
Jehallelel;
and
of
the
Gershonites,
Joah
the
son
of
Zimmah,
and
Eden
the
son
of
Joah;
\VS{13}and
of
the
sons
of
Elizaphan,
Shimri
and
Jeuel;
and
of
the
sons
of
Asaph,
Zechariah
and
Mattaniah;
\VS{14}and
of
the
sons
of
Heman, Jehuel
and
Shimei;
and
of
the
sons
of
Jeduthun,
Shemaiah
and
Uzziel.
\VS{15}They
gathered
their
brothers,
sanctified
themselves,
and
went
in, according
to
the
commandment
of
the
king
by
Yahweh’s
words,
to
cleanse
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{16}The
priests
went
into
the
inner
part
of
Yahweh’s
house
to
cleanse
it,
and
brought
out
all
the
uncleanness
that
they
found
in
Yahweh’s
temple
into
the
court
of
Yahweh’s
house.
The
Levites
took
it
from
there
to
carry
it
out
to
the
brook
Kidron.
\VS{17}Now
they
began
on
the
first
day
of
the
first
month
to
sanctify,
and
on
the
eighth
day
of
the
month
they
came
to
Yahweh’s
porch.
They
sanctified
Yahweh’s
house
in
eight
days,
and
on
the sixteenth
day
of
the
first
month
they
finished.
\VS{18}Then
they
went
in
to
Hezekiah
the
king
within
the
palace
and
said, “We
have
cleansed
all
Yahweh’s
house,
including
the
altar
of
burnt
offering
with
all
its
vessels,
and
the
table
of show bread
with
all
its
vessels.
\VS{19}Moreover,
we
have
prepared
and
sanctified
all
the
vessels
which
King
Ahaz threw
away
in
his
reign
when
he
was
unfaithful.
Behold,
they
are
before
Yahweh’s
altar.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Then
Hezekiah
the
king
arose
early,
gathered
the
princes
of
the
city,
and
went
up
to
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{21}They
brought
seven
bulls,
seven
rams,
seven
lambs,
and
seven
male
goats,
for
a
sin
offering
for
the
kingdom,
for
the
sanctuary,
and
for
Judah.
He
commanded
the
priests
the
sons
of
Aaron
to
offer
them
on
Yahweh’s
altar.
\VS{22}So
they
killed
the
bulls,
and
the
priests
received
the
blood
and
sprinkled
it
on
the
altar.
They
killed
the
rams
and
sprinkled
the
blood
on
the
altar.
They
also
killed
the
lambs
and
sprinkled
the
blood
on
the
altar.
\VS{23}They
brought
near
the
male
goats
for
the
sin offering
before
the
king
and
the
assembly;
and
they
laid
their
hands
on
them.
\VS{24}Then
the
priests
killed
them,
and
they
made
a
sin
offering
with
their
blood
on
the
altar,
to
make
atonement
for
all
Israel;
for
the
king
commanded
that
the
burnt
offering
and
the
sin
offering
should
be
made
for
all
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}He
set
the
Levites
in
Yahweh’s
house
with
cymbals,
with stringed instruments,
and
with
harps,
according
to
the
commandment
of
David,
of
Gad
the
king’s
seer,
and
Nathan
the
prophet;
for
the
commandment
was
from
Yahweh
by
his
prophets.
\VS{26}The
Levites
stood
with
David’s
instruments,
and
the
priests
with
the
trumpets.
\VS{27}Hezekiah
commanded
them
to
offer
the
burnt
offering
on
the
altar.
When
the
burnt
offering
began,
Yahweh’s
song
also
began,
along
with
the
trumpets
and
instruments
of
David
king
of
Israel.
\VS{28}All
the
assembly
worshiped,
the
singers
sang,
and
the
trumpeters
sounded.
All
this continued
until
the
burnt offering
was
finished.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}When
they
had
finished
offering,
the
king
and
all
who
were
present
with
him
bowed
themselves
and
worshiped.
\VS{30}Moreover
Hezekiah
the
king
and
the
princes
commanded
the
Levites
to sing
praises
to
Yahweh
with
the
words
of
David,
and
of
Asaph
the
seer.
They sang
praises
with
gladness,
and
they
bowed
their
heads
and
worshiped.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}Then
Hezekiah
answered, “Now
you
have consecrated
yourselves
to
Yahweh.
Come
near
and
bring
sacrifices
and
thank
offerings
into
Yahweh’s
house.”
The
assembly
brought
in
sacrifices
and
thank
offerings,
and
as many
as
were
of
a
willing
heart
brought
burnt
offerings.
\VS{32}The
number
of
the
burnt
offerings
which
the
assembly
brought
was
seventy
bulls,
one
hundred
rams,
and
two
hundred
lambs.
All
these
were
for
a
burnt
offering
to
Yahweh.
\VS{33}The
consecrated
things
were
six
hundred head
of
cattle
and
three
thousand
sheep.
\VS{34}But
the
priests
were
too
few,
so
that
they
could
not
skin
all
the
burnt
offerings.
Therefore
their
brothers
the
Levites
helped
them
until
the
work
was
ended,
and
until
the
priests
had
sanctified
themselves,
for
the
Levites
were
more
upright
in
heart
to
sanctify
themselves
than
the
priests.
\VS{35}Also
the
burnt
offerings
were
in
abundance,
with
the
fat
of
the
peace
offerings
and
with
the drink
offerings
for every
burnt
offering.
So
the
service
of
Yahweh’s
house
was
set
in
order.
\VS{36}Hezekiah
and
all
the
people
rejoiced
because
of
that
which
God
had
prepared
for
the
people;
for
the
thing
was
done
suddenly.

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hezekiah
sent
to
all
Israel
and
Judah,
and
wrote
letters
also
to
Ephraim
and
Manasseh,
that
they
should
come
to
Yahweh’s
house
at
Jerusalem,
to
keep
the
Passover
to
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{2}For
the
king
had taken
counsel
with
his
princes
and
all
the
assembly
in
Jerusalem
to
keep
the
Passover
in
the
second
month.
\VS{3}For
they
could
not
keep
it
at
that
time,
because
the
priests
had
not
sanctified
themselves
in sufficient number,
and
the
people
had
not
gathered
themselves
together
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}The
thing
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
king
and
of
all
the
assembly.
\VS{5}So
they
established
a
decree
to
make
proclamation
throughout
all
Israel,
from
Beersheba
even
to
Dan,
that
they
should
come
to
keep
the
Passover
to
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
at
Jerusalem,
for
they
had
not
kept
it
in
great
numbers
in
the
way
it
is
written.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}So
the
couriers
went
with
the
letters
from
the
king
and
his
princes
throughout
all
Israel
and
Judah,
according
to
the
commandment
of
the
king,
saying, “You
children
of
Israel,
turn
again
to
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Israel,
that
he
may
return
to
the
remnant
of
you
that
have
escaped
out
of
the
hand
of
the
kings
of
Assyria.
\VS{7}Don’t
be
like
your
fathers
and
like
your
brothers,
who trespassed against
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
so
that
he
gave
them
up
to
desolation,
as
you
see.
\VS{8}Now
don’t
be stiff-necked,
as
your
fathers
were,
but
yield
yourselves
to
Yahweh,
and
enter
into
his
sanctuary,
which
he
has
sanctified
forever,
and
serve
Yahweh
your
God,
that
his
fierce
anger
may
turn
away
from
you.
\VS{9}For
if
you
turn
again
to
Yahweh,
your
brothers
and
your
children
will find
compassion
with
those
who
led
them
captive,
and
will
come
again
into
this
land,
because
Yahweh
your
God
is
gracious
and
merciful,
and
will
not
turn
away
his
face
from
you
if
you
return
to
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}So
the
couriers
passed
from
city
to
city
through
the
country
of
Ephraim
and
Manasseh,
even
to
Zebulun,
but
people ridiculed
them
and
mocked
them.
\VS{11}Nevertheless
some
men
of
Asher,
Manasseh,
and
Zebulun
humbled
themselves
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}Also
the
hand
of
God
came
on
Judah
to
give
them
one
heart,
to
do
the
commandment
of
the
king
and
of
the
princes
by
Yahweh’s
word.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Many
people
assembled
at
Jerusalem
to
keep
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
in
the
second
month,
a
very
great
assembly.
\VS{14}They
arose
and
took
away
the
altars
that
were
in
Jerusalem,
and
they
took
away
all
the
altars
for
incense
and
threw
them
into
the
brook
Kidron.
\VS{15}Then
they
killed
the
Passover
on
the fourteenth
day
of
the
second
month.
The
priests
and
the
Levites
were
ashamed,
and
sanctified
themselves,
and
brought
burnt
offerings
into
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{16}They
stood
in
their
place
after
their
order,
according
to
the
law
of
Moses
the
man
of
God.
The
priests
sprinkled
the
blood which
they
received
of
the
hand
of
the
Levites.
\VS{17}For
there
were
many
in
the
assembly
who
had
not
sanctified
themselves;
therefore
the
Levites
were
in
charge
of killing
the Passovers
for
everyone
who
was
not
clean,
to
sanctify
them
to
Yahweh.
\VS{18}For
a
multitude
of
the
people,
even
many
of
Ephraim,
Manasseh,
Issachar,
and
Zebulun,
had
not
cleansed
themselves,
yet
they
ate
the
Passover other
than
the
way
it
is
written.
For
Hezekiah
had
prayed
for
them,
saying, “May
the
good
Yahweh pardon everyone
\VS{19}who sets
his
heart
to
seek
God,
Yahweh,
the
God
of
his
fathers,
even if
they aren’t
clean according
to
the
purification
of
the
sanctuary.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Yahweh
listened
to
Hezekiah,
and
healed
the
people.
\VS{21}The
children
of
Israel
who
were
present
at
Jerusalem
kept
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
seven
days
with
great
gladness.
The
Levites
and
the
priests
praised
Yahweh
day
by
day, singing
with
loud
instruments
to
Yahweh.
\VS{22}Hezekiah
spoke encouragingly
to
all
the
Levites
who
had
good
understanding
in
the service
of
Yahweh.
So
they
ate
throughout
the
feast
for
the
seven
days,
offering
sacrifices
of
peace
offerings
and
making
confession
to
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}The
whole
assembly
took
counsel
to
keep
another
seven
days,
and
they
kept
another
seven
days
with
gladness.
\VS{24}For
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah gave
to
the
assembly
for
offerings
one
thousand
bulls
and
seven
thousand
sheep;
and
the
princes gave
to
the
assembly
a
thousand
bulls
and
ten
thousand
sheep;
and
a
great
number
of
priests
sanctified
themselves.
\VS{25}All
the
assembly
of
Judah,
with
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
all
the
assembly
who
came
out
of
Israel,
and
the
foreigners
who
came
out
of
the
land
of
Israel
and
who
lived
in
Judah,
rejoiced.
\VS{26}So
there
was
great
joy
in
Jerusalem;
for
since
the
time
of
Solomon
the
son
of
David
king
of
Israel
there
was
nothing
like
this
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{27}Then
the
Levitical
priests
arose
and
blessed
the
people.
Their
voice
was
heard,
and
their
prayer
came
up
to
his
holy
habitation,
even
to
heaven.

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
all
this
was
finished,
all
Israel
who
were
present
went
out
to
the
cities
of
Judah
and
broke
the
pillars
in
pieces,
cut
down
the
Asherah poles,
and
broke
down
the
high
places
and
the
altars
out
of
all
Judah
and
Benjamin,
also
in
Ephraim
and
Manasseh,
until
they
had
destroyed
them
all.
Then
all
the
children
of
Israel
returned,
every
man
to
his
possession,
into
their
own
cities.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Hezekiah
appointed
the
divisions
of
the
priests
and
the
Levites
after
their
divisions,
every
man
according
to
his
service,
both
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
for
burnt
offerings
and
for
peace
offerings,
to
minister,
to
give
thanks,
and
to
praise
in
the
gates
of
Yahweh’s
camp.
\VS{3}He
also
appointed
the
king’s
portion
of
his
possessions
for
the
burnt
offerings:
for
the
morning
and
evening
burnt
offerings,
and
the
burnt
offerings
for
the
Sabbaths,
for
the
new
moons,
and
for
the
set
feasts,
as
it
is
written
in
Yahweh’s
law.
\VS{4}Moreover
he
commanded
the
people
who
lived
in
Jerusalem
to
give
the
portion
of
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
that
they
might
give themselves
to
Yahweh’s
law.
\VS{5}As soon
as
the
commandment
went
out,
the
children
of
Israel
gave
in
abundance
the
first
fruits
of
grain,
new
wine,
oil,
honey,
and
of
all
the
increase
of
the
field;
and
they
brought
in
the
tithe
of
all
things
abundantly.
\VS{6}The
children
of
Israel
and
Judah,
who
lived
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
also
brought
in
the
tithe
of
cattle
and
sheep,
and
the
tithe
of
dedicated
things which
were
consecrated
to
Yahweh
their
God,
and
laid
them
in
heaps.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}In
the
third
month,
they
began
to
lay
the
foundation
of
the
heaps,
and
finished
them
in
the
seventh
month.
\VS{8}When
Hezekiah
and
the
princes
came
and
saw
the
heaps,
they
blessed
Yahweh
and
his
people
Israel.
\VS{9}Then
Hezekiah
questioned
the
priests
and
the
Levites
about
the
heaps.
\VS{10}Azariah
the
chief
priest,
of
the
house
of
Zadok,
answered
him
and
said, “Since
people
began
to
bring
the
offerings
into
Yahweh’s
house,
we
have
eaten
and
had
enough,
and
have
plenty
left
over,
for
Yahweh
has
blessed
his
people;
and
that
which
is
left
is
this
great store.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Then
Hezekiah
commanded
them
to
prepare
rooms
in
Yahweh’s
house,
and
they
prepared
them.
\VS{12}They
brought
in
the
offerings,
the
tithes,
and
the
dedicated
things
faithfully.
Conaniah
the
Levite
was
ruler
over
them,
and
Shimei
his
brother
was
second.
\VS{13}Jehiel,
Azaziah,
Nahath,
Asahel,
Jerimoth,
Jozabad,
Eliel,
Ismachiah,
Mahath,
and
Benaiah
were
overseers
under
the
hand
of
Conaniah
and
Shimei
his
brother,
by
the
appointment
of
Hezekiah
the
king
and
Azariah
the
ruler
of
God’s
house.
\VS{14}Kore
the
son
of
Imnah
the
Levite,
the
gatekeeper
at
the
east gate,
was
over
the free
will
offerings
of
God,
to
distribute
Yahweh’s
offerings
and
the
most
holy
things.
\VS{15}Under
him
were
Eden,
Miniamin,
Jeshua,
Shemaiah,
Amariah,
and
Shecaniah,
in
the
cities
of
the
priests,
in
their office
of
trust,
to
give
to
their
brothers
by
divisions,
to
the
great
as well
as
to
the
small;
\VS{16}in addition
to
those
who
were
listed
by
genealogy
of
males,
from
three
years
old
and
upward, even
everyone
who
entered
into
Yahweh’s
house,
as
the
duty
of
every
day
required,
for
their
service
in
their
offices according
to
their
divisions;
\VS{17}and
those
who
were
listed
by
genealogy
of
the
priests
by
their
fathers’
houses,
and
the
Levites
from
twenty
years
old
and
upward,
in
their
offices
by
their
divisions;
\VS{18}and
those
who
were listed
by
genealogy
of
all
their
little
ones,
their
wives,
their
sons,
and
their
daughters,
through
all
the
congregation;
for
in
their office
of
trust
they
sanctified
themselves
in
holiness.
\VS{19}Also
for
the
sons
of
Aaron
the
priests,
who
were
in
the
fields
of
the
pasture
lands
of
their
cities,
in
every
city,
there
were
men
who
were mentioned
by
name
to
give
portions
to
all
the
males
among
the
priests
and
to
all
who
were
listed
by
genealogy
among
the
Levites.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Hezekiah
did
so
throughout
all
Judah;
and
he
did
that
which
was
good,
right,
and
faithful
before
Yahweh
his
God.
\VS{21}In
every
work
that
he
began
in
the
service
of
God’s
house,
in
the
law,
and
in
the
commandments,
to
seek
his
God,
he
did
it
with
all
his
heart
and prospered.

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
these
things
and
this
faithfulness,
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
came,
entered
into
Judah,
encamped
against
the
fortified
cities,
and
intended
to win
them
for
himself.
\VS{2}When
Hezekiah
saw
that
Sennacherib
had
come,
and
that
he
was planning
to
fight
against
Jerusalem,
\VS{3}he
took
counsel
with
his
princes
and
his
mighty
men
to
stop
the
waters
of
the springs
which
were
outside
of
the
city,
and
they
helped
him.
\VS{4}Then
many
people
gathered
together
and
they
stopped
all
the
springs
and
the
brook
that
flowed
through
the
middle
of
the
land,
saying, “Why
should
the
kings
of
Assyria
come,
and
find
abundant
water?”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}He
took
courage,
built
up
all
the
wall
that
was
broken
down,
and
raised
it
up
to
the
towers,
with
the
other
wall
outside,
and
strengthened
Millo
in
David’s
city,
and
made
weapons
and
shields
in
abundance.
\VS{6}He
set
captains
of
war
over
the
people,
gathered
them
together
to
him
in
the wide
place
at
the
gate
of
the
city,
and
spoke encouragingly
to
them,
saying,
\VS{7}“Be
strong
and
courageous.
Don’t
be
afraid
or
dismayed
because
of
the
king
of
Assyria,
nor
for
all
the
multitude
who
is
with
him;
for
there
is
a
greater
one
with
us
than
with
him.
\VS{8}An
arm
of
flesh
is
with
him,
but
Yahweh
our
God
is
with
us
to
help
us
and
to
fight
our
battles.”
The
people
rested
themselves
on
the
words
of
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}After
this,
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
sent
his
servants
to
Jerusalem, (now
he
was attacking
Lachish,
and
all
his
forces
were
with
him),
to
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah,
and
to
all
Judah
who
were
at
Jerusalem,
saying,
\VS{10}Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
says, “In whom
do
you
trust,
that
you
remain
under
siege
in
Jerusalem?
\VS{11}Doesn’t
Hezekiah persuade
you
to
give
you
over
to
die
by
famine
and
by
thirst,
saying, ‘Yahweh
our
God
will
deliver
us
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria?’
\VS{12}Hasn’t
the
same
Hezekiah
taken
away
his
high
places
and
his
altars,
and
commanded
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
saying, ‘You
shall
worship
before
one
altar,
and
you
shall
burn
incense
on
it?’
\VS{13}Don’t
you
know
what
I
and
my
fathers
have
done
to
all
the
peoples
of
the
lands?
Were
the
gods
of
the
nations
of
those
lands
in
any
way
able
to
deliver
their
land
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{14}Who
was
there
among
all
the
gods
of
those
nations
which
my
fathers utterly destroyed
that
could
deliver
his
people
out
of
my
hand,
that
your
God
should
be
able
to
deliver
you
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{15}Now
therefore
don’t
let
Hezekiah
deceive
you
nor persuade
you
in
this
way.
Don’t
believe
him,
for
no
god
of
any
nation
or
kingdom
was
able
to
deliver
his
people
out
of
my
hand,
and
out
of
the
hand
of
my
fathers.
How
much
less
will
your
God
deliver
you
out
of
my
hand?”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}His
servants
spoke
yet
more
against
Yahweh
God
and
against
his
servant
Hezekiah.
\VS{17}He
also
wrote
letters insulting
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
and
speaking
against
him,
saying, “As
the
gods
of
the
nations
of
the
lands,
which
have
not
delivered
their
people
out
of
my
hand,
so
shall
the
God
of
Hezekiah
not
deliver
his
people
out
of
my
hand.”
\VS{18}They
called
out
with
a
loud
voice
in
the Jews’
language
to
the
people
of
Jerusalem
who
were
on
the
wall,
to frighten
them
and
to trouble
them,
that
they
might
take
the
city.
\VS{19}They
spoke
of
the
God
of
Jerusalem
as
of
the
gods
of
the
peoples
of
the
earth, which
are
the
work
of
men’s
hands.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Hezekiah
the
king
and
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz,
prayed
because
of
this,
and
cried
to
heaven.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Yahweh
sent
an
angel,
who
cut
off
all
the
mighty
men
of
valor,
the
leaders,
and
captains
in
the
camp
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
So
he
returned
with
shame
of
face
to
his
own
land.
When
he
had
come
into
the
house
of
his
god,
those
who
came
out
of
his
own
body\FTNT{*}{{\FR 32:21 }
i.e., his own sons}
killed
him
there
with
the
sword.
\VS{22}Thus
Yahweh
saved
Hezekiah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
from
the
hand
of
Sennacherib
the
king
of
Assyria
and
from
the
hand
of
all others,
and
guided
them
on
every
side.
\VS{23}Many
brought
gifts
to
Yahweh
to
Jerusalem,
and
precious
things
to
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah,
so
that
he
was
exalted
in
the
sight
of
all
nations
from
then
on.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}In
those
days
Hezekiah
was terminally ill,
and
he
prayed
to
Yahweh;
and
he
spoke
to
him,
and
gave
him
a
sign.
\VS{25}But
Hezekiah
didn’t reciprocate appropriate
to
the
benefit
done
for
him,
because
his
heart
was lifted
up.
Therefore
there
was
wrath
on
him,
Judah,
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}However,
Hezekiah
humbled
himself
for
the
pride
of
his
heart,
both
he
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
so
that
Yahweh’s
wrath
didn’t
come
on
them
in
the
days
of
Hezekiah.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}Hezekiah
had
exceedingly
great
riches
and
honor.
He provided himself
with
treasuries
for
silver,
for
gold,
for
precious
stones,
for
spices,
for
shields,
and
for
all
kinds
of
valuable
vessels;
\VS{28}also
storehouses
for
the
increase
of
grain,
new
wine,
and
oil;
and
stalls
for
all
kinds
of
animals,
and
flocks
in folds.
\VS{29}Moreover
he
provided
for himself
cities,
and
possessions
of
flocks
and
herds
in
abundance;
for
God
had
given
him
abundant
possessions.
\VS{30}This
same
Hezekiah
also
stopped
the
upper
spring
of
the
waters
of
Gihon,
and brought
them
straight
down
on
the
west
side
of
David’s
city.
Hezekiah prospered
in
all
his
works.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}However,
concerning
the ambassadors
of
the
princes
of
Babylon,
who
sent
to
him
to
inquire
of
the
wonder
that
was
done
in
the
land,
God
left
him
to
test
him,
that
he
might
know
all
that
was
in
his
heart.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Hezekiah
and
his
good
deeds,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
vision
of
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz,
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Judah
and
Israel.
\VS{33}Hezekiah
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
ascent
to
the
tombs
of
the
sons
of
David.
All
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem honored
him
at
his
death.
Manasseh
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Manasseh
was
twelve
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
fifty-five
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight, after
the
abominations
of
the
nations
whom
Yahweh
cast
out
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{3}For
he
built
again
the
high
places
which
Hezekiah
his
father
had
broken
down;
and
he
raised
up
altars
for
the
Baals,
made
Asheroth,
and
worshiped
all
the
army
of
the
sky,
and
served
them.
\VS{4}He
built
altars
in
Yahweh’s
house,
of
which
Yahweh
said, “My
name
shall
be
in
Jerusalem
forever.”
\VS{5}He
built
altars
for
all
the
army
of
the
sky
in
the
two courts
of
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{6}He
also
made
his
children
to
pass
through
the
fire
in
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom.
He
practiced
sorcery,
divination,
and witchcraft,
and dealt
with
those
who
had familiar spirits
and
with wizards.
He
did
much
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
to
provoke
him
to
anger.
\VS{7}He
set
the engraved
image
of
the
idol,
which
he
had
made,
in
God’s
house,
of
which
God
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,
I
will
put
my
name forever.
\VS{8}I
will
not
any
more
remove
the
foot
of
Israel
from
off
the
land
which
I
have
appointed
for
your
fathers,
if
only
they
will
observe
to
do
all
that
I
have
commanded
them,
even
all
the
law,
the
statutes,
and
the
ordinances
given
by
Moses.”
\VS{9}Manasseh
seduced
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
so
that
they
did
more
evil
than
did
the
nations
whom
Yahweh
destroyed
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Yahweh
spoke
to
Manasseh
and
to
his
people,
but
they
didn’t
listen.
\VS{11}Therefore
Yahweh
brought
on
them
the
captains
of
the
army
of
the
king
of
Assyria,
who
took
Manasseh
in
chains,
bound
him
with
fetters,
and
carried
him
to
Babylon.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}When
he
was
in distress,
he begged
Yahweh
his
God,
and
humbled
himself
greatly
before
the
God
of
his
fathers.
\VS{13}He
prayed
to
him;
and
he
was
entreated
by
him,
and
heard
his
supplication,
and
brought
him
again
to
Jerusalem
into
his
kingdom.
Then
Manasseh
knew
that
Yahweh
was
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Now
after
this,
he
built
an
outer
wall
to
David’s
city
on
the
west
side
of
Gihon,
in
the
valley,
even
to
the
entrance
at
the
fish
gate.
He
encircled
Ophel
with
it,
and raised
it
up
to
a
very
great height;
and
he
put
valiant
captains
in
all
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah.
\VS{15}He
took
away
the
foreign
gods
and
the
idol
out
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and
all
the
altars
that
he
had
built
in
the
mountain
of
Yahweh’s
house
and
in
Jerusalem,
and
cast
them
out
of
the
city.
\VS{16}He built
up
Yahweh’s
altar,
and
offered
sacrifices
of
peace
offerings
and
of
thanksgiving
on
it,
and
commanded
Judah
to
serve
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{17}Nevertheless
the
people
still
sacrificed
in
the
high
places,
but
only
to
Yahweh
their
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Manasseh,
and
his
prayer
to
his
God,
and
the
words
of
the
seers
who
spoke
to
him
in
the
name
of
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
behold,
they
are written
among
the
acts
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{19}His
prayer
also,
and
how God
listened
to
his
request,
and
all
his
sin
and
his
trespass,
and
the
places
in
which
he
built
high
places
and
set
up
the
Asherah poles
and
the
engraved
images
before
he
humbled
himself:
behold,
they
are
written
in
the history
of
Hozai.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 33:19 }
or, the seers}
\VS{20}So
Manasseh
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
his
own
house;
and
Amon
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Amon
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
two
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{22}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
as
did
Manasseh
his
father;
and
Amon
sacrificed
to
all
the
engraved
images
which
Manasseh
his
father
had
made,
and
served
them.
\VS{23}He
didn’t
humble
himself
before
Yahweh,
as
Manasseh
his
father
had
humbled
himself;
but
this
same
Amon trespassed
more
and
more.
\VS{24}His
servants
conspired
against
him,
and
put
him
to
death
in
his own
house.
\VS{25}But
the
people
of
the
land
killed
all
those
who
had
conspired
against
King
Amon;
and
the
people
of
the
land
made
Josiah
his
son
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Josiah
was
eight
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned thirty-one
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes,
and walked
in
the
ways
of
David
his
father,
and
didn’t
turn
away
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left.
\VS{3}For
in
the
eighth
year
of
his
reign,
while
he
was
yet
young,
he
began
to
seek
after
the
God
of
David
his
father;
and
in
the twelfth
year
he
began
to
purge
Judah
and
Jerusalem
from
the
high
places,
the
Asherah poles,
the
engraved
images,
and
the molten
images.
\VS{4}They
broke
down
the
altars
of
the
Baals
in
his
presence;
and
he
cut
down
the
incense
altars
that
were
on
high
above
them.
He
broke
the
Asherah poles,
the
engraved
images,
and
the molten
images
in
pieces,
made dust
of
them,
and scattered
it
on
the
graves
of
those
who
had
sacrificed
to
them.
\VS{5}He
burned
the
bones
of
the
priests
on
their
altars,
and
purged
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{6}He did this
in
the
cities
of
Manasseh,
Ephraim,
and
Simeon,
even
to
Naphtali,
around
in
their
ruins.
\VS{7}He
broke
down
the
altars,
beat
the
Asherah poles
and
the
engraved
images
into
powder,
and
cut
down
all
the
incense
altars
throughout
all
the
land
of
Israel,
then
returned
to
Jerusalem.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Now
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
his
reign,
when
he
had
purged
the
land
and
the
house,
he
sent
Shaphan
the
son
of
Azaliah,
Maaseiah
the
governor
of
the
city,
and
Joah
the
son
of
Joahaz
the
recorder
to
repair
the
house
of
Yahweh
his
God.
\VS{9}They
came
to
Hilkiah
the
high
priest
and
delivered
the
money
that
was
brought
into
God’s
house,
which
the
Levites,
the
keepers
of
the threshold,
had
gathered
from
the
hands
of
Manasseh,
Ephraim,
of
all
the
remnant
of
Israel,
of
all
Judah
and
Benjamin,
and
of
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}They
delivered
it
into
the
hands
of
the
workmen
who
had
the
oversight
of
Yahweh’s
house;
and
the
workmen
who labored
in
Yahweh’s
house
gave
it
to mend
and
repair
the
house.
\VS{11}They
gave
it
to
the
carpenters
and
to
the
builders
to
buy cut
stone
and
timber
for
couplings,
and
to
make
beams
for
the
houses
which
the
kings
of
Judah
had
destroyed.
\VS{12}The
men
did
the
work
faithfully.
Their
overseers
were
Jahath
and
Obadiah
the
Levites,
of
the
sons
of
Merari;
and
Zechariah
and
Meshullam,
of
the
sons
of
the
Kohathites,
to
give direction;
and others
of
the
Levites,
who
were
all
skillful
with
musical
instruments.
\VS{13}Also
they
were
over
the
bearers
of burdens,
and directed
all
who
did
the
work
in
every
kind
of
service.
Of
the
Levites,
there
were
scribes,
officials,
and
gatekeepers.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}When
they
brought
out
the
money
that
was
brought
into
Yahweh’s
house,
Hilkiah
the
priest
found
the
book
of
Yahweh’s
law
given
by
Moses.
\VS{15}Hilkiah
answered
Shaphan
the
scribe, “I
have
found
the
book
of
the
law
in
Yahweh’s
house.”
So
Hilkiah
delivered
the
book
to
Shaphan.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Shaphan
carried
the
book
to
the
king,
and
moreover
brought
back
word
to
the
king,
saying, “All
that
was
committed
to
your
servants,
they
are
doing.
\VS{17}They
have
emptied
out
the
money
that
was
found
in
Yahweh’s
house,
and
have
delivered
it
into
the
hand
of
the
overseers
and
into
the
hand
of
the
workmen.”
\VS{18}Shaphan
the
scribe
told
the
king,
saying, “Hilkiah
the
priest
has
delivered
me
a
book.”
Shaphan
read
from
it
to
the
king.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}When
the
king
had
heard
the
words
of
the
law,
he
tore
his
clothes.
\VS{20}The
king
commanded
Hilkiah,
Ahikam
the
son
of
Shaphan,
Abdon
the
son
of
Micah,
Shaphan
the
scribe,
and
Asaiah
the
king’s
servant,
saying,
\VS{21}“Go
inquire
of
Yahweh
for
me,
and
for
those
who
are
left
in
Israel
and
in
Judah,
concerning
the
words
of
the
book
that
is
found;
for
great
is
Yahweh’s
wrath
that
is
poured
out
on
us,
because
our
fathers
have
not
kept
Yahweh’s
word,
to
do
according
to
all
that
is
written
in
this
book.”
\par }{\PP \VS{22}So
Hilkiah
and
those
whom
the
king
had
commanded
went
to
Huldah
the
prophetess,
the
wife
of
Shallum
the
son
of
Tokhath,
the
son
of
Hasrah,
keeper
of
the wardrobe (now
she
lived
in
Jerusalem
in
the
second quarter),
and
they
spoke
to
her
to
that effect.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}She
said
to
them, “Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel
says: ‘Tell
the
man
who
sent
you
to
me,
\VS{24}“Yahweh
says, ‘Behold,
I
will
bring
evil
on
this
place
and
on
its
inhabitants,
even
all
the
curses
that
are
written
in
the
book
which
they
have
read
before
the
king
of
Judah.
\VS{25}Because
they
have forsaken
me,
and
have
burned
incense
to
other
gods,
that
they
might
provoke
me
to
anger
with
all
the
works
of
their
hands,
therefore
my
wrath
is
poured
out
on
this
place,
and
it
will
not
be
quenched.’ ” ’
\VS{26}But
to
the
king
of
Judah,
who
sent
you
to
inquire
of
Yahweh,
you
shall
tell
him
this, ‘Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel
says: “About
the
words
which
you
have
heard,
\VS{27}because
your
heart
was
tender,
and
you
humbled
yourself
before
God
when
you
heard
his
words
against
this
place
and
against
its
inhabitants,
and
have
humbled
yourself
before
me,
and
have
torn
your
clothes
and
wept
before
me,
I
also
have
heard
you,”
says
Yahweh.
\VS{28}“Behold,
I
will
gather
you
to
your
fathers,
and
you
will
be
gathered
to
your
grave
in
peace.
Your
eyes
won’t
see
all
the
evil
that
I
will
bring
on
this
place
and
on
its
inhabitants.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP They
brought
back
this
message
to
the
king.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}Then
the
king
sent
and
gathered
together
all
the
elders
of
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{30}The
king
went
up
to
Yahweh’s
house
with
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem—the
priests,
the
Levites,
and
all
the
people,
both
great
and
small—and
he
read
in
their
hearing
all
the
words
of
the
book
of
the
covenant
that
was
found
in
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{31}The
king
stood
in
his
place
and
made
a
covenant
before
Yahweh,
to walk
after
Yahweh,
and
to
keep
his
commandments,
his
testimonies,
and
his
statutes
with
all
his
heart
and
with
all
his
soul,
to
perform
the
words
of
the
covenant
that
were
written
in
this
book.
\VS{32}He
caused
all
who
were
found
in
Jerusalem
and
Benjamin
to
stand.
The
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
did according
to
the
covenant
of
God,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{33}Josiah
took
away
all
the
abominations
out
of
all
the
countries
that belonged
to
the
children
of
Israel,
and
made
all
who
were
found
in
Israel
to
serve,
even
to
serve
Yahweh
their
God.
All
his
days
they
didn’t
depart
from
following
Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers.

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Josiah
kept
a
Passover
to
Yahweh
in
Jerusalem.
They
killed
the
Passover
on
the fourteenth
day
of
the
first
month.
\VS{2}He
set
the
priests
in
their
offices
and
encouraged
them
in
the
service
of
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{3}He
said
to
the
Levites
who
taught
all
Israel,
who
were
holy
to
Yahweh, “Put
the
holy
ark
in
the
house
which
Solomon
the
son
of
David
king
of
Israel
built.
It
will
no
longer
be
a
burden
on
your
shoulders.
Now
serve
Yahweh
your
God
and
his
people
Israel.
\VS{4}Prepare yourselves after
your
fathers’
houses
by
your
divisions, according
to
the
writing
of
David
king
of
Israel,
and according
to
the
writing
of
Solomon
his
son.
\VS{5}Stand
in
the
holy
place according
to
the
divisions
of
the
fathers’
houses
of
your
brothers
the
children
of
the
people,
and let
there
be
for
each
a
portion
of
a
fathers’
house
of
the
Levites.
\VS{6}Kill
the
Passover lamb,
sanctify
yourselves,
and
prepare
for
your
brothers,
to
do
according
to
Yahweh’s
word
by
Moses.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Josiah gave
to
the
children
of
the
people,
of
the
flock,
lambs
and
young
goats,
all
of
them
for
the
Passover
offerings,
to
all
who
were
present,
to
the
number
of
thirty
thousand,
and
three
thousand
bulls.
These
were
of
the
king’s substance.
\VS{8}His
princes
gave
a free
will
offering
to
the
people,
to
the
priests,
and
to
the
Levites.
Hilkiah,
Zechariah,
and
Jehiel,
the
rulers
of
God’s
house,
gave
to
the
priests
for
the
Passover
offerings
two
thousand
six
hundred small livestock,
and
three
hundred
head
of
cattle.
\VS{9}Conaniah
also,
and
Shemaiah
and
Nethanel,
his
brothers,
and
Hashabiah,
Jeiel,
and
Jozabad,
the
chiefs
of
the
Levites, gave
to
the
Levites
for
the
Passover
offerings
five
thousand small livestock
and
five
hundred
head
of
cattle.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}So
the
service
was
prepared,
and
the
priests
stood
in
their
place,
and
the
Levites
by
their
divisions,
according
to
the
king’s
commandment.
\VS{11}They
killed
the
Passover lambs,
and
the
priests
sprinkled
the blood which
they received
from
their
hands,
and
the
Levites
skinned
them.
\VS{12}They
removed
the
burnt
offerings,
that
they
might
give
them according
to
the
divisions
of
the
fathers’
houses
of
the
children
of
the
people,
to
offer
to
Yahweh,
as
it
is
written
in
the
book
of
Moses.
They
did
the
same
with
the
cattle.
\VS{13}They
roasted
the
Passover
with
fire
according
to
the
ordinance.
They
boiled
the
holy
offerings
in
pots,
in cauldrons,
and
in
pans,
and
carried
them
quickly
to
all
the
children
of
the
people.
\VS{14}Afterward
they
prepared
for
themselves
and
for
the
priests,
because
the
priests
the
sons
of
Aaron
were busy
with
offering
the
burnt
offerings
and
the
fat
until
night.
Therefore
the
Levites
prepared
for
themselves
and
for
the
priests
the
sons
of
Aaron.
\VS{15}The
singers,
the
sons
of
Asaph,
were
in
their
place,
according
to
the
commandment
of
David,
Asaph,
Heman,
and
Jeduthun
the
king’s
seer;
and
the
gatekeepers
were
at
every
gate.
They didn’t need
to
depart
from
their
service,
because
their
brothers
the
Levites
prepared
for
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}So
all
the
service
of
Yahweh
was
prepared
the
same
day,
to
keep
the
Passover,
and
to
offer
burnt
offerings
on
Yahweh’s
altar,
according
to
the
commandment
of
King
Josiah.
\VS{17}The
children
of
Israel
who
were
present
kept
the
Passover
at
that
time,
and
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
seven
days.
\VS{18}There
was
no
Passover
like
that
kept
in
Israel
from
the
days
of
Samuel
the
prophet,
nor
did
any
of
the
kings
of
Israel
keep
such
a
Passover
as
Josiah
kept—with
the
priests,
the
Levites,
and
all
Judah
and
Israel
who
were
present,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}This
Passover
was
kept
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
the
reign
of
Josiah.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}After
all
this,
when
Josiah
had
prepared
the
temple,
Neco
king
of
Egypt
went
up
to
fight
against
Carchemish
by
the
Euphrates,
and
Josiah
went
out
against
him.
\VS{21}But
he
sent
ambassadors
to
him,
saying, “What
have
I
to
do
with
you,
you
king
of
Judah?
I come
not
against
you
today,
but
against
the
house
with
which
I
have
war.
God
has
commanded
me
to
make haste. Beware
that
it
is
God
who
is
with
me,
that
he
not
destroy
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Nevertheless
Josiah
would
not
turn
his
face
from
him,
but
disguised
himself,
that
he might
fight
with
him,
and
didn’t
listen
to
the
words
of
Neco
from
the
mouth
of
God,
and
came
to
fight
in
the
valley
of
Megiddo.
\VS{23}The
archers
shot
at
King
Josiah;
and
the
king
said
to
his
servants, “Take
me
away,
because
I am seriously
wounded!”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}So
his
servants
took
him
out
of
the
chariot,
and
put
him
in
the
second
chariot
that
he
had,
and brought
him
to
Jerusalem;
and
he
died,
and
was
buried
in
the
tombs
of
his
fathers.
All
Judah
and
Jerusalem
mourned
for
Josiah.
\VS{25}Jeremiah lamented
for
Josiah,
and
all
the
singing
men
and
singing
women
spoke
of
Josiah
in
their
lamentations
to
this
day;
and
they
made
them
an
ordinance
in
Israel.
Behold,
they
are
written
in
the
lamentations.
\VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Josiah
and
his good
deeds, according
to
that
which
is
written
in
Yahweh’s
law,
\VS{27}and
his
acts,
first
and
last,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
Judah.

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
the
people
of
the
land
took
Jehoahaz
the
son
of
Josiah,
and
made
him
king
in
his
father’s
place
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Joahaz
was twenty-three
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
three
months
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}The
king
of
Egypt
removed
him
from office
at
Jerusalem,
and
fined
the
land
one
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
a
talent\FTNT{*}{{\FR 36:3 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces}
of
gold.
\VS{4}The
king
of
Egypt
made
Eliakim
his
brother
king
over
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
and
changed
his
name
to
Jehoiakim.
Neco
took
Joahaz
his
brother,
and
carried
him
to
Egypt.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Jehoiakim
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem.
He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh
his
God’s
sight.
\VS{6}Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came
up
against
him,
and
bound
him
in
fetters
to
carry
him
to
Babylon.
\VS{7}Nebuchadnezzar
also
carried some
of
the
vessels
of
Yahweh’s
house
to
Babylon,
and
put
them
in
his
temple
at
Babylon.
\VS{8}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoiakim,
and
his
abominations
which
he
did,
and
that
which
was
found
in
him,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and
Judah;
and
Jehoiachin
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Jehoiachin
was
eight
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
three
months
and
ten
days
in
Jerusalem.
He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
\VS{10}At
the
return
of
the
year,
King
Nebuchadnezzar
sent
and
brought
him
to
Babylon,
with
the
valuable
vessels
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and
made
Zedekiah
his
brother
king
over
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Zedekiah
was twenty-one
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh
his
God’s
sight.
He
didn’t
humble
himself
before
Jeremiah
the
prophet speaking
from
Yahweh’s
mouth.
\VS{13}He
also
rebelled
against
King
Nebuchadnezzar,
who
had
made
him
swear
by
God;
but
he
stiffened
his
neck,
and
hardened
his
heart
against
turning
to
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{14}Moreover
all
the
chiefs
of
the
priests
and
the
people trespassed
very
greatly after
all
the
abominations
of
the
nations;
and
they polluted
Yahweh’s
house
which
he
had
made
holy
in
Jerusalem.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Yahweh,
the
God
of
their
fathers,
sent
to
them
by
his
messengers,
rising
up
early
and
sending,
because
he
had
compassion
on
his
people
and
on
his
dwelling
place;
\VS{16}but
they
mocked
the
messengers
of
God,
despised
his
words,
and scoffed
at
his
prophets,
until
Yahweh’s
wrath
arose
against
his
people,
until
there
was
no
remedy.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Therefore
he
brought
on
them
the
king
of
the
Chaldeans,
who
killed
their
young
men
with
the
sword
in
the
house
of
their
sanctuary,
and
had
no
compassion
on
young
man
or
virgin,
old
man
or
infirm.
He
gave
them
all
into
his
hand.
\VS{18}All
the
vessels
of
God’s
house,
great
and
small,
and
the
treasures
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and
the
treasures
of
the
king
and
of
his
princes,
all
these
he
brought
to
Babylon.
\VS{19}They
burned
God’s
house,
broke
down
the
wall
of
Jerusalem,
burned
all
its
palaces
with
fire,
and
destroyed
all
of
its
valuable
vessels.
\VS{20}He
carried
those
who
had
escaped
from
the
sword
away
to
Babylon,
and
they
were
servants
to
him
and
his
sons
until
the
reign
of
the
kingdom
of
Persia,
\VS{21}to
fulfill
Yahweh’s
word
by
Jeremiah’s
mouth,
until
the
land
had
enjoyed
its
Sabbaths.
As
long
as
it lay
desolate,
it kept
Sabbath,
to
fulfill
seventy
years.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Now
in
the
first
year
of
Cyrus
king
of
Persia,
that
Yahweh’s
word
by
the
mouth
of
Jeremiah
might
be
accomplished,
Yahweh
stirred
up
the
spirit
of
Cyrus
king
of
Persia,
so
that
he
made
a
proclamation
throughout
all
his
kingdom,
and
put
it
also
in
writing,
saying,
\VS{23}“Cyrus
king
of
Persia
says, ‘Yahweh,
the
God
of
heaven,
has
given
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
to
me;
and
he
has
commanded
me
to
build
him
a
house
in
Jerusalem,
which
is
in
Judah.
Whoever
there
is
among
you
of
all
his
people,
Yahweh
his
God
be
with
him,
and
let
him
go
up.’ ”
\par }