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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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king james study

2CH-1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his

kingdom, and the

LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

2CH-1:2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of

thousands and

of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all

Israel, the chief

of the fathers.

2CH-1:3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to

the high place

that [was] at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the

congregation of God,

which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

2CH-1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from

Kirjathjearim to [the

place which] David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a

tent for it at

Jerusalem.

2CH-1:5 Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri,

the son of

Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and

Solomon and the

congregation sought unto it.

2CH-1:6 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before

the LORD,

which [was] at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a

thousand

burnt offerings upon it.

2CH-1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said

unto him, Ask

what I shall give thee.

2CH-1:8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great mercy

unto David my

father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

2CH-1:9 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father

be established:

for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the

earth in

multitude.

2CH-1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out

and come in

before this people: for who can judge this thy people, [that is

so] great?

2CH-1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine

heart, and thou

hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine

enemies,

neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and

knowledge for

thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made

thee king:

2CH-1:12 Wisdom and knowledge [is] granted unto thee; and I

will give thee

riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have

had that [have

been] before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the

like.

2CH-1:13 Then Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place

that [was] at

Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the

congregation, and

reigned over Israel.

2CH-1:14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had

a thousand

and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which

he placed in

the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

2CH-1:15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as

plenteous] as

stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that [are]

in the vale

for abundance.

2CH-1:16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen

yarn: the

king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

2CH-1:17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a

chariot for

six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and

fifty: and so

brought they out [horses] for all the kings of the Hittites, and

for the kings

of Syria, by their means.

2CH-2:1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name

of the LORD,

and an house for his kingdom.

2CH-2:2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to

bear burdens,

and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three

thousand and six

hundred to oversee them.

2CH-2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As

thou didst

deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build

him an house to

dwell therein, [even so deal with me].

2CH-2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God,

to dedicate

[it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and for the

continual

showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on

the sabbaths,

and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our

God. This [is

an ordinance] for ever to Israel.

2CH-2:5 And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is]

our God above

all gods.

2CH-2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the

heaven and heaven

of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should

build him an

house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?

2CH-2:7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold,

and in silver,

and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue,

and that can

skill to grave with the cunning men that [are] with me in Judah

and in

Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

2CH-2:8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees,

out of Lebanon:

for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon;

and, behold,

my servants [shall be] with thy servants,

2CH-2:9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house

which I am

about to build [shall be] wonderful great.

2CH-2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers

that cut

timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty

thousand measures

of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty

thousand baths of

oil.

2CH-2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which

he sent to

Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made

thee king over

them.

2CH-2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of

Israel, that made

heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son,

endued with

prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the

LORD, and an

house for his kingdom.

2CH-2:13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with

understanding, of

Huram my father's,

2CH-2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his

father [was] a

man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass,

in iron, in

stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and

in crimson;

also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every

device which shall

be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of

my lord David

thy father.

2CH-2:15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and

the wine,

which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:

2CH-2:16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou

shalt need: and

we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou

shalt carry it up

to Jerusalem.

2CH-2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in

the land of

Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had

numbered them; and

they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand

and six

hundred.

2CH-2:18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be]

bearers of

burdens, and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain,

and three

thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

2CH-3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at

Jerusalem in

mount Moriah, where [the Lord] appeared unto David his father,

in the place

that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the

Jebusite.

2CH-3:2 And he began to build in the second [day] of the second

month, in the

fourth year of his reign.

2CH-3:3 Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was

instructed for the

building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the

first measure

[was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

2CH-3:4 And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house],

the length [of

it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits,

and the height

[was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure

gold.

2CH-3:5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he

overlaid with

fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

2CH-3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for

beauty: and the

gold [was] gold of Parvaim.

2CH-3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and

the walls

thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims

on the walls.

2CH-3:8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof

[was] according

to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth

thereof twenty

cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to six

hundred talents.

2CH-3:9 And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold.

And he

overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

2CH-3:10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of

image work, and

overlaid them with gold.

2CH-3:11 And the wings of the cherubims [were] twenty cubits

long: one wing

[of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the

house: and

the other wing [was likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing

of the other

cherub.

2CH-3:12 And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits,

reaching to

the wall of the house: and the other wing [was] five cubits

[also], joining to

the wing of the other cherub.

2CH-3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth

twenty cubits:

and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.

2CH-3:14 And he made the veil [of] blue, and purple, and

crimson, and fine

linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

2CH-3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty

and five cubits

high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them

[was] five

cubits.

2CH-3:16 And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them]

on the heads

of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put [them]

on the

chains.

2CH-3:17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on

the right

hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on

the right hand

Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

2CH-4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the

length thereof,

and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height

thereof.

2CH-4:2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to

brim, round in

compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of

thirty cubits did

compass it round about.

2CH-4:3 And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did

compass it round

about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows

of oxen [were]

cast, when it was cast.

2CH-4:4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the

north, and three

looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and

three looking

toward the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all

their hinder

parts [were] inward.

2CH-4:5 And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the

brim of it like

the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it

received and

held three thousand baths.

2CH-4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand,

and five on

the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the

burnt offering

they washed in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash

in.

2CH-4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their

form, and set

[them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the

left.

2CH-4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the

temple, five on the

right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basins

of gold.

2CH-4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the

great court,

and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with

brass.

2CH-4:10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end,

over against

the south.

2CH-4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the

basins. And Huram

finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the

house of God;

2CH-4:12 [To wit], the two pillars, and the pommels, and the

chapiters [which

were] on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to

cover the two

pommels of the chapiters which [were] on the top of the pillars;

2CH-4:13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two

rows of

pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the

chapiters which

[were] upon the pillars.

2CH-4:14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;

2CH-4:15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

2CH-4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks,

and all their

instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the

house of the

LORD of bright brass.

2CH-4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the

clay ground

between Succoth and Zeredathah.

2CH-4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance:

for the

weight of the brass could not be found out.

2CH-4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the

house of God,

the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the showbread [was

set];

2CH-4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they

should burn

after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

2CH-4:21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, [made

he of] gold,

[and] that perfect gold;

2CH-4:22 And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and

the censers,

[of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors

thereof for the

most holy [place], and the doors of the house of the temple,

[were of] gold.

2CH-5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of

the LORD was

finished: and Solomon brought in [all] the things that David his

father had

dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments,

put he among

the treasures of the house of God.

2CH-5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all

the heads of the

tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto

Jerusalem, to

bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of

David, which

[is] Zion.

2CH-5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves

unto the king in

the feast which [was] in the seventh month.

2CH-5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took

up the ark.

2CH-5:5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the

congregation,

and all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, these

did the priests

[and] the Levites bring up.

2CH-5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel

that were

assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen,

which could not

be told nor numbered for multitude.

2CH-5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of

the LORD unto

his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy [place,

even] under

the wings of the cherubims:

2CH-5:8 For the cherubims spread forth [their] wings over the

place of the

ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof

above.

2CH-5:9 And they drew out the staves [of the ark], that the

ends of the

staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were

not seen

without. And there it is unto this day.

2CH-5:10 [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables

which Moses put

[therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the

children of

Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

2CH-5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of

the holy

[place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were

sanctified, [and] did

not [then] wait by course:

2CH-5:12 Also the Levites [which were] the singers, all of them

of Asaph, of

Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, [being]

arrayed in

white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at

the east end of

the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding

with

trumpets:)

2CH-5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers

[were] as one,

to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD;

and when they

lifted up [their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and

instruments of

music, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for his

mercy

[endureth] for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a

cloud, [even] the

house of the LORD;

2CH-5:14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by

reason of the

cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

2CH-6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would

dwell in the

thick darkness.

2CH-6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a

place for thy

dwelling for ever.

2CH-6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole

congregation of

Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

2CH-6:4 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who

hath with his

hands fulfilled [that] which he spake with his mouth to my

father David,

saying,

2CH-6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the

land of Egypt

I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house

in, that my

name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over

my people

Israel:

2CH-6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be

there; and have

chosen David to be over my people Israel.

2CH-6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an

house for the

name of the LORD God of Israel.

2CH-6:8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it

was in thine

heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it

was in thine

heart:

2CH-6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy

son which

shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for

my name.

2CH-6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he

hath spoken: for

I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the

throne of

Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the

name of the

LORD God of Israel.

2CH-6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the

covenant of the LORD,

that he made with the children of Israel.

2CH-6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the

presence of all the

congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

2CH-6:13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits

long, and

five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the

midst of the

court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees

before all the

congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,

2CH-6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like

thee in the

heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and [showest]

mercy unto thy

servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:

2CH-6:15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father

that which

thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast

fulfilled [it]

with thine hand, as [it is] this day.

2CH-6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy

servant David my

father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall

not fail thee a

man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that

thy children

take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked

before me.

2CH-6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be

verified, which thou

hast spoken unto thy servant David.

2CH-6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?

behold,

heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much

less this house

which I have built!

2CH-6:19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant,

and to his

supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the

prayer which thy

servant prayeth before thee:

2CH-6:20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and

night, upon the

place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name

there; to hearken

unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

2CH-6:21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy

servant, and of thy

people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear

thou from thy

dwelling place, [even] from heaven; and when thou hearest,

forgive.

2CH-6:22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be

laid upon him to

make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this

house;

2CH-6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy

servants, by

requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head;

and by

justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his

righteousness.

2CH-6:24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before

the enemy,

because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and

confess thy name,

and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;

2CH-6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin

of thy people

Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to

them and to

their fathers.

2CH-6:26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain,

because they have

sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray toward this place, and

confess thy

name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

2CH-6:27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy

servants, and

of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way,

wherein they

should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given

unto thy

people for an inheritance.

2CH-6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence,

if there be

blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies

besiege them

in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever

sickness [there

be]:

2CH-6:29 [Then] what prayer [or] what supplication soever shall

be made of

any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know

his own sore

and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this

house:

2CH-6:30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and

forgive, and

render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart

thou knowest;

(for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

2CH-6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long

as they live

in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

2CH-6:32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy

people Israel,

but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and

thy mighty hand,

and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

2CH-6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy

dwelling place, and

do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that

all people of

the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as [doth] thy people

Israel, and

may know that this house which I have built is called by thy

name.

2CH-6:34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by

the way that

thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city

which thou hast

chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

2CH-6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their

supplication,

and maintain their cause.

2CH-6:36 If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which

sinneth not,)

and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before

[their] enemies, and

they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

2CH-6:37 Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither

they are

carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of

their captivity,

saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt

wickedly;

2CH-6:38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with

all their soul

in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them

captives, and

pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers,

and [toward] the

city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have

built for thy

name:

2CH-6:39 Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy

dwelling place,

their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause,

and forgive

thy people which have sinned against thee.

2CH-6:40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open,

and [let]

thine ears [be] attent unto the prayer [that is made] in this

place.

2CH-6:41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting

place, thou, and

the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed

with

salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

2CH-6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:

remember the

mercies of David thy servant.

2CH-7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire

came down from

heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and

the glory of

the LORD filled the house.

2CH-7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the

LORD, because

the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.

2CH-7:3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire

came down, and

the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with

their faces

to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the

LORD,

[saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

2CH-7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices

before the LORD.

2CH-7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two

thousand oxen,

and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all

the people

dedicated the house of God.

2CH-7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites

also with

instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made

to praise the

LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever, when David praised

by their

ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all

Israel stood.

2CH-7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that

[was] before

the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and

the fat of

the peace offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had

made was not

able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and

the fat.

2CH-7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days,

and all

Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in

of Hamath

unto the river of Egypt.

2CH-7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for

they kept the

dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

2CH-7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh

month he sent the

people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the

goodness that

the LORD had showed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel

his people.

2CH-7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the

king's house:

and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of

the LORD, and

in his own house, he prosperously effected.

2CH-7:12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said

unto him, I have

heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an

house of

sacrifice.

2CH-7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I

command the

locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my

people;

2CH-7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall

humble themselves,

and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;

then will I hear

from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their

land.

2CH-7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto

the prayer

[that is made] in this place.

2CH-7:16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that

my name may be

there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there

perpetually.

2CH-7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David

thy father

walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and

shalt observe

my statutes and my judgments;

2CH-7:18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom,

according as I have

covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail

thee a man [to

be] ruler in Israel.

2CH-7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my

commandments,

which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods,

and worship

them;

2CH-7:20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land

which I have

given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name,

will I cast

out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword

among all

nations.

2CH-7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an

astonishment to every one

that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done

thus unto

this land, and unto this house?

2CH-7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the

LORD God of their

fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and

laid hold on

other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath

he brought

all this evil upon them.

2CH-8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein

Solomon had

built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

2CH-8:2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon,

Solomon built

them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

2CH-8:3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against

it.

2CH-8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the

store cities,

which he built in Hamath.

2CH-8:5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the

nether, fenced

cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

2CH-8:6 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had,

and all the

chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that

Solomon desired

to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the

land of his

dominion.

2CH-8:7 [As for] all the people [that were] left of the

Hittites, and the

Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,

which [were]

not of Israel,

2CH-8:8 [But] of their children, who were left after them in

the land, whom

the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to

pay tribute

until this day.

2CH-8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no

servants for his

work; but they [were] men of war, and chief of his captains, and

captains of

his chariots and horsemen.

2CH-8:10 And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers,

[even] two

hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

2CH-8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of

the city of

David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My

wife shall not

dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because [the places

are] holy,

whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.

2CH-8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on

the altar of

the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

2CH-8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering

according to the

commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and

on the solemn

feasts, three times in the year, [even] in the feast of

unleavened bread, and

in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

2CH-8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his

father, the

courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to

their charges, to

praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day

required: the

porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David

the man of God

commanded.

2CH-8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king

unto the

priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the

treasures.

2CH-8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day

of the

foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished.

[So] the house

of the LORD was perfected.

2CH-8:17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the

sea side in

the land of Edom.

2CH-8:18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships,

and servants

that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants

of Solomon to

Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold,

and brought

[them] to king Solomon.

2CH-9:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of

Solomon, she came to

prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very

great company, and

camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious

stones: and when

she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was

in her heart.

2CH-9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was

nothing hid

from Solomon which he told her not.

2CH-9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of

Solomon, and the

house that he had built,

2CH-9:4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his

servants, and the

attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers

also, and their

apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of

the LORD; there

was no more spirit in her.

2CH-9:5 And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which

I heard in

mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

2CH-9:6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and

mine eyes had

seen [it]: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy

wisdom was not

told me: [for] thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

2CH-9:7 Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants,

which stand

continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

2CH-9:8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to

set thee on

his throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God

loved Israel,

to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over

them, to do

judgment and justice.

2CH-9:9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of

gold, and of

spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there

any such spice

as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

2CH-9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of

Solomon, which

brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.

2CH-9:11 And the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the

house of the

LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for

singers: and

there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

2CH-9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her

desire,

whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which she had brought unto

the king. So

she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

2CH-9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one

year was six

hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

2CH-9:14 Beside [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And

all the kings

of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver

to Solomon.

2CH-9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten

gold: six

hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.

2CH-9:16 And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold:

three hundred

[shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in

the house of

the forest of Lebanon.

2CH-9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and

overlaid it with

pure gold.

2CH-9:18 And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a

footstool of gold,

[which were] fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of

the sitting

place, and two lions standing by the stays:

2CH-9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on

the other upon

the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

2CH-9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [were of]

gold, and all

the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure

gold: none

[were of] silver; it was [not] any thing accounted of in the

days of Solomon.

2CH-9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the

servants of Huram:

every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold,

and silver,

ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

2CH-9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in

riches and

wisdom.

2CH-9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of

Solomon, to

hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

2CH-9:24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of

silver, and

vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and

mules, a rate

year by year.

2CH-9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and

chariots, and

twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities,

and with the

king at Jerusalem.

2CH-9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even

unto the land

of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

2CH-9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and

cedar trees

made he as the sycamore trees that [are] in the low plains in

abundance.

2CH-9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and

out of all

lands.

2CH-9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last,

[are] they not

written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy

of Ahijah the

Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam

the son of

Nebat?

2CH-9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty

years.

2CH-9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried

in the city of

David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

2CH-10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all

Israel come to

make him king.

2CH-10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat,

who [was] in

Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king,

heard [it],

that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

2CH-10:3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all

Israel came and

spake to Rehoboam, saying,

2CH-10:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease

thou somewhat

the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he

put upon us,

and we will serve thee.

2CH-10:5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three

days. And the

people departed.

2CH-10:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that

had stood

before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What

counsel give ye

[me] to return answer to this people?

2CH-10:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to

this people, and

please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy

servants for ever.

2CH-10:8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him,

and took

counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that

stood before

him.

2CH-10:9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may

return answer

to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat

the yoke that

thy father did put upon us?

2CH-10:10 And the young men that were brought up with him spake

unto him,

saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee,

saying, Thy

father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] somewhat lighter

for us; thus

shalt thou say unto them, My little [finger] shall be thicker

than my father's

loins.

2CH-10:11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I

will put more to

your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will

chastise you] with

scorpions.

2CH-10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on

the third day,

as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.

2CH-10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam

forsook the

counsel of the old men,

2CH-10:14 And answered them after the advice of the young men,

saying, My

father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father

chastised you

with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.

2CH-10:15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the

cause was of

God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the

hand of

Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

2CH-10:16 And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not

hearken unto

them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we

in David? and

[we have] none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to

your tents, O

Israel: [and] now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel

went to their

tents.

2CH-10:17 But [as for] the children of Israel that dwelt in the

cities of

Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

2CH-10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that [was] over the

tribute; and

the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But

king Rehoboam

made speed to get him up to [his] chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

2CH-10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto

this day.

2CH-11:1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered

of the house of

Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen

[men], which were

warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the

kingdom again to

Rehoboam.

2CH-11:2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of

God, saying,

2CH-11:3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah,

and to all

Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

2CH-11:4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight

against your

brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done

of me. And

they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going

against Jeroboam.

2CH-11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for

defence in

Judah.

2CH-11:6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

2CH-11:7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

2CH-11:8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

2CH-11:9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

2CH-11:10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which [are] in

Judah and in

Benjamin fenced cities.

2CH-11:11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains

in them, and

store of victual, and of oil and wine.

2CH-11:12 And in every several city [he put] shields and spears,

and made

them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

2CH-11:13 And the priests and the Levites that [were] in all

Israel resorted

to him out of all their coasts.

2CH-11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their

possession, and came

to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them

off from

executing the priest's office unto the LORD:

2CH-11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and

for the

devils, and for the calves which he had made.

2CH-11:16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such

as set their

hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to

sacrifice unto the

LORD God of their fathers.

2CH-11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made

Rehoboam the

son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked

in the way of

David and Solomon.

2CH-11:18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of

Jerimoth the son of

David to wife, [and] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of

Jesse;

2CH-11:19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shemariah, and

Zaham.

2CH-11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom;

which bare

him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

2CH-11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom

above all his

wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and

threescore

concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore

daughters.)

2CH-11:22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief,

[to be]

ruler among his brethren: for [he thought] to make him king.

2CH-11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his

children throughout

all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city:

and he gave

them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

2CH-12:1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the

kingdom, and

had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and

all Israel with

him.

2CH-12:2 And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king

Rehoboam

Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they

had transgressed

against the LORD,

2CH-12:3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand

horsemen: and

the people [were] without number that came with him out of Egypt;

the Lubims,

the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

2CH-12:4 And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to

Judah, and came

to Jerusalem.

2CH-12:5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to]

the princes of

Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of

Shishak, and said

unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and

therefore have I also

left you in the hand of Shishak.

2CH-12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled

themselves; and

they said, The LORD [is] righteous.

2CH-12:7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves,

the word of the

LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves;

[therefore] I

will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance;

and my wrath

shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

2CH-12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may

know my

service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

2CH-12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

and took away

the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the

king's house;

he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which

Solomon had made.

2CH-12:10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass,

and committed

[them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the

entrance of the

king's house.

2CH-12:11 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD,

the guard

came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard

chamber.

2CH-12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD

turned from him,

that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in Judah

things went

well.

2CH-12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem,

and reigned:

for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to

reign, and he

reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD

had chosen out

of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his

mother's name

[was] Naamah an Ammonitess.

2CH-12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to

seek the

LORD.

2CH-12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they

not written in

the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer

concerning genealogies?

And [there were] wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

2CH-12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried

in the city of

David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

2CH-13:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began

Abijah to reign

over Judah.

2CH-13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name

also [was]

Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war

between Abijah and

Jeroboam.

2CH-13:3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of

valiant men of

war, [even] four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set

the battle in

array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men,

[being] mighty men

of valour.

2CH-13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in

mount

Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

2CH-13:5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave

the kingdom

over Israel to David for ever, [even] to him and to his sons by

a covenant of

salt?

2CH-13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon

the son of

David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.

2CH-13:7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children

of Belial,

and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of

Solomon, when

Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand

them.

2CH-13:8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD

in the hand of

the sons of David; and ye [be] a great multitude, and [there

are] with you

golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

2CH-13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons

of Aaron, and

the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the

nations of

[other] lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself

with a young

bullock and seven rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that

are] no gods.

2CH-13:10 But as for us, the LORD [is] our God, and we have not

forsaken him;

and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, [are] the sons of

Aaron, and

the Levites [wait] upon [their] business:

2CH-13:11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every

evening burnt

sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also [set they in

order] upon the

pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof,

to burn every

evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have

forsaken him.

2CH-13:12 And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our]

captain, and his

priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O

children of Israel,

fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall

not prosper.

2CH-13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about

behind them: so

they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind them.

2CH-13:14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle [was]

before and

behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded

with the

trumpets.

2CH-13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of

Judah

shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel

before Abijah

and Judah.

2CH-13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God

delivered

them into their hand.

2CH-13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great

slaughter: so

there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

2CH-13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at

that time, and

the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the

LORD God of

their fathers.

2CH-13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities

from him, Bethel

with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and

Ephrain with

the towns thereof.

2CH-13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the

days of Abijah:

and the LORD struck him, and he died.

2CH-13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives,

and begat

twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2CH-13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and

his sayings,

[are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

2CH-14:1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him

in the city of

David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the

land was quiet

ten years.

2CH-14:2 And Asa did [that which was] good and right in the

eyes of the LORD

his God:

2CH-14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and

the high

places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

2CH-14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their

fathers, and to do

the law and the commandment.

2CH-14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the

high places and

the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

2CH-14:6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had

rest, and he

had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.

2CH-14:7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these

cities, and make

about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the

land [is] yet

before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have

sought [him], and

he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

2CH-14:8 And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and

spears, out of

Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare

shields and drew

bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these [were]

mighty men of

valour.

2CH-14:9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian

with an host of

a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto

Mareshah.

2CH-14:10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the

battle in array in

the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

2CH-14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD,

[it is]

nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that

have no power:

help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we

go against

this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God; let not man prevail

against thee.

2CH-14:12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and

before Judah; and

the Ethiopians fled.

2CH-14:13 And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued

them unto

Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not

recover

themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before

his host; and

they carried away very much spoil.

2CH-14:14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for

the fear of

the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for

there was

exceeding much spoil in them.

2CH-14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away

sheep and

camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

2CH-15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of

Oded:

2CH-15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear

ye me, Asa, and

all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you, while ye be with

him; and if

ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he

will forsake

you.

2CH-15:3 Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the

true God, and

without a teaching priest, and without law.

2CH-15:4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD

God of Israel,

and sought him, he was found of them.

2CH-15:5 And in those times [there was] no peace to him that

went out, nor to

him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the

inhabitants of the

countries.

2CH-15:6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city:

for God did

vex them with all adversity.

2CH-15:7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak:

for your

work shall be rewarded.

2CH-15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of

Oded the

prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out

of all the

land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had

taken from

mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that [was]

before the porch

of the LORD.

2CH-15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the

strangers with them

out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to

him out of

Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God [was]

with him.

2CH-15:10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in

the third

month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

2CH-15:11 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the

spoil [which]

they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

2CH-15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God

of their

fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

2CH-15:13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel

should be put

to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

2CH-15:14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and

with shouting,

and with trumpets, and with cornets.

2CH-15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had

sworn with all

their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was

found of them:

and the LORD gave them rest round about.

2CH-15:16 And also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the

king, he

removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in

a grove: and

Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the

brook Kidron.

2CH-15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:

nevertheless

the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2CH-15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things that

his father had

dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold,

and vessels.

2CH-15:19 And there was no [more] war unto the five and

thirtieth year of the

reign of Asa.

2CH-16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa

Baasha king of

Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent

that he might let

none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

2CH-16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the

treasures of the

house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad

king of Syria,

that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

2CH-16:3 [There is] a league between me and thee, as [there

was] between my

father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold;

go, break thy

league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

2CH-16:4 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the

captains of his

armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and

Dan, and

Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

2CH-16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [it], that he

left off

building of Ramah, and let his work cease.

2CH-16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried

away the stones

of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building;

and he built

therewith Geba and Mizpah.

2CH-16:7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of

Judah, and said

unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not

relied on the

LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped

out of thine

hand.

2CH-16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host,

with very many

chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD,

he delivered

them into thine hand.

2CH-16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the

whole earth,

to show himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart [is]

perfect toward

him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth

thou shalt

have wars.

2CH-16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a

prison house;

for [he was] in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa

oppressed

[some] of the people the same time.

2CH-16:11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo,

they [are]

written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2CH-16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was

diseased in

his feet, until his disease [was] exceeding [great]: yet in his

disease he

sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

2CH-16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one

and fortieth

year of his reign.

2CH-16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he

had made for

himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was

filled with

sweet odours and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the

apothecaries' art:

and they made a very great burning for him.

2CH-17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and

strengthened

himself against Israel.

2CH-17:2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah,

and set

garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim,

which Asa his

father had taken.

2CH-17:3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked

in the first

ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

2CH-17:4 But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked

in his

commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

2CH-17:5 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand;

and all Judah

brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in

abundance.

2CH-17:6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD:

moreover he

took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

2CH-17:7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his

princes, [even]

to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel,

and to

Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

2CH-17:8 And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and

Nethaniah, and

Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and

Adonijah, and

Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and

Jehoram,

priests.

2CH-17:9 And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the

law of the LORD

with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah,

and taught the

people.

2CH-17:10 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms

of the lands

that [were] round about Judah, so that they made no war against

Jehoshaphat.

2CH-17:11 Also [some] of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat

presents, and

tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven

thousand and seven

hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.

2CH-17:12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built

in Judah

castles, and cities of store.

2CH-17:13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and

the men of

war, mighty men of valour, [were] in Jerusalem.

2CH-17:14 And these [are] the numbers of them according to the

house of their

fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief,

and with him

mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.

2CH-17:15 And next to him [was] Jehohanan the captain, and with

him two

hundred and fourscore thousand.

2CH-17:16 And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, who

willingly offered

himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty

men of valour.

2CH-17:17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and

with him armed

men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

2CH-17:18 And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred

and fourscore

thousand ready prepared for the war.

2CH-17:19 These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the

king put in the

fenced cities throughout all Judah.

2CH-18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance,

and joined

affinity with Ahab.

2CH-18:2 And after [certain] years he went down to Ahab to

Samaria. And Ahab

killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people

that [he had]

with him, and persuaded him to go up [with him] to Ramothgilead.

2CH-18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of

Judah, Wilt

thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I [am] as

thou [art],

and my people as thy people; and [we will be] with thee in the

war.

2CH-18:4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire,

I pray thee,

at the word of the LORD to day.

2CH-18:5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of

prophets four

hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to

battle, or

shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver [it]

into the

king's hand.

2CH-18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of

the LORD

besides, that we might inquire of him?

2CH-18:7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There

is] yet one

man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he

never

prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same [is] Micaiah

the son of

Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

2CH-18:8 And the king of Israel called for one [of his]

officers, and said,

Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.

2CH-18:9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah

sat either of

them on his throne, clothed in [their] robes, and they sat in a

void place at

the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets

prophesied before

them.

2CH-18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns

of iron, and

said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria

until they be

consumed.

2CH-18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to

Ramothgilead,

and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of

the king.

2CH-18:12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to

him, saying,

Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king

with one assent;

let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and

speak thou

good.

2CH-18:13 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, even what my

God saith,

that will I speak.

2CH-18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto

him, Micaiah,

shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And

he said, Go ye

up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.

2CH-18:15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I

adjure thee that

thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?

2CH-18:16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the

mountains, as

sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no

master; let them

return [therefore] every man to his house in peace.

2CH-18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not

tell thee

[that] he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?

2CH-18:18 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I

saw the LORD

sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on

his right hand

and [on] his left.

2CH-18:19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of

Israel, that he

may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after

this manner,

and another saying after that manner.

2CH-18:20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the

LORD, and said,

I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?

2CH-18:21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in

the mouth of

all his prophets. And [the LORD] said, Thou shalt entice [him],

and thou shalt

also prevail: go out, and do [even] so.

2CH-18:22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying

spirit in the

mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil

against thee.

2CH-18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and

smote Micaiah

upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD

from me to

speak unto thee?

2CH-18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day

when thou

shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

2CH-18:25 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and

carry him back

to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

2CH-18:26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in

the prison, and

feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction,

until I return

in peace.

2CH-18:27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace,

[then] hath

not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.

2CH-18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of

Judah went up to

Ramothgilead.

2CH-18:29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will

disguise

myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So

the king of

Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.

2CH-18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of

the chariots

that [were] with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great,

save only with

the king of Israel.

2CH-18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the

chariots saw

Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel.

Therefore they

compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the

LORD helped

him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.

2CH-18:32 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the

chariots

perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back

again from

pursuing him.

2CH-18:33 And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and

smote the king of

Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to

his chariot

man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host;

for I am

wounded.

2CH-18:34 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king

of Israel

stayed [himself] up in [his] chariot against the Syrians until

the even: and

about the time of the sun going down he died.

2CH-19:1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his

house in peace to

Jerusalem.

2CH-19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet

him, and said

to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love

them that hate

the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

2CH-19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in

that thou hast

taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine

heart to seek

God.

2CH-19:4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out

again through

the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them

back unto the

LORD God of their fathers.

2CH-19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the

fenced cities of

Judah, city by city,

2CH-19:6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye

judge not for

man, but for the LORD, who [is] with you in the judgment.

2CH-19:7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you;

take heed and do

[it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor

respect of

persons, nor taking of gifts.

2CH-19:8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the

Levites, and [of]

the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the

judgment of

the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.

2CH-19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the

fear of the

LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

2CH-19:10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your

brethren that dwell

in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and

commandment,

statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they

trespass not against

the LORD, and [so] wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren:

this do, and

ye shall not trespass.

2CH-19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you

in all matters

of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the

house of Judah,

for all the king's matters: also the Levites [shall be] officers

before you.

Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.

2CH-20:1 It came to pass after this also, [that] the children

of Moab, and

the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside the

Ammonites, came

against Jehoshaphat to battle.

2CH-20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying,

There cometh a

great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side

Syria; and,

behold, they [be] in Hazazontamar, which [is] Engedi.

2CH-20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the

LORD, and

proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2CH-20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help]

of the LORD:

even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

2CH-20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and

Jerusalem, in

the house of the LORD, before the new court,

2CH-20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou

God in heaven?

and rulest [not] thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and

in thine hand

[is there not] power and might, so that none is able to

withstand thee?

2CH-20:7 [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the

inhabitants of

this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of

Abraham thy

friend for ever?

2CH-20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a

sanctuary therein for

thy name, saying,

2CH-20:9 If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword,

judgment, or

pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy

presence, (for

thy name [is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in our

affliction, then thou

wilt hear and help.

2CH-20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and

mount Seir,

whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of

the land of

Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

2CH-20:11 Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast

us out of thy

possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

2CH-20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no

might against

this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what

to do: but our

eyes [are] upon thee.

2CH-20:13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their

little ones, their

wives, and their children.

2CH-20:14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of

Benaiah, the

son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of

Asaph, came the

Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;

2CH-20:15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye

inhabitants of

Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto

you, Be not

afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the

battle [is] not

yours, but God's.

2CH-20:16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come

up by the

cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook,

before the

wilderness of Jeruel.

2CH-20:17 Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set

yourselves,

stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O

Judah and

Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against

them: for the

LORD [will be] with you.

2CH-20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the

ground: and

all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD,

worshipping

the LORD.

2CH-20:19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites,

and of the

children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of

Israel with a

loud voice on high.

2CH-20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth

into the

wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood

and said, Hear

me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the

LORD your God, so

shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye

prosper.

2CH-20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he

appointed singers

unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as

they went out

before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy

[endureth] for

ever.

2CH-20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD

set ambushments

against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were

come against

Judah; and they were smitten.

2CH-20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against

the inhabitants

of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and when they

had made an

end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy

another.

2CH-20:24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the

wilderness, they

looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they [were] dead bodies

fallen to the

earth, and none escaped.

2CH-20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away

the spoil of

them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the

dead bodies, and

precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more

than they could

carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil,

it was so

much.

2CH-20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in

the valley of

Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of

the same

place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.

2CH-20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem,

and

Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem

with joy; for

the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

2CH-20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps

and trumpets

unto the house of the LORD.

2CH-20:29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of

[those] countries,

when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of

Israel.

2CH-20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God

gave him rest

round about.

2CH-20:31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: [he was] thirty

and five years

old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years

in Jerusalem.

And his mother's name [was] Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

2CH-20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and

departed not from

it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD.

2CH-20:33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as

yet the people

had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

2CH-20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and

last, behold,

they [are] written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who

[is] mentioned

in the book of the kings of Israel.

2CH-20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join

himself with

Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

2CH-20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to

Tarshish: and

they made the ships in Eziongaber.

2CH-20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah

prophesied against

Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with

Ahaziah, the LORD

hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were

not able to

go to Tarshish.

2CH-21:1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried

with his

fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his

stead.

2CH-21:2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah,

and Jehiel,

and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all

these [were] the

sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

2CH-21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and

of gold, and

of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom

gave he to

Jehoram; because he [was] the firstborn.

2CH-21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his

father, he

strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword,

and [divers]

also of the princes of Israel.

2CH-21:5 Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began

to reign, and

he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2CH-21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like

as did the

house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he

wrought [that

which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD.

2CH-21:7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David,

because of

the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to

give a light

to him and to his sons for ever.

2CH-21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the

dominion of Judah,

and made themselves a king.

2CH-21:9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his

chariots with

him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which

compassed him in,

and the captains of the chariots.

2CH-21:10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah

unto this

day. The same time [also] did Libnah revolt from under his hand;

because he

had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

2CH-21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of

Judah, and caused

the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and

compelled Judah

[thereto].

2CH-21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the

prophet, saying,

Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast

not walked in

the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king

of Judah,

2CH-21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel,

and hast made

Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to

the whoredoms

of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy

father's house,

[which were] better than thyself:

2CH-21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy

people, and thy

children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

2CH-21:15 And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of

thy bowels,

until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

2CH-21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the

spirit of the

Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near the

Ethiopians:

2CH-21:17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and

carried away

all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his

sons also, and

his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz,

the youngest

of his sons.

2CH-21:18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels

with an

incurable disease.

2CH-21:19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after

the end of two

years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died

of sore

diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the

burning of his

fathers.

2CH-21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to

reign, and he

reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being

desired. Howbeit

they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres

of the kings.

2CH-22:1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his

youngest son king

in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to

the camp had

slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of

Judah reigned.

2CH-22:2 Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to

reign, and he

reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was]

Athaliah the

daughter of Omri.

2CH-22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for

his mother was

his counsellor to do wickedly.

2CH-22:4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like

the house of

Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his

father to his

destruction.

2CH-22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with

Jehoram the son of

Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at

Ramothgilead: and

the Syrians smote Joram.

2CH-22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the

wounds which

were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of

Syria. And Azariah

the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the

son of Ahab at

Jezreel, because he was sick.

2CH-22:7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to

Joram: for

when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son

of Nimshi,

whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

2CH-22:8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing

judgment upon the

house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of

the brethren of

Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.

2CH-22:9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he

was hid in

Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him,

they buried

him: Because, said they, he [is] the son of Jehoshaphat, who

sought the LORD

with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep

still the

kingdom.

2CH-22:10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her

son was dead,

she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.

2CH-22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took

Joash the son of

Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were

slain, and put him

and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of

king Jehoram,

the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of

Ahaziah,) hid him

from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.

2CH-22:12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six

years: and

Athaliah reigned over the land.

2CH-23:1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself,

and took the

captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael

the son of

Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of

Adaiah, and

Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

2CH-23:2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites

out of all

the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and

they came to

Jerusalem.

2CH-23:3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king

in the house

of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall

reign, as the LORD

hath said of the sons of David.

2CH-23:4 This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of

you entering

on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, [shall be]

porters of the

doors;

2CH-23:5 And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a

third part at

the gate of the foundation: and all the people [shall be] in the

courts of the

house of the LORD.

2CH-23:6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the

priests, and

they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they

[are] holy: but

all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

2CH-23:7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about,

every man with

his weapons in his hand; and whosoever [else] cometh into the

house, he shall

be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and

when he goeth

out.

2CH-23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all

things that

Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men

that were to

come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go [out] on the

sabbath: for

Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

2CH-23:9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains

of hundreds

spears, and bucklers, and shields, that [had been] king David's,

which [were]

in the house of God.

2CH-23:10 And he set all the people, every man having his

weapon in his hand,

from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple,

along by the

altar and the temple, by the king round about.

2CH-23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon

him the crown,

and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada

and his sons

anointed him, and said, God save the king.

2CH-23:12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people

running and

praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the

LORD:

2CH-23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his

pillar at the

entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and

all the people

of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the

singers with

instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then

Athaliah rent

her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

2CH-23:14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of

hundreds that

were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of

the ranges: and

whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the

priest said,

Slay her not in the house of the LORD.

2CH-23:15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to

the entering of

the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.

2CH-23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between

all the

people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S

people.

2CH-23:17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and

brake it down,

and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan

the priest of

Baal before the altars.

2CH-23:18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of

the LORD by the

hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in

the house of

the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as [it is]

written in the

law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, [as it was

ordained] by David.

2CH-23:19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of

the LORD, that

none [which was] unclean in any thing should enter in.

2CH-23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles,

and the

governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and

brought down the

king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high

gate into the

king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

2CH-23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city

was quiet,

after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

2CH-24:1 Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign,

and he reigned

forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of

Beersheba.

2CH-24:2 And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of

the LORD all

the days of Jehoiada the priest.

2CH-24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons

and

daughters.

2CH-24:4 And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was

minded to repair

the house of the LORD.

2CH-24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites,

and said to

them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel

money to

repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye

hasten the

matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened [it] not.

2CH-24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said

unto him, Why

hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah

and out of

Jerusalem the collection, [according to the commandment] of

Moses the servant

of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the

tabernacle of witness?

2CH-24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had

broken up the house

of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the

LORD did they

bestow upon Baalim.

2CH-24:8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and

set it without

at the gate of the house of the LORD.

2CH-24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and

Jerusalem, to bring

in to the LORD the collection [that] Moses the servant of God

[laid] upon

Israel in the wilderness.

2CH-24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and

brought in,

and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

2CH-24:11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was

brought unto

the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw

that [there

was] much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer

came and

emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place

again. Thus they

did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

2CH-24:12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the

work of the

service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and

carpenters to repair

the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass

to mend the

house of the LORD.

2CH-24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by

them, and

they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

2CH-24:14 And when they had finished [it], they brought the

rest of the money

before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the

house of the

LORD, [even] vessels to minister, and to offer [withal], and

spoons, and

vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in

the house of

the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

2CH-24:15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he

died; an

hundred and thirty years old [was he] when he died.

2CH-24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among the

kings, because

he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his

house.

2CH-24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of

Judah, and made

obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.

2CH-24:18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their

fathers, and

served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem

for this

their trespass.

2CH-24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again

unto the LORD;

and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

2CH-24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of

Jehoiada the

priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus

saith God, Why

transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot

prosper? because ye

have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.

2CH-24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with

stones at the

commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

2CH-24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which

Jehoiada his

father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he

said, The LORD

look upon [it], and require [it].

2CH-24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that]

the host of

Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem,

and destroyed

all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent

all the spoil of

them unto the king of Damascus.

2CH-24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company

of men, and

the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because

they had

forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed

judgment against

Joash.

2CH-24:25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left

him in great

diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood

of the sons of

Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and

they buried him

in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres

of the kings.

2CH-24:26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad

the son of

Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a

Moabitess.

2CH-24:27 Now [concerning] his sons, and the greatness of the

burdens [laid]

upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they

[are] written in

the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned

in his stead.

2CH-25:1 Amaziah [was] twenty and five years old [when] he

began to reign,

and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his

mother's name [was]

Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2CH-25:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, but not

with a perfect heart.

2CH-25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established

to him, that

he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

2CH-25:4 But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is]

written in the

law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The

fathers shall

not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the

fathers, but

every man shall die for his own sin.

2CH-25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made

them captains

over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the

houses of [their]

fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them

from twenty

years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand

choice [men, able]

to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

2CH-25:6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour

out of Israel

for an hundred talents of silver.

2CH-25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king,

let not the army

of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with Israel, [to

wit, with] all

the children of Ephraim.

2CH-25:8 But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle:

God shall

make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and

to cast down.

2CH-25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we

do for the

hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And

the man of God

answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

2CH-25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that

was come to

him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was

greatly

kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.

2CH-25:11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his

people, and

went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir

ten thousand.

2CH-25:12 And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the

children of Judah

carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock,

and cast them

down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in

pieces.

2CH-25:13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back,

that they

should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah,

from Samaria

even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took

much spoil.

2CH-25:14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from

the slaughter

of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of

Seir, and set

them up [to be] his gods, and bowed down himself before them,

and burned

incense unto them.

2CH-25:15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against

Amaziah, and he

sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou

sought after the

gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out

of thine

hand?

2CH-25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the

king] said

unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why

shouldest thou be

smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God

hath determined

to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not

hearkened unto my

counsel.

2CH-25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to

Joash, the son

of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let

us see one

another in the face.

2CH-25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of

Judah, saying, The

thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that [was] in

Lebanon, saying,

Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild

beast that

[was] in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

2CH-25:19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and

thine heart

lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou

meddle to

[thine] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah

with thee?

2CH-25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it [came] of God,

that he might

deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they

sought after the

gods of Edom.

2CH-25:21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one

another in

the face, [both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh,

which

[belongeth] to Judah.

2CH-25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and

they fled every

man to his tent.

2CH-25:23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of

Judah, the son of

Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to

Jerusalem, and

brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the

corner gate,

four hundred cubits.

2CH-25:24 And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all

the vessels that

were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures

of the king's

house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

2CH-25:25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived

after the death of

Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

2CH-25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last,

behold, [are]

they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

2CH-25:27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from

following the

LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he

fled to Lachish:

but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.

2CH-25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with

his fathers

in the city of Judah.

2CH-26:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was]

sixteen years

old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

2CH-26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that

the king slept

with his fathers.

2CH-26:3 Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began to reign,

and he

reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also

[was]

Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

2CH-26:4 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD,

according to all that his father Amaziah did.

2CH-26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had

understanding in

the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made

him to

prosper.

2CH-26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines,

and brake down

the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod,

and built

cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

2CH-26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and

against the Arabians

that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.

2CH-26:8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name

spread abroad

[even] to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened

[himself] exceedingly.

2CH-26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the

corner gate, and at

the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and fortified

them.

2CH-26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many

wells: for he

had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains:

husbandmen

[also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for

he loved

husbandry.

2CH-26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that

went out to war

by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand

of Jeiel the

scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, [one]

of the king's

captains.

2CH-26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the

mighty men of

valour [were] two thousand and six hundred.

2CH-26:13 And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred

thousand and

seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power,

to help the

king against the enemy.

2CH-26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host

shields, and

spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to

cast] stones.

2CH-26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning

men, to be on

the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great

stones withal. And

his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till

he was

strong.

2CH-26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to

[his]

destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and

went into the

temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

2CH-26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with

him fourscore

priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men:

2CH-26:18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him,

[It

appertaineth] not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the

LORD, but to the

priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense:

go out of the

sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither [shall it be] for

thine honour

from the LORD God.

2CH-26:19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and [had] a censer in his hand

to burn

incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy

even rose up in

his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from

beside the

incense altar.

2CH-26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests,

looked upon him,

and, behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead, and they thrust

him out from

thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had

smitten him.

2CH-26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his

death, and

dwelt in a several house, [being] a leper; for he was cut off

from the house

of the LORD: and Jotham his son [was] over the king's house,

judging the

people of the land.

2CH-26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last,

did Isaiah the

prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

2CH-26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him

with his

fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to the kings;

for they

said, He [is] a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

2CH-27:1 Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began

to reign, and

he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also

[was] Jerushah,

the daughter of Zadok.

2CH-27:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD,

according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered

not into the

temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

2CH-27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and

on the wall of

Ophel he built much.

2CH-27:4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah,

and in the

forests he built castles and towers.

2CH-27:5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and

prevailed against

them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an

hundred talents of

silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of

barley. So

much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second

year, and the

third.

2CH-27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways

before the

LORD his God.

2CH-27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars,

and his ways,

lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and

Judah.

2CH-27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to

reign, and reigned

sixteen years in Jerusalem.

2CH-27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him

in the city

of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2CH-28:1 Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he began to reign,

and he reigned

sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not [that which was]

right in the sight

of the LORD, like David his father:

2CH-28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and

made also

molten images for Baalim.

2CH-28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of

Hinnom, and

burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the

heathen whom the

LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

2CH-28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high

places, and on the

hills, and under every green tree.

2CH-28:5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand

of the king

of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude

of them

captives, and brought [them] to Damascus. And he was also

delivered into the

hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

2CH-28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred

and twenty

thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they

had forsaken

the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH-28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the

king's son,

and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah [that was]

next to the

king.

2CH-28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of

their brethren

two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also

away much

spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

2CH-28:9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was]

Oded: and he

went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto

them, Behold,

because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he

hath delivered

them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that]

reacheth up unto

heaven.

2CH-28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of

Judah and

Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there]

not with you,

even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

2CH-28:11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again,

which ye

have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the

LORD [is]

upon you.

2CH-28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim,

Azariah the

son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah

the son of

Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that

came from the

war,

2CH-28:13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the

captives hither: for

whereas we have offended against the LORD [already], ye intend

to add [more]

to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and

[there is]

fierce wrath against Israel.

2CH-28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil

before the princes

and all the congregation.

2CH-28:15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and

took the

captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among

them, and

arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink,

and anointed

them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought

them to

Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they

returned to

Samaria.

2CH-28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of

Assyria to help

him.

2CH-28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah,

and carried away

captives.

2CH-28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the

low country, and

of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon,

and Gederoth,

and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the

villages thereof,

Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.

2CH-28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king

of Israel; for

he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

2CH-28:20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him,

and distressed

him, but strengthened him not.

2CH-28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of

the LORD, and

[out] of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave

[it] unto the

king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

2CH-28:22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet

more against

the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.

2CH-28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which

smote him: and

he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them,

[therefore] will I

sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin

of him, and

of all Israel.

2CH-28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house

of God, and cut

in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors

of the house

of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

2CH-28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high

places to burn

incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of

his fathers.

2CH-28:26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first

and last,

behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and

Israel.

2CH-28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him

in the city,

[even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the

sepulchres of the kings

of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

2CH-29:1 Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty

years old, and

he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's

name [was]

Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

2CH-29:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD,

according to all that David his father had done.

2CH-29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,

opened the

doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

2CH-29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and

gathered them

together into the east street,

2CH-29:5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now

yourselves,

and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and

carry forth the

filthiness out of the holy [place].

2CH-29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which

was] evil in

the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have

turned away

their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned [their]

backs.

2CH-29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put

out the

lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings

in the holy

[place] unto the God of Israel.

2CH-29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and

Jerusalem, and he

hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing,

as ye see

with your eyes.

2CH-29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our

sons and our

daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.

2CH-29:10 Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the

LORD God of

Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

2CH-29:11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath

chosen you to

stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto

him, and burn

incense.

2CH-29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and

Joel the son

of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of

Merari, Kish the

son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the

Gershonites; Joah

the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:

2CH-29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and

of the sons of

Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

2CH-29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of

the sons of

Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.

2CH-29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified

themselves, and

came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of

the LORD, to

cleanse the house of the LORD.

2CH-29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house

of the LORD,

to cleanse [it], and brought out all the uncleanness that they

found in the

temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And

the Levites

took [it], to carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron.

2CH-29:17 Now they began on the first [day] of the first month

to sanctify,

and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the

LORD: so they

sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the

sixteenth day of

the first month they made an end.

2CH-29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We

have cleansed

all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with

all the

vessels thereof, and the showbread table, with all the vessels

thereof.

2CH-29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his

reign did cast

away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and,

behold, they

[are] before the altar of the LORD.

2CH-29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the

rulers of the

city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

2CH-29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and

seven lambs,

and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for

the sanctuary,

and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to

offer [them]

on the altar of the LORD.

2CH-29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received

the blood,

and sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they had killed

the rams, they

sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs,

and they

sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

2CH-29:23 And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin

offering before

the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon

them:

2CH-29:24 And the priests killed them, and they made

reconciliation with

their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel:

for the king

commanded [that] the burnt offering and the sin offering [should

be made] for

all Israel.

2CH-29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with

cymbals, with

psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of

David, and of Gad

the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the

commandment of the

LORD by his prophets.

2CH-29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,

and the

priests with the trumpets.

2CH-29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering

upon the altar.

And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began

[also] with the

trumpets, and with the instruments [ordained] by David king of

Israel.

2CH-29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers

sang, and the

trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued] until the burnt

offering was

finished.

2CH-29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king

and all that

were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.

2CH-29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded

the Levites to

sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph

the seer. And

they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and

worshipped.

2CH-29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have

consecrated yourselves

unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank

offerings into the

house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices

and thank

offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.

2CH-29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the

congregation

brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, [and]

two hundred

lambs: all these [were] for a burnt offering to the LORD.

2CH-29:33 And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen

and three

thousand sheep.

2CH-29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not

flay all the

burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help

them, till the

work was ended, and until the [other] priests had sanctified

themselves: for

the Levites [were] more upright in heart to sanctify themselves

than the

priests.

2CH-29:35 And also the burnt offerings [were] in abundance,

with the fat of

the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for [every] burnt

offering. So

the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.

2CH-29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God

had prepared

the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly.

2CH-30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote

letters also to

Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the

LORD at

Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.

2CH-30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and

all the

congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second

month.

2CH-30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the

priests had not

sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people

gathered themselves

together to Jerusalem.

2CH-30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the

congregation.

2CH-30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation

throughout all

Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to

keep the passover

unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done

[it] of a long

[time in such sort] as it was written.

2CH-30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and

his princes

throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the

commandment of the king,

saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of

Abraham, Isaac,

and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are

escaped out of

the hand of the kings of Assyria.

2CH-30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your

brethren, which

trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who]

therefore gave them up

to desolation, as ye see.

2CH-30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but]

yield

yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he

hath

sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the

fierceness of his

wrath may turn away from you.

2CH-30:9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and

your children

[shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so

that they shall

come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious

and merciful,

and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto

him.

2CH-30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the

country of

Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to

scorn, and

mocked them.

2CH-30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of

Zebulun humbled

themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

2CH-30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one

heart to do the

commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the

LORD.

2CH-30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep

the feast of

unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

2CH-30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that [were]

in Jerusalem,

and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast [them]

into the brook

Kidron.

2CH-30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day]

of the second

month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and

sanctified

themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of

the LORD.

2CH-30:16 And they stood in their place after their manner,

according to the

law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood,

[which they

received] of the hand of the Levites.

2CH-30:17 For [there were] many in the congregation that were

not sanctified:

therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the

passovers for every

one [that was] not clean, to sanctify [them] unto the LORD.

2CH-30:18 For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim,

and

Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves,

yet did they eat

the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed

for them,

saying, The good LORD pardon every one

2CH-30:19 [That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God

of his

fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the

purification of the

sanctuary.

2CH-30:20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the

people.

2CH-30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at

Jerusalem kept the

feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and

the Levites and

the priests praised the LORD day by day, [singing] with loud

instruments unto

the LORD.

2CH-30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites

that taught the

good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the

feast seven days,

offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God

of their

fathers.

2CH-30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other

seven days: and

they kept [other] seven days with gladness.

2CH-30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the

congregation a thousand

bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the

congregation a

thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of

priests

sanctified themselves.

2CH-30:25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests

and the

Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and

the strangers

that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah,

rejoiced.

2CH-30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the

time of Solomon

the son of David king of Israel [there was] not the like in

Jerusalem.

2CH-30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the

people: and

their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his holy

dwelling place,

[even] unto heaven.

2CH-31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were

present went

out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and

cut down the

groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all

Judah and

Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly

destroyed them

all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his

possession,

into their own cities.

2CH-31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and

the Levites

after their courses, every man according to his service, the

priests and

Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister,

and to give

thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

2CH-31:3 [He appointed] also the king's portion of his

substance for the

burnt offerings, [to wit], for the morning and evening burnt

offerings, and

the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and

for the set

feasts, as [it is] written in the law of the LORD.

2CH-31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in

Jerusalem to give the

portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be

encouraged in the

law of the LORD.

2CH-31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the

children of Israel

brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and

honey, and of

all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all [things]

brought they in

abundantly.

2CH-31:6 And [concerning] the children of Israel and Judah,

that dwelt in the

cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and

sheep, and the

tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their

God, and laid

[them] by heaps.

2CH-31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of

the heaps,

and finished [them] in the seventh month.

2CH-31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the

heaps, they

blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.

2CH-31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the

Levites concerning

the heaps.

2CH-31:10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok

answered him,

and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into

the house of

the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for

the LORD hath

blessed his people; and that which is left [is] this great store.

2CH-31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the

house of the

LORD; and they prepared [them],

2CH-31:12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the

dedicated

[things] faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite [was] ruler,

and Shimei

his brother [was] the next.

2CH-31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and

Jerimoth, and

Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah,

[were] overseers

under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the

commandment of

Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

2CH-31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter

toward the east,

[was] over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the

oblations of the

LORD, and the most holy things.

2CH-31:15 And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua,

and Shemaiah,

Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their]

set office,

to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to

the small:

2CH-31:16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old

and upward,

[even] unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD,

his daily

portion for their service in their charges according to their

courses;

2CH-31:17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of

their fathers,

and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their

charges by their

courses;

2CH-31:18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their

wives, and

their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation:

for in their

set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

2CH-31:19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, [which were]

in the fields

of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men

that were

expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the

priests, and to

all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

2CH-31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and

wrought [that which

was] good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

2CH-31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the

house of God,

and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did

[it] with all

his heart, and prospered.

2CH-32:1 After these things, and the establishment thereof,

Sennacherib king

of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against

the fenced

cities, and thought to win them for himself.

2CH-32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and

that he was

purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

2CH-32:3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to

stop the

waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they

did help him.

2CH-32:4 So there was gathered much people together, who

stopped all the

fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land,

saying, Why

should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

2CH-32:5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the

wall that was

broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall

without, and

repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts and

shields in

abundance.

2CH-32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and

gathered them

together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake

comfortably

to them, saying,

2CH-32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed

for the king of

Assyria, nor for all the multitude that [is] with him: for

[there be] more

with us than with him:

2CH-32:8 With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the

LORD our God to

help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested

themselves upon the

words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

2CH-32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his

servants to

Jerusalem, (but he [himself laid siege] against Lachish, and all

his power

with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that

[were] at

Jerusalem, saying,

2CH-32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye

trust, that

ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

2CH-32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over

yourselves to die by

famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us

out of the

hand of the king of Assyria?

2CH-32:12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places

and his

altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall

worship before one

altar, and burn incense upon it?

2CH-32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all

the people of

[other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any

ways able to

deliver their lands out of mine hand?

2CH-32:14 Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations

that my fathers

utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine

hand, that your

God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?

2CH-32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor

persuade you on

this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation

or kingdom was

able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand

of my

fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine

hand?

2CH-32:16 And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD

God, and against

his servant Hezekiah.

2CH-32:17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of

Israel, and to

speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of [other]

lands have

not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the

God of Hezekiah

deliver his people out of mine hand.

2CH-32:18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech

unto the

people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to affright them,

and to trouble

them; that they might take the city.

2CH-32:19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as

against the gods of

the people of the earth, [which were] the work of the hands of

man.

2CH-32:20 And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the

prophet Isaiah the

son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.

2CH-32:21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the

mighty men of

valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of

Assyria. So he

returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was

come into the

house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew

him there with

the sword.

2CH-32:22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem from

the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand

of all [other],

and guided them on every side.

2CH-32:23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem,

and presents to

Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of

all nations

from thenceforth.

2CH-32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and

prayed unto the

LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.

2CH-32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the

benefit [done]

unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath

upon him, and

upon Judah and Jerusalem.

2CH-32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the

pride of his

heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the

wrath of the

LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

2CH-32:27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour:

and he made

himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious

stones, and for

spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;

2CH-32:28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine,

and oil; and

stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

2CH-32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of

flocks and

herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

2CH-32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse

of Gihon, and

brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David.

And Hezekiah

prospered in all his works.

2CH-32:31 Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the

princes of

Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was

[done] in the

land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all [that

was] in his

heart.

2CH-32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his

goodness, behold,

they [are] written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son

of Amoz, [and]

in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2CH-32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried

him in the

chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah

and the

inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And

Manasseh his son

reigned in his stead.

2CH-33:1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign,

and he

reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

2CH-33:2 But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,

like unto

the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out

before the

children of Israel.

2CH-33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his

father had

broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves,

and

worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

2CH-33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof

the LORD had

said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

2CH-33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the

two courts of

the house of the LORD.

2CH-33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in

the valley of

the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments,

and used

witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards:

he wrought

much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2CH-33:7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made,

in the house

of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son,

In this house,

and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of

Israel, will I

put my name for ever:

2CH-33:8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from

out of the

land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will

take heed to

do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law

and the statutes

and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.

2CH-33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem to err,

[and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed

before the

children of Israel.

2CH-33:10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people:

but they would

not hearken.

2CH-33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of

the host of

the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and

bound him with

fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

2CH-33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD

his God, and

humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

2CH-33:13 And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and

heard his

supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his

kingdom. Then

Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.

2CH-33:14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of

David, on the

west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at

the fish gate,

and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height,

and put

captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

2CH-33:15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out

of the house of

the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of

the house of

the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast [them] out of the city.

2CH-33:16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed

thereon peace

offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the

LORD God of

Israel.

2CH-33:17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the

high places,

[yet] unto the LORD their God only.

2CH-33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer

unto his God,

and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the

LORD God of

Israel, behold, they [are written] in the book of the kings of

Israel.

2CH-33:19 His prayer also, and [how God] was entreated of him,

and all his

sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high

places, and set

up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they

[are] written

among the sayings of the seers.

2CH-33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried

him in his own

house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

2CH-33:21 Amon [was] two and twenty years old when he began to

reign, and

reigned two years in Jerusalem.

2CH-33:22 But he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, as did

Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved

images which

Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

2CH-33:23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh

his father had

humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

2CH-33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him

in his own

house.

2CH-33:25 But 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.

2CH-34:1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign,

and he reigned

in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

2CH-34:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, and

walked in the ways of David his father, and declined [neither]

to the right

hand, nor to the left.

2CH-34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet

young, he

began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the

twelfth year he

began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the

groves, and

the carved images, and the molten images.

2CH-34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his

presence; and the

images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the

groves, and the

carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and

made dust [of

them], and strowed [it] upon the graves of them that had

sacrificed unto them.

2CH-34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their

altars, and

cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

2CH-34:6 And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim,

and Simeon,

even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

2CH-34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves,

and had

beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols

throughout

all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

2CH-34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had

purged the

land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and

Maaseiah the

governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder,

to repair the

house of the LORD his God.

2CH-34:9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they

delivered the

money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites

that kept the

doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of

all the remnant

of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to

Jerusalem.

2CH-34:10 And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had

the oversight

of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that

wrought in the

house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:

2CH-34:11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it],

to buy hewn

stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which

the kings of

Judah had destroyed.

2CH-34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the

overseers of them

[were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari;

and Zechariah

and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set [it]

forward; and [other

of] the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of music.

2CH-34:13 Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and

[were] overseers

of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of

the Levites

[there were] scribes, and officers, and porters.

2CH-34:14 And when they brought out the money that was brought

into the house

of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the

LORD [given] by

Moses.

2CH-34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe,

I have found

the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah

delivered the book

to Shaphan.

2CH-34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought

the king word

back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they

do [it].

2CH-34:17 And they have gathered together the money that was

found in the

house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the

overseers, and

to the hand of the workmen.

2CH-34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying,

Hilkiah the priest

hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

2CH-34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the

words of the law,

that he rent his clothes.

2CH-34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of

Shaphan, and

Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a

servant of the

king's, saying,

2CH-34:21 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are

left in

Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is

found: for great

[is] the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because

our fathers

have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is

written in this

book.

2CH-34:22 And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed],

went to

Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath,

the son of

Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in

the college:)

and they spake to her to that [effect].

2CH-34:23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of

Israel, Tell ye

the man that sent you to me,

2CH-34:24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon

this place, and

upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the curses that are

written in the

book which they have read before the king of Judah:

2CH-34:25 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 poured out upon this place, and

shall not be

quenched.

2CH-34:26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire

of the LORD,

so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel

[concerning] the

words which thou hast heard;

2CH-34:27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble

thyself

before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and

against the

inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst

rend thy

clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also,

saith the LORD.

2CH-34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou

shalt be

gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all

the evil that

I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the

same. So they

brought the king word again.

2CH-34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the

elders of Judah

and Jerusalem.

2CH-34:30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and

all the men of

Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and

the Levites, and

all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all

the words of

the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

2CH-34:31 And the king stood in his place, 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 his heart, and with all

his soul, to

perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

2CH-34:32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and

Benjamin to

stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to

the covenant

of God, the God of their fathers.

2CH-34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all

the countries

that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all that

were present in

Israel to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all

his days they

departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

2CH-35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in

Jerusalem: and they

killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

2CH-35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and

encouraged them to the

service of the house of the LORD,

2CH-35:3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel,

which were holy

unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the

son of David

king of Israel did build; [it shall] not [be] a burden upon

[your] shoulders:

serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,

2CH-35:4 And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers,

after your

courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and

according to

the writing of Solomon his son.

2CH-35:5 And stand in the holy [place] according to the

divisions of the

families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and [after]

the division

of the families of the Levites.

2CH-35:6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and

prepare your

brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD

by the hand of

Moses.

2CH-35:7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and

kids, all for

the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number

of thirty

thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these [were] of the

king's substance.

2CH-35:8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the

priests, and

to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the

house of God,

gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand

and six hundred

[small cattle], and three hundred oxen.

2CH-35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his

brethren, and

Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto

the Levites

for passover offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five

hundred oxen.

2CH-35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in

their place,

and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's

commandment.

2CH-35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests

sprinkled [the blood]

from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].

2CH-35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might

give

according to the divisions of the families of the people, to

offer unto the

LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses. And so [did they]

with the

oxen.

2CH-35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to

the ordinance:

but the [other] holy [offerings] sod they in pots, and in

caldrons, and in

pans, and divided [them] speedily among all the people.

2CH-35:14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for

the priests:

because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering

of burnt

offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites

prepared for

themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

2CH-35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their

place, according

to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun

the king's

seer; and the porters [waited] at every gate; they might not

depart from their

service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

2CH-35:16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same

day, to keep

the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the

LORD,

according to the commandment of king Josiah.

2CH-35:17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the

passover at

that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

2CH-35:18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel

from the days

of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep

such a

passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and

all Judah and

Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2CH-35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was

this passover

kept.

2CH-35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple,

Necho king of

Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and

Josiah went out

against him.

2CH-35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I

to do with

thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee this day,

but against the

house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste:

forbear thee

from [meddling with] God, who [is] with me, that he destroy thee

not.

2CH-35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him,

but disguised

himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto

the words of

Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of

Megiddo.

2CH-35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king

said to his

servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

2CH-35:24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot,

and put him in

the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to

Jerusalem, and he

died, and was buried in [one of] the sepulchres of his fathers.

And all Judah

and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

2CH-35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing

men and the

singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day,

and made them

an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the

lamentations.

2CH-35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness,

according to

[that which was] written in the law of the LORD,

2CH-35:27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are]

written in the

book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2CH-36:1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of

Josiah, and

made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

2CH-36:2 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he

began to reign,

and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

2CH-36:3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and

condemned the

land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

2CH-36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king

over Judah and

Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took

Jehoahaz his

brother, and carried him to Egypt.

2CH-36:5 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he

began to reign,

and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that which

was] evil in

the sight of the LORD his God.

2CH-36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,

and bound him in

fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

2CH-36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the

house of the LORD

to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

2CH-36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his

abominations which he

did, and that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written

in the book

of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned

in his stead.

2CH-36:9 Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to

reign, and he

reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that

which was]

evil in the sight of the LORD.

2CH-36:10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar

sent, and

brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of

the LORD, and

made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

2CH-36:11 Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began

to reign, and

reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

2CH-36:12 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD his God,

[and] humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking]

from the

mouth of the LORD.

2CH-36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who

had made him

swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart

from turning

unto the LORD God of Israel.

2CH-36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,

transgressed

very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and

polluted the house of

the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

2CH-36:15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his

messengers,

rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his

people, and

on his dwelling place:

2CH-36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised

his words, and

misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against

his people,

till [there was] no remedy.

2CH-36:17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the

Chaldees, who slew

their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary,

and had no

compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that

stooped for age: he

gave [them] all into his hand.

2CH-36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and

small, and the

treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the

king, and of his

princes; all [these] he brought to Babylon.

2CH-36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the

wall of

Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and

destroyed all the

goodly vessels thereof.

2CH-36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he

away to

Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the

reign of the

kingdom of Persia:

2CH-36:21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of

Jeremiah, until the

land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate

she kept

sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

2CH-36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that

the word of the

LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,

the LORD stirred

up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a

proclamation throughout

all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,

2CH-36:23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of

the earth hath

the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build

him an house

in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is there] among you of

all his people?

The LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up.