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