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1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his
kingdom, and Jehovah his God was with him and magnified him
exceedingly.
1:2 And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to all the
princes of all Israel, the chief fathers;
1:3 and Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the
high place at Gibeon; for there was God's tent of meeting which
Moses the servant of Jehovah had made in the wilderness.
1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim
to the [place] that David had prepared for it; for he had
spread a tent for it at Jerusalem.
1:5 And the brazen altar that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son
of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Jehovah;
and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
1:6 And Solomon offered there upon the brazen altar before
Jehovah which was at the tent of meeting; and he offered up a
thousand burnt-offerings upon it.
1:7 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask
what I shall give thee.
1:8 And Solomon said to God, Thou hast shewn unto David my
father great loving-kindness, and hast made me king in his
stead.
1:9 Now, Jehovah Elohim, let thy word unto David my father be
firm; for thou hast made me king over a people numerous as the
dust of the earth.
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 great
people?
1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thy heart, and
thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of
them that hate thee, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast
asked for thyself wisdom and knowledge, that thou mayest judge
my people, over whom I have made thee king:
1:12 wisdom and knowledge are 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 any after
thee have the like.
1:13 Then Solomon came back [from] the high place at Gibeon to
Jerusalem, from before the tent of meeting, and reigned over
Israel.
1:14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had a
thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen;
and he placed them in the chariot-cities, and with the king at
Jerusalem.
1:15 And the king made silver and gold in Jerusalem as stones,
and cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for
abundance.
1:16 And the exportation of horses that Solomon had was from
Egypt: a caravan of the king's merchants fetched a drove [of
horses], at a price.
1:17 And they fetched up and brought forth out of Egypt a
chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a
hundred and fifty; and so they brought [them] by their means,
for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria.
2:1 And Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of
Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
2:2 And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens,
and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountain, and three
thousand six hundred to superintend them.
2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram king of Tyre, saying, As thou
didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to
build him a house to dwell therein [so do for me].
2:4 Behold, I build a house unto the name of Jehovah my God to
dedicate it to him, to burn before him sweet incense, and for
the continual arrangement [of the shewbread], and for the
morning and evening burnt-offerings [and] on the sabbaths and
on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God.
This is [an ordinance] for ever to Israel.
2:5 And the house that I will build is great; for great is our
God above all gods.
2:6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heavens and
the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? And who am I that I
should build him a house, except to burn sacrifice before him?
2:7 And now send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in
silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple and crimson
and blue, and experienced in carving, besides the skilful men
that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my
father provided.
2:8 Send me also cedar-trees, cypress-trees, and sandal-wood
trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants are
experienced in cutting timber in Lebanon; and behold, my
servants shall be with thy servants,
2:9 even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house that I
build shall be great and wonderful.
2:10 And behold, I will give to thy servants the hewers that
fell 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 And Huram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent
to Solomon, Because Jehovah loved his people, he made thee king
over them.
2:12 And Huram said, Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, that
made the heavens and the earth, who has given to David the king
a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, who will
build a house for Jehovah and a house for his kingdom.
2:13 And now, I send a skilful man, endued with understanding,
Huram Abi,
2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and whose
father was a man of Tyre, experienced in working in gold, and
in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in
purple, in blue, and in byssus, and in crimson, and for doing
any manner of engraving, and for inventing every device which
shall be put to him, besides thy skilful men, and the skilful
men of my lord David thy father.
2:15 And now 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 account that David his father had
taken of them, and there were found a hundred and fifty-three
thousand six hundred.
2:18 And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of
burdens, and eighty thousand to be stone-masons in the
mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the
people to work.
3:1 And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem
on mount Moriah, where he appeared to David his father, in the
place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
3:2 And he began to build on the second of the second month, in
the fourth year of his reign.
3:3 And this was Solomon's foundation for the construction of
the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure
was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
3:4 And the porch which was in front was twenty cubits in
length, in front of the house broadways, and the height was a
hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
3:5 And the greater house he boarded with cypress-wood, which he
overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm-trees and chains.
3:6 And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty;
and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
3:7 And he covered the house, the beams, the threshold, and its
walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the
walls.
3:8 And he made the house of the most holy place, the length of
which was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits,
and its breadth twenty cubits; and he covered it with fine
gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And
he covered the upper chambers with gold.
3:10 And in the house of the most holy place he made two
cherubim of image work, and they overlaid them with gold.
3:11 And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: one
wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house; and the
other wing of five cubits touched the wing of the other cherub.
3:12 And the wing of the other cherub of five cubits touched the
wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits joining
the wing of the other cherub.
3:13 The wings of these cherubim spread forth were twenty
cubits; and they stood on their feet, and their faces were
toward the house.
3:14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and
byssus, and made cherubim upon it.
3:15 And before the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits
long; and the capital that was on the top of each of them was
five cubits.
3:16 And he made chains [as] in the oracle, and he put them on
the top of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and
put them on the chains.
3:17 And he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on
the right hand and the other on the left; and he called the
name of that on the right Jachin, and the name of that on the
left Boaz.
4:1 And he made a brazen altar: its length was twenty cubits,
and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height ten cubits.
4:2 And he made the sea, molten, ten cubits from brim to brim,
round all about; and its height was five cubits; and a line of
thirty cubits encompassed it round about.
4:3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, encompassing it
round about, ten in a cubit enclosing the sea round about, two
rows of oxen, 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 above
upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
4:5 And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim like the
work of the brim of a cup, with lily-blossoms; in capacity it
held three thousand baths.
4:6 And he made ten lavers, and put five on the right and five
on the left, to wash in them: they rinsed in them what they
prepared for the burnt-offering; and the sea was for the
priests to wash in.
4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to the
ordinance respecting them, and set them in the temple, five on
the right hand and five on the left.
4:8 And he made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five
on the right hand and five on the left. And he made a hundred
golden bowls.
4:9 And he made the court of the priests, and the great court,
and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors thereof with
bronze.
4:10 And he set the sea on the right side eastward, over against
the south.
4:11 And Huram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So
Huram ended doing the work that he made for king Solomon in the
house of God:
4:12 two pillars, and the globes and the capitals on the top of
the pillars, two; and the two networks, to cover the two globes
of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars;
4:13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two
rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two globes
of the capitals which were upon the pillars.
4:14 And he made the bases, and he made the lavers on the bases;
4:15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
4:16 And the pots, and the shovels, and the forks, and all their
instruments did Huram Abiv make king Solomon for the house of
Jehovah, of bright brass.
4:17 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the
clay-ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
4:18 And Solomon made all these vessels in great number; for the
weight of the brass was not ascertained.
4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were [in] the house
of God: the golden altar; and the tables whereon was the
shewbread;
4:20 and the candlesticks with their lamps to burn according to
the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
4:21 and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold (it
was perfect gold);
4:22 and the knives, and the bowls, and the cups, and the
censers, of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, the inner
folding-doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of
the house, of the temple, of gold.
5:1 And all the work was finished that Solomon made for the
house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the things that David
his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all
the vessels he put 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 princes of the fathers of the children
of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.
5:3 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king
at the feast, that of 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 tent of meeting, and
all the holy vessels that were in the tent: the priests, the
Levites, brought them up.
5:6 And king Solomon, and all the assembly of Israel, that were
assembled to him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen
which could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah to its place, into the oracle of the house, into the
most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim;
5:8 and the cherubim stretched forth [their] wings over the
place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its
staves above.
5:9 And the staves were long, so that the ends of the staves
were seen outside the ark before the oracle; but they were not
seen without. And there they are to this day.
5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which
Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah 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 hallowed
without observing the courses;
5:12 and the Levites the singers, all they of Asaph, of Heman,
of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, clad in
byssus, with cymbals and lutes and harps, stood at the east end
of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests
sounding with trumpets),
5:13 -- it came to pass when the trumpeters and singers were as
one, to make one voice to be heard in praising and thanking
Jehovah; and when they lifted up their voice with trumpets, and
cymbals, and instruments of music, and praised Jehovah: For he
is good, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever; that then
the house, the house of Jehovah, was filled with a cloud,
5:14 and the priests could not stand to do their service because
of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of
God.
6:1 Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the
thick darkness.
6:2 But I have built a house of habitation for thee, even a
settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
6:3 And the king turned his face and blessed the whole
congregation of Israel; and the whole congregation of Israel
stood.
6:4 And he said: Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, who spoke
with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hands
fulfilled it, saying,
6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land
of Egypt I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to
build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I
any man to be prince over my people Israel:
6:6 but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there;
and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
6:7 And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house
unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.
6:8 But Jehovah said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy
heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it
was in thy heart;
6:9 nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son
that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the
house unto my name.
6:10 And Jehovah has performed his word which he spoke; and I am
risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne
of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and I have built the house unto
the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.
6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of
Jehovah, which he made with the children of Israel.
6:12 And he stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of
the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands.
6:13 For Solomon had made a platform of bronze, 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 he
kneeled down on his knees before the whole congregation of
Israel, and spread forth his hands toward the heavens,
6:14 and said, Jehovah, God of Israel! there is no God like
thee, in the heavens or on the earth, who keepest covenant and
mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their
heart;
6:15 who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which
thou didst promise him; thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast
fulfilled [it] with thy hand as at this day.
6:16 And now, Jehovah, 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 on the throne of
Israel, if only thy sons take heed to their way to walk in my
law, as thou hast walked before me.
6:17 And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, let thy word be verified
which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
6:18 But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? behold,
the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how
much less this house which I have built!
6:19 Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, Jehovah, my God, to hearken unto the cry and to
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 in which thou hast said thou wouldest put thy
name: to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth
toward this place.
6:21 And hearken unto the supplications of thy servant, and of
thy people Israel, which they shall pray toward this place, and
hear thou from thy dwelling-place, from the heavens, and when
thou hearest, forgive.
6:22 If a man have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath be
laid upon him to adjure him, and the oath come before thine
altar in this house;
6:23 then hear thou from the heavens, and do, and judge thy
servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own
head; and justifying the righteous, 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 turn
again 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 that thou
gavest to them and to their fathers.
6:26 When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because
they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place,
and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou
hast afflicted them;
6:27 then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy
servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the
good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land,
which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
6:28 If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if
there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their
enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever
plague or whatever sickness there be:
6:29 what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man,
or by all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man his
own plague, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands
toward this house;
6:30 then hear thou from the heavens, the settled place of thy
dwelling, and forgive, and render unto every man according to
all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only,
knowest the hearts of the children of men),
6:31 that they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, all the days
that they live upon the land which thou gavest unto our
fathers.
6:32 And as to the stranger also, who is not of thy people
Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy great name's
sake, and thy mighty hand and thy stretched-out arm; when they
shall come and pray toward this house,
6:33 then hear thou from the heavens, the settled place of thy
dwelling, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to
thee for; in order that all peoples of the earth may know thy
name, and may fear thee as do 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 battle against their enemies by the
way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward
this city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have
built unto thy name;
6:35 then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their right.
6:36 If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that
sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and give them up to
the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto a land
far off or near;
6:37 and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they
were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto
thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we
have done iniquity and have dealt perversely;
6:38 and if they return unto 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 the city that thou hast
chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;
6:39 then hear thou from the heavens, from the settled place of
thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and
maintain their right, and forgive thy people their sin against
thee.
6:40 Now, my God, I beseech thee, let thine eyes be open and let
thine ears be attentive unto the prayer [that is made] in this
place.
6:41 And now, arise, Jehovah Elohim, into thy resting-place,
thou and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, Jehovah
Elohim, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice
in [thy] goodness.
6:42 Jehovah Elohim, turn not away the face of thine anointed:
remember mercies to David thy servant.
7:1 And when Solomon had ended praying, the fire came down from
the heavens and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices;
and the glory of Jehovah filled the house.
7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of Jehovah,
because the glory of Jehovah filled Jehovah's house.
7:3 And all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down,
and the glory of Jehovah upon the house, and bowed themselves
with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshipped
and thanked Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness
[endureth] for ever.
7:4 And the king and all the people offered sacrifices before
Jehovah.
7:5 And king Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of twenty-two
thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the
king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
7:6 And the priests stood in their charges, and the Levites with
Jehovah's instruments of music, which David the king had made
to praise Jehovah, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,
when David praised by their means; and the priests sounded the
trumpets opposite to them, and all Israel stood.
7:7 And Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before
the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the 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 oblations and the fat.
7:8 And at that time Solomon held the feast seven days, and all
Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance
of Hamath unto the torrent of Egypt.
7:9 And on the eighth day they held 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 to their tents, joyful and glad of heart
for the goodness that Jehovah had done to David and to Solomon,
and to Israel his people.
7:11 And Solomon completed the house of Jehovah, and the king's
house; and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the
house of Jehovah, and in his own house, he did prosperously.
7:12 Then Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him:
I have heard thy prayer, and I have chosen for myself this
place for a house of sacrifice.
7:13 If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I
command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence
among my people;
7:14 and my people, who are called by my name, humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; then will I hear from the heavens, and forgive
their sin, and heal their land.
7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attentive to the
prayer [made] in this place;
7:16 for I have now chosen and hallowed this house, that my name
may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be
there perpetually.
7:17 And [as for] thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David
thy father walked, to do according to all that I have commanded
thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;
7:18 then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, according
as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall
not fail thee a man to rule over Israel.
7:19 But if ye turn away and forsake my statutes and my
commandments which I have set before you, and 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 hallowed to my
name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb
and a byword among all peoples.
7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to
every one that passes by it; so that he shall say, Why has
Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
7:22 And they shall say, Because they forsook Jehovah the God of
their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
and have attached themselves to other gods, and have worshipped
them and served them; therefore he has brought upon them all
this evil.
8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon
had built the house of Jehovah and his own house,
8:2 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon
built them and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
8:3 And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah, and overcame it.
8:4 And he built Tadmor, in the wilderness, and all the
store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
8:5 And he built upper Beth-Horon and lower Beth-Horon,
fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
8:6 and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and
all the cities for chariots, and the cities for the horsemen,
and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and on
Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
8:7 All the people that were left of the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
8:8 their children that were left after them in the land, whom
the children of Israel had not destroyed, upon them did Solomon
impose tribute-service until this day.
8:9 But of the children of Israel, of them did Solomon make no
bondmen for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of
his captains, and captains of his chariots and his horsemen.
8:10 And these were the chief of king Solomon's superintendents,
two hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people.
8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the
city of David to the house which 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 to which the ark of
Jehovah has come.
8:12 Then Solomon offered up burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the
altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch;
8:13 even as the duty of every day required, offering according
to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new
moons, and at the set feasts, three times in the year, -- at
the feast of unleavened bread, and at the feast of weeks, and
at the feast of tabernacles.
8:14 And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his
father, the divisions of the priests for their service, and the
Levites for their charges, to praise and serve before the
priests, as the duty of every day required; and the doorkeepers
by their divisions at every gate: for such was the commandment
of David the man of God;
8:15 and they did not depart from the commandment of the king to
the priests and the Levites concerning any matter, nor
concerning the treasures.
8:16 And all the work of Solomon was prepared, to the day of the
foundation of the house of Jehovah and to its completion. [So]
the house of Jehovah was finished.
8:17 Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, on the
seashore in the land of Edom.
8:18 And Huram sent him by his servants ships, and servants that
had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of
Solomon to Ophir, and fetched thence four hundred and fifty
talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
9:1 And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and
came to Jerusalem to prove Solomon with enigmas; with a very
great train, and camels that bore spices and gold in great
abundance, and precious stones; and she came to Solomon, and
spoke with him of all that was in her heart.
9:2 And Solomon explained to her all she spoke of, and there was
not a thing hidden from Solomon that he did not explain to her.
9:3 And when the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and
the house that he had built,
9:4 and the food of his table, and the deportment of his
servants, and the order of service of his attendants and their
apparel, and his cupbearers and their apparel, and his ascent
by which he went up to the house of Jehovah, there was no more
spirit in her.
9:5 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard
in mine own land of thine affairs and of thy wisdom;
9:6 but I gave no credit to their words, until I came and mine
eyes had seen; and behold, the half of the greatness of thy
wisdom was not told me: thou exceedest the report that I heard.
9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, who
stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom!
9:8 Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to set
thee on his throne, to be king to Jehovah thy God! Because thy
God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore did he
make thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
9:9 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold,
and spices in very great abundance, and precious stones;
neither was there any such spice as that which the queen of
Sheba gave to king Solomon.
9:10 (And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of
Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought sandal-wood and
precious stones.
9:11 And the king made of the sandal-wood stairs for the house
of Jehovah, and for the king's house, and harps and lutes for
the 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,
whatever she asked, besides what she had brought to the king.
And she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants.
9:13 And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
9:14 besides [what] dealers and merchants brought, and [what]
all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country
brought of gold and silver to Solomon.
9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold,
-- he applied six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold to one
target;
9:16 and three hundred shields of beaten gold, -- he applied
three hundred [shekels] of gold to one shield; and the king put
them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
9:17 And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it
with pure gold;
9:18 and the throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold
fastened to the throne; and there were arms on each side at the
place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the arms;
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 king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and
all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of
precious gold: silver was not of the least account in the days
of Solomon.
9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of
Huram: once in three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing
gold and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
9:22 And king Solomon was greater than 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, which God had put in his heart.
9:24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver
and vessels of gold, and clothing, armour, 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; and he placed them in
the chariot-cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
9:26 And he ruled over all the kings from the river as far as
the land of the Philistines, and up to the border of Egypt.
9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars
made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for abundance.
9:28 And they brought to Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of
all lands.
9:29 And the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last, are
they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the
prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo
the seer concerning 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 they buried him in
the city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in
his stead.
10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to
Shechem to make him king.
10:2 And it came to pass when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it
(now he was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of
king Solomon) that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
10:3 And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel
came and spoke to Rehoboam saying,
10:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous; and now lighten 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 to them, Come again to me after three days. And
the people departed.
10:6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, who had stood
before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, How do ye
advise to return answer to this people?
10:7 And they spoke to 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 advice of the old men which they had
given him, and consulted with the young men, who had grown up
with him, that stood before him.
10:9 And he said to them, What advice give ye that we may return
answer to this people, who have spoken to me saying, Lighten
the yoke which thy father put upon us?
10:10 And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him
saying, Thus shalt thou say to the people who have spoken to
thee saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and lighten thou
it for us, -- thus shalt thou say to them: My little [finger]
is thicker than my father's loins;
10:11 and whereas my father laid a heavy yoke upon you, *I* will
add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but *I*
[will chastise you] with scorpions.
10:12 And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third
day, as the king had appointed saying, Come again to me on the
third day.
10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam
forsook the advice of the old men,
10:14 and spoke to them according to the advice of the young
men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but *I* will add
to it; my father chastised you with whips, but *I* [will
chastise you] with scorpions.
10:15 So the king hearkened not to the people; for it was
brought about by God, that Jehovah might give effect to his
word, which he spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam
the son of Nebat.
10:16 And all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them;
and the people answered the king saying, What portion have we
in David? and [we have] no inheritance in the son of Jesse:
every man to your tents, O Israel. Now see to thine own house,
David! And 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 And king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the levy; but
the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.
And king Rehoboam hastened to mount his chariot, to flee to
Jerusalem.
10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David, unto this
day.
11:1 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled the house
of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men
apt for war, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the
kingdom again to Rehoboam.
11:2 But the word of Jehovah came to Shemaiah the man of God,
saying,
11:3 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and
unto all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
11:4 Thus saith Jehovah: Go not up, nor fight with your
brethren; return every man to his house; for this thing is from
me. And they hearkened to the words of Jehovah, and returned
from going against Jeroboam.
11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for
defence in Judah.
11:6 And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
11:7 and Beth-zur, and Soco, and Adullam,
11:8 and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
11:9 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
11:10 and Zorah, and Ajalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and
in Benjamin, fortified cities.
11:11 And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in
them, and stores of victuals, and of oil and wine;
11:12 and in every several city, targets and spears, and made
them exceedingly strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.
11:13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel
resorted to him out of all their districts;
11:14 for the Levites left their suburbs and their possessions,
and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had
cast them off from exercising the priesthood to Jehovah;
11:15 and he ordained for himself priests for the high places,
and for the he-goats and for the calves that he had made.
11:16 -- And after them, those out of all the tribes of Israel
that set their heart to seek Jehovah the God of Israel came to
Jerusalem, to sacrifice to Jehovah the God of their fathers.
11:17 And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made
Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong three years; for during
three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
11:18 And Rehoboam took Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the
son of David as wife, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab
the son of Jesse.
11:19 And she bore him children: Jeush, and Shemariah, and
Zaham.
11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; and
she bore 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 had taken eighteen
wives and sixty concubines, and he begot twenty-eight sons and
sixty daughters.
11:22 And Rehoboam established Abijah the son of Maachah at the
head, to be ruler among his brethren; for [he thought] to make
him king.
11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons
throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the
fortified cities; and he gave them food in abundance. And he
desired [for them] a multitude of wives.
12:1 And it came to pass when the kingdom of Rehoboam was
established, and when he had become strong, [that] he forsook
the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.
12:2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,
because they had transgressed against Jehovah, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
12:3 with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen;
and the people were without number that came with him out of
Egypt: Libyans, Sukkites, and Ethiopians.
12:4 And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah,
and came to Jerusalem.
12:5 And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and [to] the
princes of Judah that had gathered together to Jerusalem
because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus saith Jehovah: Ye
have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the
hand of Shishak.
12:6 And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves;
and they said, Jehovah is righteous.
12:7 And when Jehovah saw that they humbled themselves, the word
of Jehovah came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled
themselves: I will not destroy them, but I will grant them a
little 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 And Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and
took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the
treasures of the king's house; he took away all; and he took
away the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
12:10 And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of bronze,
and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers
who kept the entrance of the king's house.
12:11 And it was so, that as often as the king entered into the
house of Jehovah, the couriers came and fetched them, and
brought them again into the chamber of the couriers.
12:12 And when he humbled himself, the anger of Jehovah turned
away from him, that he would not destroy him altogether; and
also in Judah there were good things.
12:13 And king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and
reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city
that Jehovah 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, for he applied not his heart to seek
Jehovah.
12:15 And the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not
written in the words of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the
seer, in the genealogical registers? 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 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to
reign over Judah.
13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name
was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was
war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
13:3 And Abijah began the war with an army of men of war, four
hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in
array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men,
mighty men of valour.
13:4 And Abijah stood up on the top of mount Zemaraim, which is
in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam, and all Israel!
13:5 Ought ye not to know that Jehovah the God of Israel gave
the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, to him and to his
sons [by] a covenant of salt?
13:6 But Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the
son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord.
13:7 And vain men, sons of Belial, gathered to him and
strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon,
and Rehoboam was young and faint-hearted, and did not shew
himself strong against them.
13:8 And now ye think to shew yourselves strong against the
kingdom of Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David; and ye are
a great multitude, and ye have with you the golden calves that
Jeroboam made you for gods.
13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of
Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests as the peoples of
the lands? whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young
bullock and seven rams, he becomes a priest of what is not God.
13:10 But as for us, Jehovah is our God, and we have not
forsaken him; and the priests that serve Jehovah are the sons
of Aaron, and the Levites are at their work:
13:11 and they burn to Jehovah every morning and every evening
burnt-offerings and sweet incense; the loaves also are set in
order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with its
lamps to burn every evening: for *we* keep the charge of
Jehovah our God; but *ye* have forsaken him.
13:12 And behold, we have God with us at our head, and his
priests, and the loud-sounding trumpets to sound an alarm
against you. Children of Israel, do not fight with Jehovah the
God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them;
and they were before Judah, and the ambush behind them.
13:14 And Judah looked back, and behold, they had the battle in
front and behind; and they cried to Jehovah, and the priests
sounded with the trumpets.
13:15 And 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; and there fell down slain of Israel five hundred
thousand chosen men.
13:18 And the children of Israel were humbled at that time, and
the children of Judah were strengthened, because they relied
upon Jehovah the God of their fathers.
13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from
him: Bethel with its dependent villages, and Jeshanah with its
dependent villages, and Ephron with its dependent villages.
13:20 And Jeroboam did not recover strength again in the days of
Abijah; and Jehovah smote him, and he died.
13:21 But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives,
and begot twenty-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 treatise of the prophet Iddo.
14:1 And 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 what was good and right in the sight of Jehovah
his God;
14:3 and he took away the altars of the strange [gods] and the
high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;
14:4 and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their
fathers, and to practise the law and the commandment.
14:5 And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high
places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before
him.
14:6 And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had
rest, and he had no war in those years; because Jehovah had
given him rest.
14:7 And he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and
surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars, while the
land is yet before us; for we have sought Jehovah our God; we
have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. And
they built and prospered.
14:8 And Asa had an army that bore targets and spears: out of
Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore
shields and drew the bow, two hundred and eighty thousand: all
these, mighty men of valour.
14:9 And Zerah the Ethiopian came out against him with a host of
a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots, and he came to
Mareshah.
14:10 And Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in
array in the valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.
14:11 And Asa cried unto Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, it
maketh no difference to thee to help, whether there be much or
no power: help us, O Jehovah our God, for we rely on thee, and
in thy name have we come against this multitude. Jehovah, thou
art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
14:12 And Jehovah 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 to
Gerar; and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that none of them
was left alive; for they were crushed before Jehovah and before
his army. And they carried away very much spoil.
14:14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar, for the
terror of Jehovah came upon them; and they spoiled all the
cities, for there was very 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 to him, Hear ye me,
Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you while ye
are 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 while Israel [was] without the true God, and
without a teaching priest, and without law;
15:4 but in their trouble they turned to Jehovah the God of
Israel, and sought him, and 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 disturbances were
amongst all the inhabitants of the countries.
15:6 And nation was broken against nation, and city against
city; for God disturbed them with all manner of distress.
15:7 But as for you, be firm and let not your hands be weak; for
there is a reward for your deeds.
15:8 And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the
prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of
all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that
he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of
Jehovah, that was before the porch of Jehovah.
15:9 And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers
with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon; for
they fell away to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw
that Jehovah his God was with him.
15:10 And they assembled themselves at Jerusalem in the third
month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
15:11 And they sacrificed to Jehovah in that day, of the spoil
that they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand
sheep.
15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God
of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their
soul,
15:13 and that whoever would not seek Jehovah the God of Israel
should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or
woman.
15:14 And they swore to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with
shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they took the oath
with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire;
and he was found of them. And Jehovah gave them rest round
about.
15:16 And also Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed
from being queen, because she had made an idol for the Asherah;
and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burned it in the
valley Kidron.
15:17 But the high places were not removed from Israel; only,
Asa's heart was perfect all his days.
15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things which his
father had dedicated, and the things which he himself had
dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
15:19 And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the
reign of Asa.
16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king
of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, in order to
let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
16:2 And Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of
the house of Jehovah and of the king's house, and sent to
Ben-hadad king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,
16:3 There is a league between me and thee, and between my
father and thy father: behold, I send thee silver and gold; go,
break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart
from me.
16:4 And Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains
of his forces against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon
and Dan and Abelmaim, and all the store-magazines of the cities
of Naphtali.
16:5 And it came to pass when Baasha heard of it, that he left
off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
16:6 And king Asa took all Judah; and they carried away the
stones and the timber from Ramah, with which Baasha had been
building, and he built with them 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 hast not relied on Jehovah thy God, therefore has
the army of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.
16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army, with
very many chariots and horsemen? but when thou didst rely on
Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand.
16:9 For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro through the whole
earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of those whose
heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly;
for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
16:10 And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the
prison; for he was enraged with him because of this. And Asa
oppressed some of the people at the same time.
16:11 And behold the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
16:12 And Asa in the thirty-ninth year of his reign was diseased
in his feet, until his disease was extremely great; yet in his
disease he did not seek Jehovah, but 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 sepulchre, which he had
excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a
bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by
the perfumer's 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 fortified cities of Judah,
and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of
Ephraim that Asa his father had taken.
17:3 And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the
first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baals;
17:4 but he sought the God of his father, and walked in his
commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
17:5 And Jehovah established the kingdom in his hand; and all
Judah gave gifts to Jehoshaphat; and he had riches and honour
in abundance.
17:6 And he took courage in the ways of Jehovah; moreover, he
removed the high places and Asherahs out of Judah.
17:7 And in the third year of his reign he sent his princes,
Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethaneel, and Micah,
to teach in the cities of Judah;
17:8 and with them the Levites: Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and
Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jonathan, and
Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah, Levites; and with them
Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
17:9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of
Jehovah with them; and they went about through all the cities
of Judah, and taught among the people.
17:10 And the terror of Jehovah was upon all the kingdoms of the
lands that were round about Judah, and they made no war against
Jehoshaphat.
17:11 And some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat gifts and
tribute-silver. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven
thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred
he-goats.
17:12 And Jehoshaphat waxed exceeding great; and he built in
Judah castles and store-cities.
17:13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah; and men
of war, strong and valiant, in Jerusalem.
17:14 And these are the numbers of them according to their
fathers' houses. Of Judah the captains of thousands: Adnah the
captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of
valour;
17:15 and next to him was Johanan the captain, and with him two
hundred and eighty thousand;
17:16 and next to him, Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly
offered himself to Jehovah; and with him two hundred thousand
mighty men of valour.
17:17 And of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valour, and with
him two hundred thousand, armed with bow and shield;
17:18 and next to him was Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and
eighty thousand ready prepared for war.
17:19 These were they that waited on the king, besides those
that the king had put in the fortified cities throughout Judah.
18:1 And Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance; and he
allied himself with Ahab by marriage.
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 were with him, and urged him to go up against
Ramoth-Gilead.
18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-Gilead? And he said to him, I am
as thou, and my people as thy people; and [I will be] with thee
in the war.
18:4 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray
thee, this day of the word of Jehovah.
18:5 And the king of Israel assembled the prophets, four hundred
men, and said to them, Shall we go against Ramoth-Gilead to
battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, and God will
give it into the king's hand.
18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of
Jehovah besides, that we might inquire of him?
18:7 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet
one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, for
he prophesies no good concerning me, but always evil: [it is]
Micah the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king
say so.
18:8 Then the king of Israel called a chamberlain, and said,
Fetch quickly Micah the son of Imlah.
18:9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,
having put on their robes, sat each on his throne; and they sat
in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and
all the prophets prophesied before them.
18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns
of iron, and he said, Thus saith Jehovah: With these shalt thou
push the Syrians, until thou have exterminated them.
18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
Ramoth-Gilead, and prosper; for Jehovah will give it into the
king's hand.
18:12 And the messenger that went to call Micah spoke 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 declare good.
18:13 And Micah said, As Jehovah liveth, even what my God shall
say, that will I declare.
18:14 And he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micah,
shall we go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall I
forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper; and they will be
given into your hands.
18:15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure
thee that thou tell me nothing but truth in the name of
Jehovah?
18:16 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the
mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And Jehovah said,
These have no master: let them return every man to his house in
peace.
18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
thee that he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil?
18:18 And he said, Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah: I saw
Jehovah sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven
standing on his right hand and on his left;
18:19 and Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel
that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? And one spoke
saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
18:20 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah
and said, I will entice him. And Jehovah said unto him,
Wherewith?
18:21 And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit
in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt
entice [him], and also succeed: go forth, and do so.
18:22 And now, behold, Jehovah has put a lying spirit in the
mouth of these thy prophets; and Jehovah has spoken evil
concerning thee.
18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote
Micah upon the cheek, and said, Which way now went the Spirit
of Jehovah from me to speak to thee?
18:24 And Micah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when
thou shalt go from chamber to chamber to hide thyself.
18:25 And the king of Israel said, Take ye Micah, and carry him
back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's
son;
18:26 and ye shall say, Thus says the king: Put this [man] in
the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with
water of affliction, until I return in peace.
18:27 And Micah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah
has not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O peoples, all of
you!
18:28 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
went up to Ramoth-Gilead.
18:29 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will
disguise myself, and will enter into the battle; but put thou
on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself; and
they went into the battle.
18:30 And the king of Syria commanded the captains of his
chariots saying, Fight neither with small nor great, but with
the king of Israel only.
18:31 And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, That is the king of Israel; and
they surrounded him to fight; and Jehoshaphat cried out, and
Jehovah helped him; and God diverted them from him.
18:32 And it came to pass that when the captains of the chariots
perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back
from pursuing him.
18:33 And a man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of
Israel between the fastenings and the corslet. And he said to
the charioteer, Turn thy hand and drive me out of the camp; for
I am wounded.
18:34 And the battle increased that day; and the king of Israel
stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the
even; and about the time of the going down of the sun he died.
19:1 And Jehoshaphat 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 Jehovah? Therefore is wrath upon thee
from Jehovah.
19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee; for thou
hast put away the Asherahs out of the land, and hast directed
thy heart to seek God.
19:4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt in Jerusalem; and he went out again
among the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought
them back to Jehovah the God of their fathers.
19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout the fortified
cities of Judah, city by city.
19:6 And he said to the judges, Take heed what ye do; for ye
judge not for man, but for Jehovah, who will be with you in the
matter of judgment.
19:7 And now, let the terror of Jehovah be upon you; be careful
what ye do, for there is no iniquity with Jehovah, nor respect
of persons, nor taking of presents.
19:8 -- And moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set some of
the Levites and priests, and of the chief fathers of Israel,
for the judgment of Jehovah and for causes. -- And they
returned to Jerusalem.
19:9 And he charged them saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of
Jehovah faithfully and with a perfect heart.
19:10 And what cause soever comes to you of your brethren that
dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and
commandment, statutes and ordinances, ye shall even warn them
that they trespass not against Jehovah, 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 Jehovah, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, prince of
the house of Judah, in all the king's matters; and ye have the
Levites before you as officers. Be strong and do it, and
Jehovah will be with the good.
20:1 And it came to pass after this [that] the children of Moab,
and the children of Ammon, and with them certain of the
Maonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
20:2 And they came and told Jehoshaphat saying, A great
multitude is come against thee from beyond the sea, from Syria;
and behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar, which is Engedi.
20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek Jehovah,
and proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together to ask [help] of
Jehovah: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek
Jehovah.
20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and
Jerusalem, in the house of Jehovah, before the new court;
20:6 and he said, Jehovah, God of our fathers, art not thou God
in the heavens, and rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of
the nations? And in thy hand there is power and might, and none
can withstand thee.
20:7 Hast not thou, our God, dispossessed the inhabitants of
this land before thy people Israel, and given it for ever to
the seed of Abraham, thy friend?
20:8 And they have dwelt therein, and have built thee a
sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
20:9 If evil come upon us, sword, judgment, or pestilence, or
famine, and we stand before this house and before thee -- for
thy name is in this house -- and cry unto thee in our distress,
then thou wilt hear and save.
20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab, and those
of mount Seir, amongst whom thou wouldest not let Israel go
when they came out of the land of Egypt, (for they turned from
them, and destroyed them not,)
20:11 behold, they reward us, in coming to cast us out of thy
possession, which thou hast given us to possess.
20:12 Our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might in
presence of this great company which cometh against us, neither
know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee.
20:13 And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little
ones, their wives, and their sons.
20:14 And 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, upon him came the Spirit of Jehovah, in the
midst of the congregation;
20:15 and he said, Be attentive, all Judah, and ye inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat! Thus saith Jehovah
unto you: Fear not, nor be dismayed by reason of this great
multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
20:16 To-morrow go down against them: behold, they come up by
the ascent of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the
valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
20:17 Ye shall not have to fight on this occasion: set
yourselves, stand and see the salvation of Jehovah [who is]
with you! Judah and Jerusalem, fear not nor be dismayed;
to-morrow go out against them, and Jehovah 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
down before Jehovah, worshipping Jehovah.
20:19 And the Levites, of the sons of the Kohathites, and of the
sons of the Korahites, stood up to praise Jehovah the God of
Israel with an exceeding loud voice.
20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth towards
the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat
stood and said, Hear me, Judah, and ye inhabitants of
Jerusalem! Believe in Jehovah your God, and ye shall be
established; believe his prophets, and ye shall prosper!
20:21 And he consulted with the people, and appointed singers to
Jehovah, and those that should praise in holy splendour, as
they went forth before the armed men, and say, Give thanks to
Jehovah; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever!
20:22 And when they began the song of triumph and praise,
Jehovah set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab,
and mount Seir, who had come against Judah, and they were
smitten.
20:23 And the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the
inhabitants of mount Seir, to exterminate and destroy [them];
and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they
helped to destroy one another.
20:24 And Judah came on to the mountain-watch in the wilderness,
and they looked toward the multitude; and behold, they were
dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none had escaped.
20:25 And Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder the spoil
of them, and they found among them in abundance, both riches
with the dead bodies, and precious things, and they stripped
off for themselves more than they could carry away; and they
were three days in plundering 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 Jehovah; therefore
the name of that place was called The valley of Berachah, to
this day.
20:27 And they returned, all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, and
Jehoshaphat at their head, to go again to Jerusalem with joy;
for Jehovah had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with lutes and harps and
trumpets, to the house of Jehovah.
20:29 And the terror of God was on all the kingdoms of the
lands, when they had heard that Jehovah fought against the
enemies of Israel.
20:30 And the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; and his God gave
him rest round about.
20:31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty-five
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five
years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Azubah, daughter
of Shilhi.
20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not
aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of Jehovah.
20:33 Only, the high places were not removed; and as yet the
people had not directed their hearts to the God of their
fathers.
20:34 And the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last,
behold, they are written in the words of Jehu the son of
Hanani, which are inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.
20:35 And after this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined 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 Ezion-geber.
20:37 And Eliezer the son of Dodavah, of Mareshah, prophesied
against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself
with Ahaziah, Jehovah has broken thy works. And the ships were
broken, and could not go to Tarshish.
21:1 And 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 sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
21:3 And their father had given them great gifts of silver and
of gold and of precious things, besides fortified cities in
Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, for he was the
firstborn.
21:4 And Jehoram established himself over the kingdom of his
father, and strengthened himself; and he slew all his brethren
with the sword, and [certain] also of the princes of Israel.
21:5 Jehoram was thirty-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, as did the
house of Ahab, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he
did evil in the sight of Jehovah.
21:7 But Jehovah would not destroy the house of David, because
of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he had
promised to give to him always a lamp, and to his sons.
21:8 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
they set a king over themselves.
21:9 And Jehoram went over with his captains, and all the
chariots with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the
Edomites who had surrounded him, and the captains of the
chariots.
21:10 But the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah
unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under
his hand, because he had forsaken Jehovah the God of his
fathers.
21:11 Moreover he made high places on 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 Jehovah, the 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 commit
fornication, like the fornications of the house of Ahab, and
also hast slain thy brethren, thy father's house who were
better than thyself:
21:14 behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people,
and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance,
21:15 and thyself with sore sicknesses, with a disease of thy
bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day
by day.
21:16 And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
Philistines, and of the Arabians, who [are] near the
Ethiopians;
21:17 and they came up into Judah, and broke 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 no
son left him, except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.
21:18 And after all this, Jehovah smote him in his bowels with
an incurable sickness.
21:19 And it came to pass, from day to day, and at the time when
the second year was drawing to a close, that his bowels fell
out by reason of his sickness, and he died in cruel sufferings.
And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his
fathers.
21:20 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being
regretted. And 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 in the
camp with the Arabians had slain all the elder ones. And
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned one year in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was
Athaliah, 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 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah 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 the war against Hazael the
king of Syria at Ramoth-Gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jizreel because of the
wounds that 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 Jizreel; for he was
sick.
22:7 But his coming to Joram was from God the complete ruin of
Ahaziah. And when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against
Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed to cut off
the house of Ahab.
22:8 And it came to pass when Jehu was executing judgment upon
the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the
sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that attended upon Ahaziah,
and he slew them.
22:9 And he sought Ahaziah; and they caught him (for he had hid
himself in Samaria), and brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and
they buried him, for they said, He is a son of Jehoshaphat, who
sought Jehovah with all his heart. And in the house of Ahaziah
there was no one who was able to [hold] the kingdom.
22:10 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
was dead, she rose up and exterminated all the royal seed 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 the 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 did not slay him;
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 the 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 together the
Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief 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 to them, Behold, the king's son
shall reign, as Jehovah has said of the sons of David.
23:4 This is the thing which ye shall do: a third part of you
that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites,
shall be keepers 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 Jehovah.
23:6 But let none come into the house of Jehovah except the
priests and those of the Levites that do the service; they
shall go in, for they are holy; but all the people shall keep
the watch of Jehovah.
23:7 And the Levites shall encompass the king round about, every
man with his weapons in his hand; and he that comes into the
house shall be put to death; and ye shall be with the king when
he comes in and when he goes out.
23:8 And the Levites and all Judah did according to all that
Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men,
those that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were
to go forth on the sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest did not
liberate the divisions.
23:9 And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains of the
hundreds king David's spears and shields and targets, which
were in the house of God.
23:10 And he set all the people, every man with his javelin in
his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of
the house, toward the altar and the house, by the king round
about.
23:11 And they brought forth the king's son, and put the crown
upon him, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king. And
Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, Long live the
king!
23:12 And Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
praising the king, and she came to the people into the house of
Jehovah.
23:13 And she looked, and behold, the king stood on his dais at
the entrance, and the princes and the trumpets were by the
king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with
trumpets; and the singers [were there] with the instruments of
music, and such as taught to sing praise. And Athaliah rent her
garments, and said, Conspiracy! Conspiracy!
23:14 And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of the
hundreds that were set over the host, and said to them, Lead
her forth without the ranks; and whosoever follows her, let him
be slain with the sword; for the priest said, Ye shall not put
her to death in the house of Jehovah.
23:15 And they made way for her, and she went through the
entrance of the horse-gate into the king's house, and they put
her to death there.
23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the
people and the king, that they should be the people of Jehovah.
23:17 And all the people went into the house of Baal, and broke
it down; and they broke his altars and his images in pieces,
and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
23:18 And Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of Jehovah
under the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had set
by classes over the house of Jehovah to offer up Jehovah's
burnt-offerings, as it is written in the law of Moses, -- with
rejoicing and with singing according to the directions of
David.
23:19 And he set the doorkeepers at the gates of the house of
Jehovah, that no one unclean in anything should enter in.
23:20 And he took the captains of the 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 Jehovah; and
they came through the upper 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; and 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; and his mother's name was
Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
24:2 And Joash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah all
the days of Jehoiada the priest.
24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and
daughters.
24:4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to
renew the house of Jehovah.
24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and
said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah and collect of all
Israel money for the repair of the house of your God from year
to year, and ye shall hasten the matter. But the Levites
hastened it not.
24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to
him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out
of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tribute of Moses the servant
of Jehovah [laid upon] the congregation of Israel, for the tent
of the testimony?
24:7 For the wicked Athaliah [and] her sons had devastated the
house of God; and also all the hallowed things of the house of
Jehovah had they employed for the Baals.
24:8 And the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it
at the gate of the house of Jehovah without,
24:9 and they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem,
to bring to Jehovah the tribute of 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 finished.
24:11 And it came to pass at the time the chest was brought for
the king's control by the hand of the Levites, and when they
saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and high
priest's officer came, and they emptied the chest, and took it,
and carried it to its 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 Jehovah, and they hired masons
and carpenters to renew the house of Jehovah, and also such as
wrought in iron and bronze, to repair the house of Jehovah.
24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by
them, and they set the house of God in its state, and
strengthened it.
24:14 And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the
money before the king and Jehoiada; and they made of it vessels
for the house of Jehovah, utensils to minister, and with which
to offer up, and cups, and utensils of gold and silver. And
they offered up burnt-offerings in the house of Jehovah
continually all the days of Jehoiada.
24:15 And Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died;
he was a hundred and thirty years old 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 And after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came
and made obeisance to the king; then the king hearkened to
them.
24:18 And they forsook the house of Jehovah the God of their
fathers, and served the Asherahs and idols; and wrath came upon
Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
24:19 And he sent prophets among them to bring them again to
Jehovah, 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; and he stood up above the people and said
unto them, Thus saith God: Wherefore do ye transgress the
commandments of Jehovah? And ye cannot prosper; for ye have
forsaken Jehovah, and he hath forsaken you.
24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones
at the command of the king in the court of the house of
Jehovah.
24:22 And king Joash remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada
his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died,
he said, Jehovah see and require [it]!
24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year [that] the army
of Syria came up against him; and they entered into Judah and
Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from
among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king at
Damascus.
24:24 Truly with a small company of men came the army of the
Syrians, but Jehovah delivered a very great army into their
hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah the God of their
fathers; and they executed judgment upon Joash.
24:25 And when they had 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 did not bury him 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 And as to his sons, and the greatness of the burdens
[laid] upon him, and the building of the house of God, behold,
they are written in the treatise of the book of the kings. And
Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old [when] he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's
name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
25:2 And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, yet not
with a perfect heart.
25:3 And it came to pass when the kingdom was established unto
him, that he killed his servants who had smitten the king his
father.
25:4 But their children he did not put to death, but [did]
according to that which is written in the law in the book of
Moses, wherein Jehovah commanded saying, The fathers shall not
die for the children, nor shall the children die for the
fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
25:5 And Amaziah gathered Judah together and arranged them
according to the fathers' houses, according to the captains of
thousands and the captains of hundreds, throughout Judah and
Benjamin; and he numbered them from twenty years old and
upwards, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able
for military service, that could handle spear and target.
25:6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out
of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not
the host of Israel go with thee; for Jehovah is not with
Israel, [with] all the children of Ephraim.
25:8 But if thou wilt go, do [it]; be strong for the battle: God
will make thee fall before the enemy, for there is with God
power to help and to cast down.
25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what is to be done
for the hundred talents which I have given to the troop of
Israel? And the man of God said, Jehovah is able to give thee
much more than this.
25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, -- the troop that was come to
him out of Ephraim, -- to go home again. And their anger was
greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce
anger.
25:11 But 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 the children of Judah took ten thousand captive,
alive, and brought them to the top of the cliff, and cast them
down from the top of the cliff, so that they all were broken in
pieces.
25:13 But those of the troop that Amaziah had sent back, that
they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of
Judah from Samaria as far as Beth-horon, and smote three
thousand of them, and took much spoil.
25:14 And it came to pass after 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
himself down before them, and burned incense to them.
25:15 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Amaziah, and
he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why dost thou seek
after the gods of a people who have not delivered their own
people out of thy hand?
25:16 And it came to pass as he talked with him, that [Amaziah]
said to him, Hast thou been made the king's counsellor?
Forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet
forbore, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy
thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my
counsel.
25:17 And Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and sent to Joash
the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying,
Come, let us look one another in the face.
25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thorn-bush that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar
that is in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son as
wife; and there passed by the wild beast that is in Lebanon,
and trode down the thorn-bush.
25:19 Thou thinkest, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and thy heart
has lifted thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest
thou contend with misfortune, that thou shouldest fall, thou
and Judah with thee?
25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he
might deliver them into [the enemy's] hand, because they had
sought after the gods of Edom.
25:21 And Joash king of Israel went up; and they looked one
another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at
Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
25:22 And Judah was routed before Israel; and they fled every
man to his tent.
25:23 And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the
son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought
him to Jerusalem, and he broke 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 Obed-Edom, and
the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, 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 And 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 And from the time that Amaziah turned aside from following
Jehovah, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and
he fled to Lachish; and they sent after him to Lachish, and
slew him there.
25:28 And they brought him on horses, and buried him with his
fathers in the city of Judah.
26:1 And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen
years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
26:2 It was he that built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after
the king slept with his fathers.
26:3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was
Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
26:4 And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had
understanding in the visions of God; and in the days that he
sought Jehovah, God made him to prosper.
26:6 And he went forth and fought against the Philistines, and
broke 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 Gur-Baal, and the Maonites.
26:8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread
abroad to the entrance of Egypt; for he became exceeding
strong.
26:9 And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate,
and at the valley gate, and at the angle, and fortified them.
26:10 And he built towers in the desert and digged many
cisterns; for he had much cattle, both in the lowland and on
the plateau, husbandmen [also] and vinedressers on the
mountains and in Carmel; for he loved husbandry.
26:11 And Uzziah had an army 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 fathers of the mighty men of
valour was two thousand six hundred.
26:13 And under their hand was an army-host of three hundred and
seven thousand five hundred, that made war with mighty power to
help the king against the enemy.
26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them, throughout the host,
shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows,
and even slinging-stones.
26:15 And he made in Jerusalem machines invented by skilful men,
to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, wherewith to shoot
arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he
was marvellously helped, till he became strong.
26:16 But when he became strong his heart was lifted up to [his]
downfall; and he transgressed against Jehovah his God, and went
into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of
incense.
26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him
priests of Jehovah, eighty valiant men;
26:18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It is
not for thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to Jehovah, but for the
priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn
incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast transgressed;
neither shall it be for thine honour from Jehovah Elohim.
26:19 And Uzziah was wroth; and he had a censer in his hand to
burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the
leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house
of Jehovah, 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; even he himself hasted to go out,
because Jehovah had smitten him.
26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death,
and dwelt in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut
off from the house of Jehovah. And Jotham his son was over the
king's house, judging the people of the land.
26:22 And the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did
the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz write.
26:23 And Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him
with his fathers in the burial-ground of the kings, for they
said, He is a leper. And Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's
name was Jerushah, daughter of Zadok.
27:2 And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah,
according to all that his father Uzziah had done; only he
entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people still
acted corruptly.
27:3 It was he who built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah,
and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
27:4 And he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in
the forests he built castles and towers.
27:5 And he fought against the king of the children of Ammon,
and overcame them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same
year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of
wheat, and ten thousand of barley. This the children of Ammon
brought again to him also in the second year, and in the third.
27:6 And Jotham became strong, for he prepared his ways before
Jehovah his God.
27:7 And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and
his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah.
27:8 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he
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. And he did not what was
right in the sight of Jehovah, like David his father,
28:2 but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even
made molten images for the Baals;
28:3 and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations
of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the
children of Israel.
28:4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places,
and on the hills, and under every green tree.
28:5 Therefore Jehovah his God gave 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 given into the hand of the king of Israel, who
smote him with a great slaughter.
28:6 And Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and
twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had
forsaken Jehovah the 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
the second 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 away also much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to
Samaria.
28:9 But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name was Oded;
and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said
unto them, Behold, because Jehovah the God of your fathers was
wroth with Judah, he gave them into your hand, and ye have
slain them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
28:10 And now ye think to subjugate the children of Judah and
Jerusalem as your bondmen and bondwomen. Are there not with
you, even with you, trespasses against Jehovah your God?
28:11 And now hear me, and send back the captives again, whom ye
have taken captive of your brethren; for the fierce wrath of
Jehovah is upon you.
28:12 And certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim,
Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth,
and Hezekiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai,
stood up against them that came from the war,
28:13 and said to them, Ye shall not bring in the captives
hither; because, for our guilt before Jehovah, ye think to
increase our sins and our trespasses: for our trespass is
great, and fierce wrath is upon Israel.
28:14 Then the armed men left the captives and the spoil before
the princes and all the congregation.
28:15 And the men that have been 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 on asses, and brought them to Jericho the
city of palm-trees, to their brethren. And they returned to
Samaria.
28:16 At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to
help him.
28:17 And again the Edomites came and smote Judah, and carried
away captives.
28:18 And the Philistines invaded the cities of the lowland, and
of the south of Judah, and took Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and
Gederoth, and Socho and its dependent villages, and Timnah and
its dependent villages, and Guimzo and its dependent villages;
and they dwelt there.
28:19 For Jehovah humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel,
for he had made Judah lawless, and transgressed much against
Jehovah.
28:20 And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and
troubled him, and did not support him.
28:21 For Ahaz stripped the house of Jehovah, and the house of
the king and of the princes, and gave to the king of Assyria;
but he was of no help to him.
28:22 And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more
against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.
28:23 And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had
smitten him; and he said, Since the gods of the kings of Syria
help them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But
they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
28:24 And Ahaz gathered the vessels of the house of God, and cut
in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and closed the doors
of the house of Jehovah, and he made for himself altars in
every corner of Jerusalem.
28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to
burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah the
God of his fathers.
28:26 And the rest of his acts, and 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, 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 being twenty-five years old; and he
reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name
was Abijah, daughter of Zechariah.
29:2 And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah,
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 Jehovah, and repaired them.
29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered
them into the open place eastward;
29:5 and he said to them, Hear me, ye Levites: hallow yourselves
now, and hallow the house of Jehovah the God of your fathers,
and carry forth the filthiness out of the sanctuary.
29:6 For our fathers have transgressed, and done evil in the
sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him and turned away
their faces from the habitation of Jehovah, and have 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 up
burnt-offerings in the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
29:8 Therefore the wrath of Jehovah has been upon Judah and
Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to vexation, to
desolation, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
29:9 And behold, 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 my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah the
God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
29:11 My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah has chosen you
to stand before him, to do service unto him, and to be his
ministers and incense-burners.
29:12 Then the Levites rose up, 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 Jehalleleel; 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 hallowed themselves,
and came, according to the commandment of the king by the words
of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah.
29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of
Jehovah to cleanse it, and carried forth all the uncleanness
that they found in the temple of Jehovah, into the court of the
house of Jehovah. And the Levites took it to carry it forth
into the brook Kidron.
29:17 And they began on the first of the first month to hallow,
and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of
Jehovah; and they hallowed the house of Jehovah eight days; and
on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
29:18 And they went in to king Hezekiah, and said, We have
cleansed all the house of Jehovah, and the altar of
burnt-offering with all its vessels, and the table of the
[bread] to be set in rows, and all its vessels;
29:19 and all the vessels that king Ahaz in his reign cast away
in his transgression have we prepared and hallowed, and behold,
they are before the altar of Jehovah.
29:20 And Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the
princes of the city, and went up to the house of Jehovah.
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] upon the altar of
Jehovah.
29:22 And they slaughtered the bullocks, and the priests
received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar; and they
slaughtered the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar; and
they slaughtered the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the
altar.
29:23 And they brought near the he-goats of the sin-offering
before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands
upon them.
29:24 And the priests slaughtered them, and they made
purification for sin with their blood upon the altar, to make
an atonement for all Israel; because for all Israel, said the
king, is the burnt-offering and the sin-offering.
29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of Jehovah with
cymbals, with lutes, and with harps, according to the
commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and of Nathan
the prophet; for the commandment was of Jehovah through 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 up the burnt-offering on
the altar. And at the moment the burnt-offering began, the song
of Jehovah began, and the trumpets, accompanied by the
instruments of David king of Israel.
29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang,
and the trumpeters sounded, all [the time] until the
burnt-offering was finished.
29:29 And when they had ended offering the burnt-offering, the
king and all that were present with him bowed themselves and
worshipped.
29:30 And king Hezekiah and the princes commanded the Levites to
sing praise to Jehovah with the words of David, and of Asaph
the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and bowed their
heads and worshipped.
29:31 And Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated
yourselves to Jehovah, 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 willing heart, burnt-offerings.
29:32 And the number of the burnt-offerings, which the
congregation brought, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, two
hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt-offering to Jehovah.
29:33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three
thousand sheep.
29:34 Only the priests were too few, and they could not flay all
the burnt-offerings; therefore their brethren the Levites
helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests
had hallowed themselves; for the Levites were more upright in
heart to hallow themselves than the priests.
29:35 And also the burnt-offerings were in abundance, with the
fat of the peace-offerings, and with the drink-offerings for
the burnt-offering. And the service of the house of Jehovah 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 Jehovah at Jerusalem, to hold the passover to
Jehovah the God of Israel.
30:2 And the king took counsel, and his princes, and the whole
congregation in Jerusalem, to hold the passover in the second
month.
30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the
priests had not hallowed themselves in sufficient number,
neither had the people been gathered together to Jerusalem.
30:4 And the thing pleased the king and the whole congregation.
30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation
throughout Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should
come to hold the passover to Jehovah the God of Israel, at
Jerusalem; because they had not held it for a long time as it
was written.
30:6 And the couriers went with the letters from the king and
his princes throughout Israel and Judah, and according to the
commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, return
to Jehovah the 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 like your fathers and like your brethren, who
transgressed against Jehovah the God of their fathers, so that
he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
30:8 Now, harden not your necks, as your fathers; yield
yourselves to Jehovah, and come to his sanctuary, which he has
sanctified for ever; and serve Jehovah your God, that the
fierceness of his anger may turn away from you.
30:9 For if ye return to Jehovah, your brethren and your
children shall find compassion with those that have carried
them captive, so that they shall come again unto this land; for
Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn
away his face from you, if ye return to him.
30:10 And the couriers passed from city to city through the
country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun; but they
laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
30:11 Nevertheless certain of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun
humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
30:12 The hand of God was also upon Judah to give them one heart
to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the
word of Jehovah.
30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to hold the
feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great
congregation.
30:14 And they rose up and took away the altars that were in
Jerusalem; and they took away all the incense-altars, and cast
them into the torrent Kidron.
30:15 And they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the
second month; and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and
hallowed themselves; and they brought the burnt-offerings into
the house of Jehovah.
30:16 And they stood in their place after their custom,
according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests
sprinkled the blood [receiving it] from the hand of the
Levites.
30:17 For there were many in the congregation that were not
hallowed; therefore the Levites had the charge of the
slaughtering of the passover-lambs for every one not clean, to
hallow them unto Jehovah.
30:18 For a multitude of the people, many of Ephraim and
Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves,
and they ate the passover otherwise than it was written. But
Hezekiah prayed for them saying, Jehovah, who is good, forgive
every one
30:19 that has directed his heart to seek God, Jehovah the God
of his fathers, although not according to the purification of
the sanctuary.
30:20 And Jehovah hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
30:21 And the children of Israel, that were present at
Jerusalem, held the feast of unleavened bread seven days with
great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Jehovah
day by day, with the instruments of praise to Jehovah.
30:22 And Hezekiah spoke consolingly to all the Levites that had
understanding in the good knowledge of Jehovah; and they ate
the feast-offerings the seven days, sacrificing
peace-offerings, and extolling Jehovah the God of their
fathers.
30:23 And the whole congregation took counsel to observe other
seven days; and they observed the seven days with gladness.
30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation as
heave-offering: 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 hallowed
themselves.
30:25 And the whole 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 And there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time
of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there had not been
the like in Jerusalem.
30:27 And the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people;
and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy
habitation, to the heavens.
31:1 And when all this was finished, all Israel that were
present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns,
and hewed down the Asherahs, and demolished the high places and
the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and
Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. And all the
children of Israel returned every man to his possession, into
their cities.
31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests, and
the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his
service, as well the priests as the Levites, for
burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings, to serve and to give
thanks and to praise in the gates of the courts of Jehovah.
31:3 And [he ordered] that the king's portion [should be taken]
from his substance for the burnt-offerings: for the morning and
evening burnt-offerings, for the burnt-offerings of the
sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of the set feasts, as it is
written in the law of Jehovah.
31:4 And 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 Jehovah.
31:5 And as soon as the commandment was published, the children
of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of corn, new wine
and oil and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and
they brought in abundantly the tithe of all [things].
31:6 And the children of Israel and of Judah, that dwelt in the
cities of Judah, they also brought the tithe of oxen and sheep,
and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to Jehovah
their God, and laid them by heaps.
31:7 In the third month they began to lay the heaps, and
finished them in the seventh month.
31:8 And Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, and
they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.
31:9 And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites
concerning the heaps.
31:10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok spoke
to him and said, Since they began to bring the heave-offerings
into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and been satisfied and
have left plenty; for Jehovah has blessed his people; and what
is left is this great store.
31:11 And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of
Jehovah; and they prepared [them],
31:12 and brought in the heave-offerings and the tithes and the
dedicated things faithfully; and over these Cononiah the Levite
was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and
Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jismachiah, and Mahath,
and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and
Shimei his brother, at the command of Hezekiah the king and
Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
31:14 And Kore the son of Jimnah the Levite, the doorkeeper
toward the east, was over the voluntary-offerings of God, to
distribute the heave-offerings of Jehovah, and the most holy
things.
31:15 And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and
Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests,
in [their] set trust, to make distributions to their brethren
by [their] divisions, to the great as to the small,
31:16 besides those from three years old and upward who as males
were entered in the genealogical register, -- all that came
into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required,
for their service in their charges, according to their
divisions,
31:17 -- both to the priests enregistered according to their
fathers' houses, and to the Levites from twenty years old and
upward, in their charges, by their divisions;
31:18 and to all their little ones, their wives, and their sons,
and their daughters, the whole congregation of those entered in
the register; for in their trust they hallowed themselves to be
holy.
31:19 And for the sons of Aaron the priests who were in the
country, in the suburbs of their cities, there were, in every
several city, men expressed by name, to give portions to all
the males among the priests, and to all the Levites that were
entered in the register.
31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout Judah, and wrought what
was good and right and true before Jehovah his God.
31:21 And in every work that he undertook 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 this faithfulness, Sennacherib king
of Assyria came and entered into Judah, and encamped against
the fortified cities, and thought to break into them.
32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that
he was minded to fight against Jerusalem,
32:3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop
the fountains of waters that were outside the city; and they
helped him.
32:4 And there was gathered together much people, and they
stopped all the fountains, and the torrent that flows through
the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria
come and find much water?
32:5 And he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that
was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and [built]
another wall outside, and fortified the Millo of the city of
David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and assembled
them to him on the open place at the gate of the city, and
spoke consolingly 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 are more with us than with him:
32:8 with him is an arm of flesh, but with us is Jehovah our God
to help us and to fight our battles. And the people depended
upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
32:9 After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants
to Jerusalem (but he himself was before Lachish, and all his
power with him), unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all
Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,
32:10 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria: On what do ye rely
that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
32:11 Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give yourselves over to
die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will
deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
32:12 Has not the same Hezekiah removed 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 Do ye not know what I and my fathers have done to all the
peoples of the countries? Were the gods of the nations of the
countries in any wise able to deliver their country out of my
hand?
32:14 Who is there among all the gods of those nations that my
fathers have utterly destroyed, that was able to deliver his
people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver
you out of my hand?
32:15 And now, let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in
this manner, neither yet believe him; for no +god of any nation
or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, nor
out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God
deliver you out of my hand?
32:16 And his servants spoke yet more against Jehovah, the
[true] God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
32:17 And he wrote a letter to rail at Jehovah the God of
Israel, and to speak against him saying, As the gods of the
nations of the countries have not delivered their people out of
my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people
out of my hand.
32:18 And they cried with a loud voice in the Jewish [language]
to the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to frighten
them and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
32:19 And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of
the peoples of the earth, the work of man's hand.
32:20 And because of this, king Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah
the son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven.
32:21 And Jehovah sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men
of valour, and the princes and the captains in the camp of the
king of Assyria. And 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 made him fall there with the
sword.
32:22 And Jehovah saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and
from the hand of all, and protected them on every side.
32:23 And many brought gifts unto Jehovah to Jerusalem, and
precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; and he was
thenceforth magnified in the sight of all the nations.
32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death, and he prayed
to Jehovah; and he spoke to him and gave him a sign.
32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit
[done] to him, for his heart was lifted up; and there was wrath
upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
32:26 And Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart,
he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of
Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
32:27 And Hezekiah had very 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 vessels;
32:28 storehouses also for the increase of corn and new wine and
oil, and stalls for all manner of beasts, and [he procured]
flocks for the stalls.
32:29 And he provided for himself cities, and possessions of
flocks and herds in abundance; for God gave him very much
substance.
32:30 And he, Hezekiah, stopped the upper outlet of the waters
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 However in [the matter of] the ambassadors of the princes
of Babylon, who sent to 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 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds,
behold, they are written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah
the son of Amoz in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him
in the highest place 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-five years in Jerusalem.
33:2 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the
abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from
before the children of Israel.
33:3 And he built again the high places that Hezekiah his father
had broken down; and he reared up altars to the Baals, and made
Asherahs, and worshipped all the host of heaven and served
them.
33:4 And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which
Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
33:5 And he built altars to all the host of heaven in both
courts of the house of Jehovah.
33:6 He also caused his children to pass through the fire in the
valley of the son of Hinnom; and he used magic and divination
and sorcery, and appointed necromancers and soothsayers: he
wrought evil beyond measure in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke
him to anger.
33:7 And he set the graven image of the idol that 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 out of 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 that I have appointed to your fathers; if they will
only take heed to do all that I commanded them through Moses,
according to all the law and the statutes and the ordinances.
33:9 And Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
astray, to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had
destroyed from before the children of Israel.
33:10 And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people; but they
did not hearken.
33:11 And Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of
the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound
him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his
God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
33:13 and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard
his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his
kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah, he was God.
33:14 And after this he built the outer wall of the city of
David, on the west, toward Gihon, in the valley, even to the
entrance of the fish-gate, and carried it round Ophel, and
raised it up a very great height; and he put captains of war in
all the fortified cities of Judah.
33:15 And he removed the strange gods, and the idol out of the
house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built on the
mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and cast [them]
out of the city.
33:16 And he reinstated the altar of Jehovah, and sacrificed on
it peace-offerings and thank-offerings, and commanded Judah to
serve Jehovah the God of Israel.
33:17 Nevertheless, the people sacrificed still on the high
places, although to Jehovah their God only.
33:18 And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to
his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the
name of Jehovah the God of Israel, behold, they [are written]
in the acts of the kings of Israel.
33:19 And his prayer, and [how God] was intreated of him, and
all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he
built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images,
before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words
of Hozai.
33:20 And 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 twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
33:22 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, as Manasseh his
father had done; and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images
that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
33:23 And he did not humble himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh
his father had humbled himself; for he, Amon, multiplied
trespass.
33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in
his own house.
33:25 But the people of the land smote 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 thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
34:2 And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, and
walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to
the right hand nor to the left.
34:3 And 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 Asherahs, and the graven images, and
the molten images.
34:4 And they broke down the altars of the Baals in his
presence; and the sun-pillars that were on high above them he
cut down; and the Asherahs and the graven images and the molten
images he broke in pieces, and made dust [of them] and strewed
it upon the graves of those that had sacrificed to them;
34:5 and he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars,
and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
34:6 And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and
Simeon, even to Naphtali, in their ruins round about;
34:7 and he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherahs and the
graven images into powder, and cut down all the sun-pillars
throughout the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
34:8 And in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he 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 chronicler, to repair the house of Jehovah his God.
34:9 And they came to Hilkijah the high priest, and they
delivered [to them] the money that had been 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 of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
34:10 And they gave [it] into the hand of them that did the
work, that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and they
gave it to the workmen who wrought in the house of Jehovah to
reinstate and repair the house:
34:11 they gave [it] to the carpenters and the builders, to buy
hewn stone, and timber for the joists, and to floor the houses
that the kings of Judah had destroyed.
34:12 And the men did the work faithfully. And over them were
appointed Jahath and Obadiah, Levites, of the children of
Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the children of the
Kohathites, for the oversight; and all these Levites were
skilled in instruments of music.
34:13 They were also over the bearers of burdens, and were
overseers of all that worked in any manner of service. And of
the Levites were the scribes, and officers, and doorkeepers.
34:14 And when they brought out the money that had been brought
into the house of Jehovah, Hilkijah the priest found the book
of the law of Jehovah by Moses.
34:15 Then Hilkijah spoke and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have
found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkijah
gave the book to Shaphan.
34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king. And moreover he
brought the king word again saying, All that was committed to
the hand of thy servants, they do;
34:17 and they have emptied out the money that was found in the
house of Jehovah, and have delivered it into the hand of the
overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.
34:18 And Shaphan the scribe informed the king saying, Hilkijah
the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read out of it
before the king.
34:19 And it came to pass when the king heard the words of the
law, that he rent his garments.
34:20 And the king commanded Hilkijah, and Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe,
and Asaiah a servant of the king, saying,
34:21 Go, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left
in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book which
is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out
upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah,
to do according to all that is written in this book.
34:22 And Hilkijah and they that the king [had appointed] went
to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of
Tokehath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe: now she dwelt
in Jerusalem in the second quarter [of the town]; and they
spoke with her to that effect.
34:23 And she said to them, Thus saith Jehovah the God of
Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me,
34:24 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, 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 fury shall be poured out
upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
34:26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of
Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him: Thus saith Jehovah the God
of Israel touching the words which thou hast heard:
34:27 Because thy 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 garments and weep before
me, I also have heard [thee], saith Jehovah.
34:28 Behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou
shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall
not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and
upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought the king word
again.
34:29 And the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and
of Jerusalem.
34:30 And the king went up into the house of Jehovah, 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 which had been found in the house of Jehovah.
34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant
before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, 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 that 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 removed all the abominations out of all the
countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made to
serve all that were found in Israel, -- to serve Jehovah their
God: all his days they did not depart from following Jehovah,
the God of their fathers.
35:1 And Josiah held a passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem; and
they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the first
month.
35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged
them to the service of the house of Jehovah.
35:3 And he said to the Levites, that taught all Israel, [and]
who were holy to Jehovah, Put the holy ark in the house that
Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built; ye have not to
carry it upon your shoulders. Serve now Jehovah your God, and
his people Israel;
35:4 and prepare yourselves by your fathers' houses, in your
divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel,
and according to the writing of Solomon his son;
35:5 and stand in the sanctuary for the classes of the fathers'
houses, for your brethren, the children of the people, and
[according] to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the
Levites;
35:6 and slaughter the passover, and hallow yourselves, and
prepare it for your brethren, that they may do according to the
word of Jehovah through Moses.
35:7 And Josiah gave for the children of the people a
heave-offering of the flocks, lambs and goats, 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 a voluntary heave-offering for the
people, for the priests, and for the Levites: Hilkijah and
Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the
priests for the passover-offerings two thousand six hundred
[small cattle] and three hundred oxen;
35:9 and Conaniah, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and
Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave as
heave-offering to the Levites for the passover-offerings five
thousand [small cattle] and five hundred oxen.
35:10 And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in
their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to
the king's commandment.
35:11 And they slaughtered the passover, and the priests
sprinkled [the blood] from their hand, and the Levites flayed
them.
35:12 And they set apart the burnt-offerings to give them to the
classes of the fathers' houses of the children of the people,
to present them to Jehovah, 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; and the consecrated things they boiled in pots and
in cauldrons and in pans, and divided them speedily among all
the children of the people.
35:14 And afterwards they made ready for themselves and for the
priests; because the priests, the sons of Aaron, [were engaged]
in offering up the 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 doorkeepers were at every
gate; they had not to depart from their service, for their
brethren the Levites prepared for them.
35:16 And all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day,
to hold the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar
of Jehovah according to the commandment of king Josiah.
35:17 And the children of Israel that were present held the
passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven
days.
35:18 And there was no passover like to that holden in Israel
from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings
of Israel hold such a passover as Josiah held, 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 holden.
35:20 After all this, when Josiah had arranged the house, Necho
king of Egypt came up to fight against Karkemish at the
Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.
35:21 And he sent messengers 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 with which I have war; and God has
told me to make haste: keep aloof from God who is with me, that
he destroy thee not.
35:22 But Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised
himself, that he might fight against him; and he hearkened not
to the words of Necho from the mouth of God; and he 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 And his servants took him out from the chariot, and put
him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to
Jerusalem. And he died, and was buried in 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 singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this
day; and they made them an ordinance for Israel. And behold,
they are written in the lamentations.
35:26 And the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds,
according to that which is written in the law of Jehovah,
35:27 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in
the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
36:1 And 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-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
imposed a fine upon the land of a 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 changed his name to Jehoiakim. And
Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in
the sight of Jehovah his God.
36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and
bound him with chains of brass to carry him to Babylon.
36:7 And Nebuchadnezzar carried [part] of the vessels of the
house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at
Babylon.
36:8 And 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 eighteen years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and he
did evil in the sight of Jehovah.
36:10 And at the turn of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent and
had him brought to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the
house of Jehovah; and he made Zedekiah his brother king over
Judah and Jerusalem.
36:11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
36:12 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah his God; he
humbled not himself before the prophet Jeremiah speaking from
the mouth of Jehovah.
36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had
made him take oath by God; and he stiffened his neck, and
hardened his heart from returning to Jehovah the God of Israel.
36:14 All the chiefs of the priests also, and the people,
increased their transgressions, according to all the
abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of
Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
36:15 And Jehovah the God of their fathers sent to them by his
messengers, rising up early and sending; because he had
compassion on his people and on his dwelling-place.
36:16 But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his
words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah
rose against his people, and there was no remedy.
36:17 And he brought up [against] them the king of the Chaldees,
and slew their young men with the sword in the house of their
sanctuary, and spared not young man nor maiden, old man nor him
of hoary head: 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 Jehovah, and the treasures of
the king and of his princes, he brought all to Babylon.
36:19 And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall
of Jerusalem, and burned all the palaces thereof with fire, and
all the precious vessels thereof were given up to destruction.
36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword he carried away
to Babylon; and they became servants to him and his sons, until
the reign of the kingdom of Persia;
36:21 to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah,
until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its
desolation it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.
36:22 And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the
word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he
made a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also in
writing, saying,
36:23 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the
earth has Jehovah the God of the heavens given to me, and he
has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in
Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all his people, Jehovah
his God be with him, and let him go up.