1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the 
    LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
1:2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of 
    hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the 
    chief of the fathers.
1:3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place 
    that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation 
    of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place 
    which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at 
    Jerusalem.
1:5 Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, 
    had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the 
    congregation sought unto it.
1:6 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before the LORD, which 
    was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt 
    offerings upon it.
1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I 
    shall give thee.
1:8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great mercy unto David my 
    father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
1:9 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: 
    for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in 
    multitude.
1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before 
    this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast 
    not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, 
    neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge 
    for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made 
    thee king:
1:12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, 
    and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have 
    been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.
1:13 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at 
    Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and 
    reigned over Israel.
1:14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and 
    four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in 
    the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
1:15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, 
    and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that are in the vale for 
    abundance.
1:16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's 
    merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
1:17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six 
    hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and 
    so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for 
    the kings of Syria, by their means.
2:1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and 
    an house for his kingdom.
2:2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, 
    and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and 
    six hundred to oversee them.
2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal 
    with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to 
    dwell therein, even so deal with me.
2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it 
    to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual 
    showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the 
    sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our 
    God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
2:5 And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all 
    gods.
2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of 
    heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an 
    house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
2:7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and 
    in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that 
    can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and 
    in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
2:8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: 
    for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, 
    behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
2:9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about 
    to build shall be wonderful great.
2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, 
    twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures 
    of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths 
    of oil.
2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to 
    Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king 
    over them.
2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made 
    heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued 
    with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, 
    and an house for his kingdom.
2:13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram 
    my father's,
2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man 
    of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in 
    stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in 
    crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every 
    device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the 
    cunning men of my lord David thy father.
2:15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which 
    my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
2:16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we 
    will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it 
    up to Jerusalem.
2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, 
    after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and 
    they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six 
    hundred.
2:18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of 
    burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and 
    three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount 
    Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place 
    that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
3:2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the 
    fourth year of his reign.
3:3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the 
    building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first 
    measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
3:4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it 
    was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the 
    height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure 
    gold.
3:5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with 
    fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold 
    was gold of Parvaim.
3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, 
    and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
3:8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to 
    the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty 
    cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred 
    talents.
3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid 
    the upper chambers with gold.
3:10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and 
    overlaid them with gold.
3:11 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of 
    the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and 
    the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the 
    other cherub.
3:12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the 
    wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining 
    to the wing of the other cherub.
3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and 
    they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
3:14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, 
    and wrought cherubims thereon.
3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, 
    and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
3:16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of 
    the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the 
    chains.
3:17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, 
    and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand 
    Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, 
    and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
4:2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in 
    compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits 
    did compass it round about.
4:3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round 
    about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen 
    were cast, when it was cast.
4:4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three 
    looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three 
    looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all 
    their hinder parts were inward.
4:5 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like 
    the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received 
    and held three thousand baths.
4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the 
    left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt 
    offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in
    .
4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set 
    them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the 
    right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basins of gold.
4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and 
    doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
4:10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the 
    south.
4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Huram 
    finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of 
    God;
4:12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which 
    were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the 
    two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
4:13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of 
    pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters 
    which were upon the pillars.
4:14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
4:15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their 
    instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of 
    the LORD of bright brass.
4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground 
    between Succoth and Zeredathah.
4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight 
    of the brass could not be found out.
4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the 
    golden altar also, and the tables whereon the showbread was set;
4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after 
    the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
4:21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and 
    that perfect gold;
4:22 And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers, of 
    pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the 
    most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of 
    gold.
5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was 
    finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father 
    had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, 
    put he among the treasures of the house of God.
5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the 
    tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto 
    Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the 
    city of David, which is Zion.
5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in 
    the feast which was in the seventh month.
5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
5:5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and 
    all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the 
    priests and the Levites bring up.
5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were 
    assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which 
    could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his 
    place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even 
    under the wings of the cherubims:
5:8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, 
    and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
5:9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves 
    were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. 
    And there it is unto this day.
5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put 
    therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of 
    Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: 
    (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not 
    then wait by course:
5:12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of 
    Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed 
    in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the 
    east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests 
    sounding with trumpets:)
5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to 
    make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when 
    they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and 
    instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; 
    for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a 
    cloud, even the house of the LORD;
5:14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: 
    for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick 
    darkness.
6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy 
    dwelling for ever.
6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of 
    Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
6:4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his 
    hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, 
    saying,
6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I 
    chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that 
    my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my 
    people Israel:
6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have 
    chosen David to be over my people Israel.
6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the 
    name of the LORD God of Israel.
6:8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart 
    to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine 
    heart:
6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall 
    come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I 
    am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of 
    Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of 
    the LORD God of Israel.
6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, 
    that he made with the children of Israel.
6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the 
    congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
6:13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five 
    cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the 
    court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all 
    the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the 
    heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and showest mercy 
    unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
6:15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou 
    hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it 
    with thine hand, as it is this day.
6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my 
    father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail 
    thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy 
    children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked 
    before me.
6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou 
    hast spoken unto thy servant David.
6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven 
    and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house 
    which I have built!
6:19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his 
    supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer 
    which thy servant prayeth before thee:
6:20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the 
    place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to 
    hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
6:21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy 
    people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from 
    thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
6:22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to 
    make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by 
    requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by 
    justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
6:24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because 
    they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, 
    and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people 
    Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and 
    to their fathers.
6:26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have 
    sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess 
    thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
6:27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of 
    thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they 
    should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy 
    people for an inheritance.
6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be 
    blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege 
    them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness 
    there be:
6:29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any 
    man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore 
    and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
6:30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render 
    unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (
    for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in 
    the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
6:32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, 
    but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty 
    hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do 
    according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people 
    of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people 
    Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy 
    name.
6:34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou 
    shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou 
    hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, 
    and maintain their cause.
6:36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) 
    and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, 
    and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
6:37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried 
    captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, 
    saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
6:38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in 
    the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, 
    and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and 
    toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I 
    have built for thy name:
6:39 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their 
    prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive 
    thy people which have sinned against thee.
6:40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine 
    ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
6:41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the 
    ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with 
    salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the 
    mercies of David thy servant.
7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from 
    heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the 
    glory of the LORD filled the house.
7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the 
    glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
7:3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the 
    glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces 
    to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, 
    saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, 
    and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people 
    dedicated the house of God.
7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with 
    instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to 
    praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David 
    praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, 
    and all Israel stood.
7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the 
    house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of 
    the peace offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was 
    not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the 
    fat.
7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel 
    with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto 
    the river of Egypt.
7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the 
    dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the 
    people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness 
    that the LORD had showed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his 
    people.
7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and 
    all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and 
    in his own house, he prosperously effected.
7:12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have 
    heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of 
    sacrifice.
7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts 
    to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and 
    pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I 
    hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that 
    is made in this place.
7:16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be 
    there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, 
    and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my 
    statutes and my judgments;
7:18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have 
    covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a 
    man to be ruler in Israel.
7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I 
    have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
7:20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have 
    given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I 
    cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword 
    among all nations.
7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one 
    that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus 
    unto this land, and unto this house?
7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their 
    fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid 
    hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath 
    he brought all this evil upon them.
8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had 
    built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
8:2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, 
    and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
8:3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which 
    he built in Hamath.
8:5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced 
    cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
8:6 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the 
    chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon 
    desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the 
    land of his dominion.
8:7 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the 
    Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which 
    were not of Israel,
8:8 But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the 
    children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute 
    until this day.
8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; 
    but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of 
    his chariots and horsemen.
8:10 And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two 
    hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David 
    unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not 
    dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, 
    whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the 
    LORD, which he had built before the porch,
8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the 
    commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the 
    solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of 
    unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of 
    tabernacles.
8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the 
    courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, 
    to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day 
    required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had 
    David the man of God commanded.
8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests 
    and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation 
    of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of 
    the LORD was perfected.
8:17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the 
    land of Edom.
8:18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants 
    that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of 
    Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, 
    and brought them to king Solomon.
9:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to 
    prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, 
    and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: 
    and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was 
    in her heart.
9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from 
    Solomon which he told her not.
9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the 
    house that he had built,
9:4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the 
    attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and 
    their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the 
    LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
9:5 And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine 
    own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
9:6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen 
    it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not 
    told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand 
    continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
9:8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his 
    throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, 
    to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do 
    judgment and justice.
9:9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of 
    spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such 
    spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which 
    brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
9:11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, 
    and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and 
    there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever 
    she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she 
    turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred 
    and threescore and six talents of gold;
9:14 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of 
    Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred 
    shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
9:16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred 
    shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house 
    of the forest of Lebanon.
9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with 
    pure gold.
9:18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, 
    which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the 
    sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the 
    six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all 
    the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: 
    none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days 
    of Solomon.
9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every 
    three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, 
    ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear 
    his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
9:24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels 
    of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate 
    year by year.
9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and 
    twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and 
    with the king at Jerusalem.
9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of 
    the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made 
    he as the sycamore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not 
    written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah 
    the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the 
    son of Nebat?
9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of 
    David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to 
    make him king.
10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, 
    whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, 
    that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
10:3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake 
    to Rehoboam, saying,
10:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the 
    grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, 
    and we will serve thee.
10:5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the 
    people departed.
10:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before 
    Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me 
    to return answer to this people?
10:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and 
    please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for 
    ever.
10:8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel 
    with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
10:9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to 
    this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke 
    that thy father did put upon us?
10:10 And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, 
    Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy 
    father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; 
    thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than 
    my father's loins.
10:11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to 
    your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you 
    with scorpions.
10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as 
    the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.
10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the 
    counsel of the old men,
10:14 And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father 
    made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you 
    with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
10:15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, 
    that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of 
    Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
10:16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, 
    the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and 
    we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O 
    Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to 
    their tents.
10:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, 
    Rehoboam reigned over them.
10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the 
    children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king 
    Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
11:1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of 
    Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which 
    were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom 
    again to Rehoboam.
11:2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
11:3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all 
    Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
11:4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: 
    return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they 
    obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
11:6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
11:7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
11:8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
11:9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
11:10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in 
    Benjamin fenced cities.
11:11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store 
    of victual, and of oil and wine.
11:12 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them 
    exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
11:13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to 
    him out of all their coasts.
11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to 
    Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from 
    executing the priest's office unto the LORD:
11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, 
    and for the calves which he had made.
11:16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their 
    hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice 
    unto the LORD God of their fathers.
11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son 
    of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way 
    of David and Solomon.
11:18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of 
    David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
11:19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him 
    Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives 
    and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore 
    concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
11:22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler 
    among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all 
    the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave 
    them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
12:1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had 
    strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel 
    with him.
12:2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak 
    king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed 
    against the LORD,
12:3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the 
    people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, 
    the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
12:4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to 
    Jerusalem.
12:5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of 
    Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and 
    said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore 
    have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and 
    they said, The LORD is righteous.
12:7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the 
    LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I 
    will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my 
    wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, 
    and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the 
    treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; 
    he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had 
    made.
12:10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed 
    them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of 
    the king's house.
12:11 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came 
    and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, 
    that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things 
    went well.
12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for 
    Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he 
    reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen 
    out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's 
    name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in 
    the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning 
    genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam 
    continually.
12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of 
    David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
13:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over 
    Judah.
13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was 
    Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between 
    Abijah and Jeroboam.
13:3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, 
    even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in 
    array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty 
    men of valour.
13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, 
    and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
13:5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over 
    Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of 
    salt?
13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, 
    is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
13:7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and 
    have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when 
    Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
13:8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of 
    the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with 
    you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and 
    the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations 
    of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a 
    young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that 
    are no gods.
13:10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; 
    and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, 
    and the Levites wait upon their business:
13:11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt 
    sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also set they in order 
    upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, 
    to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but 
    ye have forsaken him.
13:12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his 
    priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of 
    Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall 
    not prosper.
13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they 
    were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
13:14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: 
    and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, 
    it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah 
    and Judah.
13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them 
    into their hand.
13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there 
    fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the 
    children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of 
    their fathers.
13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel 
    with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain 
    with the towns thereof.
13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and 
    the LORD struck him, and he died.
13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty 
    and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are 
    written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
14:1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of 
    David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was 
    quiet ten years.
14:2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his 
    God:
14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, 
    and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do 
    the law and the commandment.
14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and 
    the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
14:6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had 
    no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
14:7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about 
    them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet 
    before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, 
    and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
14:8 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah 
    three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew 
    bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of 
    valour.
14:9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a 
    thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
14:10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the 
    valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing 
    with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: 
    help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go 
    against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail 
    against thee.
14:12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the 
    Ethiopians fled.
14:13 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: 
    and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover 
    themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; 
    and they carried away very much spoil.
14:14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the 
    LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was 
    exceeding much spoil in them.
14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels 
    in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and 
    all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; 
    and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he 
    will forsake you.
15:3 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and 
    without a teaching priest, and without law.
15:4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, 
    and sought him, he was found of them.
15:5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to 
    him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of 
    the countries.
15:6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex 
    them with all adversity.
15:7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work 
    shall be rewarded.
15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, 
    he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land 
    of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from 
    mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the 
    porch of the LORD.
15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out 
    of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of 
    Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
15:10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, 
    in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
15:11 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which 
    they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers 
    with all their heart and with all their soul;
15:13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to 
    death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
15:14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and 
    with trumpets, and with cornets.
15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their 
    heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: 
    and the LORD gave them rest round about.
15:16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed 
    her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa 
    cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless 
    the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had 
    dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and 
    vessels.
15:19 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the 
    reign of Asa.
16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel 
    came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let 
    none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house 
    of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, 
    that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
16:3 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my 
    father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, 
    break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
16:4 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his 
    armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and 
    Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building 
    of Ramah, and let his work cease.
16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of 
    Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he 
    built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
16:7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said 
    unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied 
    on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped 
    out of thine hand.
16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many 
    chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he 
    delivered them into thine hand.
16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to 
    show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect 
    toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth 
    thou shalt have wars.
16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for 
    he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed 
    some of the people the same time.
16:11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written 
    in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his 
    feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he 
    sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year 
    of his reign.
16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for 
    himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled 
    with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the 
    apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself 
    against Israel.
17:2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set 
    garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa 
    his father had taken.
17:3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways 
    of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
17:4 But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his 
    commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
17:5 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah 
    brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in 
    abundance.
17:6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took 
    away the high places and groves out of Judah.
17:7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to 
    Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to 
    Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
17:8 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and 
    Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and 
    Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, 
    priests.
17:9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD 
    with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught 
    the people.
17:10 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that 
    were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
17:11 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and 
    tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and 
    seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
17:12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, 
    and cities of store.
17:13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, 
    mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.
17:14 And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their 
    fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with 
    him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.
17:15 And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred 
    and fourscore thousand.
17:16 And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered 
    himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of 
    valour.
17:17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men 
    with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
17:18 And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore 
    thousand ready prepared for the war.
17:19 These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the 
    fenced cities throughout all Judah.
18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity 
    with Ahab.
18:2 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab 
    killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he 
    had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.
18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou 
    go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, 
    and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.
18:4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at 
    the word of the LORD to day.
18:5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred 
    men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I 
    forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's 
    hand.
18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, 
    that we might inquire of him?
18:7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, 
    by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never 
    prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son 
    of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
18:8 And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, 
    Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
18:9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them 
    on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at 
    the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied 
    before them.
18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, 
    Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be 
    consumed.
18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and 
    prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
18:12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, 
    Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one 
    assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and 
    speak thou good.
18:13 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that 
    will I speak.
18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, 
    shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, 
    Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.
18:15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou 
    say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?
18:16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as 
    sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; 
    let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that 
    he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?
18:18 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD 
    sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his 
    right hand and on his left.
18:19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may 
    go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, 
    and another saying after that manner.
18:20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I 
    will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?
18:21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all 
    his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou 
    shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.
18:22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth 
    of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon 
    the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to 
    speak unto thee?
18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt 
    go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
18:25 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to 
    Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
18:26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and 
    feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I 
    return in peace.
18:27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not 
    the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to 
    Ramothgilead.
18:29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, 
    and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of 
    Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that 
    were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with 
    the king of Israel.
18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, 
    that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed 
    about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; 
    and God moved them to depart from him.
18:32 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived 
    that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing 
    him.
18:33 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of 
    Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his 
    chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; 
    for I am wounded.
18:34 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed 
    himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and 
    about the time of the sun going down he died.
19:1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to 
    Jerusalem.
19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to 
    king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that 
    hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast 
    taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to 
    seek God.
19:4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the 
    people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the 
    LORD God of their fathers.
19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, 
    city by city,
19:6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, 
    but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
19:7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it
    : for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of 
    persons, nor taking of gifts.
19:8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the 
    priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of 
    the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, 
    faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
19:10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in 
    their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, 
    statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not 
    against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: 
    this do, and ye shall not trespass.
19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of 
    the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of 
    Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers 
    before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.
20:1 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the 
    children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came 
    against Jehoshaphat to battle.
20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a 
    great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, 
    behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and 
    proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even 
    out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in 
    the house of the LORD, before the new court,
20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and 
    rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine 
    hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand 
    thee?
20:7 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this 
    land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy 
    friend for ever?
20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy 
    name, saying,
20:9 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, 
    or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy 
    name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou 
    wilt hear and help.
20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom 
    thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of 
    Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
20:11 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy 
    possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this 
    great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but 
    our eyes are upon thee.
20:13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their 
    wives, and their children.
20:14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son 
    of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the 
    Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
20:15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, 
    and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid 
    nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not 
    yours, but God's.
20:16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff 
    of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the 
    wilderness of Jeruel.
20:17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand 
    ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and 
    Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for 
    the LORD will be with you.
20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all 
    Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping 
    the LORD.
20:19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the 
    children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a 
    loud voice on high.
20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness 
    of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O 
    Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so 
    shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto 
    the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went 
    out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth 
    for ever.
20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments 
    against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come 
    against Judah; and they were smitten.
20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of 
    mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made 
    an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
20:24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they 
    looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen 
    to the earth, and none escaped.
20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, 
    they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and 
    precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they 
    could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it 
    was so much.
20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of 
    Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the 
    same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat 
    in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the 
    LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto 
    the house of the LORD.
20:29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when 
    they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.
20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round 
    about.
20:31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old 
    when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. 
    And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, 
    doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
20:33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had 
    not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they 
    are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned 
    in the book of the kings of Israel.
20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah 
    king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and 
    they made the ships in Eziongaber.
20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against 
    Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the 
    LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were 
    not able to go to Tarshish.
21:1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers 
    in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
21:2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and 
    Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were 
    the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of 
    precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to 
    Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he 
    strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and 
    divers also of the princes of Israel.
21:5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he 
    reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house 
    of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that 
    which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
21:7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the 
    covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light 
    to him and to his sons for ever.
21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and 
    made themselves a king.
21:9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: 
    and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, 
    and the captains of the chariots.
21:10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. 
    The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he 
    had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the 
    inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah 
    thereto.
21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus 
    saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in 
    the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah 
    and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms 
    of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's 
    house, which were better than thyself:
21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy 
    children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
21:15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until 
    thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the 
    Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
21:17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all 
    the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and 
    his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the 
    youngest of his sons.
21:18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable 
    disease.
21:19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two 
    years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore 
    diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of 
    his fathers.
21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned 
    in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit 
    they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the 
    kings.
22:1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in 
    his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp 
    had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah 
    reigned.
22:2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he 
    reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the 
    daughter of Omri.
22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his 
    counsellor to do wickedly.
22:4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: 
    for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his 
    destruction.
22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of 
    Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: 
    and the Syrians smote Joram.
22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which 
    were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And 
    Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the 
    son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
22:7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when 
    he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, 
    whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
22:8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the 
    house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the 
    brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
22:9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) 
    and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: 
    Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD 
    with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still 
    the kingdom.
22:10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she 
    arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of 
    Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and 
    put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of 
    king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister 
    of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
22:12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah 
    reigned over the land.
23:1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the 
    captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of 
    Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, 
    and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
23:2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the 
    cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came 
    to Jerusalem.
23:3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of 
    God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the 
    LORD hath said of the sons of David.
23:4 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on 
    the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of 
    the doors;
23:5 And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at 
    the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts 
    of the house of the LORD.
23:6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and 
    they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: 
    but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
23:7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his 
    weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he 
    shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and 
    when he goeth out.
23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada 
    the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come 
    in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for 
    Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
23:9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds 
    spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which 
    were in the house of God.
23:10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, 
    from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along 
    by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and 
    gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons 
    anointed him, and said, God save the king.
23:12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising 
    the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the 
    entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the 
    people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers 
    with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then 
    Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
23:14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that 
    were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: 
    and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest 
    said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.
23:15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of 
    the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, 
    and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
23:17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and 
    brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of 
    Baal before the altars.
23:18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the 
    hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house 
    of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is 
    written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was 
    ordained by David.
23:19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that 
    none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the 
    governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought 
    down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high 
    gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the 
    kingdom.
23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after 
    that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 
    forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of 
    Beersheba.
24:2 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the 
    days of Jehoiada the priest.
24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
24:4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the 
    house of the LORD.
24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, 
    Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to 
    repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten 
    the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast 
    thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of 
    Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the 
    servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the 
    tabernacle of witness?
24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of 
    God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they 
    bestow upon Baalim.
24:8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at 
    the gate of the house of the LORD.
24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in 
    to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon 
    Israel in the wilderness.
24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and 
    cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
24:11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the 
    king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there 
    was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came 
    and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. 
    Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
24:12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the 
    service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to 
    repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to 
    mend the house of the LORD.
24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they 
    set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
24:14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money 
    before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of 
    the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, 
    and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the 
    house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
24:15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred 
    and thirty years old was he when he died.
24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he 
    had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made 
    obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
24:18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served 
    groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their 
    trespass.
24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and 
    they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the 
    priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, 
    Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? 
    because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the 
    commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his 
    father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The 
    LORD look upon it, and require it.
24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria 
    came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed 
    all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the 
    spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the 
    LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had 
    forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment 
    against Joash.
24:25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great 
    diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the 
    sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and 
    they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the 
    sepulchres of the kings.
24:26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of 
    Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid 
    upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are 
    written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son 
    reigned in his stead.
25:1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and 
    he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was 
    Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
25:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not 
    with a perfect heart.
25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he 
    slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
25:4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law 
    in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers 
    shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the 
    fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over 
    thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their 
    fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from 
    twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice 
    men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
25:6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel 
    for an hundred talents of silver.
25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of 
    Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with 
    all the children of Ephraim.
25:8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make 
    thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the 
    hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of 
    God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him 
    out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly 
    kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
25:11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went 
    to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
25:12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry 
    away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them 
    down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
25:13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should 
    not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria 
    even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much 
    spoil.
25:14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of 
    the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set 
    them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned 
    incense unto them.
25:15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he 
    sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after 
    the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of 
    thine hand?
25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto 
    him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be 
    smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath 
    determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not 
    hearkened unto my counsel.
25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of 
    Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one 
    another in the face.
25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The 
    thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, 
    saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild 
    beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
25:19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart 
    lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle 
    to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with 
    thee?
25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might 
    deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after 
    the gods of Edom.
25:21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the 
    face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which 
    belongeth to Judah.
25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man 
    to his tent.
25:23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of 
    Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, 
    and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the 
    corner gate, four hundred cubits.
25:24 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that 
    were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the 
    king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
25:25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of 
    Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are 
    they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
25:27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD 
    they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: 
    but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in 
    the city of Judah.
26:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, 
    and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept 
    with his fathers.
26:3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned 
    fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah 
    of Jerusalem.
26:4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according 
    to all that his father Amaziah did.
26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in 
    the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to 
    prosper.
26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down 
    the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and 
    built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians 
    that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
26:8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even 
    to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at 
    the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had 
    much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also
    , and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved 
    husbandry.
26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by 
    bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the 
    scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the 
    king's captains.
26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of 
    valour were two thousand and six hundred.
26:13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven 
    thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the 
    king against the enemy.
26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and 
    spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast 
    stones.
26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on 
    the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. 
    And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he 
    was strong.
26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: 
    for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple 
    of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore 
    priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
26:18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth 
    not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests 
    the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the 
    sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine 
    honour from the LORD God.
26:19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: 
    and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his 
    forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the 
    incense altar.
26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, 
    behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from 
    thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten 
    him.
26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt 
    in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house 
    of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the 
    people of the land.
26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the 
    prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers 
    in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, 
    He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
27:1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he 
    reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, 
    the daughter of Zadok.
27:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according 
    to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the 
    temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of 
    Ophel he built much.
27:4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests 
    he built castles and towers.
27:5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against 
    them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred 
    talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand 
    of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the 
    second year, and the third.
27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD 
    his God.
27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, 
    they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned 
    sixteen years in Jerusalem.
27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of 
    David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 
    sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the 
    sight of the LORD, like David his father:
28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten 
    images for Baalim.
28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt 
    his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the 
    LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the 
    hills, and under every green tree.
28:5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of 
    Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them 
    captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into 
    the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty 
    thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had 
    forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and 
    Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the 
    king.
28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two 
    hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much 
    spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
28:9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went 
    out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, 
    because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath 
    delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that 
    reacheth up unto heaven.
28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem 
    for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even 
    with you, sins against the LORD your God?
28:11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have 
    taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is 
    upon you.
28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son 
    of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of 
    Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came 
    from the war,
28:13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for 
    whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add 
    more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and 
    there is fierce wrath against Israel.
28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes 
    and all the congregation.
28:15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, 
    and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed 
    them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, 
    and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to 
    Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned 
    to Samaria.
28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away 
    captives.
28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of 
    the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, 
    and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages 
    thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he 
    made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
28:20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, 
    but strengthened him not.
28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out 
    of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the 
    king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
28:22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the 
    LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he 
    said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I 
    sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, 
    and of all Israel.
28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in 
    pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the 
    house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense 
    unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
28:26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, 
    they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even 
    in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings 
    of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
29:1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he 
    reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was 
    Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
29:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according 
    to all that David his father had done.
29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors 
    of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them 
    together into the east street,
29:5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and 
    sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the 
    filthiness out of the holy place.
29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the 
    eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away 
    their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, 
    and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy 
    place unto the God of Israel.
29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he 
    hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye 
    see with your eyes.
29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our 
    daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
29:10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of 
    Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
29:11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand 
    before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn 
    incense.
29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of 
    Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish 
    the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; 
    Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of 
    Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of 
    Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, 
    according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to 
    cleanse the house of the LORD.
29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to 
    cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the 
    temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the 
    Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
29:17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and 
    on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so 
    they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the 
    sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all 
    the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the 
    vessels thereof, and the showbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away 
    in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they 
    are before the altar of the LORD.
29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, 
    and went up to the house of the LORD.
29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and 
    seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, 
    and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer 
    them on the altar of the LORD.
29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and 
    sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, 
    they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and 
    they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
29:23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the 
    king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
29:24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their 
    blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king 
    commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made 
    for all Israel.
29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with 
    psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and 
    of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the 
    commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests 
    with the trumpets.
29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And 
    when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with 
    the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the 
    trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering 
    was finished.
29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were 
    present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to 
    sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. 
    And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and 
    worshipped.
29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves 
    unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into 
    the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and 
    thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, 
    was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: 
    all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
29:33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand 
    sheep.
29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the 
    burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, 
    till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified 
    themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify 
    themselves than the priests.
29:35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the 
    peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So 
    the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the 
    people: for the thing was done suddenly.
30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to 
    Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at 
    Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the 
    congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not 
    sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered 
    themselves together to Jerusalem.
30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, 
    from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover 
    unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a 
    long time in such sort as it was written.
30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes 
    throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the 
    king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of 
    Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, 
    that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which 
    trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave 
    them up to desolation, as ye see.
30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves 
    unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified 
    for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath 
    may turn away from you.
30:9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children 
    shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they 
    shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and 
    merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto 
    him.
30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim 
    and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and 
    mocked them.
30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled 
    themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the 
    commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of 
    unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and 
    all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the 
    brook Kidron.
30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second 
    month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified 
    themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
30:16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law 
    of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they 
    received of the hand of the Levites.
30:17 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: 
    therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for 
    every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
30:18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, 
    Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the 
    passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, 
    saying, The good LORD pardon every one
30:19 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, 
    though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the 
    sanctuary.
30:20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the 
    feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the 
    Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud 
    instruments unto the LORD.
30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the 
    good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven 
    days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of 
    their fathers.
30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they 
    kept other seven days with gladness.
30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand 
    bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the 
    congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great 
    number of priests sanctified themselves.
30:25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, 
    and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that 
    came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the 
    son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their 
    voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, 
    even unto heaven.
31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out 
    to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the 
    groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah 
    and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly 
    destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man 
    to his possession, into their own cities.
31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after 
    their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and 
    Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to 
    give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
31:3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt 
    offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and 
    the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the 
    set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the 
    portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in 
    the law of the LORD.
31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel 
    brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, 
    and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things 
    brought they in abundantly.
31:6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the 
    cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and 
    the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, 
    and laid them by heaps.
31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and 
    finished them in the seventh month.
31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed 
    the LORD, and his people Israel.
31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning 
    the heaps.
31:10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and 
    said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of 
    the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD 
    hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; 
    and they prepared them,
31:12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things 
    faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his 
    brother was the next.
31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and 
    Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were 
    overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the 
    commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of 
    God.
31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was 
    over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the 
    LORD, and the most holy things.
31:15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, 
    Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set 
    office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to 
    the small:
31:16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even 
    unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily 
    portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
31:17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, 
    and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by 
    their courses;
31:18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their 
    sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their 
    set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
31:19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of 
    the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were 
    expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, 
    and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was 
    good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, 
    and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it 
    with all his heart, and prospered.
32:1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of 
    Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced 
    cities, and thought to win them for himself.
32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was 
    purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
32:3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters 
    of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.
32:4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the 
    fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, 
    Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
32:5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, 
    and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired 
    Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together 
    to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to 
    them, saying,
32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of 
    Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be 
    more with us than with him:
32:8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to 
    help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon 
    the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to 
    Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his 
    power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that 
    were at Jerusalem, saying,
32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye 
    abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by 
    famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of 
    the hand of the king of Assyria?
32:12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, 
    and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one 
    altar, and burn incense upon it?
32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of 
    other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able 
    to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
32:14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers 
    utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that 
    your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this 
    manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was 
    able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my 
    fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
32:16 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against 
    his servant Hezekiah.
32:17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak 
    against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have 
    not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of 
    Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
32:18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people 
    of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble 
    them; that they might take the city.
32:19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of 
    the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
32:20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son 
    of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
32:21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, 
    and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he 
    returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into 
    the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him 
    there with the sword.
32:22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the 
    hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, 
    and guided them on every side.
32:23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to 
    Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all 
    nations from thenceforth.
32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: 
    and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto 
    him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, 
    and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, 
    both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD 
    came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
32:27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself 
    treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for 
    spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
32:28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and 
    stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds 
    in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and 
    brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And 
    Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
32:31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, 
    who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, 
    God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they 
    are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and 
    in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the 
    chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the 
    inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his 
    son reigned in his stead.
33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 
    fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
33:2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the 
    abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the 
    children of Israel.
33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken 
    down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and 
    worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, 
    In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the 
    house of the LORD.
33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of 
    the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and 
    used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he 
    wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
33:7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of 
    God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, 
    and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, 
    will I put my name for ever:
33:8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land 
    which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to 
    do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the 
    statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and 
    to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the 
    children of Israel.
33:10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not 
    hearken.
33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the 
    king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him 
    with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and 
    humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
33:13 And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his 
    supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then 
    Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
33:14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west 
    side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, 
    and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put 
    captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
33:15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of 
    the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house 
    of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
33:16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace 
    offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God 
    of Israel.
33:17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet 
    unto the LORD their God only.
33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and 
    the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of 
    Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
33:19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins, 
    and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set 
    up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are 
    written among the sayings of the seers.
33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own 
    house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
33:21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and 
    reigned two years in Jerusalem.
33:22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did 
    Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images 
    which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
33:23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had 
    humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
33:25 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against 
    king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his 
    stead.
34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in 
    Jerusalem one and thirty years.
34:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked 
    in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, 
    nor to the left.
34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began 
    to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he 
    began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, 
    and the carved images, and the molten images.
34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, 
    that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the 
    carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust 
    of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed 
    unto them.
34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed 
    Judah and Jerusalem.
34:6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, 
    even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten 
    the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all 
    the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, 
    and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the 
    governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair 
    the house of the LORD his God.
34:9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money 
    that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the 
    doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the 
    remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to 
    Jerusalem.
34:10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of 
    the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in 
    the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
34:11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, 
    and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of 
    Judah had destroyed.
34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were 
    Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah 
    and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and 
    other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of music.
34:13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of 
    all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites 
    there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
34:14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of 
    the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given 
    by Moses.
34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the 
    book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book 
    to Shaphan.
34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word 
    back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
34:17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house 
    of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and 
    to the hand of the workmen.
34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath 
    given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, 
    that he rent his clothes.
34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and 
    Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of 
    the king's, saying,
34:21 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel 
    and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is
     the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers 
    have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in 
    this book.
34:22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah 
    the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, 
    keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and 
    they spake to her to that effect.
34:23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the 
    man that sent you to me,
34:24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and 
    upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in 
    the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
34:25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, 
    that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; 
    therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be 
    quenched.
34:26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so 
    shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning 
    the words which thou hast heard;
34:27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before 
    God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the 
    inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy 
    clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the 
    LORD.
34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered 
    to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I 
    will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So 
    they brought the king word again.
34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and 
    Jerusalem.
34:30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of 
    Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, 
    and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the 
    words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, 
    to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, 
    and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform 
    the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
34:32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand 
    to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant 
    of God, the God of their fathers.
34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries 
    that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were 
    present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And 
    all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their 
    fathers.
35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they 
    killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the 
    service of the house of the LORD,
35:3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto 
    the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David 
    king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your 
    shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,
35:4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your 
    courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according 
    to the writing of Solomon his son.
35:5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the 
    families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the 
    division of the families of the Levites.
35:6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, 
    that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
35:7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for 
    the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of 
    thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's 
    substance.
35:8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to 
    the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, 
    gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six 
    hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah 
    and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for 
    passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and 
    the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood 
    from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according 
    to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, 
    as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.
35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: 
    but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and 
    in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.
35:14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: 
    because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt 
    offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for 
    themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to 
    the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's 
    seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from 
    their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
35:16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the 
    passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, 
    according to the commandment of king Josiah.
35:17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that 
    time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
35:18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of 
    Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a 
    passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah 
    and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of 
    Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went 
    out against him.
35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, 
    thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the 
    house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear 
    thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised 
    himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words 
    of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of 
    Megiddo.
35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, 
    Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
35:24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in 
    the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and 
    he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And 
    all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the 
    singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and 
    made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the 
    lamentations.
35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to 
    that which was written in the law of the LORD,
35:27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book 
    of the kings of Israel and Judah.
36:1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made 
    him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and 
    he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
36:3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land 
    in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and 
    Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his 
    brother, and carried him to Egypt.
36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and 
    he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil 
    in the sight of the LORD his God.
36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in 
    fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to 
    Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, 
    and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book 
    of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his 
    stead.
36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 
    three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil 
    in the sight of the LORD.
36:10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought 
    him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and 
    made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
36:11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and 
    reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
36:12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and 
    humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the 
    mouth of the LORD.
36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him 
    swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from 
    turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed 
    very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the 
    house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
36:15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, 
    rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, 
    and on his dwelling place:
36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and 
    misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his 
    people, till there was no remedy.
36:17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew 
    their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had 
    no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for 
    age: he gave them all into his hand.
36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the 
    treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and 
    of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, 
    and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the 
    goodly vessels thereof.
36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; 
    where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the 
    kingdom of Persia:
36:21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the 
    land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she 
    kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the 
    LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD 
    stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a 
    proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, 
    saying,
36:23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath 
    the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an 
    house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all 
    his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.