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2 Kings 1
1 Then
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, enquire
of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
3 But the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the
messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, [Is it] because [there
is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
4 Now therefore thus saith Yahweh, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on
which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
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 Yahweh,
[Is it] because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to enquire
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.
7 And he said unto them, What manner of man [was he] which came up to meet you, and
told you these words?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
15 And the angel of Yahweh said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of
him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
16 And he said unto him, Thus saith Yahweh, Forasmuch as thou hast sent
messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, [is it] because [there is]
no God in
17 So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken. And
Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of
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
1 And it came to pass, when Yahweh would take up Elijah into the heavens by
a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for Yahweh hath sent me
to
3 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at
4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for Yahweh hath
sent me to
5 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at
6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for Yahweh hath sent me
to
7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off:
and they two stood by
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.
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.
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].
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 the heavens.
12 And Elisha saw [it], and he cried, My father, my
father, the chariot of
13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and
stood by the bank of
14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters,
and said, Where [is] Yahweh, God of Elijah? and when
he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went
over.
15 And when the sons of the prophets which [were] to view at
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 Yahweh hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into
some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
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.
18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at
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.
20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt
therein. And they brought [it] to him.
21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there,
and said, Thus saith Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall not be
from thence any more death or barren [land].
22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha
which he spake.
23 And he went up from thence unto
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of
Yahweh. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and
two lads of them.
25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from
thence he returned to
1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over
2 And he wrought evil in the sight of Yahweh; but not like his father, and like
his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which
made
4 And Mesha king of
5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of
6 And king Jehoram went out of
7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of
8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he
answered, The way through the wilderness of
9 So the king of
10 And the king of
11 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of Yahweh,
that we may enquire of Yahweh by him? And one of the king of
12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of Yahweh is with
him. So the king of
13 And Elisha said unto the king of
14 And Elisha said, [As] Yahweh of hosts liveth, before Whom
I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king
of
15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played,
that the hand of Yahweh came upon him.
16 And he said, Thus saith Yahweh, Make this valley
full of ditches.
17 For thus saith Yahweh, 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.
18 And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: He will deliver the
Moabites also into your hand.
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.
20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered,
that, behold, there came water by the way of
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.
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:
23 And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have
smitten one another: now therefore,
24 And when they came to the camp of
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 Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof;
howbeit the slingers went about [it], and smote it.
26 And when the king of
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
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 Yahweh: and the
creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
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.
3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all
thy neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this [is] an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
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.
11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber,
and lay there.
12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had
called her, she stood before him.
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.
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.
15 And he said, Call
her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
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.
17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that
season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his
father to the reapers.
19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And
he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her
knees till noon, and [then] died.
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.
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.
23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day?
[it is] neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said,
Peace.
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.
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:
26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, [Is it] peace with
thee? [is it] peace with thy husband? [is it] peace with the child? And she answered, Peace.
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 Yahweh hath hid [it] from me,
and hath not told me.
28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
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.
30 And the mother of the child said, [As] Yahweh liveth, and [as] thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
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.
32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.
33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto
Yahweh.
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.
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.
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.
37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and
took up her son, and went out.
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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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 Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave [thereof].
44 So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left [thereof], according
to the word of Yahweh.
1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of
2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out
of the
3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord [were] with the prophet
that [is] in
4 And [one] went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid
that [is] of the
5 And the king of
6 And he brought the letter to the king of
7 And it came to pass, when the king of
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
9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of
the house of Elisha.
10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in
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 Yahweh his God, and
strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
12 [Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of
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?
14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in
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.
16 But he said, [As] Yahweh liveth, before Whom I
stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he refused.
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
Yahweh.
18 In this thing Yahweh 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, Yahweh
pardon thy servant in this thing.
19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
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] Yahweh liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of
him.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where
we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
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.
3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he
answered, I will go.
4 So he went with them. And when they came to
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.
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.
7 Therefore said he, Take [it] up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took
it.
8 Then the king of
9 And the man of God sent unto the king of
10 And the king of
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?
12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O
king: but Elisha, the prophet that [is] in
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
14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they
came by night, and compassed the city about.
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?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that [be] with
us [are] more than they that [be] with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, I pray Thee,
open his eyes, that he may see. And Yahweh 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.
18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Yahweh, and said, Smite
this people, I pray Thee, with blindness. And He smote them with blindness
according to the word of Elisha.
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
20 And it came to pass, when they were come into
21 And the king of
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.
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
24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of
25 And there was a great famine in
26 And as the king of
27 And he said, If Yahweh do not help thee, whence
shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the
winepress?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him:
and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of Yahweh; what should I wait for Yahweh
any longer?
1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Yahweh; Thus saith Yahweh, 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
2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] Yahweh 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.
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?
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.
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
6 For Yahweh 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
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.
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].
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.
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].
11 And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the king's house within.
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.
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.
14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of
the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
15 And they went after them unto
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 Yahweh.
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.
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:
19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, [if] Yahweh
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.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and
he died.
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 Yahweh hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon
the land seven years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7 And Elisha came to
8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the
man of God, and enquire of Yahweh by him, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?
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?
10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover:
howbeit Yahweh hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man
of God wept.
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.
13 And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog,
that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, Yahweh hath shewed me
that thou [shalt be] king over
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.
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.
16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned eight years in
18 And he walked in the way of the kings of
19 Yet Yahweh would not destroy
20 In his days
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.
22 Yet
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
24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
city of
25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
26 Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he
reigned one year in
27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of
Yahweh, as [did] the house of Ahab: for he [was] the son in law of the house of
Ahab.
28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of
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
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:
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;
3 Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head, and say, Thus saith
Yahweh, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee,
and tarry not.
4 So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.
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.
6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and
said unto him, Thus saith Yahweh, God of Israel, I
have anointed thee king over the people of Yahweh, [even] over
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 Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.
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:
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:
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.
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.
12 And they said, [It is] false; tell us now. And he said, Thus
and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith Yahweh, I have anointed thee king
over
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.
14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.
(Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all
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
16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And
Ahaziah king of
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?
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.
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.
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.
21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king
of
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?
23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, [There is]
treachery, O Ahaziah.
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.
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, Yahweh laid this burden upon him;
26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,
saith Yahweh; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith Yahweh. Now therefore
take [and] cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the word of Yahweh.
27 But when Ahaziah the king of
28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to
29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign
over
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.
31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had] Zimri peace, who slew
his master?
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.
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.
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.
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.
36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This [is] the word of
Yahweh, which He spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the
portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
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.
1 And Ahab had seventy sons in
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;
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.
4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not
before him: how then shall we stand?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of Yahweh,
which Yahweh spake concerning the house of Ahab: for Yahweh hath done [that]
which He spake by His servant Elijah.
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.
12 And he arose and departed, and came to
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.
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.
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.
16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for
Yahweh. So they made him ride in his chariot.
17 And when he came to
18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served
Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.
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.
20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed
[it].
21 And Jehu sent through all
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.
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 Yahweh, but the worshippers of Baal only.
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.
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.
26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
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.
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of
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.
30 And Yahweh 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.
31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, God of
32 In those days Yahweh began to cut
33 From
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
35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in
36 And the time that Jehu reigned over
1 And when Athaliah the mother of
Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all
the seed royal.
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.
3 And he was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. And Athaliah did
reign over the land.
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 Yahweh,
and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh,
and shewed them the king's son.
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;
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.
7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath,
even they shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh about the king.
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.
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.
10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king
David's spears and shields, that [were] in the
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.
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.
13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and] of the people, she came
to the people into the
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.
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
Yahweh.
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.
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people,
that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people.
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 Yahweh.
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
Yahweh, 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.
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.
21 Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.
1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in
2 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of Yahweh all his days
wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and
burnt incense in the high places.
4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that
is brought into the house of Yahweh, [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 Yahweh,
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.
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.
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.
8 And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people, neither
to repair the breaches of the house.
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
Yahweh: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was]
brought into the house of Yahweh.
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 Yahweh.
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 Yahweh: and they laid it out to
the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of Yahweh,
12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to
repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for
the house to repair [it].
13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of Yahweh bowls of silver,
snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the
money [that was] brought into the house of Yahweh:
14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of
Yahweh.
15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the
money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of Yahweh:
it was the priests'.
17 Then Hazael king of
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 Yahweh, and in the king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria:
and he went away from Jerusalem.
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
20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house
of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
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
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.
2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, and followed the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made
3 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against
4 And Jehoahaz besought Yahweh, and Yahweh hearkened unto him: for He saw the
oppression of
5 (And Yahweh gave
6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who
made
7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten
chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of
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
9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
10 In the thirty and seventh year
of Joash king of
11 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh; he departed not
from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might
wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of
13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and
Joash was buried in
14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the
king of
15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and
arrows.
16 And he said to the king of
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 Yahweh's
deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from
18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them].
And he said unto the king of
19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten
five or six times; then hadst thou smitten
20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded
the land at the coming in of the year.
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.
22 But Hazael king of
23 And Yahweh 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.
24 So Hazael king of
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
1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of
2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty
and nine years in
3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of Yahweh, yet not like David
his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice
and burnt incense on the high places.
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.
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 Yahweh 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.
7 He slew of
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.
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.
10 Thou hast indeed smitten
11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of
12 And
13 And Jehoash king of
14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in
the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages,
and returned to
15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he
fought with Amaziah king of
16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of
18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of
19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in
20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
21 And all the people of
22 He built Elath, and restored it to
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.
24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh: he departed not
from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of
the plain, according to the word of Yahweh, God of Israel, which He spake by
the hand of His servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which [was] of
Gathhepher.
26 For Yahweh saw the affliction of
27 And Yahweh said not that He would blot out the name of
28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might,
how he warred, and how he recovered
29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the kings of
1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of
2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty
years in
3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of Yahweh, according to all
that his father Amaziah had done;
4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt
incense still on the high places.
5 And Yahweh 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.
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
7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in
the city of
8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of
9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his fathers had
done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before
the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they [are] written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of
12 This [was] the word of Yahweh which He spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons
shall sit on the throne of
13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of
Uzziah king of
14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to
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
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.
17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of
18 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh: he departed not all
his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
19 [And] Pul the king of
20 And Menahem exacted the money of
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
22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his
stead.
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.
24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh: he departed not
from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
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.
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
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.
28 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh: he departed not
from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
29 In the days of Pekah king of
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.
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
32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of
33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to
reign, and he reigned sixteen years in
34 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of Yahweh: he did according
to all that his father Uzziah had done.
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
Yahweh.
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
37 In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king of
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.
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of
Jotham king of
2 Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years
in
3 But he walked in the way of the kings of
4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and
under every green tree.
5 Then Rezin king of
6 At that time Rezin king of
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.
8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yahweh, and
in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [it for] a present to the king
of
9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up
against
10 And king Ahaz went to
11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had
sent from
12 And when the king was come from
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.
14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before Yahweh, from the
forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of Yahweh, and put
it on the north side of the altar.
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 drime to enquire [by].
16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that
king Ahaz commanded.
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.
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 Yahweh
for the king of
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
20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city
of
1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king
of
2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not as the kings
of
3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of
4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent
messengers to So king of
5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
7 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh 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,
8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom Yahweh cast out from before
the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right
against Yahweh their God, and they built them high places in all their cities,
from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every
green tree:
11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen
whom Yahweh carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke
Yahweh to anger:
12 For they served idols, whereof Yahweh had said unto them, Ye shall not do
this thing.
13 Yet Yahweh testified against
14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the
neck of their fathers, that did not believe in Yahweh their God.
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 Yahweh had charged them, that they should not do like
them.
16 And they left all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten
images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of
heaven, and served Baal.
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 Yahweh, to provoke Him to anger.
18 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with
19 Also
20 And Yahweh rejected all the seed of
21 For He rent
22 For the children of
23 Until Yahweh removed
24 And the king of Assyria brought [men] from
25 And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, [that] they feared
not Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which slew [some] of them.
26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The
nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of
27 Then the king of
28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from
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.
30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal,
and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and
Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
32 So they feared Yahweh, 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.
33 They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the manner of the
nations whom they carried away from thence.
34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not Yahweh,
neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the
law and commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named
Israel;
35 With whom Yahweh 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:
36 But Yahweh, 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.
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.
38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither
shall ye fear other gods.
39 But Yahweh your God ye shall fear; and He shall deliver you out of the hand
of all your enemies.
40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
41 So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their graven images, both their
children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto
this day.
1 Now it came to pass in the third
year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to
reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in
3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of Yahweh, according to all
that David his father did.
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.
5 He trusted in Yahweh, God of
6 For he clave to Yahweh, [and] departed not from following Him, but kept His
commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
7 And Yahweh was with him; [and] he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and
he rebelled against the king of
8 He smote the Philistines, [even] unto
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.
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
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:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed His
covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not
hear [them], nor do [them].
13 Now in the fourteenth year of
king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced
cities of
14 And Hezekiah king of
15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of
Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house.
16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the
17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from
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.
19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great
king, the king of
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?
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.
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in Yahweh our God:
[is] not that He, Whose high places and Whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away,
and hath said to
23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of
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
25 Am I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh
said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
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.
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?
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:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able
to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely
deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
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:
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, Yahweh will deliver us.
33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the
hand of the king of
34 Where [are] the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where
[are] the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have
they delivered
35 Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that
have delivered their country out of mine hand, that Yahweh should deliver
36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's
commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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.
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 Yahweh.
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.
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.
4 It may be Yahweh thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king
of
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus
shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Yahweh, Be not afraid of the words
which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed Me.
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.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah:
for he had heard that he was departed from
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,
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.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed;
[as] Gozan, and
13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the
city of
14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it:
and Hezekiah went up into the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, O Yahweh, 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.
16 Yahweh, bow down Thine ear, and hear: open, Yahweh, Thine eyes, and see: and
hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
17 Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of
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.
19 Now therefore, O Yahweh our God, I beseech Thee, save Thou us out of his
hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Thou [art] Yahweh God,
[even] Thou only.
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus
saith Yahweh, God of Israel, [That] which thou hast prayed to Me against
Sennacherib king of
21 This [is] the word that Yahweh hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of
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
23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached Yahweh, 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.
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.
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.
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 house tops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage
against Me.
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.
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.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
31 For out of
32 Therefore thus saith Yahweh concerning the king of
33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and shall not come into this city, saith Yahweh.
34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.
35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of
Yahweh 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.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at
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
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 Yahweh, Set thine house in order; for
thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Yahweh, saying,
3 I beseech Thee, O Yahweh, 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.
4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that
the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of My people, Thus saith Yahweh,
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
Yahweh.
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.
7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the
boil, and he recovered.
8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign that Yahweh will heal
me, and that I shall go up into the house of Yahweh the third day?
9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of
Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that He hath spoken: shall the shadow go
forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
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.
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto Yahweh: and He brought the shadow ten
degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
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.
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
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.
16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh.
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
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
19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good [is] the word of Yahweh which thou hast
spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good], if peace and truth be in my days?
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
21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his
stead.
1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old
when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in
2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the
abominations of the heathen, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of
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.
4 And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house
of Yahweh.
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 Yahweh, to provoke [Him] to anger.
7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of
which Yahweh 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:
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.
9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did
the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of
10 And Yahweh spake by His servants the prophets, saying,
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:
12 Therefore thus saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such]
evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears
shall tingle.
13 And I will stretch over
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;
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.
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 Yahweh.
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
18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own
house, in the
19 Amon [was] twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
two years in
20 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his father
Manasseh did.
21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols
that his father served, and worshipped them:
22 And he forsook Yahweh, God of
his fathers, and walked not in the way of Yahweh.
23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own
house.
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.
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
26 And he was buried in his
sepulchre in the
1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in
2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in all
the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the
left.
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 Yahweh, saying,
4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought
into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the
people:
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the
oversight of the house of Yahweh: and let them give it to the doers of the work
which [is] in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breaches of the house,
6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone
to repair the house.
7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered
into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the
book of the law in the house of Yahweh. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan,
and he read it.
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 Yahweh.
10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath
delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the
law, that he rent his clothes.
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,
13 Go ye, enquire of Yahweh 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
Yahweh 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.
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
15 And she said unto them, Thus saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Tell the man that
sent you to me,
16 Thus saith Yahweh, 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:
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.
18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of Yahweh, thus shall ye
say to him, Thus saith Yahweh, God of Israel, [As touching] the words which
thou hast heard;
19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before Yahweh,
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 Yahweh.
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.
1 And the king sent, and they
gathered unto him all the elders of
2 And the king went up into the
house of Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.
3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk
after Yahweh, 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.
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 Yahweh
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.
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.
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of Yahweh, without
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of
Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
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.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of
Yahweh in
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.
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of
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 Yahweh, did the king beat down, and brake [them] down
from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
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.
14 And he brake
in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the
bones of men.
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.
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 Yahweh which
the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
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
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
19 And all the houses also of the high places that [were] in the cities of
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
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover
unto Yahweh your God, as [it is] written in the book of this covenant.
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;
23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [wherein] this passover was
holden to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
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 Yahweh.
25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to Yahweh 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.
26 Notwithstanding Yahweh turned not from the fierceness of His great wrath,
wherewith His anger was kindled against
27 And Yahweh 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.
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
29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of
30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from
31 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned three months in
32 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all
that his fathers had done.
33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the
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
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.
36 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned eleven years in
37 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all
that his fathers had done.
1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of
2 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh, which He spake by
His servants the prophets.
3 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came [this] upon
4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled
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
6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his
stead.
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.
8 Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in
9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all
that his father had done.
10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of
11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of
12 And Jehoiachin the king of
13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the
treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which
Solomon king of
14 And he carried away all
15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to
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
17 And the king of
18 Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eleven years in
19 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all
that Jehoiakim had done.
20 For through the anger of Yahweh it came to pass in
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.
2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah.
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.
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.
5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the
plains of
6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of
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
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:
9 And he burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all the houses of
Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house burnt he with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of the guard,
brake down the walls of
11 Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city, and the fugitives
that fell away to the king of
12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land [to be]
vinedressers and husbandmen.
13 And the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of Yahweh, and the bases,
and the brasen sea that [was] in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldees break in
pieces, and carried the brass of them to
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.
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.
16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house
of Yahweh; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
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.
18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah
the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
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:
20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the
king of Babylon to Riblah:
21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So
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.
23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the
king of
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
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.
26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies,
arose, and came to
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;
28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings
that [were] with him in Babylon;
29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him
all the days of his life.
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.