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KI2 1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of
Ahab.
KI2 1:2 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.
KI2 1:3 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?
KI2 1:4 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.
KI2 1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said
unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
KI2 1:6 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.
KI2 1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which
came up to meet you, and told you these words?
KI2 1:8 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.
KI2 1:9 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.
KI2 1:10 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.
KI2 1:11 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.
KI2 1:12 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.
KI2 1:13 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.
KI2 1:14 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.
KI2 1:15 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.
KI2 1:16 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.
KI2 1:17 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.
KI2 1:18 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?
KI2 2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah
into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from
Gilgal.
KI2 2:2 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.
KI2 2:3 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.
KI2 2:4 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.
KI2 2:5 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.
KI2 2:6 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.
KI2 2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and
stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
KI2 2:8 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.
KI2 2:9 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.
KI2 2:10 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.
KI2 2:11 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.
KI2 2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father,
the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.  And he saw him
no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in
two pieces.
KI2 2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
KI2 2:14 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.
KI2 2:15 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.
KI2 2:16 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.
KI2 2:17 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.
KI2 2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at
Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
KI2 2:19 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.
KI2 2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt
therein.  And they brought it to him.
KI2 2:21 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.
KI2 2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to
the saying of Elisha which he spake.
KI2 2:23 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.
KI2 2:24 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.
KI2 2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from
thence he returned to Samaria.
KI2 3:1 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.
KI2 3:2 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.
KI2 3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not
therefrom.
KI2 3:4 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.
KI2 3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king
of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
KI2 3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and
numbered all Israel.
KI2 3:7 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.
KI2 3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up?  And he answered,
The way through the wilderness of Edom.
KI2 3:9 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.
KI2 3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas!  that the LORD hath
called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand
of Moab!
KI2 3:11 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.
KI2 3:12 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.
KI2 3:13 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.
KI2 3:14 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.
KI2 3:15 But now bring me a minstrel.  And it came to pass, when
the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
KI2 3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full
of ditches.
KI2 3:17 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.
KI2 3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD:
he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
KI2 3:19 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.
KI2 3:20 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.
KI2 3:21 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.
KI2 3:22 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:
KI2 3:23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely
slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab,
to the spoil.
KI2 3:24 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.
KI2 3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece
of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they
stopped 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.
KI2 3:26 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.
KI2 3:27 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.
KI2 4:1 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.
KI2 4:2 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.
KI2 4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
KI2 4:4 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.
KI2 4:5 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.
KI2 4:6 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.
KI2 4:7 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.
KI2 4:8 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.
KI2 4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive
that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us
continually.
KI2 4:10 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.
KI2 4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he
turned into the chamber, and lay there.
KI2 4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this
Shunammite.  And when he had called her, she stood before him.
KI2 4:13 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.
KI2 4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her?  And
Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is
old.
KI2 4:15 And he said, Call her.  And when he had called her, she
stood in the door.
KI2 4:16 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.
KI2 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season
that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
KI2 4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he
went out to his father to the reapers.
KI2 4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head.  And he
said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
KI2 4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his
mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
KI2 4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of
God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
KI2 4:22 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.
KI2 4:23 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.
KI2 4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant,
Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid
thee.
KI2 4:25 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:
KI2 4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is
it well with thee?  is it well with thy husband?  is it well
with the child?  And she answered, It is well:
KI2 4:27 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.
KI2 4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?  did I
not say, Do not deceive me?
KI2 4:29 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.
KI2 4:30 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.
KI2 4:31 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.
KI2 4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the
child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
KI2 4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them
twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
KI2 4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his
mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands
upon his hands: and stretched himself upon the child; and the
flesh of the child waxed warm.
KI2 4:35 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.
KI2 4:36 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.
KI2 4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed
herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
KI2 4:38 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.
KI2 4:39 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.
KI2 4:40 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.
KI2 4:41 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.
KI2 4:42 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.
KI2 4:43 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.
KI2 4:44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left
thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
KI2 5:1 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.
KI2 5:2 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.
KI2 5:3 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.
KI2 5:4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and
thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
KI2 5:5 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.
KI2 5:6 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.
KI2 5:7 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.
KI2 5:8 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.
KI2 5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and
stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
KI2 5:10 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.
KI2 5:11 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.
KI2 5:12 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.
KI2 5:13 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?
KI2 5:14 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.
KI2 5:15 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.
KI2 5:16 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.
KI2 5:17 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.
KI2 5:18 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.
KI2 5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace.  So he departed from
him a little way.
KI2 5:20 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.
KI2 5:21 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?
KI2 5:22 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.
KI2 5:23 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.
KI2 5:24 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.
KI2 5:25 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.
KI2 5:26 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?
KI2 5:27 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.
KI2 6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold
now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
KI2 6:2 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.
KI2 6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy
servants.  And he answered, I will go.
KI2 6:4 So he went with them.  And when they came to Jordan,
they cut down wood.
KI2 6:5 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.
KI2 6:6 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.
KI2 6:7 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee.  And he put out
his hand, and took it.
KI2 6:8 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.
KI2 6:9 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.
KI2 6:10 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.
KI2 6:11 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?
KI2 6:12 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.
KI2 6:13 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.
KI2 6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a
great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city
about.
KI2 6:15 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?
KI2 6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are
more than they that be with them.
KI2 6:17 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.
KI2 6:18 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.
KI2 6:19 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.
KI2 6:20 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.
KI2 6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw
them, My father, shall I smite them?  shall I smite them?
KI2 6:22 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.
KI2 6:23 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.
KI2 6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of
Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
KI2 6:25 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.
KI2 6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,
there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
KI2 6:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall
I help thee?  out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
KI2 6:28 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.
KI2 6:29 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.
KI2 6:30 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.
KI2 6:31 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.
KI2 6:32 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?
KI2 6:33 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?
KI2 7:1 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.
KI2 7:2 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.
KI2 7:3 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?
KI2 7:4 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.
KI2 7:5 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.
KI2 7:6 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.
KI2 7:7 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.
KI2 7:8 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.
KI2 7:9 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.
KI2 7:10 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.
KI2 7:11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the
king's house within.
KI2 7:12 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.
KI2 7:13 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.
KI2 7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king
sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
KI2 7:15 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.
KI2 7:16 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.
KI2 7:17 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.
KI2 7:18 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:
KI2 7:19 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.
KI2 7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon
him in the gate, and he died.
KI2 8:1 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.
KI2 8:2 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.
KI2 8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the
woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went
forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
KI2 8:4 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.
KI2 8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he
had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose
son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and
for her land.  And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the
woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
KI2 8:6 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.
KI2 8:7 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.
KI2 8:8 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?
KI2 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him,
even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and
came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of
Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?
KI2 8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall
surely die.
KI2 8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept.
KI2 8:12 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.
KI2 8:13 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.
KI2 8:14 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.
KI2 8:15 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.
KI2 8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of
Je hoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
KI2 8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign;
and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
KI2 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did
the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he
did evil in the sight of the LORD.
KI2 8:19 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.
KI2 8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah,
and made a king over themselves.
KI2 8:21 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.
KI2 8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto
this day.  Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
KI2 8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?
KI2 8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in
his stead.
KI2 8:25 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.
KI2 8:26 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.
KI2 8:27 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.
KI2 8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war
against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians
wounded Joram.
KI2 8:29 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.
KI2 9:1 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:
KI2 9:2 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;
KI2 9:3 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.
KI2 9:4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went
to Ramothgilead.
KI2 9:5 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.
KI2 9:6 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.
KI2 9:7 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.
KI2 9:8 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:
KI2 9:9 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:
KI2 9:10 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.
KI2 9:11 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.
KI2 9:12 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.
KI2 9:13 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.
KI2 9:14 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.
KI2 9:15 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.
KI2 9:16 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.
KI2 9:17 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?
KI2 9:18 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.
KI2 9:19 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.
KI2 9:20 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.
KI2 9:21 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.
KI2 9:22 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?
KI2 9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to
Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
KI2 9:24 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.
KI2 9:25 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;
KI2 9:26 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.
KI2 9:27 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.
KI2 9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem,
and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of
David.
KI2 9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
KI2 9:30 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.
KI2 9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri
peace, who slew his master?
KI2 9:32 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.
KI2 9:33 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.
KI2 9:34 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.
KI2 9:35 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.
KI2 9:36 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:
KI2 9:37 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.
KI2 10:1 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,
KI2 10:2 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;
KI2 10:3 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.
KI2 10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two
kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
KI2 10:5 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.
KI2 10:6 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.
KI2 10:7 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.
KI2 10:8 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.
KI2 10:9 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?
KI2 10:10 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.
KI2 10:11 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.
KI2 10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria.  And
as he was at the shearing house in the way,
KI2 10:13 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.
KI2 10:14 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.
KI2 10:15 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.
KI2 10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the
LORD.  So they made him ride in his chariot.
KI2 10:17 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.
KI2 10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said
unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him
much.
KI2 10:19 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.
KI2 10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.
And they proclaimed it.
KI2 10:21 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.
KI2 10:22 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.
KI2 10:23 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.
KI2 10:24 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.
KI2 10:25 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.
KI2 10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of
Baal, and burned them.
KI2 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down
the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
KI2 10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
KI2 10:29 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.
KI2 10:30 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.
KI2 10:31 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.
KI2 10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and
Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
KI2 10:33 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.
KI2 10:34 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?
KI2 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him
in Samaria.  And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
KI2 10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria
was twenty and eight years.
KI2 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her
son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
KI2 11:2 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.
KI2 11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six
years.  And Athaliah did reign over the land.
KI2 11:4 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.
KI2 11:5 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;
KI2 11:6 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.
KI2 11:7 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.
KI2 11:8 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.
KI2 11:9 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.
KI2 11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give
king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the
LORD.
KI2 11:11 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.
KI2 11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown
upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king,
and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God
save the king.
KI2 11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of
the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
KI2 11:14 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.
KI2 11:15 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.
KI2 11:16 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.
KI2 11:17 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.
KI2 11:18 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.
KI2 11:19 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.
KI2 11:20 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.
KI2 11:21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
KI2 12:1 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.
KI2 12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed
him.
KI2 12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people
still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
KI2 12:4 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,
KI2 12:5 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.
KI2 12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of
king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the
house.
KI2 12:7 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.
KI2 12:8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of
the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
KI2 12:9 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.
KI2 12:10 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.
KI2 12:11 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,
KI2 12:12 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.
KI2 12:13 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:
KI2 12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired
therewith the house of the LORD.
KI2 12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose
hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for
they dealt faithfully.
KI2 12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into
the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
KI2 12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to
Jerusalem.
KI2 12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things
that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings
of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all
the gold 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.
KI2 12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
KI2 12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and
slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
KI2 12:21 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.
KI2 13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of
Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign
over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
KI2 13:2 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.
KI2 13:3 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.
KI2 13:4 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.
KI2 13:5 (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.
KI2 13:6 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.)
KI2 13:7 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.
KI2 13:8 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?
KI2 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried
him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
KI2 13:10 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.
KI2 13:11 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.
KI2 13:12 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?
KI2 13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat
upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings
of Israel.
KI2 13:14 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.
KI2 13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows.  And he
took unto him bow and arrows.
KI2 13:16 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.
KI2 13:17 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.
KI2 13:18 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.
KI2 13:19 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.
KI2 13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him.  And the bands
of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
KI2 13:21 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.
KI2 13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days
of Jehoahaz.
KI2 13:23 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.
KI2 13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son
reigned in his stead.
KI2 13:25 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.
KI2 14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of
Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
KI2 14:2 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.
KI2 14:3 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.
KI2 14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the
people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
KI2 14:5 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.
KI2 14:6 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.
KI2 14:7 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.
KI2 14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of
Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look
one another in the face.
KI2 14:9 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.
KI2 14:10 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?
KI2 14:11 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.
KI2 14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they
fled every man to their tents.
KI2 14:13 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.
KI2 14:14 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.
KI2 14:15 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?
KI2 14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned
in his stead.
KI2 14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after
the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years.
KI2 14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
KI2 14:19 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.
KI2 14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
KI2 14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was
sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father
Amaziah.
KI2 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that
the king slept with his fathers.
KI2 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king
of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign
in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
KI2 14:24 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.
KI2 14:25 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.
KI2 14:26 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.
KI2 14:27 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.
KI2 14:28 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?
KI2 14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the
kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
KI2 15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of
Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
KI2 15:2 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.
KI2 15:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
KI2 15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
KI2 15:5 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.
KI2 15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
KI2 15:7 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.
KI2 15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah
did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria
six months.
KI2 15:9 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.
KI2 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him,
and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in
his stead.
KI2 15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they
are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
KI2 15:12 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.
KI2 15:13 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.
KI2 15:14 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.
KI2 15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his
conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
KI2 15:16 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.
KI2 15:17 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.
KI2 15:18 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.
KI2 15:19 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.
KI2 15:20 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.
KI2 15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
KI2 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his
son reigned in his stead.
KI2 15:23 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.
KI2 15:24 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.
KI2 15:25 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.
KI2 15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he
did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel.
KI2 15:27 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.
KI2 15:28 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.
KI2 15:29 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.
KI2 15:30 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.
KI2 15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he
did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel.
KI2 15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king
of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to
reign.
KI2 15:33 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.
KI2 15:34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
KI2 15:35 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.
KI2 15:36 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?
KI2 15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
KI2 15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son
reigned in his stead.
KI2 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
KI2 16:2 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.
KI2 16:3 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.
KI2 16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places,
and on the hills, and under every green tree.
KI2 16:5 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.
KI2 16:6 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.
KI2 16:7 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.
KI2 16:8 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.
KI2 16:9 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.
KI2 16:10 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.
KI2 16:11 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.
KI2 16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw
the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered
thereon.
KI2 16:13 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.
KI2 16:14 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.
KI2 16:15 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.
KI2 16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king
Ahaz commanded.
KI2 16:17 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.
KI2 16:18 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.
KI2 16:19 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?
KI2 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned
in his stead.
KI2 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea
the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
KI2 17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
KI2 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and
Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
KI2 17:4 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.
KI2 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the
land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
KI2 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them
in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities
of the Medes.
KI2 17:7 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,
KI2 17:8 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.
KI2 17:9 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.
KI2 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high
hill, and under every green tree:
KI2 17:11 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:
KI2 17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto
them, Ye shall not do this thing.
KI2 17:13 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.
KI2 17:14 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.
KI2 17:15 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.
KI2 17:16 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.
KI2 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger.
KI2 17:18 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.
KI2 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their
God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
KI2 17:20 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.
KI2 17:21 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.
KI2 17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
KI2 17:23 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.
KI2 17:24 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.
KI2 17:25 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.
KI2 17:26 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.
KI2 17:27 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.
KI2 17:28 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.
KI2 17:29 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.
KI2 17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men
of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
KI2 17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
KI2 17:32 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.
KI2 17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after
the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
KI2 17:34 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;
KI2 17:35 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:
KI2 17:36 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.
KI2 17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and
the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do
for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
KI2 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall
not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
KI2 17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall
deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
KI2 17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their
former manner.
KI2 17:41 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.
KI2 18:1 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.
KI2 18:2 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.
KI2 18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that David his father did.
KI2 18:4 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.
KI2 18:5 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.
KI2 18:6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from
following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD
commanded Moses.
KI2 18:7 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.
KI2 18:8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the
borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced
city.
KI2 18:9 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.
KI2 18:10 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.
KI2 18:11 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:
KI2 18:12 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.
KI2 18:13 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.
KI2 18:14 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.
KI2 18:15 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.
KI2 18:16 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.
KI2 18:17 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.
KI2 18:18 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.
KI2 18:19 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?
KI2 18:20 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?
KI2 18:21 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.
KI2 18:22 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?
KI2 18:23 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.
KI2 18:24 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?
KI2 18:25 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.
KI2 18:26 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.
KI2 18:27 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?
KI2 18:28 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:
KI2 18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for
he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
KI2 18:30 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.
KI2 18:31 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:
KI2 18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own
land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a
land of 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.
KI2 18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all
his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
KI2 18:34 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?
KI2 18:35 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?
KI2 18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not
a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
KI2 18:37 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.
KI2 19:1 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.
KI2 19:2 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.
KI2 19:3 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.
KI2 19:4 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.
KI2 19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
KI2 19:6 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.
KI2 19:7 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.
KI2 19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed
from Lachish.
KI2 19:9 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,
KI2 19:10 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.
KI2 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered?
KI2 19:12 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?
KI2 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
KI2 19:14 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.
KI2 19:15 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.
KI2 19:16 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.
KI2 19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed
the nations and their lands,
KI2 19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were
no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore
they have destroyed them.
KI2 19:19 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.
KI2 19:20 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.
KI2 19:21 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.
KI2 19:22 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.
KI2 19:23 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.
KI2 19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the
sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged
places.
KI2 19:25 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.
KI2 19:26 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.
KI2 19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy rage against me.
KI2 19:28 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.
KI2 19:29 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.
KI2 19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
KI2 19:31 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.
KI2 19:32 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.
KI2 19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
KI2 19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own
sake, and for my servant David's sake.
KI2 19:35 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.
KI2 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
KI2 19:37 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.
KI2 20:1 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.
KI2 20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto
the LORD, saying,
KI2 20:3 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.
KI2 20:4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the
middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
KI2 20:5 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.
KI2 20:6 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.
KI2 20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs.  And they took
and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
KI2 20:8 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?
KI2 20:9 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?
KI2 20:10 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.
KI2 20:11 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.
KI2 20:12 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.
KI2 20:13 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.
KI2 20:14 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.
KI2 20:15 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.
KI2 20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the
LORD.
KI2 20:17 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.
KI2 20:18 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.
KI2 20:19 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?
KI2 20:20 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?
KI2 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his
son reigned in his stead.
KI2 21:1 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.
KI2 21:2 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.
KI2 21:3 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.
KI2 21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which
the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
KI2 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of the house of the LORD.
KI2 21:6 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.
KI2 21:7 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:
KI2 21:8 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.
KI2 21:9 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.
KI2 21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets,
saying,
KI2 21:11 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:
KI2 21:12 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.
KI2 21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria,
and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem
as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
KI2 21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance,
and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall
become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
KI2 21:15 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.
KI2 21:16 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.
KI2 21:17 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?
KI2 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his
son reigned in his stead.
KI2 21:19 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.
KI2 21:20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
KI2 21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked
in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped
them:
KI2 21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked
not in the way of the LORD.
KI2 21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and
slew the king in his own house.
KI2 21:24 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.
KI2 21:25 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?
KI2 21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of
Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
KI2 22:1 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.
KI2 22:2 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.
KI2 22:3 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,
KI2 22:4 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:
KI2 22:5 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,
KI2 22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy
timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
KI2 22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the
money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt
faithfully.
KI2 22:8 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.
KI2 22:9 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.
KI2 22:10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying,
Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book.  And Shaphan read
it before the king.
KI2 22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words
of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
KI2 22:12 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,
KI2 22:13 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.
KI2 22:14 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.
KI2 22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
KI2 22:16 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:
KI2 22:17 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.
KI2 22:18 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;
KI2 22:19 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.
KI2 22:20 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.
KI2 23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the
elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
KI2 23:2 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.
KI2 23:3 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.
KI2 23:4 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.
KI2 23:5 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.
KI2 23:6 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.
KI2 23:7 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.
KI2 23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of
Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned
incense, from Geba 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.
KI2 23:9 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.
KI2 23:10 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.
KI2 23:11 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.
KI2 23:12 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.
KI2 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which
were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon
the king of Israel had 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.
KI2 23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the
groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
KI2 23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high
place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,
had made, 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.
KI2 23:16 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.
KI2 23:17 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.
KI2 23:18 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.
KI2 23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that were
in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them
according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
KI2 23:20 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.
KI2 23:21 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.
KI2 23:22 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;
KI2 23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein
this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
KI2 23:24 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.
KI2 23:25 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.
KI2 23:26 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.
KI2 23:27 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.
KI2 23:28 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?
KI2 23:29 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.
KI2 23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from
Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
sepulchre.  And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's
stead.
KI2 23:31 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.
KI2 23:32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
KI2 23:33 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.
KI2 23:34 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.
KI2 23:35 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.
KI2 23:36 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.
KI2 23:37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
KI2 24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and
rebelled against him.
KI2 24:2 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.
KI2 24:3 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;
KI2 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he
filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not
pardon.
KI2 24:5 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?
KI2 24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his
son reigned in his stead.
KI2 24:7 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.
KI2 24:8 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.
KI2 24:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father had done.
KI2 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
KI2 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the
city, and his servants did besiege it.
KI2 24:12 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.
KI2 24:13 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.
KI2 24:14 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.
KI2 24:15 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.
KI2 24:16 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.
KI2 24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's
brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
KI2 24:18 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.
KI2 24:19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
KI2 24:20 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.
KI2 25:1 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.
KI2 25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of
king Zedekiah.
KI2 25:3 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.
KI2 25:4 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.
KI2 25:5 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.
KI2 25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king
of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
KI2 25:7 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.
KI2 25:8 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:
KI2 25:9 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.
KI2 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the
captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round
about.
KI2 25:11 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.
KI2 25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the door of the
poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
KI2 25:13 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.
KI2 25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and
the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away.
KI2 25:15 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.
KI2 25:16 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.
KI2 25:17 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.
KI2 25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers
of the door:
KI2 25:19 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:
KI2 25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
KI2 25:21 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.
KI2 25:22 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.
KI2 25:23 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.
KI2 25:24 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.
KI2 25:25 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.
KI2 25:26 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.
KI2 25:27 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;
KI2 25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above
the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
KI2 25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread
continually before him all the days of his life.
KI2 25:30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him
of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his
life.