11  Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab .

 12  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 .

 13  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 .

 14  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 .

 15  And when the messengers turned back unto him he said unto

them Why are ye now turned back .

 16  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 .

 17  And he said unto them What manner of man was he which came

up to meet you and told you these words .

 18  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 .

 19  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 .

 110  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 .

 111  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 .

 112  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 .

 113  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 .

 114  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 .

 115  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 .

 116  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 .

 117  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 .

 118  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

.

* 21  And it came to pass when the LORD would take up Elijah

into heaven by a whirlwind that Elijah went with Elisha from

Gilgal .

 22  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 .

 23  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 .

 24  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 .

 25  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 .

 26  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 .

 27  And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood to

view afar off and they two stood by Jordan .

 28  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 .

 29  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 .

 210  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 .

 211  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 .

 212  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 .

 213  He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him

and went back and stood by the bank of Jordan .

 214  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 .

 215  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 .

 216  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 .

 217  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 .

 218  And when they came again to him (for he tarried at Jericho

he said unto them Did I not say unto you Go not .

 219  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 .

 220  And he said Bring me a new cruse and put salt therein And

they brought it to him .

 221  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 .

 222  So the waters were healed unto this day according to the

saying of Elisha which he spake .

 223  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 .

 224  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 .

 225  And he went from thence to mount Carmel and from thence he

returned to Samaria .

* 31  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 .

 32  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 .

 33  Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son

of Nebat which made Israel to sin he departed not therefrom .

 34  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 .

 35  But it came to pass when Ahab was dead that the king of

Moab rebelled against the king of Israel .

 36  And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time and

numbered all Israel .

 37  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 .

 38  And he said Which way shall we go up And he answered The

way through the wilderness of Edom .

 39  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 .

 310  And the king of Israel said Alas that the LORD hath called

these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab

.

 311  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 .

 312  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 .

 313  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 .

 314  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 .

 315  But now bring me a minstrel And it came to pass when the

minstrel played that the hand of the LORD came upon him .

 316  And he said Thus saith the LORD Make this valley full of

ditches .

 317  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 .

 318  And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD he

will deliver the Moabites also into your hand .

 319  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 .

 320  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 .

 321  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 .

 322  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 .

 323  And they said This is blood the kings are surely slain and

they have smitten one another now therefore Moab to the spoil .

 324  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 .

 325  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 .

 326  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 .

 327  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 .

* 41  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 .

 42  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 .

 43  Then he said Go borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy

neighbours even empty vessels borrow not a few .

 44  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 .

 45  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 .

 46  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 .

 47  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 .

 48  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 .

 49  And she said unto her husband Behold now I perceive that

this is an holy man of God which passeth by us continually .

 410  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 .

 411  And it fell on a day that he came thither and he turned

into the chamber and lay there .

 412  And he said to Gehazi his servant Call this Shunammite And

when he had called her she stood before him .

 413  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 .

 414  And he said What then is to be done for her And Gehazi

answered Verily she hath no child and her husband is old .

 415  And he said Call her And when he had called her she stood

in the door .

 416  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 .

 417  And the woman conceived and bare a son at that season that

Elisha had said unto her according to the time of life .

 418  And when the child was grown it fell on a day that he went

out to his father to the reapers .

 419  And he said unto his father My head my head And he said to

a lad Carry him to his mother .

 420  And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother he

sat on her knees till noon and then died .

 421  And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God

and shut the door upon him and went out .

 422  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 .

 423  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 .

 424  Then she saddled an ass and said to her servant Drive and

go forward slack not thy riding for me except I bid thee .

 425  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 .

 426  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 .

 427  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 .

 428  Then she said Did I desire a son of my lord did I not say

Do not deceive me .

 429  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 .

 430  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 .

 431  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 .

 432  And when Elisha was come into the house behold the child

was dead and laid upon his bed .

 433  He went in therefore and shut the door upon them twain and

prayed unto the LORD .

 434  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 .

 435  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 .

 436  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 .

 437  Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to

the ground and took up her son and went out .

 438  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 .

 439  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 .

 440  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 .

 441  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 .

 442  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 .

 443  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 .

 444  So he set it before them and they did eat and left thereof

according to the word of the LORD .

* 51  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 .

 52  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 .

 53  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 .

 54  And one went in and told his lord saying Thus and thus said

the maid that is of the land of Israel .

 55  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 .

 56  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 .

 57  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 .

 58  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 .

 59  So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot and

stood at the door of the house of Elisha .

 510  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 .

 511  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 .

 512  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 .

 513  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 .

 514  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 .

 515  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 .

 516  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 .

 517  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 .

 518  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 .

 519  And he said unto him Go in peace So he departed from him a

little way .

 520  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 .

 521  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 .

 522  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 .

 523  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 .

 524  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 .

 525  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 .

 526  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 .

 527  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 .

* 61  And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha Behold now

the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us . .

 62  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 .

 63  And one said Be content I pray thee and go with thy

servants And he answered I will go .

 64  So he went with them And when they came to Jordan they cut

down wood .

 65  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 .

 66  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 .

 67  Therefore said he Take it up to thee And he put out his

hand and took it .

 68  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 .

 69  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 .

 610  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 .

 611  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 .

 612  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 .

 613  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 .

 614  Therefore sent he thither horses and chariots and a great

host and they came by night and compassed the city about .

 615  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 .

 616  And he answered Fear not for they that be with us are more

than they that be with them .

 617  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 .

 618  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 .

 619  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 .

 620  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 .

 621  And the king of Israel said unto Elisha when he saw them

My father shall I smite them shall I smite them .

 622  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 .

 623  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 .

 624  And it came to pass after this that Benhadad king of Syria

gathered all his host and went up and besieged Samaria .

 625  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 .

 626  And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall

there cried a woman unto him saying Help my lord O king .

 627  And he said If the LORD do not help thee whence shall I

help thee out of the barnfloor or out of the winepress .

628  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 .

 629  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 .

 630  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 .

 631  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 .

 632  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 .

 633  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 .

* 71  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 .

 72  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 .

 73  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 .

 74  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 .

 75  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 .

 76  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 .

 77  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 .

 78  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 .

 79  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 .

710  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 .

711  And he called the porters and they told it to the king's

house within .

712  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 .

 713  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 .

 714  They took therefore two chariot horses and the king sent

after the host of the Syrians saying Go and see .

 715  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 .

 716  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 .

 717  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 .

 718  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 .

 719  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 .

 720  And so it fell out unto him for the people trode upon him

in the gate and he died .

* 81  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 .

 82  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 .

 83  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 .

 84  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 .

 85  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 .

 86  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 .

 87  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 .

 88  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 .

 89  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 .

 810  And Elisha said unto him Go say unto him Thou mayest

certainly recover howbeit the LORD hath showed me that he shall

surely die .

 811  And he settled his countenance stedfastly until he was

ashamed and the man of God wept .

 812  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 .

 813  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 .

 814  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 .

 815  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 .

 816  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 .

 817  Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign and

he reigned eight years in Jerusalem .

 818  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 .

 819  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 .

 820  In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah and

made a king over themselves .

 821  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 .

 822  Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this

day Then Libnah revolted at the same time .

 823  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 .

 824  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 .

 825  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 .

 826  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 .

 827  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 .

 828  And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against

Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead and the Syrians wounded

Joram .

 829  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 .

 * 91  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 .

 92  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 .

 93  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 .

 94  So the young man even the young man the prophet went to

Ramothgilead .

 95  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 .

 96  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 .

 97  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 .

 98  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 .

 99  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 .

 910  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 .

 911  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 .

 912  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 .

 913  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 .

 914  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 .

 915  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 .

 916  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 .

 917  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 .

 918  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 .

 919  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 .

 920  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 .

 921  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 .

 922  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 .

 923  And Joram turned his hands and fled and said to Ahaziah

There is treachery O Ahaziah .

 924  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 .

 925  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 .

 926  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 .

927  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 .

 928  And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and

buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of

David .

 929  And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began

Ahaziah to reign over Judah .

 930  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 .

 931  And as Jehu entered in at the gate she said Had Zimri

peace who slew his master .

 932  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 .

 933  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 .

 934  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 .

 935  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 .

 936  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 .

 937  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 .

* 101  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 .

 102  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 .

 103  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 .

 104  But they were exceedingly afraid and said Behold two kings

stood not before him how then shall we stand .

 105  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 .

 106  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 .

 107  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 .

 108  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 .

 109  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 .

 1010  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 .

 1011  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 .

 1012  And he arose and departed and came to Samaria And as he

was at the shearing house in the way .

 1013  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 .

 1014  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 .

 1015  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 .

 1016  And he said Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD So

they made him ride in his chariot .

 1017  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 .

 1018  And Jehu gathered all the people together and said unto

them Ahab served Baal a little but Jehu shall serve him much .

 1019  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 .

 1020  And Jehu said Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal And

they proclaimed it .

 1021  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 .

 1022  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 .

 1023  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 .

 1024  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 .

1025  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

.

 1026  And they brought forth the images out of the house of

Baal and burned them .

 1027  And they brake down the image of Baal and brake down the

house of Baal and made it a draught house unto this day .

 1028  Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel .

 1029  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 .

 1030  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 .

 1031  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 .

 1032  In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short and

Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel .

 1033  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 .

 1034  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 .

 1035  And Jehu slept with his fathers and they buried him in

Samaria And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead .

 1036  And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was

twenty and eight years .

* 111  And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son

was dead she arose and destroyed all the seed royal .

 112  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 .

 113  And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years

And Athaliah did reign over the land .

 114  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 .

 115  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 .

 116  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 .

 117  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 .

 118  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 .

 119  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 .

 1110  And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give

king David's spears and shields that were in the temple of the

LORD .

 1111  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 .

 1112  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 .

 1113  And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the

people she came to the people into the temple of the LORD .

 1114  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 .

 1115  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 .

 1116  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 .

 1117  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 .

 1118  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 .

 1119  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 .

 1120  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 .

 1121  Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign .

* 121  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 .

 122  And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the

LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him .

 123  But the high places were not taken away the people still

sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places .

 124  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 .

 125  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 .

 126  But it was so that in the three and twentieth year of king

Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house .

 127  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 .

 128  And the priests consented to receive no more money of the

people neither to repair the breaches of the house .

 129  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 .

 1210  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 .

 1211  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 .

 1212  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 .

 1213  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 .

 1214  But they gave that to the workmen and repaired therewith

the house of the LORD .

 1215  Moreover they reckoned not with the men into whose hand

they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen for they

dealt faithfully .

 1216  The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the

house of the LORD it was the priests' .

 1217  Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath

and took it and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem .

 1218  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 .

 1219  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 .

 1220  And his servants arose and made a conspiracy and slew

Joash in the house of Millo which goeth down to Silla .

 1221  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 .

* 131  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 .

 132  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 .

 133  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 .

 134  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 .

 135  (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 .

 136  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 .

 137  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 .

 138  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 .

 139  And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers and they buried him in

Samaria and Joash his son reigned in his stead .

 1310  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 .

 1311  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 .

 1312  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 .

 1313  And Joash slept with his fathers and Jeroboam sat upon

his throne and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of

Israel .

 1314  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 .

 1315  And Elisha said unto him Take bow and arrows And he took

unto him bow and arrows .

 1316  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 .

 1317  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 .

 1318  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 .

 1319  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 .

 1320  And Elisha died and they buried him And the bands of the

Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year .

 1321  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 .

 1322  But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of

Jehoahaz .

 1323  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 .

 1324  So Hazael king of Syria died and Benhadad his son reigned

in his stead .

 1325  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 .

* 141 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel

reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah .

 142  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 .

 143  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 .

 144  Howbeit the high places were not taken away as yet the

people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places .

 145  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 .

 146  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 .



 147  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 .

 148  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 .

 149  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 .

 1410  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 .

 1411  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 .

 1412  And Judah was put to the worse before Israel and they

fled every man to their tents .

 1413  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 .

 1414  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 .

 1415  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 .

 1416  And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in

Samaria with the kings of Israel and Jeroboam his son reigned in

his stead .

 1417  And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after

the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen

years .

 1418  And the rest of the acts of Amaziah are they not written

in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah .

 1419  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 .

 1420  And they brought him on horses and he was buried at

Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David .

 1421  And all the people of Judah took Azariah which was

sixteen years old and made him king instead of his father

Amaziah .

 1422  He built Elath and restored it to Judah after that the

king slept with his fathers .

 1423  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 .

 1424  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 .

 1425  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 .

 1426  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 .

 1427  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 .

 1428  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 .

 1429  And Jeroboam slept with his fathers even with the kings

of Israel and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead .

* 151  In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel

began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign .

 152  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 .

 153  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD

according to all that his father Amaziah had done .

 154  Save that the high places were not removed the people

sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places .

 155  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 .

 156  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 .

 157  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 .

 158  In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did

Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six

months .

 159  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 .

 1510  And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and

smote him before the people and slew him and reigned in his

stead .

 1511  And the rest of the acts of Zachariah behold they are

written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel .

 1512  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 .

 1513  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 .

 1514  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 .

 1515  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 .

 1516  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 .

 1517  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 .

 1518  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 .

 1519  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 .

 1520  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 .

 1521  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 .

 1522  And Menahem slept with his fathers and Pekahiah his son

reigned in his stead .

 1523  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 .

 1524  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 .

 1525  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 .

 1526  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 .

 1527  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 .

 1528  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 .

 1529  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 .

 1530  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 .

 1531  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 .

 1532  In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of

Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign .

 1533  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 .

 1534  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD

he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done .

 1535  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 .

 1536  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 .

 1537  In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin

the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah .

 1538  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 .

 * 161  In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah

Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign .

 162  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 .

 163  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 .

 164  And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and

on the hills and under every green tree .

 165  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 .

 166  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 .

 167  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 .

 168  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 .

 169  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 .

 1610  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 .

 1611  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 .

 1612  And when the king was come from Damascus the king saw the

altar and the king approached to the altar and offered thereon .

 1613  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 .

 1614  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 .

 1615  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 .

 1616  Thus did Urijah the priest according to all that king

Ahaz commanded .

 1617  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 .

 1618  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 .

 1619  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 .

 1620  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 .

* 171  In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea

the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years .

 172  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD

but not as the kings of Israel that were before him .

 173 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria and Hoshea

became his servant and gave him presents .

 174  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 .

 175  Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land

and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years .

 176  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 .

 177  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 .

 178  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 .

 179  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 .

 1710  And they set them up images and groves in every high hill

and under every green tree .

 1711  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 .

 1712  For they served idols whereof the LORD had said unto them

Ye shall not do this thing .

 1713  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 .

 1714  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 .

 1715  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 .

 1716  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 .

 1717  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 .

 1718  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 .

 1719  Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their

God but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made .

 1720  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 .

 1721  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 .

 1722  For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of

Jeroboam which he did they departed not from them .

 1723  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 .

 1724  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 .

 1725  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 .

 1726  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 .

 1727  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 .

 1728  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 .

 1729  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 .

 1730  And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth and the men of

Cuth made Nergal and the men of Hamath made Ashima .

 1731  And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak and the Sepharvites

burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the

gods of Sepharvaim .

 1732  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 .

 1733  They feared the LORD and served their own gods after the

manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence .

 1734  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 .

 1735  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 .

 1736  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 .

 1737  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 .

 1738  And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not

forget neither shall ye fear other gods .

 1739  But the LORD your God ye shall fear and he shall deliver

you out of the hand of all your enemies .

 1740  Howbeit they did not hearken but they did after their

former manner .

 1741  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 .

* 181  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 .

 182  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 .

 183  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD

according to all that David his father did .

 184  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 .

 185  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 .

 186  For he clave to the LORD and departed not from following

him but kept his commandments which the LORD commanded Moses .

 187  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 .

 188  He smote the Philistines even unto Gaza and the borders

thereof from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city .

 189  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 .

 1810  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 .

 1811  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 .

 1812  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 .

 1813  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 .

 1814  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 .

 1815  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 .

 1816  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 .

 1817  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 .

 1818  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 .

 1819  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 .

 1820  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 .

 1821  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 .

 1822  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 .

 1823  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 .

 1824  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 .

 1825  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 .

 1826  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 .

 1827  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 .

 1828  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 .

 1829  Thus saith the king Let not Hezekiah deceive you for he

shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand .

 1830  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 .

 1831  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 .

 1832  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 .

 1833  Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his

land out of the hand of the king of Assyria .

 1834  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 .

 1835  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 .

 1836  But the people held their peace and answered him not a

word for the king's commandment was saying Answer him not .

 1837  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 .

 * 191  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 .

 192  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 .

 193  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 .

 194  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 .

 195  So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah .

 196  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 .

 197  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 .

 198  So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria

warring against Libnah for he had heard that he was departed

from Lachish .

 199  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 .

 1910  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 .

 1911  Behold thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have

done to all lands by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be

delivered .

 1912  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 .

 1913  Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad and the

king of the city of Sepharvaim of Hena and Ivah .

 1914  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 .

 1915  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 .

 1916  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 .

 1917  Of a truth LORD the kings of Assyria have destroyed the

nations and their lands .

 1918  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 .

 1919  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 .

 1920  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 .

 1921  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 .

 1922  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 .

 1923  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 .

 1924  I have digged and drunk strange waters and with the sole

of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places .

 1925  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 .

 1926  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 .

 1927  But I know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in

and thy rage against me .

 1928  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 .

 1929  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 .

1930  And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah

shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward .

 1931  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 .

 1932  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 .

 1933  By the way that he came by the same shall he return and

shall not come into this city saith the LORD .

 1934  For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake

and for my servant David's sake .

 1935  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 .

 1936  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and

returned and dwelt at Nineveh .

 1937  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 .

* 201  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 .

 202  Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed unto the

LORD saying .

 203  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 .

 204  And it came to pass afore Isaiah was gone out into the

middle court that the word of the LORD came to him saying .

 205  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 .

 206  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 .

 207  And Isaiah said Take a lump of figs And they took and laid

it on the boil and he recovered .

 208  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 .

 209  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 .

 2010  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 .

 2011  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 .

 2012  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 .

 2013  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 .

 2014  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 .

 2015  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 .

 2016  And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah Hear the word of the LORD .

 2017  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 .

 2018  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 .

 2019  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 .

 2020  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 .

 2021  And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasseh his son

reigned in his stead .

* 211  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 .

 212  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 .

 213  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 .

 214  And he built altars in the house of the LORD of which the

LORD said In Jerusalem will I put my name .

 215  And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two

courts of the house of the LORD .

 216  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 .

 217  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 .

 218  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 .

 219  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 .

 2110  And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets saying .

 2111  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 .

 2112  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 .

 2113  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 .

 2114  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 .

 2115  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 .

 2116  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 .

 2117  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 .

 2118  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 .

 2119  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 .

  2120  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD

as his father Manasseh did .

 2121  And he walked in all the way that his father walked in

and served the idols that his father served and worshipped them .

 2122  And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers and walked not

in the way of the LORD .

 2123  And the servants of Amon conspired against him and slew

the king in his own house .

 2124  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 .

 2125  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 .

 2126  And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza

and Josiah his son reigned in his stead .

* 221  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 .

 222  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 .

 223  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 .

 224  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 .

 225  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 .

 226  Unto carpenters and builders and masons and to buy timber

and hewn stone to repair the house .

 227  Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money

that was delivered into their hand because they dealt faithfully

.

 228  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 .

 229  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 .

 2210  And Shaphan the scribe showed the king saying Hilkiah the

priest hath delivered me a book And Shaphan read it before the

king .

 2211  And it came to pass when the king had heard the words of

the book of the law that he rent his clothes .

 2212  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 .

 2213  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 .

 2214  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

.

 2215  And she said unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel

Tell the man that sent you to me .

 2216  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 .

 2217  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 .

 2218  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 .

 2219  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 .

 2220  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 .

* 231  And the king sent and they gathered unto him all the

elders of Judah and of Jerusalem .

 232  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 .

 233  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 .

 234  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 .

 235  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 .

 236  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 .

237  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 .

 238  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 .

 239  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 .

 2310  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 .

 2311  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 .

2312  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 .

 2313  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 .

 2314  And he brake in pieces the images and cut down the groves

and filled their places with the bones of men .

 2315  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 .

 2316  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 .

 2317  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 .

 2318  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 .

 2319  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 .

 2320  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 .

 2321  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 .

 2322  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 .

 2323  But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah wherein this

passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem .

 2324  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 .

 2325  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 .

 2326  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 .

 2327  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 .

 2328  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 .

 2329  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 .

 2330  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 .

 2331  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 .

 2332  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD

according to all that his fathers had done .

 2333  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 .

 2334  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 .

 2335  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 .

 2336  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 .

 2337  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD

according to all that his fathers had done .

* 241  In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up and

Jehoiakim became his servant three years then he turned and

rebelled against him .

 242  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 .

 243  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 .

  244  And also for the innocent blood that he shed for he

filled Jerusalem with innocent blood which the LORD would not

pardon .

 245  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 .

 246  So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers and Jehoiachin his son

reigned in his stead .

 247  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

.

 248  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 .

 249  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD

according to all that his father had done .

 2410  At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of

Babylon came up against Jerusalem and the city was besieged .

 2411  And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city

and his servants did besiege it .

 2412  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 .

 2413  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 .

 2414  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 .

 2415  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 .

 2416  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 .

 2417  And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's

brother king in his stead and changed his name to Zedekiah .

 2418  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 .

 2419  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD

according to all that Jehoiakim had done .

 2420  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 .

* 251  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 .

 252  And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king

Zedekiah .

 253  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 .

 254  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 .

 255  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 .

 256  So they took the king and brought him up to the king of

Babylon to Riblah and they gave judgment upon him .

 257  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 .

 258  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 .

 259  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 .

 2510  And all the army of the Chaldees that were with the

captain of the guard brake down the walls of Jerusalem round

about .

 2511  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 .

 2512  But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land

to be vinedressers and husbandmen .

 2513  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 .

 2514  And the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the

spoons and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered

took they away .

 2515  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 .

 2516  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 .

 2517  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 .

 2518  And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief

priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of

the door .

 2519  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 .

 2520  And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these and

brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah .

 2521  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 .

 2522  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 .

 2523  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 .

 2524  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

.

 2525  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 .

2526  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 .

 2527  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 .

 2528  And he spake kindly to him and set his throne above the

throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon .

 2529  And changed his prison garments and he did eat bread

continually before him all the days of his life .

 2530  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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