Then Moab
rebelled
against Israel
after the death
of Ahab.
And Ahaziah
fell down
through a lattice
in his upper chamber
that was in Samaria,
and was sick:
and
he sent messengers,
and
said unto them,
Go,
enquire
of Baalzebub
the god
of Ekron
whether I
shall recover
of this disease.
But
the angel
of the LORD
said to Elijah
the Tishbite, Arise,
go up to
meet the messengers
of the king
of Samaria,
and
say unto them,
Is it not
because
there is not
a God in Israel,
that ye
go to enquire of Baalzebub
the god
of Ekron?
Now therefore thus
saith the LORD,
Thou
shalt not come down
from that bed
on which
thou art gone up,
but shalt surely die.
And Elijah departed.
And
when the messengers
turned
back unto him,
he said unto them,
Why are
ye now turned back?
And
they
said unto him,
There
came
a man up to
meet us,
and said unto us,
Go,
turn
again
unto the king
that sent you,
and say unto him,
Thus saith the LORD,
Is it not
because
there is not
a God in Israel,
that thou
sendest to enquire of Baalzebub
the god
of Ekron?
therefore thou
shalt not come down
from that bed
on which
thou art gone up,
but shalt surely die.
And
he said unto them,
What manner
of man
was
he which
came up to
meet you,
and told
you these words?
And
they answered him,
He was an hairy man,
and girt
with a girdle
of leather
about his loins.
And he said,
It is Elijah
the Tishbite.
Then the king
sent
unto him a captain
of fifty
with his fifty.
And he
went
up to him:
and,
behold,
he sat
on the top
of an hill.
And
he spake unto him,
Thou man of God,
the king
hath said,
Come down.
And Elijah
answered
and said
to the captain
of fifty,
If I
be a man
of God,
then let
fire
come down
from heaven,
and consume
thee and thy fifty.
And there came
down fire
from heaven,
and consumed him
and his fifty.
Again also
he sent
unto him another captain
of fifty
with his fifty.
And he
answered
and
said unto him,
O man of God,
thus
hath
the king said,
Come down quickly.
And Elijah
answered
and
said unto them,
If I
be a man
of God,
let fire
come down
from heaven,
and consume
thee and thy fifty.
And
the fire
of God
came down
from heaven,
and consumed him
and his fifty.
And he
sent again
a captain
of the third fifty
with his fifty.
And the third captain
of fifty went up,
and came
and fell
on his knees
before Elijah,
and besought him,
and
said unto him,
O man of God,
I pray thee,
let my life,
and the life
of these fifty
thy servants,
be precious
in thy sight.
Behold,
there came
fire down
from heaven,
and burnt
up the two captains
of the former fifties
with their fifties:
therefore let
my life
now be precious
in thy sight.
And
the angel
of the LORD
said unto Elijah,
Go down with him:
be not afraid
of him.
And he arose,
and went down
with him
unto the king.
And
he said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD,
Forasmuch as thou
hast sent messengers
to enquire of Baalzebub
the god of Ekron,
is it not
because
there is
no God in Israel
to enquire
of his word?
therefore thou
shalt not come down
off that bed
on which
thou art gone up,
but shalt surely die.
So he
died according to
the word
of the LORD
which Elijah
had spoken.
And Jehoram
reigned
in his stead
in the second year
of Jehoram
the son
of Jehoshaphat king
of Judah;
because
he had no son.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Ahaziah
which he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
And it
came
to pass,
when the LORD
would take up Elijah
into heaven
by a whirlwind,
that Elijah
went with Elisha
from Gilgal.
And Elijah
said
unto Elisha,
Tarry here,
I pray thee;
for the LORD
hath sent me
to Bethel.
And Elisha
said unto him,
As the LORD liveth,
and as thy soul liveth,
I will not leave thee.
So they
went down
to Bethel.
And the sons
of the prophets
that were at Bethel
came forth
to Elisha,
and
said unto him,
Knowest
thou
that the LORD
will take away
thy master
from thy head to day?
And he said,
Yea,
I know it;
hold ye your peace.
And Elijah
said unto him,
Elisha,
tarry here,
I pray thee;
for the LORD
hath sent me
to Jericho.
And he said,
As the LORD liveth,
and as thy soul liveth,
I will not leave thee.
So they
came
to Jericho.
And the sons
of the prophets
that were at Jericho
came to Elisha,
and
said unto him,
Knowest
thou
that the LORD
will take away
thy master
from thy head to day?
And he answered,
Yea,
I know it;
hold ye your peace.
And Elijah
said unto him,
Tarry,
I pray thee,
here;
for the LORD
hath sent me
to Jordan.
And he said,
As the LORD liveth,
and as thy soul liveth,
I will not leave thee.
And
they two went on.
And fifty men
of the sons
of the prophets went,
and stood
to view afar off:
and
they two
stood by Jordan.
And Elijah
took his mantle,
and wrapped it
together,
and smote the waters,
and
they were divided
hither
and thither,
so that
they two
went over on dry ground.
And it
came
to pass,
when
they were gone over,
that Elijah
said unto Elisha,
Ask
what
I shall do
for thee,
before I
be taken away
from thee.
And Elisha said,
I pray thee,
let a double portion
of thy spirit
be upon me.
And he said,
Thou
hast asked
a hard thing:
nevertheless,
if thou
see me
when
I am taken
from thee,
it shall be so
unto thee;
but if not,
it shall not be so.
And it
came
to pass,
as they still went on,
and talked,
that,
behold,
there appeared
a chariot
of fire,
and horses
of fire,
and parted them
both asunder;
and Elijah
went up by a whirlwind
into heaven.
And Elisha
saw it,
and he cried,
My father,
my father,
the chariot
of Israel,
and the horsemen
thereof.
And
he saw him no more:
and he
took
hold
of his own clothes,
and rent them
in two pieces.
He took up also
the mantle
of Elijah
that fell from him,
and went back,
and stood by
the bank
of Jordan;
And
he took
the mantle
of Elijah
that fell from him,
and smote the waters,
and said,
Where
is
the LORD God
of Elijah?
and
when
he also had smitten
the waters,
they parted hither
and thither:
and Elisha went over.
And
when the sons
of the prophets which
were
to view
at Jericho
saw him,
they said,
The spirit
of Elijah
doth rest
on Elisha.
And
they came
to meet him,
and bowed themselves
to the ground
before him.
And
they
said unto him,
Behold now,
there be
with thy servants
fifty strong men;
let them go,
we pray thee,
and seek
thy master:
lest peradventure the Spirit
of the LORD
hath taken him up,
and cast him
upon some mountain,
or into some valley.
And he said,
Ye shall not send.
And
when
they urged him
till he
was ashamed,
he said,
Send.
They sent therefore
fifty men;
and
they sought
three days,
but found him not.
And
when
they came again
to him,
(for he tarried
at Jericho,)
he said unto them,
Did I
not say unto you,
Go not?
And the men
of the city said
unto Elisha, Behold,
I pray thee,
the situation
of this city
is pleasant,
as my lord seeth:
but the water
is naught,
and the ground barren.
And he said,
Bring me
a new cruse,
and put
salt therein.
And
they brought it
to him.
And
he went forth unto the spring
of the waters,
and cast
the salt
in there,
and said,
Thus saith the LORD,
I have healed
these waters;
there shall not be
from thence any more death
or barren land.
So the waters
were healed
unto this day,
according to the saying
of Elisha
which he spake.
And
he went up from
thence unto Bethel:
and as he
was going up
by the way,
there came
forth little children
out of the city,
and mocked him,
and
said unto him,
Go up,
thou bald head;
go up,
thou bald head.
And
he turned back,
and
looked on them,
and cursed them
in the name
of the LORD.
And there came
forth two
she bears
out of the wood,
and tare forty
and two children
of them.
And
he went from thence
to mount Carmel,
and from thence
he returned
to Samaria.
Now Jehoram
the son
of Ahab
began to reign over Israel
in Samaria
the eighteenth year
of Jehoshaphat king
of Judah,
and reigned twelve years.
And
he wrought evil
in the sight
of the LORD;
but not like
his father,
and like
his mother:
for he put away
the image
of Baal
that his father
had made.
Nevertheless
he cleaved
unto the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
which made Israel
to sin;
he departed
not therefrom.
And
Mesha king
of Moab
was a sheepmaster,
and rendered
unto the king
of Israel
an hundred thousand lambs,
and an hundred thousand rams,
with the wool.
But it
came
to pass,
when Ahab
was dead,
that the king
of Moab
rebelled
against the king
of Israel.
And king Jehoram
went out of Samaria
the same time,
and numbered all
Israel.
And he
went
and sent
to Jehoshaphat
the king
of Judah,
saying,
The king
of Moab
hath rebelled against me:
wilt
thou go with me
against Moab
to battle?
And he said,
I will go up:
I am as thou art,
my people
as thy people,
and my horses
as thy horses.
And he said,
Which way
shall we go up?
And he answered,
The way
through the wilderness
of Edom.
So
the king
of Israel went,
and the king
of Judah,
and the king
of Edom:
and they
fetched
a compass
of seven days' journey:
and there was
no water
for the host,
and
for the cattle
that followed them.
And
the king
of Israel said,
Alas!
that the LORD
hath called
these three kings
together,
to deliver them
into the hand
of Moab!
But Jehoshaphat said,
Is there not
here a prophet
of the LORD,
that we
may enquire
of the LORD
by him?
And one
of the king
of Israel's servants
answered
and said,
Here is Elisha
the son
of Shaphat,
which poured
water
on the hands
of Elijah.
And Jehoshaphat said,
The word
of the LORD
is with him.
So the king
of Israel
and Jehoshaphat
and the king
of Edom
went down
to him.
And Elisha
said
unto the king
of Israel,
What
have
I to do
with thee?
get thee
to the prophets
of thy father,
and
to the prophets
of thy mother.
And
the king
of Israel
said unto him,
Nay:
for the LORD
hath called
these three kings
together,
to deliver them
into the hand
of Moab.
And Elisha said,
As the LORD
of hosts liveth,
before whom
I stand,
surely,
were it not
that I
regard
the presence
of Jehoshaphat
the king
of Judah,
I would not look
toward thee,
nor see thee.
But now bring me
a minstrel.
And it
came
to pass,
when the minstrel played,
that the hand
of the LORD
came upon him.
And he said,
Thus saith the LORD,
Make this valley
full of ditches.
For thus
saith the LORD,
Ye shall not see wind,
neither shall
ye see rain;
yet that valley
shall be filled
with water,
that ye
may drink,
both ye,
and your cattle,
and your beasts.
And this
is
but a light thing
in the sight
of the LORD:
he will deliver the Moabites
also into your hand.
And
ye shall smite every fenced city,
and every choice city,
and shall fell every good tree,
and stop all
wells of water,
and mar
every good piece
of land
with stones.
And it
came
to pass
in the morning,
when the meat
offering
was offered,
that,
behold,
there came
water by the way
of Edom,
and the country
was filled
with water.
And
when
all the Moabites
heard
that the kings
were come up to
fight against them,
they
gathered all
that were able
to put on armour,
and upward,
and stood
in the border.
And they
rose
up early
in the morning,
and the sun
shone
upon the water,
and the Moabites
saw the water
on the other
side as red
as blood:
And they said,
This is blood:
the kings
are surely slain,
and
they have smitten one
another:
now therefore,
Moab,
to the spoil.
And
when
they came
to the camp
of Israel,
the Israelites
rose
up and smote the Moabites,
so that
they fled
before them:
but
they went forward
smiting
the Moabites,
even in their country.
And they
beat
down the cities,
and
on every good piece
of land cast every man
his stone,
and filled it;
and they
stopped all
the wells of water,
and felled all
the good trees:
only in Kirharaseth
left
they the stones
thereof;
howbeit the slingers
went about it,
and smote it.
And
when the king
of Moab
saw
that the battle
was too sore
for him,
he took with him seven hundred men
that drew swords,
to break
through even unto the king
of Edom:
but
they could not.
Then
he took
his eldest son
that should have reigned
in his stead,
and offered him for a
burnt
offering
upon the wall.
And there was
great indignation
against Israel:
and
they
departed from him,
and returned
to their own land.
Now there cried
a certain woman
of the wives
of the sons
of the prophets
unto Elisha,
saying,
Thy servant my husband
is dead;
and
thou knowest
that thy servant
did fear
the LORD:
and the creditor
is come to take
unto him my two sons
to be bondmen.
And Elisha
said
unto her,
What
shall
I do for thee?
tell me,
what hast
thou
in the house?
And she said,
Thine handmaid
hath not any thing
in the house,
save a pot
of oil.
Then he said,
Go,
borrow thee vessels
abroad of all thy neighbours,
even empty
vessels;
borrow not a few.
And
when
thou art come in,
thou shalt shut
the door
upon thee
and upon thy sons,
and shalt pour out
into all those vessels,
and
thou shalt set
aside that which
is full.
So she
went from him,
and shut
the door
upon her
and upon her sons,
who brought the vessels
to her;
and
she
poured out.
And it
came
to pass,
when the vessels
were full,
that she
said
unto her son,
Bring me yet
a vessel.
And he
said
unto her,
There
is not
a vessel more.
And the oil stayed.
Then she
came
and told
the man
of God.
And he said,
Go,
sell the oil,
and pay thy debt,
and live
thou
and thy children
of the rest.
And it
fell
on a day,
that Elisha
passed to Shunem,
where was a great woman;
and
she constrained him
to eat bread.
And so
it was,
that as oft
as he passed by,
he turned in thither
to eat bread.
And she
said
unto her husband,
Behold now,
I perceive
that this
is
an holy man
of God,
which passeth
by us continually.
Let us
make a little chamber,
I pray thee,
on the wall;
and let us
set for him there
a bed,
and a table,
and a stool,
and a candlestick:
and it
shall be,
when
he cometh to us,
that he
shall turn in thither.
And it
fell
on a day,
that he
came thither,
and
he turned into
the chamber,
and lay there.
And he
said
to Gehazi
his servant,
Call this Shunammite.
And
when
he had called her,
she stood
before him.
And
he said unto him,
Say now unto her,
Behold,
thou hast been careful
for us with all this care;
what is
to be done
for thee?
wouldest thou
be spoken for
to the king,
or to the captain
of the host?
And she answered,
I dwell
among mine own people.
And he said,
What then
is to be done
for her?
And Gehazi answered,
Verily
she hath
no child,
and her husband
is old.
And he said,
Call her.
And
when
he had called her,
she stood
in the door.
And he said,
About this season,
according to
the time of life,
thou shalt embrace a son.
And she said,
Nay,
my lord,
thou man of God,
do not lie
unto thine handmaid.
And the woman conceived,
and bare
a son
at that season
that Elisha
had said
unto her,
according to
the time
of life.
And
when the child
was grown,
it fell
on a day,
that he
went out
to his father
to the reapers.
And he
said
unto his father,
My head,
my head.
And he
said
to a lad,
Carry him
to his mother.
And
when
he had taken him,
and brought him
to his mother,
he sat
on her knees till noon,
and then died.
And she went up,
and laid him
on the bed
of the man
of God,
and shut
the door
upon him,
and went out.
And she
called
unto her husband,
and said,
Send me,
I pray thee,
one of the young men,
and one
of the asses,
that I
may run
to the man
of God,
and come again.
And he said,
Wherefore
wilt
thou go to him
to day?
it is neither new moon,
nor sabbath.
And she said,
It shall be well.
Then
she saddled
an ass,
and said
to her servant,
Drive,
and go forward;
slack
not thy
riding for me,
except I bid thee.
So she
went
and came
unto the man
of God
to mount Carmel.
And it
came
to pass,
when the man
of God
saw her
afar off,
that he
said
to Gehazi his servant,
Behold,
yonder is that Shunammite:
Run now,
I pray thee,
to meet her,
and say unto her,
Is it
well with thee?
is it
well with thy husband?
is it
well with the child?
And she answered,
It is well:
And
when she
came
to the man
of God
to the hill,
she caught him
by the feet:
but Gehazi
came near
to thrust her away.
And the man
of God said,
Let her alone;
for her soul
is vexed
within her:
and the LORD
hath hid it
from me,
and hath not told me.
Then she said,
Did I
desire a son
of my lord?
did I
not say,
Do not deceive me?
Then he
said
to Gehazi,
Gird up thy loins,
and take
my staff
in thine hand,
and go thy way:
if thou
meet any man,
salute him not;
and
if any salute thee,
answer him
not again:
and lay my staff
upon the face
of the child.
And the mother
of the child said,
As the LORD liveth,
and as thy soul liveth,
I will not leave thee.
And he arose,
and followed her.
And Gehazi
passed on
before them,
and laid
the staff
upon the face
of the child;
but there was
neither voice,
nor hearing.
Wherefore
he went again
to meet him,
and told him,
saying,
The child
is not awaked.
And
when Elisha
was come
into the house,
behold,
the child
was dead,
and laid
upon his bed.
He went in therefore,
and shut
the door
upon them twain,
and prayed
unto the LORD.
And he went up,
and lay
upon the child,
and put
his mouth
upon his mouth,
and his eyes
upon his eyes,
and his hands
upon his hands:
and stretched himself
upon the child;
and the flesh
of the child waxed warm.
Then he returned,
and walked
in the house
to and fro;
and went up,
and
stretched himself upon him:
and the child
sneezed seven times,
and the child
opened his eyes.
And
he called Gehazi,
and said,
Call this Shunammite.
So he
called her.
And
when
she
was come in unto him,
he said,
Take up thy son.
Then she went in,
and fell
at his feet,
and bowed herself
to the ground,
and took up
her son,
and went out.
And Elisha
came again
to Gilgal:
and there was
a dearth
in the land;
and the sons
of the prophets
were sitting
before him:
and he
said
unto his servant,
Set
on the great pot,
and seethe pottage
for the sons
of the prophets.
And one
went out
into the field
to gather herbs,
and found
a wild vine,
and gathered thereof wild gourds
his lap full,
and came
and shred them
into the pot
of pottage:
for they
knew them not.
So they
poured out
for the men
to eat.
And it
came
to pass,
as they
were eating
of the pottage,
that they cried out,
and said,
O thou man
of God,
there is death
in the pot.
And
they could not eat
thereof.
But he said,
Then bring meal.
And he cast it
into the pot;
and he said,
Pour out
for the people,
that they
may eat.
And there was
no harm
in the pot.
And there came a man
from Baalshalisha,
and brought
the man
of God bread
of the firstfruits,
twenty loaves
of barley,
and full ears
of corn
in the husk
thereof.
And he said,
Give
unto the people,
that they
may eat.
And his servitor said,
What,
should
I set
this before an hundred men?
He said again,
Give the people,
that they
may eat:
for thus
saith the LORD,
They shall eat,
and shall leave
thereof.
So he set it
before them,
and they
did eat,
and left thereof,
according to
the word
of the LORD.
Now Naaman,
captain
of the host
of the king
of Syria,
was a
great man
with his master,
and honourable,
because by him the LORD
had given deliverance
unto Syria:
he was also
a mighty man
in valour,
but
he was a leper.
And the Syrians
had gone out
by companies,
and had brought away captive
out of the land
of Israel
a little maid;
and she
waited
on Naaman's wife.
And she
said
unto her mistress,
Would God my lord
were with the prophet
that is
in Samaria!
for he
would recover him
of his leprosy.
And one went in,
and told
his lord,
saying,
Thus
and thus said
the maid
that is of the land
of Israel.
And
the king
of Syria said,
Go to,
go,
and I
will send
a letter
unto the king
of Israel.
And he departed,
and took with him ten talents
of silver,
and six thousand
pieces of gold,
and ten changes
of raiment.
And he
brought
the letter
to the king
of Israel,
saying,
Now
when this letter
is come
unto thee,
behold,
I have therewith sent Naaman
my servant
to thee,
that thou
mayest recover him
of his leprosy.
And it
came
to pass,
when the king
of Israel
had read
the letter,
that he
rent his clothes,
and said,
Am I God,
to kill and
to make alive,
that this man
doth send
unto me to recover a man
of his leprosy?
wherefore consider,
I pray you,
and see how
he seeketh
a quarrel
against me.
And it
was so,
when Elisha
the man
of God
had heard
that the king
of Israel
had rent
his clothes,
that he
sent
to the king,
saying,
Wherefore
hast
thou rent
thy clothes?
let him
come now to me,
and he
shall know
that there is
a prophet
in Israel.
So Naaman
came with his horses
and with his chariot,
and stood
at the door
of the house
of Elisha.
And Elisha
sent
a messenger
unto him,
saying,
Go and wash
in Jordan seven times,
and thy flesh
shall come again
to thee,
and
thou shalt be clean.
But Naaman
was wroth,
and went away,
and said,
Behold,
I thought,
He will surely come out
to me,
and stand,
and call on
the name
of the LORD his God,
and strike
his hand over the place,
and recover
the leper.
Are not Abana
and Pharpar,
rivers
of Damascus,
better
than all
the waters
of Israel?
may
I not wash in them,
and be clean?
So he
turned
and went away
in a rage.
And his servants
came near,
and
spake unto him,
and said,
My father,
if the prophet
had bid
thee do
some great thing,
wouldest thou
not have done it?
how much
rather then,
when
he saith to thee,
Wash,
and be clean?
Then went
he down,
and dipped himself
seven times
in Jordan,
according to the saying
of the man
of God:
and his flesh
came again like
unto the flesh
of a little child,
and
he was clean.
And he
returned
to the man
of God,
he and all
his company,
and came,
and stood
before him:
and he said,
Behold,
now I
know that
there is no God
in all the earth,
but in Israel:
now therefore,
I pray thee,
take
a blessing
of thy servant.
But he said,
As the LORD liveth,
before whom
I stand,
I will receive none.
And he
urged him
to take it;
but he refused.
And Naaman said,
Shall
there not then,
I pray thee,
be given
to thy servant two mules' burden
of earth?
for thy servant
will henceforth offer
neither burnt
offering nor
sacrifice
unto other gods,
but unto the LORD.
In this thing
the LORD
pardon
thy servant,
that when my master
goeth into the house
of Rimmon
to worship there,
and
he leaneth on my hand,
and
I bow myself
in the house
of Rimmon:
when I
bow
down myself
in the house
of Rimmon,
the LORD
pardon thy servant
in this thing.
And
he said unto him,
Go in peace.
So he
departed
from him a little way.
But Gehazi,
the servant
of Elisha
the man of God,
said,
Behold,
my master
hath spared
Naaman this Syrian,
in not receiving
at his hands
that which
he brought:
but,
as the LORD liveth,
I will run
after him,
and
take somewhat of him.
So Gehazi
followed
after Naaman.
And
when Naaman
saw him
running
after him,
he lighted down
from the chariot
to meet him,
and said,
Is all well?
And he said,
All is well.
My master
hath sent me,
saying,
Behold,
even now there be come
to me
from mount Ephraim two young men
of the sons
of the prophets:
give them,
I pray thee,
a talent
of silver,
and two
changes
of garments.
And Naaman said,
Be content,
take two talents.
And he
urged him,
and bound two talents
of silver
in two bags,
with two changes
of garments,
and laid them
upon two
of his servants;
and
they bare them
before him.
And
when he
came
to the tower,
he took them
from their hand,
and bestowed them
in the house:
and he
let the men go,
and they departed.
But he went in,
and stood
before his master.
And Elisha
said unto him,
Whence comest thou,
Gehazi?
And he said,
Thy servant
went no
whither.
And
he said unto him,
Went
not mine heart
with thee,
when the man
turned again
from his chariot
to meet thee?
Is it
a time
to receive money,
and to receive garments,
and oliveyards,
and vineyards,
and sheep,
and oxen,
and menservants,
and maidservants?
The leprosy
therefore of Naaman
shall cleave
unto thee,
and unto thy
seed for ever.
And he
went out
from his presence
a leper
as white
as snow.
And
the sons
of the prophets
said unto Elisha,
Behold now,
the place
where we
dwell with thee
is too strait
for us.
Let us go,
we pray thee,
unto Jordan,
and take thence every man
a beam,
and let us
make us a place there,
where we
may dwell.
And he answered,
Go ye.
And one said,
Be content,
I pray thee,
and go
with thy servants.
And he answered,
I will go.
So he
went with them.
And
when they
came
to Jordan,
they cut down wood.
But as one
was felling a beam,
the axe head
fell into the water:
and he cried,
and said,
Alas,
master!
for it
was borrowed.
And the man
of God said,
Where fell it?
And
he shewed him
the place.
And
he cut down
a stick,
and cast it
in thither;
and the iron
did swim.
Therefore said he,
Take it
up to thee.
And
he put out
his hand,
and took it.
Then
the king
of Syria
warred
against Israel,
and took
counsel
with his servants,
saying,
In such
and such a place
shall be
my camp.
And the man
of God
sent
unto the king
of Israel,
saying,
Beware that thou
pass not
such a place;
for thither
the Syrians
are come down.
And
the king
of Israel
sent to the place
which the man
of God
told him
and
warned him of,
and saved himself there,
not once nor twice.
Therefore the heart
of the king
of Syria
was sore
troubled
for this thing;
and
he called
his servants,
and
said unto them,
Will
ye not shew me
which
of us is for the king
of Israel?
And
one
of his servants said,
None,
my lord,
O king:
but Elisha,
the prophet
that is
in Israel,
telleth the king
of Israel the words
that thou
speakest in thy bedchamber.
And he said,
Go and spy
where he is,
that I
may send and fetch him.
And it
was told him,
saying,
Behold,
he is in Dothan.
Therefore sent
he thither horses,
and chariots,
and a great host:
and they
came
by night,
and compassed
the city about.
And
when the servant
of the man
of God
was risen early,
and gone forth,
behold,
an host
compassed the city both
with horses and chariots.
And his servant said
unto him, Alas,
my master!
how shall we do?
And he answered,
Fear not:
for they
that be with us
are more than
they that
be with them.
And Elisha prayed,
and said,
LORD,
I pray thee,
open his eyes,
that he
may see.
And the LORD
opened
the eyes
of the young man;
and he saw:
and,
behold,
the mountain
was full of horses
and chariots
of fire round
about Elisha.
And
when
they came down
to him,
Elisha
prayed
unto the LORD,
and said,
Smite this people,
I pray thee,
with blindness.
And he
smote them
with blindness
according to
the word
of Elisha.
And Elisha
said unto them,
This
is not
the way,
neither is this
the city:
follow me,
and
I will bring you
to the man whom
ye seek.
But
he led them
to Samaria.
And it
came
to pass,
when
they were come
into Samaria,
that Elisha said,
LORD,
open the eyes
of these men,
that they
may see.
And the LORD
opened their eyes,
and they saw;
and,
behold,
they were in the midst
of Samaria.
And
the king
of Israel
said unto Elisha,
when he
saw them,
My father,
shall
I smite them?
shall I smite them?
And he answered,
Thou shalt not smite them:
wouldest
thou smite
those whom
thou hast taken captive
with thy sword
and with thy bow?
set bread
and water
before them,
that they
may eat
and drink,
and go
to their master.
And
he prepared great provision
for them:
and
when
they had eaten
and drunk,
he sent them away,
and
they went to their master.
So the bands
of Syria
came no more
into the land
of Israel.
And it
came
to pass
after this,
that Benhadad king
of Syria
gathered all
his host,
and went up,
and besieged
Samaria.
And there was
a great famine
in Samaria:
and,
behold,
they besieged it,
until an ass's head
was sold
for fourscore pieces
of silver,
and the fourth part
of a cab
of dove's dung
for five pieces
of silver.
And as the king
of Israel
was passing by
upon the wall,
there cried
a woman
unto him,
saying,
Help,
my lord,
O king.
And he said,
If the LORD
do not help thee,
whence shall
I help thee?
out of the barnfloor,
or out of the winepress?
And the king
said
unto her,
What aileth thee?
And she answered,
This woman
said unto me,
Give thy son,
that we
may eat him
to day,
and we
will eat
my son
to morrow.
So we
boiled my son,
and did eat him:
and I
said
unto her
on the next day,
Give thy son,
that we
may eat him:
and
she hath
hid her son.
And it
came
to pass,
when the king
heard
the words
of the woman,
that he
rent his clothes;
and he
passed by
upon the wall,
and the people looked,
and,
behold,
he had sackcloth within
upon his flesh.
Then he said,
God do so
and more also to me,
if the head
of Elisha
the son
of Shaphat
shall stand
on him this day.
But Elisha
sat
in his house,
and the elders
sat with him;
and the king
sent
a man from
before him:
but ere
the messenger
came
to him,
he said
to the elders,
See ye
how this son
of a murderer
hath sent
to take away
mine head?
look,
when the messenger cometh,
shut the door,
and hold him
fast at the door:
is not the sound
of his master's feet
behind him?
And
while he
yet talked with them,
behold,
the messenger
came down unto him:
and he said,
Behold,
this evil
is of the LORD;
what should
I wait
for the LORD any longer?
Then Elisha said,
Hear
ye the word
of the LORD;
Thus saith the LORD,
To morrow
about this time
shall a measure
of fine flour
be sold
for a shekel,
and two
measures
of barley
for a shekel,
in the gate
of Samaria.
Then a lord
on whose hand
the king
leaned
answered
the man of God,
and said,
Behold,
if the LORD
would make windows
in heaven,
might this thing be?
And he said,
Behold,
thou shalt see it
with thine eyes,
but shalt not eat
thereof.
And there were four leprous men
at the entering in
of the gate:
and
they said one
to another,
Why sit
we here
until we die?
If we say,
We will enter
into the city,
then the famine
is in the city,
and
we shall die there:
and
if we sit still here,
we die also.
Now therefore come,
and let us
fall
unto the host
of the Syrians:
if they
save us alive,
we shall live;
and
if they
kill us,
we shall
but die.
And they
rose up
in the twilight,
to go
unto the camp
of the Syrians:
and
when
they were come
to the uttermost part
of the camp
of Syria,
behold,
there was
no man there.
For the LORD
had made
the host
of the Syrians
to hear a noise
of chariots,
and a noise
of horses,
even the noise
of a great host:
and
they said one
to another,
Lo,
the king
of Israel
hath hired
against us the kings
of the Hittites,
and the kings
of the Egyptians,
to come upon us.
Wherefore
they arose
and fled
in the twilight,
and left
their tents,
and their horses,
and their asses,
even
the camp
as it was,
and fled
for their life.
And
when these lepers
came
to the uttermost part
of the camp,
they went into one tent,
and did eat
and drink,
and carried thence silver,
and gold,
and raiment,
and went
and hid it;
and came again,
and entered
into another tent,
and carried
thence also,
and went
and hid it.
Then
they said one
to another,
We do not well:
this day
is a day
of good tidings,
and
we hold
our peace:
if we
tarry
till the morning light,
some mischief
will come upon us:
now therefore come,
that we
may go
and tell
the king's household.
So they
came
and called
unto the porter
of the city:
and
they told them,
saying,
We came
to the camp
of the Syrians,
and,
behold,
there was
no man there,
neither voice
of man,
but horses tied,
and asses tied,
and the tents
as they were.
And
he called
the porters;
and they
told it
to the king's house
within.
And the king
arose
in the night,
and said
unto his servants,
I will now shew you
what the Syrians
have done to us.
They know that
we be hungry;
therefore are
they gone
out of the camp
to hide themselves
in the field,
saying,
When
they come
out of the city,
we shall catch them alive,
and get
into the city.
And one
of his servants answered
and said,
Let some take,
I pray thee,
five of the horses
that remain,
which are left
in the city,
(behold,
they are as all
the multitude
of Israel
that are left in it:
behold,
I say,
they are
even as all
the multitude
of the Israelites
that are consumed:)
and let us
send and see.
They took therefore
two chariot horses;
and the king
sent
after the host
of the Syrians,
saying,
Go and see.
And they
went
after them
unto Jordan:
and,
lo,
all the way
was
full of garments
and vessels,
which the Syrians
had cast away
in their haste.
And the messengers returned,
and told
the king.
And the people went out,
and spoiled
the tents
of the Syrians.
So a measure
of fine flour
was sold
for a shekel,
and two
measures
of barley
for a shekel,
according to
the word
of the LORD.
And the king
appointed
the lord
on whose hand
he leaned
to have the charge
of the gate:
and the people
trode
upon him
in the gate,
and he died,
as the man
of God
had said,
who spake
when the king
came down
to him.
And it
came
to pass
as the man
of God
had spoken
to the king,
saying,
Two measures
of barley
for a shekel,
and a measure
of fine flour
for a shekel,
shall be
to morrow
about this time
in the gate
of Samaria:
And that lord
answered
the man
of God,
and said,
Now,
behold,
if the LORD
should make windows
in heaven,
might such
a thing be?
And he said,
Behold,
thou shalt see it
with thine eyes,
but shalt not eat
thereof.
And so
it fell out unto him:
for the people
trode upon him
in the gate,
and he died.
Then spake Elisha
unto the woman,
whose son
he had restored
to life,
saying,
Arise,
and go
thou
and thine household,
and sojourn wheresoever
thou canst sojourn:
for the LORD
hath called for
a famine;
and it
shall also come upon
the land seven years.
And the woman arose,
and did after the saying
of the man
of God:
and
she went with her household,
and sojourned
in the land
of the Philistines seven years.
And it
came
to pass
at the seven years' end,
that the woman
returned
out of the land
of the Philistines:
and
she went forth
to cry
unto the king
for her house
and for her land.
And the king
talked
with Gehazi
the servant
of the man
of God,
saying,
Tell me,
I pray thee,
all the great things
that Elisha
hath done.
And it
came
to pass,
as he was telling
the king
how
he had restored
a dead body
to life,
that,
behold,
the woman,
whose son
he had restored
to life,
cried to the king
for her house
and for her land.
And Gehazi said,
My lord,
O king,
this is the woman,
and this
is her son,
whom Elisha
restored
to life.
And when the king
asked the woman,
she told him.
So the king
appointed
unto 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.
And Elisha
came
to Damascus;
and Benhadad
the king
of Syria
was sick;
and it
was told him,
saying,
The man of God
is come hither.
And the king
said
unto Hazael,
Take a present
in thine hand,
and go,
meet the man
of God,
and enquire
of the LORD
by him,
saying,
Shall I
recover of this disease?
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,
Thy son Benhadad king
of Syria
hath sent me
to thee,
saying,
Shall I
recover of this disease?
And Elisha
said unto him,
Go,
say unto him,
Thou mayest certainly recover:
howbeit the LORD
hath shewed me
that he
shall surely die.
And
he settled
his countenance
stedfastly,
until he
was ashamed:
and the man
of God wept.
And Hazael said,
Why weepeth my lord?
And he answered,
Because I
know the evil
that thou
wilt do
unto the children
of Israel:
their strong holds
wilt
thou set on fire,
and their young men
wilt thou
slay
with the sword,
and wilt dash
their children,
and rip
up their women
with child.
And Hazael said,
But what,
is thy servant
a dog,
that he
should do
this great thing?
And Elisha answered,
The LORD
hath shewed me that
thou shalt be king
over Syria.
So he
departed
from Elisha,
and came
to his master;
who said to him,
What said Elisha
to thee?
And he answered,
He told me that
thou shouldest surely recover.
And it
came
to pass
on the morrow,
that he
took a thick cloth,
and dipped it
in water,
and spread it
on his face,
so that
he died:
and Hazael
reigned
in his stead.
And
in the fifth year
of Joram the son
of Ahab king
of Israel,
Jehoshaphat
being
then king
of Judah,
Jehoram the son
of Je hoshaphat king
of Judah
began
to reign.
Thirty
and two years old
was he
when
he began
to reign;
and
he reigned eight years
in Jerusalem.
And he
walked
in the way
of the kings
of Israel,
as did
the house
of Ahab:
for the daughter
of Ahab
was his wife:
and he
did evil
in the sight
of the LORD.
Yet the LORD
would not destroy Judah
for David
his servant's sake,
as he
promised him
to give him alway a light,
and to his children.
In his days Edom
revolted from
under the hand
of Judah,
and made
a king
over themselves.
So Joram
went over
to Zair,
and all
the chariots
with him:
and he
rose
by night,
and smote
the Edomites
which compassed him about,
and the captains
of the chariots:
and the people
fled
into their tents.
Yet Edom
revolted from
under the hand
of Judah unto this day.
Then Libnah
revolted
at the same time.
And the rest
of the acts
of Joram,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
And Joram
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
with his fathers
in the city
of David:
and Ahaziah
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In the twelfth year
of Joram the son
of Ahab king
of Israel
did Ahaziah
the son
of Jehoram king
of Judah
begin
to reign.
Two
and twenty years old
was Ahaziah
when
he began
to reign;
and
he reigned one year
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Athaliah,
the daughter
of Omri king
of Israel.
And he
walked
in the way
of the house
of Ahab,
and did evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
as did
the house
of Ahab:
for he was
the son
in law
of the house
of Ahab.
And
he went with Joram
the son
of Ahab
to the war
against Hazael king
of Syria
in Ramothgilead;
and the Syrians
wounded Joram.
And king Joram
went back
to be healed
in Jezreel
of the wounds
which the Syrians
had given him
at Ramah,
when he
fought
against Hazael king
of Syria.
And Ahaziah
the son
of Jehoram king
of Judah
went down
to see Joram
the son
of Ahab
in Jezreel,
because
he was sick.
And Elisha
the prophet
called one
of the children
of the prophets,
and
said unto him,
Gird up thy loins,
and take
this box
of oil
in thine hand,
and go
to Ramothgilead:
And
when
thou comest thither,
look
out there Jehu
the son
of Jehoshaphat
the son
of Nimshi,
and go in,
and make him
arise up from
among his brethren,
and carry him
to an inner chamber;
Then take
the box
of oil,
and pour it
on his head,
and say,
Thus saith the LORD,
I have anointed thee king
over Israel.
Then open
the door,
and flee,
and tarry not.
So the young man,
even the young man
the prophet,
went to Ramothgilead.
And when he came,
behold,
the captains
of the host
were sitting;
and he said,
I have
an errand
to thee,
O captain.
And Jehu said,
Unto
which of all us?
And he said,
To thee,
O captain.
And he arose,
and went into the house;
and he
poured
the oil
on his head,
and
said unto him,
Thus
saith
the LORD God
of Israel,
I have anointed thee king
over the people
of the LORD,
even over Israel.
And
thou shalt smite
the house of Ahab
thy master,
that I
may avenge
the blood
of my servants the prophets,
and the blood
of all the servants
of the LORD,
at the hand
of Jezebel.
For the whole house
of Ahab
shall perish:
and
I will cut off
from Ahab
him that
pisseth against the wall,
and him
that is shut
up and left
in Israel:
And I
will make
the house
of Ahab like
the house
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
and like
the house
of Baasha
the son
of Ahijah:
And the dogs
shall eat Jezebel
in the portion
of Jezreel,
and there shall be none
to bury her.
And
he opened
the door,
and fled.
Then Jehu
came forth
to the servants
of his lord:
and
one
said unto him,
Is all well?
wherefore came
this mad fellow
to thee?
And
he said unto them,
Ye know the man,
and his communication.
And they said,
It is false;
tell us now.
And he said,
Thus and thus
spake
he to me,
saying,
Thus saith the LORD,
I have anointed thee king
over Israel.
Then they hasted,
and took every man
his garment,
and put it
under him
on the top
of the stairs,
and blew with trumpets,
saying,
Jehu is king.
So Jehu
the son
of Jehoshaphat
the son
of Nimshi
conspired
against Joram.
(Now Joram
had kept
Ramothgilead,
he and all Israel,
because
of Hazael king
of Syria.
But king Joram
was returned
to be healed
in Jezreel
of the wounds
which the Syrians
had given him,
when he
fought
with Hazael king
of Syria.)
And Jehu said,
If it
be your minds,
then let none
go forth nor
escape
out of the city to go
to tell it
in Jezreel.
So Jehu
rode in a chariot,
and went to Jezreel;
for Joram lay there.
And
Ahaziah king
of Judah
was come down
to see Joram.
And there stood
a watchman
on the tower
in Jezreel,
and he
spied the company
of Jehu as he
came,
and said,
I see a company.
And Joram said,
Take an horseman,
and send
to meet them,
and let him say,
Is it peace?
So there went
one on horseback
to meet him,
and said,
Thus saith the king,
Is it peace?
And Jehu said,
What
hast
thou
to do
with peace?
turn thee
behind me.
And the watchman told,
saying,
The messenger
came to them,
but he
cometh
not again.
Then he
sent
out a second
on horseback,
which came
to them,
and said,
Thus saith the king,
Is it peace?
And Jehu answered,
What
hast
thou
to do
with peace?
turn thee
behind me.
And the watchman told,
saying,
He came even unto them,
and cometh
not again:
and the driving
is like
the driving
of Jehu
the son
of Nimshi;
for he
driveth furiously.
And Joram said,
Make ready.
And his chariot
was made ready.
And Joram king
of Israel
and
Ahaziah king
of Judah went out,
each in his chariot,
and they
went out
against Jehu,
and met him
in the portion
of Naboth the Jezreelite.
And it
came
to pass,
when Joram
saw Jehu,
that he said,
Is it peace,
Jehu?
And he answered,
What peace,
so long
as the whoredoms
of thy
mother Jezebel
and her witchcrafts
are so many?
And Joram
turned his hands,
and fled,
and said
to Ahaziah,
There is treachery,
O Ahaziah.
And Jehu
drew
a bow
with his full strength,
and smote Jehoram
between his arms,
and the arrow
went out
at his heart,
and he
sunk down
in his chariot.
Then said Jehu
to Bidkar his captain,
Take up,
and cast him
in the portion
of the field
of Naboth the Jezreelite:
for remember how that,
when
I and
thou rode together
after Ahab his father,
the LORD
laid this burden
upon him;
Surely
I have seen yesterday
the blood
of Naboth,
and the blood
of his sons,
saith the LORD;
and
I will requite thee
in this plat,
saith the LORD.
Now therefore
take
and cast him
into the plat
of ground,
according to
the word
of the LORD.
But
when Ahaziah
the king
of Judah
saw this,
he fled
by the way
of the garden house.
And Jehu
followed
after him,
and said,
Smite him
also in the chariot.
And they
did so
at the going
up to Gur,
which is by Ibleam.
And
he fled
to Megiddo,
and died there.
And his servants
carried him
in a chariot
to Jerusalem,
and buried him
in his sepulchre
with his fathers
in the city
of David.
And
in the eleventh year
of Joram
the son
of Ahab
began Ahaziah
to reign
over Judah.
And
when Jehu
was come
to Jezreel,
Jezebel
heard of it;
and
she painted
her face,
and tired
her head,
and looked out
at a window.
And
as Jehu
entered in
at the gate,
she said,
Had Zimri peace,
who slew his master?
And he
lifted
up his face
to the window,
and said,
Who is
on my side?
who?
And there looked out
to him two
or three eunuchs.
And he said,
Throw her down.
So they
threw her down:
and some of
her blood
was sprinkled
on the wall,
and
on the horses:
and he
trode her
under foot.
And
when
he was come in,
he did eat
and drink,
and said,
Go,
see now this
cursed woman,
and bury her:
for she
is a king's daughter.
And they
went to bury her:
but
they found no more
of her
than the skull,
and the feet,
and the palms
of her hands.
Wherefore
they came again,
and told him.
And he said,
This is the word
of the LORD,
which he
spake by his servant Elijah
the Tishbite,
saying,
In the portion
of Jezreel
shall dogs
eat the flesh
of Jezebel:
And
the carcase
of Jezebel
shall be as dung
upon the face
of the field
in the portion
of Jezreel;
so that
they shall not say,
This is Jezebel.
And Ahab
had seventy sons
in Samaria.
And Jehu
wrote letters,
and sent
to Samaria,
unto the rulers
of Jezreel,
to the elders,
and to them
that brought
up Ahab's children,
saying,
Now as
soon as this letter
cometh to you,
seeing your master's sons
are with you,
and there are
with you chariots
and horses,
a fenced city also,
and armour;
Look
even out the best
and meetest of your master's sons,
and set him
on his father's throne,
and fight
for your master's house.
But
they were exceedingly afraid,
and said,
Behold,
two kings
stood not
before him:
how then
shall we stand?
And
he that
was over the house,
and
he that
was over the city,
the elders also,
and the bringers up
of the children,
sent to Jehu,
saying,
We are thy servants,
and will do all
that thou
shalt bid us;
we will not make
any king:
do thou
that which
is good
in thine eyes.
Then he
wrote
a letter
the second time
to them,
saying,
If ye
be mine,
and
if ye
will hearken
unto my voice,
take
ye the heads
of the men
your master's sons,
and come to me
to Jezreel
by to morrow this time.
Now the king's sons,
being seventy persons,
were with the great men
of the city,
which brought them up.
And it
came
to pass,
when the letter
came
to them,
that they
took the king's sons,
and slew seventy persons,
and put
their heads
in baskets,
and sent him them
to Jezreel.
And there came
a messenger,
and told him,
saying,
They
have brought
the heads
of the king's sons.
And he said,
Lay
ye them
in two heaps
at the entering in
of the gate
until the morning.
And it
came
to pass
in the morning,
that he went out,
and stood,
and said
to all the people,
Ye be righteous:
behold,
I conspired
against my master,
and slew him:
but
who slew all these?
Know now that
there shall fall
unto the earth nothing
of the word
of the LORD,
which the LORD
spake concerning
the house
of Ahab:
for the LORD
hath done that
which he
spake by his servant Elijah.
So Jehu
slew all
that remained
of the house
of Ahab
in Jezreel,
and all
his great men,
and his kinsfolks,
and his priests,
until he
left him
none remaining.
And he
arose
and departed,
and came
to Samaria.
And as he
was
at the shearing
house
in the way,
Jehu
met
with the brethren
of Ahaziah king
of Judah,
and said,
Who are ye?
And
they answered,
We are the brethren
of Ahaziah;
and
we go down
to salute
the children
of the king
and the children
of the queen.
And he said,
Take them alive.
And
they took them alive,
and slew them
at the pit
of the shearing house,
even two
and forty men;
neither left
he any
of them.
And
when
he was departed
thence,
he lighted
on Jehonadab the son
of Rechab
coming to meet him:
and
he saluted him,
and said to him,
Is thine heart right,
as my heart
is with thy heart?
And Jehonadab answered,
It is.
If it be,
give me
thine hand.
And
he gave him
his hand;
and he
took him
up to him
into the chariot.
And he said,
Come with me,
and see
my zeal
for the LORD.
So they
made him
ride
in his chariot.
And
when he
came
to Samaria,
he slew all
that remained
unto Ahab
in Samaria,
till he
had destroyed him,
according to
the saying
of the LORD,
which he
spake to Elijah.
And Jehu
gathered all
the people
together,
and
said unto them,
Ahab served Baal
a little;
but Jehu
shall serve him much.
Now therefore
call
unto me all
the prophets
of Baal,
all his servants,
and all
his priests;
let none
be wanting:
for I
have a great
sacrifice
to do to Baal;
whosoever shall be wanting,
he shall not live.
But Jehu
did it
in subtilty,
to the intent
that he
might destroy
the worshippers
of Baal.
And Jehu said,
Proclaim a solemn
assembly for Baal.
And
they proclaimed it.
And Jehu
sent
through all Israel:
and all
the worshippers
of Baal came,
so that
there was not a man
left
that came not.
And
they came
into the house
of Baal;
and
the house
of Baal
was full
from one end
to another.
And he
said
unto him that
was over the vestry,
Bring forth vestments
for all
the worshippers
of Baal.
And
he brought them
forth vestments.
And Jehu went,
and Jehonadab
the son
of Rechab,
into the house
of Baal,
and said
unto the worshippers
of Baal, Search,
and look
that there be here
with you
none of the servants
of the LORD,
but the worshippers
of Baal only.
And
when they
went in to offer
sacrifices
and burnt
offerings,
Jehu appointed fourscore men
without,
and said,
If any of the men whom
I have brought
into your hands escape,
he that
letteth him go,
his life
shall be
for the life
of him.
And it
came
to pass,
as soon as he
had made an end
of offering
the burnt offering,
that Jehu
said to the guard
and to the captains,
Go in,
and slay them;
let none
come forth.
And
they smote them
with the edge
of the sword;
and the guard
and the captains
cast them out,
and went to the city
of the house
of Baal.
And
they brought forth
the images
out of the house
of Baal,
and burned them.
And
they brake
down the image
of Baal,
and brake
down the house
of Baal,
and made it
a draught house
unto this day.
Thus Jehu
destroyed Baal
out of Israel.
Howbeit
from the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
to sin,
Jehu departed not from
after them,
to wit,
the golden
calves that
were in Bethel,
and that
were in Dan.
And the LORD
said
unto Jehu,
Because
thou hast done well
in executing
that which
is right
in mine eyes,
and hast done
unto the house
of Ahab
according to all
that was in mine heart,
thy children
of the fourth generation
shall sit
on the throne
of Israel.
But Jehu
took no
heed
to walk
in the law
of the LORD God
of Israel
with all his heart:
for he departed not
from the sins
of Jeroboam,
which made Israel
to sin.
In those days
the LORD
began to cut Israel short:
and Hazael
smote them in all
the coasts
of Israel;
From Jordan eastward,
all the land
of Gilead,
the Gadites,
and the Reubenites,
and the Manassites,
from Aroer,
which is by the river Arnon,
even Gilead
and Bashan.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Jehu,
and all that
he did,
and all
his might,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
And Jehu
slept
with his fathers:
and
they buried him
in Samaria.
And Jehoahaz
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And the time
that Jehu
reigned
over Israel
in Samaria
was twenty
and eight years.
And
when Athaliah
the mother
of Ahaziah
saw
that her son
was dead,
she arose
and destroyed all
the seed royal.
But Jehosheba,
the daughter
of king Joram,
sister
of Ahaziah,
took Joash
the son
of Ahaziah,
and stole
him from
among the king's sons which
were slain;
and they
hid him,
even him
and his nurse,
in the bedchamber
from Athaliah,
so that
he was not slain.
And he
was with her
hid in the house
of the LORD six years.
And Athaliah
did reign
over the land.
And the seventh year Jehoiada
sent and fetched
the rulers
over hundreds,
with the captains
and the guard,
and brought them
to him
into the house
of the LORD,
and made
a covenant
with them,
and took
an oath
of them
in the house
of the LORD,
and shewed them
the king's son.
And
he commanded them,
saying,
This is
the thing that
ye shall do;
A third part
of you
that enter in
on the sabbath
shall even be keepers
of the watch
of the king's house;
And a third part
shall be at the gate
of Sur;
and a third part
at the gate
behind the guard:
so shall
ye keep
the watch
of the house,
that it
be not broken down.
And two
parts of all you
that go forth
on the sabbath,
even
they shall keep
the watch
of the house
of the LORD
about the king.
And
ye shall compass
the king round about,
every man
with his weapons
in his hand:
and
he that
cometh within the ranges,
let him
be slain:
and be
ye with the king as he
goeth out and as he
cometh in.
And the captains
over the hundreds
did according to all
things that Jehoiada
the priest commanded:
and
they took
every man
his men that
were
to come in
on the sabbath,
with them that
should go out
on the sabbath,
and came
to Jehoiada the priest.
And
to the captains
over hundreds
did
the priest
give
king David's spears
and shields,
that were in the temple
of the LORD.
And the guard stood,
every man
with his weapons
in his hand,
round
about the king,
from the right corner
of the temple
to the left corner
of the temple,
along by the altar
and the temple.
And
he brought forth
the king's son,
and put
the crown
upon him,
and gave him
the testimony;
and
they made him king,
and anointed him;
and
they clapped
their hands,
and said,
God save
the king.
And
when Athaliah
heard
the noise
of the guard
and of the people,
she came
to the people
into the temple
of the LORD.
And
when she looked,
behold,
the king
stood by
a pillar,
as the manner was,
and the princes
and the trumpeters
by the king,
and all
the people
of the land rejoiced,
and blew with trumpets:
and Athaliah
rent her clothes,
and cried,
Treason, Treason.
But Jehoiada
the priest
commanded
the captains
of the hundreds,
the officers
of the host,
and
said unto them,
Have her forth
without the ranges:
and him
that
followeth
her kill
with the sword.
For the priest
had said,
Let her
not be slain
in the house
of the LORD.
And they
laid
hands on her;
and she
went by
the way
by the which
the horses
came
into the king's house:
and there was
she slain.
And Jehoiada
made
a covenant
between the LORD
and the king
and the people,
that they
should be
the LORD's people;
between the king
also and the people.
And all
the people
of the land
went into the house
of Baal,
and brake it down;
his altars
and his images brake
they in pieces
thoroughly,
and slew Mattan
the priest
of Baal
before the altars.
And the priest
appointed officers
over the house
of the LORD.
And he
took
the rulers
over hundreds,
and the captains,
and the guard,
and all
the people
of the land;
and
they brought down
the king
from the house
of the LORD,
and came
by the way
of the gate
of the guard
to the king's house.
And
he sat
on the throne
of the kings.
And all
the people
of the land rejoiced,
and the city
was in quiet:
and
they slew Athaliah
with the sword
beside the king's house.
Seven years old
was Jehoash
when
he began
to reign.
In the seventh year
of Jehu Jehoash
began to reign;
and forty years
reigned
he in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Zibiah
of Beersheba.
And Jehoash
did that which
was right
in the sight
of the LORD all his days
wherein Jehoiada
the priest
instructed him.
But the high places
were not taken away:
the people
still sacrificed
and burnt
incense
in the high places.
And Jehoash
said
to the priests,
All
the money
of the dedicated things
that is brought
into the house
of the LORD,
even the money
of every one that passeth
the account,
the money
that every man
is set at,
and all
the money
that cometh into any man's heart
to bring
into the house
of the LORD,
Let the priests take it
to them,
every man
of his acquaintance:
and let them
repair the breaches
of the house,
wheresoever
any breach
shall be found.
But it
was so,
that in the three
and twentieth year
of king
Jehoash the priests
had not repaired
the breaches
of the house.
Then
king Jehoash
called for Jehoiada
the priest,
and the other priests,
and
said unto them,
Why repair
ye not
the breaches
of the house?
now therefore receive
no more money
of your acquaintance,
but deliver it
for the breaches
of the house.
And the priests
consented
to receive
no more money
of the people,
neither to repair
the breaches
of the house.
But Jehoiada
the priest
took a chest,
and bored
a hole
in the lid of it,
and set it
beside the altar,
on the right side
as one
cometh into the house
of the LORD:
and the priests
that kept
the door
put therein all
the money
that was brought into the house
of the LORD.
And it
was so,
when they
saw that
there was much money
in the chest,
that the king's scribe
and the high priest
came up,
and they put up
in bags,
and told
the money
that was found
in the house
of the LORD.
And
they gave the money,
being told,
into the hands
of them that
did the work,
that had the oversight
of the house
of the LORD:
and
they laid it out
to the carpenters
and builders,
that wrought
upon the house
of the LORD,
And to masons,
and hewers
of stone,
and to buy
timber
and hewed
stone
to repair the breaches
of the house
of the LORD,
and for all
that
was laid out
for the house
to repair it.
Howbeit
there were not made
for the house
of the LORD
bowls of silver,
snuffers,
basons,
trumpets,
any vessels
of gold,
or vessels
of silver,
of the money
that was brought into the house
of the LORD:
But they
gave
that to the workmen,
and repaired therewith
the house
of the LORD.
Moreover they
reckoned not
with the men,
into whose hand
they delivered
the money
to be bestowed
on workmen:
for they
dealt faithfully.
The trespass money
and sin
money was not brought
into the house
of the LORD:
it was the priests'.
Then
Hazael king
of Syria
went up,
and fought
against Gath,
and took it:
and Hazael set
his face to go
up to Jerusalem.
And
Jehoash king
of Judah
took all
the hallowed things
that Jehoshaphat,
and Jehoram,
and Ahaziah,
his fathers,
kings of Judah,
had dedicated,
and his own hallowed things,
and all
the gold
that was found in the treasures
of the house
of the LORD,
and
in the king's house,
and sent it
to Hazael king
of Syria:
and he
went away
from Jerusalem.
And the rest
of the acts
of Joash,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
And his servants arose,
and made
a conspiracy,
and slew Joash
in the house
of Millo,
which goeth down
to Silla.
For Jozachar
the son
of Shimeath,
and Jehozabad
the son
of Shomer,
his servants,
smote him,
and he died;
and
they buried him
with his fathers
in the city
of David:
and Amaziah
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In the three
and twentieth year
of Joash the son
of Ahaziah king
of Judah Jehoahaz
the son
of Jehu
began
to reign
over Israel
in Samaria,
and reigned seventeen years.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
and followed
the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
which made Israel
to sin;
he departed
not therefrom.
And
the anger
of the LORD
was kindled
against Israel,
and
he delivered them
into the hand
of Hazael king
of Syria,
and into the hand
of Benhadad
the son
of Hazael,
all their days.
And Jehoahaz
besought the LORD,
and the LORD
hearkened unto him:
for he
saw the oppression
of Israel,
because the king
of Syria
oppressed them.
(And the LORD
gave Israel a saviour,
so that
they went out from
under the hand
of the Syrians:
and the children
of Israel
dwelt
in their tents,
as beforetime.
Nevertheless
they departed not
from the sins
of the house
of Jeroboam,
who made
Israel sin,
but walked
therein:
and there remained
the grove
also in Samaria.)
Neither did
he leave
of the people
to Jehoahaz
but fifty horsemen,
and ten chariots,
and ten thousand footmen;
for the king
of Syria
had destroyed them,
and had made them like
the dust by threshing.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Jehoahaz,
and all that
he did,
and his might,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
And Jehoahaz
slept
with his fathers;
and
they buried him
in Samaria:
and Joash
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In the thirty
and seventh year
of Joash king
of Judah
began Jehoash
the son
of Jehoahaz
to reign
over Israel
in Samaria,
and reigned sixteen years.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD;
he departed not
from all the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
who made
Israel sin:
but he
walked therein.
And the rest
of the acts
of Joash,
and all that
he did,
and his might wherewith
he fought
against Amaziah king
of Judah,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
And Joash
slept
with his fathers;
and Jeroboam
sat
upon his throne:
and Joash
was buried in Samaria
with the kings
of Israel.
Now Elisha
was fallen sick
of his sickness
whereof he died.
And Joash
the king
of Israel
came down unto him,
and wept
over his face,
and said,
O my father,
my father,
the chariot
of Israel,
and the horsemen
thereof.
And Elisha
said unto him,
Take
bow and arrows.
And
he took unto him bow
and arrows.
And he
said
to the king
of Israel,
Put thine hand
upon the bow.
And he put
his hand
upon it:
and Elisha put
his hands
upon the king's hands.
And he said,
Open the window eastward.
And
he opened it.
Then Elisha said,
Shoot.
And he shot.
And he said,
The arrow
of the LORD's deliverance,
and the arrow
of deliverance
from Syria:
for thou
shalt smite
the Syrians
in Aphek,
till thou
have consumed them.
And he said,
Take the arrows.
And he took them.
And he
said
unto the king
of Israel,
Smite upon the ground.
And
he smote thrice,
and stayed.
And the man
of God
was wroth
with him,
and said,
Thou shouldest have smitten five
or six times;
then hadst
thou smitten
Syria
till thou
hadst consumed it:
whereas now
thou shalt smite Syria
but thrice.
And Elisha died,
and
they buried him.
And
the bands
of the Moabites
invaded the land
at the coming in
of the year.
And it
came
to pass,
as they
were burying a man,
that,
behold,
they spied
a band of men;
and they cast
the man
into the sepulchre
of Elisha:
and
when the man
was let down,
and touched
the bones
of Elisha,
he revived,
and stood up
on his feet.
But
Hazael king
of Syria
oppressed
Israel all the days
of Jehoahaz.
And the LORD
was gracious
unto them,
and had compassion
on them,
and had
respect unto them,
because
of his covenant
with Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob,
and would not destroy them,
neither cast
he them
from his presence
as yet.
So
Hazael king
of Syria died;
and Benhadad
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And 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.
Three times
did
Joash beat him,
and recovered
the cities
of Israel.
In the second year
of Joash son
of Jehoahaz king
of Israel
reigned Amaziah
the son
of Joash king
of Judah.
He was twenty
and five years old
when
he began
to reign,
and reigned twenty
and nine years
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Jehoaddan
of Jerusalem.
And he
did that which
was right
in the sight
of the LORD,
yet not like David
his father:
he did according to
all things
as Joash
his father did.
Howbeit the high places
were not taken away:
as yet
the people
did sacrifice
and burnt
incense
on the high places.
And it
came
to pass,
as soon as the kingdom
was confirmed
in his hand,
that he
slew
his servants which
had slain the king
his father.
But the children
of the murderers
he slew not:
according
unto that
which is written
in the book
of the law
of Moses,
wherein the LORD 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 be put
to death
for his own sin.
He slew of Edom
in the valley
of salt ten thousand,
and took Selah
by war,
and called
the name
of it Joktheel
unto this day.
Then Amaziah
sent messengers
to Jehoash,
the son
of Jehoahaz son
of Jehu,
king of Israel,
saying,
Come,
let us
look one another
in the face.
And 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 thy daughter
to my son
to wife:
and there passed
by a wild beast
that was in Lebanon,
and trode
down the thistle.
Thou hast indeed smitten Edom,
and thine heart
hath lifted thee up:
glory of this,
and tarry at home:
for why
shouldest
thou meddle
to thy hurt,
that thou
shouldest fall,
even thou,
and Judah
with thee?
But Amaziah
would not hear.
Therefore Jehoash king
of Israel
went up;
and
he and Amaziah king
of Judah
looked one
another
in the face
at Bethshemesh,
which belongeth
to Judah.
And Judah
was put to the worse
before Israel;
and
they fled every man
to their tents.
And
Jehoash king
of Israel
took Amaziah king
of Judah,
the son
of Jehoash
the son
of Ahaziah,
at Bethshemesh,
and came
to Jerusalem,
and brake
down the wall
of Jerusalem
from the gate
of Ephraim
unto the corner gate,
four hundred cubits.
And
he took all
the gold
and silver,
and all
the vessels
that were found in the house
of the LORD,
and
in the treasures
of the king's house,
and hostages,
and returned
to Samaria.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Jehoash
which he did,
and his might,
and
how he
fought
with Amaziah king
of Judah,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
And Jehoash
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
in Samaria
with the kings
of Israel;
and Jeroboam
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And Amaziah
the son
of Joash king
of Judah
lived after the death
of Jehoash son
of Jehoahaz king
of Israel fifteen years.
And the rest
of the acts
of Amaziah,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
Now they
made
a conspiracy
against him
in Jerusalem:
and
he fled
to Lachish;
but they
sent
after him
to Lachish,
and slew him there.
And
they brought him
on horses:
and
he was buried at Jerusalem
with his fathers
in the city
of David.
And all
the people
of Judah
took Azariah,
which was
sixteen years old,
and made him king
instead of his father Amaziah.
He built Elath,
and restored
it to Judah,
after that
the king
slept
with his fathers.
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,
and reigned forty
and one years.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD:
he departed not
from all the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
to sin.
He restored the coast
of Israel
from the entering
of Hamath
unto the sea
of the plain,
according to the word
of the LORD God
of Israel,
which he
spake by the hand
of his servant Jonah,
the son
of Amittai,
the prophet,
which was of Gathhepher.
For the LORD
saw the affliction
of Israel,
that it
was very bitter:
for there was not
any shut up,
nor any left,
nor any helper
for Israel.
And the LORD
said not that
he would blot
out the name
of Israel from
under heaven:
but
he saved them
by the hand
of Jeroboam
the son
of Joash.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Jeroboam,
and all that
he did,
and his might,
how he warred,
and
how he
recovered Damascus,
and Hamath,
which belonged
to Judah,
for Israel,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
And Jeroboam
slept
with his fathers,
even with the kings
of Israel;
and Zachariah
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In the twenty
and seventh year
of Jeroboam king
of Israel
began Azariah son
of Amaziah king
of Judah
to reign.
Sixteen years old
was he
when
he began
to reign,
and
he reigned two
and fifty years
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Jecholiah
of Jerusalem.
And he
did that which
was right
in the sight
of the LORD,
according to all
that his father Amaziah
had done;
Save
that the high places
were not removed:
the people
sacrificed
and burnt
incense
still
on the high places.
And the LORD
smote the king,
so that
he was a leper
unto the day
of his death,
and dwelt
in a several house.
And Jotham
the king's son
was over the house,
judging the people
of the land.
And the rest
of the acts
of Azariah,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
So Azariah
slept
with his fathers;
and
they buried him
with his fathers
in the city
of David:
and Jotham
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In the thirty
and eighth year
of Azariah king
of Judah
did Zachariah
the son
of Jeroboam
reign
over Israel
in Samaria six months.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
as his fathers
had done:
he departed not
from the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
to sin.
And Shallum
the son
of Jabesh
conspired against him,
and smote him
before the people,
and slew him,
and reigned
in his stead.
And the rest
of the acts
of Zachariah,
behold,
they are written in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel.
This was the word
of the LORD
which he
spake unto Jehu,
saying,
Thy sons
shall sit
on the throne
of Israel
unto the fourth generation.
And so
it came
to pass.
Shallum
the son
of Jabesh
began
to reign
in the nine
and thirtieth year
of Uzziah king
of Judah;
and he
reigned
a full month
in Samaria.
For Menahem
the son
of Gadi
went up
from Tirzah,
and came
to Samaria,
and smote Shallum
the son
of Jabesh
in Samaria,
and slew him,
and reigned
in his stead.
And the rest
of the acts
of Shallum,
and his conspiracy
which he made,
behold,
they are written in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel.
Then Menahem
smote Tiphsah,
and all
that were
therein,
and the coasts
thereof from Tirzah:
because
they opened not
to him,
therefore he
smote it;
and all
the women
therein
that were with child
he ripped up.
In the nine
and thirtieth year
of Azariah king
of Judah
began Menahem
the son
of Gadi
to reign
over Israel,
and reigned ten years
in Samaria.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD:
he departed not all his days
from the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
to sin.
And Pul
the king
of Assyria
came
against the land:
and Menahem
gave
Pul a thousand talents
of silver,
that his hand
might be
with him
to confirm the kingdom
in his hand.
And Menahem
exacted
the money
of Israel,
even of all
the mighty men
of wealth,
of each man
fifty shekels
of silver,
to give
to the king
of Assyria.
So the king
of Assyria turned back,
and stayed not
there in the land.
And the rest
of the acts
of Menahem,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
And Menahem
slept
with his fathers;
and Pekahiah
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In the fiftieth year
of Azariah king
of Judah Pekahiah
the son
of Menahem
began
to reign
over Israel
in Samaria,
and reigned two years.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD:
he departed not
from the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
to sin.
But Pekah
the son
of Remaliah,
a captain of his,
conspired against him,
and smote him
in Samaria,
in the palace
of the king's house,
with Argob
and Arieh,
and with him fifty men
of the Gileadites:
and
he killed him,
and reigned
in his room.
And the rest
of the acts
of Pekahiah,
and all that
he did,
behold,
they are written in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel.
In the two
and fiftieth year
of Azariah king
of Judah Pekah
the son
of Remaliah
began
to reign
over Israel
in Samaria,
and reigned twenty years.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD:
he departed not
from the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
to sin.
In the days
of Pekah king
of Israel
came Tiglathpileser king
of Assyria,
and took Ijon,
and Abelbethmaachah,
and Janoah,
and Kedesh,
and Hazor,
and Gilead,
and Galilee,
all the land
of Naphtali,
and carried them captive
to Assyria.
And Hoshea
the son
of Elah
made
a conspiracy
against Pekah
the son
of Remaliah,
and smote him,
and slew him,
and reigned
in his stead,
in the twentieth year
of Jotham
the son
of Uzziah.
And the rest
of the acts
of Pekah,
and all that
he did,
behold,
they are written in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel.
In the second year
of Pekah the son
of Remaliah king
of Israel
began Jotham
the son
of Uzziah king
of Judah
to reign.
Five and twenty years old
was he
when
he began
to reign,
and
he reigned sixteen years
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Jerusha,
the daughter
of Zadok.
And he
did that which
was right
in the sight
of the LORD:
he did according to all
that his father Uzziah
had done.
Howbeit the high places
were not removed:
the people
sacrificed
and burned
incense
still
in the high places.
He built
the higher gate
of the house
of the LORD.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Jotham,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
In those days
the LORD
began to send
against Judah Rezin
the king
of Syria,
and Pekah
the son
of Remaliah.
And Jotham
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
with his fathers
in the city
of David his father:
and Ahaz
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In the seventeenth year
of Pekah the son
of Remaliah Ahaz the son
of Jotham king
of Judah
began
to reign.
Twenty years old
was Ahaz
when
he began
to reign,
and reigned sixteen years
in Jerusalem,
and did not
that which
was right
in the sight
of the LORD his God,
like David
his father.
But he
walked
in the way
of the kings
of Israel,
yea,
and made
his son
to pass
through the fire,
according to
the abominations
of the heathen,
whom
the LORD
cast out from
before the children
of Israel.
And
he sacrificed
and burnt
incense
in the high places,
and on the hills,
and
under every green tree.
Then Rezin king
of Syria
and Pekah son
of Remaliah king
of Israel
came up to
Jerusalem to war:
and
they besieged Ahaz,
but could not overcome him.
At that time Rezin king
of Syria recovered Elath
to Syria,
and drave
the Jews
from Elath:
and the Syrians
came
to Elath,
and dwelt there
unto this day.
So Ahaz
sent messengers
to Tiglathpileser king
of Assyria,
saying,
I am thy servant
and thy son:
come up,
and save me
out of the hand
of the king
of Syria,
and
out of the hand
of the king
of Israel,
which rise up
against me.
And Ahaz
took the silver
and gold
that was found
in the house
of the LORD,
and
in the treasures
of the king's house,
and sent it
for a present
to the king
of Assyria.
And
the king
of Assyria
hearkened unto him:
for the king
of Assyria
went up
against Damascus,
and took it,
and carried
the people
of it captive
to Kir,
and slew Rezin.
And king Ahaz
went to Damascus
to meet
Tiglathpileser king
of Assyria,
and saw
an altar
that was at Damascus:
and king Ahaz
sent
to Urijah
the priest
the fashion
of the altar,
and the pattern of it,
according to all the workmanship
thereof.
And Urijah
the priest
built
an altar
according to all
that king Ahaz
had sent
from Damascus:
so Urijah
the priest
made it
against king
Ahaz
came
from Damascus.
And
when the king
was come
from Damascus,
the king
saw the altar:
and the king
approached
to the altar,
and offered thereon.
And he
burnt
his burnt
offering
and his meat offering,
and poured
his drink offering,
and sprinkled
the blood
of his peace offerings,
upon the altar.
And
he brought also
the brasen altar,
which was before the LORD,
from the forefront
of the house,
from between the altar
and the house
of the LORD,
and put it
on the north side
of the altar.
And king Ahaz
commanded Urijah
the priest,
saying,
Upon the great altar
burn the morning burnt offering,
and the evening meat offering,
and the king's burnt sacrifice,
and his meat offering,
with the burnt
offering
of all the people
of the land,
and their meat offering,
and their drink offerings;
and sprinkle
upon it all the blood
of the burnt offering,
and all
the blood
of the sacrifice:
and the brasen altar
shall be
for me
to enquire by.
Thus did Urijah
the priest,
according to all
that king Ahaz commanded.
And king Ahaz cut off
the borders
of the bases,
and removed
the laver
from off them;
and took down the sea
from off the brasen oxen
that were under it,
and put it
upon the pavement
of stones.
And the covert
for the sabbath
that they
had built
in the house,
and the king's entry
without,
turned
he from the house
of the LORD
for the king
of Assyria.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Ahaz
which he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
And Ahaz
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
with his fathers
in the city
of David:
and Hezekiah
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In the twelfth year
of Ahaz king
of Judah
began Hoshea
the son
of Elah
to reign
in Samaria
over Israel nine years.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
but not as the kings
of Israel
that were
before him.
Against him came
up Shalmaneser king
of Assyria;
and Hoshea
became
his servant,
and gave him presents.
And
the king
of Assyria
found conspiracy
in Hoshea:
for he
had sent messengers
to So king
of Egypt,
and brought
no present
to the king
of Assyria,
as he
had done
year by year:
therefore the king
of Assyria
shut him up,
and bound him
in prison.
Then
the king
of Assyria
came up
throughout all the land,
and went up to Samaria,
and besieged
it three years.
In the ninth year
of Hoshea
the king
of Assyria
took Samaria,
and carried Israel
away into Assyria,
and placed them
in Halah
and in Habor
by the river
of Gozan,
and in the cities
of the Medes.
For so
it was,
that the children
of Israel
had sinned
against the LORD their God,
which had brought
them up
out of the land
of Egypt,
from under the hand
of Pharaoh king
of Egypt,
and had feared
other gods,
And walked
in the statutes
of the heathen,
whom
the LORD
cast out from
before the children
of Israel,
and of the kings
of Israel,
which they
had made.
And the children
of Israel
did secretly
those things
that were not
right
against the LORD their God,
and
they built them high places
in all
their cities,
from the tower
of the watchmen
to the fenced city.
And they set them
up images
and groves
in every high hill,
and
under every green tree:
And there
they burnt
incense
in all the high places,
as did
the heathen whom
the LORD
carried away
before them;
and wrought wicked things
to provoke the LORD
to anger:
For they
served idols,
whereof
the LORD
had said unto them,
Ye shall not do
this thing.
Yet the LORD
testified
against Israel,
and
against Judah,
by all the prophets,
and
by all the seers,
saying,
Turn
ye 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.
Notwithstanding
they would not hear,
but hardened
their necks,
like to the neck
of their fathers,
that did not believe
in the LORD
their God.
And
they rejected
his statutes,
and his covenant
that he
made
with their fathers,
and his testimonies
which he
testified against them;
and
they followed
vanity,
and became vain,
and went after the heathen
that were round
about them,
concerning whom
the LORD
had charged them,
that they should not do like
them.
And they
left all
the commandments
of the LORD
their God,
and made them
molten images,
even two calves,
and made a grove,
and worshipped all
the host
of heaven,
and served Baal.
And
they caused
their sons
and their daughters
to pass
through the fire,
and used divination
and enchantments,
and sold themselves
to do evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
to provoke him
to anger.
Therefore the LORD
was very angry
with Israel,
and removed them
out of his sight:
there was none
left
but the tribe
of Judah only.
Also Judah
kept not
the commandments
of the LORD
their God,
but walked
in the statutes
of Israel
which they made.
And the LORD
rejected all
the seed
of Israel,
and afflicted them,
and delivered them
into the hand
of spoilers,
until he
had cast them
out of his sight.
For he
rent Israel
from the house
of David;
and
they made Jeroboam
the son
of Nebat king:
and Jeroboam drave Israel
from following the LORD,
and made them
sin a great sin.
For the children
of Israel
walked
in all the sins
of Jeroboam
which he did;
they departed not from them;
Until the LORD
removed Israel
out of his sight,
as he
had said
by all his servants
the prophets.
So was
Israel
carried away
out of their own land
to Assyria unto this day.
And the king
of Assyria brought men
from Babylon,
and from Cuthah,
and from Ava,
and from Hamath,
and
from Sepharvaim,
and placed them
in the cities
of Samaria
instead of the children
of Israel:
and
they possessed
Samaria,
and dwelt
in the cities
thereof.
And so
it was at the beginning
of their dwelling there,
that they
feared not
the LORD:
therefore the LORD
sent lions
among them,
which slew some of them.
Wherefore
they spake to the king
of Assyria,
saying,
The nations which
thou hast removed,
and placed
in the cities
of Samaria,
know not the manner
of the God
of the land:
therefore he
hath sent lions
among them,
and,
behold,
they slay them,
because
they know not
the manner
of the God
of the land.
Then
the king
of Assyria commanded,
saying,
Carry thither one
of the priests
whom
ye brought
from thence;
and let them
go and dwell there,
and let him
teach them the manner
of the God
of the land.
Then one
of the priests
whom
they had carried away
from Samaria
came
and dwelt
in Bethel,
and taught them how
they should fear
the LORD.
Howbeit 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
wherein they dwelt.
And the men
of Babylon
made Succothbenoth,
and the men
of Cuth
made Nergal,
and the men
of Hamath
made Ashima,
And the Avites
made Nibhaz
and Tartak,
and the Sepharvites
burnt
their children
in fire
to Adrammelech
and Anammelech,
the gods
of Sepharvaim.
So they
feared the LORD,
and made
unto themselves
of the lowest
of them priests
of the high places,
which sacrificed
for them
in the houses
of the high places.
They feared
the LORD,
and served
their own gods,
after the manner
of the nations
whom
they carried away
from thence.
Unto this day
they do
after the former manners:
they fear not
the LORD,
neither do
they
after their statutes,
or after their ordinances,
or after the law
and commandment which the LORD
commanded
the children
of Jacob,
whom
he named Israel;
With whom the LORD
had made
a covenant,
and charged them,
saying,
Ye shall not fear
other gods,
nor bow yourselves
to them,
nor serve them,
nor sacrifice
to them:
But the LORD,
who brought
you up
out of the land
of Egypt
with great power
and a stretched out arm,
him shall
ye fear,
and him
shall
ye worship,
and to him
shall
ye do sacrifice.
And the statutes,
and the ordinances,
and the law,
and the commandment,
which he
wrote for you,
ye shall observe
to do
for evermore;
and
ye shall not fear
other gods.
And the covenant that
I have made
with you
ye shall not forget;
neither shall
ye fear
other gods.
But the LORD
your God
ye shall fear;
and
he shall deliver you
out of the hand
of all your enemies.
Howbeit
they did not hearken,
but
they did after their former manner.
So these nations
feared the LORD,
and served
their graven images,
both their children,
and their children's children:
as did their fathers,
so do
they unto this day.
Now it
came
to pass
in the third year
of Hoshea son
of Elah king
of Israel,
that Hezekiah the son
of Ahaz king
of Judah
began
to reign.
Twenty
and five years old
was he
when
he began
to reign;
and
he reigned twenty
and nine years
in Jerusalem.
His mother's name
also was Abi,
the daughter
of Zachariah.
And he
did that which
was right
in the sight
of the LORD,
according to all
that David his father did.
He removed
the high places,
and brake
the images,
and cut down
the groves,
and brake
in pieces
the brasen serpent that Moses
had made:
for unto those days
the children
of Israel
did burn
incense to it:
and
he called
it Nehushtan.
He trusted
in the LORD God
of Israel;
so that
after him
was none like him
among all
the kings
of Judah,
nor any
that were
before him.
For he clave
to the LORD,
and departed not
from following him,
but kept
his commandments,
which the LORD
commanded Moses.
And the LORD
was with him;
and
he prospered whithersoever
he went forth:
and he
rebelled
against the king
of Assyria,
and served him not.
He smote the Philistines,
even unto Gaza,
and the borders
thereof,
from the tower
of the watchmen
to the fenced city.
And it
came
to pass
in the fourth year
of king Hezekiah,
which was
the seventh year
of Hoshea son
of Elah king
of Israel,
that Shalmaneser king
of Assyria
came up
against Samaria,
and besieged it.
And
at the end
of three years
they took it:
even in the sixth year
of Hezekiah,
that is
in the ninth year
of Hoshea king
of Israel,
Samaria was taken.
And
the king
of Assyria
did carry away Israel
unto Assyria,
and put them
in Halah
and in Habor
by the river
of Gozan,
and in the cities
of the Medes:
Because
they obeyed not
the voice
of the LORD their God,
but transgressed
his covenant,
and all that Moses
the servant
of the LORD commanded,
and would not hear them,
nor do them.
Now in the fourteenth year
of king
Hezekiah
did Sennacherib king
of Assyria come up
against all
the fenced cities
of Judah,
and took them.
And
Hezekiah king
of Judah
sent to the king
of Assyria
to Lachish,
saying,
I have offended;
return from me:
that which
thou puttest
on me will
I bear.
And
the king
of Assyria
appointed
unto Hezekiah king
of Judah
three hundred talents
of silver
and thirty talents
of gold.
And Hezekiah
gave him all
the silver
that was found
in the house
of the LORD,
and
in the treasures
of the king's house.
At that time
did
Hezekiah
cut off
the gold
from the doors
of the temple
of the LORD,
and
from the pillars which Hezekiah king
of Judah
had overlaid,
and gave it
to the king
of Assyria.
And the king
of Assyria sent Tartan
and Rabsaris
and Rabshakeh
from Lachish
to king Hezekiah
with a great host
against Jerusalem.
And they
went up
and came
to Jerusalem.
And
when
they
were come up,
they came
and stood by
the conduit
of the upper pool,
which is in the highway
of the fuller's field.
And
when
they had called
to the king,
there came out
to them
Eliakim the son
of Hilkiah,
which was over the household,
and Shebna
the scribe,
and Joah
the son
of Asaph the recorder.
And Rabshakeh
said unto them,
Speak
ye
now to Hezekiah,
Thus saith the great king,
the king
of Assyria,
What confidence
is this
wherein thou trustest?
Thou sayest,
(but they
are
but vain words,)
I have
counsel
and strength
for the war.
Now on whom dost
thou trust,
that thou
rebellest against me?
Now,
behold,
thou trustest upon the staff
of this
bruised reed,
even upon Egypt,
on which
if a man lean,
it will go
into his hand,
and pierce it:
so is Pharaoh king
of Egypt
unto all that trust
on him.
But
if ye
say unto me,
We trust
in the LORD our God:
is not that he,
whose high places
and whose altars Hezekiah
hath taken away,
and hath said
to Judah
and Jerusalem,
Ye shall worship
before this altar
in Jerusalem?
Now therefore,
I pray thee,
give
pledges
to my lord
the king
of Assyria,
and
I will deliver
thee two thousand horses,
if thou
be able on thy
part
to set riders
upon them.
How then
wilt thou
turn away the face
of one captain
of the least
of my master's servants,
and put
thy trust
on Egypt
for chariots
and for horsemen?
Am I now come up
without the LORD
against this place
to destroy it?
The LORD
said to me,
Go up
against this land,
and destroy it.
Then said Eliakim
the son
of Hilkiah,
and Shebna,
and Joah,
unto Rabshakeh, Speak,
I pray thee,
to thy servants
in the Syrian language;
for we
understand it:
and talk not
with us
in the Jews' language
in the ears
of the people
that are on the wall.
But Rabshakeh
said unto them,
Hath my master
sent me
to thy master,
and to thee,
to speak these words?
hath
he not sent me
to the men which
sit on the wall,
that they
may eat
their own dung,
and drink
their own piss
with you?
Then Rabshakeh
stood
and cried
with a loud voice
in the Jews' language,
and spake,
saying,
Hear the word
of the great king,
the king
of Assyria:
Thus saith the king,
Let
not Hezekiah
deceive you:
for he
shall not be able
to deliver you
out of his hand:
Neither let Hezekiah
make
you trust
in the LORD,
saying,
The LORD
will surely deliver us,
and this city
shall not be delivered
into the hand
of the king
of Assyria.
Hearken not
to Hezekiah:
for thus
saith the king
of Assyria,
Make an agreement
with me
by a present,
and come out to me,
and
then eat
ye every man
of his own vine,
and every one
of his fig tree,
and drink
ye every one
the waters
of his cistern:
Until I come
and take you
away to a land like
your own land,
a land
of corn and wine,
a land
of bread
and vineyards,
a land
of oil olive and
of honey,
that ye
may live,
and not die:
and hearken not
unto Hezekiah,
when
he persuadeth you,
saying,
The LORD
will deliver us.
Hath
any of the gods
of the nations
delivered
at all his land
out of the hand
of the king
of Assyria?
Where are the gods
of Hamath,
and of Arpad?
where are the gods
of Sepharvaim, Hena,
and Ivah?
have
they delivered Samaria
out of mine hand?
Who are
they
among all
the gods
of the countries,
that have delivered
their country
out of mine hand,
that the LORD
should deliver Jerusalem
out of mine hand?
But the people
held their peace,
and answered him not
a word:
for the king's commandment was,
saying,
Answer him not.
Then came
Eliakim the son
of Hilkiah,
which was over the household,
and Shebna
the scribe,
and Joah
the son
of Asaph the recorder,
to Hezekiah
with their clothes rent,
and told him
the words
of Rabshakeh.
And it
came
to pass,
when king Hezekiah
heard it,
that he
rent his clothes,
and covered himself
with sackcloth,
and went into the house
of the LORD.
And
he sent Eliakim,
which was over the household,
and Shebna
the scribe,
and the elders
of the priests,
covered
with sackcloth,
to Isaiah the prophet
the son
of Amoz.
And
they
said unto him,
Thus saith Hezekiah,
This day
is a day
of trouble,
and of rebuke,
and blasphemy;
for the children
are come
to the birth,
and there is not
strength
to bring forth.
It may be
the LORD thy God
will hear all
the words
of Rabshakeh,
whom the king
of Assyria
his master
hath sent
to reproach
the living God;
and will reprove
the words
which the LORD thy God
hath heard:
wherefore
lift
up thy prayer
for the remnant
that are left.
So the servants
of king
Hezekiah
came
to Isaiah.
And Isaiah
said unto them,
Thus
shall
ye say
to your master,
Thus saith the LORD,
Be not afraid
of the words which
thou hast heard,
with which the servants
of the king
of Assyria
have blasphemed me.
Behold,
I will send
a blast
upon him,
and
he shall hear
a rumour,
and shall return
to his own land;
and
I will cause him to fall
by the sword
in his own land.
So Rabshakeh returned,
and found
the king
of Assyria
warring
against Libnah:
for he
had heard
that he
was departed
from Lachish.
And
when
he heard
say
of Tirhakah king
of Ethiopia, Behold,
he is come out
to fight
against thee:
he sent messengers
again unto Hezekiah,
saying,
Thus
shall
ye speak
to Hezekiah king
of Judah,
saying,
Let not
thy God
in whom
thou trustest
deceive thee,
saying,
Jerusalem shall not be delivered
into the hand
of the king
of Assyria.
Behold,
thou hast heard
what the kings
of Assyria
have done
to all lands,
by destroying them utterly:
and shalt
thou be delivered?
Have
the gods
of the nations
delivered them
which my fathers
have destroyed;
as Gozan,
and Haran,
and Rezeph,
and the children
of Eden
which were in Thelasar?
Where is the king
of Hamath,
and the king
of Arpad,
and the king
of the city
of Sepharvaim,
of Hena,
and Ivah?
And Hezekiah
received
the letter
of the hand
of the messengers,
and read it:
and Hezekiah
went up into the house
of the LORD,
and spread it
before the LORD.
And Hezekiah
prayed
before the LORD,
and said,
O LORD God
of Israel,
which dwellest between the cherubims,
thou art
the God,
even thou alone,
of all the kingdoms
of the earth;
thou hast made heaven
and earth.
LORD,
bow down thine ear,
and hear:
open,
LORD,
thine eyes,
and see:
and hear
the words
of Sennacherib,
which hath sent him
to reproach
the living God.
Of a truth,
LORD,
the kings
of Assyria
have destroyed the nations
and their lands,
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.
Now therefore,
O LORD our God,
I beseech thee,
save
thou us
out of his hand,
that all the kingdoms
of the earth
may know that
thou art
the LORD God,
even thou only.
Then Isaiah
the son
of Amoz
sent to Hezekiah,
saying,
Thus
saith
the LORD God
of Israel,
That which
thou hast prayed to me
against Sennacherib king
of Assyria I
have heard.
This is
the word
that the LORD
hath spoken concerning him;
The virgin the daughter
of Zion
hath despised thee,
and laughed thee
to scorn;
the daughter
of Jerusalem
hath shaken her head
at thee.
Whom hast
thou reproached
and blasphemed?
and
against whom hast
thou exalted
thy voice,
and lifted
up thine
eyes on high?
even against the Holy One
of Israel.
By thy messengers
thou hast reproached
the LORD,
and hast said,
With the multitude
of my chariots
I am come up to
the height
of the mountains,
to the sides
of Lebanon,
and
will cut down
the tall cedar trees
thereof,
and the choice fir trees
thereof:
and
I will enter
into the lodgings
of his borders,
and
into the forest
of his Carmel.
I have digged
and drunk strange waters,
and
with the sole
of my feet
have
I dried
up all the rivers
of besieged places.
Hast
thou not heard long
ago how
I have done it,
and of ancient
times that
I have formed it?
now have
I brought it
to pass,
that thou
shouldest be
to lay waste fenced cities
into ruinous heaps.
Therefore
their inhabitants
were of small power,
they were dismayed
and confounded;
they were as the grass
of the field,
and
as the green herb,
as the grass
on the house tops,
and
as corn
blasted before it
be grown up.
But
I know thy abode,
and thy going out,
and thy coming in,
and thy
rage against me.
Because
thy rage
against me
and thy tumult
is come up
into mine ears,
therefore I
will put
my hook
in thy nose,
and my bridle
in thy lips,
and
I will turn thee back
by the way
by which thou camest.
And this
shall be a sign
unto thee,
Ye shall eat this year
such things
as
grow
of themselves,
and
in the second year
that which
springeth of the same;
and
in the third year sow ye,
and reap,
and plant
vineyards,
and eat
the fruits thereof.
And the remnant
that is escaped of the house
of Judah
shall yet again take
root downward,
and bear fruit upward.
For out of Jerusalem shall go
forth a remnant,
and
they that escape
out of mount Zion:
the zeal
of the LORD
of hosts shall do this.
Therefore thus
saith
the LORD
concerning
the king
of Assyria,
He shall not come
into this city,
nor shoot
an arrow there,
nor come
before it
with shield,
nor cast
a bank
against it.
By the way
that he came,
by the same
shall
he return,
and shall not come
into this city,
saith the LORD.
For I
will defend
this city,
to save it,
for mine own sake,
and
for my servant David's sake.
And it
came to pass
that night,
that the angel
of the LORD went out,
and smote in the camp
of the Assyrians
an hundred fourscore
and five thousand:
and
when
they arose early
in the morning,
behold,
they were all
dead corpses.
So Sennacherib king
of Assyria departed,
and went
and returned,
and dwelt
at Nineveh.
And it
came
to pass,
as he
was worshipping
in the house
of Nisroch his god,
that Adrammelech
and Sharezer
his sons
smote him
with the sword:
and they
escaped
into the land
of Armenia.
And Esarhaddon
his son
reigned
in his stead.
In those days
was Hezekiah sick
unto death.
And the prophet Isaiah
the son
of Amoz
came to him,
and
said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine
house
in order;
for thou
shalt die,
and not live.
Then he
turned
his face
to the wall,
and prayed
unto the LORD,
saying,
I beseech thee,
O LORD,
remember now how
I have walked
before thee
in truth
and with a perfect heart,
and have done
that which
is good
in thy sight.
And Hezekiah
wept sore.
And it
came
to pass,
afore Isaiah
was gone out
into the middle court,
that the word
of the LORD
came to him,
saying,
Turn again,
and tell Hezekiah
the captain
of my people,
Thus saith the LORD,
the God of David
thy father,
I have heard
thy prayer,
I have seen
thy tears:
behold,
I will heal thee:
on the third day
thou shalt go up
unto the house
of the LORD.
And
I will add
unto thy days fifteen years;
and
I will deliver
thee and this city
out of the hand
of the king
of Assyria;
and I
will defend
this city
for mine own sake,
and
for my servant David's sake.
And Isaiah said,
Take a lump
of figs.
And they
took
and laid it
on the boil,
and he recovered.
And Hezekiah
said
unto Isaiah,
What
shall be
the sign
that the LORD
will heal me,
and
that I
shall go up
into the house
of the LORD
the third day?
And Isaiah said,
This sign
shalt thou
have of the LORD,
that the LORD
will do
the thing that
he hath spoken:
shall
the shadow
go forward ten degrees,
or go back ten degrees?
And Hezekiah answered,
It is
a light thing
for the shadow
to go down ten degrees:
nay,
but let
the shadow
return backward ten degrees.
And Isaiah
the prophet
cried
unto the LORD:
and he
brought
the shadow
ten degrees backward,
by which it
had gone down
in the dial
of Ahaz.
At that time Berodachbaladan,
the son
of Baladan,
king of Babylon,
sent letters
and a present
unto Hezekiah:
for he
had heard
that Hezekiah
had been sick.
And Hezekiah
hearkened unto them,
and shewed them all
the house
of his precious things,
the silver,
and the gold,
and the spices,
and the precious ointment,
and all
the house
of his armour,
and all
that was found
in his treasures:
there was nothing
in his house,
nor
in all his dominion,
that Hezekiah
shewed them not.
Then came Isaiah
the prophet
unto king Hezekiah,
and
said unto him,
What
said
these men?
and
from whence came
they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said,
They
are come
from a far country,
even from Babylon.
And he said,
What
have
they seen
in thine house?
And Hezekiah answered,
All the things
that
are in mine
house
have
they seen:
there is
nothing
among my treasures
that
I have not shewed them.
And Isaiah
said
unto Hezekiah,
Hear the word
of the LORD.
Behold,
the days come,
that all that is
in thine house,
and
that which
thy fathers
have laid up
in store
unto this day,
shall be carried
into Babylon:
nothing shall be left,
saith the LORD.
And of thy sons
that shall issue
from thee,
which thou
shalt beget,
shall
they take away;
and
they shall be eunuchs
in the palace
of the king
of Babylon.
Then said Hezekiah
unto Isaiah,
Good is the word
of the LORD which
thou hast spoken.
And he said,
Is it not good,
if peace
and truth
be in my days?
And the rest
of the acts
of Hezekiah,
and all
his might,
and
how he
made a pool,
and a conduit,
and brought
water into the city,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
And Hezekiah
slept
with his fathers:
and Manasseh
his son
reigned
in his stead.
Manasseh
was
twelve years old
when
he began
to reign,
and reigned fifty
and five years
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Hephzibah.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
after the abominations
of the heathen,
whom
the LORD
cast out
before the children
of Israel.
For he
built up again
the high places
which Hezekiah his father
had destroyed;
and he
reared
up altars
for Baal,
and made a grove,
as did Ahab king
of Israel;
and worshipped all
the host
of heaven,
and served them.
And
he built altars
in the house
of the LORD,
of which the LORD said,
In Jerusalem
will
I put my name.
And
he built altars
for all the host
of heaven
in the two
courts of the house
of the LORD.
And he
made his son
pass
through the fire,
and observed times,
and used
enchantments,
and dealt with
familiar spirits
and wizards:
he wrought much wickedness
in the sight
of the LORD,
to provoke him
to anger.
And he set
a graven image
of the grove
that he
had made
in the house,
of which the LORD
said
to David,
and
to Solomon his son,
In this house,
and in Jerusalem,
which I
have chosen out of all tribes
of Israel,
will
I put
my name
for ever:
Neither will
I make
the feet
of Israel
move any more
out of the land
which I
gave their fathers;
only if
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.
But
they hearkened not:
and Manasseh
seduced them
to do more evil than
did the nations
whom
the LORD
destroyed
before the children
of Israel.
And the LORD
spake by his servants
the prophets,
saying,
Because Manasseh king
of Judah
hath done
these abominations,
and hath done wickedly
above
all
that the Amorites did,
which were
before him,
and hath made Judah
also to sin
with his idols:
Therefore thus
saith the LORD God
of Israel, Behold,
I am bringing such evil
upon Jerusalem
and Judah,
that whosoever heareth of it,
both his ears
shall tingle.
And
I will stretch
over Jerusalem
the line
of Samaria,
and the plummet
of the house
of Ahab:
and
I will wipe Jerusalem
as a man
wipeth a dish,
wiping it,
and turning it upside down.
And
I will forsake
the remnant
of mine inheritance,
and deliver them
into the hand
of their enemies;
and they
shall become
a prey and a
spoil
to all their enemies;
Because
they
have done
that which
was evil
in my sight,
and have provoked me
to anger,
since the day
their fathers
came forth out of Egypt,
even unto this day.
Moreover Manasseh
shed innocent blood very much,
till he
had filled Jerusalem
from one end
to another;
beside his sin
wherewith
he made Judah
to sin,
in doing
that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Manasseh,
and all that
he did,
and his sin
that he sinned,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
And Manasseh
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
in the garden
of his own house,
in the garden
of Uzza:
and Amon
his son
reigned
in his stead.
Amon was twenty
and two years old
when
he began
to reign,
and
he reigned two years
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Meshullemeth,
the daughter
of Haruz
of Jotbah.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
as his father Manasseh did.
And he
walked
in all
the way
that his father
walked in,
and served
the idols
that his father served,
and worshipped them:
And he
forsook
the LORD God
of his fathers,
and walked not
in the way
of the LORD.
And
the servants
of Amon
conspired against him,
and slew
the king
in his own house.
And the people
of the land
slew all them
that had conspired
against king Amon;
and the people
of the land made
Josiah his son king
in his stead.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Amon
which he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
And
he was buried
in his sepulchre
in the garden
of Uzza:
and Josiah
his son
reigned
in his stead.
Josiah
was
eight years old
when
he began
to reign,
and
he reigned thirty
and one years
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Jedidah,
the daughter
of Adaiah
of Boscath.
And he
did that which
was right
in the sight
of the LORD,
and walked
in all the way
of David his father,
and turned not
aside to the right hand
or
to the left.
And it
came
to pass
in the eighteenth year
of king Josiah,
that the king
sent Shaphan
the son
of Azaliah,
the son
of Meshullam,
the scribe,
to the house
of the LORD,
saying,
Go up to Hilkiah
the high priest,
that he
may sum
the silver which
is brought
into the house
of the LORD,
which the keepers
of the door
have gathered
of the people:
And let them
deliver it
into the hand
of the doers
of the work,
that have
the oversight
of the house
of the LORD:
and let them
give it
to the doers
of the work
which is in the house
of the LORD,
to repair the breaches
of the house,
Unto carpenters,
and builders,
and masons,
and to buy
timber
and hewn
stone to repair
the house.
Howbeit
there was
no reckoning
made with them of the money
that was delivered
into their hand,
because
they dealt faithfully.
And Hilkiah
the high priest
said
unto Shaphan
the scribe,
I have found
the book
of the law
in the house
of the LORD.
And Hilkiah
gave
the book
to Shaphan,
and
he read it.
And Shaphan
the scribe
came
to the king,
and brought
the king
word again,
and said,
Thy servants
have gathered the money
that was found
in the house,
and have delivered it
into the hand
of them that
do the work,
that have
the oversight
of the house
of the LORD.
And Shaphan
the scribe
shewed the king,
saying,
Hilkiah the priest
hath delivered me
a book.
And Shaphan read it
before the king.
And it
came
to pass,
when the king
had heard
the words
of the book
of the law,
that he
rent his clothes.
And the king
commanded Hilkiah
the priest,
and Ahikam
the son
of Shaphan,
and Achbor
the son
of Michaiah,
and Shaphan
the scribe,
and Asahiah
a servant
of the king's,
saying,
Go ye,
enquire
of the LORD
for me,
and
for the people,
and
for all Judah,
concerning the words
of this book
that is found:
for great
is the wrath
of the LORD
that is kindled against us,
because
our fathers
have not hearkened
unto the words
of this book,
to do
according
unto all
that which
is written concerning us.
So Hilkiah
the priest,
and Ahikam,
and Achbor,
and Shaphan,
and Asahiah,
went unto Huldah
the prophetess,
the wife
of Shallum
the son
of Tikvah,
the son
of Harhas,
keeper
of the wardrobe;
(now
she dwelt
in Jerusalem
in the college;)
and they
communed
with her.
And
she
said unto them,
Thus
saith
the LORD God
of Israel,
Tell the man
that sent
you to me,
Thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will bring evil
upon this place,
and
upon the inhabitants
thereof,
even all the words
of the book
which the king
of Judah
hath read:
Because
they have forsaken me,
and have burned
incense
unto other gods,
that they
might provoke me
to anger
with all
the works
of their hands;
therefore my wrath
shall be kindled
against this place,
and shall not be quenched.
But to the king
of Judah which sent
you to enquire
of the LORD,
thus
shall
ye say to him,
Thus
saith
the LORD God
of Israel,
As touching
the words which
thou hast heard;
Because
thine heart
was tender,
and
thou hast humbled thyself
before the LORD,
when
thou heardest
what
I spake against this place,
and
against the inhabitants
thereof,
that they
should become
a desolation
and a curse,
and hast rent
thy clothes,
and wept
before me;
I also have heard thee,
saith the LORD.
Behold therefore,
I will gather thee
unto thy fathers,
and
thou shalt be gathered
into thy grave
in peace;
and thine
eyes
shall not see all the evil
which I
will bring
upon this place.
And they
brought
the king word again.
And the king sent,
and they
gathered
unto him all
the elders
of Judah
and of Jerusalem.
And the king
went up into the house
of the LORD,
and all
the men
of Judah
and all
the inhabitants
of Jerusalem
with him,
and the priests,
and the prophets,
and all
the people,
both small
and great:
and he
read
in their ears all the words
of the book
of the covenant which
was found in the house
of the LORD.
And the king
stood by
a pillar,
and made
a covenant
before the LORD,
to walk
after the LORD,
and
to keep
his commandments
and his testimonies
and his statutes
with all their heart
and all
their soul,
to perform the words
of this covenant
that were written
in this book.
And all
the people
stood
to the covenant.
And the king
commanded Hilkiah
the high priest,
and the priests
of the second order,
and the keepers
of the door,
to bring forth
out of the temple
of the LORD all
the vessels
that were made
for Baal,
and
for the grove,
and
for all
the host
of heaven:
and
he burned them
without Jerusalem
in the fields
of Kidron,
and carried
the ashes
of them
unto Bethel.
And
he put down
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 round
about Jerusalem;
them also
that burned
incense
unto Baal,
to the sun,
and to the moon,
and
to the planets,
and
to all the host
of heaven.
And he
brought
out the grove
from the house
of the LORD,
without Jerusalem,
unto the brook Kidron,
and burned it
at the brook Kidron,
and stamped it small
to powder,
and cast
the powder
thereof upon the graves
of the children
of the people.
And
he brake
down the houses
of the sodomites,
that were by the house
of the LORD,
where the women
wove hangings
for the grove.
And
he brought all
the priests
out of the cities
of Judah,
and defiled
the high places
where the priests
had burned incense,
from Geba
to Beersheba,
and brake
down the high places
of the gates
that were in the entering in
of the gate
of Joshua
the governor
of the city,
which were on a man's left
hand
at the gate
of the city.
Nevertheless the priests
of the high places
came not up to
the altar
of the LORD
in Jerusalem,
but
they did eat
of the unleavened bread
among their brethren.
And
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.
And he
took away
the horses that the kings
of Judah
had given
to the sun,
at the entering in
of the house
of the LORD,
by the chamber
of Nathanmelech the chamberlain,
which was in the suburbs,
and burned
the chariots
of the sun
with fire.
And the altars
that were on the top
of the upper chamber
of Ahaz,
which the kings
of Judah
had made,
and the altars which Manasseh
had made
in the two
courts
of the house
of the LORD,
did the king beat down,
and brake
them down
from thence,
and cast
the dust
of them into the brook Kidron.
And the high
places that
were before Jerusalem,
which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption,
which Solomon the king
of Israel
had builded
for Ashtoreth
the abomination
of the Zidonians,
and
for Chemosh
the abomination
of the Moabites,
and
for Milcom the abomination
of the children
of Ammon,
did the king defile.
And
he brake
in pieces the images,
and cut down
the groves,
and filled
their places
with the bones
of men.
Moreover the altar
that was at Bethel,
and the high place which Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
to sin,
had made,
both that altar
and the high place
he brake down,
and burned
the high place,
and stamped it small
to powder,
and burned
the grove.
And as Josiah
turned himself,
he spied
the sepulchres
that were there
in the mount,
and sent,
and took
the bones
out of the sepulchres,
and burned them
upon the altar,
and polluted it,
according to the word
of the LORD
which the man
of God proclaimed,
who proclaimed
these words.
Then he said,
What
title
is that
that I see?
And the men
of the city
told him,
It is the sepulchre
of the man
of God,
which came
from Judah,
and proclaimed
these things
that thou
hast done
against the altar
of Bethel.
And he said,
Let him alone;
let
no man
move his bones.
So they let
his bones alone,
with the bones
of the prophet
that came out of Samaria.
And all
the houses
also of the high
places that
were in the cities
of Samaria,
which the kings
of Israel
had made
to provoke the Lord
to anger,
Josiah took away,
and did to them
according to all
the acts
that he
had done
in Bethel.
And he
slew all
the priests
of the high
places that
were there
upon the altars,
and burned men's bones
upon them,
and returned
to Jerusalem.
And the king
commanded all
the people,
saying,
Keep the passover
unto the LORD your God,
as it is written
in the book
of this covenant.
Surely there was not holden
such a passover
from the days
of the judges
that judged
Israel,
nor
in all the days
of the kings
of Israel,
nor of the kings
of Judah;
But in the eighteenth year
of king Josiah,
wherein this passover
was holden
to the LORD
in Jerusalem.
Moreover the workers
with familiar spirits,
and the wizards,
and the images,
and the idols,
and all
the abominations
that were spied
in the land
of Judah
and in Jerusalem,
did Josiah put away,
that he
might perform
the words
of the law
which were written
in the book
that Hilkiah the priest
found
in the house
of the LORD.
And like
unto him was there no king
before him,
that turned
to the LORD
with all his heart,
and
with all his soul,
and
with all his might,
according to all
the law of Moses;
neither after him
arose there any like him.
Notwithstanding
the LORD
turned not
from the fierceness
of his great wrath,
wherewith
his anger
was kindled
against Judah,
because
of all the provocations
that Manasseh
had provoked him
withal.
And the LORD said,
I will remove Judah
also out of my sight,
as I
have removed
Israel,
and will cast
off this city Jerusalem
which I
have chosen,
and the house
of which
I said,
My name
shall be there.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Josiah,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
In his days Pharaohnechoh king
of Egypt
went up
against the king
of Assyria
to the river Euphrates:
and king Josiah
went against him;
and
he slew him
at Megiddo,
when
he had seen him.
And his servants
carried him
in a chariot dead
from Megiddo,
and brought him
to Jerusalem,
and buried him
in his own sepulchre.
And the people
of the land
took Jehoahaz
the son
of Josiah,
and anointed him,
and made him king
in his father's stead.
Jehoahaz was twenty
and three years old
when
he began
to reign;
and
he reigned three months
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Hamutal,
the daughter
of Jeremiah
of Libnah.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
according to all
that his fathers
had done.
And Pharaohnechoh
put him in bands
at Riblah
in the land
of Hamath,
that he
might not reign
in Jerusalem;
and put
the land
to a tribute
of an hundred talents
of silver,
and a talent
of gold.
And Pharaohnechoh
made Eliakim
the son
of Josiah king
in the room
of Josiah his father,
and turned
his name
to Jehoiakim,
and took Jehoahaz away:
and he
came
to Egypt,
and died there.
And 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,
of every one
according to his taxation,
to give it
unto Pharaohnechoh.
Jehoiakim was twenty
and five years old
when
he began
to reign;
and
he reigned eleven years
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Zebudah,
the daughter
of Pedaiah
of Rumah.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
according to all
that his fathers
had done.
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon
came up,
and Jehoiakim
became
his servant three years:
then he
turned
and
rebelled against him.
And the LORD
sent
against him bands
of the Chaldees,
and bands
of the Syrians,
and bands
of the Moabites,
and bands
of the children
of Ammon,
and sent them
against Judah
to destroy it,
according to
the word
of the LORD,
which he
spake by his servants
the prophets.
Surely at the commandment
of the LORD
came this
upon Judah,
to remove them
out of his sight,
for the sins
of Manasseh,
according to all
that
he did;
And
also for the innocent blood
that he shed:
for he
filled Jerusalem
with innocent blood;
which the LORD
would not pardon.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Jehoiakim,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
So Jehoiakim
slept
with his fathers:
and Jehoiachin
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And
the king
of Egypt
came not again any more
out of his land:
for the king
of Babylon
had taken
from the river
of Egypt
unto the river Euphrates all
that pertained
to the king
of Egypt.
Jehoiachin
was
eighteen years old
when
he began
to reign,
and he
reigned
in Jerusalem three months.
And his mother's name
was Nehushta,
the daughter
of Elnathan
of Jerusalem.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
according to all
that his father
had done.
At that time the servants
of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon
came up
against Jerusalem,
and the city
was besieged.
And
Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon
came against the city,
and his servants
did besiege it.
And Jehoiachin
the king
of Judah
went out to the king
of Babylon,
he,
and his mother,
and his servants,
and his princes,
and his officers:
and
the king
of Babylon
took him in the eighth year
of his reign.
And
he carried out thence all
the treasures
of the house
of the LORD,
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 the temple
of the LORD,
as the LORD
had said.
And
he carried away all
Jerusalem,
and all
the princes,
and all
the mighty men
of valour,
even ten thousand captives,
and all
the craftsmen
and smiths:
none remained,
save the poorest sort
of the people
of the land.
And
he carried away Jehoiachin
to Babylon,
and the king's mother,
and the king's wives,
and his officers,
and the mighty
of the land,
those carried
he into captivity
from Jerusalem
to Babylon.
And all
the men
of might,
even seven thousand,
and craftsmen
and smiths
a thousand,
all that
were
strong
and apt
for war,
even
them the king
of Babylon brought captive
to Babylon.
And the king
of Babylon made
Mattaniah
his father's brother king
in his stead,
and changed
his name
to Zedekiah.
Zedekiah was twenty
and one years old
when
he began
to reign,
and
he reigned eleven years
in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Hamutal,
the daughter
of Jeremiah
of Libnah.
And he
did that which
was evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
according to all
that Jehoiakim
had done.
For through the anger
of the LORD
it came to pass
in Jerusalem
and Judah,
until he
had cast
them out
from his presence,
that Zedekiah
rebelled
against the king
of Babylon.
And it
came
to pass
in the ninth year
of his reign,
in the tenth month,
in the tenth day
of the month,
that Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon came,
he,
and all
his host,
against Jerusalem,
and pitched
against it;
and
they built forts
against it round about.
And the city
was besieged
unto the eleventh year
of king Zedekiah.
And on the ninth day
of the fourth month
the famine
prevailed
in the city,
and there was no bread
for the people
of the land.
And the city
was broken up,
and all
the men
of war
fled by night
by the way
of the gate
between two walls,
which is by the king's garden:
(now the Chaldees
were against the
city round about:)
and the king
went
the way
toward the plain.
And
the army
of the Chaldees
pursued
after the king,
and overtook him
in the plains
of Jericho:
and all
his army
were scattered from him.
So they
took the king,
and brought him up to
the king
of Babylon
to Riblah;
and
they gave judgment
upon him.
And they
slew
the sons
of Zedekiah
before his eyes,
and put out
the eyes
of Zedekiah,
and bound him
with fetters of brass,
and carried him
to Babylon.
And
in the fifth month,
on the seventh day
of the month,
which is
the nineteenth year
of king
Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon,
came Nebuzaradan,
captain
of the guard,
a servant
of the king
of Babylon,
unto Jerusalem:
And he
burnt
the house
of the LORD,
and the king's house,
and all
the houses
of Jerusalem,
and every great man's house
burnt he with fire.
And all
the army
of the Chaldees,
that were with the captain
of the guard,
brake
down the walls
of Jerusalem round about.
Now the rest
of the people
that were left
in the city,
and the fugitives
that fell away
to the king
of Babylon,
with the remnant
of the multitude,
did Nebuzaradan
the captain
of the guard
carry away.
But the captain
of the guard left
of the door
of the poor
of the land
to be vinedressers
and husbandmen.
And the pillars
of brass
that were in the house
of the LORD,
and the bases,
and the brasen sea
that was in the house
of the LORD,
did the Chaldees
break in pieces,
and carried
the brass
of them
to Babylon.
And the pots,
and the shovels,
and the snuffers,
and the spoons,
and all
the vessels
of brass
wherewith
they ministered,
took they away.
And the firepans,
and the bowls,
and such things as
were of gold,
in gold,
and of silver,
in silver,
the captain
of the guard took away.
The two pillars,
one sea,
and the bases which Solomon
had made
for the house
of the LORD;
the brass
of all these vessels
was without weight.
The height
of the one pillar
was eighteen cubits,
and the chapiter
upon it
was brass:
and the height
of the chapiter three cubits;
and the wreathen work,
and pomegranates
upon the chapiter round
about,
all of brass:
and like
unto these
had the second pillar
with wreathen work.
And
the captain
of the guard
took Seraiah
the chief priest,
and Zephaniah
the second priest,
and the three keepers
of the door:
And out of the city
he took
an officer
that was set
over the men
of war,
and five men
of them that
were in the king's presence,
which were found
in the city,
and the principal scribe
of the host,
which mustered
the people
of the land,
and threescore men
of the people
of the land
that were found
in the city:
And
Nebuzaradan captain
of the guard
took these,
and brought them
to the king
of Babylon
to Riblah:
And
the king
of Babylon
smote them,
and slew them
at Riblah
in the land
of Hamath.
So Judah
was carried away
out of their land.
And as for the people
that remained
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,
ruler.
And
when all
the captains
of the armies,
they and their men,
heard
that the king
of Babylon
had made
Gedaliah governor,
there came
to Gedaliah
to Mizpah,
even Ishmael
the son
of Nethaniah,
and Johanan
the son
of Careah,
and Seraiah
the son
of Tanhumeth
the Netophathite,
and Jaazaniah
the son
of a Maachathite,
they and their men.
And Gedaliah
sware
to them,
and to their men,
and
said unto them,
Fear
not
to be the servants
of the Chaldees:
dwell
in the land,
and serve
the king
of Babylon;
and it
shall be well
with you.
But it
came
to pass
in the seventh month,
that Ishmael
the son
of Nethaniah,
the son
of Elishama,
of the seed royal,
came,
and ten men
with him,
and smote Gedaliah,
that he died,
and the Jews
and the Chaldees
that were with him
at Mizpah.
And all
the people,
both small
and great,
and the captains
of the armies,
arose,
and came
to Egypt:
for they
were afraid
of the Chaldees.
And it
came
to pass
in the seven
and thirtieth year
of the captivity
of Jehoiachin king
of Judah,
in the twelfth month,
on the seven
and twentieth day
of the month,
that Evilmerodach king
of Babylon
in the year
that
he began to reign did lift
up the head
of Jehoiachin king
of Judah
out of prison;
And
he spake kindly
to him,
and set
his throne above the throne
of the kings
that were with him
in Babylon;
And changed
his prison garments:
and
he did eat bread
continually before him all
the days
of his life.
And his allowance
was a continual allowance
given him
of the king,
a daily rate
for every day,
all the days
of his life.