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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Moab
rebelled
against
Israel
after
the
death
of
Ahab.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Ahaziah
fell
down
through
the
lattice
in
his
upper
room
that
was
in
Samaria,
and
was
sick.
So
he
sent
messengers,
and
said
to
them, “Go,
inquire
of Baal Zebub,
the
god
of
Ekron,
whether
I
will
recover
of
this
sickness.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}But
Yahweh’s\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:3 }
“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.}
angel
said
to
Elijah
the Tishbite, “Arise,
go
up
to
meet
the
messengers
of
the
king
of
Samaria,
and
tell
them, ‘Is
it
because
there
is
no
God\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:3 }
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).}
in
Israel
that
you
go
to
inquire
of Baal Zebub,
the
god
of
Ekron?
\VS{4}Now
therefore
Yahweh
says, “You
will
not
come
down
from
the
bed
where
you
have
gone
up,
but
you
will
surely
die.” ’ ”
Then
Elijah
departed.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}The
messengers
returned
to
him,
and
he
said
to
them, “Why
is
it
that
you
have
returned?”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}They
said
to
him, “A
man
came
up
to
meet
us,
and
said
to
us, ‘Go,
return
to
the
king
who
sent
you,
and
tell
him, “Yahweh
says, ‘Is
it
because
there
is
no
God
in
Israel
that
you
send
to
inquire
of Baal Zebub,
the
god
of
Ekron?
Therefore
you
will
not
come
down
from
the
bed
where
you
have
gone
up,
but
you
will
surely
die.’ ” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}He
said
to
them, “What
kind
of
man
was
he
who
came
up
to
meet
you
and
told
you
these
words?”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}They
answered
him, “He
was
a
hairy
man,
and wearing
a
leather
belt around
his
waist.”
\par }{\PP He
said, “It’s
Elijah
the Tishbite.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Then
the
king
sent
a
captain
of
fifty
with
his
fifty
to
him.
He
went
up
to
him;
and
behold,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:9 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
he
was
sitting
on
the
top
of
the
hill.
He
said
to
him, “Man
of
God,
the
king
has
said, ‘Come
down!’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Elijah
answered
to
the
captain
of
fifty, “If
I
am
a
man
of
God,
then
let
fire
come
down
from
the
sky
and
consume
you
and
your
fifty!”
Then
fire
came
down
from
the
sky,
and
consumed
him
and
his
fifty.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Again
he
sent
to
him
another
captain
of
fifty
with
his
fifty.
He
answered
him, “Man
of
God,
the
king
has
said, ‘Come
down
quickly!’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Elijah
answered
them, “If
I
am
a
man
of
God,
then
let
fire
come
down
from
the
sky
and
consume
you
and
your
fifty!”
Then
God’s
fire
came
down
from
the
sky,
and
consumed
him
and
his
fifty.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Again
he
sent
the
captain
of
a
third
fifty
with
his
fifty.
The
third
captain
of
fifty
went
up,
and
came
and
fell
on
his
knees
before
Elijah,
and begged
him,
and
said
to
him, “Man
of
God,
please
let
my
life
and
the
life
of
these
fifty
of
your
servants
be
precious
in
your
sight.
\VS{14}Behold,
fire
came
down
from
the
sky
and
consumed
the last
two
captains
of
fifty
with
their
fifties.
But
now
let
my
life
be
precious
in
your
sight.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Yahweh’s
angel
said
to
Elijah, “Go
down
with
him.
Don’t
be
afraid
of
him.”
\par }{\PP Then
he
arose
and
went
down
with
him
to
the
king.
\VS{16}He
said
to
him, “Yahweh
says, ‘Because
you
have
sent
messengers
to
inquire
of Baal Zebub,
the
god
of
Ekron,
is
it
because
there
is
no
God
in
Israel
to
inquire
of
his
word?
Therefore
you
will
not
come
down
from
the
bed
where
you
have
gone
up,
but
you
will
surely
die.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}So
he
died according
to
Yahweh’s
word
which
Elijah
had
spoken.
Jehoram
began
to
reign
in
his
place
in
the
second
year
of
Jehoram
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah,
because
he
had
no
son.
\VS{18}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Ahaziah
which
he
did, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Yahweh
was
about
to
take
Elijah
up
by
a whirlwind
into
heaven,
Elijah
went
with
Elisha
from
Gilgal.
\VS{2}Elijah
said
to
Elisha, “Please
wait
here,
for
Yahweh
has
sent
me
as
far
as
Bethel.”
\par }{\PP Elisha
said, “As
Yahweh
lives,
and
as
your
soul
lives,
I
will
not
leave
you.”
So
they
went
down
to
Bethel.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}The
sons
of
the
prophets
who
were
at
Bethel
came
out
to
Elisha,
and
said
to
him, “Do
you
know
that
Yahweh
will
take
away
your
master
from
over
you
today?”
\par }{\PP He
said, “Yes,
I
know
it. Hold
your peace.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Elijah
said
to
him, “Elisha,
please
wait
here,
for
Yahweh
has
sent
me
to
Jericho.”
\par }{\PP He
said, “As
Yahweh
lives,
and
as
your
soul
lives,
I
will
not
leave
you.”
So
they
came
to
Jericho.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}The
sons
of
the
prophets
who
were
at
Jericho
came
near
to
Elisha,
and
said
to
him, “Do
you
know
that
Yahweh
will
take
away
your
master
from
over
you
today?”
\par }{\PP He
answered, “Yes,
I
know
it. Hold
your peace.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Elijah
said
to
him, “Please
wait
here,
for
Yahweh
has
sent
me
to
the
Jordan.”
\par }{\PP He
said, “As
Yahweh
lives,
and
as
your
soul
lives,
I
will
not
leave
you.”
Then
they
both went
on.
\VS{7}Fifty
men
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
went
and
stood
opposite
them
at
a
distance;
and
they
both
stood
by
the
Jordan.
\VS{8}Elijah
took
his
mantle,
and rolled
it
up,
and
struck
the
waters;
and
they
were
divided
here
and
there,
so
that
they
both went
over
on
dry
ground.
\VS{9}When
they
had
gone
over,
Elijah
said
to
Elisha, “Ask
what
I
shall
do
for
you,
before
I
am
taken
from
you.”
\par }{\PP Elisha
said, “Please
let
a
double
portion
of
your
spirit
be
on
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}He
said, “You
have
asked
a
hard
thing.
If
you
see
me
when
I
am
taken
from
you,
it
will
be
so
for
you;
but
if
not,
it
will
not
be
so.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}As
they
continued
on
and
talked,
behold,
a
chariot
of
fire
and
horses
of
fire
separated
them;
and
Elijah
went
up
by
a whirlwind
into
heaven.
\VS{12}Elisha
saw
it,
and
he
cried, “My
father,
my
father,
the
chariots
of
Israel
and
its
horsemen!”
\par }{\PP He
saw
him
no
more.
Then
he
took
hold
of
his
own
clothes
and
tore
them
in
two
pieces.
\VS{13}He
also
took
up
Elijah’s
mantle
that
fell
from
him,
and
went
back
and
stood
by
the
bank
of
the
Jordan.
\VS{14}He
took
Elijah’s
mantle
that
fell
from
him,
and
struck
the
waters,
and
said, “Where
is
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Elijah?”
When
he
also
had
struck
the
waters,
they
were
divided apart,
and
Elisha went
over.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}When
the
sons
of
the
prophets
who
were
at
Jericho facing
him
saw
him,
they
said, “The
spirit
of
Elijah
rests
on
Elisha.”
They
came
to
meet
him,
and
bowed
themselves
to
the
ground
before
him.
\VS{16}They
said
to
him, “See
now,
there
are
with
your
servants
fifty
strong
men.
Please
let
them
go
and
seek
your
master.
Perhaps
Yahweh’s
Spirit
has
taken
him
up,
and
put
him
on
some
mountain
or
into
some
valley.”
\par }{\PP He
said, “Don’t
send
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}When
they
urged
him
until
he
was
ashamed,
he
said, “Send
them.”
\par }{\PP Therefore
they
sent
fifty
men;
and
they
searched
for
three
days,
but
didn’t
find
him.
\VS{18}They
came
back
to
him
while
he
stayed
at
Jericho;
and
he
said
to
them, “Didn’t
I
tell
you, ‘Don’t
go?’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}The
men
of
the
city
said
to
Elisha, “Behold,
please,
the
situation
of
this
city
is
pleasant,
as
my
lord
sees;
but
the
water
is
bad,
and
the
land
is barren.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}He
said, “Bring
me
a
new
jar,
and
put
salt
in
it.”
Then
they
brought
it
to
him.
\VS{21}He
went
out
to
the
spring
of
the
waters,
and
threw
salt
into
it,
and
said, “Yahweh
says, ‘I
have
healed
these
waters.
There
shall
not
be
from
there
any
more
death
or barren wasteland.’ ”
\VS{22}So
the
waters
were
healed
to
this
day, according
to
Elisha’s
word
which
he
spoke.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}He
went
up
from
there
to
Bethel.
As
he
was
going
up
by
the
way,
some
youths
came
out
of
the
city
and
mocked
him,
and
said
to
him, “Go
up,
you
baldy!
Go
up,
you
baldy!”
\VS{24}He
looked
behind
him
and
saw
them,
and
cursed
them
in
Yahweh’s
name.
Then
two
female
bears
came
out
of
the
woods
and mauled
forty-two
of
those
youths.
\VS{25}He
went
from
there
to
Mount
Carmel,
and
from
there
he
returned
to
Samaria.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Jehoram
the
son
of
Ahab began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah,
and
reigned
twelve
years.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
but
not
like
his
father
and
like
his
mother,
for
he
put
away
the
pillar
of
Baal
that
his
father
had
made.
\VS{3}Nevertheless
he
held
to
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
He
didn’t
depart
from
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Now
Mesha
king
of
Moab
was
a
sheep
breeder;
and
he supplied
the
king
of
Israel
with
one
hundred
thousand
lambs
and
the
wool
of
one
hundred
thousand
rams.
\VS{5}But
when
Ahab
was
dead,
the
king
of
Moab
rebelled
against
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{6}King
Jehoram
went
out
of
Samaria
at
that
time,
and
mustered
all
Israel.
\VS{7}He
went
and
sent
to
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah,
saying, “The
king
of
Moab
has
rebelled
against
me.
Will
you
go
with
me
against
Moab
to
battle?”
\par }{\PP He
said, “I
will
go
up.
I am
as
you
are,
my
people
as
your
people,
my
horses
as
your
horses.”
\VS{8}Then
he
said, “Which
way
shall we
go
up?”
\par }{\PP Jehoram
answered, “The
way
of
the
wilderness
of
Edom.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}So
the
king
of
Israel
went
with
the
king
of
Judah
and
the
king
of
Edom,
and
they
marched
for
seven
days along
a circuitous
route.
There
was
no
water
for
the
army
or
for
the
animals
that
followed
them.
\VS{10}The
king
of
Israel
said, “Alas!
For
Yahweh
has
called
these
three
kings together
to
deliver
them
into
the
hand
of
Moab.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}But
Jehoshaphat
said, “Isn’t
there
a
prophet
of
Yahweh
here,
that
we
may
inquire
of
Yahweh
by
him?”
\par }{\PP One
of
the
king
of
Israel’s
servants
answered, “Elisha
the
son
of
Shaphat,
who
poured
water
on
the
hands
of
Elijah,
is
here.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Jehoshaphat
said, “Yahweh’s
word
is
with
him.”
So
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat
and
the
king
of
Edom
went
down
to
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Elisha
said
to
the
king
of
Israel, “What
have
I
to
do
with
you? Go
to
the
prophets
of
your
father,
and
to
the
prophets
of
your
mother.”
\par }{\PP The
king
of
Israel
said
to
him, “No,
for
Yahweh
has
called
these
three
kings together
to
deliver
them
into
the
hand
of
Moab.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Elisha
said, “As
Yahweh
of
Armies
lives,
before
whom
I
stand,
surely,
were
it
not
that
I
respect
the
presence
of
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah,
I
would
not
look
toward
you,
nor
see
you.
\VS{15}But
now
bring
me
a
musician.”
When
the
musician
played,
Yahweh’s
hand
came
on
him.
\VS{16}He
said, “Yahweh
says, ‘Make
this
valley full
of trenches.’
\VS{17}For
Yahweh
says, ‘You
will
not
see
wind,
neither
will
you
see
rain,
yet
that
valley
will
be
filled
with
water,
and
you
will
drink, both
you
and
your
livestock
and
your
other
animals.
\VS{18}This
is
an
easy
thing
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
He
will
also
deliver
the
Moabites
into
your
hand.
\VS{19}You
shall
strike
every
fortified
city
and
every
choice
city,
and
shall
fell
every
good
tree,
and
stop
all
springs
of
water,
and
mar
every
good piece
of
land
with
stones.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}In
the
morning,
about
the
time
of
offering
the
sacrifice,
behold,
water
came
by
the
way
of
Edom,
and
the
country
was
filled
with
water.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Now
when
all
the
Moabites
heard
that
the
kings
had
come
up
to
fight
against
them,
they
gathered
themselves
together,
all
who
were able
to
put
on armor, young
and
old,
and
stood
on
the
border.
\VS{22}They
rose
up
early
in
the
morning,
and
the
sun
shone
on
the
water,
and
the
Moabites
saw
the
water
opposite
them
as
red
as
blood.
\VS{23}They
said, “This
is
blood.
The
kings
are
surely
destroyed,
and
they
have
struck
each
other.
Now
therefore,
Moab,
to
the
plunder!”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}When
they
came
to
the
camp
of
Israel,
the
Israelites
rose
up
and
struck
the
Moabites,
so
that
they
fled
before
them;
and
they
went
forward
into
the
land
attacking
the
Moabites.
\VS{25}They
beat
down
the
cities;
and
on
every
good piece
of
land
each
man
cast
his
stone,
and
filled
it.
They also
stopped
all
the
springs
of
water
and
cut
down
all
the
good
trees,
until
in Kir Hareseth
all
they
left
was
its
stones; however
the
men
armed
with slings
went
around
it
and
attacked
it.
\VS{26}When
the
king
of
Moab
saw
that
the
battle
was
too
severe
for
him,
he
took
with
him
seven
hundred
men
who
drew
a
sword,
to
break
through
to
the
king
of
Edom;
but
they
could
not.
\VS{27}Then
he
took
his
oldest
son
who
would
have
reigned
in
his
place,
and
offered
him
for
a
burnt
offering
on
the
wall.
There
was
great
wrath
against
Israel;
and
they
departed
from
him,
and
returned
to
their
own
land.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
a
certain
woman
of
the
wives
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
cried
out
to
Elisha,
saying, “Your
servant
my
husband
is
dead.
You
know
that
your
servant
feared
Yahweh.
Now
the
creditor
has
come
to
take
for
himself
my
two
children
to
be
slaves.”
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Elisha
said
to
her, “What
should
I
do
for
you?
Tell
me,
what
do
you
have
in
the
house?”
\par }{\PP She
said, “Your
servant
has
nothing
in
the
house,
except
a pot
of
oil.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Then
he
said, “Go,
borrow
empty
containers
from
all
your
neighbors.
Don’t
borrow
just
a
few
containers.
\VS{4}Go
in
and
shut
the
door
on
you
and
on
your
sons,
and
pour oil
into
all
those
containers;
and
set
aside
those
which
are
full.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}So
she
went
from
him,
and
shut
the
door
on
herself
and
on
her
sons.
They
brought
the containers
to
her,
and
she
poured oil.
\VS{6}When
the
containers
were
full, she
said
to
her
son, “Bring
me
another
container.”
\par }{\PP He
said
to
her, “There isn’t
another
container.”
Then
the
oil
stopped
flowing.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Then she
came
and
told
the
man
of
God.
He
said, “Go,
sell
the
oil,
and
pay
your
debt;
and
you
and
your
sons
live
on
the
rest.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}One
day
Elisha
went
to
Shunem,
where
there
was
a
prominent
woman;
and she
persuaded
him
to
eat
bread.
So
it
was,
that
as
often
as
he
passed
by,
he
turned
in
there
to
eat
bread.
\VS{9}She
said
to
her
husband, “See
now,
I
perceive
that
this
is
a
holy
man
of
God
who
passes
by
us
continually.
\VS{10}Please,
let’s
make
a
little
room
on
the
roof.
Let’s
set
a
bed,
a
table,
a
chair,
and
a lamp
stand
for
him
there.
When
he
comes
to
us,
he
can stay
there.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}One
day
he
came
there,
and
he
went
to
the
room
and
lay
there.
\VS{12}He
said
to
Gehazi
his
servant, “Call
this
Shunammite.”
When
he had
called
her,
she
stood
before
him.
\VS{13}He
said
to
him, “Say
now
to
her, ‘Behold,
you
have cared
for
us
with
all
this
care.
What
is
to
be
done
for
you?
Would
you
like
to
be
spoken
for
to
the
king,
or
to
the
captain
of
the
army?’ ”
\par }{\PP She
answered, “I
dwell
among
my own
people.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}He
said, “What
then
is
to
be
done
for
her?”
\par }{\PP Gehazi
answered, “Most certainly
she
has
no
son,
and
her
husband
is
old.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}He
said, “Call
her.”
When
he had
called
her,
she
stood
in
the
door.
\VS{16}He
said, “At
this
season next
year,
you
will
embrace
a
son.”
\par }{\PP She
said, “No,
my
lord,
you
man
of
God,
do
not
lie
to
your
servant.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}The
woman
conceived,
and
bore
a
son
at
that
season
when
the
time
came around,
as
Elisha
had
said
to
her.
\VS{18}When
the
child
was
grown,
one
day
he
went
out
to
his
father
to
the reapers.
\VS{19}He
said
to
his
father, “My
head!
My
head!”
\par }{\PP He
said
to
his
servant, “Carry
him
to
his
mother.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}When
he
had
taken
him
and
brought
him
to
his
mother,
he
sat
on
her
knees
until
noon,
and
then
died.
\VS{21}She
went
up
and
laid
him
on
the
man
of
God’s
bed,
and
shut
the door
on
him,
and
went
out.
\VS{22}She
called
to
her
husband
and
said, “Please
send
me
one
of
the
servants,
and
one
of
the
donkeys,
that
I
may
run
to
the
man
of
God
and
come
again.”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}He
said, “Why
would
you want
go
to
him
today?
It
is
not
a
new
moon
or
a
Sabbath.”
\par }{\PP She
said, “It’s
all right.”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Then
she
saddled
a
donkey,
and
said
to
her
servant, “Drive,
and go forward!
Don’t
slow
down
for
me,
unless
I
ask
you
to.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}So she
went,
and
came
to
the
man
of
God
to
Mount
Carmel.
When
the
man
of
God
saw
her afar
off,
he
said
to
Gehazi
his
servant, “Behold,
there
is
the
Shunammite.
\VS{26}Please
run
now
to
meet
her,
and
ask
her, ‘Is
it
well
with
you?
Is
it
well
with
your
husband?
Is
it
well
with
your
child?’ ”
\par }{\PP She
answered, “It
is
well.”
\par }{\PP \VS{27}When
she
came
to
the
man
of
God
to
the
hill,
she
caught
hold
of
his
feet.
Gehazi
came
near
to
thrust
her
away;
but
the
man
of
God
said, “Leave
her
alone,
for
her
soul
is
troubled
within
her;
and
Yahweh
has
hidden
it
from
me,
and
has
not
told
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{28}Then
she
said, “Did
I
ask
you
for
a
son,
my
lord?
Didn’t
I
say, ‘Do
not deceive me’?”
\par }{\PP \VS{29}Then
he
said
to
Gehazi, “Tuck
your cloak
into
your belt,
take
my
staff
in
your
hand,
and go
your
way.
If
you
meet
any
man,
don’t
greet
him;
and
if
anyone greets
you,
don’t
answer
him
again.
Then
lay
my
staff
on
the
child’s
face.”
\par }{\PP \VS{30}The
child’s
mother
said, “As
Yahweh
lives,
and
as
your
soul
lives,
I
will
not
leave
you.”
\par }{\PP So
he
arose,
and
followed
her.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}Gehazi
went
ahead
of
them,
and
laid
the
staff
on
the
child’s
face;
but
there
was
no
voice
and
no hearing. Therefore
he
returned
to
meet
him,
and
told
him, “The
child
has
not awakened.”
\par }{\PP \VS{32}When
Elisha
had
come
into
the
house,
behold,
the
child
was
dead,
and
lying
on
his
bed.
\VS{33}He
went
in
therefore,
and
shut
the
door
on
them
both,
and
prayed
to
Yahweh.
\VS{34}He
went
up
and
lay
on
the
child,
and
put
his
mouth
on
his
mouth,
and
his
eyes
on
his
eyes,
and
his
hands
on
his
hands.
He
stretched himself
on
him;
and
the
child’s
flesh
grew
warm.
\VS{35}Then
he
returned,
and walked
in
the
house
once
back
and
forth,
then
went
up
and
stretched himself
out
on
him.
Then
the
child
sneezed
seven
times,
and
the
child
opened
his
eyes.
\VS{36}He
called
Gehazi,
and
said, “Call
this
Shunammite!”
So
he
called
her.
\par }{\PP When
she
had
come
in
to
him,
he
said, “Take
up
your
son.”
\par }{\PP \VS{37}Then she
went
in,
fell
at
his
feet,
and
bowed
herself
to
the
ground;
then she
picked
up
her
son,
and
went
out.
\par }{\PP \VS{38}Elisha
came
again
to
Gilgal.
There
was
a
famine
in
the
land;
and
the
sons
of
the
prophets
were
sitting
before
him;
and
he
said
to
his
servant, “Get
the
large
pot,
and
boil
stew
for
the
sons
of
the
prophets.”
\par }{\PP \VS{39}One
went
out
into
the
field
to
gather herbs,
and
found
a
wild
vine,
and
gathered
a lap
full
of
wild
gourds
from
it,
and
came
and cut
them
up
into
the
pot
of
stew;
for
they
didn’t
recognize
them.
\VS{40}So
they
poured
out
for
the
men
to
eat.
As
they
were
eating
some
of
the
stew,
they
cried
out
and
said, “Man
of
God,
there
is
death
in
the
pot!”
And
they
could
not
eat
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{41}But
he
said, “Then
bring
meal.”
He
threw
it
into
the
pot;
and
he
said, “Serve
it
to
the
people,
that
they
may
eat.”
And
there
was
nothing
harmful
in
the
pot.
\par }{\PP \VS{42}A
man
from Baal Shalishah
came,
and
brought
the
man
of
God
some
bread
of
the
first
fruits:
twenty
loaves
of
barley
and
fresh
ears
of
grain
in
his
sack.
Elisha
said, “Give
to
the
people,
that
they
may
eat.”
\par }{\PP \VS{43}His
servant
said, “What,
should
I
set
this
before
a
hundred
men?”
\par }{\PP But
he
said, “Give
it
to
the
people,
that
they
may
eat;
for
Yahweh
says, ‘They
will
eat,
and
will
have
some
left
over.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{44}So
he
set
it
before
them
and
they
ate
and
had
some
left
over, according
to
Yahweh’s
word.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Naaman,
captain
of
the
army
of
the
king
of
Syria,
was
a
great
man
with
his
master,
and honorable,
because
by
him
Yahweh
had
given
victory
to
Syria;
he
was
also
a
mighty
man
of
valor,
but
he
was
a
leper.
\VS{2}The Syrians
had
gone
out
in
bands,
and
had
brought
away
captive
out
of
the
land
of
Israel
a
little
girl,
and
she
waited
on
Naaman’s
wife.
\VS{3}She
said
to
her
mistress, “I
wish
that
my
lord
were
with
the
prophet
who
is
in
Samaria!
Then
he
would heal
him
of
his
leprosy.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Someone
went
in
and
told
his
lord,
saying, “The
girl
who
is
from
the
land
of
Israel
said
this.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}The
king
of
Syria
said, “Go
now,
and
I
will
send
a
letter
to
the
king
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP He
departed,
and
took
with
him
ten
talents\FTNT{*}{{\FR 5:5 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds}
of
silver,
six
thousand pieces
of
gold,
and
ten
changes
of
clothing.
\VS{6}He
brought
the
letter
to
the
king
of
Israel,
saying, “Now
when
this
letter
has
come
to
you,
behold,
I
have
sent
Naaman
my
servant
to
you,
that
you
may heal
him
of
his
leprosy.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}When
the
king
of
Israel
had
read
the
letter,
he
tore
his
clothes
and
said, “Am
I
God,
to
kill
and
to
make
alive,
that
this
man
sends
to
me
to heal
a
man
of
his
leprosy?
But
please
consider
and
see
how
he seeks
a
quarrel
against
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}It
was
so,
when
Elisha
the
man
of
God
heard
that
the
king
of
Israel
had
torn
his
clothes,
that
he
sent
to
the
king,
saying, “Why
have
you
torn
your
clothes?
Let
him
come
now
to
me,
and
he
shall
know
that
there
is
a
prophet
in
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}So
Naaman
came
with
his
horses
and
with
his
chariots,
and
stood
at
the
door
of
the
house
of
Elisha.
\VS{10}Elisha
sent
a
messenger
to
him,
saying, “Go
and
wash
in
the
Jordan
seven
times,
and
your
flesh
shall
come
again
to
you,
and
you
shall
be
clean.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}But
Naaman
was
angry,
and
went
away
and
said, “Behold,
I
thought, ‘He
will
surely
come
out
to
me,
and
stand,
and
call
on
the
name
of
Yahweh
his
God,
and
wave
his
hand
over
the
place,
and heal
the
leper.’
\VS{12}Aren’t
Abanah
and
Pharpar,
the
rivers
of
Damascus,
better
than
all
the
waters
of
Israel?
Couldn’t
I
wash
in
them
and
be
clean?”
So
he
turned
and went
away
in
a
rage.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}His
servants
came
near
and
spoke
to
him,
and
said, “My
father,
if
the
prophet
had
asked
you
do
some
great
thing, wouldn’t
you
have
done
it?
How
much
rather
then,
when
he
says
to
you, ‘Wash,
and
be
clean?’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
went
he
down
and
dipped
himself
seven
times
in
the
Jordan,
according
to
the
saying
of
the
man
of
God;
and
his
flesh
was
restored
like
the
flesh
of
a
little
child,
and
he
was
clean.
\VS{15}He
returned
to
the
man
of
God,
he
and
all
his
company,
and
came,
and
stood
before
him;
and
he
said, “See
now,
I
know
that
there
is
no
God
in
all
the
earth,
but
in
Israel.
Now
therefore,
please
take
a
gift
from
your
servant.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}But
he
said, “As
Yahweh
lives,
before
whom
I
stand,
I
will
receive
none.”
\par }{\PP He
urged
him
to
take
it;
but
he
refused.
\VS{17}Naaman
said, “If
not,
then,
please
let
two
mules’
load
of
earth
be
given
to
your
servant;
for
your
servant
will
from
now
on
offer
neither
burnt
offering
nor
sacrifice
to
other
gods,
but
to
Yahweh.
\VS{18}In
this
thing
may
Yahweh
pardon
your
servant:
when
my
master
goes
into
the
house
of
Rimmon
to
worship
there,
and
he
leans
on
my
hand,
and
I
bow myself
in
the
house
of
Rimmon.
When
I
bow myself
in
the
house
of
Rimmon,
may
Yahweh
pardon
your
servant
in
this
thing.”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}He
said
to
him, “Go
in
peace.”
\par }{\PP So
he departed
from
him
a little way.
\VS{20}But
Gehazi
the
servant
of
Elisha
the
man
of
God,
said, “Behold,
my
master
has
spared
this
Naaman
the
Syrian,
in
not
receiving
at
his
hands
that
which
he
brought.
As
Yahweh
lives,
I
will
run
after
him,
and
take
something
from
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}So
Gehazi
followed
after
Naaman.
When
Naaman
saw
one
running
after
him,
he
came
down
from
the
chariot
to
meet
him,
and
said, “Is
all
well?”
\par }{\PP \VS{22}He
said, “All
is
well.
My
master
has
sent
me,
saying, ‘Behold, even
now
two
young
men
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
have
come
to
me
from
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim.
Please
give
them
a
talent\FTNT{†}{{\FR 5:22 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds}
of
silver
and
two
changes
of
clothing.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}Naaman
said, “Be
pleased
to
take
two
talents.”
He
urged
him,
and bound
two
talents
of
silver
in
two
bags,
with
two
changes
of
clothing,
and
laid
them
on
two
of
his
servants;
and
they
carried
them
before
him.
\VS{24}When
he
came
to
the
hill,
he
took
them
from
their
hand,
and stored
them
in
the
house.
Then
he
let
the
men
go,
and
they
departed.
\VS{25}But
he
went
in,
and
stood
before
his
master.
Elisha
said
to
him, “Where
did
you
come
from,
Gehazi?”
\par }{\PP He
said, “Your
servant
went nowhere.”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}He
said
to
him, “Didn’t
my
heart
go
with
you
when
the
man
turned
from
his
chariot
to
meet
you?
Is
it
a
time
to
receive
money,
and
to
receive
garments,
and
olive
groves
and
vineyards,
and
sheep
and
cattle,
and
male
servants
and
female
servants?
\VS{27}Therefore
the
leprosy
of
Naaman
will
cling
to
you
and
to
your
offspring\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 5:27 }
or, seed}
forever.”
\par }{\PP He
went
out
from
his
presence
a
leper,
as white
as
snow.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
sons
of
the
prophets
said
to
Elisha, “See
now,
the
place
where
we
live
and
meet
with
you
is
too small
for
us.
\VS{2}Please
let
us
go
to
the
Jordan,
and
each
man
take
a
beam
from
there,
and
let’s
make
us
a
place
there,
where
we
may
live.”
\par }{\PP He
answered, “Go!”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}One
said, “Please
be
pleased
to
go
with
your
servants.”
\par }{\PP He
answered, “I
will
go.”
\VS{4}So
he
went
with
them.
When
they
came
to
the
Jordan,
they
cut
down
wood.
\VS{5}But
as
one
was cutting
down
a tree,
the ax
head
fell
into
the
water.
Then
he
cried
out
and
said, “Alas,
my
master!
For
it
was
borrowed.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}The
man
of
God
asked, “Where
did
it
fall?”
He
showed
him
the
place.
He
cut
down
a
stick,
threw
it
in
there,
and
made
the
iron
float.
\VS{7}He
said, “Take
it.”
So
he
put
out
his
hand
and
took
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Now
the
king
of
Syria
was
at war
against
Israel;
and
he
took
counsel
with
his
servants,
saying, “My
camp
will
be
in
such
and
such
a
place.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}The
man
of
God
sent
to
the
king
of
Israel,
saying, “Beware
that
you
not
pass
this
place,
for
the Syrians
are
coming
down
there.”
\VS{10}The
king
of
Israel
sent
to
the
place
which
the
man
of
God
told
him
and
warned
him
of;
and
he saved
himself
there,
not
once
or
twice.
\VS{11}The
king
of
Syria’s
heart
was
very troubled
about
this.
He
called
his
servants,
and
said
to
them, “Won’t
you
show
me
which
of
us
is
for
the
king
of
Israel?”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}One
of
his
servants
said, “No,
my
lord, O
king;
but
Elisha,
the
prophet
who
is
in
Israel,
tells
the
king
of
Israel
the
words
that
you
speak
in
your
bedroom.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}He
said, “Go
and
see
where
he
is,
that
I
may
send
and
get
him.”
\par }{\PP He
was
told, “Behold,
he
is
in
Dothan.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Therefore
he
sent
horses,
chariots,
and
a
great
army
there.
They
came
by
night
and surrounded
the
city.
\VS{15}When
the
servant
of
the
man
of
God
had
risen
early
and
gone
out,
behold,
an
army
with
horses
and
chariots
was
around
the
city.
His
servant
said
to
him, “Alas,
my
master!
What
shall
we
do?”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}He
answered, “Don’t
be
afraid,
for
those
who
are
with
us
are
more
than
those
who
are
with
them.”
\VS{17}Elisha
prayed,
and
said, “Yahweh,
please
open
his
eyes,
that
he
may
see.”
Yahweh
opened
the
young man’s
eyes,
and
he
saw;
and
behold,
the
mountain
was
full
of
horses
and
chariots
of
fire
around
Elisha.
\VS{18}When
they
came
down
to
him,
Elisha
prayed
to
Yahweh,
and
said, “Please
strike
this
people
with
blindness.”
\par }{\PP He
struck
them
with
blindness
according
to
Elisha’s
word.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Elisha
said
to
them, “This
is
not
the
way,
neither
is
this
the
city.
Follow
me,
and
I
will bring
you
to
the
man
whom
you
seek.”
He led
them
to
Samaria.
\VS{20}When
they
had
come
into
Samaria,
Elisha
said, “Yahweh,
open
these men’s
eyes,
that
they
may
see.”
\par }{\PP Yahweh
opened
their
eyes,
and
they
saw;
and
behold,
they
were
in
the
middle
of
Samaria.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}The
king
of
Israel
said
to
Elisha,
when
he
saw
them, “My
father,
shall
I
strike
them?
Shall
I
strike
them?”
\par }{\PP \VS{22}He
answered, “You
shall
not
strike
them.
Would
you
strike
those
whom
you
have
taken
captive
with
your
sword
and
with
your
bow?
Set
bread
and
water
before
them,
that
they
may
eat
and
drink,
then go
to
their
master.”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}He prepared
a
great
feast
for
them.
After
they
ate
and
drank,
he
sent
them
away
and
they
went
to
their
master.
So
the
bands
of
Syria
stopped raiding
the
land
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}After
this, Benhadad
king
of
Syria
gathered
all
his
army,
and
went
up
and besieged
Samaria.
\VS{25}There
was
a
great
famine
in
Samaria.
Behold,
they besieged
it
until
a
donkey’s
head
was
sold
for
eighty pieces
of
silver,
and
the
fourth
part
of
a
kab\FTNT{*}{{\FR 6:25 }
A kab was about 2 liters, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint}
of dove’s dung
for
five pieces
of
silver.
\VS{26}As
the
king
of
Israel
was
passing
by
on
the
wall,
a
woman
cried
to
him,
saying, “Help,
my
lord, O
king!”
\par }{\PP \VS{27}He
said, “If
Yahweh doesn’t
help
you,
where could
I get
help
for
you?
From
the
threshing
floor,
or
from
the
wine
press?”
\VS{28}Then
the
king
asked
her, “What
is
your problem?”
\par }{\PP She
answered, “This
woman
said
to
me, ‘Give
your
son,
that
we
may
eat
him
today,
and
we
will
eat
my
son
tomorrow.’
\VS{29}So
we
boiled
my
son
and
ate
him;
and
I
said
to
her
on
the
next
day, ‘Give
up
your
son,
that
we
may
eat
him;’
and she
has
hidden
her
son.”
\par }{\PP \VS{30}When
the
king
heard
the
words
of
the
woman,
he
tore
his
clothes.
Now
he
was
passing
by
on
the
wall,
and
the
people
looked,
and
behold,
he
had
sackcloth underneath
on
his
body.
\VS{31}Then
he
said, “God
do
so
to
me,
and
more
also,
if
the
head
of
Elisha
the
son
of
Shaphat
stays
on
him
today.”
\par }{\PP \VS{32}But
Elisha
was
sitting
in
his
house,
and
the
elders
were
sitting
with
him.
Then
the king
sent
a
man
from
before
him;
but
before
the
messenger
came
to
him,
he
said
to
the
elders, “Do
you
see
how
this
son
of
a
murderer
has
sent
to
take
away
my
head?
Behold,
when
the
messenger
comes,
shut
the
door,
and
hold
the
door
shut
against
him.
Isn’t
the
sound
of
his
master’s
feet
behind
him?”
\par }{\PP \VS{33}While
he
was
still
talking
with
them,
behold,
the
messenger
came
down
to
him.
Then
he
said, “Behold,
this
evil
is
from
Yahweh.
Why
should
I
wait
for
Yahweh
any
longer?”

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Elisha
said, “Hear
Yahweh’s
word.
Yahweh
says, ‘Tomorrow
about
this
time
a seah\FTNT{*}{{\FR 7:1 }
1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks}
of
fine
flour
will
be sold
for
a
shekel,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 7:1 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.}
and two
seahs
of
barley
for
a
shekel,
in
the
gate
of
Samaria.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Then
the captain
on
whose
hand
the
king
leaned
answered
the
man
of
God,
and
said, “Behold,
if
Yahweh
made
windows
in
heaven,
could
this
thing
be?”
\par }{\PP He
said, “Behold,
you
will
see
it
with
your
eyes,
but
will
not
eat
of
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Now
there
were
four
leprous
men
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate.
They
said
to
one
another, “Why
do
we
sit
here
until
we
die?
\VS{4}If
we
say, ‘We
will
enter
into
the
city,’
then
the
famine
is
in
the
city,
and
we
will
die
there.
If
we
sit
still
here,
we
also
die.
Now
therefore
come,
and let’s surrender
to
the
army
of
the Syrians.
If
they save
us
alive,
we
will
live;
and
if
they
kill
us,
we
will
only
die.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}They
rose
up
in
the
twilight
to
go
to
the
camp
of
the Syrians.
When
they
had
come
to
the outermost part
of
the
camp
of
the Syrians,
behold,
no
man
was
there.
\VS{6}For
the
Lord\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 7:6 }
The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”}
had
made
the
army
of
the Syrians
to
hear
the
sound
of
chariots
and
the
sound
of
horses,
even
the
noise
of
a
great
army;
and
they
said
to
one
another, “Behold,
the
king
of
Israel
has
hired
against
us
the
kings
of
the
Hittites
and
the
kings
of
the
Egyptians
to
attack
us.”
\VS{7}Therefore
they
arose
and
fled
in
the
twilight,
and
left
their
tents,
their
horses,
and
their
donkeys,
even
the
camp
as
it
was,
and
fled
for
their
life.
\VS{8}When
these
lepers
came
to
the outermost part
of
the
camp,
they
went
into
one
tent,
and
ate
and
drank,
then
carried
away
silver,
gold,
and
clothing
and
went
and
hid
it.
Then
they
came
back,
and
entered
into
another
tent
and
carried
things
from
there
also,
and
went
and
hid
them.
\VS{9}Then
they
said
to
one
another, “We aren’t
doing
right.
Today
is
a
day
of good
news,
and
we
keep
silent.
If
we
wait
until
the
morning
light,
punishment
will
overtake
us.
Now
therefore
come, let’s
go
and
tell
the
king’s
household.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}So
they
came
and
called
to
the
city
gatekeepers;
and
they
told
them, “We
came
to
the
camp
of
the Syrians,
and,
behold,
there
was
no
man
there,
not
even
a
man’s
voice,
but
the
horses
tied,
and
the
donkeys
tied,
and
the
tents
as
they
were.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Then
the
gatekeepers
called out
and
told
it
to
the
king’s
household
within.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}The
king
arose
in
the
night,
and
said
to
his
servants, “I
will
now
show
you
what
the Syrians
have
done
to
us.
They
know
that
we
are
hungry.
Therefore
they
have
gone
out
of
the
camp
to
hide themselves
in
the
field,
saying, ‘When
they
come
out
of
the
city,
we
shall
take
them
alive,
and
get
into
the
city.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}One
of
his
servants
answered, “Please
let
some
people
take
five
of
the
horses
that
remain,
which
are
left
in
the city.
Behold,
they
are
like
all
the
multitude
of
Israel
who
are
left
in
it.
Behold,
they
are
like
all
the
multitude
of
Israel
who
are
consumed.
Let’s
send
and
see.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Therefore
they
took
two
chariots
with
horses;
and
the
king
sent
them
out
to
the
Syrian
army,
saying, “Go
and
see.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}They
went
after
them
to
the
Jordan;
and
behold,
all
the
path
was
full
of
garments
and
equipment
which
the Syrians
had
cast
away
in
their
haste.
The
messengers
returned
and
told
the
king.
\VS{16}The
people
went
out
and
plundered
the
camp
of
the Syrians.
So
a seah\FTNT{§}{{\FR 7:16 }
1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks}
of
fine
flour
was
sold
for
a
shekel,
and two
measures
of
barley
for
a
shekel,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 7:16 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.} according
to
Yahweh’s
word.
\VS{17}The
king
had
appointed
the captain
on
whose
hand
he
leaned
to
be
in
charge
of
the
gate;
and
the
people
trampled
over
him
in
the
gate,
and
he
died
as
the
man
of
God
had
said,
who
spoke
when
the
king
came
down
to
him.
\VS{18}It
happened
as
the
man
of
God
had
spoken
to
the
king,
saying, “Two
seahs\FTNT{†}{{\FR 7:18 }
1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks}
of
barley
for
a
shekel,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 7:18 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.}
and
a seah
of
fine
flour
for
a
shekel,
shall
be
tomorrow
about
this
time
in
the
gate
of
Samaria;”
\VS{19}and
that captain
answered
the
man
of
God,
and
said, “Now,
behold,
if
Yahweh
made
windows
in
heaven,
might
such
a
thing
be?”
and
he
said, “Behold,
you
will
see
it
with
your
eyes,
but
will
not
eat
of
it.”
\VS{20}It
happened
like
that
to
him,
for
the
people
trampled
over
him
in
the
gate,
and
he
died.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Elisha
had
spoken
to
the
woman
whose
son
he
had
restored
to
life,
saying, “Arise,
and
go,
you
and
your
household,
and
stay
for
a
while
wherever
you
can;
for
Yahweh
has
called
for
a
famine.
It
will
also
come
on
the
land
for
seven
years.”
\par }{\PP \VS{2}The
woman
arose,
and
did
according
to
the
man
of
God’s
word.
She
went
with
her
household,
and
lived
in
the
land
of
the
Philistines
for
seven
years.
\VS{3}At
the
end
of
seven
years,
the
woman
returned
from
the
land
of
the
Philistines.
Then she
went
out
to beg
the
king
for
her
house
and
for
her
land.
\VS{4}Now
the
king
was
talking
with
Gehazi
the
servant
of
the
man
of
God,
saying, “Please
tell
me
all
the
great
things
that
Elisha
has
done.”
\VS{5}As
he
was
telling
the
king
how
he
had
restored
to
life
him
who
was
dead,
behold,
the
woman
whose
son
he
had
restored
to
life begged
the
king
for
her
house
and
for
her
land.
Gehazi
said, “My
lord,
O
king,
this
is
the
woman,
and
this
is
her
son,
whom
Elisha
restored
to
life.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}When
the
king
asked
the
woman,
she
told
him.
So
the
king
appointed
to
her
a
certain
officer,
saying, “Restore
all
that
was hers,
and
all
the fruits
of
the
field
since
the
day
that
she
left
the
land,
even
until
now.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Elisha
came
to
Damascus;
and Benhadad
the
king
of
Syria
was
sick.
He
was
told, “The
man
of
God
has
come
here.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}The
king
said
to
Hazael, “Take
a
present
in
your
hand,
and go
meet
the
man
of
God,
and
inquire
of
Yahweh
by
him,
saying, ‘Will
I
recover
from
this
sickness?’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}So
Hazael
went
to
meet
him
and
took
a
present
with
him, even
of
every
good
thing
of
Damascus,
forty
camels’
burden,
and
came
and
stood
before
him
and
said, “Your
son Benhadad
king
of
Syria
has
sent
me
to
you,
saying, ‘Will
I
recover
from
this
sickness?’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Elisha
said
to
him, “Go,
tell
him, ‘You
will
surely
recover;’ however
Yahweh
has
shown
me
that
he
will
surely
die.”
\VS{11}He settled
his
gaze steadfastly
on
him,
until
he
was
ashamed.
Then
the
man
of
God
wept.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Hazael
said, “Why
do
you
weep,
my
lord?”
\par }{\PP He
answered, “Because
I
know
the
evil
that
you
will
do
to
the
children
of
Israel.
You
will
set
their
strongholds
on
fire,
and
you
will
kill
their
young
men
with
the
sword,
and
will
dash
their
little
ones
in
pieces,
and
rip
up
their
pregnant
women.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Hazael
said, “But
what
is
your
servant,
who
is
but
a
dog,
that
he
could
do
this
great
thing?”
\par }{\PP Elisha
answered, “Yahweh
has
shown
me
that
you
will
be
king
over
Syria.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
he
departed
from
Elisha,
and
came
to
his
master,
who
said
to
him, “What
did
Elisha
say
to
you?”
\par }{\PP He
answered, “He
told
me
that
you
would
surely
recover.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}On
the
next
day,
he
took
a thick cloth,
dipped
it
in
water,
and
spread
it
on
the king’s
face,
so
that
he
died.
Then
Hazael
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}In
the
fifth
year
of
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab
king
of
Israel,
Jehoshaphat
being
king
of
Judah
then,
Jehoram
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat
king
of
Judah began
to
reign.
\VS{17}He
was thirty-two
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign.
He
reigned
eight
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{18}He walked
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
as
did
Ahab’s
house,
for
he
married
Ahab’s
daughter.
He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
\VS{19}However,
Yahweh
would
not
destroy
Judah,
for
David
his
servant’s
sake,
as
he
promised
him
to
give
to
him
a
lamp
for
his
children
always.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}In
his
days
Edom
revolted
from
under
the
hand
of
Judah,
and made
a
king
over
themselves.
\VS{21}Then
Joram
crossed
over
to
Zair,
and
all
his
chariots
with
him;
and
he
rose
up
by
night
and
struck
the
Edomites
who
surrounded
him
with
the
captains
of
the
chariots;
and
the
people
fled
to
their
tents.
\VS{22}So
Edom
revolted
from
under
the
hand
of
Judah
to
this
day.
Then
Libnah
revolted
at
the
same
time.
\VS{23}The
rest
of
the
acts
of
Joram,
and
all
that
he
did, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{24}Joram
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
David’s
city;
and
Ahaziah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}In
the twelfth
year
of
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab
king
of
Israel,
Ahaziah
the
son
of
Jehoram
king
of
Judah began
to
reign.
\VS{26}Ahaziah
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
one
year
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Athaliah
the
daughter
of
Omri
king
of
Israel.
\VS{27}He walked
in
the
way
of
Ahab’s
house
and
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
as
did
Ahab’s
house,
for
he
was
the
son-in-law
of
Ahab’s
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}He went
with
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab
to
war
against
Hazael
king
of
Syria
at
Ramoth
Gilead,
and
the Syrians
wounded
Joram.
\VS{29}King
Joram
returned
to
be
healed
in
Jezreel
from
the
wounds
which
the Syrians
had given
him
at
Ramah,
when
he
fought
against
Hazael
king
of
Syria.
Ahaziah
the
son
of
Jehoram,
king
of
Judah,
went
down
to
see
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab
in
Jezreel,
because
he
was
sick.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Elisha
the
prophet
called
one
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets,
and
said
to
him, “Put
your belt
on
your
waist,
take
this vial
of
oil
in
your
hand,
and go
to
Ramoth
Gilead.
\VS{2}When
you
come
there,
find
Jehu
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat
the
son
of
Nimshi,
and
go
in
and
make
him
rise
up
from
among
his
brothers,
and
take
him
to
an
inner
room.
\VS{3}Then
take
the vial
of
oil,
and
pour
it
on
his
head,
and
say, ‘Yahweh
says, “I
have
anointed
you
king
over
Israel.” ’
Then
open
the
door,
flee,
and
don’t
wait.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}So
the
young
man,
the
young
prophet, went
to
Ramoth
Gilead.
\VS{5}When
he
came,
behold,
the
captains
of
the
army
were
sitting.
Then
he
said, “I
have
a
message
for
you,
captain.”
\par }{\PP Jehu
said, “To
which
one
of
us?”
\par }{\PP He
said, “To
you,
O
captain.”
\VS{6}He
arose,
and
went
into
the
house.
Then
he
poured
the
oil
on
his
head,
and
said
to
him, “Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, ‘I
have
anointed
you
king
over
the
people
of
Yahweh,
even
over
Israel.
\VS{7}You
must
strike
your
master
Ahab’s
house,
that
I
may
avenge
the
blood
of
my
servants
the
prophets,
and
the
blood
of
all
the
servants
of
Yahweh,
at
the
hand
of
Jezebel.
\VS{8}For
the
whole
house
of
Ahab
will
perish.
I
will
cut
off
from
Ahab
everyone
who urinates
against
a
wall,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 9:8 }
or, male}
both
him
who
is
shut
up
and
him
who
is
left
at
large
in
Israel.
\VS{9}I
will
make
Ahab’s
house
like
the
house
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
and
like
the
house
of
Baasha
the
son
of
Ahijah.
\VS{10}The
dogs
will
eat
Jezebel
on
the plot
of ground
of
Jezreel,
and
there
shall
be
no
one
to
bury
her.’ ”
Then
he
opened
the
door
and
fled.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}When
Jehu
came
out
to
the
servants
of
his
lord
and
one
said
to
him, “Is
all
well?
Why
did
this
madman
come
to
you?”
\par }{\PP He
said
to
them, “You
know
the
man
and
how
he talks.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}They
said, “That
is
a
lie.
Tell
us
now.”
\par }{\PP He
said, “He
said
to
me, ‘Yahweh
says,
I
have
anointed
you
king
over
Israel.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Then
they
hurried,
and
each
man
took
his cloak,
and
put
it
under
him
on
the top
of
the stairs,
and
blew
the
trumpet,
saying, “Jehu
is
king.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}So
Jehu
the
son
of
Jehoshaphat
the
son
of
Nimshi
conspired
against
Joram. (Now
Joram
was
defending
Ramoth
Gilead,
he
and
all
Israel,
because
of
Hazael
king
of
Syria;
\VS{15}but
King
Joram
had
returned
to
be
healed
in
Jezreel
of
the
wounds
which
the Syrians
had given
him
when
he
fought
with
Hazael
king
of
Syria.)
Jehu
said, “If
this
is
your
thinking,
then
let
no
one
escape
and
go
out
of
the
city
to
go
to
tell
it
in
Jezreel.”
\VS{16}So
Jehu
rode
in
a
chariot
and
went
to
Jezreel,
for
Joram
lay
there.
Ahaziah
king
of
Judah
had
come
down
to
see
Joram.
\VS{17}Now
the
watchman
was
standing
on
the
tower
in
Jezreel,
and
he spied
the
company
of
Jehu
as
he
came,
and
said, “I
see
a
company.”
\par }{\PP Joram
said, “Take
a
horseman,
and
send
to
meet
them,
and
let
him
say, ‘Is
it
peace?’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}So
one
went
on
horseback
to
meet
him,
and
said, “the
king
says, ‘Is
it
peace?’ ”
\par }{\PP Jehu
said, “What
do
you
have
to
do
with
peace?
Fall
in
behind
me!”
\par }{\PP The
watchman
said, “The
messenger
came
to
them,
but
he
isn’t
coming
back.”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Then
he
sent
out
a
second
on
horseback,
who
came
to
them
and
said, “The
king
says, ‘Is
it
peace?’ ”
\par }{\PP Jehu
answered, “What
do
you
have
to
do
with
peace?
Fall
in
behind
me!”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}The
watchman
said, “He
came
to
them,
and
isn’t
coming
back.
The
driving
is
like
the
driving
of
Jehu
the
son
of
Nimshi,
for
he
drives
furiously.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Joram
said, “Get
ready!”
\par }{\PP They
got
his
chariot
ready.
Then
Joram
king
of
Israel
and
Ahaziah
king
of
Judah
went
out,
each
in
his
chariot;
and
they
went
out
to
meet
Jehu,
and
found
him
on
Naboth
the Jezreelite’s
land.
\VS{22}When
Joram
saw
Jehu,
he
said, “Is
it
peace,
Jehu?”
\par }{\PP He
answered, “What
peace,
so
long
as
the prostitution
of
your
mother
Jezebel
and
her witchcraft abound?”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}Joram
turned
his
hands
and
fled,
and
said
to
Ahaziah, “This
is treason,
Ahaziah!”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Jehu
drew
his
bow
with
his
full
strength,
and
struck
Joram
between
his
arms;
and
the
arrow
went
out
at
his
heart,
and
he sunk
down
in
his
chariot.
\VS{25}Then
Jehu
said
to
Bidkar
his captain, “Pick
him
up,
and
throw
him
in
the
plot
of
the
field
of
Naboth
the
Jezreelite;
for
remember
how,
when
you
and
I
rode
together
after
Ahab
his
father,
Yahweh
laid
this
burden
on
him:
\VS{26}‘Surely
I
have
seen
yesterday
the
blood
of
Naboth,
and
the
blood
of
his
sons,’
says
Yahweh; ‘and
I
will
repay
you
in
this
plot
of ground,’
says
Yahweh.
Now
therefore
take
and
cast
him onto
the
plot
of ground, according
to
Yahweh’s
word.”
\par }{\PP \VS{27}But
when
Ahaziah
the
king
of
Judah
saw
this,
he
fled
by
the
way
of
the
garden
house.
Jehu
followed
after
him,
and
said, “Strike
him
also
in
the
chariot!”
They
struck
him
at
the
ascent
of
Gur,
which
is
by
Ibleam.
He
fled
to
Megiddo,
and
died
there.
\VS{28}His
servants
carried
him
in
a
chariot
to
Jerusalem,
and
buried
him
in
his
tomb
with
his
fathers
in
David’s
city.
\VS{29}In
the
eleventh
year
of
Joram
the
son
of
Ahab,
Ahaziah began
to
reign
over
Judah.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}When
Jehu
had
come
to
Jezreel,
Jezebel
heard
of
it;
and
she painted
her
eyes,
and
adorned
her
head,
and
looked
out
at
the
window.
\VS{31}As
Jehu
entered
in
at
the
gate, she
said, “Do
you
come
in
peace,
Zimri,
you
murderer
of
your
master?”
\par }{\PP \VS{32}He
lifted
up
his
face
to
the
window,
and
said, “Who
is
on
my
side?
Who?”
\par }{\PP Two
or
three
eunuchs
looked
out
at
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{33}He
said, “Throw
her
down!”
\par }{\PP So
they
threw
her
down;
and some
of
her
blood
was sprinkled
on
the
wall,
and
on
the
horses.
Then
he
trampled
her
under foot.
\VS{34}When
he
had
come
in,
he
ate
and
drank.
Then
he
said, “See
now
to
this
cursed
woman,
and
bury
her;
for
she
is
a
king’s
daughter.”
\par }{\PP \VS{35}They went
to
bury
her,
but
they
found
no
more
of
her
than
the
skull,
the
feet,
and
the
palms
of
her
hands.
\VS{36}Therefore
they
came
back,
and
told
him.
\par }{\PP He
said, “This
is
Yahweh’s
word,
which
he
spoke
by
his
servant
Elijah
the Tishbite,
saying, ‘The
dogs
will
eat
the
flesh
of
Jezebel
on
the
plot
of
Jezreel,
\VS{37}and
the
body
of
Jezebel
will
be
as
dung
on
the
surface
of
the
field
on Jezreel’s
land,
so
that
they
won’t
say, “This
is
Jezebel.” ’ ”

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Ahab
had
seventy
sons
in
Samaria.
Jehu
wrote
letters
and
sent
them
to
Samaria,
to
the
rulers
of
Jezreel, even
the
elders,
and
to
those
who brought
up
Ahab’s
sons,
saying,
\VS{2}“Now
as
soon
as
this
letter
comes
to
you,
since
your
master’s
sons
are
with
you,
and
you
have
chariots
and
horses,
a
fortified
city
also,
and armor,
\VS{3}select
the
best
and
fittest
of
your
master’s
sons,
set
him
on
his
father’s
throne,
and
fight
for
your
master’s
house.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}But
they
were
exceedingly
afraid,
and
said, “Behold,
the
two
kings
didn’t
stand
before
him!
How
then
shall
we
stand?”
\VS{5}He
who
was
over
the
household,
and
he
who
was
over
the
city,
the
elders
also,
and
those
who raised
the children,
sent
to
Jehu,
saying, “We
are
your
servants,
and
will
do
all
that
you
ask
us.
We
will
not
make
any
man
king.
You
do
that
which
is
good
in
your
eyes.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Then
he
wrote
a
letter
the
second
time
to
them,
saying, “If
you
are
on
my
side,
and
if
you
will
listen
to
my
voice,
take
the
heads
of
the
men
who
are
your
master’s
sons,
and
come
to
me
to
Jezreel
by
tomorrow
this
time.”
\par }{\PP Now
the
king’s
sons,
being
seventy
persons,
were
with
the
great
men
of
the
city,
who
brought
them
up.
\VS{7}When
the
letter
came
to
them,
they
took
the
king’s
sons
and
killed
them,
even
seventy
people,
and
put
their
heads
in
baskets,
and
sent
them
to
him
to
Jezreel.
\VS{8}A
messenger
came
and
told
him, “They
have
brought
the
heads
of
the
king’s
sons.”
\par }{\PP He
said, “Lay
them
in
two
heaps
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
until
the
morning.”
\VS{9}In
the
morning,
he
went
out
and
stood,
and
said
to
all
the
people, “You
are
righteous.
Behold,
I
conspired
against
my
master
and
killed
him,
but
who
killed
all
these?
\VS{10}Know
now
that
nothing
will
fall
to
the
earth
of
Yahweh’s
word,
which
Yahweh
spoke
concerning
Ahab’s
house.
For
Yahweh
has
done
that
which
he
spoke
by
his
servant
Elijah.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}So
Jehu
struck
all
that
remained
of
Ahab’s
house
in
Jezreel,
with
all
his
great
men,
his
familiar
friends,
and
his
priests,
until
he
left
him
no
one
remaining.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}He
arose
and
departed,
and
went
to
Samaria.
As
he
was
at
the shearing house
of
the
shepherds
on
the
way,
\VS{13}Jehu
met
with
the
brothers
of
Ahaziah
king
of
Judah,
and
said, “Who
are
you?”
\par }{\PP They
answered, “We
are
the
brothers
of
Ahaziah.
We
are
going
down
to
greet
the
children
of
the
king
and
the
children
of
the
queen.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}He
said, “Take
them
alive!”
\par }{\PP They
took
them
alive,
and
killed
them
at
the
pit
of
the shearing house,
even
forty-two
men.
He
didn’t
leave
any
of
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}When
he
had departed
from
there,
he
met
Jehonadab
the
son
of
Rechab
coming
to
meet
him.
He
greeted
him,
and
said
to
him, “Is
your
heart
right,
as
my
heart
is
with
your
heart?”
\par }{\PP Jehonadab
answered, “It
is.”
\par }{\PP “If
it
is,
give
me
your
hand.”
He
gave
him
his
hand;
and
he
took
him
up
to
him
into
the
chariot.
\VS{16}He
said, “Come
with
me,
and
see
my
zeal
for
Yahweh.”
So
they made
him
ride
in
his
chariot.
\VS{17}When
he
came
to
Samaria,
he
struck
all
who
remained
to
Ahab
in
Samaria,
until
he
had
destroyed
them,
according
to
Yahweh’s
word
which
he
spoke
to
Elijah.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Jehu
gathered
all
the
people
together,
and
said
to
them, “Ahab
served
Baal
a
little,
but
Jehu
will
serve
him
much.
\VS{19}Now
therefore
call
to
me
all
the
prophets
of
Baal,
all
of
his
worshipers,
and
all
of
his
priests.
Let
no
one
be absent,
for
I
have
a
great
sacrifice
to
Baal.
Whoever
is absent,
he
shall
not
live.”
But
Jehu
did deceptively,
intending
to
destroy
the
worshipers
of
Baal.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Jehu
said, “Sanctify
a
solemn
assembly
for
Baal!”
\par }{\PP So
they
proclaimed
it.
\VS{21}Jehu
sent
through
all
Israel;
and
all
the
worshipers
of
Baal
came,
so
that
there
was
not
a
man
left
that
didn’t
come.
They
came
into
the
house
of
Baal;
and
the
house
of
Baal
was
filled
from
one
end
to
another.
\VS{22}He
said
to
him
who kept
the
wardrobe, “Bring
out
robes
for
all
the
worshipers
of
Baal!”
\par }{\PP So
he
brought
robes
out
to
them.
\VS{23}Jehu
went
with
Jehonadab
the
son
of
Rechab
into
the
house
of
Baal.
Then
he
said
to
the
worshipers
of
Baal, “Search,
and
see
that
none
of
the
servants
of
Yahweh
are
here
with
you,
but
only
the
worshipers
of
Baal.”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}So
they
went
in
to
offer
sacrifices
and
burnt
offerings.
Now
Jehu
had
appointed
for
himself
eighty
men
outside,
and
said, “If
any
of
the
men
whom
I
bring
into
your
hands
escape,
he
who lets
him
go,
his
life
shall
be
for
the
life
of
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}As soon
as
he
had
finished offering
the
burnt offering,
Jehu
said
to
the
guard
and
to
the captains, “Go
in
and
kill
them!
Let
no
one
escape.”
So
they
struck
them
with
the
edge
of
the
sword.
The
guard
and
the captains
threw
the bodies
out,
and
went
to
the
inner
shrine
of
the
house
of
Baal.
\VS{26}They
brought
out
the
pillars
that
were
in
the
house
of
Baal
and
burned
them.
\VS{27}They
broke
down
the
pillar
of
Baal,
and
broke
down
the
house
of
Baal,
and
made
it
a
latrine,
to
this
day.
\VS{28}Thus
Jehu
destroyed
Baal
out
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}However,
Jehu
didn’t
depart
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin—the
golden
calves
that
were
in
Bethel
and
that
were
in
Dan.
\VS{30}Yahweh
said
to
Jehu, “Because
you
have
done
well
in executing
that
which
is
right
in
my
eyes,
and
have
done
to
Ahab’s
house
according
to
all
that
was
in
my
heart,
your
descendants
shall
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel
to
the
fourth generation.”
\par }{\PP \VS{31}But
Jehu
took
no
heed
to walk
in
the
law
of
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
with
all
his
heart.
He
didn’t
depart
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}In
those
days
Yahweh
began
to
cut
away parts
of
Israel;
and
Hazael
struck
them
in
all
the
borders
of
Israel
\VS{33}from
the
Jordan
eastward,
all
the
land
of
Gilead,
the
Gadites,
and
the
Reubenites,
and
the
Manassites,
from
Aroer,
which
is
by
the
valley
of
the
Arnon,
even
Gilead
and
Bashan.
\VS{34}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehu,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
all
his
might, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{35}Jehu
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
they
buried
him
in
Samaria.
Jehoahaz
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\VS{36}The
time
that
Jehu
reigned
over
Israel
in
Samaria
was
twenty-eight
years.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
Athaliah
the
mother
of
Ahaziah
saw
that
her
son
was
dead,
she
arose
and
destroyed
all
the
royal
offspring.
\VS{2}But
Jehosheba,
the
daughter
of
King
Joram,
sister
of
Ahaziah,
took
Joash
the
son
of
Ahaziah,
and
stole
him
away
from
among
the
king’s
sons
who
were slain,
even
him
and
his
nurse,
and
put
them
in
the
bedroom;
and
they
hid
him
from
Athaliah,
so
that
he
was
not slain.
\VS{3}He
was
with
her
hidden
in
Yahweh’s
house
six
years
while
Athaliah
reigned
over
the
land.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}In
the
seventh
year
Jehoiada
sent
and fetched
the
captains
over
hundreds
of
the
Carites
and
of
the
guard,
and
brought
them
to
him
into
Yahweh’s
house;
and
he
made
a
covenant
with
them,
and
made
a
covenant
with
them
in
Yahweh’s
house,
and
showed
them
the
king’s
son.
\VS{5}He
commanded
them,
saying, “This
is
what
you must
do:
a
third
of
you,
who
come
in
on
the
Sabbath,
shall
be
keepers
of
the
watch
of
the
king’s
house;
\VS{6}a
third
of
you
shall
be
at
the
gate
Sur;
and
a
third
of
you
at
the
gate
behind
the
guard.
So
you
shall
keep
the
watch
of
the
house,
and
be
a barrier.
\VS{7}The
two companies
of
you,
even
all
who
go
out
on
the
Sabbath,
shall
keep
the
watch
of
Yahweh’s
house
around
the
king.
\VS{8}You
shall
surround
the
king,
every
man
with
his
weapons
in
his
hand;
and
he
who
comes
within
the
ranks,
let
him
be slain.
Be
with
the
king
when
he
goes
out,
and
when
he
comes
in.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}The
captains
over
hundreds
did
according
to
all
that
Jehoiada
the
priest
commanded;
and
they
each
took
his
men,
those
who
were
to
come
in
on
the
Sabbath
with
those
who
were
to
go
out
on
the
Sabbath,
and
came
to
Jehoiada
the
priest.
\VS{10}The
priest
delivered
to
the
captains
over
hundreds
the
spears
and
shields
that
had
been
King
David’s,
which
were
in
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{11}The
guard
stood,
every
man
with
his
weapons
in
his
hand,
from
the
right
side
of
the
house
to
the
left
side
of
the
house,
along
by
the
altar
and
the
house,
around
the
king.
\VS{12}Then
he
brought
out
the
king’s
son,
and
put
the
crown
on
him,
and
gave
him
the covenant;
and
they
made
him
king
and
anointed
him;
and
they
clapped
their
hands,
and
said, “Long
live
the
king!”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}When
Athaliah
heard
the
noise
of
the
guard
and
of
the
people, she
came
to
the
people
into
Yahweh’s
house;
\VS{14}and
she
looked,
and
behold,
the
king
stood
by
the
pillar,
as
the tradition
was,
with
the
captains
and
the
trumpets
by
the
king;
and
all
the
people
of
the
land
rejoiced,
and
blew
trumpets.
Then
Athaliah
tore
her
clothes
and
cried, “Treason!
Treason!”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Jehoiada
the
priest
commanded
the
captains
of
hundreds
who
were
set
over
the
army,
and
said
to
them, “Bring
her
out between
the
ranks.
Kill
anyone
who
follows
her
with
the
sword.”
For
the
priest
said, “Don’t
let
her
be slain
in
Yahweh’s
house.”
\VS{16}So
they
seized
her;
and she
went
by
the
way
of
the horses’
entry
to
the
king’s
house,
and she
was slain
there.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Jehoiada
made
a
covenant
between
Yahweh
and
the
king
and
the
people,
that
they
should
be
Yahweh’s
people;
also
between
the
king
and
the
people.
\VS{18}All
the
people
of
the
land
went
to
the
house
of
Baal,
and
broke
it
down.
They
broke
his
altars
and
his
images
in
pieces
thoroughly,
and
killed
Mattan
the
priest
of
Baal
before
the
altars.
The
priest
appointed
officers
over
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{19}He
took
the
captains
over
hundreds,
and
the
Carites,
and
the
guard,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land;
and
they
brought
down
the
king
from
Yahweh’s
house,
and
came
by
the
way
of
the
gate
of
the
guard
to
the
king’s
house.
He
sat
on
the
throne
of
the
kings.
\VS{20}So
all
the
people
of
the
land
rejoiced,
and
the
city
was
quiet.
They
had slain
Athaliah
with
the
sword
at
the
king’s
house.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Jehoash began
to
reign
in
the
seventh
year
of Jehu,
and
he
reigned forty
years
in Jerusalem.
His mother’s name
was Zibiah
of Beersheba.
\VS{2}Jehoash did
that which
was right
in Yahweh’s eyes all
his
days
in which Jehoiada
the priest instructed
him.
\VS{3}However,
the high
places
were not taken
away.
The
people still sacrificed
and burned incense
in
the high
places.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Jehoash said
to
the
priests, “All
the money
of
the holy
things
that
is brought
into Yahweh’s house,
in current money,
the money
of
the
people
for whom
each man
is evaluated,\XREF{✡}{{\XO 12:4 }
Exodus 30:12}
and
all
the money
that
it comes
into
any man’s heart
to bring
into Yahweh’s house,
\VS{5}let
the
priests
take
it
to
them,
each
man
from
his donor;
and
they
shall repair
the damage
to
the
house,
wherever
any damage
is found.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}But
it
was
so,
that
in
the twenty-third year
of King Jehoash
the
priests
had not
repaired
the
damage
to
the
house.
\VS{7}Then
King
Jehoash called
for Jehoiada
the
priest,
and
for
the other
priests,
and said
to
them, “Why aren’t
you
repairing
the
damage
to
the
house?
Now
therefore
take
no
more money
from
your treasurers,
but deliver
it
for
repair
of
the
damage
to
the
house.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}The
priests consented
that
they
should
take
no
more
money
from
the
people,
and
not
repair
the
damage
to
the
house.
\VS{9}But Jehoiada
the
priest
took
a chest
and bored
a hole
in
its lid,
and set
it beside
the altar,
on
the right side
as
one comes
into Yahweh’s
house;
and
the
priests
who kept
the threshold
put all
the
money
that
was
brought
into Yahweh’s
house
into
it.
\VS{10}When
they saw
that
there
was
much
money
in
the
chest,
the king’s scribe
and
the high
priest
came
up,
and
they
put
it
in bags
and counted
the
money
that
was found
in
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{11}They
gave
the
money
that
was weighed
out
into
the hands
of
those
who did
the work,
who
had
the oversight
of
Yahweh’s
house;
and
they paid
it
out
to
the carpenters
and
the builders
who
worked
on
Yahweh’s
house,
\VS{12}and
to
the
masons
and
the stone cutters,
and
for buying
timber
and cut stone
to repair
the
damage
to
Yahweh’s
house,
and
for
all
that
was
laid
out
for
the
house
to repair
it.
\VS{13}But
there
were not
made
for
Yahweh’s
house cups
of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets,
any vessels
of gold
or vessels
of silver,
of
the money
that
was
brought
into
Yahweh’s
house;
\VS{14}for
they
gave
that
to
those
who
did
the work,
and repaired
Yahweh’s
house
with
it.
\VS{15}Moreover
they didn’t demand
an accounting
from
the
men
into whose
hand
they
delivered
the money
to
give
to
those
who
did
the
work;
for
they dealt faithfully.
\VS{16}The
money
for
the trespass
offerings
and
the
money
for
the sin
offerings
was
not
brought
into Yahweh’s house.
It
was
the priests’.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then Hazael king
of Syria
went
up
and fought
against Gath,
and
took
it;
and Hazael
set
his face
to
go
up
to Jerusalem.
\VS{18}Jehoash
king
of Judah
took
all
the holy things
that Jehoshaphat
and Jehoram
and Ahaziah,
his fathers,
kings
of Judah,
had dedicated,
and
his
own holy things,
and
all
the gold
that
was found
in
the treasures
of Yahweh’s house,
and
of
the
king’s house,
and
sent
it
to
Hazael
king
of
Syria;
and
he
went
away
from
Jerusalem.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Now
the rest
of
the acts
of
Joash,
and
all
that
he
did, aren’t
they written
in
the book
of
the chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{20}His servants arose
and
made
a conspiracy,
and struck
Joash
at
the house
of Millo,
on
the
way
that goes
down
to Silla.
\VS{21}For Jozacar
the son
of Shimeath,
and Jehozabad
the son
of Shomer,
his
servants,
struck
him,
and
he died;
and
they buried
him
with
his fathers
in David’s city;
and Amaziah
his son reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
twenty-third
year
of
Joash
the
son
of
Ahaziah,
king
of
Judah,
Jehoahaz
the
son
of
Jehu began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria
for
seventeen
years.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
and
followed
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
He
didn’t
depart
from
it.
\VS{3}Yahweh’s
anger
burned
against
Israel,
and
he
delivered
them
into
the
hand
of
Hazael
king
of
Syria,
and
into
the
hand
of Benhadad
the
son
of
Hazael,
continually.
\VS{4}Jehoahaz begged
Yahweh,
and
Yahweh
listened
to
him;
for
he
saw
the
oppression
of
Israel,
how
the
king
of
Syria
oppressed
them.
\VS{5}(Yahweh
gave
Israel
a
savior,
so
that
they
went
out
from
under
the
hand
of
the Syrians;
and
the
children
of
Israel
lived
in
their
tents
as
before.
\VS{6}Nevertheless
they
didn’t
depart
from
the
sins
of
the
house
of
Jeroboam,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin,
but
walked
in
them;
and
the
Asherah
also
remained
in
Samaria.)
\VS{7}For
he
didn’t
leave
to
Jehoahaz
of
the
people
any
more
than
fifty
horsemen,
and
ten
chariots,
and
ten
thousand
footmen;
for
the
king
of
Syria
destroyed
them
and
made
them
like
the
dust
in
threshing.
\VS{8}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoahaz,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
might, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{9}Jehoahaz
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
they
buried
him
in
Samaria;
and
Joash
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}In
the thirty-seventh
year
of
Joash
king
of
Judah,
Jehoash
the
son
of
Jehoahaz began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria
for
sixteen
years.
\VS{11}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
He
didn’t
depart
from
all
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin;
but
he
walked
in
them.
\VS{12}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Joash,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
might
with
which
he
fought
against
Amaziah
king
of
Judah, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{13}Joash
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
Jeroboam
sat
on
his
throne.
Joash
was
buried
in
Samaria
with
the
kings
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Now
Elisha became
sick
with
the
illness
of
which
he
died;
and
Joash
the
king
of
Israel
came
down
to
him,
and
wept
over
him,
and
said, “My
father,
my
father,
the
chariots
of
Israel
and
its
horsemen!”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Elisha
said
to
him, “Take
bow
and
arrows;”
and
he
took
bow
and
arrows
for
himself.
\VS{16}He
said
to
the
king
of
Israel, “Put
your
hand
on
the
bow;”
and
he
put
his
hand
on
it.
Elisha
laid
his
hands
on
the
king’s
hands.
\VS{17}He
said, “Open
the
window
eastward;”
and
he
opened
it.
Then
Elisha
said, “Shoot!”
and
he
shot.
He
said, “Yahweh’s
arrow
of
victory,
even
the
arrow
of
victory
over
Syria;
for
you
will
strike
the Syrians
in
Aphek
until
you
have
consumed
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}He
said, “Take
the
arrows;”
and
he
took
them.
He
said
to
the
king
of
Israel, “Strike
the
ground;”
and
he
struck
three
times,
and
stopped.
\VS{19}The
man
of
God
was
angry
with
him,
and
said, “You
should
have
struck
five
or
six
times.
Then
you
would
have
struck
Syria
until
you
had
consumed
it,
but
now
you
will
strike
Syria
just
three
times.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Elisha
died,
and
they
buried
him.
\par }{\PP Now
the
bands
of
the
Moabites
invaded
the
land
at
the
coming
in
of
the
year.
\VS{21}As
they
were
burying
a
man,
behold,
they
saw
a
band
of
raiders;
and
they
threw
the
man
into
Elisha’s
tomb.
As soon
as
the
man
touched
Elisha’s
bones,
he
revived,
and
stood
up
on
his
feet.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Hazael
king
of
Syria
oppressed
Israel
all
the
days
of
Jehoahaz.
\VS{23}But
Yahweh
was gracious
to
them,
and
had
compassion
on
them,
and favored
them
because
of
his
covenant
with
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob,
and
would
not
destroy
them
and
he
didn’t
cast
them
from
his
presence
as
yet.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Hazael
king
of
Syria
died;
and Benhadad
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\VS{25}Jehoash
the
son
of
Jehoahaz
took
again
out
of
the
hand
of Benhadad
the
son
of
Hazael
the
cities
which
he
had
taken
out
of
the
hand
of
Jehoahaz
his
father
by
war.
Joash
struck
him
three
times,
and
recovered
the
cities
of
Israel.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
second
year
of
Joash,
son
of
Joahaz,
king
of
Israel,
Amaziah
the
son
of
Joash
king
of
Judah began
to
reign.
\VS{2}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
twenty-nine
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Jehoaddin
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes,
yet
not
like
David
his
father.
He
did according
to
all
that
Joash
his
father
had
done.
\VS{4}However
the
high
places were
not
taken
away.
The
people
still
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
in
the
high
places.
\VS{5}As soon
as
the
kingdom
was
established
in
his
hand,
he
killed
his
servants
who
had
slain
the
king
his
father,
\VS{6}but
the
children
of
the murderers
he
didn’t
put
to
death,
according
to
that
which
is
written
in
the
book
of
the
law
of
Moses,
as
Yahweh
commanded,
saying, “The
fathers
shall
not
be
put
to
death
for
the
children,
nor
the
children
be
put
to
death
for
the
fathers;
but
every
man
shall
die
for
his
own
sin.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}He
killed
ten
thousand
Edomites
in
the
Valley
of
Salt,
and
took
Sela
by
war,
and
called
its
name
Joktheel,
to
this
day.
\VS{8}Then
Amaziah
sent
messengers
to
Jehoash,
the
son
of
Jehoahaz
son
of
Jehu,
king
of
Israel,
saying, “Come, let’s
look
one another
in
the
face.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Jehoash
the
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
wife.’
Then
a
wild
animal
that
was
in
Lebanon
passed
by,
and
trampled
down
the thistle.
\VS{10}You
have
indeed
struck
Edom,
and
your
heart
has
lifted
you
up.
Enjoy
the
glory
of
it,
and
stay
at
home;
for
why
should
you meddle
to
your
harm,
that
you
fall,
even
you,
and
Judah
with
you?”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}But
Amaziah
would
not
listen.
So
Jehoash
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{12}Judah
was
defeated
by
Israel;
and
each
man
fled
to
his
tent.
\VS{13}Jehoash
king
of
Israel
took
Amaziah
king
of
Judah,
the
son
of
Jehoash
the
son
of
Ahaziah,
at Beth Shemesh
and
came
to
Jerusalem,
then
broke
down
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
from
the
gate
of
Ephraim
to
the
corner
gate,
four
hundred
cubits.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 14:13 }
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.}
\VS{14}He
took
all
the
gold
and
silver
and
all
the
vessels
that
were
found
in
Yahweh’s
house
and
in
the
treasures
of
the
king’s
house,
the
hostages
also,
and
returned
to
Samaria.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoash
which
he
did,
and
his
might,
and
how
he
fought
with
Amaziah
king
of
Judah, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{16}Jehoash
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
Samaria
with
the
kings
of
Israel;
and
Jeroboam
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Amaziah
the
son
of
Joash
king
of
Judah
lived
after
the
death
of
Jehoash
son
of
Jehoahaz,
king
of
Israel,
fifteen
years.
\VS{18}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Amaziah, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{19}They
made
a
conspiracy
against
him
in
Jerusalem,
and
he
fled
to
Lachish;
but
they
sent
after
him
to
Lachish
and
killed
him
there.
\VS{20}They
brought
him
on
horses,
and
he
was
buried
at
Jerusalem
with
his
fathers
in
David’s
city.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}All
the
people
of
Judah
took
Azariah,
who
was
sixteen
years
old,
and
made
him
king
in
the
place
of
his
father
Amaziah.
\VS{22}He
built
Elath
and
restored
it
to
Judah.
After
that
the
king
slept
with
his
fathers.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}In
the fifteenth
year
of
Amaziah
the
son
of
Joash
king
of
Judah,
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Joash
king
of
Israel began
to
reign
in
Samaria
for forty-one
years.
\VS{24}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
He
didn’t
depart
from
all
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{25}He
restored
the
border
of
Israel
from
the
entrance
of
Hamath
to
the
sea
of
the
Arabah,
according
to
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel’s
word,
which
he
spoke
by
his
servant
Jonah
the
son
of
Amittai,
the
prophet,
who
was
from Gath Hepher.
\VS{26}For
Yahweh
saw
the affliction
of
Israel,
that
it
was
very
bitter
for
all, slave
and free;
and
there
was
no
helper
for
Israel.
\VS{27}Yahweh
didn’t
say
that
he
would blot
out
the
name
of
Israel
from
under
the
sky;
but
he
saved
them
by
the
hand
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Joash.
\VS{28}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jeroboam,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
might,
how
he
fought,
and
how
he
recovered
Damascus,
and
Hamath,
which
had belonged
to
Judah,
for
Israel, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{29}Jeroboam
slept
with
his
fathers, even
with
the
kings
of
Israel;
and
Zechariah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the twenty-seventh
year
of
Jeroboam
king
of
Israel,
Azariah
son
of
Amaziah
king
of
Judah began
to
reign.
\VS{2}He
was
sixteen
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
fifty-two
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Jecoliah
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes, according
to
all
that
his
father
Amaziah
had
done.
\VS{4}However,
the
high
places were
not
taken
away.
The
people
still
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
in
the
high
places.
\VS{5}Yahweh
struck
the
king,
so
that
he
was
a
leper
to
the
day
of
his
death,
and
lived
in
a
separate
house.
Jotham,
the
king’s
son,
was
over
the
household,
judging
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{6}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Azariah,
and
all
that
he
did, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{7}Azariah
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
they
buried
him
with
his
fathers
in
David’s
city;
and
Jotham
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}In
the thirty-eighth
year
of
Azariah
king
of
Judah,
Zechariah
the
son
of
Jeroboam
reigned
over
Israel
in
Samaria
six
months.
\VS{9}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
as
his
fathers
had
done.
He
didn’t
depart
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{10}Shallum
the
son
of
Jabesh
conspired
against
him,
and
struck
him
before
the
people
and
killed
him,
and
reigned
in
his
place.
\VS{11}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Zechariah,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{12}This
was
Yahweh’s
word
which
he
spoke
to
Jehu,
saying, “Your
sons
to
the
fourth generation
shall
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel.”
So
it
came
to
pass.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Shallum
the
son
of
Jabesh began
to
reign
in
the thirty-ninth
year
of
Uzziah
king
of
Judah,
and
he
reigned
for
a
month
in
Samaria.
\VS{14}Menahem
the
son
of
Gadi
went
up
from
Tirzah,
came
to
Samaria,
struck
Shallum
the
son
of
Jabesh
in
Samaria,
killed
him,
and
reigned
in
his
place.
\VS{15}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Shallum,
and
his
conspiracy
which
he
made,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Then
Menahem
attacked
Tiphsah
and
all
who
were
in
it
and
its
border areas,
from
Tirzah.
He
attacked
it
because
they
didn’t
open
their gates
to
him,
and
he
ripped
up
all
their
women
who
were
with
child.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}In
the
thirty
ninth
year
of
Azariah
king
of
Judah,
Menahem
the
son
of
Gadi began
to
reign
over
Israel
for
ten
years
in
Samaria.
\VS{18}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
He
didn’t
depart
all
his
days
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{19}Pul
the
king
of
Assyria
came
against
the
land,
and
Menahem
gave
Pul
one
thousand
talents\FTNT{*}{{\FR 15:19 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons}
of
silver,
that
his
hand
might
be
with
him
to confirm
the
kingdom
in
his
hand.
\VS{20}Menahem
exacted
the
money
from
Israel,
even
from
all
the
mighty
men
of
wealth,
from
each
man
fifty
shekels\FTNT{†}{{\FR 15:20 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds.}
of
silver,
to
give
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
So
the
king
of
Assyria
turned
back,
and
didn’t
stay
there
in
the
land.
\VS{21}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Menahem,
and
all
that
he
did, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{22}Menahem
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
Pekahiah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}In
the
fiftieth
year
of
Azariah
king
of
Judah,
Pekahiah
the
son
of
Menahem began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria
for two
years.
\VS{24}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
He
didn’t
depart
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{25}Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
his captain,
conspired
against
him
and
attacked
him
in
Samaria,
in
the fortress
of
the
king’s
house,
with Argob
and Arieh;
and
with
him
were
fifty
men
of
the
Gileadites.
He
killed
him,
and
reigned
in
his
place.
\VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Pekahiah,
and
all
that
he
did,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}In
the
fifty-second
year
of
Azariah
king
of
Judah,
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria
for
twenty
years.
\VS{28}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
He
didn’t
depart
from
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
with
which
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{29}In
the
days
of
Pekah
king
of
Israel, Tiglath Pileser
king
of
Assyria
came
and
took
Ijon,
Abel Beth Maacah,
Janoah,
Kedesh,
Hazor,
Gilead,
and
Galilee,
all
the
land
of
Naphtali;
and
he
carried
them
captive
to
Assyria.
\VS{30}Hoshea
the
son
of
Elah
made
a
conspiracy
against
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
attacked
him,
killed
him,
and
reigned
in
his
place,
in
the
twentieth
year
of
Jotham
the
son
of
Uzziah.
\VS{31}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Pekah,
and
all
that
he
did,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}In
the
second
year
of
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah
king
of
Israel,
Jotham
the
son
of
Uzziah
king
of
Judah began
to
reign.
\VS{33}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Jerusha
the
daughter
of
Zadok.
\VS{34}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes.
He
did according
to
all
that
his
father
Uzziah
had
done.
\VS{35}However
the
high
places
were
not
taken
away.
The
people
still
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
in
the
high
places.
He
built
the
upper
gate
of
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{36}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jotham,
and
all
that
he
did, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{37}In
those
days,
Yahweh
began
to
send
Rezin
the
king
of
Syria
and
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah
against
Judah.
\VS{38}Jotham
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
his
father
David’s
city;
and
Ahaz
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the seventeenth
year
of
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
Ahaz
the
son
of
Jotham
king
of
Judah began
to
reign.
\VS{2}Ahaz
was
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
He
didn’t
do
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh
his
God’s
eyes,
like
David
his
father.
\VS{3}But
he walked
in
the
way
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and
even
made
his
son
to
pass
through
the
fire, according
to
the
abominations
of
the
nations
whom
Yahweh
cast
out
from
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{4}He
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
in
the
high
places,
on
the
hills,
and
under
every
green
tree.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Then
Rezin
king
of
Syria
and
Pekah
son
of
Remaliah
king
of
Israel
came
up
to
Jerusalem
to
wage
war.
They besieged
Ahaz,
but
could
not
overcome
him.
\VS{6}At
that
time
Rezin
king
of
Syria
recovered
Elath
to
Syria,
and drove
the
Jews
from
Elath;
and
the
Syrians
came
to
Elath,
and
lived
there
to
this
day.
\VS{7}So
Ahaz
sent
messengers
to Tiglath Pileser
king
of
Assyria,
saying, “I
am
your
servant
and
your
son.
Come
up
and
save
me
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Syria
and
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Israel,
who
rise
up
against
me.”
\VS{8}Ahaz
took
the
silver
and
gold
that
was
found
in
Yahweh’s
house,
and
in
the
treasures
of
the
king’s
house,
and
sent
it
for
a
present
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{9}The
king
of
Assyria
listened
to
him;
and
the
king
of
Assyria
went
up
against
Damascus
and
took
it,
and
carried
its
people
captive
to
Kir,
and
killed
Rezin.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}King
Ahaz
went
to
Damascus
to
meet Tiglath Pileser
king
of
Assyria,
and
saw
the
altar
that
was
at
Damascus;
and
King
Ahaz
sent
to Urijah
the
priest
a drawing
of
the
altar
and plans
to build
it.
\VS{11}Urijah
the
priest
built
an
altar. According
to
all
that
King
Ahaz
had
sent
from
Damascus,
so Urijah
the
priest
made
it
for
the
coming
of
King
Ahaz
from
Damascus.
\VS{12}When
the
king
had
come
from
Damascus,
the
king
saw
the
altar;
and
the
king
came
near
to
the
altar,
and
offered
on
it.
\VS{13}He
burned
his
burnt
offering
and
his
meal
offering, poured
his drink
offering,
and
sprinkled
the
blood
of
his
peace
offerings
on
the
altar.
\VS{14}The
bronze
altar,
which
was
before
Yahweh,
he
brought
from
the
front
of
the
house,
from
between
his
altar
and
Yahweh’s
house,
and
put
it
on
the
north
side
of
his
altar.
\VS{15}King
Ahaz
commanded Urijah
the
priest,
saying, “On
the
great
altar
burn
the
morning
burnt
offering,
the
evening
meal
offering,
the
king’s
burnt
offering
and
his
meal
offering,
with
the
burnt
offering
of
all
the
people
of
the
land,
their
meal
offering,
and
their drink
offerings;
and
sprinkle
on
it
all
the
blood
of
the
burnt
offering,
and
all
the
blood
of
the
sacrifice;
but
the
bronze
altar
will
be
for
me
to
inquire
by.”
\VS{16}Urijah
the
priest
did
so, according
to
all
that
King
Ahaz
commanded.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}King
Ahaz
cut
off
the panels
of
the bases,
and
removed
the basin
from
off
them,
and
took
down
the
sea
from
off
the
bronze
oxen
that
were
under
it,
and
put
it
on
a
pavement
of
stone.
\VS{18}He
removed
the covered
way
for
the
Sabbath
that
they
had
built
in
the
house,
and
the
king’s
outer
entrance
to
Yahweh’s
house,
because
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{19}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Ahaz
which
he
did, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{20}Ahaz
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
David’s
city;
and
Hezekiah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the twelfth
year
of
Ahaz
king
of
Judah,
Hoshea
the
son
of
Elah began
to
reign
in
Samaria
over
Israel
for
nine
years.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
yet
not
as
the
kings
of
Israel
who
were
before
him.
\VS{3}Shalmaneser
king
of
Assyria
came
up
against
him;
and
Hoshea
became
his
servant,
and
brought
him
tribute.
\VS{4}The
king
of
Assyria
discovered
a
conspiracy
in
Hoshea;
for
he
had
sent
messengers
to
So
king
of
Egypt,
and
offered
no
tribute
to
the
king
of
Assyria,
as
he
had done
year
by
year.
Therefore
the
king
of
Assyria seized
him,
and
bound
him
in
prison.
\VS{5}Then
the
king
of
Assyria
came
up
throughout
all
the
land,
went
up
to
Samaria,
and besieged
it
three
years.
\VS{6}In
the
ninth
year
of
Hoshea
the
king
of
Assyria
took
Samaria
and
carried
Israel
away
to
Assyria,
and
placed
them
in
Halah,
and
on
the
Habor,
the
river
of
Gozan,
and
in
the
cities
of
the
Medes.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}It
was
so
because
the
children
of
Israel
had
sinned
against
Yahweh
their
God,
who
brought
them
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
from
under
the
hand
of
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt,
and
had
feared
other
gods,
\VS{8}and walked
in
the
statutes
of
the
nations
whom
Yahweh
cast
out
from
before
the
children
of
Israel,
and
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
which
they
made.
\VS{9}The
children
of
Israel
secretly
did
things
that
were
not
right
against
Yahweh
their
God;
and
they
built
high
places
for
themselves
in
all
their
cities,
from
the
tower
of
the
watchmen
to
the
fortified
city;
\VS{10}and
they
set
up
for
themselves
pillars
and
Asherah poles
on
every
high
hill
and
under
every
green
tree;
\VS{11}and
there
they
burned
incense
in
all
the
high
places,
as
the
nations
whom
Yahweh
carried
away
before
them
did;
and
they
did
wicked
things
to
provoke
Yahweh
to
anger;
\VS{12}and
they
served
idols,
of
which
Yahweh
had
said
to
them, “You
shall
not
do
this
thing.”
\VS{13}Yet
Yahweh
testified
to
Israel
and
to
Judah,
by
every
prophet
and
every
seer,
saying, “Turn
from
your
evil
ways,
and
keep
my
commandments
and
my
statutes,
according
to
all
the
law
which
I
commanded
your
fathers,
and
which
I
sent
to
you
by
my
servants
the
prophets.”
\VS{14}Notwithstanding,
they
would
not
listen,
but
hardened
their
neck
like
the
neck
of
their
fathers
who
didn’t
believe
in
Yahweh
their
God.
\VS{15}They
rejected
his
statutes
and
his
covenant
that
he
made
with
their
fathers,
and
his
testimonies
which
he
testified
to
them;
and
they
followed
vanity,
and
became
vain,
and
followed
the
nations
that
were
around
them,
concerning
whom
Yahweh
had
commanded
them
that
they
should
not
do
like
them.
\VS{16}They
abandoned
all
the
commandments
of
Yahweh
their
God,
and
made molten
images
for
themselves,
even
two
calves,
and
made
an
Asherah,
and
worshiped
all
the
army
of
the
sky,
and
served
Baal.
\VS{17}They caused
their
sons
and
their
daughters
to
pass
through
the
fire,
used
divination
and
enchantments,
and
sold
themselves
to
do
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
to
provoke
him
to
anger.
\VS{18}Therefore
Yahweh
was
very
angry
with
Israel,
and
removed
them
out
of
his
sight.
There
was
none
left
but
the
tribe
of
Judah
only.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Also
Judah
didn’t
keep
the
commandments
of
Yahweh
their
God,
but walked
in
the
statutes
of
Israel
which
they
made.
\VS{20}Yahweh
rejected
all
the
offspring
of
Israel, afflicted
them,
and
delivered
them
into
the
hands
of raiders,
until
he
had
cast
them
out
of
his
sight.
\VS{21}For
he
tore
Israel
from
David’s
house;
and
they made
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
king;
and
Jeroboam
drove
Israel
from
following
Yahweh,
and made
them
sin
a
great
sin.
\VS{22}The
children
of
Israel walked
in
all
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
which
he
did;
they
didn’t
depart
from
them
\VS{23}until
Yahweh
removed
Israel
out
of
his
sight,
as
he
said
by
all
his
servants
the
prophets.
So
Israel
was
carried
away
out
of
their
own
land
to
Assyria
to
this
day.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}The
king
of
Assyria
brought
people
from
Babylon,
from
Cuthah,
from
Avva,
and
from
Hamath
and
Sepharvaim,
and
placed
them
in
the
cities
of
Samaria
instead
of
the
children
of
Israel;
and
they
possessed
Samaria
and
lived
in
its
cities.
\VS{25}So
it
was,
at
the
beginning
of
their
dwelling
there,
that
they
didn’t
fear
Yahweh.
Therefore
Yahweh
sent
lions
among
them,
which
killed
some
of
them.
\VS{26}Therefore
they
spoke
to
the
king
of
Assyria,
saying, “The
nations
which
you
have
carried
away
and
placed
in
the
cities
of
Samaria
don’t
know
the law
of
the
god
of
the
land.
Therefore
he
has
sent
lions
among
them;
and
behold,
they
kill
them,
because
they
don’t
know
the law
of
the
god
of
the
land.”
\par }{\PP \VS{27}Then
the
king
of
Assyria
commanded,
saying, “Carry
there
one
of
the
priests
whom
you brought
from
there;
and
let
him\FTNT{*}{{\FR 17:27 }
Hebrew:
them}
go
and
dwell
there,
and
let
him
teach
them
the law
of
the
god
of
the
land.”
\par }{\PP \VS{28}So
one
of
the
priests
whom
they
had
carried
away
from
Samaria
came
and
lived
in
Bethel,
and
taught
them
how
they
should
fear
Yahweh.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}However
every
nation
made
gods
of
their
own,
and
put
them
in
the
houses
of
the
high
places
which
the Samaritans
had
made,
every
nation
in
their
cities
in
which
they
lived.
\VS{30}The
men
of
Babylon
made Succoth Benoth,
and
the
men
of
Cuth
made
Nergal,
and
the
men
of
Hamath
made
Ashima,
\VS{31}and
the
Avvites
made
Nibhaz
and
Tartak;
and
the
Sepharvites
burned
their
children
in
the
fire
to
Adrammelech
and
Anammelech,
the gods
of
Sepharvaim.
\VS{32}So
they
feared
Yahweh,
and
also
made
from
among
themselves
priests
of
the
high
places
for
themselves,
who sacrificed
for
them
in
the
houses
of
the
high
places.
\VS{33}They
feared
Yahweh,
and
also
served
their
own
gods,
after
the ways
of
the
nations
from
among
whom
they
had
been
carried
away.
\VS{34}To
this
day
they
do
what
they
did
before.
They
don’t
fear
Yahweh,
and
they
do
not
follow
the
statutes,
or
the
ordinances,
or
the
law,
or
the
commandment
which
Yahweh
commanded
the
children
of
Jacob,
whom
he
named
Israel;
\VS{35}with whom
Yahweh
had
made
a
covenant
and
commanded
them,
saying, “You
shall
not
fear
other
gods,
nor
bow
yourselves
to
them,
nor
serve
them,
nor
sacrifice
to
them;
\VS{36}but
you
shall
fear
Yahweh,
who
brought
you
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
with
great
power
and
with
an
outstretched
arm,
and
you
shall
bow
yourselves
to
him,
and
you
shall
sacrifice
to
him.
\VS{37}The
statutes
and
the
ordinances,
and
the
law
and
the
commandment
which
he
wrote
for
you,
you
shall
observe
to
do
forever
more.
You
shall
not
fear
other
gods.
\VS{38}You
shall
not
forget
the
covenant
that
I
have
made
with
you.
You
shall
not
fear
other
gods.
\VS{39}But
you
shall
fear
Yahweh
your
God,
and
he
will
deliver
you
out
of
the
hand
of
all
your
enemies.”
\par }{\PP \VS{40}However
they
didn’t
listen,
but
they
did
what
they
did
before.
\VS{41}So
these
nations
feared
Yahweh,
and
also
served
their
engraved
images.
Their
children
did
likewise,
and
so
did
their
children’s
children.
They
do
as
their
fathers
did
to
this
day.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
third
year
of
Hoshea
son
of
Elah
king
of
Israel,
Hezekiah
the
son
of
Ahaz
king
of
Judah
began
to
reign.
\VS{2}He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
twenty-nine
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Abi
the
daughter
of
Zechariah.
\VS{3}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes, according
to
all
that
David
his
father
had
done.
\VS{4}He
removed
the
high
places,
broke
the
pillars,
and
cut
down
the
Asherah.
He
also
broke
in
pieces
the
bronze
serpent
that
Moses
had
made,
because
in
those
days
the
children
of
Israel
burned
incense
to
it;
and
he
called
it
Nehushtan.
\VS{5}He
trusted
in
Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
so
that
after
him
was
no
one
like
him
among
all
the
kings
of
Judah,
nor
among
them
that
were
before
him.
\VS{6}For
he
joined
with
Yahweh.
He
didn’t
depart
from
following
him,
but
kept
his
commandments,
which
Yahweh
commanded
Moses.
\VS{7}Yahweh
was
with
him.
Wherever
he
went,
he prospered.
He
rebelled
against
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
didn’t
serve
him.
\VS{8}He
struck
the
Philistines
to
Gaza
and
its
borders,
from
the
tower
of
the
watchmen
to
the
fortified
city.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}In
the
fourth
year
of
King
Hezekiah,
which
was
the
seventh
year
of
Hoshea
son
of
Elah
king
of
Israel,
Shalmaneser
king
of
Assyria
came
up
against
Samaria
and besieged
it.
\VS{10}At
the
end
of
three
years
they
took
it.
In
the sixth
year
of
Hezekiah,
which
was
the
ninth
year
of
Hoshea
king
of
Israel,
Samaria
was
taken.
\VS{11}The
king
of
Assyria
carried
Israel
away
to
Assyria,
and
put
them
in
Halah,
and
on
the
Habor,
the
river
of
Gozan,
and
in
the
cities
of
the
Medes,
\VS{12}because
they
didn’t
obey
Yahweh
their
God’s
voice,
but transgressed
his
covenant,
even
all
that
Moses
the
servant
of
Yahweh
commanded,
and
would
not
hear
it
or
do
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Now
in
the fourteenth
year
of
King
Hezekiah,
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
came
up
against
all
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah
and
took
them.
\VS{14}Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
sent
to
the
king
of
Assyria
at
Lachish,
saying, “I
have
offended
you.
Withdraw
from
me.
That
which
you
put
on
me,
I
will
bear.”
The
king
of
Assyria
appointed
to
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
three
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
thirty
talents\FTNT{*}{{\FR 18:14 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces}
of
gold.
\VS{15}Hezekiah
gave
him
all
the
silver
that
was
found
in
Yahweh’s
house
and
in
the
treasures
of
the
king’s
house.
\VS{16}At
that
time,
Hezekiah
cut
off
the gold
from
the
doors
of
Yahweh’s
temple,
and
from
the pillars
which
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
had
overlaid,
and
gave
it
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}The
king
of
Assyria
sent
Tartan, Rabsaris,
and
Rabshakeh
from
Lachish
to
King
Hezekiah
with
a
great
army
to
Jerusalem.
They
went
up
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
When
they
had
come
up,
they
came
and
stood
by
the conduit
of
the
upper
pool,
which
is
in
the
highway
of
the
fuller’s
field.
\VS{18}When
they
had
called
to
the
king,
Eliakim
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
who
was
over
the
household,
and
Shebnah
the
scribe,
and
Joah
the
son
of
Asaph
the
recorder
came
out
to
them.
\VS{19}Rabshakeh
said
to
them, “Say
now
to
Hezekiah, ‘The
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria,
says, “What
confidence
is
this
in
which
you
trust?
\VS{20}You
say (but
they
are
but vain
words), ‘There
is
counsel
and
strength
for
war.’
Now
on
whom
do
you
trust,
that
you
have
rebelled
against
me?
\VS{21}Now,
behold,
you
trust
in
the
staff
of
this
bruised
reed,
even
in
Egypt.
If
a
man
leans
on
it,
it
will
go
into
his
hand
and pierce
it.
So
is
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt
to
all
who
trust
on
him.
\VS{22}But
if
you
tell
me, ‘We
trust
in
Yahweh
our
God,’
isn’t
that
he
whose
high
places
and
whose
altars
Hezekiah
has
taken
away,
and
has
said
to
Judah
and
to
Jerusalem, ‘You
shall
worship
before
this
altar
in
Jerusalem?’
\VS{23}Now
therefore,
please
give pledges
to
my
master
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
I
will
give
you two
thousand
horses
if
you
are
able
on
your
part
to
set
riders
on
them.
\VS{24}How
then
can
you
turn
away
the
face
of
one captain
of
the least
of
my
master’s
servants,
and
put
your
trust
on
Egypt
for
chariots
and
for
horsemen?
\VS{25}Have
I
now
come
up
without
Yahweh
against
this
place
to
destroy
it?
Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘Go
up
against
this
land,
and
destroy
it.’ ” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}Then
Eliakim
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
Shebnah,
and
Joah,
said
to
Rabshakeh, “Please
speak
to
your
servants
in
the Syrian
language,
for
we
understand
it.
Don’t
speak
with
us
in
the Jews’
language,
in
the
hearing
of
the
people
who
are
on
the
wall.”
\par }{\PP \VS{27}But
Rabshakeh
said
to
them, “Has
my
master
sent
me
to
your
master
and
to
you,
to
speak
these
words?
Hasn’t
he
sent
me
to
the
men
who
sit
on
the
wall,
to
eat
their
own dung,
and
to
drink
their
own
urine
with
you?”
\par }{\PP \VS{28}Then
Rabshakeh
stood
and
cried
with
a
loud
voice
in
the Jews’
language,
and
spoke,
saying, “Hear
the
word
of
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{29}The
king
says, ‘Don’t
let
Hezekiah
deceive
you,
for
he
will
not
be
able
to
deliver
you
out
of
his
hand.
\VS{30}Don’t
let
Hezekiah
make
you
trust
in
Yahweh,
saying, “Yahweh
will
surely
deliver
us,
and
this
city
shall
not
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria.”
\VS{31}Don’t
listen
to
Hezekiah.’
For
the
king
of
Assyria
says, ‘Make
your
peace
with
me,
and
come
out
to
me;
and
everyone
of
you
eat
from
his
own
vine,
and
everyone
from
his
own
fig
tree,
and
everyone
drink
water
from
his
own
cistern;
\VS{32}until
I
come
and
take
you
away
to
a
land
like
your own
land,
a
land
of
grain
and
new
wine,
a
land
of
bread
and
vineyards,
a
land
of
olive
trees
and
of
honey,
that
you
may
live
and
not
die.
Don’t
listen
to
Hezekiah
when
he persuades
you,
saying, “Yahweh
will
deliver
us.”
\VS{33}Has
any
of
the
gods
of
the
nations ever
delivered
his
land
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria?
\VS{34}Where
are
the
gods
of
Hamath
and
of
Arpad?
Where
are
the
gods
of
Sepharvaim,
of
Hena,
and
Ivvah?
Have
they
delivered
Samaria
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{35}Who
are
they
among
all
the
gods
of
the
countries,
that
have
delivered
their
country
out
of
my
hand,
that
Yahweh
should
deliver
Jerusalem
out
of
my
hand?’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{36}But
the
people stayed quiet,
and
answered
him
not
a
word;
for
the
king’s
commandment
was, “Don’t
answer
him.”
\VS{37}Then
Eliakim
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
who
was
over
the
household,
came
with
Shebna
the
scribe
and
Joah
the
son
of
Asaph
the
recorder
to
Hezekiah
with
their
clothes
torn,
and
told
him Rabshakeh’s
words.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
King
Hezekiah
heard
it,
he
tore
his
clothes,
covered himself
with
sackcloth,
and
went
into
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{2}He
sent
Eliakim,
who
was
over
the
household,
Shebna
the
scribe,
and
the
elders
of
the
priests,
covered
with
sackcloth,
to
Isaiah
the
prophet
the
son
of
Amoz.
\VS{3}They
said
to
him, “Hezekiah
says, ‘Today
is
a
day
of
trouble,
of
rebuke,
and
of rejection;
for
the
children
have
come
to
the
point
of
birth,
and
there
is
no
strength
to
deliver
them.
\VS{4}It
may
be
Yahweh
your
God
will
hear
all
the
words
of
Rabshakeh,
whom
the
king
of
Assyria
his
master
has
sent
to
defy
the
living
God,
and
will
rebuke
the
words
which
Yahweh
your
God
has
heard.
Therefore
lift
up
your
prayer
for
the
remnant
that
is
left.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}So
the
servants
of
King
Hezekiah
came
to
Isaiah.
\VS{6}Isaiah
said
to
them, “Tell
your
master
this: ‘Yahweh
says, “Don’t
be
afraid
of
the
words
that
you
have
heard,
with
which
the
servants
of
the
king
of
Assyria
have
blasphemed
me.
\VS{7}Behold,
I
will
put
a
spirit
in
him,
and
he
will
hear
news,
and
will
return
to
his own
land.
I
will
cause
him
to
fall
by
the
sword
in
his own
land.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}So
Rabshakeh
returned
and
found
the
king
of
Assyria warring
against
Libnah;
for
he
had
heard
that
he
had
departed
from
Lachish.
\VS{9}When
he
heard
it
said
of
Tirhakah
king
of
Ethiopia, “Behold,
he
has
come
out
to
fight
against
you,”
he
sent
messengers
again
to
Hezekiah,
saying,
\VS{10}“Tell
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
this: ‘Don’t
let
your
God
in
whom
you
trust
deceive
you,
saying,
Jerusalem
will
not
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{11}Behold,
you
have
heard
what
the
kings
of
Assyria
have
done
to
all
lands,
by destroying
them utterly.
Will
you
be
delivered?
\VS{12}Have
the
gods
of
the
nations
delivered
them,
which
my
fathers
have
destroyed—Gozan,
Haran,
Rezeph,
and
the
children
of
Eden
who
were
in
Telassar?
\VS{13}Where
is
the
king
of
Hamath,
the
king
of
Arpad,
and
the
king
of
the
city
of
Sepharvaim,
of
Hena,
and
Ivvah?’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Hezekiah
received
the
letter
from
the
hand
of
the
messengers
and
read
it.
Then
Hezekiah
went
up
to
Yahweh’s
house,
and
spread
it
before
Yahweh.
\VS{15}Hezekiah
prayed
before
Yahweh,
and
said, “Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
who
are
enthroned
above
the
cherubim,
you
are
the
God,
even
you
alone,
of
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth.
You
have
made
heaven
and
earth.
\VS{16}Incline
your
ear,
Yahweh,
and
hear.
Open
your
eyes,
Yahweh,
and
see.
Hear
the
words
of
Sennacherib,
which
he
has
sent
to
defy
the
living
God.
\VS{17}Truly,
Yahweh,
the
kings
of
Assyria
have laid waste
the
nations
and
their
lands,
\VS{18}and
have
cast
their
gods
into
the
fire;
for
they
were
no
gods,
but
the
work
of
men’s
hands,
wood
and
stone.
Therefore
they
have
destroyed
them.
\VS{19}Now
therefore,
Yahweh
our
God,
save
us,
I
beg
you,
out
of
his
hand,
that
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
may
know
that
you,
Yahweh,
are
God
alone.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Then
Isaiah
the
son
of
Amoz
sent
to
Hezekiah,
saying, “Yahweh,
the
God
of
Israel,
says ‘You
have
prayed
to
me
against
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria,
and
I
have
heard
you.
\VS{21}This
is
the
word
that
Yahweh
has
spoken
concerning
him: ‘The
virgin
daughter
of
Zion
has
despised
you
and ridiculed
you.
The
daughter
of
Jerusalem
has
shaken
her
head
at
you.
\VS{22}Whom
have
you defied
and
blasphemed?
Against
whom
have
you
exalted
your
voice
and
lifted
up
your
eyes
on
high?
Against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel!
\VS{23}By
your
messengers,
you
have defied
the
Lord,
and
have
said, “With
the multitude
of
my
chariots,
I
have
come
up
to
the
height
of
the
mountains,
to
the
innermost
parts
of
Lebanon,
and
I
will
cut
down
its
tall
cedars
and
its
choice
cypress
trees;
and
I
will
enter
into
his
farthest
lodging
place,
the
forest
of
his
fruitful
field.
\VS{24}I
have
dug
and
drunk
strange
waters,
and
I
will
dry
up
all
the
rivers
of
Egypt
with
the
sole
of
my
feet.”
\VS{25}Haven’t
you
heard
how
I
have
done
it
long
ago,
and
formed
it
of ancient
times?
Now
I
have
brought
it
to
pass,
that
it
should
be yours
to
lay waste
fortified
cities
into ruinous
heaps.
\VS{26}Therefore
their
inhabitants
had little
power.
They
were
dismayed
and
confounded.
They
were
like
the
grass
of
the
field
and
like
the
green
herb,
like
the
grass
on
the
housetops
and
like
grain blasted
before
it
has
grown
up.
\VS{27}But
I
know
your
sitting
down,
your
going
out,
your
coming
in,
and
your
raging
against
me.
\VS{28}Because
of
your
raging
against
me,
and
because
your
arrogance
has
come
up
into
my
ears,
therefore
I
will
put
my
hook
in
your
nose,
and
my
bridle
in
your
lips,
and
I
will
turn
you
back
by
the
way
by
which
you
came.’
\par }{\PP \VS{29}“This
will
be
the
sign
to
you:
This
year,
you
will
eat
that
which grows
of
itself,
and
in
the
second
year
that
which springs
from
that;
and
in
the
third
year
sow
and
reap,
and
plant
vineyards
and
eat
their
fruit.
\VS{30}The
remnant
that
has
escaped
of
the
house
of
Judah
will
again
take
root
downward,
and bear
fruit
upward.
\VS{31}For
out
of
Jerusalem
a
remnant
will
go
out,
and
out
of
Mount
Zion
those
who
shall
escape.
Yahweh’s
zeal
will
perform
this.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}“Therefore
Yahweh
says
concerning
the
king
of
Assyria, ‘He
will
not
come
to
this
city,
nor
shoot
an
arrow
there.
He
will
not
come
before
it
with
shield,
nor
cast
up
a mound
against
it.
\VS{33}He
will
return
the same
way
that
he
came,
and
he
will
not
come
to
this
city,’
says
Yahweh.
\VS{34}‘For
I
will
defend
this
city
to
save
it,
for
my own
sake
and
for
my
servant
David’s
sake.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{35}That
night,
Yahweh’s
angel
went
out
and
struck
one
hundred
eighty-five
thousand
in
the
camp
of
the Assyrians.
When
men
arose
early
in
the
morning,
behold,
these
were
all
dead
bodies.
\VS{36}So
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
departed,
went
home,
and
lived
at
Nineveh.
\VS{37}As
he
was
worshiping
in
the
house
of
Nisroch
his
god,
Adrammelech
and
Sharezer
struck
him
with
the
sword;
and
they
escaped
into
the
land
of
Ararat. Esar Haddon
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
those
days
Hezekiah
was
sick
and
dying.
Isaiah
the
prophet
the
son
of
Amoz
came
to
him,
and
said
to
him, “Yahweh
says, ‘Set
your
house
in
order;
for
you
will
die,
and
not
live.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Then
he
turned
his
face
to
the
wall,
and
prayed
to
Yahweh,
saying,
\VS{3}“Remember
now,
Yahweh,
I
beg
you,
how
I
have
walked
before
you
in
truth
and
with
a
perfect
heart,
and
have
done
that
which
is
good
in
your
sight.”
And
Hezekiah
wept
bitterly.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Before
Isaiah
had
gone
out
into
the
middle part
of
the
city,
Yahweh’s
word
came
to
him,
saying,
\VS{5}“Turn
back,
and
tell
Hezekiah
the
prince
of
my
people, ‘Yahweh,
the
God
of
David
your
father,
says, “I
have
heard
your
prayer.
I
have
seen
your
tears.
Behold,
I
will
heal
you.
On
the
third
day,
you
will
go
up
to
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{6}I
will
add
to
your
days
fifteen
years.
I
will
deliver
you
and
this
city
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
I
will
defend
this
city
for
my own
sake,
and
for
my
servant
David’s
sake.” ’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Isaiah
said, “Take
a
cake
of
figs.”
\par }{\PP They
took
and
laid
it
on
the
boil,
and
he recovered.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Hezekiah
said
to
Isaiah, “What
will
be
the
sign
that
Yahweh
will
heal
me,
and
that
I
will
go
up
to
Yahweh’s
house
the
third
day?”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Isaiah
said, “This
will
be
the
sign
to
you
from
Yahweh,
that
Yahweh
will
do
the
thing
that
he
has
spoken:
should
the
shadow
go
forward
ten
steps,
or
go
back
ten
steps?”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Hezekiah
answered, “It
is
a
light
thing
for
the
shadow
to
go forward
ten
steps.
No,
but
let
the
shadow
return
backward
ten
steps.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Isaiah
the
prophet
cried
to
Yahweh;
and
he
brought
the
shadow
ten
steps
backward,
by
which
it
had
gone
down
on
the sundial
of
Ahaz.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}At
that
time Berodach
Baladan
the
son
of
Baladan,
king
of
Babylon,
sent
letters
and
a
present
to
Hezekiah,
for
he
had
heard
that
Hezekiah
had been
sick.
\VS{13}Hezekiah
listened
to
them,
and
showed
them
all
the
storehouse
of
his precious
things—the
silver,
the
gold,
the
spices,
and
the precious
oil,
and
the
house
of
his
armor,
and
all
that
was
found
in
his
treasures.
There
was
nothing
in
his
house,
or
in
all
his dominion,
that
Hezekiah
didn’t
show
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
Isaiah
the
prophet
came
to
King
Hezekiah,
and
said
to
him, “What
did
these
men
say?
From
where
did
they
come
to
you?”
\par }{\PP Hezekiah
said, “They
have
come
from
a
far
country,
even
from
Babylon.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}He
said, “What
have
they
seen
in
your
house?”
\par }{\PP Hezekiah
answered, “They
have
seen
all
that
is
in
my
house.
There
is
nothing
among
my
treasures
that
I
have
not
shown
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Isaiah
said
to
Hezekiah, “Hear
Yahweh’s
word.
\VS{17}‘Behold,
the
days
come
that
all
that
is
in
your
house,
and
that
which
your
fathers
have
laid
up
in
store
to
this
day,
will
be
carried
to
Babylon.
Nothing
will
be
left,’
says
Yahweh.
\VS{18}‘They
will
take
away
some
of
your
sons
who
will
issue
from
you,
whom
you
will
father;
and
they
will
be
eunuchs
in
the
palace
of
the
king
of
Babylon.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Then
Hezekiah
said
to
Isaiah, “Yahweh’s
word
which
you
have
spoken
is
good.”
He
said
moreover, “Isn’t
it
so,
if
peace
and
truth
will
be
in
my
days?”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Hezekiah,
and
all
his
might,
and
how
he
made
the
pool,
and
the conduit,
and
brought
water
into
the
city, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{21}Hezekiah
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
Manasseh
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Manasseh
was
twelve
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
fifty-five
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Hephzibah.
\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
destroyed;
and
he
raised
up
altars
for
Baal,
and
made
an
Asherah,
as
Ahab
king
of
Israel
did,
and
worshiped
all
the
army
of
the
sky,
and
served
them.
\VS{4}He
built
altars
in
Yahweh’s
house,
of
which
Yahweh
said, “I
will
put
my
name
in
Jerusalem.”
\VS{5}He
built
altars
for
all
the
army
of
the
sky
in
the
two courts
of
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{6}He
made
his
son
to
pass
through
the
fire,
practiced sorcery,
used
enchantments,
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
Asherah
that
he
had
made
in
the
house
of
which
Yahweh
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
cause
the
feet
of
Israel
to
wander
any
more
out
of
the
land
which
I
gave
their
fathers,
if
only
they
will
observe
to
do
according
to
all
that
I
have
commanded
them,
and
according
to
all
the
law
that
my
servant
Moses
commanded
them.”
\VS{9}But
they
didn’t
listen,
and
Manasseh
seduced
them
to
do
that
which
is
evil
more
than
the
nations
did
whom
Yahweh
destroyed
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Yahweh
spoke
by
his
servants
the
prophets,
saying,
\VS{11}“Because
Manasseh
king
of
Judah
has
done
these
abominations,
and
has
done wickedly
above
all
that
the
Amorites
did,
who
were
before
him,
and
has
also
made
Judah
to
sin
with
his
idols;
\VS{12}therefore
Yahweh
the
God
of
Israel
says, ‘Behold,
I
will
bring
such
evil
on
Jerusalem
and
Judah
that
whoever
hears
of
it,
both
his
ears
will
tingle.
\VS{13}I
will
stretch
over
Jerusalem
the
line
of
Samaria,
and
the plumb
line
of
Ahab’s
house;
and
I
will
wipe
Jerusalem
as
a man wipes
a
dish, wiping
it
and
turning
it upside
down.
\VS{14}I
will
cast
off
the
remnant
of
my
inheritance
and
deliver
them
into
the
hands
of
their
enemies.
They
will
become
a
prey
and
a
plunder
to
all
their
enemies,
\VS{15}because
they
have
done
that
which
is
evil
in
my
sight,
and
have
provoked
me
to
anger
since
the
day
their
fathers
came
out
of
Egypt,
even
to
this
day.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Moreover
Manasseh
shed
innocent
blood
very
much,
until
he
had
filled
Jerusalem
from
one
end
to
another;
in
addition
to
his
sin
with
which
he
made
Judah
to
sin,
in
doing
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Manasseh,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
sin
that
he
sinned, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{18}Manasseh
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
the
garden
of
his
own
house,
in
the
garden
of
Uzza;
and
Amon
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Amon
was
twenty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
two
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Meshullemeth
the
daughter
of
Haruz
of
Jotbah.
\VS{20}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight,
as
Manasseh
his
father
did.
\VS{21}He
walked
in
all
the
ways
that
his
father
walked
in,
and
served
the
idols
that
his
father
served,
and
worshiped
them;
\VS{22}and
he
abandoned
Yahweh,
the
God
of
his
fathers,
and
didn’t
walk
in
the
way
of
Yahweh.
\VS{23}The
servants
of
Amon
conspired
against
him,
and
put
the
king
to
death
in
his own
house.
\VS{24}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.
\VS{25}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Amon
which
he
did, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{26}He
was
buried
in
his
tomb
in
the
garden
of
Uzza,
and
Josiah
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Josiah
was
eight
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned thirty-one
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Jedidah
the
daughter
of
Adaiah
of
Bozkath.
\VS{2}He
did
that
which
was
right
in
Yahweh’s
eyes,
and walked
in
all
the
ways
of
David
his
father,
and
didn’t
turn
away
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}In
the
eighteenth
year
of
King
Josiah,
the
king
sent
Shaphan,
the
son
of
Azaliah
the
son
of
Meshullam,
the
scribe,
to
Yahweh’s
house,
saying,
\VS{4}“Go
up
to
Hilkiah
the
high
priest,
that
he
may
count
the
money
which
is
brought
into
Yahweh’s
house,
which
the
keepers
of
the threshold
have
gathered
of
the
people.
\VS{5}Let
them
deliver
it
into
the
hand
of
the
workers
who
have
the
oversight
of
Yahweh’s
house;
and
let
them
give
it
to
the
workers
who
are
in
Yahweh’s
house,
to
repair
the
damage
to
the
house,
\VS{6}to
the
carpenters,
and
to
the
builders,
and
to
the
masons,
and
for
buying
timber
and cut
stone
to
repair
the
house.
\VS{7}However,
no
accounting
shall
be asked
of
them
for
the
money
delivered
into
their
hand,
for
they
deal
faithfully.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Hilkiah
the
high
priest
said
to
Shaphan
the
scribe, “I
have
found
the
book
of
the
law
in
Yahweh’s
house.”
Hilkiah
delivered
the
book
to
Shaphan,
and
he
read
it.
\VS{9}Shaphan
the
scribe
came
to
the
king,
and
brought
the
king
word
again,
and
said, “Your
servants
have
emptied
out
the
money
that
was
found
in
the
house,
and
have
delivered
it
into
the
hands
of
the
workmen
who
have
the
oversight
of
Yahweh’s
house.”
\VS{10}Shaphan
the
scribe
told
the
king,
saying, “Hilkiah
the
priest
has
delivered
a
book
to
me.”
Then
Shaphan
read
it
before
the
king.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}When
the
king
had
heard
the
words
of
the
book
of
the
law,
he
tore
his
clothes.
\VS{12}The
king
commanded
Hilkiah
the
priest,
Ahikam
the
son
of
Shaphan,
Achbor
the
son
of
Micaiah,
Shaphan
the
scribe,
and
Asaiah
the
king’s
servant,
saying,
\VS{13}“Go
inquire
of
Yahweh
for
me,
and
for
the
people,
and
for
all
Judah,
concerning
the
words
of
this
book
that
is
found;
for
great
is
Yahweh’s
wrath
that
is
kindled
against
us,
because
our
fathers
have
not
listened
to
the
words
of
this
book,
to
do
according
to
all
that
which
is
written
concerning
us.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}So
Hilkiah
the
priest,
Ahikam,
Achbor,
Shaphan,
and
Asaiah
went
to
Huldah
the
prophetess,
the
wife
of
Shallum
the
son
of
Tikvah,
the
son
of
Harhas,
keeper
of
the wardrobe (now
she
lived
in
Jerusalem
in
the
second quarter);
and
they
talked
with
her.
\VS{15}She
said
to
them, “Yahweh
the
God
of
Israel
says, ‘Tell
the
man
who
sent
you
to
me,
\VS{16}“Yahweh
says, ‘Behold,
I
will
bring
evil
on
this
place
and
on
its
inhabitants,
even
all
the
words
of
the
book
which
the
king
of
Judah
has
read.
\VS{17}Because
they
have forsaken
me
and
have
burned
incense
to
other
gods,
that
they
might
provoke
me
to
anger
with
all
the
work
of
their
hands,
therefore
my
wrath
shall
be
kindled
against
this
place,
and
it
will
not
be
quenched.’ ”
\VS{18}But
to
the
king
of
Judah,
who
sent
you
to
inquire
of
Yahweh,
tell
him, “Yahweh
the
God
of
Israel
says, ‘Concerning
the
words
which
you
have
heard,
\VS{19}because
your
heart
was
tender,
and
you
humbled
yourself
before
Yahweh
when
you
heard
what
I
spoke
against
this
place
and
against
its
inhabitants,
that
they
should
become
a
desolation
and
a
curse,
and
have
torn
your
clothes
and
wept
before
me,
I
also
have
heard
you,’
says
Yahweh.
\VS{20}‘Therefore
behold,
I
will
gather
you
to
your
fathers,
and
you
will
be
gathered
to
your
grave
in
peace.
Your
eyes
will
not
see
all
the
evil
which
I
will
bring
on
this
place.’ ” ’ ”
So
they
brought
this
message
back
to
the
king.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
king
sent,
and
they
gathered
to
him
all
the
elders
of
Judah
and
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}The
king
went
up
to
Yahweh’s
house,
and
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
with
him—with
the
priests,
the
prophets,
and
all
the
people,
both
small
and
great;
and
he
read
in
their
hearing
all
the
words
of
the
book
of
the
covenant
which
was
found
in
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{3}The
king
stood
by
the
pillar
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
all
his
soul,
to
confirm
the
words
of
this
covenant
that
were
written
in
this
book;
and
all
the
people
agreed
to
the
covenant.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}The
king
commanded
Hilkiah
the
high
priest,
and
the
priests
of
the
second
order,
and
the
keepers
of
the threshold,
to
bring
out
of
Yahweh’s
temple
all
the
vessels
that
were
made
for
Baal,
for
the
Asherah,
and
for
all
the
army
of
the
sky;
and
he
burned
them
outside
of
Jerusalem
in
the
fields
of
the
Kidron,
and
carried
their
ashes
to
Bethel.
\VS{5}He got rid
of
the
idolatrous
priests
whom
the
kings
of
Judah
had ordained
to
burn
incense
in
the
high
places
in
the
cities
of
Judah
and
in
the
places
around
Jerusalem;
those
also
who
burned
incense
to
Baal,
to
the
sun,
to
the
moon,
to
the planets,
and
to
all
the
army
of
the
sky.
\VS{6}He
brought
out
the
Asherah
from
Yahweh’s
house,
outside
of
Jerusalem,
to
the
brook
Kidron,
and
burned
it
at
the
brook
Kidron,
and beat
it
to
dust,
and
cast
its
dust
on
the
graves
of
the
common
people.
\VS{7}He
broke
down
the
houses
of
the
male
shrine
prostitutes
that
were
in
Yahweh’s
house,
where
the
women wove
hangings
for
the
Asherah.
\VS{8}He
brought
all
the
priests
out
of
the
cities
of
Judah,
and
defiled
the
high
places
where
the
priests
had
burned
incense,
from
Geba
to
Beersheba;
and
he
broke
down
the
high
places
of
the
gates
that
were
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
Joshua
the
governor
of
the
city,
which
were
on
a
man’s
left
hand
at
the
gate
of
the
city.
\VS{9}Nevertheless
the
priests
of
the
high
places
didn’t
come
up
to
Yahweh’s
altar
in
Jerusalem,
but
they
ate
unleavened
bread
among
their
brothers.
\VS{10}He
defiled
Topheth,
which
is
in
the
valley
of
the
children
of
Hinnom,
that
no
man
might
make
his
son
or
his
daughter
to
pass
through
the
fire
to
Molech.
\VS{11}He
took
away
the
horses
that
the
kings
of
Judah
had
dedicated
to
the
sun,
at
the
entrance
of
Yahweh’s
house,
by
the
room
of Nathan Melech
the
officer
who
was
in
the
court;
and
he
burned
the
chariots
of
the
sun
with
fire.
\VS{12}The
king
broke
down
the
altars
that
were
on
the
roof
of
the
upper
room
of
Ahaz,
which
the
kings
of
Judah
had
made,
and
the
altars
which
Manasseh
had
made
in
the
two courts
of
Yahweh’s
house,
and beat
them
down
from
there,
and
cast
their
dust
into
the
brook
Kidron.
\VS{13}The
king
defiled
the
high
places
that
were
before
Jerusalem,
which
were
on
the
right
hand
of
the
mountain
of corruption,
which
Solomon
the
king
of
Israel
had
built
for Ashtoreth
the
abomination
of
the
Sidonians,
and
for
Chemosh
the
abomination
of
Moab,
and
for
Milcom
the
abomination
of
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{14}He
broke
in
pieces
the
pillars,
cut
down
the
Asherah poles,
and
filled
their
places
with
men’s
bones.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Moreover
the
altar
that
was
at
Bethel
and
the
high
place
which
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin,
had
made,
even
that
altar
and
the
high
place
he
broke
down;
and
he
burned
the
high
place
and beat
it
to
dust,
and
burned
the
Asherah.
\VS{16}As
Josiah
turned
himself,
he spied
the
tombs
that
were
there
in
the
mountain;
and
he
sent,
and
took
the
bones
out
of
the
tombs,
and
burned
them
on
the
altar,
and
defiled
it,
according
to
Yahweh’s
word
which
the
man
of
God
proclaimed,
who
proclaimed
these
things.
\VS{17}Then
he
said, “What
monument
is
that
which
I
see?”
\par }{\PP The
men
of
the
city
told
him, “It
is
the
tomb
of
the
man
of
God
who
came
from
Judah
and
proclaimed
these
things
that
you
have
done
against
the
altar
of
Bethel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}He
said, “Let
him
be!
Let
no
one move
his
bones.”
So
they
let
his
bones alone,
with
the
bones
of
the
prophet
who
came
out
of
Samaria.
\VS{19}All
the
houses
also
of
the
high
places
that
were
in
the
cities
of
Samaria,
which
the
kings
of
Israel
had
made
to
provoke Yahweh
to
anger,
Josiah
took
away,
and
did
to
them according
to
all
the
acts
that
he
had
done
in
Bethel.
\VS{20}He killed
all
the
priests
of
the
high
places
that
were
there,
on
the
altars,
and
burned
men’s
bones
on
them;
and
he
returned
to
Jerusalem.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}The
king
commanded
all
the
people,
saying, “Keep
the
Passover
to
Yahweh
your
God,
as
it
is
written
in
this
book
of
the
covenant.”
\VS{22}Surely
there
was
not
kept
such
a
Passover
from
the
days
of
the
judges
who
judged
Israel,
nor
in
all
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
nor
of
the
kings
of
Judah;
\VS{23}but
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
King
Josiah,
this
Passover
was
kept
to
Yahweh
in
Jerusalem.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Moreover,
Josiah
removed
those
who
had familiar spirits,
the wizards,
and
the
teraphim,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 23:24 }
teraphim were household idols.}
and
the
idols,
and
all
the
abominations
that
were
seen
in
the
land
of
Judah
and
in
Jerusalem,
that
he
might
confirm
the
words
of
the
law
which
were
written
in
the
book
that
Hilkiah
the
priest
found
in
Yahweh’s
house.
\VS{25}There
was
no
king
like
him
before
him,
who
turned
to
Yahweh
with
all
his
heart,
and
with
all
his
soul,
and
with
all
his
might,
according
to
all
the
law
of
Moses;
and
there
was
none
like
him
who
arose
after
him.
\VS{26}Notwithstanding,
Yahweh
didn’t
turn
from
the
fierceness
of
his
great
wrath,
with
which
his
anger
burned
against
Judah,
because
of
all
the provocation
with
which
Manasseh
had
provoked
him.
\VS{27}Yahweh
said, “I
will
also
remove
Judah
out
of
my
sight,
as
I
have
removed
Israel;
and
I
will cast
off
this
city
which
I
have
chosen,
even
Jerusalem,
and
the
house
of
which
I
said, ‘My
name
shall
be
there.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{28}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Josiah,
and
all
that
he
did, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{29}In
his
days
Pharaoh Necoh
king
of
Egypt
went
up
against
the
king
of
Assyria
to
the
river
Euphrates;
and
King
Josiah
went
against
him,
but
Pharaoh Necoh
killed
him
at
Megiddo
when
he
saw
him.
\VS{30}His
servants
carried
him
dead
in
a
chariot
from
Megiddo,
brought
him
to
Jerusalem,
and
buried
him
in
his own
tomb.
The
people
of
the
land
took
Jehoahaz
the
son
of
Josiah,
and
anointed
him,
and
made
him
king
in
his
father’s
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}Jehoahaz
was twenty-three
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
three
months
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Hamutal
the
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah.
\VS{32}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight, according
to
all
that
his
fathers
had
done.
\VS{33}Pharaoh Necoh
put
him
in bonds
at
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath,
that
he might
not
reign
in
Jerusalem;
and
put
the
land
to
a tribute
of
one
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
a
talent\FTNT{†}{{\FR 23:33 }
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces}
of
gold.
\VS{34}Pharaoh Necoh
made
Eliakim
the
son
of
Josiah
king
in
the
place
of
Josiah
his
father,
and
changed
his
name
to
Jehoiakim;
but
he
took
Jehoahaz
away,
and
he
came
to
Egypt
and
died
there.
\VS{35}Jehoiakim
gave
the
silver
and
the
gold
to
Pharaoh;
but
he taxed
the
land
to
give
the
money
according
to
the
commandment
of
Pharaoh.
He
exacted
the
silver
and
the
gold
of
the
people
of
the
land,
from
everyone
according
to
his
assessment,
to
give
it
to
Pharaoh Necoh.
\VS{36}Jehoiakim
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Zebidah
the
daughter
of
Pedaiah
of
Rumah.
\VS{37}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight, according
to
all
that
his
fathers
had
done.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
his
days
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came
up,
and
Jehoiakim
became
his
servant
three
years.
Then
he
turned
and
rebelled
against
him.
\VS{2}Yahweh
sent
against
him
bands
of
the
Chaldeans,
bands
of
the Syrians,
bands
of
the
Moabites,
and
bands
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
sent
them
against
Judah
to
destroy
it,
according
to
Yahweh’s
word
which
he
spoke
by
his
servants
the
prophets.
\VS{3}Surely
at
the
commandment
of
Yahweh
this
came
on
Judah,
to
remove
them
out
of
his
sight
for
the
sins
of
Manasseh,
according
to
all
that
he
did,
\VS{4}and
also
for
the
innocent
blood
that
he
shed;
for
he
filled
Jerusalem
with
innocent
blood,
and
Yahweh
would
not
pardon.
\VS{5}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jehoiakim,
and
all
that
he
did, aren’t
they
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{6}So
Jehoiakim
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
Jehoiachin
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}The
king
of
Egypt
didn’t
come
out
of
his
land
any
more;
for
the
king
of
Babylon
had
taken,
from
the
brook
of
Egypt
to
the
river
Euphrates,
all
that
belonged
to
the
king
of
Egypt.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Jehoiachin
was
eighteen
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
in
Jerusalem
three
months.
His
mother’s
name
was Nehushta
the
daughter
of
Elnathan
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight, according
to
all
that
his
father
had
done.
\VS{10}At
that
time
the
servants
of
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came
up
to
Jerusalem,
and
the
city
was
besieged.
\VS{11}Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came
to
the
city
while
his
servants
were
besieging
it,
\VS{12}and
Jehoiachin
the
king
of
Judah
went
out
to
the
king
of
Babylon—he,
his
mother,
his
servants,
his
princes,
and
his
officers;
and
the
king
of
Babylon
captured
him
in
the
eighth
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{13}He
carried
out
from
there
all
the
treasures
of
Yahweh’s
house
and
the
treasures
of
the
king’s
house,
and
cut
in
pieces
all
the
vessels
of
gold
which
Solomon
king
of
Israel
had
made
in
Yahweh’s
temple,
as
Yahweh
had
said.
\VS{14}He
carried
away
all
Jerusalem,
and
all
the
princes,
and
all
the
mighty
men
of
valor,
even
ten
thousand
captives,
and
all
the
craftsmen
and
the
smiths.
No
one
remained
except
the poorest
people
of
the
land.
\VS{15}He
carried
away
Jehoiachin
to
Babylon,
with
the
king’s
mother,
the
king’s
wives,
his
officers,
and
the chief men
of
the
land.
He
carried
them
into
captivity
from
Jerusalem
to
Babylon.
\VS{16}All
the
men
of
might,
even
seven
thousand,
and
the
craftsmen
and
the
smiths
one
thousand,
all
of
them
strong
and fit
for
war,
even
them
the
king
of
Babylon
brought captive
to
Babylon.
\VS{17}The
king
of
Babylon
made
Mattaniah,
Jehoiachin’s father’s brother,
king
in
his
place,
and
changed
his
name
to
Zedekiah.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Zedekiah
was twenty-one
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was
Hamutal
the
daughter
of
Jeremiah
of
Libnah.
\VS{19}He
did
that
which
was
evil
in
Yahweh’s
sight, according
to
all
that
Jehoiakim
had
done.
\VS{20}For
through
the
anger
of
Yahweh,
this
happened
in
Jerusalem
and
Judah,
until
he
had
cast
them
out
from
his
presence.
\par }{\PP Then
Zedekiah
rebelled
against
the
king
of
Babylon.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
ninth
year
of
his
reign,
in
the
tenth
month,
in
the
tenth
day
of
the
month,
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
came,
he
and
all
his
army,
against
Jerusalem,
and
encamped
against
it;
and
they
built forts
against
it
around
it.
\VS{2}So
the
city
was
besieged
until
the
eleventh
year
of
King
Zedekiah.
\VS{3}On
the
ninth
day
of
the fourth
month,
the
famine
was
severe
in
the
city,
so
that
there
was
no
bread
for
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{4}Then
a
breach
was
made
in
the
city,
and
all
the
men
of
war fled
by
night
by
the
way
of
the
gate
between
the
two
walls,
which
was
by
the
king’s
garden (now
the
Chaldeans
were
against
the
city
around
it);
and
the
king
went
by
the
way
of
the
Arabah.
\VS{5}But
the Chaldean
army
pursued
the
king,
and
overtook
him
in
the
plains
of
Jericho;
and
all
his
army
was
scattered
from
him.
\VS{6}Then
they
captured
the
king
and
carried
him
up
to
the
king
of
Babylon
to
Riblah;
and
they
passed
judgment
on
him.
\VS{7}They
killed
Zedekiah’s
sons
before
his
eyes,
then
put
out
Zedekiah’s
eyes,
bound
him
in
fetters,
and
carried
him
to
Babylon.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Now
in
the
fifth
month,
on
the
seventh
day
of
the
month,
which
was
the nineteenth
year
of
King
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon,
Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard,
a
servant
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}He
burned
Yahweh’s
house,
the
king’s
house,
and
all
the
houses
of
Jerusalem.
He
burned
every
great
house
with
fire.
\VS{10}All
the
army
of
the
Chaldeans,
who
were
with
the
captain
of
the
guard,
broke
down
the
walls
around
Jerusalem.
\VS{11}Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
carried
away
captive
the
rest
of
the
people
who
were
left
in
the
city
and
those
who
had
deserted
to
the
king
of
Babylon—all
the
rest
of
the
multitude.
\VS{12}But
the
captain
of
the
guard
left
some
of
the poorest
of
the
land
to work
the vineyards
and fields.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}The
Chaldeans
broke
up
the
pillars
of
bronze
that
were
in
Yahweh’s
house
and
the bases
and
the
bronze
sea
that
were
in
Yahweh’s
house,
and
carried
the
bronze
pieces
to
Babylon.
\VS{14}They
took
away
the
pots,
the
shovels,
the
snuffers,
the
spoons,
and
all
the
vessels
of
bronze
with
which
they
ministered.
\VS{15}The
captain
of
the
guard
took
away
the fire pans,
the
basins,
that
which
was
of
gold,
for
gold,
and
that
which
was
of
silver,
for
silver.
\VS{16}The
two
pillars,
the
one
sea,
and
the bases,
which
Solomon
had
made
for
Yahweh’s
house,
the
bronze
of
all
these
vessels
was
not
weighed.
\VS{17}The
height
of
the
one
pillar
was
eighteen
cubits,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 25:17 }
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.}
and
a
capital
of
bronze
was
on
it.
The
height
of
the
capital
was
three
cubits,
with
network
and
pomegranates
on
the
capital
around
it,
all
of
bronze;
and
the
second
pillar
with
its
network
was
like
these.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}The
captain
of
the
guard
took
Seraiah
the
chief
priest,
Zephaniah
the
second
priest,
and
the
three
keepers
of
the threshold;
\VS{19}and
out
of
the
city
he
took
an
officer
who
was
set
over
the
men
of
war;
and
five
men
of
those
who
saw
the
king’s
face,
who
were
found
in
the
city;
and
the
scribe,
the
captain
of
the
army,
who
mustered
the
people
of
the
land,
and
sixty
men
of
the
people
of
the
land
who
were
found
in
the
city.
\VS{20}Nebuzaradan
the
captain
of
the
guard
took
them,
and
brought
them
to
the
king
of
Babylon
to
Riblah.
\VS{21}The
king
of
Babylon
attacked
them
and
put
them
to
death
at
Riblah
in
the
land
of
Hamath.
So
Judah
was
carried
away
captive
out
of
his
land.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}As
for
the
people
who
were
left
in
the
land
of
Judah
whom
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
had
left,
even
over
them
he
made
Gedaliah
the
son
of
Ahikam,
the
son
of
Shaphan, governor.
\VS{23}Now
when
all
the
captains
of
the
forces,
they
and
their
men,
heard
that
the
king
of
Babylon
had
made
Gedaliah
governor,
they
came
to
Gedaliah
to
Mizpah,
even
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
Johanan
the
son
of
Kareah,
Seraiah
the
son
of
Tanhumeth
the
Netophathite,
and
Jaazaniah
the
son
of
the
Maacathite,
they
and
their
men.
\VS{24}Gedaliah
swore
to
them
and
to
their
men,
and
said
to
them, “Don’t
be
afraid
because
of
the
servants
of
the
Chaldeans.
Dwell
in
the
land
and
serve
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
it
will
be
well
with
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}But
in
the
seventh
month,
Ishmael
the
son
of
Nethaniah,
the
son
of
Elishama,
of
the
royal
offspring
came,
and
ten
men
with
him,
and
struck
Gedaliah
so
that
he
died,
with
the
Jews
and
the
Chaldeans
that
were
with
him
at
Mizpah.
\VS{26}All
the
people,
both
small
and
great,
and
the
captains
of
the
forces
arose
and
came
to
Egypt;
for
they
were
afraid
of
the
Chaldeans.
\VS{27}In
the thirty-seventh
year
of
the captivity
of
Jehoiachin
king
of
Judah,
in
the twelfth
month,
on
the twenty-seventh
day
of
the
month, Evilmerodach
king
of
Babylon,
in
the
year
that
he
began
to
reign, released
Jehoiachin
king
of
Judah
out
of
prison,
\VS{28}and
he
spoke
kindly
to
him
and
set
his
throne
above
the
throne
of
the
kings
who
were
with
him
in
Babylon,
\VS{29}and
changed
his
prison
garments.
Jehoiachin
ate
bread
before
him
continually
all
the
days
of
his
life;
\VS{30}and
for
his
allowance,
there
was
a
continual
allowance
given
him
from
the
king,
every
day
a
portion,
all
the
days
of
his
life.
\par }