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 1:1  And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his
kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him
exceedingly.
 1:2  Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every
governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
 1:3  So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to
the high place that [was] at Gibeon; for there was the
tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant
of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
 1:4  But the ark of God had David brought up from
Kirjathjearim to [the place which] David had prepared for it:
for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
 1:5  Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri,
the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the
LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
 1:6  And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before
the LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle of the congregation,
and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
 1:7  In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto
him, Ask what I shall give thee.
 1:8  And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great mercy
unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
 1:9  Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be
established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the
dust of the earth in multitude.
 1:10  Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and
come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people,
[that is so] great?
 1:11  And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine
heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor
the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life;
but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou
mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
 1:12  Wisdom and knowledge [is] granted unto thee; and I will
give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the
kings have had that [have been] before thee, neither shall
there any after thee have the like.
 1:13  Then Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place
that [was] at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle
of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
 1:14  And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a
thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the
king at Jerusalem.
 1:15  And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as
plenteous] as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore
trees that [are] in the vale for abundance.
 1:16  And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen
yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
 1:17  And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a
chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for
an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out [horses] for all
the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their
means.

 2:1  And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of
the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
 2:2  And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to
bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain,
and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
 2:3  And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As
thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars
to build him an house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me].
 2:4  Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God,
to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet
incense, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt
offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new
moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This [is
an ordinance] for ever to Israel.
 2:5  And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is]
our God above all gods.
 2:6  But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven
and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that
I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before
him?
 2:7  Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and
in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and
crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning
men that [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my
father did provide.
 2:8  Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out
of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut
timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy
servants,
 2:9  Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house
which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great.
 2:10  And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers
that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and
twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths
of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
 2:11  Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which
he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he
hath made thee king over them.
 2:12  Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of
Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the
king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that
might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his
kingdom.
 2:13  And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with
understanding, of Huram my father's,
 2:14  The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his
father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in
silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple,
in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any
manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be
put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of
my lord David thy father.
 2:15  Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and
the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his
servants:
 2:16  And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou
shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to
Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
 2:17  And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in
the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his
father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and
fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
 2:18  And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be]
bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in
the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to
set the people a work.

 3:1  Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at
Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the Lord] appeared unto David
his father, in the place that David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 3:2  And he began to build in the second [day] of the second
month, in the fourth year of his reign.
 3:3  Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed
for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits
after the first measure [was] threescore cubits, and the
breadth twenty cubits.
 3:4  And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the
length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house,
twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and
he overlaid it within with pure gold.
 3:5  And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he
overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
 3:6  And he garnished the house with precious stones for
beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.
 3:7  He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the
walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved
cherubims on the walls.
 3:8  And he made the most holy house, the length whereof [was]
according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the
breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine
gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents.
 3:9  And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold.
And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
 3:10  And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of
image work, and overlaid them with gold.
 3:11  And the wings of the cherubims [were] twenty cubits
long: one wing [of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to
the wall of the house: and the other wing [was likewise] five
cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
 3:12  And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits,
reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was]
five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.
 3:13  The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth
twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces
[were] inward.
 3:14  And he made the veil [of] blue, and purple, and crimson,
and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
 3:15  Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and
five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of
each of them [was] five cubits.
 3:16  And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them]
on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates,
and put [them] on the chains.
 3:17  And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on
the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name
of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the
left Boaz.

 4:1  Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the
length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten
cubits the height thereof.
 4:2  Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to
brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and
a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
 4:3  And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did
compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea
round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.
 4:4  It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the
north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking
toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the
sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts
[were] inward.
 4:5  And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the
brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of
lilies; [and] it received and held three thousand baths.
 4:6  He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand,
and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they
offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea
[was] for the priests to wash in.
 4:7  And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their
form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and
five on the left.
 4:8  He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the temple,
five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an
hundred basins of gold.
 4:9  Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the
great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of
them with brass.
 4:10  And he set the sea on the right side of the east end,
over against the south.
 4:11  And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the
basins. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for
king Solomon for the house of God;
 4:12  [To wit], the two pillars, and the pommels, and the
chapiters [which were] on the top of the two pillars, and the
two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which
[were] on the top of the pillars;
 4:13  And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two
rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels
of the chapiters which [were] upon the pillars.
 4:14  He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
 4:15  One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
 4:16  The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and
all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king
Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
 4:17  In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the
clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
 4:18  Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance:
for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
 4:19  And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the
house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the
showbread [was set];
 4:20  Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they
should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
 4:21  And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, [made he
of] gold, [and] that perfect gold;
 4:22  And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and
the censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the
inner doors thereof for the most holy [place], and the doors of
the house of the temple, [were of] gold.

 5:1  Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the
LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in [all] the things that
David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold,
and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the
house of God.
 5:2  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the
heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children
of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant
of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.
 5:3  Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.
 5:4  And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took
up the ark.
 5:5  And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the
tabernacle, these did the priests [and] the Levites bring up.
 5:6  Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel
that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep
and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
 5:7  And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the
LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most
holy [place, even] under the wings of the cherubims:
 5:8  For the cherubims spread forth [their] wings over the
place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the
staves thereof above.
 5:9  And they drew out the staves [of the ark], that the ends
of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but
they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
 5:10  [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables which
Moses put [therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant]
with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
 5:11  And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of
the holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were
sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:
 5:12  Also the Levites [which were] the singers, all of them
of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their
brethren, [being] arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and
psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and
with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with
trumpets:)
 5:13  It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers
[were] as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and
thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with
the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised
the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth]
for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even]
the house of the LORD;
 5:14  So that the priests could not stand to minister by
reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the
house of God.

 6:1  Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell
in the thick darkness.
 6:2  But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a
place for thy dwelling for ever.
 6:3  And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole
congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel
stood.
 6:4  And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who
hath with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spake with his
mouth to my father David, saying,
 6:5  Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the
land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to
build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I
any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
 6:6  But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there;
and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
 6:7  Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an
house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
 6:8  But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was
in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well
in that it was in thine heart:
 6:9  Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy
son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the
house for my name.
 6:10  The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath
spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and
am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
 6:11  And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the covenant
of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
 6:12  And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth
his hands:
 6:13  For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits
long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set
it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled
down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and
spread forth his hands toward heaven,
 6:14  And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like
thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant,
and [showest] mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee
with all their hearts:
 6:15  Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father
that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth,
and hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day.
 6:16  Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy
servant David my father that which thou hast promised him,
saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon
the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to
their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
 6:17  Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be
verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
 6:18  But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?
behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;
how much less this house which I have built!
 6:19  Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and
to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and
the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
 6:20  That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and
night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest
put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy
servant prayeth toward this place.
 6:21  Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant,
and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this
place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, [even] from heaven;
and when thou hearest, forgive.
 6:22  If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid
upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine
altar in this house;
 6:23  Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy
servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon
his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him
according to his righteousness.
 6:24  And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the
enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return
and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before
thee in this house;
 6:25  Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of
thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which
thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
 6:26  When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray
toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their
sin, when thou dost afflict them;
 6:27  Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them
the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy
land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
 6:28  If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence,
if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if
their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land;
whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness [there be]:
 6:29  [Then] what prayer [or] what supplication soever shall
be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one
shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread
forth his hands in this house:
 6:30  Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and
forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways,
whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of
the children of men:)
 6:31  That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as
they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
 6:32  Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy
people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great
name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if
they come and pray in this house;
 6:33  Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy
dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger
calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy
name, and fear thee, as [doth] thy people Israel, and may know
that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
 6:34  If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the
way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward
this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
built for thy name;
 6:35  Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause.
 6:36  If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which
sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them
over before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives
unto a land far off or near;
 6:37  Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither
they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the
land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done
amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
 6:38  If they return to thee with all their heart and with all
their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have
carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou
gavest unto their fathers, and [toward] the city which thou
hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy
name:
 6:39  Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy
dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and
maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned
against thee.
 6:40  Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open,
and [let] thine ears [be] attent unto the prayer [that is made]
in this place.
 6:41  Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place,
thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God,
be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in
goodness.
 6:42  O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:
remember the mercies of David thy servant.

 7:1  Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire
came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the
sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
 7:2  And the priests could not enter into the house of the
LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S
house.
 7:3  And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came
down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed
themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement,
and worshipped, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is]
good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
 7:4  Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices
before the LORD.
 7:5  And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two
thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the
king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
 7:6  And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also
with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had
made to praise the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever,
when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded
trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
 7:7  Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that
[was] before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt
offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the
brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the
burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
 7:8  Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days,
and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the
entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
 7:9  And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for
they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast
seven days.
 7:10  And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month
he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in
heart for the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David, and
to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
 7:11  Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the
king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in
the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously
effected.
 7:12  And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto
him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to
myself for an house of sacrifice.
 7:13  If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I
command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence
among my people;
 7:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and will heal their land.
 7:15  Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto
the prayer [that is made] in this place.
 7:16  For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my
name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall
be there perpetually.
 7:17  And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David
thy father walked, and do according to all that I have
commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
 7:18  Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom,
according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying,
There shall not fail thee a man [to be] ruler in Israel.
 7:19  But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and
serve other gods, and worship them;
 7:20  Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land
which I have given them; and this house, which I have
sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will
make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.
 7:21  And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment
to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath
the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
 7:22  And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD
God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land
of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and
served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

 8:1  And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein
Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
 8:2  That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon,
Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell
there.
 8:3  And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against
it.
 8:4  And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store
cities, which he built in Hamath.
 8:5  Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the
nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
 8:6  And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had,
and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and
all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon,
and throughout all the land of his dominion.
 8:7  [As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites,
and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, which [were] not of Israel,
 8:8  [But] of their children, who were left after them in the
land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did
Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
 8:9  But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no
servants for his work; but they [were] men of war, and chief of
his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
 8:10  And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers,
[even] two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
 8:11  And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of
the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for
he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of
Israel, because [the places are] holy, whereunto the ark of the
LORD hath come.
 8:12  Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on
the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
 8:13  Even after a certain rate every day, offering according
to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new
moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year,
[even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
 8:14  And he appointed, according to the order of David his
father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the
Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the
priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by
their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God
commanded.
 8:15  And they departed not from the commandment of the king
unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or
concerning the treasures.
 8:16  Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of
the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was
finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.
 8:17  Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the
sea side in the land of Edom.
 8:18  And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships,
and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with
the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred
and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king Solomon.

 9:1  And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon,
she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem,
with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and
gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come
to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
 9:2  And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was
nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
 9:3  And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of
Solomon, and the house that he had built,
 9:4  And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his
servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their
apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent
by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no
more spirit in her.
 9:5  And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which I
heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
 9:6  Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and
mine eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the one half of the
greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: [for] thou exceedest
the fame that I heard.
 9:7  Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants,
which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
 9:8  Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to
set thee on his throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God:
because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever,
therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and
justice.
 9:9  And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of
gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones:
neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave
king Solomon.
 9:10  And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of
Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and
precious stones.
 9:11  And the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the
house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and
psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in
the land of Judah.
 9:12  And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her
desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which she had
brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own
land, she and her servants.
 9:13  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year
was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
 9:14  Beside [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And
all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought
gold and silver to Solomon.
 9:15  And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten
gold: six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.
 9:16  And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold:
three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the
king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
 9:17  Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and
overlaid it with pure gold.
 9:18  And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a
footstool of gold, [which were] fastened to the throne, and
stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing
by the stays:
 9:19  And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the
other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any
kingdom.
 9:20  And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [were of]
gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon
[were of] pure gold: none [were of] silver; it was [not] any
thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
 9:21  For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants
of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish
bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
 9:22  And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in
riches and wisdom.
 9:23  And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of
Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
 9:24  And they brought every man his present, vessels of
silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices,
horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
 9:25  And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the
chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
 9:26  And he reigned over all the kings from the river even
unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
 9:27  And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and
cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that [are] in the low
plains in abundance.
 9:28  And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and
out of all lands.
 9:29  Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last,
[are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and
in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of
Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
 9:30  And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty
years.
 9:31  And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in
the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in
his stead.

 10:1  And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all
Israel come to make him king.
 10:2  And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
[was] in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of
Solomon the king, heard [it], that Jeroboam returned out of
Egypt.
 10:3  And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel
came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
 10:4  Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease
thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his
heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
 10:5  And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three
days. And the people departed.
 10:6  And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had
stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying,
What counsel give ye [me] to return answer to this people?
 10:7  And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this
people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they
will be thy servants for ever.
 10:8  But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him,
and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with
him, that stood before him.
 10:9  And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may
return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying,
Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?
 10:10  And the young men that were brought up with him spake
unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake
unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make
thou [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto
them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's
loins.
 10:11  For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will
put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but
I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
 10:12  So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the
third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the
third day.
 10:13  And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam
forsook the counsel of the old men,
 10:14  And answered them after the advice of the young men,
saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto:
my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you]
with scorpions.
 10:15  So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the
cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which
he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the
son of Nebat.
 10:16  And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not
hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What
portion have we in David? and [we have] none inheritance in the
son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: [and] now,
David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their
tents.
 10:17  But [as for] the children of Israel that dwelt in the
cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
 10:18  Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that [was] over the
tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones,
that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to
[his] chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
 10:19  And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto
this day.

 11:1  And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of
the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore
thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against
Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
 11:2  But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of
God, saying,
 11:3  Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah,
and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
 11:4  Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight
against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this
thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and
returned from going against Jeroboam.
 11:5  And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for
defence in Judah.
 11:6  He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
 11:7  And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
 11:8  And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
 11:9  And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
 11:10  And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which [are] in
Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
 11:11  And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in
them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
 11:12  And in every several city [he put] shields and spears,
and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on
his side.
 11:13  And the priests and the Levites that [were] in all
Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
 11:14  For the Levites left their suburbs and their
possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and
his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office
unto the LORD:
 11:15  And he ordained him priests for the high places, and
for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
 11:16  And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as
set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to
Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.
 11:17  So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made
Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three
years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
 11:18  And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth
the son of David to wife, [and] Abihail the daughter of Eliab
the son of Jesse;
 11:19  Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shemariah, and
Zaham.
 11:20  And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom;
which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
 11:21  And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom
above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen
wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight
sons, and threescore daughters.)
 11:22  And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief,
[to be] ruler among his brethren: for [he thought] to make him
king.
 11:23  And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children
throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every
fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he
desired many wives.

 12:1  And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the
kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of
the LORD, and all Israel with him.
 12:2  And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
because they had transgressed against the LORD,
 12:3  With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand
horsemen: and the people [were] without number that came with
him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
 12:4  And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to
Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
 12:5  Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the
princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem
because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye
have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the
hand of Shishak.
 12:6  Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled
themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.
 12:7  And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the
word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled
themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will
grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured
out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
 12:8  Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may
know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the
countries.
 12:9  So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and
took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away
also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
 12:10  Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass,
and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard,
that kept the entrance of the king's house.
 12:11  And when the king entered into the house of the LORD,
the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into
the guard chamber.
 12:12  And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD
turned from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether:
and also in Judah things went well.
 12:13  So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and
reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was]
Naamah an Ammonitess.
 12:14  And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to
seek the LORD.
 12:15  Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they
not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo
the seer concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
 12:16  And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

 13:1  Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah
to reign over Judah.
 13:2  He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
also [was] Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there
was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
 13:3  And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of
valiant men of war, [even] four hundred thousand chosen men:
Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight
hundred thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valour.
 13:4  And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in
mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all
Israel;
 13:5  Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave
the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, [even] to him and to
his sons by a covenant of salt?
 13:6  Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon
the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his
lord.
 13:7  And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children
of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam
the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted,
and could not withstand them.
 13:8  And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in
the hand of the sons of David; and ye [be] a great multitude,
and [there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you
for gods.
 13:9  Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons
of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the
manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever
cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven
rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.
 13:10  But as for us, the LORD [is] our God, and we have not
forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD,
[are] the sons of Aaron, and the Levites [wait] upon [their]
business:
 13:11  And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every
evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also
[set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of
gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep
the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
 13:12  And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our]
captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm
against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the
LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
 13:13  But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind
them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was]
behind them.
 13:14  And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle [was]
before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the
priests sounded with the trumpets.
 13:15  Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of
Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all
Israel before Abijah and Judah.
 13:16  And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God
delivered them into their hand.
 13:17  And Abijah and his people slew them with a great
slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred
thousand chosen men.
 13:18  Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that
time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied
upon the LORD God of their fathers.
 13:19  And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from
him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns
thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.
 13:20  Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days
of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
 13:21  But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives,
and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
 13:22  And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and
his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

 14:1  So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his
days the land was quiet ten years.
 14:2  And Asa did [that which was] good and right in the eyes
of the LORD his God:
 14:3  For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and
the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the
groves:
 14:4  And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their
fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
 14:5  Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the
high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before
him.
 14:6  And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had
rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had
given him rest.
 14:7  Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities,
and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars,
[while] the land [is] yet before us; because we have sought the
LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest
on every side. So they built and prospered.
 14:8  And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and
spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of
Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and
fourscore thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valour.
 14:9  And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with
an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and
came unto Mareshah.
 14:10  Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle
in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
 14:11  And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD,
[it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with
them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest
on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD,
thou [art] our God; let not man prevail against thee.
 14:12  So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before
Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
 14:13  And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued
them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they
could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before
the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much
spoil.
 14:14  And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for
the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the
cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
 14:15  They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away
sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

 15:1  And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
 15:2  And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye
me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you,
while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of
you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
 15:3  Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the
true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
 15:4  But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD
God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
 15:5  And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went
out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon
all the inhabitants of the countries.
 15:6  And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city:
for God did vex them with all adversity.
 15:7  Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak:
for your work shall be rewarded.
 15:8  And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded
the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols
out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the
cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the
altar of the LORD, that [was] before the porch of the LORD.
 15:9  And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the
strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of
Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when
they saw that the LORD his God [was] with him.
 15:10  So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in
the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
 15:11  And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the
spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven
thousand sheep.
 15:12  And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God
of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
 15:13  That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel
should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or
woman.
 15:14  And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and
with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
 15:15  And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn
with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire;
and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round
about.
 15:16  And also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the
king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made
an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped
[it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron.
 15:17  But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:
nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
 15:18  And he brought into the house of God the things that
his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated,
silver, and gold, and vessels.
 15:19  And there was no [more] war unto the five and thirtieth
year of the reign of Asa.

 16:1  In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha
king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the
intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of
Judah.
 16:2  Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the
treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and
sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
 16:3  [There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was]
between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee
silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of
Israel, that he may depart from me.
 16:4  And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the
captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they
smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of
Naphtali.
 16:5  And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [it], that he
left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
 16:6  Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away
the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha
was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
 16:7  And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of
Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king
of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the
host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
 16:8  Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with
very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely
on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.
 16:9  For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the
whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of [them]
whose heart [is] perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done
foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
 16:10  Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a
prison house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this
[thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time.
 16:11  And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they
[are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
 16:12  And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was
diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceeding
[great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to
the physicians.
 16:13  And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and
fortieth year of his reign.
 16:14  And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had
made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed
which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds [of spices]
prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great
burning for him.

 17:1  And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and
strengthened himself against Israel.
 17:2  And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah,
and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of
Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
 17:3  And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in
the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
 17:4  But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked
in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
 17:5  Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand;
and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had
riches and honour in abundance.
 17:6  And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD:
moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
 17:7  Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his
princes, [even] to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah,
and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of
Judah.
 17:8  And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and
Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and
Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah,
Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
 17:9  And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the law
of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities
of Judah, and taught the people.
 17:10  And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of
the lands that [were] round about Judah, so that they made no
war against Jehoshaphat.
 17:11  Also [some] of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat
presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him
flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven
thousand and seven hundred he goats.
 17:12  And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built
in Judah castles, and cities of store.
 17:13  And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and
the men of war, mighty men of valour, [were] in Jerusalem.
 17:14  And these [are] the numbers of them according to the
house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands;
Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three
hundred thousand.
 17:15  And next to him [was] Jehohanan the captain, and with
him two hundred and fourscore thousand.
 17:16  And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, who
willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two
hundred thousand mighty men of valour.
 17:17  And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and
with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
 17:18  And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred
and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
 17:19  These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the king
put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

 18:1  Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and
joined affinity with Ahab.
 18:2  And after [certain] years he went down to Ahab to
Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance,
and for the people that [he had] with him, and persuaded him to
go up [with him] to Ramothgilead.
 18:3  And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered
him, I [am] as thou [art], and my people as thy people; and [we
will be] with thee in the war.
 18:4  And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I
pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
 18:5  Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of
prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to
Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go
up; for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.
 18:6  But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of
the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?
 18:7  And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is]
yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate
him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the
same [is] Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let
not the king say so.
 18:8  And the king of Israel called for one [of his] officers,
and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
 18:9  And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat
either of them on his throne, clothed in [their] robes, and
they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of
Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
 18:10  And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of
iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push
Syria until they be consumed.
 18:11  And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into
the hand of the king.
 18:12  And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to
him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good
to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray
thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.
 18:13  And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, even what my
God saith, that will I speak.
 18:14  And when he was come to the king, the king said unto
him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I
forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be
delivered into your hand.
 18:15  And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure
thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of
the LORD?
 18:16  Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the
mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said,
These have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to
his house in peace.
 18:17  And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not
tell thee [that] he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?
 18:18  Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I
saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of
heaven standing on his right hand and [on] his left.
 18:19  And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of
Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one
spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that
manner.
 18:20  Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the
LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him,
Wherewith?
 18:21  And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in
the mouth of all his prophets. And [the LORD] said, Thou shalt
entice [him], and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do
[even] so.
 18:22  Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit
in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken
evil against thee.
 18:23  Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote
Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of
the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
 18:24  And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day
when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
 18:25  Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and
carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash
the king's son;
 18:26  And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the
prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
affliction, until I return in peace.
 18:27  And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace,
[then] hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken,
all ye people.
 18:28  So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
went up to Ramothgilead.
 18:29  And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will
disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy
robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went
to the battle.
 18:30  Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the
chariots that [were] with him, saying, Fight ye not with small
or great, save only with the king of Israel.
 18:31  And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots
saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel.
Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat
cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to
depart] from him.
 18:32  For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the
chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they
turned back again from pursuing him.
 18:33  And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote
the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore
he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest
carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
 18:34  And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of
Israel stayed [himself] up in [his] chariot against the Syrians
until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he
died.

 19:1  And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house
in peace to Jerusalem.
 19:2  And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet
him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the
ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath
upon thee from before the LORD.
 19:3  Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in
that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast
prepared thine heart to seek God.
 19:4  And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out
again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and
brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.
 19:5  And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced
cities of Judah, city by city,
 19:6  And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye
judge not for man, but for the LORD, who [is] with you in the
judgment.
 19:7  Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take
heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our
God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
 19:8  Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the
Levites, and [of] the priests, and of the chief of the fathers
of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies,
when they returned to Jerusalem.
 19:9  And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the
fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
 19:10  And what cause soever shall come to you of your
brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood,
between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall
even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and
[so] wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and
ye shall not trespass.
 19:11  And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you in
all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the
ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also
the Levites [shall be] officers before you. Deal courageously,
and the LORD shall be with the good.

 20:1  It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of
Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside
the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
 20:2  Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying,
There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea
on this side Syria; and, behold, they [be] in Hazazontamar,
which [is] Engedi.
 20:3  And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the
LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
 20:4  And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help] of
the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek
the LORD.
 20:5  And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and
Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
 20:6  And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God
in heaven? and rulest [not] thou over all the kingdoms of the
heathen? and in thine hand [is there not] power and might, so
that none is able to withstand thee?
 20:7  [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the
inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest
it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
 20:8  And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary
therein for thy name, saying,
 20:9  If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword,
judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house,
and in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in this house,) and cry
unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
 20:10  And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and
mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they
came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and
destroyed them not;
 20:11  Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast us
out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
 20:12  O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no
might against this great company that cometh against us;
neither know we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee.
 20:13  And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little
ones, their wives, and their children.
 20:14  Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of
Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of
the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of
the congregation;
 20:15  And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD
unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great
multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God's.
 20:16  To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up
by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the
brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
 20:17  Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set
yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD
with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to
morrow go out against them: for the LORD [will be] with you.
 20:18  And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the
ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell
before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
 20:19  And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and
of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD
God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
 20:20  And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into
the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat
stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of
Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be
established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
 20:21  And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed
singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of
holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise
the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
 20:22  And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set
ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount
Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
 20:23  For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the
inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]:
and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every
one helped to destroy another.
 20:24  And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the
wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they
[were] dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
 20:25  And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away
the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both
riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they
stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away:
and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so
much.
 20:26  And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the
valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore
the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah,
unto this day.
 20:27  Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem,
and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to
Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over
their enemies.
 20:28  And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps
and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
 20:29  And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of [those]
countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the
enemies of Israel.
 20:30  So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave
him rest round about.
 20:31  And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: [he was] thirty and
five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty
and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Azubah
the daughter of Shilhi.
 20:32  And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and
departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight
of the LORD.
 20:33  Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet
the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their
fathers.
 20:34  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and
last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Jehu the son of
Hanani, who [is] mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
 20:35  And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join
himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
 20:36  And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to
Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.
 20:37  Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied
against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself
with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships
were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

 21:1  Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son
reigned in his stead.
 21:2  And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah,
and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and
Shephatiah: all these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of
Israel.
 21:3  And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of
gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but
the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he [was] the firstborn.
 21:4  Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his
father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with
the sword, and [divers] also of the princes of Israel.
 21:5  Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
 21:6  And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as
did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife:
and he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD.
 21:7  Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David,
because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he
promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
 21:8  In his days the Edomites revolted from under the
dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
 21:9  Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his
chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the
Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the
chariots.
 21:10  So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah
unto this day. The same time [also] did Libnah revolt from
under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his
fathers.
 21:11  Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah,
and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication,
and compelled Judah [thereto].
 21:12  And there came a writing to him from Elijah the
prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father,
Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy
father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
 21:13  But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and
hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a
whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also
hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [which were]
better than thyself:
 21:14  Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy
people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
 21:15  And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy
bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day
by day.
 21:16  Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit
of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near the
Ethiopians:
 21:17  And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and
carried away all the substance that was found in the king's
house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was
never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
 21:18  And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels
with an incurable disease.
 21:19  And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the
end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his
sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no
burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
 21:20  Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign,
and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without
being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David,
but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

 22:1  And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his
youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came
with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
 22:2  Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to
reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name
also [was] Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
 22:3  He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his
mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
 22:4  Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the
house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of
his father to his destruction.
 22:5  He walked also after their counsel, and went with
Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael
king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.
 22:6  And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the
wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with
Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of
Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel,
because he was sick.
 22:7  And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to
Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against
Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off
the house of Ahab.
 22:8  And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing
judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of
Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered
to Ahaziah, he slew them.
 22:9  And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was
hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had
slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son
of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the
house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
 22:10  But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her
son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the
house of Judah.
 22:11  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash
the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons
that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So
Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of
Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid
him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
 22:12  And he was with them hid in the house of God six years:
and Athaliah reigned over the land.

 23:1  And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself,
and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham,
and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed,
and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of
Zichri, into covenant with him.
 23:2  And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites
out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of
Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
 23:3  And all the congregation made a covenant with the king
in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's
son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
 23:4  This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of
you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites,
[shall be] porters of the doors;
 23:5  And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a
third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people
[shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD.
 23:6  But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the
priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go
in, for they [are] holy: but all the people shall keep the
watch of the LORD.
 23:7  And the Levites shall compass the king round about,
every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever [else]
cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with
the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
 23:8  So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things
that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his
men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to
go [out] on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not
the courses.
 23:9  Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains
of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that [had been]
king David's, which [were] in the house of God.
 23:10  And he set all the people, every man having his weapon
in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side
of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king
round about.
 23:11  Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him
the crown, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king. And
Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the
king.
 23:12  Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running
and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of
the LORD:
 23:13  And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his
pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by
the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded
with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and
such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes,
and said, Treason, Treason.
 23:14  Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of
hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have
her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be
slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the
house of the LORD.
 23:15  So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the
entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her
there.
 23:16  And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between
all the people, and between the king, that they should be the
LORD'S people.
 23:17  Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and
brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces,
and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
 23:18  Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the
LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had
distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt
offerings of the LORD, as [it is] written in the law of Moses,
with rejoicing and with singing, [as it was ordained] by David.
 23:19  And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the
LORD, that none [which was] unclean in any thing should enter
in.
 23:20  And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles,
and the governors of the people, and all the people of the
land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and
they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set
the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
 23:21  And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city
was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

 24:1  Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
[was] Zibiah of Beersheba.
 24:2  And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
 24:3  And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons
and daughters.
 24:4  And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was minded
to repair the house of the LORD.
 24:5  And he gathered together the priests and the Levites,
and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather
of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year
to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites
hastened [it] not.
 24:6  And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said
unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in
out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, [according to
the commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the
congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
 24:7  For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken
up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the
house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.
 24:8  And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set
it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
 24:9  And they made a proclamation through Judah and
Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection [that] Moses
the servant of God [laid] upon Israel in the wilderness.
 24:10  And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and
brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an
end.
 24:11  Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was
brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and
when they saw that [there was] much money, the king's scribe
and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and
took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day
by day, and gathered money in abundance.
 24:12  And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the
work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons
and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such
as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
 24:13  So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by
them, and they set the house of God in his state, and
strengthened it.
 24:14  And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest
of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made
vessels for the house of the LORD, [even] vessels to minister,
and to offer [withal], and spoons, and vessels of gold and
silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the
LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
 24:15  But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he
died; an hundred and thirty years old [was he] when he died.
 24:16  And they buried him in the city of David among the
kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and
toward his house.
 24:17  Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of
Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened
unto them.
 24:18  And they left the house of the LORD God of their
fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah
and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
 24:19  Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto
the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not
give ear.
 24:20  And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of
Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said
unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments
of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken
the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
 24:21  And they conspired against him, and stoned him with
stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house
of the LORD.
 24:22  Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which
Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when
he died, he said, The LORD look upon [it], and require [it].
 24:23  And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that] the
host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and
Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from
among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king
of Damascus.
 24:24  For the army of the Syrians came with a small company
of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their
hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
So they executed judgment against Joash.
 24:25  And when they were departed from him, (for they left
him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him
for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him
on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of
David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
 24:26  And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad
the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of
Shimrith a Moabitess.
 24:27  Now [concerning] his sons, and the greatness of the
burdens [laid] upon him, and the repairing of the house of God,
behold, they [are] written in the story of the book of the
kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

 25:1  Amaziah [was] twenty and five years old [when] he began
to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
 25:2  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
 25:3  Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to
him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his
father.
 25:4  But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is]
written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children,
neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man
shall die for his own sin.
 25:5  Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them
captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according
to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and
Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above,
and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go
forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
 25:6  He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour
out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
 25:7  But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let
not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with
Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim.
 25:8  But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle:
God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power
to help, and to cast down.
 25:9  And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do
for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of
Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give
thee much more than this.
 25:10  Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that
was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore
their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they
returned home in great anger.
 25:11  And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his
people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the
children of Seir ten thousand.
 25:12  And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children
of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of
the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that
they all were broken in pieces.
 25:13  But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back,
that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the
cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote
three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
 25:14  Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from
the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the
children of Seir, and set them up [to be] his gods, and bowed
down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
 25:15  Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him,
Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could
not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
 25:16  And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the
king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel?
forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet
forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy
thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto
my counsel.
 25:17  Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to
Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel,
saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
 25:18  And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar
that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to
wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon,
and trode down the thistle.
 25:19  Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and
thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why
shouldest thou meddle to [thine] hurt, that thou shouldest
fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?
 25:20  But Amaziah would not hear; for it [came] of God, that
he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because
they sought after the gods of Edom.
 25:21  So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one
another in the face, [both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at
Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.
 25:22  And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they
fled every man to his tent.
 25:23  And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of
Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh,
and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of
Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four
hundred cubits.
 25:24  And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the
vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and
the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and
returned to Samaria.
 25:25  And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after
the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years.
 25:26  Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last,
behold, [are] they not written in the book of the kings of
Judah and Israel?
 25:27  Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from
following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in
Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish
after him, and slew him there.
 25:28  And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with
his fathers in the city of Judah.

 26:1  Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was]
sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father
Amaziah.
 26:2  He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the
king slept with his fathers.
 26:3  Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began to reign,
and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's
name also [was] Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
 26:4  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
 26:5  And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had
understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought
the LORD, God made him to prosper.
 26:6  And he went forth and warred against the Philistines,
and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and
the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among
the Philistines.
 26:7  And God helped him against the Philistines, and against
the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
 26:8  And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name
spread abroad [even] to the entering in of Egypt; for he
strengthened [himself] exceedingly.
 26:9  Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner
gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall],
and fortified them.
 26:10  Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many
wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in
the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the
mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
 26:11  Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went
out to war by bands, according to the number of their account
by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under
the hand of Hananiah, [one] of the king's captains.
 26:12  The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the
mighty men of valour [were] two thousand and six hundred.
 26:13  And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred
thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war
with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
 26:14  And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host
shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and
slings [to cast] stones.
 26:15  And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning
men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows
and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he
was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
 26:16  But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to
[his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his
God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon
the altar of incense.
 26:17  And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him
fourscore priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men:
 26:18  And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him,
[It appertaineth] not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto
the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are
consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou
hast trespassed; neither [shall it be] for thine honour from
the LORD God.
 26:19  Then Uzziah was wroth, and [had] a censer in his hand
to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the
leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the
house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
 26:20  And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests,
looked upon him, and, behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead,
and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also
to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
 26:21  And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his
death, and dwelt in a several house, [being] a leper; for he
was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son
[was] over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
 26:22  Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
 26:23  So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him
with his fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to
the kings; for they said, He [is] a leper: and Jotham his son
reigned in his stead.

 27:1  Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's
name also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
 27:2  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he
entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet
corruptly.
 27:3  He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on
the wall of Ophel he built much.
 27:4  Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and
in the forests he built castles and towers.
 27:5  He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and
prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the
same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand
measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the
children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the
third.
 27:6  So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways
before the LORD his God.
 27:7  Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars,
and his ways, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings
of Israel and Judah.
 27:8  He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
 27:9  And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him
in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

 28:1  Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not [that
which was] right in the sight of the LORD, like David his
father:
 28:2  For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and
made also molten images for Baalim.
 28:3  Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the
abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before
the children of Israel.
 28:4  He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places,
and on the hills, and under every green tree.
 28:5  Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand
of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a
great multitude of them captives, and brought [them] to
Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king
of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
 28:6  For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred
and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men;
because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
 28:7  And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the
king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah
[that was] next to the king.
 28:8  And the children of Israel carried away captive of their
brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and
took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to
Samaria.
 28:9  But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was]
Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and
said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers
was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand,
and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto
heaven.
 28:10  And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah
and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are
there] not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your
God?
 28:11  Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again,
which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce
wrath of the LORD [is] upon you.
 28:12  Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim,
Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth,
and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai,
stood up against them that came from the war,
 28:13  And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives
hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD
[already], ye intend to add [more] to our sins and to our
trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce
wrath against Israel.
 28:14  So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before
the princes and all the congregation.
 28:15  And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and
took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were
naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave
them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all
the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the
city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to
Samaria.
 28:16  At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of
Assyria to help him.
 28:17  For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and
carried away captives.
 28:18  The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low
country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh,
and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof,
and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the
villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
 28:19  For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of
Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against
the LORD.
 28:20  And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and
distressed him, but strengthened him not.
 28:21  For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of the
LORD, and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes,
and gave [it] unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
 28:22  And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet
more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.
 28:23  For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which
smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria
help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may
help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
 28:24  And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of
God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and
shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him
altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
 28:25  And in every several city of Judah he made high places
to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD
God of his fathers.
 28:26  Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and
last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of
Judah and Israel.
 28:27  And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into
the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son
reigned in his stead.

 29:1  Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty
years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name [was] Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
 29:2  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
 29:3  He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,
opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
 29:4  And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and
gathered them together into the east street,
 29:5  And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now
yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your
fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy
[place].
 29:6  For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which
was] evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken
him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of
the LORD, and turned [their] backs.
 29:7  Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put
out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt
offerings in the holy [place] unto the God of Israel.
 29:8  Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and
Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to
astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
 29:9  For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our
sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for
this.
 29:10  Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the
LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from
us.
 29:11  My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen
you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should
minister unto him, and burn incense.
 29:12  Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and
Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of
the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son
of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah,
and Eden the son of Joah:
 29:13  And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of
the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
 29:14  And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of
the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
 29:15  And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified
themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king,
by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
 29:16  And the priests went into the inner part of the house
of the LORD, to cleanse [it], and brought out all the
uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the
court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to
carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron.
 29:17  Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to
sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the
porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they
made an end.
 29:18  Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We
have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt
offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread
table, with all the vessels thereof.
 29:19  Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign
did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and
sanctified, and, behold, they [are] before the altar of the
LORD.
 29:20  Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the
rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
 29:21  And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and
seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the
kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded
the priests the sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the altar of
the LORD.
 29:22  So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received
the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they
had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar:
they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon
the altar.
 29:23  And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin
offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid
their hands upon them:
 29:24  And the priests killed them, and they made
reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an
atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded [that] the
burnt offering and the sin offering [should be made] for all
Israel.
 29:25  And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with
cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the
commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan
the prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the LORD by his
prophets.
 29:26  And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,
and the priests with the trumpets.
 29:27  And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon
the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the
LORD began [also] with the trumpets, and with the instruments
[ordained] by David king of Israel.
 29:28  And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers
sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued]
until the burnt offering was finished.
 29:29  And when they had made an end of offering, the king and
all that were present with him bowed themselves, and
worshipped.
 29:30  Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded
the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of
David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with
gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
 29:31  Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have
consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring
sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And
the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and
as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
 29:32  And the number of the burnt offerings, which the
congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an
hundred rams, [and] two hundred lambs: all these [were] for a
burnt offering to the LORD.
 29:33  And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen and
three thousand sheep.
 29:34  But the priests were too few, so that they could not
flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the
Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the
[other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites
[were] more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the
priests.
 29:35  And also the burnt offerings [were] in abundance, with
the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for
[every] burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD
was set in order.
 29:36  And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had
prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly.

 30:1  And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote
letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to
the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto
the LORD God of Israel.
 30:2  For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all
the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the
second month.
 30:3  For they could not keep it at that time, because the
priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had
the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
 30:4  And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
 30:5  So they established a decree to make proclamation
throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they
should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at
Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such
sort] as it was written.
 30:6  So the posts went with the letters from the king and his
princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the
commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn
again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he
will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the
hand of the kings of Assyria.
 30:7  And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren,
which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who]
therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
 30:8  Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but]
yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary,
which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God,
that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
 30:9  For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and
your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead
them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for
the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn
away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.
 30:10  So the posts passed from city to city through the
country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they
laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
 30:11  Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of
Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
 30:12  Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one
heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by
the word of the LORD.
 30:13  And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep
the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great
congregation.
 30:14  And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in
Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and
cast [them] into the brook Kidron.
 30:15  Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day]
of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were
ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt
offerings into the house of the LORD.
 30:16  And they stood in their place after their manner,
according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests
sprinkled the blood, [which they received] of the hand of the
Levites.
 30:17  For [there were] many in the congregation that were not
sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing
of the passovers for every one [that was] not clean, to
sanctify [them] unto the LORD.
 30:18  For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim,
and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed
themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was
written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD
pardon every one
 30:19  [That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of
his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the
purification of the sanctuary.
 30:20  And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the
people.
 30:21  And the children of Israel that were present at
Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with
great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the
LORD day by day, [singing] with loud instruments unto the LORD.
 30:22  And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites
that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat
throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and
making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
 30:23  And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven
days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
 30:24  For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation
a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes
gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand
sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
 30:25  And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and
the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel,
and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that
dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
 30:26  So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time
of Solomon the son of David king of Israel [there was] not the
like in Jerusalem.
 30:27  Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the
people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up]
to his holy dwelling place, [even] unto heaven.

 31:1  Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were
present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images
in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high
places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim
also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all.
Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his
possession, into their own cities.
 31:2  And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and
the Levites after their courses, every man according to his
service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for
peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise
in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
 31:3  [He appointed] also the king's portion of his substance
for the burnt offerings, [to wit], for the morning and evening
burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and
for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as [it is] written
in the law of the LORD.
 31:4  Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem
to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they
might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
 31:5  And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children
of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine,
and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and
the tithe of all [things] brought they in abundantly.
 31:6  And [concerning] the children of Israel and Judah, that
dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of
oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were
consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid [them] by heaps.
 31:7  In the third month they began to lay the foundation of
the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.
 31:8  And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the
heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
 31:9  Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the
Levites concerning the heaps.
 31:10  And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok
answered him, and said, Since [the people] began to bring the
offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to
eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his
people; and that which is left [is] this great store.
 31:11  Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the
house of the LORD; and they prepared [them],
 31:12  And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the
dedicated [things] faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite
[was] ruler, and Shimei his brother [was] the next.
 31:13  And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and
Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath,
and Benaiah, [were] overseers under the hand of Cononiah and
Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king,
and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
 31:14  And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward
the east, [was] over the freewill offerings of God, to
distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
 31:15  And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and
Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests,
in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as
well to the great as to the small:
 31:16  Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old
and upward, [even] unto every one that entereth into the house
of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their
charges according to their courses;
 31:17  Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of
their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and
upward, in their charges by their courses;
 31:18  And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their
wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the
congregation: for in their set office they sanctified
themselves in holiness:
 31:19  Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, [which were] in
the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several
city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to
all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned
by genealogies among the Levites.
 31:20  And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought
[that which was] good and right and truth before the LORD his
God.
 31:21  And in every work that he began in the service of the
house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek
his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered.

 32:1  After these things, and the establishment thereof,
Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and
encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for
himself.
 32:2  And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and
that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
 32:3  He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to
stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city:
and they did help him.
 32:4  So there was gathered much people together, who stopped
all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of
the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and
find much water?
 32:5  Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall
that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another
wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and
made darts and shields in abundance.
 32:6  And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered
them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and
spake comfortably to them, saying,
 32:7  Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for
the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that [is] with
him: for [there be] more with us than with him:
 32:8  With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the LORD
our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people
rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
 32:9  After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his
servants to Jerusalem, (but he [himself laid siege] against
Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of
Judah, and unto all Judah that [were] at Jerusalem, saying,
 32:10  Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye
trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
 32:11  Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves
to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall
deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
 32:12  Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places
and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye
shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
 32:13  Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all
the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of
those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine
hand?
 32:14  Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations
that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his
people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to
deliver you out of mine hand?
 32:15  Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor
persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no
god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out
of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less
shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
 32:16  And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD God,
and against his servant Hezekiah.
 32:17  He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of
Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the
nations of [other] lands have not delivered their people out of
mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people
out of mine hand.
 32:18  Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech
unto the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to
affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the
city.
 32:19  And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against
the gods of the people of the earth, [which were] the work of
the hands of man.
 32:20  And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet
Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
 32:21  And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the
mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp
of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to
his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god,
they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the
sword.
 32:22  Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and
from the hand of all [other], and guided them on every side.
 32:23  And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and
presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in
the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
 32:24  In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and
prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a
sign.
 32:25  But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the
benefit [done] unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore
there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
 32:26  Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride
of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so
that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of
Hezekiah.
 32:27  And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and
he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for
precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all
manner of pleasant jewels;
 32:28  Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine,
and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for
flocks.
 32:29  Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of
flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance
very much.
 32:30  This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse
of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the
city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
 32:31  Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the
princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder
that was [done] in the land, God left him, to try him, that he
might know all [that was] in his heart.
 32:32  Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness,
behold, they [are] written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet,
the son of Amoz, [and] in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel.
 32:33  And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried
him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and
all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at
his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

 33:1  Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
 33:2  But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had
cast out before the children of Israel.
 33:3  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and
made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
them.
 33:4  Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof
the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
 33:5  And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of the house of the LORD.
 33:6  And he caused his children to pass through the fire in
the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and
used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a
familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
 33:7  And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made,
in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to
Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for
ever:
 33:8  Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from
out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so
that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them,
according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances
by the hand of Moses.
 33:9  So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
to err, [and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had
destroyed before the children of Israel.
 33:10  And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but
they would not hearken.
 33:11  Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of
the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the
thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
 33:12  And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his
God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
 33:13  And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and
heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into
his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.
 33:14  Now after this he built a wall without the city of
David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the
entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and
raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in
all the fenced cities of Judah.
 33:15  And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of
the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in
the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast
[them] out of the city.
 33:16  And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed
thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded
Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
 33:17  Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high
places, [yet] unto the LORD their God only.
 33:18  Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer
unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in
the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they [are written]
in the book of the kings of Israel.
 33:19  His prayer also, and [how God] was entreated of him,
and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he
built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before
he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of
the seers.
 33:20  So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him
in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
 33:21  Amon [was] two and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
 33:22  But he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all
the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and
served them;
 33:23  And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh
his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and
more.
 33:24  And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in
his own house.
 33:25  But the people of the land slew all them that had
conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made
Josiah his son king in his stead.

 34:1  Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
 34:2  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined
[neither] to the right hand, nor to the left.
 34:3  For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet
young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and
in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from
the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the
molten images.
 34:4  And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his
presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he
cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten
images, he brake in pieces, and made dust [of them], and
strowed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto
them.
 34:5  And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars,
and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
 34:6  And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim,
and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round
about.
 34:7  And when he had broken down the altars and the groves,
and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all
the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to
Jerusalem.
 34:8  Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had
purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of
Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the
son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his
God.
 34:9  And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they
delivered the money that was brought into the house of God,
which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand
of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and
of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
 34:10  And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had
the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the
workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and
amend the house:
 34:11  Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to
buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the
houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
 34:12  And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers
of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of
Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the
Kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levites,
all that could skill of instruments of music.
 34:13  Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and
[were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of
service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers,
and porters.
 34:14  And when they brought out the money that was brought
into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of
the law of the LORD [given] by Moses.
 34:15  And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I
have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And
Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
 34:16  And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought
the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy
servants, they do [it].
 34:17  And they have gathered together the money that was
found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the
hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
 34:18  Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah
the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the
king.
 34:19  And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words
of the law, that he rent his clothes.
 34:20  And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe,
and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
 34:21  Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are
left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book
that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is
poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word
of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
 34:22  And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed],
went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of
Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she
dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to
that [effect].
 34:23  And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
 34:24  Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon
this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the
curses that are written in the book which they have read before
the king of Judah:
 34:25  Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense
unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all
the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured
out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
 34:26  And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire
of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;
 34:27  Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble
thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this
place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst
thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before
me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.
 34:28  Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou
shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine
eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and
upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word
again.
 34:29  Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders
of Judah and Jerusalem.
 34:30  And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and
all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the
priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small:
and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the
covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
 34:31  And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant
before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his
commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all
his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the
covenant which are written in this book.
 34:32  And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and
Benjamin to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did
according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
 34:33  And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all
the countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and
made all that were present in Israel to serve, [even] to serve
the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed not from
following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

 35:1  Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in
Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day]
of the first month.
 35:2  And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged
them to the service of the house of the LORD,
 35:3  And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which
were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which
Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; [it shall]
not [be] a burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the LORD
your God, and his people Israel,
 35:4  And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers,
after your courses, according to the writing of David king of
Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
 35:5  And stand in the holy [place] according to the divisions
of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and
[after] the division of the families of the Levites.
 35:6  So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and
prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word
of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
 35:7  And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and
kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were
present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand
bullocks: these [were] of the king's substance.
 35:8  And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the
priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,
rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the
passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle],
and three hundred oxen.
 35:9  Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren,
and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave
unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand [small
cattle], and five hundred oxen.
 35:10  So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in
their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the
king's commandment.
 35:11  And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled
[the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
 35:12  And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might
give according to the divisions of the families of the people,
to offer unto the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of
Moses. And so [did they] with the oxen.
 35:13  And they roasted the passover with fire according to
the ordinance: but the [other] holy [offerings] sod they in
pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided [them] speedily
among all the people.
 35:14  And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for
the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron [were
busied] in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night;
therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the
priests the sons of Aaron.
 35:15  And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their
place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and
Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters [waited]
at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for
their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
 35:16  So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same
day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon
the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king
Josiah.
 35:17  And the children of Israel that were present kept the
passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven
days.
 35:18  And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel
from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings
of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests,
and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 35:19  In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this
passover kept.
 35:20  After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple,
Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by
Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
 35:21  But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to
do with thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee
this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God
commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from [meddling with]
God, who [is] with me, that he destroy thee not.
 35:22  Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him,
but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and
hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God,
and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
 35:23  And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said
to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
 35:24  His servants therefore took him out of that chariot,
and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought
him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in [one of] the
sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned
for Josiah.
 35:25  And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing
men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations
to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold,
they [are] written in the lamentations.
 35:26  Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness,
according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD,
 35:27  And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are]
written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

 36:1  Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
 36:2  Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
 36:3  And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and
condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent
of gold.
 36:4  And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over
Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And
Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
 36:5  Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did
[that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
 36:6  Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and
bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
 36:7  Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house
of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
 36:8  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his
abominations which he did, and that which was found in him,
behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
 36:9  Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he
did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
 36:10  And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar
sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of
the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over
Judah and Jerusalem.
 36:11  Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
 36:12  And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD his God, [and] humbled not himself before Jeremiah the
prophet [speaking] from the mouth of the LORD.
 36:13  And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who
had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and
hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
 36:14  Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,
transgressed very much after all the abominations of the
heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had
hallowed in Jerusalem.
 36:15  And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his
messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had
compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
 36:16  But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his
words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD
arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy.
 36:17  Therefore he brought upon them the king of the
Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house
of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or
maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them]
all into his hand.
 36:18  And all the vessels of the house of God, great and
small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king, and of his princes; all [these] he
brought to Babylon.
 36:19  And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the
wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire,
and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
 36:20  And them that had escaped from the sword carried he
away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons
until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
 36:21  To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as
long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore
and ten years.
 36:22  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the
word of the LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of
Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and [put it] also in writing, saying,
 36:23  Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of
the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath
charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in
Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD his
God [be] with him, and let him go up.