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II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 1:5 Moreover the brasen 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.
II CHRONICLES 1:6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar
before the Lord, which {was} at the tabernacle of the
congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
II CHRONICLES 1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and
said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
II CHRONICLES 1:8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed
great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in
his stead.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 1:15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem
{as plenteous} as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore
trees that {are} in the vale for abundance.
II CHRONICLES 1:16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt,
and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a
price.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 2:1 And Solomon determined to build an house for
the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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}.
II CHRONICLES 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 shewbread, 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.
II CHRONICLES 2:5 And the house which I build {is} great: for
great {is} our God above all gods.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 2:9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the
house which I am about to build {shall be} wonderful great.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 2:13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with
understanding, of Huram my father's,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 3:2 And he began to build in the second {day} of
the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 3:5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree,
which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and
chains.
II CHRONICLES 3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones
for beauty: and the gold was gold of parvaim.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 3:9 And the weight of the nails {was} fifty shekels
of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
II CHRONICLES 3:10 And in the most holy house he made two
cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves
forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their
faces {were} inward.
II CHRONICLES 3:14 And he made the vail {of} blue, and purple,
and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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 basons of gold.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 4:10 And he set the sea on the right side of the
east end, over against the south.
II CHRONICLES 4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and
the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for
king Solomon for the house of God;
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 4:14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon
the bases;
II CHRONICLES 4:15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them,
in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
II CHRONICLES 4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great
abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
II CHRONICLES 4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that {were
for} the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables
whereon the shewbread {was set};
II CHRONICLES 4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps,
that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure
gold;
II CHRONICLES 4:21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs,
{made he of} gold, {and} that perfect gold;
II CHRONICLES 4:22 And the snuffers, and the basons, 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled
themselves unto the king in the feast which {was} in the seventh
month.
II CHRONICLES 5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the
Levites took up the ark.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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:)
II CHRONICLES 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 musick, 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 6:1 Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he
would dwell in the thick darkness.
II CHRONICLES 6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for
thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
II CHRONICLES 6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the
whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel
stood.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might
be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 6:13 For Solomon had made a brasen 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.
II CHRONICLES 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 {shewest} mercy unto thy servants, that walk before
thee with all their hearts:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 6:17 Now then, O Lord God of Israel, let thy word
be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
II CHRONICLES 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!
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be
pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or
caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of
their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness {there be}:
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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:)
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer
and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 6:42 O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine
anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 7:4 Then the king and all the people offered
sacrifices before the Lord.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the
Levites also with instruments of musick 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.
II CHRONICLES 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 brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to
receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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 shewed unto
David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears
attent unto the prayer {that is made} in this place.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 8:2 That the cities which Huram had restored to
Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to
dwell there.
II CHRONICLES 8:3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed
against it.
II CHRONICLES 8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all
the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
II CHRONICLES 8:5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and
Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 8:10 And these {were} the chief of king Solomon's
officers, {even} two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the
people.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the
Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the
porch,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of
the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or
concerning the treasures.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 8:17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth,
at the sea side in the land of Edom.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and
there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
II CHRONICLES 9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom
of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 9:7 Happy {are} thy men, and happy {are} these thy
servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy
wisdom.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the
servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum
trees and precious stones.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in
one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets {of}
beaten gold: six hundred {shekels} of beaten gold went to one
target.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of
ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the
earth in riches and wisdom.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as
stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that {are}
in the low plains in abundance.
II CHRONICLES 9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of
Egypt, and out of all lands.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all
Israel forty years.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem
were all Israel come to make him king.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 10:3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and
all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 10:5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me
after three days. And the people departed.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king
Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 10:17 But {as for} the children of Israel that
dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of
David unto this day.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 11:2 But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the
man of God, saying,
II CHRONICLES 11:3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king
of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built
cities for defence in Judah.
II CHRONICLES 11:6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
II CHRONICLES 11:7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
II CHRONICLES 11:8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
II CHRONICLES 11:9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
II CHRONICLES 11:10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which
{are} in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
II CHRONICLES 11:11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put
captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
II CHRONICLES 11:12 And in every several city {he put} shields
and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and
Benjamin on his side.
II CHRONICLES 11:13 And the priests and the Levites that {were}
in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high
places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 11:19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and
Shamariah, and Zaham.
II CHRONICLES 11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of
Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and
Shelomith.
II CHRONICLES 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.)
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 12:4 And he took the fenced cities which
{pertained} to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king
humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord {is} righteous.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that
they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the
countries.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his
heart to seek the Lord.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his
stead.
II CHRONICLES 13:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam
began Abijah to reign over Judah.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which
{is} in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all
Israel;
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 13:11 And they burn unto the Lord every morning and
every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread
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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come
about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment
{was} behind them.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah:
and God delivered them into their hand.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again
in the days of Abijah: and the Lord struck him, and he died.
II CHRONICLES 13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen
wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 14:2 And Asa did {that which was} good and right in
the eyes of the Lord his God:
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of
their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 14:10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set
the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 14:12 So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa,
and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and
carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to
Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the
son of Oded:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 15:3 Now for a long season Israel {hath been}
without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without
law.
II CHRONICLES 15:4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto
the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found of them.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 15:6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city
of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
II CHRONICLES 15:7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands
be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 15:10 So they gathered themselves together at
Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign
of Asa.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 15:14 And they sware unto the Lord with a loud
voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 15:17 But the high places were not taken away out
of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his
days.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 15:19 And there was no {more} war unto the five and
thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard {it},
that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro
throughout the whole earth, to shew 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in
the one and fortieth year of his reign.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead,
and strengthened himself against Israel.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 17:3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he
walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto
Baalim;
II CHRONICLES 17:4 But sought to the {Lord} God of his father,
and walked in His commandments, and not after the doings of
Israel.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 17:12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and
he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
II CHRONICLES 17:13 And he had much business in the cities of
Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, {were} in
Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 17:15 And next to him {was} Jehohanan the captain,
and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 17:17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of
valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred
thousand.
II CHRONICLES 17:18 And next him {was} Jehozabad, and with him an
hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
II CHRONICLES 17:19 These waited on the king, beside {those} whom
the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
II CHRONICLES 18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in
abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 18:4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel,
Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord to day.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, {Is there} not here a
prophet of the Lord besides, that we might inquire of him?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 18:8 And the king of Israel called for one {of his}
officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 18:13 And Micaiah said, {As} the Lord liveth, even
what my God saith, that will I speak.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on
that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide
thyself.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the
king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 19:1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to
his house in peace to Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all
the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do
in the fear of the Lord, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to
seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of
Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new
court,
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a
sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 20:13 And all Judah stood before the Lord, with
their little ones, their wives, and their children.
II CHRONICLES 20:14 Then upon Jahaziel the son 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries
and harps and trumpets unto the house of the Lord.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for
his God gave him rest round about.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah
join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
II CHRONICLES 20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships
to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 21:5 Jehoram {was} thirty and two years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under
the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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}.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the Lord
smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy
goods:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 21:16 Moreover the Lord stirred up against Jehoram
the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that {were}
near the Ethiopians:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 21:18 And after all this the Lord smote him in his
bowels with an incurable disease.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of
Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.
II CHRONICLES 22:4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the Lord
like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellers after the
death of his father to his destruction.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 22:12 And he was with them hid in the house of God
six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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
musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her
clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and
the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the
sword.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 24:2 And Joash did {that which was} right in the
sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
II CHRONICLES 24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he
begat sons and daughters.
II CHRONICLES 24:4 And it came to pass after this, {that} Joash
was minded to repair the house of the Lord.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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}.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 25:2 And he did {that which was} right in the sight
of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 25:6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men
of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel,
and they fled every man to his tent.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried
him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah,
after that the king slept with his fathers.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 26:4 And he did {that which was} right in the sight
of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines,
and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers
of the mighty men of valour {were} two thousand and six hundred.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and
with him fourscore priests of the Lord, {that were} valiant men:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and
last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the
Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
II CHRONICLES 27:4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of
Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared
his ways before the Lord his God.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of
Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the
high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the
spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the
kings of Assyria to help him.
II CHRONICLES 28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten
Judah, and carried away captives.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 28:20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto
him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 28:22 And in the time of his distress did he
trespass yet more against the Lord: this {is that} king Ahaz.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 29:2 And he did {that which was} right in the sight
of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites,
and gathered them together into the east street,
II CHRONICLES 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}.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and
Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
II CHRONICLES 29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei:
and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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
shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and
gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the
Lord.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of
David, and the priests with the trumpets.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 29:29 And when they had made an end of offering,
the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and
worshipped.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 29:33 And the consecrated things {were} six hundred
oxen and three thousand sheep.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people,
that God had prepared the people: for the thing was {done}
suddenly.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the
congregation.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and
of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people
to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very
great congregation.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 30:20 And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and
healed the people.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep
other seven days: and they kept {other} seven days with gladness.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 31:7 In the third month they began to lay the
foundation of the heaps, and finished {them} in the seventh
month.
II CHRONICLES 31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw
the heaps, they blessed the Lord, and his people Israel.
II CHRONICLES 31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and
the Levites concerning the heaps.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers
in the house of the Lord; and they prepared {them},
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah,
and wrought {that which was} good and right and truth before the
Lord his God.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was
come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 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?
II CHRONICLES 32:16 And his servants spake yet {more} against the
Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
II CHRONICLES 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 mine
hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of
mine hand.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 32:20 And for this {cause} Hezekiah the king, and
the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 32:28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn,
and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes
for flocks.
II CHRONICLES 32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and
possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given
him substance very much.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 33:1 Manasseh {was} twelve years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven
in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 33:10 And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his
people: but they would not hearken.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought
the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of
his fathers,
II CHRONICLES 33:13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of
him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to
Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he
{was} God.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 33:17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still
in the high places, {yet} unto the Lord their God only.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 33:19 His prayer also, and {how God} was intreated
of him, and all his sin, 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.
II CHRONICLES 33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his
stead.
II CHRONICLES 33:21 Amon {was} two and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 33:23 And humbled not himself before the Lord, as
Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more
and more.
II CHRONICLES 33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and
slew him in his own house.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 34:1 Josiah {was} eight years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon
their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 34:6 And {so did he} in the cities of Manasseh, and
Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks
round about.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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 musick.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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}.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard
the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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}.
II CHRONICLES 34:23 And she answered them, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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;
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all
the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and
encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord,
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests
sprinkled {the blood} from their hands, and the Levites flayed
{them}.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 35:17 And the children of Israel that were present
kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread
seven days.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah
was this passover kept.
II CHRONICLES 35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the
temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish
by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the
king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 35:27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they
{are} written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 36:2 Jehoahaz {was} twenty and three years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
II CHRONICLES 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of
the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at
Babylon.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 36:11 Zedekiah {was} one and twenty years old when
he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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:
II CHRONICLES 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.
II CHRONICLES 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,
II CHRONICLES 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.