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1:1 And Moab transgresseth against Israel after the death of
 Ahab,
1:2 and Ahaziah falleth through the lattice in his upper chamber
 that [is] in Samaria, and is sick, and sendeth messengers, and
 saith unto them, `Go ye, inquire of Baal-Zebub god of Ekron if
 I recover from this sickness.'
1:3 And a messenger of Jehovah hath spoken unto Elijah the
 Tishbite, `Rise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of
 Samaria, and speak unto them, Is it because there is not a God
 in Israel -- ye are going to inquire of Baal Zebub god of
 Ekron?
1:4 and therefore, thus said Jehovah, The bed whither thou hast
 gone up, thou dost not come down from it, for thou dost
 certainly die;' and Elijah goeth on.
1:5 And the messengers turn back unto him, and he saith unto
 them, `What [is] this -- ye have turned back!'
1:6 And they say unto him, `A man hath come up to meet us, and
 saith unto us, Go, turn back unto the king who sent you, and ye
 have said unto him, Thus said Jehovah, Is it because there is
 not a God in Israel -- thou art sending to inquire of
 Baal-Zebub god of Ekron? therefore, the bed whither thou hast
 gone up, thou dost not come down from it, for thou dost
 certainly die.'
1:7 And he saith unto them, `What [is] the fashion of the man
 who hath come up to meet you, and speaketh unto you these
 words?'
1:8 And they say unto him, `A man -- hairy, and a girdle of skin
 girt about his loins;' and he saith, `He [is] Elijah the
 Tishbite.'
1:9 And he sendeth unto him a head of fifty and his fifty, and
 he goeth up unto him (and lo, he is sitting on the top of the
 hill), and he speaketh unto him, `O man of God, the king hath
 spoken, Come down.'
1:10 And Elijah answereth and speaketh unto the head of the
 fifty, `And if I [am] a man of God, fire doth come down from
 the heavens, and consume thee and thy fifty;' and fire cometh
 down from the heavens, and consumeth him and his fifty.
1:11 And he turneth and sendeth unto him another head of fifty
 and his fifty, and he answereth and speaketh unto him, `O man
 of God, thus said the king, Haste, come down.'
1:12 And Elijah answereth and speaketh unto them, `If I [am] a
 man of God, fire doth come down from the heavens, and consume
 thee and thy fifty;' and fire of God cometh down from the
 heavens, and consumeth him and his fifty.
1:13 And he turneth and sendeth a third head of fifty and his
 fifty, and the third head of fifty goeth up, and cometh in, and
 boweth on his knees over-against Elijah, and maketh
 supplication unto him, and speaketh unto him, `O man of God,
 let be precious, I pray thee, my soul and the soul of thy
 servants -- these fifty -- in thine eyes.
1:14 Lo, come down hath fire from the heavens, and consumeth the
 two heads of the former fifties and their fifties; and, now,
 let my soul be precious in thine eyes.'
1:15 And a messenger of Jehovah speaketh unto Elijah, `Go down
 with him, be not afraid of him;' and he riseth and goeth down
 with him unto the king,
1:16 and speaketh unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, Because that
 thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub god of Ekron
 -- is it because there is not a God in Israel to inquire of His
 word? therefore, the bed whither thou hast gone up -- thou dost
 not come down from it, for thou dost certainly die.'
1:17 And he dieth, according to the word of Jehovah that Elijah
 spake, and Jehoram reigneth in his stead, in the second year of
 Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, for he had no son.
1:18 And the rest of the matters of Ahaziah that he did, are
 they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?
2:1 And it cometh to pass, at Jehovah's taking up Elijah in a
 whirlwind to the heavens, that Elijah goeth, and Elisha, from
 Gilgal,
2:2 and Elijah saith unto Elisha, `Abide, I pray thee, here, for
 Jehovah hath sent me unto Beth-El;' and Elisha saith, `Jehovah
 liveth, and thy soul liveth, if I leave thee;' and they go down
 to Beth-El.
2:3 And sons of the prophets who [are] in Beth-El come out unto
 Elisha, and say unto him, `Hast thou known that to-day Jehovah
 is taking thy lord from thy head?' and he saith, `I also have
 known -- keep silent.'
2:4 And Elijah saith to him, `Elisha, abide, I pray thee, here,
 for Jehovah hath sent me to Jericho;' and he saith, `Jehovah
 liveth, and thy soul liveth, if I leave thee;' and they come in
 to Jericho.
2:5 And sons of the prophets who [are] in Jericho come nigh unto
 Elisha, and say unto him, `Hast thou known that to-day Jehovah
 is taking thy lord from thy head?' and he saith, `I also have
 known -- keep silent.'
2:6 And Elijah saith to him, `Abide, I pray thee, here, for
 Jehovah hath sent me to the Jordan;' and he saith, `Jehovah
 liveth, and thy soul liveth, if I leave thee;' and they go on
 both of them,
2:7 -- and fifty men of the sons of the prophets have gone on,
 and stand over-against afar off -- and both of them have stood
 by the Jordan.
2:8 And Elijah taketh his robe, and wrappeth [it] together, and
 smiteth the waters, and they are halved, hither and thither,
 and they pass over both of them on dry land.
2:9 And it cometh to pass, at their passing over, that Elijah
 hath said unto Elisha, `Ask, what do I do for thee before I am
 taken from thee?' and Elisha saith, `Then let there be, I pray
 thee, a double portion of thy spirit unto me;'
2:10 and he saith, `Thou hast asked a hard thing; if thou dost
 see me taken from thee, it is to thee so; and if not, it is
 not.'
2:11 And it cometh to pass, they are going, going on and
 speaking, and lo, a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and
 they separate between them both, and Elijah goeth up in a
 whirlwind, to the heavens.
2:12 And Elisha is seeing, and he is crying, `My father, my
 father, the chariot of Israel, and its horsemen;' and he hath
 not seen him again; and he taketh hold on his garments, and
 rendeth them into two pieces.
2:13 And he taketh up the robe of Elijah, that fell from off
 him, and turneth back and standeth on the edge of the Jordan,
2:14 and he taketh the robe of Elijah that fell from off him,
 and smiteth the waters, and saith, `Where [is] Jehovah, God of
 Elijah -- even He?' and he smiteth the waters, and they are
 halved, hither and thither, and Elisha passeth over.
2:15 And they see him -- the sons of the prophets who [are] in
 Jericho -- over-against, and they say, `Rested hath the spirit
 of Elijah on Elisha;' and they come to meet him, and bow
 themselves to him to the earth,
2:16 and say unto him, `Lo, we pray thee, there are with thy
 servants fifty men, sons of valour: let them go, we pray thee,
 and they seek thy lord, lest the Spirit of Jehovah hath taken
 him up, and doth cast him on one of the hills, or into one of
 the valleys;' and he saith, `Ye do not send.'
2:17 And they press upon him, till he is ashamed, and he saith,
 `Send ye;' and they send fifty men, and they seek three days,
 and have not found him;
2:18 and they turn back unto him -- and he is abiding in Jericho
 -- and he saith unto them, `Did I not say unto you, Do not go?'
2:19 And the men of the city say unto Elisha, `Lo, we pray thee,
 the site of the city [is] good, as my lord seeth, and the
 waters [are] bad, and the earth sterile.'
2:20 And he saith, `Bring to me a new dish, and place there
 salt;' and they bring [it] unto him,
2:21 and he goeth out unto the source of the waters, and casteth
 there salt, and saith, `Thus said Jehovah, I have given healing
 to these waters; there is not thence any more death and
 sterility.'
2:22 And the waters are healed unto this day, according to the
 word of Elisha, that he spake.
2:23 And he goeth up thence to Beth-El, and he is going up in
 the way, and little youths have come out from the city, and
 scoff at him, and say to him, `Go up, bald-head! go up,
 bald-head!'
2:24 And he looketh behind him, and seeth them, and declareth
 them vile in the name of Jehovah, and two bears come out of the
 forest, and rend of them forty and two lads.
2:25 And he goeth thence unto the hill of Carmel, and thence he
 hath turned back to Samaria.
3:1 And Jehoram son of Ahab hath reigned over Israel, in
 Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
 and he reigneth twelve years,
3:2 and doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, only not
 like his father, and like his mother, and he turneth aside the
 standing-pillar of Baal that his father made;
3:3 only to the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat that he caused
 Israel to sin he hath cleaved, he hath not turned aside from
 it.
3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master, and he rendered
 to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred
 thousand rams, [with] wool,
3:5 and it cometh to pass at the death of Ahab, that the king of
 Moab transgresseth against the king of Israel.
3:6 And king Jehoram goeth out in that day from Samaria, and
 inspecteth all Israel,
3:7 and goeth and sendeth unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
 saying, `The king of Moab hath transgressed against me; dost
 thou go with me unto Moab for battle?' and he saith, `I go up,
 as I, so thou; as my people, so thy people; as my horses, so
 thy horses.
3:8 And he saith, `Where [is] this -- the way we go up?' and he
 saith, `The way of the wilderness of Edom.'
3:9 And the king of Israel goeth, and the king of Judah, and the
 king of Edom, and they turn round the way seven days, and there
 hath been no water for the camp, and for the cattle that [are]
 at their feet,
3:10 and the king of Israel saith, `Alas, for Jehovah hath
 called for these three kings, to give them into the hand of
 Moab.'
3:11 And Jehoshaphat saith, `Is there not here a prophet of
 Jehovah, and we seek Jehovah by him?' And one of the servants
 of the king of Israel answereth and saith, `Here [is] Elisha
 son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.'
3:12 And Jehoshaphat saith, `The word of Jehovah is with him;'
 and go down unto him do the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat,
 and the king of Edom.
3:13 And Elisha saith unto the king of Israel, `What -- to me
 and to thee? go unto the prophets of thy father, and unto the
 prophets of thy mother;' and the king of Israel saith to him,
 `Nay, for Jehovah hath called for these three kings to give
 them into the hand of Moab.'
3:14 And Elisha saith, `Jehovah of Hosts liveth, before whom I
 have stood; for unless the face of Jehoshaphat king of Judah I
 am lifting up, I do not look unto thee, nor see thee;
3:15 and now, bring to me a minstrel; and it hath been, at the
 playing of the minstrel, that the hand of Jehovah is on him,
3:16 and he saith, `Thus said Jehovah, Make this valley ditches
 -- ditches;
3:17 for thus said Jehovah, Ye do not see wind, nor do ye see
 rain, and that valley is full of water, and ye have drunk --
 ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
3:18 `And this hath been light in the eyes of Jehovah, and he
 hath given Moab into your hand,
3:19 and ye have smitten every fenced city, and every choice
 city, and every good tree ye cause to fall, and all fountains
 of waters ye stop, and every good portion ye mar with stones.'
3:20 And it cometh to pass in the morning, at the ascending of
 the [morning]-present, that lo, waters are coming in from the
 way of Edom, and the land is filled with the waters,
3:21 and all Moab have heard that the kings have come up to
 fight against them, and they are called together, from every
 one girding on a girdle and upward, and they stand by the
 border.
3:22 And they rise early in the morning, and the sun hath shone
 on the waters, and the Moabites see, from over-against, the
 waters red as blood,
3:23 and say, `Blood this [is]; the kings have been surely
 destroyed, and they smite each his neighbour; and now for
 spoil, Moab!'
3:24 And they come in unto the camp of Israel, and the
 Israelites rise, and smite the Moabites, and they flee from
 their face; and they enter into Moab, so as to smite Moab,
3:25 and the cities they break down, and [on] every good portion
 they cast each his stone, and have filled it, and every
 fountain of water they stop, and every good tree they cause to
 fall -- till one had left its stones in Kir-Haraseth, and the
 slingers go round and smite it.
3:26 And the king of Moab seeth that the battle has been too
 strong for him, and he taketh with him seven hundred men,
 drawing sword, to cleave through unto the king of Edom, and
 they have not been able,
3:27 and he taketh his son, the first-born who reigneth in his
 stead, and causeth him to ascend -- a burnt-offering on the
 wall, and there is great wrath against Israel, and they journey
 from off him, and turn back to the land.
4:1 And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets
 hath cried unto Elisha, saying, `Thy servant, my husband, is
 dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah,
 and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for
 servants.'
4:2 And Elisha saith unto her, `What do I do for thee? declare
 to me, what hast thou in the house?' and she saith, `Thy
 maid-servant hath nothing in the house except a pot of oil.'
4:3 And he saith, `Go, ask for thee vessels from without, from
 all thy neighbours -- empty vessels -- let [them] not be few;
4:4 and thou hast entered, and shut the door upon thee, and upon
 thy sons, and hast poured out into all these vessels, and the
 full ones thou dost remove.'
4:5 And she goeth from him, and shutteth the door upon her, and
 upon her sons; they are bringing nigh unto her, and she is
 pouring out,
4:6 and it cometh to pass, at the filling of the vessels, that
 she saith unto her son, `Bring nigh unto me a vessel more,' and
 he saith unto her, `There is not a vessel more;' and the oil
 stayeth.
4:7 And she cometh and declareth to the man of God, and he
 saith, `Go, sell the oil, and repay thy loan; and thou [and]
 thy sons do live of the rest.'
4:8 And the day cometh that Elisha passeth over unto Shunem, and
 there [is] a great woman, and she layeth hold on him to eat
 bread, and it cometh to pass, at the time of his passing over,
 he turneth aside thither to eat bread,
4:9 and she saith unto her husband, `Lo, I pray thee, I have
 known that a holy man of God he is, passing over by us
 continually;
4:10 let us make, I pray thee, a little upper chamber of the
 wall, and we set for him there a bed, and a table, and a high
 seat, and a candlestick; and it hath been, in his coming in
 unto us, he doth turn aside thither.'
4:11 And the day cometh, that he cometh in thither, and turneth
 aside unto the upper chamber, and lieth there,
4:12 and he saith unto Gehazi his young man, `Call for this
 Shunammite;' and he calleth for her, and she standeth before
 him.
4:13 And he saith to him, `Say, I pray thee, unto her, Lo, thou
 hast troubled thyself concerning us with all this trouble; what
 -- to do for thee? is it to speak for thee unto the king, or
 unto the head of the host?' and she saith, `In the midst of my
 people I am dwelling.'
4:14 And he saith, `And what -- to do for her?' and Gehazi
 saith, `Verily she hath no son, and her husband [is] aged.'
4:15 And he saith, `Call for her;' and he calleth for her, and
 she standeth at the opening,
4:16 and he saith, `At this season, according to the time of
 life, thou art embracing a son;' and she saith, `Nay, my lord,
 O man of God, do not lie unto thy maid-servant.'
4:17 And the woman conceiveth and beareth a son, at this season,
 according to the time of life, that Elisha spake of unto her.
4:18 And the lad groweth, and the day cometh that he goeth out
 unto his father, unto the reapers,
4:19 and he saith unto his father, `My head, my head;' and he
 saith unto the young man, `Bear him unto his mother;'
4:20 and he beareth him, and bringeth him in unto his mother,
 and he sitteth on her knees till the noon, and dieth.
4:21 And she goeth up, and layeth him on the bed of the man of
 God, and shutteth [the door] upon him, and goeth out,
4:22 and calleth unto her husband, and saith, `Send, I pray
 thee, to me, one of the young men, and one of the asses, and I
 run unto the man of God, and return.'
4:23 And he saith, `Wherefore art thou going unto him to-day? --
 neither new moon nor sabbath!' and she saith, `Peace [to
 thee]!'
4:24 And she saddleth the ass, and saith unto her young man,
 `Lead, and go, do not restrain riding for me, except I have
 said [so] to thee.'
4:25 And she goeth, and cometh in unto the man of God, unto the
 hill of Carmel, and it cometh to pass, at the man of God's
 seeing her from over-against, that he saith unto Gehazi his
 young man, `Lo, this Shunammite;
4:26 now, run, I pray thee, to meet her, and say to her, Is
 there peace to thee? is there peace to thy husband? is there
 peace to the lad?' and she saith, `Peace.'
4:27 And she cometh in unto the man of God, unto the hill, and
 layeth hold on his feet, and Gehazi cometh nigh to thrust her
 away, and the man of God saith, `Let her alone, for her soul
 [is] bitter to her, and Jehovah hath hidden [it] from me, and
 hath not declared [it] to me.'
4:28 And she saith, `Did I ask a son from my lord? did I not
 say, Do not deceive me?'
4:29 And he saith to Gehazi, `Gird up thy loins, and take my
 staff in thy hand, and go; when thou dost meet a man, thou dost
 not salute him; and when a man doth salute thee, thou dost not
 answer him; and thou hast laid my staff on the face of the
 youth.'
4:30 And the mother of the youth saith, `Jehovah liveth, and thy
 soul liveth -- if I leave thee;' and he riseth and goeth after
 her.
4:31 And Gehazi hath passed on before them, and layeth the staff
 on the face of the youth, and there is no voice, and there is
 no attention, and he turneth back to meet him, and declareth to
 him, saying, `The youth hath not awaked.'
4:32 And Elisha cometh in to the house, and lo, the youth is
 dead, laid on his bed,
4:33 and he goeth in and shutteth the door upon them both, and
 prayeth unto Jehovah.
4:34 And he goeth up, and lieth down on the lad, and putteth his
 mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on
 his hands, and stretcheth himself upon him, and the flesh of
 the lad becometh warm;
4:35 and he turneth back and walketh in the house, once hither
 and once thither, and goeth up and stretcheth himself upon him,
 and the youth sneezeth till seven times, and the youth openeth
 his eyes.
4:36 And he calleth unto Gehazi, and saith, `Call unto this
 Shunammite;' and he calleth her, and she cometh in unto him,
 and he saith, `Lift up thy son.'
4:37 And she goeth in, and falleth at his feet, and boweth
 herself to the earth, and lifteth up her son, and goeth out.
4:38 And Elisha hath turned back to Gilgal, and the famine [is]
 in the land, and the sons of the prophets are sitting before
 him, and he saith to his young man, `Set on the great pot, and
 boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.'
4:39 And one goeth out unto the field to gather herbs, and
 findeth a vine of the field, and gathereth of it gourds of the
 field -- the fulness of his garment -- and cometh in and
 splitteth [them] into the pot of pottage, for they knew [them]
 not;
4:40 and they pour out for the men to eat, and it cometh to pass
 at their eating of the pottage, that they have cried out, and
 say, `Death [is] in the pot, O man of God!' and they have not
 been able to eat.
4:41 And he saith, `Then bring ye meal;' and he casteth into the
 pot, and saith, `Pour out for the people, and they eat;' and
 there was no evil thing in the pot.
4:42 And a man hath come from Baal-Shalishah, and bringeth in to
 the man of God bread of first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley,
 and full ears of corn in its husk, and he saith, `Give to the
 people, and they eat.'
4:43 And his minister saith, `What -- do I give this before a
 hundred men?' and he saith, `Give to the people, and they eat,
 for thus said Jehovah, Eat and leave;'
4:44 and he giveth before them, and they eat and leave,
 according to the word of Jehovah.
5:1 And Naaman, head of the host of the king of Aram, was a
 great man before his lord, and accepted of face, for by him had
 Jehovah given salvation to Aram, and the man was mighty in
 valour -- leprous.
5:2 And the Aramaeans have gone out [by] troops, and they take
 captive out of the land of Israel a little damsel, and she is
 before the wife of Naaman,
5:3 and she saith unto her mistress, `O that my lord [were]
 before the prophet who [is] in Samaria; then he doth recover
 him from his leprosy.'
5:4 And [one] goeth in and declareth to his lord, saying, `Thus
 and thus she hath spoken, the damsel who [is] from the land of
 Israel.'
5:5 And the king of Aram saith, `Go thou, enter, and I send a
 letter unto the king of Israel;' and he goeth and taketh in his
 hand ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold,
 and ten changes of garments.
5:6 And he bringeth in the letter unto the king of Israel,
 saying, `And now, at the coming in of this letter unto thee,
 lo, I have sent unto thee Naaman my servant, and thou hast
 recovered him from his leprosy.'
5:7 And it cometh to pass, at the king of Israel's reading the
 letter, that he rendeth his garments, and saith, `Am I God, to
 put to death and to keep alive, that this [one] is sending unto
 me to recover a man from his leprosy? for surely know, I pray
 you, and see, for he is presenting himself to me.'
5:8 And it cometh to pass, at Elisha the man of God's hearing
 that the king of Israel hath rent his garments, that he sendeth
 unto the king, saying, `Why hast thou rent thy garments? let
 him come, I pray thee, unto me, and he doth know that there is
 a prophet in Israel.'
5:9 And Naaman cometh, with his horses and with his chariot, and
 standeth at the opening of the house for Elisha;
5:10 and Elisha sendeth unto him a messenger, saying, `Go, and
 thou hast washed seven times in Jordan, and thy flesh doth turn
 back to thee -- and be thou clean.
5:11 And Naaman is wroth, and goeth on, and saith, `Lo, I said,
 Unto me he doth certainly come out, and hath stood and called
 in the name of Jehovah his God, and waved his hand over the
 place, and recovered the leper.
5:12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than
 all the waters of Israel? do I not wash in them and I have been
 clean?' and he turneth and goeth on in fury.
5:13 And his servants come nigh, and speak unto him, and say,
 `My father, a great thing had the prophet spoken unto thee --
 dost thou not do [it]? and surely, when he hath said unto thee,
 Wash, and be clean.'
5:14 And he goeth down and dippeth in Jordan seven times,
 according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh doth
 turn back as the flesh of a little youth, and is clean.
5:15 And he turneth back unto the man of God, he and all his
 camp, and cometh in, and standeth before him, and saith, `Lo, I
 pray thee, I have known that there is not a God in all the
 earth except in Israel; and now, take, I pray thee, a blessing
 from thy servant.'
5:16 And he saith, `Jehovah liveth, before whom I have stood --
 if I take [it];' and he presseth on him to take, and he
 refuseth.
5:17 And Naaman saith, `If not -- let be given, I pray thee, to
 thy servant, a couple of mules' burden of earth, for thy
 servant doth make no more burnt-offering and sacrifice to other
 gods, but to Jehovah.
5:18 For this thing Jehovah be propitious to thy servant, in the
 coming in of my lord into the house of Rimmon to bow himself
 there, and he was supported by my hand, and I bowed myself [in]
 the house of Rimmon; for my bowing myself in the house of
 Rimmon Jehovah be propitious, I pray thee, to thy servant in
 this thing.'
5:19 And he saith to him, `Go in peace.' And he goeth from him a
 kibrath of land,
5:20 And Gehazi, servant of Elisha the man of God, saith, `Lo,
 my lord hath spared Naaman this Aramaean, not to receive from
 his hand that which he brought; Jehovah liveth; surely if I
 have run after him, then I have taken from him something.'
5:21 And Gehazi pursueth after Naaman, and Naaman seeth one
 running after him, and alighteth from off the chariot to meet
 him, and saith, `Is there peace?'
5:22 And he saith, `Peace; my lord hath sent me, saying, Lo,
 now, this, come unto me have two young men from the
 hill-country of Ephraim, of the sons of the prophets; give, I
 pray thee, to them, a talent of silver, and two changes of
 garments.'
5:23 And Naaman saith, `Be pleased, take two talents;' and he
 urgeth on him, and bindeth two talents of silver in two purses,
 and two changes of garments, and giveth unto two of his young
 men, and they bear before him;
5:24 and he cometh in unto the high place, and taketh out of
 their hand, and layeth up in the house, and sendeth away the
 men, and they go.
5:25 And he hath come in, and doth stand by his lord, and Elisha
 saith unto him, `Whence -- Gehazi?' and he saith, `Thy servant
 went not hither or thither.'
5:26 And he saith unto him, `My heart went not when the man
 turned from off his chariot to meet thee; is it a time to take
 silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock,
 and herd, and men-servants, and maid-servants?
5:27 yea, the leprosy of Naaman doth cleave to thee, and to thy
 seed, -- to the age;' and he goeth out from before him --
 leprous as snow.
6:1 And sons of the prophet say unto Elisha, `Lo, we pray thee,
 the place where we are dwelling before thee is too strait for
 us;
6:2 let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and we take thence
 each one beam, and we make for ourselves there a place to dwell
 there;' and he saith, `Go.'
6:3 And the one saith, `Be pleased, I pray thee, and go with thy
 servants;' and he saith, `I -- I go.'
6:4 And he goeth with them, and they come in to the Jordan, and
 cut down the trees,
6:5 and it cometh to pass, the one is felling the beam, and the
 iron hath fallen into the water, and he crieth and saith,
 `Alas! my lord, and it asked!'
6:6 And the man of God saith, `Whither hath it fallen?' and he
 sheweth him the place, and he cutteth a stick, and casteth
 thither, and causeth the iron to swim,
6:7 and saith, `Raise to thee;' and he putteth forth his hand
 and taketh it.
6:8 And the king of Aram hath been fighting against Israel, and
 taketh counsel with his servants, saying, `At such and such a
 place [is] my encamping.'
6:9 And the man of God sendeth unto the king of Israel, saying,
 `Take heed of passing by this place, for thither are the
 Aramaeans coming down;
6:10 and the king of Israel sendeth unto the place of which the
 man of God spake to him, and warned him, and he is preserved
 there not once nor twice.
6:11 And the heart of the king of Aram is tossed about
 concerning this thing, and he calleth unto his servants, and
 saith unto them, `Do ye not declare to me who of us [is] for
 the king of Israel?'
6:12 And one of his servants saith, `Nay, my lord, O king, for
 Elisha the prophet, who [is] in Israel, declareth to the king
 of Israel the words that thou speakest in the inner part of thy
 bed-chamber.'
6:13 And he saith, `Go ye and see where he [is], and I send and
 take him;' and it is declared to him, saying, `Lo -- in
 Dothan.'
6:14 And he sendeth thither horses and chariot, and a heavy
 force, and they come in by night, and go round against the
 city.
6:15 And the servant of the man of God riseth early, and goeth
 out, and lo, a force is surrounding the city, and horse and
 chariot, and his young man saith unto him, `Alas! my lord, how
 do we do?'
6:16 And he saith, `Fear not, for more [are] they who [are] with
 us than they who [are] with them.'
6:17 And Elisha prayeth, and saith, `Jehovah, open, I pray Thee,
 his eyes, and he doth see;' and Jehovah openeth the eyes of the
 young man, and he seeth, and lo, the hill is full of horses and
 chariots of fire, round about Elisha.
6:18 And they come down unto it, and Elisha prayeth unto
 Jehovah, and saith, `Smite, I pray Thee, this nation with
 blindness;' and He smiteth them with blindness, according to
 the word of Elisha.
6:19 And Elisha saith unto them, `This [is] not the way, nor
 [is] this the city; come after me, and I lead you unto the man
 whom ye seek;' and he leadeth them to Samaria.
6:20 And it cometh to pass, at their coming in to Samaria, that
 Elisha saith, `Jehovah, open the eyes of these, and they see;'
 and Jehovah openeth their eyes, and they see, and lo, in the
 midst of Samaria!
6:21 And the king of Israel saith unto Elisha, at his seeing
 them, `Do I smite -- do I smite -- my father?'
6:22 And he saith, `Thou dost not smite; those whom thou hast
 taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow art thou smiting?
 set bread and water before them, and they eat, and drink, and
 go unto their lord.'
6:23 And he prepareth for them great provision, and they eat and
 drink, and he sendeth them away, and they go unto their lord:
 and troops of Aram have not added any more to come in to the
 land of Israel.
6:24 And it cometh to pass afterwards, that Ben-Hadad king of
 Aram gathereth all his camp, and goeth up, and layeth siege to
 Samaria,
6:25 and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are
 laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty
 silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five
 silverlings.
6:26 And it cometh to pass, the king of Israel is passing by on
 the wall, and a woman hath cried unto him, saying, `Save, my
 lord, O king.'
6:27 And he saith, `Jehovah doth not save thee -- whence do I
 save thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the wine-vat?'
6:28 And the king saith to her, `What -- to thee?' and she
 saith, `This woman said unto me, Give thy son, and we eat him
 to-day, and my son we eat to-morrow;
6:29 and we boil my son and eat him, and I say unto her on the
 next day, Give thy son, and we eat him; and she hideth her
 son.'
6:30 And it cometh to pass, at the king's hearing the words of
 the woman, that he rendeth his garments, and he is passing by
 on the wall, and the people see, and lo, the sackcloth [is] on
 his flesh within.
6:31 And he saith, `Thus doth God do to me, and thus He doth add
 -- if it remain -- the head of Elisha son of Shaphat -- upon
 him this day.'
6:32 And Elisha is sitting in his house, and the elders are
 sitting with him, and [the king] sendeth a man from before him;
 before the messenger doth come unto him, even he himself said
 unto the elders, `Have ye seen that this son of the murderer
 hath sent to turn aside my head? see, at the coming in of the
 messenger, shut the door, and ye have held him fast at the
 door, is not the sound of the feet of his lord behind him?'
6:33 He is yet speaking with them, and lo, the messenger is
 coming down unto him, and he saith, `Lo, this [is] the evil
 from Jehovah: what -- do I wait for Jehovah any more?'
7:1 And Elisha saith, `Hear ye a word of Jehovah: thus said
 Jehovah, About this time to-morrow, a measure of fine flour
 [is] at a shekel, and two measures of barley at a shekel, in
 the gate of Samaria.'
7:2 And the captain whom the king hath, by whose hand he hath
 been supported, answereth the man of God and saith, `Lo,
 Jehovah is making windows in the heavens -- shall this thing
 be?' and he saith, `Lo, thou art seeing it with thine eyes, and
 thereof thou dost not eat.'
7:3 And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate,
 and they say one unto another, `What -- we are sitting here
 till we have died;
7:4 if we have said, We go in to the city, then the famine [is]
 in the city, and we have died there; and if we have sat here,
 then we have died; and now, come and we fall unto the camp of
 Aram; if they keep us alive, we live, and if they put us to
 death -- we have died.'
7:5 And they rise in the twilight, to go in unto the camp of
 Aram, and they come in unto the extremity of the camp of Aram,
 and lo, there is not a man there,
7:6 seeing Jehovah hath caused the camp of Aram to hear a noise
 of chariot and a noise of horse -- a noise of great force, and
 they say one unto another, `Lo, the king of Israel hath hired
 against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Egypt,
 to come against us.'
7:7 And they rise and flee in the twilight, and forsake their
 tents, and their horses, and their asses -- the camp as it [is]
 -- and flee for their life.
7:8 And these lepers come in unto the extremity of the camp, and
 come in unto one tent, and eat, and drink, and lift up thence
 silver, and gold, and garments, and go and hide; and they turn
 back and go in unto another tent, and lift up thence, and go
 and hide.
7:9 And they say one unto another, `We are not doing right this
 day; a day of tidings it [is], and we are keeping silent; and
 -- we have waited till the light of the morning, then hath
 punishment found us; and now, come and we go in and declare to
 the house of the king.'
7:10 And they come in, and call unto the gatekeeper of the
 city, and declare for themselves, saying, `We have come in unto
 the camp of Aram, and lo, there is not there a man, or sound of
 man, but the bound horse, and the bound ass, and tents as they
 [are].'
7:11 and he calleth the gatekeepers, and they declare to the
 house of the king within.
7:12 And the king riseth by night, and saith unto his servants,
 `Let me declare, I pray you, to you that which the Aramaeans
 have done to us; they have known that we are famished, and they
 are gone out from the camp to be hidden in the field, saying,
 When they come out from the city, then we catch them alive, and
 unto the city we enter.'
7:13 And one of his servants answereth and saith, `Then let them
 take, I pray thee, five of the horses that are left, that have
 been left in it -- lo, they [are] as all the multitude of
 Israel who have been left in it; lo, they are as all the
 multitude of Israel who have been consumed -- and we send and
 see.'
7:14 And they take two chariot-horses, and the king sendeth
 after the camp of Aram, saying, `Go, and see.'
7:15 And they go after them unto the Jordan, and lo, all the way
 is full of garments and vessels that the Aramaeans have cast
 away in their haste, and the messengers turn back and declare
 to the king.
7:16 And the people go out and spoil the camp of Aram, and there
 is a measure of fine flour at a shekel, and two measures of
 barley at a shekel, according to the word of Jehovah.
7:17 And the king hath appointed the captain, by whose hand he
 is supported, over the gate, and the people tread him down in
 the gate, and he dieth, as the man of God spake, which he spake
 in the coming down of the king unto him,
7:18 yea, it cometh to pass, according to the speaking of the
 man of God unto the king, saying, `Two measures of barley at a
 shekel, and a measure of fine flour at a shekel are, at this
 time to-morrow, in the gate of Samaria;'
7:19 and the captain answereth the man of God, and saith, `And
 lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens -- it is according
 to this word?' and he saith, `Lo, thou art seeing with thine
 eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat;'
7:20 and it cometh to him so, and the people tread him down in
 the gate, and he dieth.
8:1 And Elisha spake unto the woman whose son he had revived,
 saying, `Rise and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn where
 thou dost sojourn, for Jehovah hath called for a famine, and
 also, it is coming unto the land seven years.'
8:2 And the woman riseth, and doth according to the word of the
 man of God, and goeth, she and her household, and sojourneth in
 the land of the Philistines seven years.
8:3 And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven years, that the
 woman turneth back from the land of the Philistines, and goeth
 out to cry unto the king, for her house, and for her field.
8:4 And the king is speaking unto Gehazi, servant of the man of
 God, saying, `Recount, I pray thee, to me, the whole of the
 great things that Elisha hath done.'
8:5 And it cometh to pass, he is recounting to the king how he
 had revived the dead, and lo, the woman whose son he had
 revived is crying unto the king, for her house and for her
 field, and Gehazi saith, `My lord, O king, this [is] the woman,
 and this her son, whom Elisha revived.'
8:6 And the king asketh at the woman, and she recounteth to him,
 and the king appointeth to her a certain eunuch, saying, `Give
 back all that she hath, and all the increase of the field from
 the day of her leaving the land even till now.'
8:7 And Elisha cometh in to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram
 is sick, and it is declared to him, saying, `The man of God
 hath come hither.'
8:8 And the king saith unto Hazael, `Take in thy hand a present,
 and go to meet the man of God, and thou hast sought Jehovah by
 him, saying, Do I revive from this sickness?'
8:9 And Hazael goeth to meet him, and taketh a present in his
 hand, even of every good thing of Damascus, a burden of forty
 camels, and he cometh in and standeth before him, and saith,
 `Thy son Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, hath sent me unto thee,
 saying, Do I revive from this sickness?'
8:10 And Elisha saith unto him, `Go, say, Thou dost certainly
 not revive, seeing Jehovah hath shewed me that he doth surely
 die.'
8:11 And he setteth his face, yea, he setteth [it] till he is
 ashamed, and the man of God weepeth.
8:12 And Hazael saith, `Wherefore is my lord weeping?' and he
 saith, `Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the
 sons of Israel -- their fenced places thou dost send into fire,
 and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their
 sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women
 thou dost rip up.'
8:13 And Hazael saith, `But what, [is] thy servant the dog, that
 he doth this great thing?' And Elisha saith, `Jehovah hath
 shewed me thee -- king of Aram.'
8:14 And he goeth from Elisha, and cometh in unto his lord, and
 he saith unto him, `What said Elisha to thee?' and he saith,
 `He said to me, Thou dost certainly recover.'
8:15 And it cometh to pass on the morrow, that he taketh the
 coarse cloth, and dippeth in water, and spreadeth on his face,
 and he dieth, and Hazael reigneth in his stead.
8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel
 -- and Jehoshaphat [is] king of Judah -- hath Jehoram son of
 Jehoshaphat king of Judah reigned;
8:17 a son of thirty and two years was he in his reigning, and
 eight years he hath reigned in Jerusalem.
8:18 And he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, as did
 the house of Ahab, for a daughter of Ahab was to him for a
 wife, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,
8:19 and Jehovah was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake
 of David his servant, as He said to him, to give to him a lamp
 -- to his sons all the days.
8:20 In his days hath Edom revolted from under the hand of
 Judah, and they cause a king to reign over them,
8:21 and Joram passeth over to Zair, and all the chariots with
 him, and he himself hath risen by night, and smiteth Edom, that
 is coming round about unto him, and the heads of the chariots,
 and the people fleeth to its tents;
8:22 and Edom revolteth from under the hand of Judah till this
 day; then doth Libnah revolt at that time.
8:23 And the rest of the matters of Joram, and all that he did,
 are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings
 of Judah?
8:24 And Joram lieth with his fathers, and is buried with his
 fathers in the city of David, and reign doth Ahaziah his son in
 his stead.
8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel
 reigned hath Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah;
8:26 a son of twenty and two years [is] Ahaziah in his reigning,
 and one year he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his
 mother [is] Athaliah daughter of Omri king of Israel,
8:27 and he walketh in the way of the house of Ahab, and doth
 the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the house of Ahab,
 for he [is] son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
8:28 And he goeth with Joram son of Ahab to battle with Hazael
 king of Aram in Ramoth-Gilead, and the Aramaeans smite Joram,
8:29 and Joram the king turneth back to be healed in Jezreel of
 the wounds with which the Arameans smite him in Ramah, in his
 fighting with Hazael king of Aram, and Ahaziah son of Jehoram
 king of Judah hath gone down to see Joram son of Ahab in
 Jezreel, for he is sick.
9:1 And Elisha the prophet hath called to one of the sons of the
 prophets, and saith to him, `Gird up thy loins, and take this
 vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-Gilead,
9:2 and thou hast gone in there, and see thou there Jehu son of
 Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, and thou hast gone in, and caused
 him to rise out of the midst of his brethren, and brought him
 in to the inner part of an inner-chamber,
9:3 and taken the vial of oil, and poured on his head, and said,
 Thus said Jehovah, I have anointed thee for king unto Israel;
 and thou hast opened the door, and fled, and dost not wait.'
9:4 And the young man goeth -- the young man the prophet -- to
 Ramoth-Gilead,
9:5 and cometh in, and lo, chiefs of the force are sitting, and
 he saith, `I have a word unto thee, O chief!' and Jehu saith,
 `Unto which of all of us?' and he saith, `Unto thee, O chief.'
9:6 And he riseth and cometh in to the house, and he poureth the
 oil on his head, and saith to him, `Thus said Jehovah, God of
 Israel, I have anointed thee for king unto the people of
 Jehovah, unto Israel,
9:7 and thou hast smitten the house of Ahab thy lord, and I have
 required the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood
 of all the servants of Jehovah, from the hand of Jezebel;
9:8 and perished hath all the house of Ahab, and I have cut off
 to Ahab those sitting on the wall, and restrained, and left, in
 Israel,
9:9 and I have given up the house of Ahab like the house of
 Jeroboam son of Nebat, and as the house of Baasha son of
 Ahijah,
9:10 and Jezebel do the dogs eat in the portion of Jezreel, and
 there is none burying;' and he openeth the door and fleeth.
9:11 And Jehu hath gone out unto the servants of his lord, and
 [one] saith to him, `Is there peace? wherefore came this madman
 unto thee?' and he saith unto them, `Ye have known the man and
 his talk.'
9:12 And they say, `False, declare, we pray thee, to us;' and he
 saith, `Thus and thus spake he unto me, saying, Thus said
 Jehovah, I have anointed thee for king unto Israel.'
9:13 And they haste and take each his garment, and put [it]
 under him at the top of the stairs, and blow with a trumpet,
 and say, `Reigned hath Jehu!'
9:14 And Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, conspireth
 against Joram -- (and Joram was keeping in Ramoth-Gilead, he
 and all Israel, from the presence of Hazael king of Aram,
9:15 and king Joram turneth back to be healed in Jezreel, of the
 wounds with which the Aramaeans smite him, in his fighting with
 Hazael king of Aram) -- and Jehu saith, `If it is your mind,
 let not an escaped one go out from the city, to go to declare
 [it] in Jezreel.'
9:16 And Jehu rideth, and goeth to Jezreel, for Joram is lying
 there, and Ahaziah king of Judah hath gone down to see Joram.
9:17 And the watchman is standing on the tower in Jezreel, and
 seeth the company of Jehu in his coming, and saith, `A company
 I see;' and Joram saith, `Take a rider and send to meet them,
 and let him say, Is there peace?'
9:18 and the rider on the horse goeth to meet him, and saith,
 `Thus said the king, Is there peace?' and Jehu saith, `What --
 to thee and to peace? turn round behind me.' And the watchman
 declareth, saying, `The messenger came unto them, and he hath
 not returned.'
9:19 And he sendeth a second rider on a horse, and he cometh in
 unto them, and saith, `Thus said the king, Is there peace?' and
 Jehu saith, `What -- to thee and to peace? turn round behind
 me.'
9:20 And the watchman declareth, saying, `He came unto them, and
 he hath not returned, and the driving [is] like the driving of
 Jehu son of Nimshi, for with madness he driveth.'
9:21 And Jehoram saith, `Harness;' and his chariot is harnessed,
 and Jehoram king of Israel goeth out, and Ahaziah king of
 Judah, each in his chariot, and they go out to meet Jehu, and
 find him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
9:22 And it cometh to pass, at Jehoram's seeing Jehu, that he
 saith, `Is there peace, Jehu?' and he saith, `What [is] the
 peace, while the whoredoms of Jezebel thy mother, and her
 witchcrafts, are many?'
9:23 And Jehoram turneth his hands, and fleeth, and saith unto
 Ahaziah, `Deceit, O Ahaziah!'
9:24 And Jehu hath filled his hand with a bow, and smiteth
 Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow goeth out from his
 heart, and he boweth down in his chariot.
9:25 And [Jehu] saith unto Bidkar his captain, `Lift up, cast
 him into the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite --
 for, remember, I and thou were riding together after Ahab his
 father, and Jehovah lifted upon him this burden:
9:26 Have I not the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons
 seen yesternight -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- yea, I have
 recompensed to thee in this portion -- the affirmation of
 Jehovah; -- and now, lift up, cast him into the portion,
 according to the word of Jehovah.'
9:27 And Ahaziah king of Judah hath seen, and fleeth the way of
 the garden-house, and Jehu pursueth after him, and saith,
 `Smite him -- also him -- in the chariot,' in the going up to
 Gur, that [is] Ibleam, and he fleeth to Megiddo, and dieth
 there,
9:28 and his servants carry him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
 bury him in his burying-place, with his fathers, in the city of
 David.
9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab reign did
 Ahaziah over Judah.
9:30 And Jehu cometh in to Jezreel, and Jezebel hath heard, and
 putteth her eyes in paint and maketh right her head, and
 looketh out through the window.
9:31 And Jehu hath come into the gate, and she saith, `Was there
 peace [to] Zimri -- slayer of his lord?'
9:32 And he lifteth up his face unto the window, and saith, `Who
 [is] with me? -- who?' and look out unto him do two [or] three
 eunuchs;
9:33 And he saith, `Let her go;' and they let her go, and [some]
 of her blood is sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses, and
 he treadeth her down.
9:34 And he cometh in, and eateth, and drinketh, and saith,
 `Look after, I pray you, this cursed one, and bury her, for she
 [is] a king's daughter.'
9:35 And they go to bury her, and have not found of her except
 the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands.
9:36 And they turn back, and declare to him, and he saith, `The
 word of Jehovah it [is], that He spake by the hand of this
 servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel
 do the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel,
9:37 and the carcase of Jezebel hath been as dung on the face of
 the field in the portion of Jezreel, that they say not, This
 [is] Jezebel.'
10:1 And Ahab hath seventy sons in Samaria, and Jehu writeth
 letters, and sendeth to Samaria, unto the heads of Jezreel, the
 elders, and unto the supporters of Ahab, saying,
10:2 `And now, at the coming in of this letter unto you, and
 with you [are] sons of your lord, and with you [are] the
 chariots and the horses, and a fenced city, and the armour,
10:3 and ye have seen the best and the uprightest of the sons of
 your lord, and have set [him] on the throne of his father, and
 fight ye for the house of your lord.'
10:4 And they fear very greatly, and say, `Lo, the two kings
 have not stood before him, and how do we stand -- we?'
10:5 And he who [is] over the house, and he who [is] over the
 city, and the elders, and the supporters, send unto Jehu,
 saying, `Thy servants we [are], and all that thou sayest unto
 us we do; we do not make any one king -- that which [is] good
 in thine eyes do.'
10:6 And he writeth unto them a letter a second time, saying,
 `If ye [are] for me, and to my voice are hearkening, take the
 heads of the men -- the sons of your lord, and come unto me
 about this time to-morrow, to Jezreel;' and the sons of the
 king [are] seventy men, with the great ones of the city those
 bringing them up.
10:7 And it cometh to pass, at the coming in of the letter unto
 them, that they take the sons of the king, and slaughter
 seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and send unto him
 to Jezreel,
10:8 and the messenger cometh in, and declareth to him, saying,
 `They have brought in the heads of the sons of the king,' and
 he saith, `Make them two heaps at the opening of the gate till
 the morning.'
10:9 And it cometh to pass in the morning, that he goeth out,
 and standeth, and saith unto all the people, `Righteous are ye;
 lo, I have conspired against my lord, and slay him -- and who
 smote all these?
10:10 Know ye now, that nothing doth fall of the word of Jehovah
 to the earth that Jehovah spake against the house of Ahab, and
 Jehovah hath done that which He spake by the hand of His
 servant Elijah.'
10:11 And Jehu smiteth all those left to the house of Ahab in
 Jezreel, and all his great men, and his acquaintances, and his
 priests, till he hath not left to him a remnant.
10:12 And he riseth, and cometh in and goeth to Samaria; he [is]
 at the shepherds' shearing-house in the way,
10:13 and Jehu hath found the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah,
 and saith, `Who [are] ye?' and they say, `Brethren of Ahaziah
 we [are], and we go down to salute the sons of the king, and
 the sons of the mistress.'
10:14 And he saith, `Catch them alive;' and they catch them
 alive, and slaughter them at the pit of the shearing-house,
 forty and two men, and he hath not left a man of them.
10:15 And he goeth thence, and findeth Jehonadab son of Rechab
 -- to meet him, and blesseth him, and saith unto him, `Is thy
 heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart?' and Jehonadab
 saith, `It is;' -- `Then it is; give thy hand;' and he giveth
 his hand, and he causeth him to come up into him into the
 chariot,
10:16 and saith, `Come with me, and look on my zeal for
 Jehovah;' and they cause him to ride in his chariot.
10:17 And he cometh in to Samaria, and smiteth all those left to
 Ahab in Samaria, till his destroying him, according to the word
 of Jehovah that He spake unto Elisha.
10:18 And Jehu gathereth the whole of the people, and saith unto
 them, `Ahab served Baal a little -- Jehu doth serve him much:
10:19 and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and
 all his priests, call ye unto me; let not a man be lacking, for
 a great sacrifice I have for Baal; every one who is lacking --
 he doth not live;' and Jehu hath done [it] in subtilty, in
 order to destroy the servants of Baal.
10:20 And Jehu saith, `Sanctify a restraint for Baal;' and they
 proclaim [it].
10:21 And Jehu sendeth into all Israel, and all the servants of
 Baal come in, and there hath not been left a man who hath not
 come in; and they come in to the house of Baal, and the house
 of Baal is full -- mouth to mouth.
10:22 And he saith to him who [is] over the wardrobe, `Bring out
 clothing to all servants of Baal;' and he bringeth out to them
 the clothing.
10:23 And Jehu goeth in, and Jehonadab son of Rechab, to the
 house of Baal, and saith to the servants of Baal, `Search and
 see, lest there be here with you of the servants of Jehovah --
 but, the servants of Baal by themselves.'
10:24 And they come in to make sacrifices and burnt-offerings,
 and Jehu hath set for himself in an out-place eighty men, and
 saith, `The man who letteth escape [any] of the men whom I am
 bringing in unto your hand -- his soul for his soul.'
10:25 And it cometh to pass at his finishing to make the
 burnt-offering, that Jehu saith to the runners, and to the
 captains, `Go in, smite them, let none come out;' and they
 smite them by the mouth of the sword, and the runners and the
 captains cast [them] out; and they go unto the city, to the
 house of Baal,
10:26 and bring out the standing-pillars of the house of Baal,
 and burn them,
10:27 and break down the standing-pillar of Baal, and break down
 the house of Baal, and appoint it for a draught-house unto this
 day.
10:28 And Jehu destroyeth Baal out of Israel,
10:29 only -- the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, that he caused
 Israel to sin, Jehu hath not turned aside from after them --
 the calves of gold that [are] at Beth-El, and in Dan.
10:30 And Jehovah saith unto Jehu, `Because that thou hast done
 well, to do that which [is] right in Mine eyes -- according to
 all that [is] in My heart thou hast done to the house of Ahab
 -- the sons of the fourth [generation] do sit for thee on the
 throne of Israel.'
10:31 And Jehu hath not taken heed to walk in the law of
 Jehovah, God of Israel, with all his heart, he hath not turned
 aside from the sins of Jeroboam, that he caused Israel to sin.
10:32 In those days hath Jehovah begun to cut off [some] in
 Israel, and Hazael smiteth them in all the border of Israel,
10:33 from the Jordan, at the sun-rising, the whole land of
 Gilead, of the Gadite, and the Reubenite, and the Manassahite
 (from Aroer, that [is] by the brook Arnon), even Gilead and
 Bashan.
10:34 And the rest of the matters of Jehu, and all that he did,
 and all his might, are they not written on the book of the
 Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
10:35 And Jehu lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in
 Samaria, and reign doth Jehoahaz his son in his stead.
10:36 And the days that Jehu hath reigned over Israel [are]
 twenty and eight years, in Samaria.
11:1 And Athaliah [is] mother of Ahaziah, and she hath seen that
 her son [is] dead, and she riseth, and destroyeth all the seed
 of the kingdom;
11:2 and Jehosheba daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah,
 taketh Joash son of Ahaziah, and stealeth him out of the midst
 of the sons of the king who are put to death, him and his
 nurse, in the inner part of the bed-chambers, and they hide him
 from the presence of Athaliah, and he hath not been put to
 death,
11:3 and he is with her, in the house of Jehovah, hiding
 himself, six years, and Athaliah is reigning over the land.
11:4 And in the seventh year hath Jehoiada sent and taketh the
 heads of the hundreds, of the executioners and of the runners,
 and bringeth them in unto him, to the house of Jehovah, and
 maketh with them a covenant, and causeth them to swear in the
 house of Jehovah, and sheweth them the son of the king,
11:5 and commandeth them, saying, `This [is] the thing that ye
 do; The third of you [are] going in on the sabbath, and keepers
 of the charge of the house of the king,
11:6 and the third [is] at the gate of Sur, and the third at the
 gate behind the runners, and ye have kept the charge of the
 house pulled down;
11:7 and two parts of you, all going out on the sabbath -- they
 have kept the charge of the house of Jehovah about the king,
11:8 and ye have compassed the king round about, each with his
 weapons in his hand, and he who is coming unto the ranges is
 put to death; and be ye with the king in his going out and in
 his coming in.'
11:9 And the heads of the hundreds do according to all that
 Jehoiada the priest commanded, and take each his men going in
 on the sabbath, with those going out on the sabbath, and come
 in unto Jehoiada the priest,
11:10 and the priest giveth to the heads of the hundreds the
 spears and the shields that king David had, that [are] in the
 house of Jehovah.
11:11 And the runners stand, each with his weapons in his hand,
 from the right shoulder of the house unto the left shoulder of
 the house, by the altar and by the house, by the king round
 about;
11:12 and he bringeth out the son of the king, and putteth on
 him the crown, and the testimony, and they make him king, and
 anoint him, and smite the hand, and say, `Let the king live.'
11:13 And Athaliah heareth the voice of the runners [and] of the
 people, and she cometh in unto the people, to the house of
 Jehovah,
11:14 and looketh, and lo, the king is standing by the pillar,
 according to the ordinance, and the heads, and the trumpets,
 [are] by the king, and all the people of the land are
 rejoicing, and blowing with trumpets, and Athaliah rendeth her
 garments, and calleth, `Conspiracy! conspiracy!'
11:15 And Jehoiada the priest commandeth the heads of the
 hundreds, inspectors of the force, and saith unto them, `Bring
 her out unto the outside of the ranges, and him who is going
 after her, put to death by the sword:' for the priest had said,
 `Let her not be put to death in the house of Jehovah.'
11:16 And they make for her sides, and she entereth the way of
 the entering in of the horses to the house of the king, and is
 put to death there.
11:17 And Jehoiada maketh the covenant between Jehovah and the
 king and the people, to be for a people to Jehovah, and between
 the king and the people.
11:18 And all the people of the land go in to the house of Baal,
 and break it down, its altars and its images they have
 thoroughly broken, and Mattan priest of Baal they have slain
 before the altars; and the priest setteth inspectors over the
 house of Jehovah,
11:19 and taketh the heads of the hundreds, and the
 executioners, and the runners, and all the people of the land,
 and they bring down the king from the house of Jehovah, and
 come by the way of the gate of the runners, to the house of the
 king, and he sitteth on the throne of the kings.
11:20 And all the people of the land rejoice, and the city [is]
 quiet, and Athaliah they have put to death by the sword in the
 house of the king;
11:21 a son of seven years is Jehoash in his reigning.
12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu reigned hath Jehoash, and forty
 years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother
 [is] Zibiah of Beer-Sheba,
12:2 and Jehoash doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah
 all his days in which Jehoiada the priest directed him,
12:3 only, the high places have not turned aside, still are the
 people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
12:4 And Jehoash saith unto the priests, `All the money of the
 sanctified things that is brought in to the house of Jehovah,
 the money of him who is passing over, each the money of his
 valuation, all the money that it goeth up on the heart of a man
 to bring in to the house of Jehovah,
12:5 do the priests take to them, each from his acquaintance,
 and they strengthen the breach of the house, in all [places]
 where there is found a breach.'
12:6 And it cometh to pass, in the twenty and third year of king
 Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened the breach of the
 house,
12:7 and king Jehoash calleth to Jehoiada the priest, and to the
 priests, and saith unto them, `Wherefore are ye not
 strengthening the breach of the house? and now, receive no
 money from your acquaintances, but for the breach of the house
 give it.'
12:8 And the priests consent not to receive money from the
 people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house,
12:9 and Jehoiada the priest taketh a chest, and pierceth a hole
 in its lid, and putteth it near the altar, on the right side,
 as one cometh in to the house of Jehovah, and the priests
 keeping the threshold have put there all the money that is
 brought in to the house of Jehovah.
12:10 And it cometh to pass, at their seeing that the money [is]
 abundant in the chest, that there goeth up a scribe of the
 king, and of the high priest, and they bind [it] up, and count
 the money that is found [in] the house of Jehovah,
12:11 and have given the weighed money into the hands of those
 doing the work, those inspecting the house of Jehovah, and they
 bring it out to those working in the wood, and to builders who
 are working in the house of Jehovah,
12:12 and to those [repairing] the wall, and to hewers of stone,
 and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the breach of the
 house of Jehovah, and for all that goeth out on the house, to
 strengthen it.
12:13 Only, there is not made for the house of Jehovah basins of
 silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessel of gold, and
 vessel of silver, out of the money that is brought into the
 house of Jehovah;
12:14 for to those doing the work they give it, and they have
 strengthened with it the house of Jehovah,
12:15 and they do not reckon with the men into whose hand they
 give the money to give to those doing the work, for in
 faithfulness they are dealing.
12:16 The money of a trespass-offering, and the money of
 sin-offerings is not brought in to the house of Jehovah -- for
 the priests it is.
12:17 Then go up doth Hazael king of Aram, and fighteth against
 Gath, and captureth it, and Hazael setteth his face to go up
 against Jerusalem;
12:18 and Jehoash king of Judah taketh all the sanctified things
 that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings
 of Judah, had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, and
 all the gold that is found in the treasures of the house of
 Jehovah and of the house of the king, and sendeth to Hazael
 king of Aram, and he goeth up from off Jerusalem.
12:19 And the rest of the matters of Joash, and all that he did,
 are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings
 of Judah?
12:20 And his servants rise, and make a conspiracy, and smite
 Joash in the house of Millo, that is going down to Silla:
12:21 yea, Jozachar son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of
 Shemer, his servants, have smitten him, and he dieth, and they
 bury him with his fathers in the city of David, and reign doth
 Amaziah his son, in his stead.
13:1 In the twenty and third year of Joash son of Ahaziah king
 of Judah, hath Jehoahaz son of Jehu reigned over Israel, in
 Samaria -- seventeen years,
13:2 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and
 goeth after the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, that he caused
 Israel to sin -- he turned not aside from it,
13:3 and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He
 giveth them into the hand of Hazael king of Aram, and into the
 hand of Ben-Hadad son of Hazael, all the days.
13:4 And Jehoahaz appeaseth the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah
 hearkeneth unto him, for He hath seen the oppression of Israel,
 for oppressed them hath the king of Aram, --
13:5 and Jehovah giveth to Israel a saviour, and they go out
 from under the hand of Aram, and the sons of Israel dwell in
 their tents as heretofore;
13:6 only, they have not turned aside from the sins of the house
 of Jeroboam, that he caused Israel to sin, therein they walked,
 and also, the shrine hath remained in Samaria, --
13:7 for he left not to Jehoahaz of the people except fifty
 horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the
 king of Aram hath destroyed them, and maketh them as dust for
 threshing.
13:8 And the rest of the matters of Jehoahaz, and all that he
 did, and his might, are they not written on the book of the
 Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
13:9 And Jehoahaz lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in
 Samaria, and reign doth Joash his son in his stead.
13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah
 reigned hath Jehoash son of Jehoahaz over Israel, in Samaria --
 sixteen years,
13:11 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, he hath
 not turned aside from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat,
 that he caused Israel to sin, therein he walked.
13:12 And the rest of the matters of Joash, and all that he did,
 and his might with which he fought with Amaziah king of Judah,
 are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings
 of Israel?
13:13 And Joash lieth with his fathers, and Jeroboam hath sat on
 his throne, and Joash is buried in Samaria, with the kings of
 Israel.
13:14 And Elisha hath been sick with his sickness in which he
 dieth, and come down unto him doth Joash king of Israel, and
 weepeth on his face, and saith, `My father, my father, the
 chariot of Israel, and its horsemen.'
13:15 And Elisha saith to him, `Take bow and arrows:' and he
 taketh unto him bow and arrows.
13:16 And he saith to the king of Israel, `Place thy hand on the
 bow;' and he placeth his hand, and Elisha putteth his hands on
 the hands of the king,
13:17 and saith, `Open the window eastward;' and he openeth, and
 Elisha saith, `Shoot,' and he shooteth; and he saith, `An arrow
 of salvation to Jehovah, and an arrow of salvation against
 Aram, and thou hast smitten Aram, in Aphek, till consuming.'
13:18 And he saith, `Take the arrows,' and he taketh; and he
 saith to the king of Israel, `Smite to the earth;' and he
 smiteth three times, and stayeth.
13:19 And the man of God is wroth against him, and saith, `By
 smiting five or six times then thou hadst smitten Aram till
 consuming; and now, three times thou dost smite Aram.'
13:20 And Elisha dieth, and they bury him, and troops of Moab
 come in to the land, at the coming in of the year,
13:21 and it cometh to pass, they are burying a man, and lo,
 they have seen the troop, and cast the man into the grave of
 Elisha, and the man goeth and cometh against the bones of
 Elisha, and liveth, and riseth on his feet.
13:22 And Hazael king of Aram hath oppressed Israel all the days
 of Jehoahaz,
13:23 and Jehovah doth favour them, and pity them, and turn unto
 them, for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and
 Jacob, and hath not been willing to destroy them, nor to cast
 them from His presence as yet.
13:24 And Hazael king of Aram dieth, and reign doth Ben-Hadad
 his son in his stead,
13:25 and Jehoash son of Jehoahaz turneth and taketh the cities
 out of the hand of Ben-Hadad son of Hazael that he had taken
 out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father in war; three times hath
 Joash smitten him, and he bringeth back the cities of Israel.
14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
 reigned hath Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah;
14:2 a son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and
 twenty and nine years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the
 name of his mother [is] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem,
14:3 and he doth that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah,
 only not like David his father, according to all that Joash his
 father did he hath done,
14:4 only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the
 people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
14:5 And it cometh to pass, when the kingdom hath been strong in
 his hand, that he smiteth his servants, those smiting the king
 his father,
14:6 and the sons of those smiting [him] he hath not put to
 death, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses that
 Jehovah commanded, saying, `Fathers are not put to death for
 sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers, but each for
 his own sin is put to death.'
14:7 He hath smitten Edom, in the valley of salt -- ten
 thousand, and seized Selah in war, and [one] calleth its name
 Joktheel unto this day,
14:8 then hath Amaziah sent messengers unto Jehoash son of
 Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, `Come, we look
 one another in the face.'
14:9 And Jehoash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of
 Judah, saying, `The thorn that [is] in Lebanon hath sent unto
 the cedar that [is] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my
 son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that [is]
 in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.
14:10 Thou hast certainly smitten Edom, and thy heart hath
 lifted thee up; be honoured, and abide in thy house; and why
 dost thou stir thyself up in evil, that thou hast fallen, thou,
 and Judah with thee?'
14:11 And Amaziah hath not hearkened, and go up doth Jehoash
 king of Israel, and they look one another in the face, he and
 Amaziah king of Judah, in Beth-Shemesh, that [is] Judah's,
14:12 and Judah is smitten before Israel, and they flee each to
 his tent.
14:13 And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah,
 caught hath Jehoash king of Israel in Beth-Shemesh, and they
 come in to Jerusalem, and he bursteth through the wall of
 Jerusalem, at the gate of Ephraim unto the gate of the corner,
 four hundred cubits,
14:14 and hath taken all the gold and the silver, and all the
 vessels that are found in the house of Jehovah, and in the
 treasures of the house of the king, and the sons of the
 pledges, and turneth back to Samaria.
14:15 And the rest of the matters of Jehoash that he did, and
 his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are
 they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?
14:16 And Jehoash lieth with his fathers, and is buried in
 Samaria with the kings of Israel, and reign doth Jeroboam his
 son in his stead.
14:17 And Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah liveth after the
 death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years,
14:18 and the rest of the matters of Amaziah are they not
 written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
14:19 And they make a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and
 he fleeth to Lachish, and they send after him to Lachish, and
 put him to death there,
14:20 and lift him up on the horses, and he is buried in
 Jerusalem, with his fathers, in the city of David.
14:21 And all the people of Judah take Azariah, and he [is] a
 son of sixteen years, and cause him to reign instead of his
 father Amaziah;
14:22 he hath built Elath, and bringeth it back to Judah, after
 the lying of the king with his fathers.
14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of
 Judah, reigned hath Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel in
 Samaria -- forty and one years,
14:24 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, he hath
 not turned aside from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat
 that he caused Israel to sin.
14:25 He hath brought back the border of Israel, from the
 entering in of Hamath unto the sea of the desert, according to
 the word of Jehovah, God of Israel, that He spake by the hand
 of His servant Jonah son of Amittai the prophet, who [is] of
 Gath-Hepher,
14:26 for Jehovah hath seen the affliction of Israel -- very
 bitter, and there is none restrained, and there is none left,
 and there is no helper to Israel;
14:27 and Jehovah hath not spoken to blot out the name of Israel
 from under the heavens, and saveth them by the hand of Jeroboam
 son of Joash.
14:28 And the rest of the matters of Jeroboam, and all that he
 did, and his might with which he fought, and with which he
 brought back Damascus, and Hamath of Judah, into Israel, are
 they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?
14:29 And Jeroboam lieth with his fathers, with the kings of
 Israel, and reign doth Zechariah his son in his stead.
15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel
 reigned hath Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah,
15:2 a son of sixteen years was he in his reigning, and fifty
 and two years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his
 mother [is] Jecholiah of Jerusalem,
15:3 and he doth that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah,
 according to all that Amaziah his father did,
15:4 only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the
 people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
15:5 And Jehovah smiteth the king, and he is a leper unto the
 day of his death, and he dwelleth in a separate house, and
 Jotham son of the king [is] over the house, judging the people
 of the land.
15:6 And the rest of the matters of Azariah, and all that he
 did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
15:7 And Azariah lieth with his fathers, and they bury him with
 his fathers, in the city of David, and reign doth Jotham his
 son in his stead.
15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah
 reigned hath Zechariah son of Jeroboam over Israel, in Samaria,
 six months,
15:9 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, as did
 his fathers, he hath not turned aside from the sins of Jeroboam
 son of Nebat that he caused Israel to sin.
15:10 And Shallum son of Jabesh conspireth against him, and
 smiteth him before the people, and putteth him to death, and
 reigneth in his stead.
15:11 And the rest of the matters of Zechariah, lo, they are
 written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:12 It [is] the word of Jehovah that He spake unto Jehu,
 saying, `Sons of the fourth [generation] do sit for thee on the
 throne of Israel;' and it is so.
15:13 Shallum son of Jabesh hath reigned in the thirty and ninth
 year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigneth a month of days
 in Samaria;
15:14 and go up doth Menahem son of Gadi from Tirzah and cometh
 in to Samaria, and smiteth Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria,
 and putteth him to death, and reigneth in his stead.
15:15 And the rest of the matters of Shallum, and his conspiracy
 that he made, lo, they are written on the book of the
 Chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:16 Then doth Menahem smite Tiphsah, and all who [are] in it,
 and its borders from Tirzah, for it opened not [to him], and he
 smiteth [it], all its pregnant women he hath ripped up.
15:17 In the thirty and ninth year of Azariah king of Judah
 reigned hath Menahem son of Gadi over Israel -- ten years in
 Samaria.
15:18 And he doth the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, he hath
 turned not aside from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat that he
 caused Israel to sin, all his days.
15:19 Pul king of Asshur hath come against the land, and Menahem
 giveth to Pul a thousand talents of silver, for his hand being
 with him to strengthen the kingdom in his hand.
15:20 And Menahem bringeth out the silver [from] Israel, [from]
 all the mighty men of wealth, to give to the king of Asshur,
 fifty shekels of silver for each one, and the king of Asshur
 turneth back and hath not stayed there in the land.
15:21 And the rest of the matters of Menahem, and all that he
 did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the
 kings of Israel?
15:22 And Menahem lieth with his fathers, and reign doth
 Pekahiah his son in his stead.
15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah hath
 Pekahiah son of Menahem reigned over Israel, in Samaria -- two
 years,
15:24 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, he hath
 not turned aside from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat that he
 caused Israel to sin.
15:25 And Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, doth conspire
 against him, and smiteth him in Samaria, in the high place of
 the house of the king with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty
 men of the sons of the Gileadites, and he putteth him to death,
 and reigneth in his stead.
15:26 And the rest of the matters of Pekahiah, and all that he
 did, lo, they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the
 kings of Israel.
15:27 In the fifty and second year of Azariah king of Judah,
 reigned hath Pekah son of Remaliah over Israel, in Samaria --
 twenty years,
15:28 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, he hath
 not turned aside from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, that
 he caused Israel to sin.
15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel hath Tiglath-Pileser
 king of Asshur come, and taketh Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah,
 and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all
 the land of Naphtali, and removeth them to Asshur.
15:30 And make a conspiracy doth Hoshea son of Elah against
 Pekah son of Remaliah, and smiteth him, and putteth him to
 death, and reigneth in his stead, in the twentieth year of
 Jotham son of Uzziah.
15:31 And the rest of the matters of Pekah, and all that he did,
 lo, they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings
 of Israel.
15:32 In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel
 reigned hath Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah.
15:33 A son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and
 sixteen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his
 mother [is] Jerusha daughter of Zadok,
15:34 and he doth that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah,
 according to all that Uzziah his father did he hath done.
15:35 Only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the
 people sacrificing and making perfume in high places; he hath
 built the high gate of the house of Jehovah.
15:36 And the rest of the matters of Jotham, and all that he
 did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
15:37 In those days hath Jehovah begun to send against Judah
 Rezin king of Amram and Pekah son of Remaliah.
15:38 And Jotham lieth with his fathers, and is buried with his
 fathers, in the city of David his father, and reign doth Ahaz
 his son in his stead.
16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah reigned
 hath Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah.
16:2 A son of twenty years [is] Ahaz in his reigning, and
 sixteen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he hath not
 done that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah his God, like
 David his father,
16:3 and he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, and also
 his son he hath caused to pass over into fire, according to the
 abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the
 presence of the sons of Israel,
16:4 and he sacrificeth and maketh perfume in high places, and
 on the heights, and under every green tree.
16:5 Then doth Rezin king of Aram go up, and Pekah son of
 Remaliah king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to battle, and they lay
 siege to Ahaz, and they have not been able to fight.
16:6 At that time hath Rezin king of Aram brought back Elath to
 Aram, and casteth out the Jews from Elath, and the Aramaeans
 have come in to Elath, and dwell there unto this day.
16:7 And Ahaz sendeth messengers unto Tiglath-Pileser king of
 Asshur, saying, `Thy servant and thy son [am] I; come up and
 save me out of the hand of the king of Aram, and out of the
 hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.'
16:8 And Ahaz taketh the silver and the gold that is found in
 the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the house of the
 king, and sendeth to the king of Asshur -- a bribe.
16:9 And hearken unto him doth the king of Asshur, and the king
 of Asshur goeth up unto Damascus, and seizeth it, and removeth
 [the people of] it to Kir, and Rezin he hath put to death.
16:10 And king Ahaz goeth to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur
 [at] Damascus, and seeth the altar that [is] in Damascus, and
 king Ahaz sendeth unto Urijah the priest the likeness of the
 altar, and its pattern, according to all its work,
16:11 and Urijah the priest buildeth the altar according to all
 that king Ahaz hath sent from Damascus; so did Urijah the
 priest till the coming in of king Ahaz from Damascus.
16:12 And the king cometh in from Damascus, and the king seeth
 the altar, and the king draweth near on the altar, and offereth
 on it,
16:13 and perfumeth his burnt-offering, and his present, and
 poureth out his libation, and sprinkleth the blood of the
 peace-offerings that he hath, on the altar.
16:14 As to the altar of brass that [is] before Jehovah -- he
 bringeth [it] near from the front of the house, from between
 the altar and the house of Jehovah, and putteth it on the side
 of the altar, northward.
16:15 And king Ahaz commandeth him -- Urijah the priest --
 saying, `On the great altar perfume the burnt-offering of the
 morning, and the present of the evening, and the burnt-offering
 of the king, and his present, and the burnt-offering of all the
 people of the land, and their present, and their libations; and
 all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the
 sacrifice, on it thou dost sprinkle, and the altar of brass is
 to me to inquire [by].'
16:16 And Urijah the priest doth according to all that king Ahaz
 commanded.
16:17 And king Ahaz cutteth off the borders of the bases, and
 turneth aside from off them the laver, and the sea he hath
 taken down from off the brazen oxen that [are] under it, and
 putteth it on a pavement of stones.
16:18 And the covered place for the sabbath that they built in
 the house, and the entrance of the king without, he turned
 [from] the house of Jehovah, because of the king of Asshur.
16:19 And the rest of the matters of Ahaz that he did, are they
 not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of
 Judah?
16:20 And Ahaz lieth with his fathers, and is buried with his
 fathers, in the city of David, and reign doth Hezekiah his son
 in his stead.
17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah reigned hath
 Hoshea son of Elah in Samaria, over Israel -- nine years,
17:2 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, only,
 not as the kings of Israel who were before him;
17:3 against him came up Shalmaneser king of Asshur, and Hoshea
 is to him a servant, and doth render to him a present.
17:4 And the king of Asshur findeth in Hoshea a conspiracy, in
 that he hath sent messengers unto So king of Egypt, and hath
 not caused a present to go up to the king of Asshur, as year by
 year, and the king of Asshur restraineth him, and bindeth him
 in a house of restraint.
17:5 And the king of Asshur goeth up into all the land, and he
 goeth up to Samaria, and layeth siege against it three years;
17:6 in the ninth year of Hoshea hath the king of Asshur
 captured Samaria, and removeth Israel to Asshur, and causeth
 them to dwell in Halah, and in Habor, [by] the river Gozan, and
 [in] the cities of the Medes.
17:7 And it cometh to pass, because the sons of Israel have
 sinned against Jehovah their God -- who bringeth them up out of
 the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt
 -- and fear other gods,
17:8 and walk in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah
 dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of
 the kings of Israel that they made;
17:9 and the sons of Israel do covertly things that [are] not
 right against Jehovah their God, and build for them high places
 in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers unto the
 fenced city,
17:10 and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every
 high height, and under every green tree,
17:11 and make perfume there in all high places, like the
 nations that Jehovah removed from their presence, and do evil
 things to provoke Jehovah,
17:12 and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do
 not do this thing;'
17:13 And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah,
 by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, `Turn
 back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes,
 according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and
 that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'
17:14 and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like
 the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in
 Jehovah their God,
17:15 and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with
 their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against
 them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after
 the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah
 commanded them not to do like them;
17:16 And they forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God,
 and make to them a molten image -- two calves, and make a
 shrine, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and
 serve Baal,
17:17 and cause their sons and their daughters to pass over
 through fire, and divine divinations, and use enchantments, and
 sell themselves to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to
 provoke Him;
17:18 That Jehovah sheweth himself very angry against Israel,
 and turneth them aside from His presence; none hath been left,
 only the tribe of Judah by itself.
17:19 Also Judah hath not kept the commands of Jehovah their
 God, and they walk in the statutes of Israel that they had
 made.
17:20 And Jehovah kicketh against all the seed of Israel, and
 afflicteth them, and giveth them into the hand of spoilers,
 till that He hath cast them out of His presence,
17:21 for He hath rent Israel from the house of David, and they
 make Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam driveth Israel
 from after Jehovah, and hath caused them to sin a great sin,
17:22 and the sons of Israel walk in all the sins of Jeroboam
 that he did, they have not turned aside therefrom,
17:23 till that Jehovah hath turned Israel aside from His
 presence, as He spake by the hand of all His servants the
 prophets, and Israel is removed from off its land to Asshur,
 unto this day.
17:24 And the king of Asshur bringeth in from Babylon and from
 Cutha, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and
 causeth [them] to dwell in the cities of Samaria instead of the
 sons of Israel, and they possess Samaria, and dwell in its
 cities;
17:25 and it cometh to pass, at the commencement of their
 dwelling there, they have not feared Jehovah, and Jehovah doth
 send among them the lions, and they are destroying among them.
17:26 And they speak to the king of Asshur, saying, `The nations
 that thou hast removed, and dost place in the cities of Samaria,
 have not known the custom of the God of the land, and He
 sendeth among them the lions, and lo, they are destroying them,
 as they do not know the custom of the God of the land.'
17:27 And the king of Asshur commandeth, saying, `Cause to go
 thither one of the priests whom ye removed thence, and they go
 and dwell there, and he doth teach them the custom of the God
 of the land.'
17:28 And one of the priests whom they removed from Samaria
 cometh in, and dwelleth in Beth-El, and he is teaching them how
 they do fear Jehovah,
17:29 and they are making each nation its gods, and place [them]
 in the houses of the high places that the Samaritans have made,
 each nation in their cities where they are dwelling.
17:30 And the men of Babylon have made Succoth-Benoth, and the
 men of Cuth have made Nergal, and the men of Hamath have made
 Ashima,
17:31 and the Avites have made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
 Sepharvites are burning their sons with fire to Adrammelech and
 Anammelech, gods of Sepharvim.
17:32 And they are fearing Jehovah, and make to themselves from
 their extremities priests of high places, and they are acting
 for them in the house of the high places.
17:33 Jehovah they are fearing, and their gods they are serving,
 according to the custom of the nations whence they removed
 them.
17:34 Unto this day they are doing according to the former
 customs -- they are not fearing Jehovah, and are not doing
 according to their statutes, and according to their ordinances,
 and according to the law, and according to the command, that
 Jehovah commanded the sons of Jacob whose name He made Israel,
17:35 and Jehovah maketh with them a covenant, and chargeth
 them, saying, `Ye do not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to
 them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them,
17:36 but Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
 with great power, and with a stretched-out arm, Him ye do fear,
 and to Him ye bow yourselves, and to Him ye do sacrifice;
17:37 and the statutes, and the judgments, and the law, and the
 command, that He wrote for you, ye observe to do all the days,
 and ye do not fear other gods;
17:38 and the covenant that I have made with you ye do not
 forget, and ye do not fear other gods;
17:39 but Jehovah your God ye do fear, and He doth deliver you
 out of the hand of all your enemies;'
17:40 and they have not hearkened, but according to their former
 custom they are doing,
17:41 and these nations are fearing Jehovah, and their graven
 images they have served, both their sons and their sons' sons;
 as their fathers did, they are doing unto this day.
18:1 And it cometh to pass, in the third year of Hoshea son of
 Elah king of Israel, reigned hath Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of
 Judah;
18:2 a son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and
 twenty and nine years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the
 name of his mother [is] Abi daughter of Zechariah.
18:3 And he doth that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah,
 according to all that David his father did,
18:4 he hath turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces
 the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrine, and beaten down
 the brazen serpent that Moses made, for unto these days were
 the sons of Israel making perfume to it, and he calleth it `a
 piece of brass.'
18:5 In Jehovah, God of Israel, he hath trusted, and after him
 there hath not been like him among all the kings of Judah, nor
 [among any] who were before him;
18:6 and he cleaveth to Jehovah, he hath not turned aside from
 after Him, and keepeth His commands that Jehovah commanded
 Moses.
18:7 And Jehovah hath been with him, in every place where he
 goeth out he acteth wisely, and he rebelleth against the king
 of Asshur, and hath not served him;
18:8 he hath smitten the Philistines unto Gaza, and its borders,
 from a tower of watchers unto the fenced city.
18:9 And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of king Hezekiah
 -- it [is] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
 Israel -- come up hath Shalmaneser king of Asshur against
 Samaria, and layeth siege to it,
18:10 and they capture it at the end of three years; in the
 sixth year of Hezekiah -- it [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king
 of Israel -- hath Samaria been captureth,
18:11 and the king of Asshur removeth Israel to Asshur, and
 placed them in Halah, and in Habor [by] the river Gozan, and
 [in] cities of the Medes,
18:12 because that they have not hearkened to the voice of
 Jehovah their God, and transgress His covenant -- all that He
 commanded Moses, servant of Jehovah -- yea, they have not
 hearkened nor done [it].
18:13 And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah hath
 Sennacherib king of Asshur come up against all the fenced
 cities of Judah, and seizeth them,
18:14 and Hezekiah king of Judah sendeth unto the king of Asshur
 to Lachish, saying, `I have sinned, turn back from off me; that
 which thou puttest on me I bear;' and the king of Asshur layeth
 on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver, and
 thirty talents of gold,
18:15 and Hezekiah giveth all the silver that is found in the
 house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the house of the
 king;
18:16 at that time hath Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple
 of Jehovah, and the pillars that Hezekiah king of Judah had
 overlaid, and giveth them to the king of Asshur.
18:17 And the king of Asshur sendeth Tartan, and the chief of
 the eunuchs, and the chief of the butlers, from Lachish, unto
 king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, to Jerusalem, and they go up
 and come in to Jerusalem, and they go up, and come in and stand
 by the conduit of the upper pool that [is] in the highway of
 the fuller's field.
18:18 And they call unto the king, and go out unto them doth
 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, and Shebna
 the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the remembrancer.
18:19 And the chief of the butlers saith unto them, `Say, I pray
 you, unto Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of
 Asshur, What [is] this confidence in which thou hast confided?
18:20 Thou hast said: Only a word of the lips! counsel and might
 [are] for battle; now, on whom hast thou trusted that thou hast
 rebelled against me?
18:21 `Now, lo, thou hast trusted for thee on the staff of this
 broken reed, on Egypt; which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone
 into his hand, and pierced it! -- so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt
 to all those trusting on him.
18:22 `And when ye say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have
 trusted, is it not He whose high places and whose altars
 Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to
 Jerusalem, Before this altar do ye bow yourselves in Jerusalem?
18:23 `And, now, give a pledge for thee, I pray thee, to my lord
 the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if
 thou art able to give for thee riders on them.
18:24 And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the
 least of the servants of my lord, that thou dost trust for thee
 on Egypt for chariot, and for horsemen?
18:25 Now, without Jehovah have I come up against this place to
 destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and
 thou hast destroyed it.'
18:26 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah saith -- and Shebna, and Joah
 -- to the chief of the butlers, `Speak, we pray thee, unto thy
 servants [in] Aramaean, for we are understanding, and do not
 speak with us [in] Jewish, in the ears of the people who [are]
 on the wall.'
18:27 And the chief of the butlers saith unto them, `For thy
 lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words?
 is it not for the men, those sitting on the wall to eat their
 own dung and to drink their own water, with you?'
18:28 And the chief of the butlers standeth and calleth with a
 great voice [in] Jewish, and speaketh and saith, `Hear ye a
 word of the great king, the king of Asshur:
18:29 thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he
 is not able to deliver you out of his hand;
18:30 and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto Jehovah, saying,
 Jehovah doth certainly deliver us, and this city is not given
 into the hand of the king of Asshur.
18:31 `Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of
 Asshur, Make with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and eat
 ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye
 each the waters of his own well,
18:32 till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like
 your own land, a land of corn and new wine, a land of bread and
 vineyards, a land of oil olive, and honey, and live, and die
 not; and do not hearken unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you,
 saying, Jehovah doth deliver us.
18:33 `Have the gods of the nations delivered at all each his
 land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?
18:34 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where the gods
 of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah, that they have delivered
 Samaria out of my hand?
18:35 Who [are they] among all the gods of the lands that have
 delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver
 Jerusalem out of my hand?'
18:36 And the people have kept silent, and have not answered him
 a word, for the command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer
 him.'
18:37 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house,
 cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the
 remembrancer, unto Hezekiah, with rent garments, and they
 declare to him the words of the chief of the butlers.
19:1 And it cometh to pass, at king Hezekiah's hearing, that he
 rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and
 entereth the house of Jehovah,
19:2 and sendeth Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna
 the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves
 with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz,
19:3 and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah -- A day of
 distress, and rebuke, and despising [is] this day; for come
 have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bring
 forth.
19:4 `It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear all the words of the
 chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord
 hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided
 concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou
 hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'
19:5 And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,
19:6 and Isaiah saith to them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord:
 Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou
 hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have
 reviled Me.
19:7 Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a
 report, and hath turned back to his land, and I have caused him
 to fall by the sword in his land.'
19:8 And the chief of the butlers turneth back and findeth the
 king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that
 he hath journeyed from Lachish.
19:9 And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying,
 `Lo, he hath come out to fight with thee;' and he turneth and
 sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,
19:10 `Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let
 not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying,
 Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
19:11 Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have
 done to all the lands -- to devote them; and thou art
 delivered!
19:12 did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers
 destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of
 Eden, who [are] in Thelassar?
19:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and
 the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'
19:14 And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the
 messengers, and readeth them, and goeth up to the house of
 Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.
19:15 And Hezekiah prayeth before Jehovah, and saith, `O
 Jehovah, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou [art] God
 Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all the kingdoms of the earth:
 Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.
19:16 Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah,
 Thine eyes, and see; and hear Thou the words of Sennacherib
 with which he hath sent him to reproach the living God.
19:17 `Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste the
 nations, and their land,
19:18 and have put their gods into fire, for they [are] no gods,
 but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them.
19:19 And now, O Jehovah our God, save us, we pray Thee, out of
 his hand, and know do all kingdoms of the earth that Thou [art]
 Jehovah God -- Thyself alone.'
19:20 And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying,
 `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed
 unto Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur I have heard:
19:21 this [is] the word that Jehovah spake concerning him:
 `Trampled on thee -- laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter
 of Zion Behind thee shaken the head -- Hath the daughter of
 Jerusalem?
19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom
 lifted up a voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes --
 Against the Holy One of Israel!
19:23 By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the
 Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come
 up to a high place of mountains -- The sides of Lebanon, And I
 cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And
 I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
19:24 I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with
 the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
19:25 Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old
 that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a
 desolation, Ruinous heaps [are] fenced cities,
19:26 And their inhabitants [are] feeble-handed, They were
 broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the
 field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the
 roofs, And blasted corn -- before it hath risen up!
19:27 And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming
 in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;
19:28 Because of thine anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it
 came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My
 bridle in thy lips, And have caused thee to turn back, In the
 way in which thou camest.
19:29 And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] the
 spontaneous growth, And in the second year the self-produced,
 And in the third year sow ye, and reap, And plant vineyards,
 and eat their fruits.
19:30 And it hath continued -- The escaped of the house of Judah
 That hath been left -- to take root beneath, And hath made
 fruit upward.
19:31 For from Jerusalem goeth out a remnant, And an escape from
 mount Zion; The zeal of Jehovah [of Hosts] doth this.
19:32 Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of
 Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot
 there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it with shield. Nor
 doth he pour out against it a mount.
19:33 In the way that he cometh in -- In it he turneth back, And
 unto this city he doth not come in, The affirmation of Jehovah
 --
19:34 And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine
 own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
19:35 And it cometh to pass, in that night, that a messenger of
 Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred
 eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning,
 and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses.
19:36 And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeyeth, and goeth, and
 turneth back, and dwelleth in Nineveh;
19:37 and it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house
 of Nisroch his god, and Adramelech and Sharezar [his sons] have
 smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land
 of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.
20:1 In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come
 unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, and saith unto
 him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou
 art dying, and dost not live.'
20:2 And he turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth
 unto Jehovah, saying,
20:3 `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have
 walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect
 heart, and that which [is] good in Thine eyes I have done;' and
 Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.
20:4 And it cometh to pass -- Isaiah hath not gone out to the
 middle court -- that the word of Jehovah hath been unto him,
 saying,
20:5 `Turn back, and thou hast said unto Hezekiah, leader of My
 people: Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, I have
 heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I give healing to
 thee, on the third day thou dost go up to the house of Jehovah;
20:6 and I have added to thy days fifteen years, and out of the
 hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and
 have covered over this city for Mine own sake, and for the sake
 of David My servant.'
20:7 And Isaiah saith, `Take ye a cake of figs;' and they take
 and lay [it] on the boil, and he reviveth.
20:8 And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `What [is] the sign that
 Jehovah doth give healing to me, that I have gone up on the
 third day to the house of Jehovah?'
20:9 And Isaiah saith, `This [is] to thee the sign from Jehovah,
 that Jehovah doth the thing that He hath spoken -- The shadow
 hath gone on ten degrees, or it doth turn back ten degrees?'
20:10 And Hezekiah saith, `It hath been light for the shadow to
 incline ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow turn backward ten
 degrees.'
20:11 And Isaiah the prophet calleth unto Jehovah, and He
 bringeth back the shadow by the degrees that it had gone down
 in the degrees of Ahaz -- backward ten degrees.
20:12 At that time hath Berodach-Baladan son of Baladan king of
 Babylon sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah, for he heard
 that Hezekiah had been sick;
20:13 and Hezekiah hearkeneth unto them, and sheweth them all
 the house of his treasury, the silver, and the gold, and the
 spices, and the good ointment, and all the house of his
 vessels, and all that hath been found in his treasuries; there
 hath not been a thing that Hezekiah hath not shewed them, in
 his house, and in all his dominion.
20:14 And Isaiah the prophet cometh in unto king Hezekiah, and
 saith unto him, `What said these men? and whence come they unto
 thee?' And Hezekiah saith, `From a land afar off they have come
 -- from Babylon.'
20:15 And he saith, `What saw they in thy house?' and Hezekiah
 saith, `All that [is] in my house they saw; there hath not been
 a thing that I have not shewed them among my treasures.'
20:16 And Isaiah saith unto Hezekiah, `Hear a word of Jehovah:
20:17 Lo, days are coming, and borne hath been all that [is] in
 thy house, and that thy father have treasured up till this day,
 to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Jehovah;
20:18 and of thy sons who go out from thee, whom thou begettest,
 they take away, and they have been eunuchs in the palace of the
 king of Babylon.'
20:19 And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `Good [is] the word of
 Jehovah that thou hast spoken;' and he saith, `Is it not -- if
 peace and truth are in my days?'
20:20 And the rest of the matters of Hezekiah, and all his
 might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and bringeth
 in the waters to the city, are they not written on the book of
 the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20:21 And Hezekiah lieth with his fathers, and reign doth
 Manasseh his son in his stead.
21:1 A son of twelve years [is] Manasseh in his reigning, and
 fifty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name
 of his mother [is] Hephzi-Bah;
21:2 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,
 according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah
 dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,
21:3 and he turneth and buildeth the high places that Hezekiah
 his father destroyed, and raiseth altars for Baal, and maketh a
 shrine, as did Ahab king of Israel, and boweth himself to all
 the host of the heavens, and serveth them.
21:4 And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which
 Jehovah said, `In Jerusalem I put My name.'
21:5 And he buildeth altars to all the host of the heavens in
 the two courts of the house of Jehovah;
21:6 and he hath caused his son to pass through fire, and
 observed clouds, and used enchantment, and dealt with a
 familiar spirit and wizards; he hath multiplied to do the evil
 thing in the eyes of Jehovah -- to provoke to anger.
21:7 And he setteth the graven image of the shrine that he made
 in the house of which Jehovah said unto David and unto Solomon
 his son, `In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen
 out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name -- to the age;
21:8 and I do not add to cause the foot of Israel to move from
 the ground that I gave to their fathers, only, if they observe
 to do according to all that I commanded them, and to all the
 law that My servant Moses commanded them.'
21:9 And they have not hearkened, and Manasseh causeth them to
 err, to do the evil thing above the nations that Jehovah
 destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.
21:10 And Jehovah speaketh by the hand of his servants the
 prophets, saying,
21:11 `Because that Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
 abominations -- he hath done evil above all that the Amorites
 have done who [are] before him, and causeth also Judah to sin
 by his idols;
21:12 therefore thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Lo, I am
 bringing in evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever heareth
 of it, tingle do his two ears.
21:13 And I have stretched out over Jerusalem the line of
 Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and wiped
 Jerusalem as one wipeth the dish -- he hath wiped, and hath
 turned [it] on its face.
21:14 `And I have left the remnant of Mine inheritance, and
 given them into the hand of their enemies, and they have been
 for a prey and for a spoil to all their enemies,
21:15 because that they have done the evil thing in Mine eyes,
 and are provoking Me to anger from the day that their fathers
 came out of Egypt, even unto this day.'
21:16 And also, innocent blood hath Manasseh shed very much,
 till that he hath filled Jerusalem -- mouth to mouth; apart
 from his sin that he hath caused Judah to sin, to do the evil
 thing in the eyes of Jehovah.
21:17 And the rest of the matters of Manasseh, and all that he
 did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written on the
 book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21:18 And Manasseh lieth with his fathers, and is buried in the
 garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and reign doth Amon
 his son in his stead.
21:19 A son of twenty and two years [is] Amon in his reigning,
 and two years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his
 mother [is] Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz of Jotbah,
21:20 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, as did
 Manasseh his father,
21:21 and walketh in all the way that his father walked in, and
 serveth the idols that his father served, and boweth himself to
 them,
21:22 and forsaketh Jehovah, God of his fathers, and hath not
 walked in the way of Jehovah.
21:23 And the servants of Amon conspire against him, and put the
 king to death in his own house,
21:24 and the people of the land smite all those conspiring
 against king Amon, and the people of the land cause Josiah his
 son to reign in his stead.
21:25 And the rest of the matters of Amon that he did, are they
 not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of
 Judah?
21:26 and [one] burieth him in his burying-place in the garden
 of Uzza, and reign doth Josiah his son in his stead.
22:1 A son of eight years [is] Josiah in his reigning, and
 thirty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name
 of his mother [is] Jedidah daughter of Adaiah of Boskath,
22:2 and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and
 walketh in all the way of David his father, and hath not turned
 aside -- right or left.
22:3 And it cometh to pass, in the eighteenth year of king
 Josiah, the king hath sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of
 Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,
22:4 `Go up unto Hilkiah the high priest, and he doth complete
 the silver that is brought into the house of Jehovah, that the
 keepers of the threshold have gathered from the people,
22:5 and they give it into the hand of the doers of the work,
 the overseers, in the house of Jehovah, and they give it to the
 doers of the work that [is] in the house of Jehovah, to
 strengthen the breach of the house,
22:6 to artificers, and to builders, and [to repairers of] the
 wall, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the house;
22:7 only, the silver that is given into their hand is not
 reckoned with them, for in faithfulness they are dealing.
22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest saith unto Shaphan the scribe,
 `A book of the law I have found in the house of Jehovah;' and
 Hilkiah giveth the book unto Shaphan, and he readeth it.
22:9 And Shaphan the scribe cometh in unto the king, and
 bringeth the king back word, and saith, `Thy servants have
 poured out the silver that hath been found in the house, and
 give it into the hand of the doers of the work, the inspectors,
 in the house of Jehovah.'
22:10 And Shaphan the scribe declareth to the king, saying, `A
 book hath Hilkiah the priest given to me;' and Shaphan readeth
 it before the king.
22:11 And it cometh to pass, at the king's hearing the words of
 the book of the law, that he rendeth his garments,
22:12 and the king commandeth Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam son
 of Shaphan, and Achbor son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe,
 and Asahiah servant of the king, saying,
22:13 `Go, seek Jehovah for me, and for the people, and for all
 Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found, for
 great [is] the fury of Jehovah that is kindled against us,
 because that our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of
 this book, to do according to all that is written for us.'
22:14 And Hilkiah the priest goeth, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and
 Shaphan, and Asahiah, unto Huldah the prophetess, wife of
 Shallum, son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the garments,
 and she is dwelling in Jerusalem in the second, and they speak
 unto her.
22:15 And she saith unto them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of
 Israel, Say to the man who hath sent you unto me:
22:16 Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am bringing in evil unto this
 place and on its inhabitants, all the words of the book that
 the king of Judah hath read,
22:17 because that they have forsaken Me, and make perfume to
 other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger with every work of
 their hands, and My wrath hath been kindled against this place,
 and it is not quenched.
22:18 `And unto the king of Judah, who is sending you to seek
 Jehovah, thus do ye say unto him, Thus said Jehovah, God of
 Israel, The words that thou hast heard --
22:19 because thy heart [is] tender, and thou art humbled
 because of Jehovah, in thy hearing that which I have spoken
 against this place, and against its inhabitants, to be for a
 desolation, and for a reviling, and dost rend thy garments, and
 weep before Me -- I also have heard -- the affirmation of
 Jehovah --
22:20 therefore, lo, I am gathering thee unto thy fathers, and
 thou hast been gathered unto thy grave in peace, and thine eyes
 do not look on any of the evil that I am bringing in on this
 place;' and they bring the king back word.
23:1 And the king sendeth, and they gather unto him all the
 elders of Judah and Jerusalem,
23:2 and the king goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and every
 man of Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with him,
 and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, from
 small unto great, and he readeth in their ears all the words of
 the book of the covenant that is found in the house of Jehovah.
23:3 And the king standeth by the pillar, and maketh the
 covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His
 commands, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all the
 heart, and with all the soul, to establish the words of this
 covenant that are written on this book, and all the people
 stand in the covenant.
23:4 And the king commandeth Hilkiah the high priest, and the
 priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold,
 to bring out from the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that
 are made for Baal, and for the shrine, and for all the host of
 the heavens, and he burneth them at the outside of Jerusalem,
 in the fields of Kidron, and hath borne their ashes to Beth-El.
23:5 And he hath caused to cease the idolatrous priests whom the
 kings of Judah have appointed, (and they make perfume in high
 places, in cities of Judah and suburbs of Jerusalem,) and those
 making perfume to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the
 planets, and to all the host of the heavens.
23:6 And he bringeth out the shrine from the house of Jehovah to
 the outside of Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burneth it
 at the brook Kidron, and beateth it small to dust, and casteth
 its dust on the grave of the sons of the people.
23:7 And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that
 [are] in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving
 houses for the shrine.
23:8 And he bringeth in all the priests out of the cities of
 Judah, and defileth the high places where the priests have made
 perfume, from Geba unto Beer-Sheba, and hath broken down the
 high places of the gates that [are] at the opening of the gate
 of Joshua, head of the city, that [is] on a man's left hand at
 the gate of the city;
23:9 only, the priests of the high places come not up unto the
 altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they have eaten unleavened
 things in the midst of their brethren.
23:10 And he hath defiled Topheth, that [is] in the valley of
 the son of Hinnom, so that no man doth cause his son and his
 daughter to pass over through fire to Molech.
23:11 And he causeth to cease the horses that the kings of Judah
 have given to the sun from the entering in of the house of
 Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech the eunuch, that [is]
 in the suburbs, and the chariots of the sun he hath burnt with
 fire.
23:12 And the altars that [are] on the top of the upper chamber
 of Ahaz, that the kings of Judah made, and the altars that
 Manasseh made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, hath
 the king broken down, and removeth thence, and hath cast their
 dust unto the brook Kidron.
23:13 And the high places that [are] on the front of Jerusalem,
 that [are] on the right of the mount of corruption, that
 Solomon king of Israel had built to Ashtoreth abomination of
 the Zidonians, and Chemosh abomination of Moab, and to Milcom
 abomination of the sons of Ammon, hath the king defiled.
23:14 And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and
 cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of
 men;
23:15 and also the altar that [is] in Beth-El, the high place
 that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, by which he made Israel sin,
 both that altar and the high place he hath broken down, and
 doth burn the high place -- he hath beat it small to dust, and
 hath burnt the shrine.
23:16 And Josiah turneth, and seeth the graves that [are] there
 in the mount, and sendeth and taketh the bones out of the
 graves, and burneth [them] on the altar, and defileth it,
 according to the word of Jehovah that the man of God
 proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
23:17 And he saith, `What [is] this sign that I see?' and the
 men of the city say unto him, `The grave of the man of God who
 hath come from Judah, and proclaimeth these things that thou
 hast done concerning the altar of Beth-El.'
23:18 And he saith, `Let him alone, let no man touch his bones;'
 and they let his bones escape, with the bones of the prophet
 who came out of Samaria.
23:19 And also all the houses of the high places that [are] in
 the cities of Samaria, that the kings of Israel made to provoke
 to anger, hath Josiah turned aside, and doth to them according
 to all the deeds that he did in Beth-El.
23:20 And he slayeth all the priests of the high places who
 [are] there by the altars, and burneth the bones of man upon
 them, and turneth back to Jerusalem.
23:21 And the king commandeth the whole of the people, saying,
 `Make ye a passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written on
 this book of the covenant.'
23:22 Surely there hath not been made like this passover from
 the days of the judges who judged Israel, even all the days of
 the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah;
23:23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, hath this
 passover been made to Jehovah in Jerusalem.
23:24 And also, those having familiar spirits, and the wizards,
 and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that
 were seen in the land of Judah, and in Jerusalem, hath Josiah
 put away, in order to establish the words of the law that are
 written on the book that Hilkiah the priest hath found in the
 house of Jehovah.
23:25 And like him there hath not been before him a king who
 turned back unto Jehovah with all his heart, and with all his
 soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of
 Moses, and after him there hath none risen like him.
23:26 Only, Jehovah hath not turned back from the fierceness of
 His great anger with which His anger burned against Judah,
 because of all the provocations with which Manasseh provoked
 him,
23:27 and Jehovah saith, `Also Judah I turn aside from my
 presence, as I turned Israel aside, and I have rejected this
 city that I have chosen -- Jerusalem, and the house of which I
 said, My name is there.'
23:28 And the rest of the matters of Josiah, and all that he
 did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
23:29 In his days hath Pharaoh-Nechoh king of Egypt come up
 against the king of Asshur, by the river Phrat, and king Josiah
 goeth out to meet him, and he putteth him to death in Megiddo,
 when he seeth him.
23:30 And his servants cause him to ride dying from Megiddo, and
 bring him in to Jerusalem, and bury him in his own grave, and
 the people of the land take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and anoint
 him, and cause him to reign instead of his father.
23:31 A son of twenty and three years [is] Jehoahaz in his
 reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and
 the name of his mother [is] Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of
 Libnah,
23:32 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,
 according to all that his fathers did,
23:33 and Pharaoh-Nechoh bindeth him in Riblah, in the land of
 Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and he putteth a fine on
 the land -- a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
23:34 And Pharaoh-Nechoh causeth Eliakim son of Josiah to reign
 instead of Josiah his father, and turneth his name to
 Jehoiakim, and Jehoahaz he hath taken away, and he cometh in to
 Egypt, and dieth there.
23:35 And the silver and the gold hath Jehoiakim given to
 Pharaoh; only he valued the land to give the silver by the
 command of Pharaoh; from each, according to his valuation, he
 exacted the silver and the gold, from the people of the land,
 to give to Pharaoh-Nechoh.
23:36 A son of twenty and five years [is] Jehoiakim in his
 reigning, and eleven years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and
 the name of his mother [is] Zebudah daughter of Pedaiah of
 Rumah,
23:37 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,
 according to all that his fathers did.
24:1 In his days hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon come up,
 and Jehoiakim is to him a servant three years; and he turneth
 and rebelleth against him,
24:2 and Jehovah sendeth against him the troops of the
 Chaldeans, and the troops of Aram, and the troops of Moab, and
 the troops of the sons of Ammon, and He sendeth them against
 Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, that He
 spake by the hand of His servants the prophets;
24:3 only, by the command of Jehovah it hath been against Judah
 to turn [them] aside from His presence, for the sins of
 Manasseh, according to all that he did,
24:4 and also the innocent blood that he hath shed, and he
 filleth Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not
 willing to forgive.
24:5 And the rest of the matters of Jehoiakim, and all that he
 did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
24:6 And Jehoiakim lieth with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his
 son reigneth in his stead.
24:7 And the king of Egypt hath not added any more to go out
 from his own land, for the king of Babylon hath taken, from the
 brook of Egypt unto the river Phrat, all that had been to the
 king of Egypt.
24:8 A son of eighteen years [is] Jehoiachin in his reigning,
 and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of
 his mother [is] Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem,
24:9 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,
 according to all that his fathers did.
24:10 At that time come up have servants of Nebuchadnezzar king
 of Babylon to Jerusalem, and the city goeth into siege,
24:11 and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon cometh against the
 city, and his servants are laying siege to it,
24:12 and Jehoiachin king of Judah goeth out unto the king of
 Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his chiefs,
 and his eunuchs, and the king of Babylon taketh him in the
 eighth year of his reign,
24:13 and bringeth out thence all the treasures of the house of
 Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, and
 cutteth in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of
 Israel made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had spoken.
24:14 And he hath removed all Jerusalem, and all the chiefs, and
 all the mighty ones of valour -- ten thousand [is] the removal
 -- and every artificer and smith, none hath been left save the
 poor of the people of the land.
24:15 And he removeth Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the mother of
 the king, and the wives of the king, and his eunuchs, and the
 mighty ones of the land -- he hath caused a removal to go from
 Jerusalem to Babylon,
24:16 and all the men of valour seven thousand, and the
 artificers and the smiths a thousand, the whole [are] mighty
 men, warriors; and the king of Babylon bringeth them in a
 captivity to Babylon.
24:17 And the king of Babylon causeth Mattaniah his father's
 brother to reign in his stead, and turneth his name to
 Zedekiah.
24:18 A son of twenty and one years [is] Zedekiah in his
 reigning, and eleven years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and
 the name of his mother [is] Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of
 Libnah,
24:19 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah
 according to all that Jehoiakim did,
24:20 for, by the anger of Jehovah it hath been against
 Jerusalem and against Judah, till he cast them out from His
 presence, that Zedekiah rebelleth against the king of Babylon.
25:1 And it cometh to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in
 the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, come hath
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, he and all his force, against
 Jerusalem, and encampeth against it, and buildeth against it a
 fortification round about.
25:2 And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of
 king Zedekiah,
25:3 on the ninth of the month -- when the famine is severe in
 the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the
 land,
25:4 then the city is broken up, and all the men of war [go] by
 night the way of the gate, between the two walls that [are] by
 the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [are] against the
 city round about, and [the king] goeth the way of the plain.
25:5 And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and
 overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have
 been scattered from him;
25:6 and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of
 Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him -- judgment.
25:7 And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his
 eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him
 with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon.
25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month (it
 [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of
 Babylon), hath Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners, servant
 of the king of Babylon, come to Jerusalem,
25:9 and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the
 king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, yea, every great house
 he hath burned with fire;
25:10 and the walls of Jerusalem round about have all the forces
 of the Chaldeans, who [are] with the chief of the executioners,
 broken down.
25:11 And the rest of the people, those left in the city, and
 those falling who have fallen to the king of Babylon, and the
 rest of the multitude, hath Nebuzaradan chief of the
 executioners removed;
25:12 and of the poor of the land hath the chief of the
 executioners left for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.
25:13 And the pillars of brass that [are] in the house of
 Jehovah, and the bases, and the sea of brass, that [is] in the
 house of Jehovah, have the Chaldeans broken in pieces, and bear
 away their brass to Babylon.
25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
 spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they minister
 they have taken,
25:15 and the fire-pans, and the bowls that [are] wholly of
 silver, hath the chief of the executioners taken.
25:16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases that Solomon
 made for the house of Jehovah, there was no weighing of the
 brass of all these vessels;
25:17 eighteen cubits [is] the height of the one pillar, and the
 chapiter on it [is] of brass, and the height of the chapiter
 [is] three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates [are] on
 the chapiter round about -- the whole [is] of brass; and like
 these hath the second pillar, with the net.
25:18 And the chief of the executioners taketh Seraiah the head
 priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers
 of the threshold,
25:19 and out of the city he hath taken a certain eunuch who is
 appointed over the men of war, and five men of those seeing the
 king's face who have been found in the city, and the head
 scribe of the host, who mustereth the people of the land, and
 sixty men of the people of the land who are found in the city,
25:20 and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners taketh them, and
 causeth them to go unto the king of Babylon, to Libnah,
25:21 and the king of Babylon smiteth them, and putteth them to
 death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he removeth Judah
 from off its land.
25:22 And the people that is left in the land of Judah whom
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath left -- he appointeth over
 them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.
25:23 And all the heads of the forces hear -- they and the men
 -- that the king of Babylon hath appointed Gedaliah, and they
 come in unto Gedaliah, to Mizpah, even Ishmael son of
 Nethaniah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Seraiah son of
 Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the
 Maachathite -- they and their men;
25:24 and Gedaliah sweareth to them, and to their men, and saith
 to them, `Be not afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans, dwell
 in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it is good for
 you.'
25:25 And it cometh to pass, in the seventh month, come hath
 Ishmael son of Nathaniah, son of Elishama of the seed of the
 kingdom, and ten men with him, and they smite Gedaliah, and he
 dieth, and the Jews and the Chaldeans who have been with him in
 Mizpah.
25:26 And all the people rise, from small even unto great, and
 the heads of the forces, and come in to Egypt, for they have
 been afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans.
25:27 And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of
 the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month,
 in the twenty and seventh of the month hath Evil-Merodach king
 of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reigning, the head of
 Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of the house of restraint,
25:28 and speaketh with him good things and putteth his throne
 above the throne of the kings who [are] with him in Babylon,
25:29 and hath changed the garments of his restraint, and he
 hath eaten bread continually before him all days of his life,
25:30 and his allowance -- a continual allowance -- hath been
 given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all
 days of his life.