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II KINGS 1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of
Ahab.
II KINGS 1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper
chamber that {was} in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent
messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god
of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
II KINGS 1:3 But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the
Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of
Samaria, and say unto them, {Is it} not because {there is} not a
God in Israel, {that} ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of
Ekron?
II KINGS 1:4 Now therefore thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not
come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die. And Elijah departed.
II KINGS 1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he
said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
II KINGS 1:6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet
us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you,
and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, {Is it} not because {there
is} not a God in Israel, {that} thou sendest to inquire of
Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down
from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
II KINGS 1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man {was he}
which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
II KINGS 1:8 And they answered him, {He was} an hairy man, and
girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It
{is} Elijah the Tishbite.
II KINGS 1:9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with
his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top
of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath
said, Come down.
II KINGS 1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of
fifty, If I {be} a man of God, then let fire come down from
heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire
from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
II KINGS 1:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of
fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of
God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
II KINGS 1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I {be} a
man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and
thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and
consumed him and his fifty.
II KINGS 1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with
his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and
fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto
him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of
these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
II KINGS 1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt
up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties:
therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
II KINGS 1:15 And the angel of the Lord said unto Elijah, Go down
with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with
him unto the king.
II KINGS 1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord,
Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub
the god of Ekron, {is it} not because {there is} no God in Israel
to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off
that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
II KINGS 1:17 So he died according to the word of the Lord which
Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second
year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he
had no son.
II KINGS 1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did,
{are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
II KINGS 2:1 And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up
Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha
from Gilgal.
II KINGS 2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray
thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said {unto
him, As} the Lord liveth, and {as} thy soul liveth, I will not
leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
II KINGS 2:3 And the sons of the prophets that {were} at Bethel
came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the
Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said,
Yea, I know {it}; hold ye your peace.
II KINGS 2:4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray
thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, {As} the
Lord liveth, and {as} thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So
they came to Jericho.
II KINGS 2:5 And the sons of the prophets that {were} at Jericho
came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord
will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered,
Yea, I know {it}; hold ye your peace.
II KINGS 2:6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here;
for the Lord hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, {As} the Lord
liveth, and {as} thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they
two went on.
II KINGS 2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and
stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
II KINGS 2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped {it}
together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and
thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
II KINGS 2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that
Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I
be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a
double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
II KINGS 2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing:
{nevertheless}, if thou see me {when I am} taken from thee, it
shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be {so}.
II KINGS 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and
talked, that, behold, {there appeared} a chariot of fire, and
horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up
by a whirlwind into heaven.
II KINGS 2:12 And Elisha saw {it}, and he cried, My father, my
father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he
saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent
them in two pieces.
II KINGS 2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
II KINGS 2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and smote the waters, and said, Where {is} the Lord God of
Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted
hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
II KINGS 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which {were} to
view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth
rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves
to the ground before him.
II KINGS 2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with
thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and
seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath
taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some
valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
II KINGS 2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he
said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three
days, but found him not.
II KINGS 2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at
Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
II KINGS 2:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I
pray thee, the situation of this city {is} pleasant, as my lord
seeth: but the water {is} naught, and the ground barren.
II KINGS 2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt
therein. And they brought {it} to him.
II KINGS 2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters,
and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have
healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more
death or barren {land}.
II KINGS 2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according
to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
II KINGS 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he
was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of
the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald
head; go up, thou bald head.
II KINGS 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed
them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears
out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
II KINGS 2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from
thence he returned to Samaria.
II KINGS 3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over
Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, and reigned twelve years.
II KINGS 3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord; but
not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the
image of Baal that his father had made.
II KINGS 3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not
therefrom.
II KINGS 3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and
rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and
an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
II KINGS 3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the
king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
II KINGS 3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time,
and numbered all Israel.
II KINGS 3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat The king of
Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt
thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go
up: I {am} as thou {art}, my people as thy people, {and} my
horses as thy horses.
II KINGS 3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he
answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
II KINGS 3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah,
and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days'
journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle
that followed them.
II KINGS 3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord
hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the
hand of Moab!
II KINGS 3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, {Is there} not here a prophet
of the Lord, that we may inquire of the Lord by him? And one of
the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here {is} Elisha
the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
II KINGS 3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the Lord is with
him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom
went down to him.
II KINGS 3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have
I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to
the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him,
Nay: for the Lord hath called these three kings together, to
deliver them into the hand of Moab.
II KINGS 3:14 And Elisha said, {As} the Lord of hosts liveth,
before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the
presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look
toward thee, nor see thee.
II KINGS 3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass,
when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon
him.
II KINGS 3:16 And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley
full of ditches.
II KINGS 3:17 For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind,
neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with
water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your
beasts.
II KINGS 3:18 And this is {but} a light thing in the sight of the
Lord: He will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
II KINGS 3:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every
choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells
of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
II KINGS 3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat
offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way
of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
II KINGS 3:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were
come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able
to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
II KINGS 3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun
shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other
side {as} red as blood:
II KINGS 3:23 And they said, This {is} blood: the kings are
surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore,
Moab, to the spoil.
II KINGS 3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the
Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled
before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in
{their} country.
II KINGS 3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good
piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they
stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees:
only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the
slingers went about {it}, and smote it.
II KINGS 3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was
too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew
swords, to break through {even} unto the king of Edom: but they
could not.
II KINGS 3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have
reigned in his stead, and offered him {for} a burnt offering upon
the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and
they departed from him, and returned to {their own} land.
II KINGS 4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the
sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband
is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and
the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
II KINGS 4:2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee?
tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine
handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
II KINGS 4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all
thy neighbours, {even} empty vessels; borrow not a few.
II KINGS 4:4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door
upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those
vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
II KINGS 4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and
upon her sons, who brought {the vessels} to her; and she poured
out.
II KINGS 4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full,
that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said
unto her, {There is} not a vessel more.  And the oil stayed.
II KINGS 4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said,
Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy
children of the rest.
II KINGS 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem,
where {was} a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread.
And {so} it was, {that} as oft as he passed by, he turned in
thither to eat bread.
II KINGS 4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I
perceive that this {is} an holy man of God, which passeth by us
continually.
II KINGS 4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the
wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a
stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us,
that he shall turn in thither.
II KINGS 4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he
turned into the chamber, and lay there.
II KINGS 4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this
Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
II KINGS 4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold,
thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what {is} to be
done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the
captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own
people.
II KINGS 4:14 And he said, What then {is} to be done for her? And
Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is
old.
II KINGS 4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her,
she stood in the door.
II KINGS 4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the
time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my
lord, {thou} man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
II KINGS 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that
season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of
life.
II KINGS 4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day,
that he went out to his father to the reapers.
II KINGS 4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And
he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
II KINGS 4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his
mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and {then} died.
II KINGS 4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man
of God, and shut {the door} upon him, and went out.
II KINGS 4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me,
I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I
may run to the man of God, and come again.
II KINGS 4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day?
{it is} neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, {It shall
be} well.
II KINGS 4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant,
Drive, and go forward; slack not {thy} riding for me, except I
bid thee.
II KINGS 4:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount
Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar
off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, {yonder is} that
Shunammite:
II KINGS 4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto
her, {Is it} well with thee? {is it} well with thy husband? {is
it} well with the child? And she answered, {It is} well:
II KINGS 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill,
she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her
away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul {is}
vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid {it} from me, and hath
not told me.
II KINGS 4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I
not say, Do not deceive me?
II KINGS 4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take
my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man,
salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and
lay my staff upon the face of the child.
II KINGS 4:30 And the mother of the child said, {As} the Lord
liveth, and {as} thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he
arose, and followed her.
II KINGS 4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the
staff upon the face of the child; but {there was} neither voice,
nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him,
saying, The child is not awaked.
II KINGS 4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold,
the child was dead, {and} laid upon his bed.
II KINGS 4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them
twain, and prayed unto the Lord.
II KINGS 4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his
mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands
upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the
flesh of the child waxed warm.
II KINGS 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and
fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child
sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
II KINGS 4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this
Shunammite. So he called her.  And when she was come in unto him,
he said, Take up thy son.
II KINGS 4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed
herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
II KINGS 4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and {there was} a
dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets {were} sitting
before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot,
and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
II KINGS 4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs,
and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap
full, and came and shred {them} into the pot of pottage: for they
knew {them} not.
II KINGS 4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came
to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out,
and said, O {thou} man of God, {there is} death in the pot. And
they could not eat {thereof}.
II KINGS 4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast {it} into
the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat.
And there was no harm in the pot.
II KINGS 4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought
the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley,
and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto
the people, that they may eat.
II KINGS 4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this
before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they
may eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave
{thereof}.
II KINGS 4:44 So he set {it} before them, and they did eat, and
left {thereof}, according to the word of the Lord.
II KINGS 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of
Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because
by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a
mighty man in valour, {but he was} a leper.
II KINGS 5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had
brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and
she waited on Naaman's wife.
II KINGS 5:3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord
{were} with the prophet that {is} in Samaria! for he would
recover him of his leprosy.
II KINGS 5:4 And {one} went in, and told his Lord, saying, Thus
and thus said the maid that {is} of the land of Israel.
II KINGS 5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will
send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took
with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand {pieces} of
gold, and ten changes of raiment.
II KINGS 5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel,
saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have
{therewith} sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest
recover him of his leprosy.
II KINGS 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had
read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, {Am} I God,
to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to
recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and
see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
II KINGS 5:8 And it was {so}, when Elisha the man of God had
heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent
to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let
him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in
Israel.
II KINGS 5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot,
and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
II KINGS 5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go
and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to
thee, and thou shalt be clean.
II KINGS 5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said,
Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and
call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over
the place, and recover the leper.
II KINGS 5:12 {Are} not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus,
better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and
be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
II KINGS 5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and
said, My father, {if} the prophet had bid thee {do some} great
thing, wouldest thou not have done {it}? how much rather then,
when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
II KINGS 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times
in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his
flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he
was clean.
II KINGS 5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his
company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now
I know that {there is} no God in all the earth, but in Israel:
now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
II KINGS 5:16 But he said, {As} the Lord liveth, before whom I
stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take {it}; but he
refused.
II KINGS 5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee,
be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy
servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor
sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the Lord.
II KINGS 5:18 In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, {that}
when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there,
and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of
Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord
pardon thy servant in this thing.
II KINGS 5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed
from him a little way.
II KINGS 5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God,
said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not
receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, {as} the Lord
liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
II KINGS 5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman
saw {him} running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to
meet him, and said, {Is} all well?
II KINGS 5:22 And he said, All {is} well. My master hath sent me,
saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim
two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray
thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
II KINGS 5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And
he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with
two changes of garments, and laid {them} upon two of his
servants; and they bare {them} before him.
II KINGS 5:24 And when he came to the tower, he took {them} from
their hand, and bestowed {them} in the house: and he let the men
go, and they departed.
II KINGS 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And
Elisha said unto him, Whence {comest thou}, Gehazi? And he said,
Thy servant went no whither.
II KINGS 5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart {with
thee}, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee?
{Is it} a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and
oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants,
and maidservants?
II KINGS 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto
thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his
presence a leper {as white} as snow.
II KINGS 6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha,
Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for
us.
II KINGS 6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take
thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where
we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
II KINGS 6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with
thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
II KINGS 6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan,
they cut down wood.
II KINGS 6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell
into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was
borrowed.
II KINGS 6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he
shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast {it} in
thither; and the iron did swim.
II KINGS 6:7 Therefore said he, Take {it} up to thee. And he put
out his hand, and took it.
II KINGS 6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and
took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place
{shall be} my camp.
II KINGS 6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel,
saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the
Syrians are come down.
II KINGS 6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the
man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there,
not once nor twice.
II KINGS 6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore
troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said
unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us {is} for the king of
Israel?
II KINGS 6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O
king: but Elisha, the prophet that {is} in Israel, telleth the
king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
II KINGS 6:13 And he said, Go and spy where he {is}, that I may
send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, {he is}
in Dothan.
II KINGS 6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and
a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city
about.
II KINGS 6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen
early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both
with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my
master! how shall we do?
II KINGS 6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that {be} with
us {are} more than they that {be} with them.
II KINGS 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee,
open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of
the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain {was} full
of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
II KINGS 6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto
the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with
blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word
of Elisha.
II KINGS 6:19 And Elisha said unto them, This {is} not the way,
neither {is} this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to
the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
II KINGS 6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into
Samaria, that Elisha said, Lord, open the eyes of these {men},
that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw;
and, behold, {they were} in the midst of Samaria.
II KINGS 6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he
saw them, My father, shall I smite {them}? shall I smite {them}?
II KINGS 6:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite {them}:
wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy
sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that
they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
II KINGS 6:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when
they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to
their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of
Israel.
II KINGS 6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king
of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged
Samaria.
II KINGS 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and,
behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was {sold} for
fourscore {pieces} of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of
dove's dung for five {pieces} of silver.
II KINGS 6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the
wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O
king.
II KINGS 6:27 And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence
shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
II KINGS 6:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And
she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may
eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
II KINGS 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said
unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and
she hath hid her son.
II KINGS 6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words
of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the
wall, and the people looked, and, behold, {he had} sackcloth
within upon his flesh.
II KINGS 6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the
head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
II KINGS 6:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat
with him; and {the king} sent a man from before him: but ere the
messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son
of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head?  look, when the
messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door:
{is} not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
II KINGS 6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the
messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil {is}
of the Lord; what should I wait for the Lord any longer?
II KINGS 7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus
saith the Lord, To morrow about this time {shall} a measure of
fine flour {be sold} for a shekel, and two measures of barley for
a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
II KINGS 7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered
the man of God, and said, Behold, {if} the Lord would make
windows in heaven, might this thing be?  And he said, Behold,
thou shalt see {it} with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
II KINGS 7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in
of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until
we die?
II KINGS 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the
famine {is} in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit
still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto
the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live;
and if they kill us, we shall but die.
II KINGS 7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the
camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost
part of the camp of Syria, behold, {there was} no man there.
II KINGS 7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to
hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, {even} the noise
of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of
Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the
kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
II KINGS 7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and
left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the
camp as it {was}, and fled for their life.
II KINGS 7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of
the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and
carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid
{it}; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried
thence {also}, and went and hid {it}.
II KINGS 7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this
day {is} a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we
tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us:
now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
II KINGS 7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the
city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the
Syrians, and, behold, {there was} no man there, neither voice of
man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they
{were}.
II KINGS 7:11 And he called the porters; and they told {it} to
the king's house within.
II KINGS 7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his
servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us.
They know that we {be} hungry; therefore are they gone out of the
camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out
of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
II KINGS 7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let
{some} take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which
are left in the city, (behold, they {are} as all the multitude of
Israel that are left in it: behold, {I say}, they {are} even as
all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let
us send and see.
II KINGS 7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the
king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
II KINGS 7:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all
the way {was} full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had
cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told
the king.
II KINGS 7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of
the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was {sold} for a shekel,
and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of
the Lord.
II KINGS 7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he
leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon
him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who
spake when the king came down to him.
II KINGS 7:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to
the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a
measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this
time in the gate of Samaria:
II KINGS 7:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said,
Now, behold, {if} the Lord should make windows in heaven, might
such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with
thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
II KINGS 7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode
upon him in the gate, and he died.
II KINGS 8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had
restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household,
and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath
called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven
years.
II KINGS 8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the
man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the
land of the Philistines seven years.
II KINGS 8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that
the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she
went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
II KINGS 8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the
man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things
that Elisha hath done.
II KINGS 8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how
he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman,
whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her
house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this
{is} the woman, and this {is} her son, whom Elisha restored to
life.
II KINGS 8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So
the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore
all that {was} hers, and all the fruits of the field since the
day that she left the land, even until now.
II KINGS 8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king
of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is
come hither.
II KINGS 8:8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in
thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord
by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
II KINGS 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with
him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden,
and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of
Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?
II KINGS 8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou
mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath shewed me that he
shall surely die.
II KINGS 8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he
was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
II KINGS 8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he
answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the
children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and
their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash
their children, and rip up their women with child.
II KINGS 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, {is} thy servant a dog,
that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord
hath shewed me that thou {shalt be} king over Syria.
II KINGS 8:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master;
who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He
told me {that} thou shouldest surely recover.
II KINGS 8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a
thick cloth, and dipped {it} in water, and spread {it} on his
face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king
of Israel, Jehoshaphat {being} then king of Judah, Jehoram the
son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
II KINGS 8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
II KINGS 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as
did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and
he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
II KINGS 8:19 Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for David his
servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light,
{and} to his children.
II KINGS 8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of
Judah, and made a king over themselves.
II KINGS 8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots
with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which
compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the
people fled into their tents.
II KINGS 8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto
this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
II KINGS 8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he
did, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
II KINGS 8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son
reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king
of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to
reign.
II KINGS 8:26 Two and twenty years old {was} Ahaziah when he
began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name {was} Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of
Israel.
II KINGS 8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and
did evil in the sight of the Lord, as {did} the house of Ahab:
for he {was} the son in law of the house of Ahab.
II KINGS 8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war
against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians
wounded Joram.
II KINGS 8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of
the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he
fought against Hazael king of Syria.  And Ahaziah the son of
Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in
Jezreel, because he was sick.
II KINGS 9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of
the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this
box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
II KINGS 9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu
the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him
arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner
chamber;
II KINGS 9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour {it} on his head,
and say, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king over
Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
II KINGS 9:4 So the young man, {even} the young man the prophet,
went to Ramothgilead.
II KINGS 9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host
{were} sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain.
And Jehu said, Unto which of all us?  And he said, To thee, O
captain.
II KINGS 9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured
the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God
of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the Lord,
{even} over Israel.
II KINGS 9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master,
that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the
blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.
II KINGS 9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will
cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that
is shut up and left in Israel:
II KINGS 9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son
of Ahijah:
II KINGS 9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of
Jezreel, and {there shall be} none to bury {her}. And he opened
the door, and fled.
II KINGS 9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord:
and {one} said unto him, {Is} all well? wherefore came this mad
{fellow} to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his
communication.
II KINGS 9:12 And they said, {It is} false; tell us now. And he
said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
I have anointed thee king over Israel.
II KINGS 9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment,
and put {it} under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with
trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
II KINGS 9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi
conspired against Joram.  (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he
and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
II KINGS 9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel
of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought
with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds,
{then} let none go forth {nor} escape out of the city to go to
tell {it} in Jezreel.
II KINGS 9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for
Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see
Joram.
II KINGS 9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel,
and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a
company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them,
and let him say, {Is it} peace?
II KINGS 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and
said, Thus saith the king, {Is it} peace? And Jehu said, What
hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman
told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not
again.
II KINGS 9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came
to them, and said, Thus saith the king, {Is it} peace? And Jehu
answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
II KINGS 9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto
them, and cometh not again: and the driving {is} like the driving
of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
II KINGS 9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was
made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah
went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu,
and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
II KINGS 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he
said, {Is it} peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long
as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts {are
so} many?
II KINGS 9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to
Ahaziah, {There is} treachery, O Ahaziah.
II KINGS 9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and
smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his
heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
II KINGS 9:25 Then said {Jehu} to Bidkar his captain, Take up,
{and} cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the
Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together
after Ahab his father, the Lord laid this burden upon him;
II KINGS 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth,
and the blood of his sons, saith the Lord; and I will requite
thee in this plat, saith the Lord. Now therefore take {and} cast
him into the plat {of ground}, according to the word of the Lord.
II KINGS 9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw {this}, he
fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him,
and said, Smite him also in the chariot. {And they did so} at the
going up to Gur, which {is} by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo,
and died there.
II KINGS 9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to
Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in
the city of David.
II KINGS 9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab
began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
II KINGS 9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard
{of it}; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked
out at a window.
II KINGS 9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, {Had}
Zimri peace, who slew his master?
II KINGS 9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said,
Who {is} on my side?  who? And there looked out to him two {or}
three eunuchs.
II KINGS 9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her
down: and {some} of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on
the horses: and he trode her under foot.
II KINGS 9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and
said, Go, see now this cursed {woman}, and bury her: for she {is}
a king's daughter.
II KINGS 9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more
of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of {her}
hands.
II KINGS 9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he
said, This {is} the word of the Lord, which he spake by his
servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel
shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
II KINGS 9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon
the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; {so} that they
shall not say, This {is} Jezebel.
II KINGS 10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu
wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel,
to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's {children},
saying,
II KINGS 10:2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing
your master's sons {are} with you, and {there are} with you
chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
II KINGS 10:3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's
sons, and set {him} on his father's throne, and fight for your
master's house.
II KINGS 10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold,
two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
II KINGS 10:5 And he that {was} over the house, and he that {was}
over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up {of the
children}, sent to Jehu, saying, We {are} thy servants, and will
do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou
{that which is} good in thine eyes.
II KINGS 10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them,
saying, If ye {be} mine, and {if} ye will hearken unto my voice,
take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me
to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, {being}
seventy persons, {were} with the great men of the city, which
brought them up.
II KINGS 10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them,
that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put
their heads in baskets, and sent him {them} to Jezreel.
II KINGS 10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying,
They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay
ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the
morning.
II KINGS 10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went
out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye {be} righteous:
behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew
all these?
II KINGS 10:10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth
nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning
the house of Ahab: for the Lord hath done {that} which he spake
by his servant Elijah.
II KINGS 10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of
Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and
his priests, until he left him none remaining.
II KINGS 10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria.
{And} as he {was} at the shearing house in the way,
II KINGS 10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of
Judah, and said, Who {are} ye? And they answered, We {are} the
brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the
king and the children of the queen.
II KINGS 10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them
alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, {even} two
and forty men; neither left he any of them.
II KINGS 10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on
Jehonadab the son of Rechab {coming} to meet him: and he saluted
him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart {is} with
thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give {me}
thine hand. And he gave {him} his hand; and he took him up to him
into the chariot.
II KINGS 10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the
Lord. So they made him ride in his chariot.
II KINGS 10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that
remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him,
according to the saying of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah.
II KINGS 10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and
said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; {but} Jehu shall serve
him much.
II KINGS 10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of
Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting:
for I have a great sacrifice {to do} to Baal; whosoever shall be
wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did {it} in subtilty, to the
intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
II KINGS 10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for
Baal. And they proclaimed {it}.
II KINGS 10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the
worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that
came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of
Baal was full from one end to another.
II KINGS 10:22 And he said unto him that {was} over the vestry,
Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he
brought them forth vestments.
II KINGS 10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab,
into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal,
Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants
of the Lord, but the worshippers of Baal only.
II KINGS 10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and
burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said,
{If} any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape,
{he that letteth him go}, his life {shall be} for the life of
him.
II KINGS 10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end
of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and
to the captains, Go in, {and} slay them; let none come forth. And
they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the
captains cast {them} out, and went to the city of the house of
Baal.
II KINGS 10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house
of Baal, and burned them.
II KINGS 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake
down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this
day.
II KINGS 10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
II KINGS 10:29 Howbeit {from} the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them,
{to wit}, the golden calves that {were} in Bethel, and that
{were} in Dan.
II KINGS 10:30 And the Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast
done well in executing {that which is} right in mine eyes, {and}
hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that {was} in
mine heart, thy children of the fourth {generation} shall sit on
the throne of Israel.
II KINGS 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the
Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from
the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
II KINGS 10:32 In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short:
and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
II KINGS 10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the
Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer,
which {is} by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
II KINGS 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he
did, and all his might, {are} they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
II KINGS 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried
him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in
Samaria {was} twenty and eight years.
II KINGS 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that
her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
II KINGS 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister
of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from
among the king's sons {which were} slain; and they hid him,
{even} him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so
that he was not slain.
II KINGS 11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord
six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
II KINGS 11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the
rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and
brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a
covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the
Lord, and shewed them the king's son.
II KINGS 11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This {is} the thing
that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the
sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
II KINGS 11:6 And a third part {shall be} at the gate of Sur; and
a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the
watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
II KINGS 11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the
sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord
about the king.
II KINGS 11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every
man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the
ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out
and as he cometh in.
II KINGS 11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to
all {things} that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took
every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them
that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the
priest.
II KINGS 11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest
give king David's spears and shields, that {were} in the temple
of the Lord.
II KINGS 11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in
his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the
temple to the left corner of the temple, {along} by the altar and
the temple.
II KINGS 11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the
crown upon him, and {gave him} the testimony; and they made him
king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said,
God save the king.
II KINGS 11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard
{and} of the people, she came to the people into the temple of
the Lord.
II KINGS 11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a
pillar, as the manner {was}, and the princes and the trumpeters
by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew
with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason,
Treason.
II KINGS 11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of
the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have
her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill
with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in
the house of the Lord.
II KINGS 11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the
way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there
was she slain.
II KINGS 11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and
the king and the people, that they should be the Lord's people;
between the king also and the people.
II KINGS 11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house
of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they
in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before
the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of
the Lord.
II KINGS 11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the
captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they
brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the
way of the gate of the guard to the king's house.  And he sat on
the throne of the kings.
II KINGS 11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the
city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword {beside}
the king's house.
II KINGS 11:21 Seven years old {was} Jehoash when he began to
reign.
II KINGS 12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign;
and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
{was} Zibiah of Beersheba.
II KINGS 12:2 And Jehoash did {that which was} right in the sight
of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed
him.
II KINGS 12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people
still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
II KINGS 12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of
the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord,
{even} the money of every one that passeth {the account}, the
money that every man is set at, {and} all the money that cometh
into any man's heart to bring into the house of the Lord,
II KINGS 12:5 Let the priests take {it} to them, every man of his
acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever any breach shall be found.
II KINGS 12:6 But it was {so, that} in the three and twentieth
year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of
the house.
II KINGS 12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest,
and the {other} priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not
the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no {more} money
of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the
house.
II KINGS 12:8 And the priests consented to receive no {more}
money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
II KINGS 12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a
hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right
side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests
that kept the door put therein all the money {that was} brought
into the house of the Lord.
II KINGS 12:10 And it was {so}, when they saw that {there was}
much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high
priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that
was found in the house of the Lord.
II KINGS 12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the
hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the
house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and
builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord,
II KINGS 12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy
timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the
Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair {it}.
II KINGS 12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the
Lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of
gold, or vessels of silver, of the money {that was} brought into
the house of the Lord:
II KINGS 12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired
therewith the house of the Lord.
II KINGS 12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into
whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen:
for they dealt faithfully.
II KINGS 12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought
into the house of the Lord: it was the priests'.
II KINGS 12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought
against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to
Jerusalem.
II KINGS 12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed
things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers,
kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and
all the gold {that was} found in the treasures of the house of
the Lord, and in the king's house, and sent {it} to Hazael king
of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
II KINGS 12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he
did, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
II KINGS 12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and
slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
II KINGS 12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad
the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they
buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his
son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of
Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign
over Israel in Samaria, {and reigned} seventeen years.
II KINGS 13:2 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
II KINGS 13:3 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against
Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of
Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all
{their} days.
II KINGS 13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord
hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because
the king of Syria oppressed them.
II KINGS 13:5 (And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they
went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of
Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
II KINGS 13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the
house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, {but} walked therein: and
there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
II KINGS 13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but
fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for
the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the
dust by threshing.
II KINGS 13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that
he did, and his might, {are} they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
II KINGS 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they
buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of
Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in
Samaria, {and reigned} sixteen years.
II KINGS 13:11 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel sin: {but} he walked therein.
II KINGS 13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he
did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of
Judah, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?
II KINGS 13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat
upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings
of Israel.
II KINGS 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof
he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and
wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot
of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
II KINGS 13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And
he took unto him bow and arrows.
II KINGS 13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand
upon the bow. And he put his hand {upon it}: and Elisha put his
hands upon the king's hands.
II KINGS 13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he
opened {it}. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said,
The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance
from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou
have consumed {them}.
II KINGS 13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took {them}.
And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And
he smote thrice, and stayed.
II KINGS 13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said,
Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou
smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed {it}: whereas now thou
shalt smite Syria {but} thrice.
II KINGS 13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the
bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the
year.
II KINGS 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man,
that, behold, they spied a band {of men}; and they cast the man
into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and
touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his
feet.
II KINGS 13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the
days of Jehoahaz.
II KINGS 13:23 And the Lord was gracious unto them, and had
compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his
covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy
them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
II KINGS 13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son
reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of
the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had
taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times
did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
II KINGS 14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of
Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
II KINGS 14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to
reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name {was} Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
II KINGS 14:3 And he did {that which was} right in the sight of
the Lord, yet not like David his father: he did according to all
things as Joash his father did.
II KINGS 14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet
the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
II KINGS 14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was
confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain
the king his father.
II KINGS 14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not:
according unto that which is written in the book of the law of
Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not
be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to
death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for
his own sin.
II KINGS 14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand,
and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto
this day.
II KINGS 14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of
Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look
one another in the face.
II KINGS 14:9 And Jehoash the 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 KINGS 14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart
hath lifted thee up: glory {of this}, and tarry at home: for why
shouldest thou meddle to {thy} hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
{even} thou, and Judah with thee?
II KINGS 14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king
of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one
another in the face at Bethshemesh, which {belongeth} to Judah.
II KINGS 14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and
they fled every man to their tents.
II KINGS 14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of
Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and
came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the
gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
II KINGS 14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the
vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the
treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to
Samaria.
II KINGS 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did,
and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah,
{are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
II KINGS 14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried
in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned
in his stead.
II KINGS 14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived
after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen
years.
II KINGS 14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, {are} they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II KINGS 14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in
Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to
Lachish, and slew him there.
II KINGS 14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried
at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
II KINGS 14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which
{was} sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father
Amaziah.
II KINGS 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after
that the king slept with his fathers.
II KINGS 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash
king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to
reign in Samaria, {and reigned} forty and one years.
II KINGS 14:24 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
II KINGS 14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering
of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the
Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant
Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which {was} of
Gathhepher.
II KINGS 14:26 For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, {that
it was} very bitter: for {there was} not any shut up, nor any
left, nor any helper for Israel.
II KINGS 14:27 And the Lord said not that he would blot out the
name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand
of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
II KINGS 14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that
he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered
Damascus, and Hamath, {which belonged} to Judah, for Israel,
{are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
II KINGS 14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, {even} with
the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of
Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
II KINGS 15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign,
and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name {was} Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
II KINGS 15:3 And he did {that which was} right in the sight of
the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
II KINGS 15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the
people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
II KINGS 15:5 And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper
unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And
Jotham the king's son {was} over the house, judging the people of
the land.
II KINGS 15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that
he did, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
II KINGS 15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried
him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son
reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of
Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in
Samaria six months.
II KINGS 15:9 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
II KINGS 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against
him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned
in his stead.
II KINGS 15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold,
they {are} written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
II KINGS 15:12 This {was} the word of the Lord which he spake
unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel
unto the fourth {generation}. And so it came to pass.
II KINGS 15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the
nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a
full month in Samaria.
II KINGS 15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah,
and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in
Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his
conspiracy which he made, behold, they {are} written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
II KINGS 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that {were}
therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened
not {to him}, therefore he smote {it; and} all the women therein
that were with child he ripped up.
II KINGS 15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of
Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, {and
reigned} ten years in Samaria.
II KINGS 15:18 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
II KINGS 15:19 {And} Pul the king of Assyria came against the
land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his
hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
II KINGS 15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, {even} of
all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of
silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria
turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
II KINGS 15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that
he did, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?
II KINGS 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah
his son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, {and reigned} two years.
II KINGS 15:24 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
II KINGS 15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,
conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of
the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of
the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
II KINGS 15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that
he did, behold, they {are} written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel.
II KINGS 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of
Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, {and reigned} twenty years.
II KINGS 15:28 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
II KINGS 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came
Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and
Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead,
and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive
to Assyria.
II KINGS 15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy
against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him,
and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son
of Uzziah.
II KINGS 15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he
did, behold, they {are} written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel.
II KINGS 15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to
reign.
II KINGS 15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to
reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name {was} Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
II KINGS 15:34 And he did {that which was} right in the sight of
the Lord: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had
done.
II KINGS 15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the
people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He
built the higher gate of the house of the Lord.
II KINGS 15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that
he did, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
II KINGS 15:37 In those days the Lord began to send against Judah
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
II KINGS 15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his
son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of
Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
II KINGS 16:2 Twenty years old {was} Ahaz when he began to reign,
and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not {that which
was} right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his
father.
II KINGS 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before
the children of Israel.
II KINGS 16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
II KINGS 16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah
king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged
Ahaz, but could not overcome {him}.
II KINGS 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to
Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to
Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
II KINGS 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, saying, I {am} thy servant and thy son: come up, and
save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand
of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
II KINGS 16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in
the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house,
and sent {it for} a present to the king of Assyria.
II KINGS 16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the
king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and
carried {the people of} it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
II KINGS 16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet
Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that {was} at
Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of
the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the
workmanship thereof.
II KINGS 16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to
all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest
made {it} against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
II KINGS 16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king
saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered
thereon.
II KINGS 16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat
offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood
of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
II KINGS 16:14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which {was}
before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from between
the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side
of the altar.
II KINGS 16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying,
Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the
evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his
meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the
land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and
sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the
blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to
inquire {by}.
II KINGS 16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that
king Ahaz commanded.
II KINGS 16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases,
and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from
off the brasen oxen that {were} under it, and put it upon a
pavement of stones.
II KINGS 16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built
in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the
house of the Lord for the king of Assyria.
II KINGS 16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did,
{are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?
II KINGS 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son
reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began
Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine
years.
II KINGS 17:2 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
II KINGS 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria;
and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
II KINGS 17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea:
for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no
present to the king of Assyria, as {he had done} year by year:
therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in
prison.
II KINGS 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the
land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
II KINGS 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria
took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed
them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the
cities of the Medes.
II KINGS 17:7 For {so} it was, that the children of Israel had
sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out
of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and had feared other gods,
II KINGS 17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the
Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the
kings of Israel, which they had made.
II KINGS 17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly {those}
things that {were} not right against the Lord their God, and they
built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fenced city.
II KINGS 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every
high hill, and under every green tree:
II KINGS 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high
places, as {did} the heathen whom the Lord carried away before
them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger:
II KINGS 17:12 For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said
unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
II KINGS 17:13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against
Judah, by all the prophets, {and by} all the seers, saying, Turn
ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments {and} my
statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your
fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
II KINGS 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened
their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not
believe in the Lord their God.
II KINGS 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant
that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he
testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became
vain, and went after the heathen that {were} round about them,
{concerning} whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not
do like them.
II KINGS 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the Lord
their God, and made them molten images, {even} two calves, and
made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
Baal.
II KINGS 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to
pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and
sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke
him to anger.
II KINGS 17:18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and
removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe
of Judah only.
II KINGS 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord
their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
II KINGS 17:20 And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and
afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,
until he had cast them out of his sight.
II KINGS 17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and
they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave
Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin.
II KINGS 17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins
of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
II KINGS 17:23 Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as
he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel
carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
II KINGS 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought {men} from
Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from
Sepharvaim, and placed {them} in the cities of Samaria instead of
the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in
the cities thereof.
II KINGS 17:25 And {so} it was at the beginning of their dwelling
there, {that} they feared not the Lord: therefore the Lord sent
lions among them, which slew {some} of them.
II KINGS 17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria,
saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the
cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land:
therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay
them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
II KINGS 17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry
thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let
them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the
God of the land.
II KINGS 17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away
from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they
should fear the Lord.
II KINGS 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and
put {them} in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans
had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
II KINGS 17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the
men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
II KINGS 17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
II KINGS 17:32 So they feared the Lord, and made unto themselves
of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which
sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
II KINGS 17:33 They feared the Lord, and served their own gods,
after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from
thence.
II KINGS 17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners:
they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or
after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which
the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
II KINGS 17:35 With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and
charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow
yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
II KINGS 17:36 But the Lord, who brought you up out of the land
of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye
fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
II KINGS 17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law,
and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to
do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
II KINGS 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye
shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
II KINGS 17:39 But the Lord your God ye shall fear; and he shall
deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
II KINGS 17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after
their former manner.
II KINGS 17:41 So these nations feared the Lord, and served their
graven images, both their children, and their children's
children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
II KINGS 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son
of Elah king of Israel, {that} Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of
Judah began to reign.
II KINGS 18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also {was} Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
II KINGS 18:3 And he did {that which was} right in the sight of
the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
II KINGS 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images,
and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent
that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel
did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
II KINGS 18:5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after
him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor {any}
that were before him.
II KINGS 18:6 For he clave to the Lord, {and} departed not from
following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord
commanded Moses.
II KINGS 18:7 And the Lord was with him; {and} he prospered
whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of
Assyria, and served him not.
II KINGS 18:8 He smote the Philistines, {even} unto Gaza, and the
borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced
city.
II KINGS 18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Hezekiah, which {was} the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king
of Israel, {that} Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against
Samaria, and besieged it.
II KINGS 18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: {even}
in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that {is} the ninth year of Hoshea
king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
II KINGS 18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto
Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor {by} the river of
Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
II KINGS 18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord
their God, but transgressed his covenant, {and} all that Moses
the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear {them}, nor
do {them}.
II KINGS 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities
of Judah, and took them.
II KINGS 18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of
Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that
which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria
appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of
silver and thirty talents of gold.
II KINGS 18:15 And Hezekiah gave {him} all the silver that was
found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the
king's house.
II KINGS 18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off {the gold from}
the doors of the temple of the Lord, and {from} the pillars which
Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of
Assyria.
II KINGS 18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris
and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host
against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And
when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the
upper pool, which {is} in the highway of the fuller's field.
II KINGS 18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came
out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which {was} over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder.
II KINGS 18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence {is} this wherein thou trustest?
II KINGS 18:20 Thou sayest, (but {they are but} vain words,) {I
have} counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou
trust, that thou rebellest against me?
II KINGS 18:21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this
bruised reed, {even} upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will
go into his hand, and pierce it: so {is} Pharaoh king of Egypt
unto all that trust on him.
II KINGS 18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our
God: {is} not that he, whose high places and whose altars
Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem,
Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
II KINGS 18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my
lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand
horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
II KINGS 18:24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one
captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust
on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
II KINGS 18:25 Am I now come up without the Lord against this
place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this
land, and destroy it.
II KINGS 18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna,
and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in
the Syrian language; for we understand {it}: and talk not with us
in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that {are} on the
wall.
II KINGS 18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent
me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? {hath he}
not {sent me} to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat
their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
II KINGS 18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice
in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the
great king, the king of Assyria:
II KINGS 18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you:
for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
II KINGS 18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord,
saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not
be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
II KINGS 18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king
of Assyria, Make {an agreement} with me by a present, and come
out to me, and {then} eat ye every man of his own vine, and every
one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his
cistern:
II KINGS 18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your
own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards,
a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die:
and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying,
The Lord will deliver us.
II KINGS 18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at
all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
II KINGS 18:34 Where {are} the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad?
where {are} the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they
delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
II KINGS 18:35 Who {are} they among all the gods of the
countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand,
that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
II KINGS 18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him
not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him
not.
II KINGS 18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which {was}
over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of
Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with {their} clothes rent, and
told him the words of Rabshakeh.
II KINGS 19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard {it},
that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and
went into the house of the Lord.
II KINGS 19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which {was} over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests,
covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
II KINGS 19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This
day {is} a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the
children are come to the birth, and {there is} not strength to
bring forth.
II KINGS 19:4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words
of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the
Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up {thy} prayer for the
remnant that are left.
II KINGS 19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
II KINGS 19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to
your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words
which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of
Assyria have blasphemed me.
II KINGS 19:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall
hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause
him to fall by the sword in his own land.
II KINGS 19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
II KINGS 19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers
again unto Hezekiah, saying,
II KINGS 19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee,
saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the
king of Assyria.
II KINGS 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt
thou be delivered?
II KINGS 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which
my fathers have destroyed; {as} Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and
the children of Eden which {were} in Thelasar?
II KINGS 19:13 Where {is} the king of Hamath, and the king of
Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
II KINGS 19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of
the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house
of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
II KINGS 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O
Lord God of Israel, which dwellest {between} the Cherubims, thou
art the God, {even} thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth;
thou hast made heaven and earth.
II KINGS 19:16 Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord,
thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which
hath sent him to reproach the living God.
II KINGS 19:17 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have
destroyed the nations and their lands,
II KINGS 19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they
{were} no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them.
II KINGS 19:19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee,
save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth
may know that thou {art} the Lord God, {even} thou only.
II KINGS 19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, {That} which thou hast
prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
II KINGS 19:21 This {is} the word that the Lord hath spoken
concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised
thee, {and} laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath
shaken her head at thee.
II KINGS 19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and
against whom hast thou exalted {thy} voice, and lifted up thine
eyes on high? {even} against the Holy {One} of Israel.
II KINGS 19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord,
and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to
the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will
cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, {and} the choice fir trees
thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, {and
into} the forest of his Carmel.
II KINGS 19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with
the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged
places.
II KINGS 19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago {how} I have done it,
{and} of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought
it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities
{into} ruinous heaps.
II KINGS 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were dismayed and confounded; they were {as} the grass of
the field, and {as} the green herb, {as} the grass on the
housetops, and as {corn blasted} before it be grown up.
II KINGS 19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy rage against me.
II KINGS 19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come
up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and
my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
which thou camest.
II KINGS 19:29 And this {shall be} a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat
this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second
year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow
ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
II KINGS 19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
II KINGS 19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and
they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord {of
hosts} shall do this.
II KINGS 19:32 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king
of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against
it.
II KINGS 19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
II KINGS 19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine
own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
II KINGS 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of
the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an
hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in
the morning, behold, they {were} all dead corpses.
II KINGS 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went
and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
II KINGS 19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the
house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons
smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of
Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the
prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him,
Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt
die, and not live.
II KINGS 20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed
unto the Lord, saying,
II KINGS 20:3 I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have
walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
done {that which is} good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
II KINGS 20:4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into
the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
II KINGS 20:5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my
people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have
heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal
thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the
Lord.
II KINGS 20:6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I
will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for
my servant David's sake.
II KINGS 20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took
and laid {it} on the boil, and he recovered.
II KINGS 20:8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What {shall be} the
sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the
house of the Lord the third day?
II KINGS 20:9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the
Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall
the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
II KINGS 20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the
shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return
backward ten degrees.
II KINGS 20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord: and he
brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone
down in the dial of Ahaz.
II KINGS 20:12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan,
king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he
had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
II KINGS 20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them
all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold,
and the spices, and the precious ointment, and {all} the house of
his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was
nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah
shewed them not.
II KINGS 20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah,
and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they
unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country,
{even} from Babylon.
II KINGS 20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house?
And Hezekiah answered, All {the things} that {are} in mine house
have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have
not shewed them.
II KINGS 20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of
the Lord.
II KINGS 20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that {is} in thine
house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this
day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith
the Lord.
II KINGS 20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which
thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs
in the palace of the king of Babylon.
II KINGS 20:19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good {is} the word
of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, {Is it} not
{good}, if peace and truth be in my days?
II KINGS 20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his
might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water
into the city, {are} they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II KINGS 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh
his son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 21:1 Manasseh {was} twelve years old when he began to
reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name {was} Hephzibah.
II KINGS 21:2 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord
cast out before the children of Israel.
II KINGS 21:3 For he built up again the high places which
Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for
Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
II KINGS 21:4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of
which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
II KINGS 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in
the two courts of the house of the Lord.
II KINGS 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and
observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar
spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of
the Lord, to provoke {him} to anger.
II KINGS 21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had
made in the house, of which the Lord said to David, and to
Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
II KINGS 21:8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any
more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they
will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them,
and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded
them.
II KINGS 21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them
to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed
before the children of Israel.
II KINGS 21:10 And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets,
saying,
II KINGS 21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations, {and} hath done wickedly above all that the
Amorites did, which {were} before him, and hath made Judah also
to sin with his idols:
II KINGS 21:12 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
Behold, I {am} bringing {such} evil upon Jerusalem and Judah,
that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
II KINGS 21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of
Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe
Jerusalem as {a man} wipeth a dish, wiping {it}, and turning {it}
upside down.
II KINGS 21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine
inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and
they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
II KINGS 21:15 Because they have done {that which was} evil in my
sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers
came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
II KINGS 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much,
till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his
sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing {that which was}
evil in the sight of the Lord.
II KINGS 21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that
he did, and his sin that he sinned, {are} they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II KINGS 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and
Amon his son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 21:19 Amon {was} twenty and two years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name {was} Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
II KINGS 21:20 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord, as his father Manasseh did.
II KINGS 21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father
walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and
worshipped them:
II KINGS 21:22 And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and
walked not in the way of the Lord.
II KINGS 21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him,
and slew the king in his own house.
II KINGS 21:24 And 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 KINGS 21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did,
{are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?
II KINGS 21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden
of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 22:1 Josiah {was} eight years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name {was} Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
II KINGS 22:2 And he did {that which was} right in the sight of
the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and
turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
II KINGS 22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king
Josiah, {that} the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son
of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,
II KINGS 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum
the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the
keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
II KINGS 22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers
of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord:
and let them give it to the doers of the work which {is} in the
house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house,
II KINGS 22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to
buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
II KINGS 22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of
the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt
faithfully.
II KINGS 22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the
scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the
Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
II KINGS 22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and
brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered
the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into
the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the
house of the Lord.
II KINGS 22:10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying,
Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it
before the king.
II KINGS 22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the
words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
II KINGS 22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and
Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
II KINGS 22:13 Go ye, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the
people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that
is found: for great {is} the wrath of the Lord that is kindled
against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words
of this book, to do according unto all that which is written
concerning us.
II KINGS 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and
Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife
of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they
communed with her.
II KINGS 22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of
Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
II KINGS 22:16 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil
upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, {even} all the
words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
II KINGS 22:17 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 kindled
against this place, and shall not be quenched.
II KINGS 22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire
of the Lord, Thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of
Israel, {As touching} the words which thou hast heard;
II KINGS 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast
humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake
against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that
they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy
clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard {thee}, saith the
Lord.
II KINGS 22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy
fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and
thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon
this place. And they brought the king word again.
II KINGS 23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all
the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
II KINGS 23:2 And the king went up into the house of the Lord,
and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people,
both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of
the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the
Lord.
II KINGS 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, 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
{their} heart and all {their} soul, to perform the words of this
covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood
to the covenant.
II KINGS 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and
the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to
bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that
were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of
heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of
Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
II KINGS 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the
kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in
the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem;
them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the
moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
II KINGS 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the
Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at
the brook Kidron, and stamped {it} small to powder, and cast the
powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
II KINGS 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the Sodomites, that
{were} by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings
for the grove.
II KINGS 23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of
Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned
incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places
of the gates that {were} in the entering in of the gate of Joshua
the governor of the city, which {were} on a man's left hand at
the gate of the city.
II KINGS 23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came
not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of
the unleavened bread among their brethren.
II KINGS 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which {is} in the valley
of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
II KINGS 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of
Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of
the Lord, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which
{was} in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with
fire.
II KINGS 23:12 And the altars that {were} on the top of the upper
chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the
altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of
the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake {them} down from
thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
II KINGS 23:13 And the high places that {were} before Jerusalem,
which {were} on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which
Solomon the king of Israel had builded for ashtoreth the
abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of
the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of
Ammon, did the king defile.
II KINGS 23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down
the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
II KINGS 23:15 Moreover the altar that {was} at Bethel, {and} the
high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down,
and burned the high place, {and} stamped {it} small to powder,
and burned the grove.
II KINGS 23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the
sepulchres that {were} there in the mount, and sent, and took the
bones out of the sepulchres, and burned {them} upon the altar,
and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man
of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
II KINGS 23:17 Then he said, What title {is} that that I see? And
the men of the city told him, {It is} the sepulchre of the man of
God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou
hast done against the altar of Bethel.
II KINGS 23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his
bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet
that came out of Samaria.
II KINGS 23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that
{were} in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had
made to provoke {the Lord} to anger, Josiah took away, and did to
them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
II KINGS 23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places
that {were} there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon
them, and returned to Jerusalem.
II KINGS 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying,
Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as {it is} written in
the book of this covenant.
II KINGS 23:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from
the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of
the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
II KINGS 23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
{wherein} this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.
II KINGS 23:24 Moreover the {workers with} familiar spirits, and
the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the
abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in
Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words
of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest
found in the house of the Lord.
II KINGS 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him,
that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his
soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses;
neither after him arose there {any} like him.
II KINGS 23:26 Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the
fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled
against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had
provoked him withal.
II KINGS 23:27 And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of
my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city
Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My
name shall be there.
II KINGS 23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that
he did, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
II KINGS 23:29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up
against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king
Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had
seen him.
II KINGS 23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead
from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his
own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son
of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's
stead.
II KINGS 23:31 Jehoahaz {was} twenty and three years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name {was} Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
II KINGS 23:32 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
II KINGS 23:33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in
the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put
the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a
talent of gold.
II KINGS 23:34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah
king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to
Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died
there.
II KINGS 23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to
Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the
commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the
people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to
give {it} unto Pharaohnechoh.
II KINGS 23:36 Jehoiakim {was} twenty and five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name {was} Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
II KINGS 23:37 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
II KINGS 24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up,
and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and
rebelled against him.
II KINGS 24:2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the
Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites,
and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah
to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake
by his servants the prophets.
II KINGS 24:3 Surely at the commandment of the Lord came {this}
upon Judah, to remove {them} out of his sight, for the sins of
Manasseh, according to all that he did;
II KINGS 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for
he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not
pardon.
II KINGS 24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that
he did, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
II KINGS 24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin
his son reigned in his stead.
II KINGS 24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out
of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of
Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of
Egypt.
II KINGS 24:8 Jehoiachin {was} eighteen years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his
mother's name {was} Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of
Jerusalem.
II KINGS 24:9 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord, according to all that his father had done.
II KINGS 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
II KINGS 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against
the city, and his servants did besiege it.
II KINGS 24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the
king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his
princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in
the eighth year of his reign.
II KINGS 24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the
house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut
in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel
had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
II KINGS 24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the
princes, and all the mighty men of valour, {even} ten thousand
captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save
the poorest sort of the people of the land.
II KINGS 24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the
king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the
mighty of the land, {those} carried he into captivity from
Jerusalem to Babylon.
II KINGS 24:16 And all the men of might, {even} seven thousand,
and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all {that were} strong {and}
apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to
Babylon.
II KINGS 24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his
father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to
Zedekiah.
II KINGS 24:18 Zedekiah {was} twenty and one years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name {was} Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
II KINGS 24:19 And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of
the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
II KINGS 24:20 For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass
in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
II KINGS 25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign,
in the tenth month, in the tenth {day} of the month, {that}
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,
against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts
against it round about.
II KINGS 25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of
king Zedekiah.
II KINGS 25:3 And on the ninth {day} of the {fourth} month the
famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the
people of the land.
II KINGS 25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war
{fled} by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which
{is} by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees {were} against the
city round about:) and {the king} went the way toward the plain.
II KINGS 25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the
king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army
were scattered from him.
II KINGS 25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the
king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
II KINGS 25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes,
and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of
brass, and carried him to Babylon.
II KINGS 25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh {day} of the
month, which {is} the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of
the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
II KINGS 25:9 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's
house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great {man's}
house burnt he with fire.
II KINGS 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that {were with}
the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round
about.
II KINGS 25:11 Now the rest of the people {that were} left in the
city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon,
with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard carry away.
II KINGS 25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of
the land {to be} vinedressers and husbandmen.
II KINGS 25:13 And the pillars of brass that {were} in the house
of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that {was} in the
house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried
the brass of them to Babylon.
II KINGS 25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers,
and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away.
II KINGS 25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, {and} such things
as {were} of gold, {in} gold, and of silver, {in} silver, the
captain of the guard took away.
II KINGS 25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which
Solomon had made for the house of the Lord; the brass of all
these vessels was without weight.
II KINGS 25:17 The height of the one pillar {was} eighteen
cubits, and the chapiter upon it {was} brass: and the height of
the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and
pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and
like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
II KINGS 25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the
chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the door:
II KINGS 25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was
set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the
king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal
scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and
threescore men of the people of the land {that were} found in the
city:
II KINGS 25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these,
and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
II KINGS 25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them
at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of
their land.
II KINGS 25:22 And {as for} the people that remained in the land
of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over
them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,
ruler.
II KINGS 25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and
their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah
governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son
of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a
Maachathite, they and their men.
II KINGS 25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and
said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees:
dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be
well with you.
II KINGS 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed
royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he
died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
II KINGS 25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the
captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were
afraid of the Chaldees.
II KINGS 25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth
year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth
month, on the seven and twentieth {day} of the month, {that}
Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign
did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
II KINGS 25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne
above the throne of the kings that {were} with him in Babylon;
II KINGS 25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat
bread continually before him all the days of his life.
II KINGS 25:30 And his allowance {was} a continual allowance
given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days
of his life.