king james study
==== <2KI1>
2KI-1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of
Ahab.
2KI-1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper
chamber that
[was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said
unto them,
Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall
recover of this
disease.
2KI-1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite,
Arise, go up
to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them,
[Is it] not
because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to inquire
of Baalzebub
the god of Ekron?
2KI-1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come
down from that
bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah
departed.
2KI-1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said
unto them, Why
are ye now turned back?
2KI-1:6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us,
and said unto
us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him,
Thus saith
the LORD, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel,
[that] thou
sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou
shalt not
come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die.
2KI-1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man [was he]
which came up to
meet you, and told you these words?
2KI-1:8 And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt
with a girdle
of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the
Tishbite.
2KI-1:9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his
fifty. And he
went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And
he spake unto
him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
2KI-1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty,
If I [be] a
man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume
thee and thy
fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him
and his fifty.
2KI-1:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty
with his fifty.
And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the
king said, Come
down quickly.
2KI-1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I [be] a
man of God, let
fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And
the fire of
God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2KI-1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with
his fifty. And
the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his
knees before
Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I
pray thee, let my
life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in
thy sight.
2KI-1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up
the two
captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let
my life now
be precious in thy sight.
2KI-1:15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down
with him: be not
afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the
king.
2KI-1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch
as thou hast
sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, [is
it] not because
[there is] no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore
thou shalt not
come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die.
2KI-1:17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which
Elijah had
spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of
Jehoram the son
of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
2KI-1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did,
[are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
==== <2KI2>
2KI-2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah
into heaven
by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2KI-2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee;
for the LORD
hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said [unto him, As] the LORD
liveth, and
[as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down
to Bethel.
2KI-2:3 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came
forth to
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take
away thy
master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know [it]; hold
ye your
peace.
2KI-2:4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray
thee; for the
LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth,
and [as] thy
soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
2KI-2:5 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Jericho
came to Elisha,
and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
master from
thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know [it]; hold ye your
peace.
2KI-2:6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for
the LORD hath
sent me to Jordan. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as]
thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
2KI-2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and
stood to view
afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
2KI-2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped [it] together,
and smote the
waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they
two went over
on dry ground.
2KI-2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that
Elijah said unto
Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away
from thee. And
Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be
upon me.
2KI-2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing:
[nevertheless], if thou
see me [when I am] taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee;
but if not, it
shall not be [so].
2KI-2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,
that,
behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire,
and parted
them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
2KI-2:12 And Elisha saw [it], and he cried, My father, my
father, the chariot
of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and
he took hold
of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
2KI-2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and went
back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
2KI-2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him,
and smote the
waters, and said, Where [is] the LORD God of Elijah? and when he
also had
smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha
went over.
2KI-2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which [were] to view
at Jericho
saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha.
And they came to
meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2KI-2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy
servants fifty
strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest
peradventure
the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some
mountain, or
into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
2KI-2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said,
Send. They
sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found
him not.
2KI-2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at
Jericho,) he
said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
2KI-2:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I
pray thee, the
situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the
water [is]
nought, and the ground barren.
2KI-2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt
therein. And they
brought [it] to him.
2KI-2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and
cast the salt
in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these
waters; there
shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land].
2KI-2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to
the saying of
Elisha which he spake.
2KI-2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was
going up by
the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and
mocked him, and
said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
2KI-2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed
them in the name
of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood,
and tare
forty and two children of them.
2KI-2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from
thence he returned
to Samaria.
==== <2KI3>
2KI-3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel
in Samaria the
eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve
years.
2KI-3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not
like his
father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal
that his father
had made.
2KI-3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat,
which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
2KI-3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered
unto the king
of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand
rams, with the
wool.
2KI-3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king
of Moab
rebelled against the king of Israel.
2KI-3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and
numbered all
Israel.
2KI-3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,
saying, The
king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me
against Moab to
battle? And he said, I will go up: I [am] as thou [art], my
people as thy
people, [and] my horses as thy horses.
2KI-3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered,
The way
through the wilderness of Edom.
2KI-3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and
the king of
Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and
there was no
water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
2KI-3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath
called these
three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
2KI-3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of
the LORD,
that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of
Israel's
servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha the son of Shaphat,
which poured
water on the hands of Elijah.
2KI-3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him.
So the king
of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
2KI-3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I
to do with
thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the
prophets of thy
mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD
hath called
these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of
Moab.
2KI-3:14 And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before
whom I stand,
surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat
the king of
Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
2KI-3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when
the minstrel
played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
2KI-3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley
full of ditches.
2KI-3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind,
neither shall ye see
rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may
drink, both ye,
and your cattle, and your beasts.
2KI-3:18 And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the
LORD: he will
deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
2KI-3:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice
city, and
shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar
every good
piece of land with stones.
2KI-3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat
offering was
offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and
the country
was filled with water.
2KI-3:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were
come up to fight
against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour,
and upward,
and stood in the border.
2KI-3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun
shone upon the
water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side [as] red
as blood:
2KI-3:23 And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely
slain, and they
have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
2KI-3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the
Israelites rose up and
smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went
forward
smiting the Moabites, even in [their] country.
2KI-3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece
of land cast
every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the
wells of water,
and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the
stones
thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it], and smote it.
2KI-3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too
sore for him,
he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break
through [even]
unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
2KI-3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned
in his stead,
and offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the wall. And there
was great
indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and
returned to [their
own] land.
==== <2KI4>
2KI-4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the
sons of the
prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead;
and thou knowest
that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to
take unto him
my two sons to be bondmen.
2KI-4:2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee?
tell me, what
hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not
any thing in the
house, save a pot of oil.
2KI-4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
neighbours,
[even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.
2KI-4:4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door
upon thee and
upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and
thou shalt set
aside that which is full.
2KI-4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and
upon her sons,
who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.
2KI-4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that
she said unto
her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, [There is]
not a vessel
more. And the oil stayed.
2KI-4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go,
sell the oil,
and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
2KI-4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem,
where [was] a
great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And [so] it
was, [that] as
oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
2KI-4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive
that this [is]
an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
2KI-4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall;
and let us
set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a
candlestick: and it
shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
2KI-4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he
turned into the
chamber, and lay there.
2KI-4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this
Shunammite. And when he
had called her, she stood before him.
2KI-4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou
hast been
careful for us with all this care; what [is] to be done for
thee? wouldest
thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?
And she
answered, I dwell among mine own people.
2KI-4:14 And he said, What then [is] to be done for her? And
Gehazi answered,
Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
2KI-4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she
stood in the
door.
2KI-4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time
of life, thou
shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, [thou] man of
God, do not lie
unto thine handmaid.
2KI-4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season
that Elisha
had said unto her, according to the time of life.
2KI-4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that
he went out to
his father to the reapers.
2KI-4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he
said to a lad,
Carry him to his mother.
2KI-4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his
mother, he sat on
her knees till noon, and [then] died.
2KI-4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of
God, and shut
[the door] upon him, and went out.
2KI-4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I
pray thee, one
of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the
man of God, and
come again.
2KI-4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? [it
is] neither
new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be] well.
2KI-4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant,
Drive, and go
forward; slack not [thy] riding for me, except I bid thee.
2KI-4:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount
Carmel. And it
came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said
to Gehazi his
servant, Behold, [yonder is] that Shunammite:
2KI-4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her,
[Is it] well
with thee? [is it] well with thy husband? [is it] well with the
child? And she
answered, [It is] well.
2KI-4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she
caught him by
the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man
of God said,
Let her alone; for her soul [is] vexed within her: and the LORD
hath hid [it]
from me, and hath not told me.
2KI-4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I
not say, Do not
deceive me?
2KI-4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my
staff in
thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not;
and if any
salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the
face of the
child.
2KI-4:30 And the mother of the child said, [As] the LORD liveth,
and [as] thy
soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed
her.
2KI-4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff
upon the face
of the child; but [there was] neither voice, nor hearing.
Wherefore he went
again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
2KI-4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the
child was dead,
[and] laid upon his bed.
2KI-4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them
twain, and prayed
unto the LORD.
2KI-4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his
mouth upon his
mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands:
and he
stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child
waxed warm.
2KI-4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro;
and went up,
and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven
times, and the
child opened his eyes.
2KI-4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite.
So he called
her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
2KI-4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed
herself to the
ground, and took up her son, and went out.
2KI-4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a
dearth in the
land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him:
and he said unto
his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the
sons of the
prophets.
2KI-4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and
found a wild
vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came
and shred [them]
into the pot of pottage: for they knew [them] not.
2KI-4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to
pass, as they
were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O
[thou] man of
God, [there is] death in the pot. And they could not eat
[thereof].
2KI-4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast [it] into
the pot; and he
said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was
no harm in the
pot.
2KI-4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought
the man of God
bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears
of corn in
the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they
may eat.
2KI-4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before
an hundred
men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus
saith the
LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [thereof].
2KI-4:44 So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left
[thereof],
according to the word of the LORD.
==== <2KI5>
2KI-5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria,
was a great man
with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had
given deliverance
unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, [but he was] a
leper.
2KI-5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had
brought away
captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited
on Naaman's
wife.
2KI-5:3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord
[were] with the
prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him of his
leprosy.
2KI-5:4 And [one] went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and
thus said the
maid that [is] of the land of Israel.
2KI-5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send
a letter unto
the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten
talents of silver,
and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
2KI-5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying,
Now when
this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have [therewith] sent
Naaman my
servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
2KI-5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read
the letter,
that he rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to kill and to
make alive,
that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy?
wherefore
consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against
me.
2KI-5:8 And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard
that the king
of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying,
Wherefore
hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall
know that
there is a prophet in Israel.
2KI-5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot,
and stood at the
door of the house of Elisha.
2KI-5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and
wash in Jordan
seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou
shalt be clean.
2KI-5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold,
I thought, He
will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of
the LORD his
God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
2KI-5:12 [Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus,
better than all the
waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he
turned and went
away in a rage.
2KI-5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and
said, My father,
[if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest
thou not have
done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash,
and be clean?
2KI-5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in
Jordan,
according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came
again like unto
the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
2KI-5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his
company, and came,
and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that
[there is] no God
in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee,
take a blessing
of thy servant.
2KI-5:16 But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand,
I will
receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he refused.
2KI-5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be
given to thy
servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will
henceforth offer
neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto
the LORD.
2KI-5:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, [that] when
my master
goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth
on my hand,
and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself
in the house
of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
2KI-5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from
him a little
way.
2KI-5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,
Behold, my
master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his
hands that
which he brought: but, [as] the LORD liveth, I will run after
him, and take
somewhat of him.
2KI-5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw
[him] running
after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and
said, [Is] all
well?
2KI-5:22 And he said, All [is] well. My master hath sent me,
saying, Behold,
even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of
the sons of
the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and
two changes of
garments.
2KI-5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he
urged him, and
bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of
garments, and
laid [them] upon two of his servants; and they bare [them]
before him.
2KI-5:24 And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from
their hand, and
bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men go, and they
departed.
2KI-5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And
Elisha said unto
him, Whence [comest thou], Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went
no whither.
2KI-5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart [with thee],
when the man
turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a time to
receive money,
and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and
sheep, and oxen,
and menservants, and maidservants?
2KI-5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee,
and unto thy
seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as
white] as snow.
==== <2KI6>
2KI-6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold
now, the place
where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
2KI-6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence
every man a
beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And
he answered,
Go ye.
2KI-6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy
servants. And
he answered, I will go.
2KI-6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan,
they cut down
wood.
2KI-6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into
the water: and
he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
2KI-6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed
him the place.
And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither; and the iron
did swim.
2KI-6:7 Therefore said he, Take [it] up to thee. And he put out
his hand, and
took it.
2KI-6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took
counsel with
his servants, saying, In such and such a place [shall be] my
camp.
2KI-6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying,
Beware that
thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come
down.
2KI-6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man
of God told
him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor
twice.
2KI-6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore
troubled for this
thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye
not show me
which of us [is] for the king of Israel?
2KI-6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king:
but Elisha, the
prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the
words that thou
speakest in thy bedchamber.
2KI-6:13 And he said, Go and spy where he [is], that I may send
and fetch
him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, [he is] in Dothan.
2KI-6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a
great host:
and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
2KI-6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early,
and gone
forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and
chariots. And
his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
2KI-6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that [be] with us
[are] more
than they that [be] with them.
2KI-6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open
his eyes, that
he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and
he saw: and,
behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire
round about
Elisha.
2KI-6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the
LORD, and
said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he
smote them with
blindness according to the word of Elisha.
2KI-6:19 And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way,
neither [is] this
the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye
seek. But he led
them to Samaria.
2KI-6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria,
that Elisha
said, LORD, open the eyes of these [men], that they may see. And
the LORD
opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, [they were] in the
midst of
Samaria.
2KI-6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw
them, My
father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?
2KI-6:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite [them]: wouldest
thou smite
those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy
bow? set bread
and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to
their master.
2KI-6:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when
they had eaten
and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So
the bands of
Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
2KI-6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of
Syria gathered
all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
2KI-6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold,
they besieged
it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of
silver, and the
fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.
2KI-6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,
there cried
a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
2KI-6:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence
shall I help thee?
out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
2KI-6:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
answered, This
woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day,
and we will eat
my son to morrow.
2KI-6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto
her on the
next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid
her son.
2KI-6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of
the woman,
that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and
the people
looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth within upon his flesh.
2KI-6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the
head of Elisha
the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
2KI-6:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with
him; and [the
king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to
him, he said
to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to
take away mine
head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold
him fast at the
door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
2KI-6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the
messenger came down
unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what
should I wait
for the LORD any longer?
==== <2KI7>
2KI-7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus
saith the LORD,
To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be
sold] for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of
Samaria.
2KI-7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the
man of God,
and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows in heaven,
might this thing
be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes,
but shalt not
eat thereof.
2KI-7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of
the gate: and
they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
2KI-7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine
[is] in the
city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die
also. Now
therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if
they save us
alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2KI-7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp
of the Syrians:
and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of
Syria, behold,
[there was] no man there.
2KI-7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a
noise of
chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great
host: and they
said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against
us the kings of
the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
2KI-7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left
their tents,
and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it [was],
and fled for
their life.
2KI-7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the
camp, they
went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence
silver, and
gold, and raiment, and went and hid [it]; and came again, and
entered into
another tent, and carried thence [also], and went and hid [it].
2KI-7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day
[is] a day of
good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the
morning light, some
mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go
and tell the
king's household.
2KI-7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city:
and they told
them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold,
[there was] no
man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied,
and the
tents as they [were].
2KI-7:11 And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the
king's house
within.
2KI-7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his
servants, I will
now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we
[be] hungry;
therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in
the field,
saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them
alive, and get
into the city.
2KI-7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some]
take, I pray
thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city,
(behold,
they [are] as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it:
behold, [I
say], they [are] even as all the multitude of the Israelites
that are
consumed:) and let us send and see.
2KI-7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king
sent after the
host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
2KI-7:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the
way [was]
full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in
their haste.
And the messengers returned, and told the king.
2KI-7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the
Syrians. So a
measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two measures
of barley for
a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
2KI-7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he
leaned to have the
charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate,
and he died, as
the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to
him.
2KI-7:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to
the king,
saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of
fine flour for a
shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of
Samaria:
2KI-7:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now,
behold, [if]
the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?
And he said,
Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat
thereof.
2KI-7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon
him in the
gate, and he died.
==== <2KI8>
2KI-8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had
restored to life,
saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn
wheresoever thou
canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it
shall also come
upon the land seven years.
2KI-8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the
man of God: and
she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the
Philistines
seven years.
2KI-8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the
woman returned
out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry
unto the king
for her house and for her land.
2KI-8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man
of God,
saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha
hath done.
2KI-8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he
had restored a
dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had
restored to life,
cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi
said, My lord, O
king, this [is] the woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha
restored to
life.
2KI-8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the
king
appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that
[was] hers, and
all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land,
even until
now.
2KI-8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of
Syria was sick;
and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
2KI-8:8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine
hand, and go,
meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying,
Shall I recover
of this disease?
2KI-8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him,
even of
every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and
stood before
him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to
thee, saying,
Shall I recover of this disease?
2KI-8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou
mayest certainly
recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that he shall surely
die.
2KI-8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he
was ashamed: and
the man of God wept.
2KI-8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,
Because I
know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel:
their strong
holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay
with the
sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with
child.
2KI-8:13 And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog,
that he should do
this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath showed me
that thou
[shalt be] king over Syria.
2KI-8:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master;
who said to him,
What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me [that]
thou shouldest
surely recover.
2KI-8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a
thick cloth, and
dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on his face, so that he
died: and Hazael
reigned in his stead.
2KI-8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel,
Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of
Judah began to reign.
2KI-8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign;
and he
reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2KI-8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as
did the house of
Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in
the sight of
the LORD.
2KI-8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his
servant's sake,
as he promised him to give him alway a light, [and] to his
children.
2KI-8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah,
and made a
king over themselves.
2KI-8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with
him: and he
rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about,
and the
captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
2KI-8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto
this day. Then
Libnah revolted at the same time.
2KI-8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did,
[are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in
the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2KI-8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel did
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
2KI-8:26 Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began
to reign; and
he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Athaliah, the
daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2KI-8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did
evil in the
sight of the LORD, as [did] the house of Ahab: for he [was] the
son in law of
the house of Ahab.
2KI-8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war
against Hazael
king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2KI-8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of
the wounds which
the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against
Hazael king of
Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to
see Joram the
son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
==== <2KI9>
2KI-9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of
the prophets,
and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil
in thine hand,
and go to Ramothgilead:
2KI-9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the
son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up
from among his
brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
2KI-9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head,
and say, Thus
saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open
the door, and
flee, and tarry not.
2KI-9:4 So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet,
went to
Ramothgilead.
2KI-9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host
[were] sitting;
and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said,
Unto which of
all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
2KI-9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured
the oil on his
head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I
have anointed
thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel.
2KI-9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that
I may avenge
the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the
servants of
the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
2KI-9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will
cut off from
Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up
and left in
Israel:
2KI-9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of
Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
2KI-9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of
Jezreel, and [there
shall be] none to bury [her]. And he opened the door, and fled.
2KI-9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and
[one] said
unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this mad [fellow] to
thee? And he said
unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
2KI-9:12 And they said, [It is] false; tell us now. And he said,
Thus and
thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have
anointed thee king
over Israel.
2KI-9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and
put [it] under
him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying,
Jehu is king.
2KI-9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi
conspired against
Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel,
because of Hazael
king of Syria.
2KI-9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of
the wounds
which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king
of Syria.)
And Jehu said, If it be your minds, [then] let none go forth
[nor] escape out
of the city to go to tell [it] in Jezreel.
2KI-9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for
Joram lay there.
And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
2KI-9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel,
and he spied the
company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram
said, Take an
horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, [Is it] peace?
2KI-9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said,
Thus saith the
king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with
peace? turn thee
behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to
them, but he
cometh not again.
2KI-9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to
them, and
said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu answered,
What hast thou to
do with peace? turn thee behind me.
2KI-9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them,
and cometh
not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu the son
of Nimshi;
for he driveth furiously.
2KI-9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made
ready. And
Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in
his chariot,
and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of
Naboth the
Jezreelite.
2KI-9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said,
[Is it]
peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the
whoredoms of thy
mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?
2KI-9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to
Ahaziah, [There
is] treachery, O Ahaziah.
2KI-9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote
Jehoram
between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he
sunk down in his
chariot.
2KI-9:25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, [and]
cast him in
the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember
how that, when
I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid
this burden upon
him;
2KI-9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and
the blood of
his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat,
saith the
LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the plat [of
ground], according
to the word of the LORD.
2KI-9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled
by the way of
the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite
him also in the
chariot. [And they did so] at the going up to Gur, which [is] by
Ibleam. And
he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
2KI-9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem,
and buried
him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
2KI-9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab
began Ahaziah to
reign over Judah.
2KI-9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of
it]; and she
painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
2KI-9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had]
Zimri peace, who
slew his master?
2KI-9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who
[is] on my
side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three eunuchs.
2KI-9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down:
and [some] of
her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he
trode her under
foot.
2KI-9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and
said, Go, see now
this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a king's
daughter.
2KI-9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of
her than the
skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
2KI-9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said,
This [is] the
word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the
Tishbite, saying,
In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
2KI-9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the
face of the
field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say,
This [is]
Jezebel.
==== <2KI10>
2KI-10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote
letters, and
sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and
to them that
brought up Ahab's [children], saying,
2KI-10:2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your
master's sons
[are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots and horses, a
fenced city
also, and armour;
2KI-10:3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's
sons, and set
[him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
2KI-10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold,
two kings stood
not before him: how then shall we stand?
2KI-10:5 And he that [was] over the house, and he that [was]
over the city,
the elders also, and the bringers up [of the children], sent to
Jehu, saying,
We [are] thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us;
we will not
make any king: do thou [that which is] good in thine eyes.
2KI-10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying,
If ye [be]
mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads
of the men
your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this
time. Now the
king's sons, [being] seventy persons, [were] with the great men
of the city,
which brought them up.
2KI-10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them,
that they took
the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads
in baskets, and
sent him [them] to Jezreel.
2KI-10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They
have brought
the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two
heaps at the
entering in of the gate until the morning.
2KI-10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out,
and stood, and
said to all the people, Ye [be] righteous: behold, I conspired
against my
master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
2KI-10:10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing
of the word
of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab:
for the LORD
hath done [that] which he spake by his servant Elijah.
2KI-10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab
in Jezreel, and
all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he
left him none
remaining.
2KI-10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. [And]
as he [was]
at the shearing house in the way,
2KI-10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah,
and said, Who
[are] ye? And they answered, We [are] the brethren of Ahaziah;
and we go down
to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
2KI-10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them
alive, and slew
them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men;
neither left
he any of them.
2KI-10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on
Jehonadab the son of
Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him,
Is thine
heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart? And Jehonadab
answered, It is.
If it be, give [me] thine hand. And he gave [him] his hand; and
he took him up
to him into the chariot.
2KI-10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the
LORD. So they
made him ride in his chariot.
2KI-10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that
remained unto Ahab in
Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of
the LORD, which
he spake to Elijah.
2KI-10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said
unto them, Ahab
served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.
2KI-10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal,
all his
servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a
great
sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall
not live. But
Jehu did [it] in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy
the worshippers
of Baal.
2KI-10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.
And they
proclaimed [it].
2KI-10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the
worshippers of Baal
came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they
came into the
house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to
another.
2KI-10:22 And he said unto him that [was] over the vestry,
Bring forth
vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them
forth
vestments.
2KI-10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into
the house of
Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look
that there be
here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the
worshippers of Baal
only.
2KI-10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt
offerings, Jehu
appointed fourscore men without, and said, [If] any of the men
whom I have
brought into your hands escape, [he that letteth him go], his
life [shall be]
for the life of him.
2KI-10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
offering the
burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains,
Go in, [and]
slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the
edge of the
sword; and the guard and the captains cast [them] out, and went
to the city of
the house of Baal.
2KI-10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of
Baal, and
burned them.
2KI-10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down
the house of
Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
2KI-10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2KI-10:29 Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made
Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the
golden calves
that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan.
2KI-10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done
well in
executing [that which is] right in mine eyes, [and] hast done
unto the house
of Ahab according to all that [was] in mine heart, thy children
of the fourth
[generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel.
2KI-10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD
God of Israel
with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam, which made
Israel to sin.
2KI-10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and
Hazael smote
them in all the coasts of Israel;
2KI-10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the
Gadites, and the
Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which [is] by the
river Arnon,
even Gilead and Bashan.
2KI-10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did,
and all his
might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of
Israel?
2KI-10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him
in Samaria.
And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2KI-10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria
[was] twenty
and eight years.
==== <2KI11>
2KI-11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her
son was dead,
she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2KI-11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of
Ahaziah, took
Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's
sons [which
were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in the
bedchamber
from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
2KI-11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six
years. And
Athaliah did reign over the land.
2KI-11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the
rulers over
hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to
him into the
house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an
oath of them in
the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.
2KI-11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing
that ye shall do;
A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be
keepers of the
watch of the king's house;
2KI-11:6 And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur; and a
third part at
the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the
house, that it be
not broken down.
2KI-11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath,
even they
shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
2KI-11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man
with his
weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let
him be slain:
and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
2KI-11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to
all [things]
that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his
men that were
to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the
sabbath, and
came to Jehoiada the priest.
2KI-11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give
king David's
spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the LORD.
2KI-11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in
his hand, round
about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left
corner of the
temple, [along] by the altar and the temple.
2KI-11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the
crown upon him,
and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and
anointed him; and
they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
2KI-11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and]
of the people,
she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
2KI-11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a
pillar, as the
manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters by the king,
and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and
Athaliah rent her
clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
2KI-11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
hundreds, the
officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without
the ranges:
and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest
had said, Let
her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
2KI-11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way
by the which
the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
2KI-11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the
king and the
people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king
also and the
people.
2KI-11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of
Baal, and
brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces
thoroughly, and
slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest
appointed
officers over the house of the LORD.
2KI-11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the
captains, and the
guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the
king from the
house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard
to the king's
house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
2KI-11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city
was in quiet:
and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house.
2KI-11:21 Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.
==== <2KI12>
2KI-12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign;
and forty years
reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Zibiah of
Beersheba.
2KI-12:2 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of
the LORD all
his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2KI-12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people
still sacrificed
and burnt incense in the high places.
2KI-12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
dedicated
things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the
money of every
one that passeth [the account], the money that every man is set
at, [and] all
the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the
house of the
LORD,
2KI-12:5 Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his
acquaintance:
and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any
breach shall be
found.
2KI-12:6 But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year
of king
Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
2KI-12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and
the [other]
priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of
the house? now
therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but
deliver it for the
breaches of the house.
2KI-12:8 And the priests consented to receive no [more] money
of the people,
neither to repair the breaches of the house.
2KI-12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole
in the lid of
it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh
into the
house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put
therein all the
money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.
2KI-12:10 And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much
money in the
chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and
they put up in
bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
2KI-12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands
of them that
did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD:
and they laid
it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the
house of the
LORD,
2KI-12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber
and hewed
stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for
all that was
laid out for the house to repair [it].
2KI-12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD
bowls of
silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or
vessels of silver,
of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:
2KI-12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired
therewith the house
of the LORD.
2KI-12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose
hand they
delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt
faithfully.
2KI-12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into
the house of
the LORD: it was the priests'.
2KI-12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
Gath, and
took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
2KI-12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed
things that
Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of
Judah, had
dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that
was] found in
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house,
and sent [it]
to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2KI-12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he
did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and
slew Joash in
the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
2KI-12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the
son of Shomer,
his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with
his fathers in
the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
==== <2KI13>
2KI-13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of
Ahaziah king of
Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and
reigned] seventeen years.
2KI-13:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, and
followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made
Israel to sin; he
departed not therefrom.
2KI-13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel,
and he
delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into
the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days.
2KI-13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened
unto him: for
he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria
oppressed them.
2KI-13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went
out from
under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt
in their
tents, as beforetime.
2KI-13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the
house of
Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and there
remained the
grove also in Samaria.)
2KI-13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but
fifty horsemen,
and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of
Syria had
destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
2KI-13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he
did, and his
might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of
Israel?
2KI-13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried
him in Samaria:
and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
2KI-13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah
began Jehoash
the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and
reigned] sixteen
years.
2KI-13:11 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD; he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel
sin: [but] he walked therein.
2KI-13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he
did, and his
might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, [are]
they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2KI-13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat
upon his throne:
and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
2KI-13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he
died. And
Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his
face, and said,
O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen
thereof.
2KI-13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he
took unto him
bow and arrows.
2KI-13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand
upon the bow. And
he put his hand [upon it]: and Elisha put his hands upon the
king's hands.
2KI-13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened
[it]. Then
Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the
LORD'S
deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou
shalt smite the
Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed [them].
2KI-13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them]. And
he said unto
the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice,
and stayed.
2KI-13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
shouldest
have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria
till thou hadst
consumed [it]: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria [but] thrice.
2KI-13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands
of the Moabites
invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
2KI-13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that,
behold, they
spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into the sepulchre
of Elisha: and
when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he
revived, and
stood up on his feet.
2KI-13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the
days of Jehoahaz.
2KI-13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had
compassion on them,
and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham,
Isaac, and
Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his
presence as
yet.
2KI-13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son
reigned in his
stead.
2KI-13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the
hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of
the hand of
Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and
recovered the
cities of Israel.
==== <2KI14>
2KI-14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of
Israel reigned
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
2KI-14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to
reign, and reigned
twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Jehoaddan of
Jerusalem.
2KI-14:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, yet not
like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash
his father did.
2KI-14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet
the people did
sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
2KI-14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was
confirmed in his
hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his
father.
2KI-14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not:
according unto that
which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the
LORD commanded,
saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
nor the
children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be
put to death
for his own sin.
2KI-14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand,
and took Selah
by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
2KI-14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of
Jehoahaz son of
Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in
the face.
2KI-14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah,
saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
[was] in
Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there
passed by a
wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2KI-14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath
lifted thee up:
glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou
meddle to [thy]
hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?
2KI-14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of
Israel went
up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the
face at
Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.
2KI-14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and
they fled every
man to their tents.
2KI-14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah,
the son of
Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to
Jerusalem, and brake
down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the
corner gate, four
hundred cubits.
2KI-14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the
vessels that were
found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
king's house, and
hostages, and returned to Samaria.
2KI-14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and
his might,
and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they not
written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2KI-14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria with
the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
2KI-14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived
after the death of
Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2KI-14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not
written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem:
and he fled to
Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
2KI-14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
Jerusalem with
his fathers in the city of David.
2KI-14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which [was]
sixteen years
old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
2KI-14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that
the king slept
with his fathers.
2KI-14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash
king of Judah
Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in
Samaria, [and
reigned] forty and one years.
2KI-14:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel
to sin.
2KI-14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of
Hamath unto
the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of
Israel, which
he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai,
the prophet,
which [was] of Gathhepher.
2KI-14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it
was] very
bitter: for [there was] not any shut up, nor any left, nor any
helper for
Israel.
2KI-14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name
of Israel
from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the
son of Joash.
2KI-14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he
did, and his
might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,
[which
belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book
of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2KI-14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the
kings of
Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
==== <2KI15>
2KI-15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of
Israel began
Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2KI-15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and
he reigned two
and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Jecholiah of
Jerusalem.
2KI-15:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
2KI-15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed
and burnt incense still on the high places.
2KI-15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper
unto the day of
his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's
son [was] over
the house, judging the people of the land.
2KI-15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he
did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him
with his
fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his
stead.
2KI-15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah
did Zachariah
the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
2KI-15:9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, as his
fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin.
2KI-15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him,
and smote him
before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2KI-15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they
[are] written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2KI-15:12 This [was] the word of the LORD which he spake unto
Jehu, saying,
Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth
[generation]. And
so it came to pass.
2KI-15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine
and thirtieth
year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in
Samaria.
2KI-15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and
came to
Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and
slew him, and
reigned in his stead.
2KI-15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his
conspiracy which he
made, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of
Israel.
2KI-15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were]
therein, and the
coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not [to him],
therefore he
smote [it; and] all the women therein that were with child he
ripped up.
2KI-15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of
Judah began
Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned] ten
years in
Samaria.
2KI-15:18 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he
departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
2KI-15:19 [And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the land:
and Menahem
gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be
with him to
confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2KI-15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, [even] of
all the mighty
men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to
the king of
Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not
there in the land.
2KI-15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he
did, [are]
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
2KI-15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his
son reigned in
his stead.
2KI-15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekahiah the son of
Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] two
years.
2KI-15:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to
sin.
2KI-15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,
conspired against
him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house,
with Argob
and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he
killed him, and
reigned in his room.
2KI-15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he
did, behold,
they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
2KI-15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekah the son
of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned]
twenty years.
2KI-15:28 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to
sin.
2KI-15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came
Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and
Kedesh, and
Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and
carried them
captive to Assyria.
2KI-15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against
Pekah the son
of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his
stead, in the
twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
2KI-15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he
did, behold,
they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
2KI-15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king
of Israel
began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
2KI-15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to
reign, and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Jerusha, the
daughter of Zadok.
2KI-15:34 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD: he did
according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
2KI-15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and
burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher
gate of the house
of the LORD.
2KI-15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he
did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah
Rezin the king
of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
2KI-15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers
in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
stead.
==== <2KI16>
2KI-16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
Ahaz the son of
Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2KI-16:2 Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign,
and reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which was] right
in the sight of
the LORD his God, like David his father.
2KI-16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea,
and made his
son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of
the heathen,
whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
2KI-16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places,
and on the
hills, and under every green tree.
2KI-16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah
king of Israel
came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could
not overcome
[him].
2KI-16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to
Syria, and drave
the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt
there unto this
day.
2KI-16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, saying, I
[am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the
hand of the king
of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise
up against me.
2KI-16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in
the house of the
LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [it
for] a present to
the king of Assyria.
2KI-16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the
king of Assyria
went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people
of] it captive
to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2KI-16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser
king of
Assyria, and saw an altar that [was] at Damascus: and king Ahaz
sent to Urijah
the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it,
according to all
the workmanship thereof.
2KI-16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all
that king
Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it]
against king Ahaz
came from Damascus.
2KI-16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king
saw the altar:
and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
2KI-16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering,
and poured
his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace
offerings, upon the
altar.
2KI-16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which [was]
before the LORD,
from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the
house of the
LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
2KI-16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying,
Upon the great
altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat
offering, and the
king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt
offering of all
the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink
offerings;
and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and
all the blood of
the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire
[by].
2KI-16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that
king Ahaz
commanded.
2KI-16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and
removed the
laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen
oxen that
[were] under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
2KI-16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in
the house,
and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the
LORD for the
king of Assyria.
2KI-16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are]
they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in
the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
==== <2KI17>
2KI-17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea
the son of
Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
2KI-17:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, but not
as the kings of Israel that were before him.
2KI-17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and
Hoshea became
his servant, and gave him presents.
2KI-17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea:
for he had sent
messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the
king of Assyria,
as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria
shut him up, and
bound him in prison.
2KI-17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the
land, and went
up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2KI-17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
Samaria, and
carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and
in Habor [by]
the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2KI-17:7 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had
sinned against the
LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of
Egypt, from under
the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
2KI-17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the
LORD cast out
from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel,
which they had
made.
2KI-17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things
that [were]
not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high
places in all
their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2KI-17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high
hill, and
under every green tree:
2KI-17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places,
as [did] the
heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought
wicked things to
provoke the LORD to anger:
2KI-17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto
them, Ye
shall not do this thing.
2KI-17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against
Judah, by all
the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your
evil ways, and
keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law
which I
commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants
the prophets.
2KI-17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened
their necks, like
to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD
their God.
2KI-17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that
he made with
their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against
them; and they
followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen
that [were] round
about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that
they should not
do like them.
2KI-17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their
God, and made
them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and
worshipped all
the host of heaven, and served Baal.
2KI-17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to
pass through the
fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves
to do evil in
the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2KI-17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and
removed them out
of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2KI-17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD
their God, but
walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2KI-17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and
afflicted them,
and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast
them out of
his sight.
2KI-17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they
made Jeroboam
the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following
the LORD, and
made them sin a great sin.
2KI-17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which
he did; they departed not from them;
2KI-17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he
had said by
all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of
their own
land to Assyria unto this day.
2KI-17:24 And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon,
and from
Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and
placed [them]
in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and
they possessed
Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
2KI-17:25 And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling
there, [that]
they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among
them, which slew
[some] of them.
2KI-17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying,
The nations
which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria,
know not the
manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions
among them, and,
behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the
God of the
land.
2KI-17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry
thither one of
the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and
dwell there, and
let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
2KI-17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away
from Samaria
came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear
the LORD.
2KI-17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put
[them] in the
houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every
nation in their
cities wherein they dwelt.
2KI-17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the
men of Cuth made
Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2KI-17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
Sepharvites burnt
their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods
of Sepharvaim.
2KI-17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of
the lowest of
them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in
the houses of
the high places.
2KI-17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods,
after the manner
of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2KI-17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they
fear not the
LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
ordinances, or
after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the
children of Jacob,
whom he named Israel;
2KI-17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged
them, saying,
Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor
serve them, nor
sacrifice to them:
2KI-17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of
Egypt with
great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him
shall ye
worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
2KI-17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law,
and the
commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for
evermore; and
ye shall not fear other gods.
2KI-17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall
not forget;
neither shall ye fear other gods.
2KI-17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall
deliver you out
of the hand of all your enemies.
2KI-17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after
their former
manner.
2KI-17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their
graven images,
both their children, and their children's children: as did their
fathers, so
do they unto this day.
==== <2KI18>
2KI-18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of
Elah king of
Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to
reign.
2KI-18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to
reign; and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
also [was] Abi,
the daughter of Zachariah.
2KI-18:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD,
according to all that David his father did.
2KI-18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and
cut down the
groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had
made: for unto
those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he
called it
Nehushtan.
2KI-18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after
him was none
like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were
before him.
2KI-18:6 For he clave to the LORD, [and] departed not from
following him, but
kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
2KI-18:7 And the LORD was with him; [and] he prospered
whithersoever he went
forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served
him not.
2KI-18:8 He smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the
borders thereof,
from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2KI-18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Hezekiah, which [was]
the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that]
Shalmaneser king
of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
2KI-18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in
the sixth
year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of
Israel, Samaria
was taken.
2KI-18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto
Assyria, and put
them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the
cities of the
Medes:
2KI-18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their
God, but
transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of
the LORD
commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them].
2KI-18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of
Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took
them.
2KI-18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of
Assyria to Lachish,
saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest
on me will I
bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of
Judah three
hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2KI-18:15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found
in the house
of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
2KI-18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the
doors of the
temple of the LORD, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king
of Judah had
overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
2KI-18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and
Rabshakeh from
Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem.
And they went up
and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and
stood by the
conduit of the upper pool, which [is] in the highway of the
fuller's field.
2KI-18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out
to them
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which [was] over the household, and
Shebna the
scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
2KI-18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus saith
the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this
wherein thou
trustest?
2KI-18:20 Thou sayest, (but [they are but] vain words), [I
have] counsel and
strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou
rebellest against
me?
2KI-18:21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this
bruised reed,
[even] upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his
hand, and
pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on
him.
2KI-18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God:
[is] not that
he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away,
and hath said
to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in
Jerusalem?
2KI-18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord
the king of
Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be
able on thy
part to set riders upon them.
2KI-18:24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain
of the least
of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots
and for
horsemen?
2KI-18:25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place
to destroy it?
The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
2KI-18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and
Joah, unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian
language; for we
understand [it]: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in
the ears of the
people that [are] on the wall.
2KI-18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me
to thy master,
and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to
the men which
sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink
their own piss
with you?
2KI-18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in
the Jews'
language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king,
the king of
Assyria:
2KI-18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you:
for he shall not
be able to deliver you out of his hand:
2KI-18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD,
saying, The LORD
will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered
into the hand of
the king of Assyria.
2KI-18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
Assyria, Make
[an agreement] with me by a present, and come out to me, and
[then] eat ye
every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and
drink ye every
one the waters of his cistern:
2KI-18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your
own land, a land
of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil
olive and of
honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto
Hezekiah, when he
persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
2KI-18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all
his land out
of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2KI-18:34 Where [are] the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where
[are] the gods
of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out
of mine hand?
2KI-18:35 Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries,
that have
delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should
deliver
Jerusalem out of mine hand?
2KI-18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not
a word: for
the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
2KI-18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which [was]
over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder, to
Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of
Rabshakeh.
==== <2KI19>
2KI-19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it],
that he rent his
clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the
house of the
LORD.
2KI-19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which [was] over the household,
and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth,
to Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz.
2KI-19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day
[is] a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come
to the birth,
and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
2KI-19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of
Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the
living God; and
will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up
[thy] prayer for the remnant that are left.
2KI-19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
2KI-19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your
master, Thus
saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard,
with which
the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
2KI-19:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall
hear a rumour,
and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall
by the sword in
his own land.
2KI-19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
2KI-19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
Behold, he is
come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto
Hezekiah,
saying,
2KI-19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying,
Let not thy
God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall
not be
delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2KI-19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all
lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
2KI-19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
fathers have
destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children
of Eden which
[were] in Thelasar?
2KI-19:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,
and the king
of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
2KI-19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the
messengers, and
read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and
spread it before
the LORD.
2KI-19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD
God of
Israel, which dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou art the God,
[even] thou
alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven
and earth.
2KI-19:16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine
eyes, and
see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to
reproach the
living God.
2KI-19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed
the nations
and their lands,
2KI-19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they
[were] no gods,
but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have
destroyed
them.
2KI-19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save
thou us out of
his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou
[art] the LORD
God, [even] thou only.
2KI-19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying,
Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, [That] which thou hast prayed to me
against
Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
2KI-19:21 This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken
concerning him; The
virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed
thee to scorn;
the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
2KI-19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against
whom hast
thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?
[even] against the
Holy [One] of Israel.
2KI-19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and
hast said,
With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of
the mountains,
to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees
thereof, [and]
the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings
of his
borders, [and into] the forest of his Carmel.
2KI-19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the
sole of my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
2KI-19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it,
[and] of ancient
times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that
thou
shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps.
2KI-19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they
were dismayed
and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as]
the green
herb, [as] the grass on the house tops, and [as corn] blasted
before it be
grown up.
2KI-19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy
rage against me.
2KI-19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up
into mine
ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in
thy lips, and
I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2KI-19:29 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat
this year such
things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which
springeth of
the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant
vineyards, and eat
the fruits thereof.
2KI-19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall yet
again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2KI-19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and
they that escape
out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD [of hosts] shall do this.
2KI-19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
Assyria, He
shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor
come before it
with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
2KI-19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and shall not
come into this city, saith the LORD.
2KI-19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own
sake, and for
my servant David's sake.
2KI-19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the
LORD went
out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore
and five
thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they
[were] all
dead corpses.
2KI-19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and
dwelt at Nineveh.
2KI-19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the
house of Nisroch
his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with
the sword: and
they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son
reigned in his
stead.
==== <2KI20>
2KI-20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the
prophet Isaiah
the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Set thine
house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
2KI-20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto
the LORD,
saying,
2KI-20:3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked
before thee
in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is]
good in thy
sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
2KI-20:4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into
the middle
court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
2KI-20:5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people,
Thus saith
the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer,
I have seen
thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt
go up unto
the house of the LORD.
2KI-20:6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will
deliver thee
and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will
defend this
city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
2KI-20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took
and laid [it] on
the boil, and he recovered.
2KI-20:8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What [shall be] the
sign that the
LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the
LORD the third
day?
2KI-20:9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD,
that the
LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go
forward ten
degrees, or go back ten degrees?
2KI-20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the
shadow to go
down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten
degrees.
2KI-20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he
brought the
shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the
dial of Ahaz.
2KI-20:12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan,
king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that
Hezekiah had
been sick.
2KI-20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all
the house of
his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices,
and the
precious ointment, and [all] the house of his armour, and all
that was found
in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion,
that Hezekiah showed them not.
2KI-20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and
said unto him,
What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
Hezekiah said,
They are come from a far country, [even] from Babylon.
2KI-20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And
Hezekiah
answered, All [the things] that [are] in mine house have they
seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.
2KI-20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the
LORD.
2KI-20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine
house, and that
which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be
carried into
Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
2KI-20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which
thou shalt beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of
the king of
Babylon.
2KI-20:19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good [is] the word of
the LORD
which thou hast spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good], if
peace and truth be
in my days?
2KI-20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his
might, and how he
made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city,
[are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his
son reigned
in his stead.
==== <2KI21>
2KI-21:1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign,
and reigned
fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Hephzibah.
2KI-21:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, after the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the
children of
Israel.
2KI-21:3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah
his father had
destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove,
as did Ahab
king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and
served them.
2KI-21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which
the LORD
said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
2KI-21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of
the house of the LORD.
2KI-21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and
observed times, and
used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards:
he wrought
much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to
anger.
2KI-21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had
made in the
house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son,
In this house,
and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of
Israel, will I put
my name for ever:
2KI-21:8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more
out of the land
which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do
according to all
that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my
servant Moses
commanded them.
2KI-21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to
do more evil
than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children
of Israel.
2KI-21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets,
saying,
2KI-21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations, [and]
hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which [were]
before him,
and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
2KI-21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold,
I [am]
bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever
heareth of it,
both his ears shall tingle.
2KI-21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria,
and the
plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as [a
man] wipeth a
dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down.
2KI-21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance,
and deliver
them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a
prey and a spoil
to all their enemies;
2KI-21:15 Because they have done [that which was] evil in my
sight, and have
provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out
of Egypt,
even unto this day.
2KI-21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till
he had filled
Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he
made Judah to
sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
2KI-21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he
did, and his
sin that he sinned, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
2KI-21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried
in the garden
of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son
reigned in his
stead.
2KI-21:19 Amon [was] twenty and two years old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Meshullemeth, the
daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
2KI-21:20 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, as his
father Manasseh did.
2KI-21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked
in, and served
the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
2KI-21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and
walked not in the
way of the LORD.
2KI-21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and
slew the king
in his own house.
2KI-21:24 And the people of the land slew all them that had
conspired against
king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king
in his stead.
2KI-21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, [are]
they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of
Uzza: and
Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
==== <2KI22>
2KI-22:1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned
thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Jedidah, the
daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
2KI-22:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, and
walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside
to the right
hand or to the left.
2KI-22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king
Josiah, [that]
the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam,
the scribe, to
the house of the LORD, saying,
2KI-22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the
silver which
is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the
door have
gathered of the people:
2KI-22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of
the work, that
have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give
it to the doers
of the work which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the
breaches of the
house,
2KI-22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy
timber and
hewn stone to repair the house.
2KI-22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the
money that was
delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
2KI-22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the
scribe, I have
found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah
gave the book
to Shaphan, and he read it.
2KI-22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought
the king word
again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was
found in the
house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the
work, that have
the oversight of the house of the LORD.
2KI-22:10 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying,
Hilkiah the priest
hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
2KI-22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the
words of the book
of the law, that he rent his clothes.
2KI-22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam
the son of
Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe,
and Asahiah a
servant of the king's, saying,
2KI-22:13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people,
and for all
Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for
great [is] the
wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our
fathers have not
hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all
that which is
written concerning us.
2KI-22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and
Shaphan, and
Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum
the son of
Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she
dwelt in Jerusalem
in the college;) and they communed with her.
2KI-22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Tell the
man that sent you to me.
2KI-22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon
this place, and
upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the words of the book
which the king
of Judah hath read:
2KI-22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other
gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of
their hands;
therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and
shall not be
quenched.
2KI-22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of
the LORD,
thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [As
touching] the
words which thou hast heard;
2KI-22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled
thyself
before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this
place, and
against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a
desolation and a
curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also
have heard
[thee], saith the LORD.
2KI-22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers,
and thou
shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall
not see all
the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought
the king word
again.
==== <2KI23>
2KI-23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the
elders of
Judah and of Jerusalem.
2KI-23:2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and
all the men of
Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the
priests, and the
prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read
in their ears
all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the
house of the
LORD.
2KI-23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant
before the LORD,
to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his
testimonies and
his statutes with all [their] heart and all [their] soul, to
perform the words
of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the
people stood to
the covenant.
2KI-23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and
the priests of
the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth
out of the
temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and
for the grove,
and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without
Jerusalem in the
fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
2KI-23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings
of Judah had
ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of
Judah, and in the
places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto
Baal, to the
sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of
heaven.
2KI-23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the
LORD, without
Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook
Kidron, and
stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon
the graves of
the children of the people.
2KI-23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that
[were] by the
house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2KI-23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of
Judah, and
defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense,
from Geba to
Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that
[were] in the
entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city,
which [were] on a
man's left hand at the gate of the city.
2KI-23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not
up to the altar
of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened
bread among their
brethren.
2KI-23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which [is] in the valley of
the children of
Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass
through the
fire to Molech.
2KI-23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah
had given to
the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the
chamber of
Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which [was] in the suburbs, and
burned the
chariots of the sun with fire.
2KI-23:12 And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper
chamber of Ahaz,
which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh
had made in
the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down,
and brake
[them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the
brook Kidron.
2KI-23:13 And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem,
which [were] on
the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the
king of Israel
had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and
for Chemosh
the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination
of the
children of Ammon, did the king defile.
2KI-23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the
groves, and
filled their places with the bones of men.
2KI-23:15 Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the
high place which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made,
both that altar
and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place,
[and] stamped
[it] small to powder, and burned the grove.
2KI-23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres
that [were]
there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the
sepulchres, and
burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the
word of the
LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
2KI-23:17 Then he said, What title [is] that that I see? And
the men of the
city told him, [It is] the sepulchre of the man of God, which
came from Judah,
and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the
altar of Bethel.
2KI-23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones.
So they let
his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of
Samaria.
2KI-23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that
[were] in the
cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke
[the LORD] to
anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the
acts that he had
done in Bethel.
2KI-23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that
[were] there
upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned
to Jerusalem.
2KI-23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep
the passover
unto the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the book of this
covenant.
2KI-23:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the
days of the
judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of
Israel, nor of
the kings of Judah;
2KI-23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [wherein]
this passover
was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2KI-23:24 Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the
wizards, and
the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were
spied in the
land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he
might perform the
words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the
priest found
in the house of the LORD.
2KI-23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that
turned to the
LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his
might,
according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there
[any] like
him.
2KI-23:26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the
fierceness of his
great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,
because of all the
provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
2KI-23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my
sight, as I
have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which
I have
chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
2KI-23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he
did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI-23:29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up
against the king of
Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him;
and he slew
him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
2KI-23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from
Megiddo, and
brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre.
And the people
of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him,
and made him
king in his father's stead.
2KI-23:31 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he
began to reign;
and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Hamutal,
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2KI-23:32 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD,
according to all that his fathers had done.
2KI-23:33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the
land of Hamath,
that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a
tribute of an
hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
2KI-23:34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king
in the room
of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took
Jehoahaz
away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
2KI-23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh;
but he taxed
the land to give the money according to the commandment of
Pharaoh: he exacted
the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one
according to
his taxation, to give [it] unto Pharaohnechoh.
2KI-23:36 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he
began to reign;
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Zebudah,
the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
2KI-23:37 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD,
according to all that his fathers had done.
==== <2KI24>
2KI-24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up,
and Jehoiakim
became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled
against him.
2KI-24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees,
and bands of
the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the
children of Ammon,
and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word
of the LORD,
which he spake by his servants the prophets.
2KI-24:3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came [this] upon
Judah, to
remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh,
according to all
that he did;
2KI-24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he
filled
Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
2KI-24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he
did, [are]
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2KI-24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin
his son reigned
in his stead.
2KI-24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of
his land: for
the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the
river Euphrates
all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
2KI-24:8 Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to
reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name [was]
Nehushta, the
daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2KI-24:9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, according
to all that his father had done.
2KI-24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came up
against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2KI-24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the
city, and his
servants did besiege it.
2KI-24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king
of Babylon,
he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his
officers: and
the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2KI-24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the
house of the
LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces
all the vessels
of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of
the LORD, as
the LORD had said.
2KI-24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the
princes, and all the
mighty men of valour, [even] ten thousand captives, and all the
craftsmen and
smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of
the land.
2KI-24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the
king's mother,
and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the
land, [those]
carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2KI-24:16 And all the men of might, [even] seven thousand, and
craftsmen and
smiths a thousand, all [that were] strong [and] apt for war,
even them the
king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2KI-24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's
brother king in
his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2KI-24:18 Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years old when he began
to reign, and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2KI-24:19 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
2KI-24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in
Jerusalem and
Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that
Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon.
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2KI-25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in
the tenth
month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon
came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched
against it: and
they built forts against it round about.
2KI-25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of
king Zedekiah.
2KI-25:3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the
famine prevailed in
the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
2KI-25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war
[fled] by night
by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the
king's garden:
(now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the
king] went
the way toward the plain.
2KI-25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king,
and overtook
him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered
from him.
2KI-25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king
of Babylon to
Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
2KI-25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes,
and put out the
eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and
carried him to
Babylon.
2KI-25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the
month, which
[is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
came
Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of
Babylon, unto
Jerusalem:
2KI-25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's
house, and all
the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house burnt he
with fire.
2KI-25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with]
the captain of
the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
2KI-25:11 Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the
city, and the
fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the
remnant of the
multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
2KI-25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the
land [to be]
vinedressers and husbandmen.
2KI-25:13 And the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of
the LORD, and
the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the house of the
LORD, did the
Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to
Babylon.
2KI-25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and
the spoons,
and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took
they away.
2KI-25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, [and] such things as
[were] of
gold, [in] gold, and of silver, [in] silver, the captain of the
guard took
away.
2KI-25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon
had made for
the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was
without weight.
2KI-25:17 The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits,
and the
chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter
three cubits; and
the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round
about, all of
brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen
work.
2KI-25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
2KI-25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set
over the men of
war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence,
which were found
in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which
mustered the people
of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land [that
were] found in
the city:
2KI-25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and
brought them
to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
2KI-25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at
Riblah in the
land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
2KI-25:22 And [as for] the people that remained in the land of
Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made
Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
2KI-25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and
their men, heard
that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came
to Gedaliah to
Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son
of Careah, and
Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the
son of a
Maachathite, they and their men.
2KI-25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and
said unto them,
Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land,
and serve the
king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
2KI-25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten
men with him,
and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees
that were with
him at Mizpah.
2KI-25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the
captains of the
armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the
Chaldees.
2KI-25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year
of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on
the seven and
twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach king of
Babylon in the year
that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king
of Judah out of
prison;
2KI-25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above
the throne of
the kings that [were] with him in Babylon;
2KI-25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread
continually
before him all the days of his life.
2KI-25:30 And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given
him of the
king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
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