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==== <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.

==== <2KI25>

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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