1 {1:1} Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of
Ahab. {1:2} And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his
upper chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he
sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub
the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this
disease. {1:3} But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the
Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of
Samaria, and say unto them, [Is it] not because [there is] not
a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub the
god of Ekron? {1:4} Now therefore thus saith the LORD,
Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art
gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
{1:5} And when the messengers turned back unto him, he
said unto them, Why are ye now turned back? {1:6} And
they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and
said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and
say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, [Is it] not because
[there is] not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to enquire
of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not
come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but
shalt surely die. {1:7} And he said unto them, What manner
of man [was he] which came up to meet you, and told you
these words? {1:8} And they answered him, [He was] an
hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins.
And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite. {1:9} Then the king
sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went
up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he
spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come
down. {1:10} And Elijah answered and said to the captain
of fifty, If I [be] a man of God, then let fire come down
from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there
came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his
fifty. {1:11} Again also he sent unto him another captain of
fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O
man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
{1:12} And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I [be] a
man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume
thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from
heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
{1:13} And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with
his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came
and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and
said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and
the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
{1:14} Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and
burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their
fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
{1:15} And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go
down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and
went down with him unto the king. {1:16} And he said unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent
messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, [is
it] not because [there is] no God in Israel to enquire of his
word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on
which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
{1:17} So he died according to the word of the LORD
which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead
in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king
of Judah; because he had no son. {1:18} Now the rest of the
acts of Ahaziah which he did, [are] they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 {2:1} And it came to pass, when the LORD would take
up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with
Elisha from Gilgal. {2:2} And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry
here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And
Elisha said [unto him, As] the LORD liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
{2:3} And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel
came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that
the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day?
And he said, Yea, I know [it;] hold ye your peace. {2:4}
And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for
the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, [As] the
LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.
So they came to Jericho. {2:5} And the sons of the prophets
that [were] at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him,
Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master
from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know [it;]
hold ye your peace. {2:6} And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I
pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And
he said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I
will not leave thee. And they two went on. {2:7} And fifty
men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar
off: and they two stood by Jordan. {2:8} And Elijah took
his mantle, and wrapped [it] together, and smote the waters,
and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two
went over on dry ground.
{2:9} And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that
Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before
I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a
double portion of thy spirit be upon me. {2:10} And he said,
Thou hast asked a hard thing: [nevertheless,] if thou see me
[when I am] taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if
not, it shall not be so. {2:11} And it came to pass, as they
still went on, and talked, that, behold, [there appeared] a
chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both
asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
{2:12} And Elisha saw [it,] and he cried, My father, my
father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And
he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes,
and rent them in two pieces. {2:13} He took up also the
mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and
stood by the bank of Jordan; {2:14} And he took the mantle
of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said,
Where [is] the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had
smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha
went over. {2:15} And when the sons of the prophets which
[were] to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of
Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and
bowed themselves to the ground before him.
{2:16} And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with
thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and
seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD
hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or
into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. {2:17}
And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said,
Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three
days, but found him not. {2:18} And when they came again
to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I
not say unto you, Go not?
{2:19} And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I
pray thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord
seeth: but the water [is] naught, and the ground barren.
{2:20} And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt
therein. And they bring [it] to him. {2:21} And he went
forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there,
and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters;
there shall not be from thence any more death or barren
[land.] {2:22} So the waters were healed unto this day,
according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
{2:23} And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as
he was going up by the way, there came forth little children
out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up,
thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. {2:24} And he
turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the
name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out
of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. {2:25}
And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence
he returned to Samaria.

3 {3:1} Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over
Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, and reigned twelve years. {3:2} And he wrought evil
in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his
mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father
had made. {3:3} Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he
departed not therefrom.
{3:4} And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and
rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs,
and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool. {3:5} But it
came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab
rebelled against the king of Israel.
{3:6} And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same
time, and numbered all Israel. {3:7} And he went and sent
to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab
hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against
Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I [am] as thou
[art,] my people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy
horses. {3:8} And he said, Which way shall we go up? And
he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
{3:9} So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and
the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven
days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for
the cattle that followed them. {3:10} And the king of Israel
said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings
together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab! {3:11} But
Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD,
that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the
king of Israel’s servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha
the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of
Elijah. {3:12} And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the
LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat
and the king of Edom went down to him. {3:13} And Elisha
said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get
thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy
mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the
LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver
them into the hand of Moab. {3:14} And Elisha said, [As]
the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely,
were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the
king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
{3:15} But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass,
when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came
upon him. {3:16} And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make
this valley full of ditches. {3:17} For thus saith the LORD,
Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that
valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye,
and your cattle, and your beasts. {3:18} And this is [but] a
light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the
Moabites also into your hand. {3:19} And ye shall smite
every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every
good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good
piece of land with stones. {3:20} And it came to pass in the
morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold,
there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was
filled with water.
{3:21} And when all the Moabites heard that the kings
were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that
were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the
border. {3:22} And they rose up early in the morning, and
the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the
water on the other side [as] red as blood: {3:23} And they
said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain, and they
have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
{3:24} And when they came to the camp of Israel, the
Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled
before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites,
even in [their] country. {3:25} And they beat down the
cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his
stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water,
and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they
the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it,] and
smote it.
{3:26} And when the king of Moab saw that the battle
was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men
that drew swords, to break through [even] unto the king of
Edom: but they could not. {3:27} Then he took his eldest
son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him
[for] a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great
indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and
returned to [their own] land.

4 {4:1} Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of
the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my
husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear
the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my
two sons to be bondmen. {4:2} And Elisha said unto her,
What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the
house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in
the house, save a pot of oil. {4:3} Then he said, Go, borrow
thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, [even] empty
vessels; borrow not a few. {4:4} And when thou art come
in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons,
and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set
aside that which is full. {4:5} So she went from him, and
shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the
vessels] to her; and she poured out. {4:6} And it came to
pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son,
Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, [There is] not a
vessel more. And the oil stayed. {4:7} Then she came and
told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay
thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
{4:8} And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem,
where [was] a great woman; and she constrained him to eat
bread. And so it was, [that] as oft as he passed by, he turned
in thither to eat bread. {4:9} And she said unto her husband,
Behold now, I perceive that this [is] an holy man of God,
which passeth by us continually. {4:10} Let us make a little
chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him
there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it
shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
{4:11} And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he
turned into the chamber, and lay there. {4:12} And he said
to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he
had called her, she stood before him. {4:13} And he said
unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful
for us with all this care; what [is] to be done for thee?
wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain
of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own
people. {4:14} And he said, What then [is] to be done for
her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and
her husband is old. {4:15} And he said, Call her. And when
he had called her, she stood in the door. {4:16} And he said,
About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt
embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, [thou] man of
God, do not lie unto thine handmaid. {4:17} And the
woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that
Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
{4:18} And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that
he went out to his father to the reapers. {4:19} And he
said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a
lad, Carry him to his mother. {4:20} And when he had
taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her
knees till noon, and [then] died. {4:21} And she went up,
and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the
door] upon him, and went out. {4:22} And she called unto
her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the
young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the
man of God, and come again. {4:23} And he said, Wherefore
wilt thou go to him to day? [it is] neither new moon, nor
sabbath. And she said, [It shall be] well. {4:24} Then she
saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go
forward; slack not [thy] riding for me, except I bid thee.
{4:25} So she went and came unto the man of God to
mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God
saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold,
[yonder is] that Shunammite: {4:26} Run now, I pray thee,
to meet her, and say unto her, [Is it] well with thee? [is it]
well with thy husband? [is it] well with the child? And she
answered, [It is] well. {4:27} And when she came to the
man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but
Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God
said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] vexed within her: and
the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and hath not told me.
{4:28} Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I
not say, Do not deceive me? {4:29} Then he said to Gehazi,
Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go
thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any
salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the
face of the child. {4:30} And the mother of the child said,
[As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not
leave thee. And he arose, and followed her. {4:31} And
Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the
face of the child; but [there was] neither voice, nor hearing.
Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying,
The child is not awaked. {4:32} And when Elisha was come
into the house, behold, the child was dead, [and] laid upon
his bed. {4:33} He went in therefore, and shut the door
upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. {4:34} And
he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon
his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon
his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the
flesh of the child waxed warm. {4:35} Then he returned,
and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and
stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven
times, and the child opened his eyes. {4:36} And he called
Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her.
And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy
son. {4:37} Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and
bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went
out.
{4:38} And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a
dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were]
sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the
great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
{4:39} And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and
found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap
full, and came and shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for
they knew [them] not. {4:40} So they poured out for the
men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the
pottage, that they cried out, and said, O [thou] man of God,
[there is] death in the pot. And they could not eat [thereof.]
{4:41} But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast [it] into
the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may
eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
{4:42} And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, 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.
{4:43} And his servitor said, What, should I set this before
an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they
may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall
leave [thereof.] {4:44} So he set [it] before them, and they
did eat, and left [thereof,] according to the word of the
LORD.

5 {5:1} Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of
Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable,
because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto
Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, [but he was] a
leper. {5:2} And the Syrians had gone out by companies,
and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a
little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. {5:3} And
she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord [were] with
the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him
of his leprosy. {5:4} And [one] went in, and told his lord,
saying, Thus and thus said the maid that [is] of the land of
Israel. {5:5} And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I
will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed,
and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand
[pieces] of gold, and ten changes of raiment. {5:6} And he
brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when
this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have [therewith] sent
Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him
of his leprosy. {5:7} And it came to pass, when the king of
Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said,
[Am] I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth
send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore
consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel
against me.
{5:8} And it was [so,] when Elisha the man of God had
heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent
to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let
him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a
prophet in Israel. {5:9} So Naaman came with his horses
and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of
Elisha. {5:10} And Elisha sent a messenger unto him,
saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy
flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
{5:11} But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said,
Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand,
and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his
hand over the place, and recover the leper. {5:12} [Are] not
Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the
waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So
he turned and went away in a rage. {5:13} And his servants
came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, [if] the
prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou
not have done [it?] how much rather then, when he saith to
thee, Wash, and be clean? {5:14} Then went he down, and
dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the
saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like
unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
{5:15} And he returned to the man of God, he and all his
company, and came, and stood before him: and he said,
Behold, now I know that [there is] no God in all earth, but
in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy
servant. {5:16} But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before
whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take
[it;] but he refused. {5:17} And Naaman said, Shall there
not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’
burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither
burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the
LORD. {5:18} In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant,
[that] when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to
worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself
in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the
house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this
thing. {5:19} And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he
departed from him a little way.
{5:20} But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God,
said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in
not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, [as]
the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of
him. {5:21} So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when
Naaman saw [him] running after him, he lighted down from
the chariot to meet him, and said, [Is] all well? {5:22} And
he said, All [is] well. My master hath sent me, saying,
Behold, even now there be come to me from mount
Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give
them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of
garments. {5:23} And Naaman said, Be content, take two
talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver
in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid [them]
upon two of his servants; and they bare [them] before him.
{5:24} And when he came to the tower, he took [them]
from their hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he
let the men go, and they departed. {5:25} But he went in,
and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him,
Whence [comest thou,] Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant
went no whither. {5:26} And he said unto him, Went not
mine heart [with thee,] when the man turned again from his
chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a time to receive money, and to
receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep,
and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? {5:27} The
leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and
unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence
a leper [as white] as snow.

6 {6:1} And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha,
Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait
for us. {6:2} Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take
thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there,
where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. {6:3} And
one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.
And he answered, I will go. {6:4} So he went with them.
And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. {6:5}
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the
water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was
borrowed. {6:6} And the man of God said, Where fell it?
And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and
cast [it] in thither; and the iron did swim. {6:7} Therefore
said he, Take [it] up to thee. And he put out his hand, and
took it.
{6:8} Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and
took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a
place [shall be] my camp. {6:9} And the man of God sent
unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not
such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. {6:10}
And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of
God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there,
not once nor twice. {6:11} Therefore the heart of the king
of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his
servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of
us [is] for the king of Israel? {6:12} And one of his servants
said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that [is]
in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou
speakest in thy bedchamber.
{6:13} And he said, Go and spy where he [is,] that I may
send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold,
[he is] in Dothan. {6:14} Therefore sent he thither horses,
and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and
compassed the city about. {6:15} And when the servant of
the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an
host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And
his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we
do? {6:16} And he answered, Fear not: for they that [be]
with us [are] more than they that [be] with them. {6:17}
And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his
eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of
the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain
[was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
{6:18} And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed
unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee,
with blindness. And he smote them with blindness
according to the word of Elisha.
{6:19} And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way,
neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to
the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. {6:20}
And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria,
that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these [men,] that
they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they
saw; and, behold, [they were] in the midst of Samaria.
{6:21} And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw
them, My father, shall I smite [them?] shall I smite [them?]
{6:22} And he answered, Thou shalt not smite [them:]
wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive
with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water
before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their
master. {6:23} And he prepared great provision for them:
and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and
they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no
more into the land of Israel.
{6:24} And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king
of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged
Samaria. {6:25} And there was a great famine in Samaria:
and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was [sold]
for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab
of dove’s dung for five [pieces] of silver. {6:26} And as the
king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a
woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. {6:27}
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I
help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
{6:28} And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And
she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that
we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
{6:29} So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said
unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him:
and she hath hid her son.
{6:30} And it came to pass, when the king heard the
words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed
by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, [he
had] sackcloth within upon his flesh. {6:31} Then he said,
God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son
of Shaphat shall stand on him this day. {6:32} But Elisha
sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the king]
sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to
him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer
hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the
messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the
door: [is] not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?
{6:33} And while he yet talked with them, behold, the
messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this
evil [is] of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any
longer?

7 {7:1} Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Thus saith the LORD, Tomorrow about this time [shall] a
measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two
measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
{7:2} Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered
the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would
make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said,
Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not eat
thereof.
{7:3} And there were four leprous men at the entering in
of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here
until we die? {7:4} If we say, We will enter into the city,
then the famine [is] in the city, and we shall die there: and if
we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us
fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we
shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. {7:5} And
they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the
Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of
the camp of Syria, behold, [there was] no man there. {7:6}
For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a
noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a
great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of
Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the
kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. {7:7} Wherefore
they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and
their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it [was,] and
fled for their life. {7:8} And when these lepers came to the
uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did
eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and
raiment, and went and hid [it;] and came again, and entered
into another tent, and carried thence [also,] and went and
hid [it.] {7:9} Then they said one to another, We do not
well: this day [is] a day of good tidings, and we hold our
peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will
come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell
the king’s household. {7:10} So they came and called unto
the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came
to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, [there was] no man
there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied,
and the tents as they [were.] {7:11} And he called the
porters; and they told [it] to the king’s house within.
{7:12} And the king arose in the night, and said unto his
servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to
us. They know that we [be] hungry; therefore are they gone
out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying,
When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive,
and get into the city. {7:13} And one of his servants
answered and said, Let [some] take, I pray thee, five of the
horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they
[are] as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold,
[I say,] they [are] even as all the multitude of the Israelites
that are consumed:) and let us send and see. {7:14} They
took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the
host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. {7:15} And they
went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way [was] full
of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in
their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
{7:16} And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the
Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel,
and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the
word of the LORD.
{7:17} And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he
leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode
upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had
said, who spake when the king came down to him. {7:18}
And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the
king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a
measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about
this time in the gate of Samaria: {7:19} And that lord
answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, [if] the
LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing
be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,
but shalt not eat thereof. {7:20} And so it fell out unto him:
for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

8 {8:1} Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he
had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine
household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for
the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come
upon the land seven years. {8:2} And the woman arose, and
did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with
her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines
seven years. {8:3} And it came to pass at the seven years’
end, that the woman returned out of the land of the
Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her
house and for her land. {8:4} And the king talked with
Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I
pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. {8:5}
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose
son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house
and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is]
the woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to
life. {8:6} And when the king asked the woman, she told
him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer,
saying, Restore all that [was] hers, and all the fruits of the
field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
{8:7} And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the
king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man
of God is come hither. {8:8} And the king said unto Hazael,
Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God,
and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of
this disease? {8:9} So Hazael went to meet him, and took a
present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus,
forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and
said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee,
saying, Shall I recover of this disease? {8:10} And Elisha
said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly
recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall
surely die. {8:11} And he settled his countenance stedfastly,
until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept. {8:12}
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,
Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children
of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their
young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash
their children, and rip up their women with child. {8:13}
And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog, that he
should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The
LORD hath shewed me that thou [shalt be] king over Syria.
{8:14} So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master;
who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he
answered, He told me [that ]thou shouldest surely recover.
{8:15} And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a
thick cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on his
face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
{8:16} And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab
king of Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah,
Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to
reign. {8:17} Thirty and two years old was he when he
began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
{8:18} And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as
did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his
wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD. {8:19} Yet
the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant’s
sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, [and] to
his children.
{8:20} In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of
Judah, and made a king over themselves. {8:21} So Joram
went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose
by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him
about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled
into their tents. {8:22} Yet Edom revolted from under the
hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the
same time. {8:23} And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all
that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? {8:24} And Joram slept
with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city
of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
{8:25} In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king
of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah
begin to reign. {8:26} Two and twenty years old [was]
Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Athaliah, the
daughter of Omri king of Israel. {8:27} And he walked in
the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of
the LORD, as [did] the house of Ahab: for he [was] the son
in law of the house of Ahab.
{8:28} And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the
war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the
Syrians wounded Joram. {8:29} And king Joram went back
to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had
given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of
Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he
was sick.

9 {9:1} And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of
the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take
this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead:
{9:2} And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the
son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make
him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an
inner chamber; {9:3} Then take the box of oil, and pour [it]
on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed
thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and
tarry not.
{9:4} So the young man, [even] the young man the
prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. {9:5} And when he came,
behold, the captains of the host [were] sitting; and he said, I
have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto
which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain. {9:6} And
he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on
his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the
LORD, [even] over Israel. {9:7} And thou shalt smite the
house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of
my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants
of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. {9:8} For the whole
house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab
him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and
left in Israel: {9:9} And I will make the house of Ahab like
the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house
of Baasha the son of Ahijah: {9:10} And the dogs shall eat
Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and [there shall be] none to
bury [her.] And he opened the door, and fled.
{9:11} Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord:
and [one] said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this
mad [fellow] to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the
man, and his communication. {9:12} And they said, [It is]
false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to
me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king
over Israel. {9:13} Then they hasted, and took every man
his garment, and put [it] under him on the top of the stairs,
and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king. {9:14} So
Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and
all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria. {9:15} But king
Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with
Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds,
[then] let none go forth [nor] escape out of the city to go to
tell [it] in Jezreel. {9:16} So Jehu rode in a chariot, and
went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of
Judah was come down to see Joram. {9:17} And there stood
a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the
company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company.
And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them,
and let him say, [Is it] peace? {9:18} So there went one on
horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it]
peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace?
turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The
messenger came to them, but he cometh not again. {9:19}
Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to
them, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu
answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee
behind me. {9:20} And the watchman told, saying, He came
even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is
like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth
furiously. {9:21} And Joram said, Make ready. And his
chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and
Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and
they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of
Naboth the Jezreelite. {9:22} And it came to pass, when
Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it] peace, Jehu? And he
answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy
mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many? {9:23}
And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah,
[There is] treachery, O Ahaziah. {9:24} And Jehu drew a
bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his
arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down
in his chariot. {9:25} Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain,
Take up, [and] cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth
the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode
together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden
upon him; {9:26} Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of
Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I
will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore
take [and] cast him into the plat [of ground,] according to
the word of the LORD.
{9:27} But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this,] he
fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed
after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. [And they
did so] at the going up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he
fled to Megiddo, and died there. {9:28} And his servants
carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his
sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David. {9:29} And
in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
{9:30} And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard
[of it;] and she painted her face, and tired her head, and
looked out at a window. {9:31} And as Jehu entered in at
the gate, she said, [Had] Zimri peace, who slew his master?
{9:32} And he lifted up his face to the window, and said,
Who [is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him
two [or] three eunuchs. {9:33} And he said, Throw her
down. So they threw her down: and [some] of her blood was
sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her
under foot. {9:34} And when he was come in, he did eat
and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed [woman,] and
bury her: for she [is] a king’s daughter. {9:35} And they
went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the
skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands. {9:36}
Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This
[is] the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant
Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall
dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: {9:37} And the carcase of
Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the
portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say, This [is]
Jezebel.

10 {10:1} And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu
wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel,
to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab’s [children,]
saying, {10:2} Now as soon as this letter cometh to you,
seeing your master’s sons [are] with you, and [there are]
with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and
armour; {10:3} Look even out the best and meetest of your
master’s sons, and set [him] on his father’s throne, and fight
for your master’s house. {10:4} But they were exceedingly
afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him:
how then shall we stand? {10:5} And he that [was] over the
house, and he that [was] over the city, the elders also, and
the bringers up [of the children,] sent to Jehu, saying, We
are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we
will not make any king: do thou [that which is] good in
thine eyes. {10:6} Then he wrote a letter the second time to
them, saying, If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto
my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons,
and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the
king’s sons, [being] seventy persons, [were] with the great
men of the city, which brought them up. {10:7} And it came
to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the
king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads
in baskets, and sent him [them] to Jezreel.
{10:8} And there came a messenger, and told him, saying,
They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he
said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate
until the morning. {10:9} And it came to pass in the
morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the
people, Ye [be] righteous: behold, I conspired against my
master, and slew him: but who slew all these? {10:10}
Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the
word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the
house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done [that] which he
spake by his servant Elijah. {10:11} So Jehu slew all that
remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great
men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him
none remaining.
{10:12} And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria.
[And] as he [was] at the shearing house in the way, {10:13}
Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and
said, Who [are] ye? And they answered, We [are] the
brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children
of the king and the children of the queen. {10:14} And he
said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew
them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty
men; neither left he any of them.
{10:15} And when he was departed thence, he lighted on
Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he
saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my
heart [is] with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If
it be, give [me] thine hand. And he gave [him] his hand; and
he took him up to him into the chariot. {10:16} And he said,
Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they
made him ride in his chariot. {10:17} And when he came to
Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria,
till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the
LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
{10:18} And Jehu gathered all the people together, and
said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall
serve him much. {10:19} Now therefore call unto me all the
prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let
none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal;
whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did
[it] in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the
worshippers of Baal. {10:20} And Jehu said, Proclaim a
solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed [it.]
{10:21} And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the
worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left
that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and
the house of Baal was full from one end to another. {10:22}
And he said unto him that [was] over the vestry, Bring forth
vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought
them forth vestments. {10:23} And Jehu went, and
Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and
said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that
there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD,
but the worshippers of Baal only. {10:24} And when they
went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu
appointed fourscore men without, and said, [If] any of the
men whom I have brought into your hands escape, [he that
letteth him go,] his life [shall be] for the life of him.
{10:25} And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end
of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard
and to the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come
forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and
the guard and the captains cast [them] out, and went to the
city of the house of Baal. {10:26} And they brought forth
the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
{10:27} And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake
down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto
this day. {10:28} Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
{10:29} Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after
them, [to wit,] the golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and
that [were] in Dan. {10:30} And the LORD said unto Jehu,
Because thou hast done well in executing [that which is]
right in mine eyes, [and] hast done unto the house of Ahab
according to all that [was] in mine heart, thy children of the
fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel. {10:31}
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God
of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins
of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
{10:32} In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short:
and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; {10:33}
From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites,
and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which
is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. {10:34}
Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all
his might, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel? {10:35} And Jehu slept
with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And
Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead. {10:36} And the time
that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria [was] twenty and
eight years.

11 {11:1} And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw
that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed
royal. {11:2} But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram,
sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole
him from among the king’s sons [which were] slain; and
they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in the bedchamber
from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. {11:3} And he was
with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And
Athaliah did reign over the land.
{11:4} And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the
rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and
brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made
a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house
of the LORD, and shewed them the king’s son. {11:5} And
he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall
do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall
even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house; {11:6}
And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur; and a third part
at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of
the house, that it be not broken down. {11:7} And two parts
of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep
the watch of the house of the LORD about the king. {11:8}
And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with
his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the
ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth
out and as he cometh in. {11:9} And the captains over the
hundreds did according to all [things] that Jehoiada the
priest commanded: and they took every man his men that
were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go
out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. {11:10}
And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king
David’s spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the
LORD. {11:11} And the guard stood, every man with his
weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right
corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, [along]
by the altar and the temple. {11:12} And he brought forth
the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and [gave him]
the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him;
and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
{11:13} And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard
[and] of the people, she came to the people into the temple
of the LORD. {11:14} And when she looked, behold, the
king stood by a pillar, as the manner [was,] and the princes
and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the
land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her
clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. {11:15} But Jehoiada
the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the
officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth
without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the
sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the
house of the LORD. {11:16} And they laid hands on her;
and she went by the way by the which the horses came into
the king’s house: and there was she slain.
{11:17} And Jehoiada made a covenant between the
LORD and the king and the people that they should be the
LORD’S people; between the king also and the people.
{11:18} And all the people of the land went into the house
of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake
they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of
Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over
the house of the LORD. {11:19} And he took the rulers
over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the
people of the land; and they brought down the king from the
house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the
guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the
kings. {11:20} And all the people of the land rejoiced, and
the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword
[beside] the king’s house. {11:21} Seven years old [was]
Jehoash when he began to reign.

12 {12:1} In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to
reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mo-
ther’s name [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba. {12:2} And Jehoash
did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days
wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. {12:3} But the
high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed
and burnt incense in the high places.
{12:4} And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of
the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the
LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the
account,] the money that every man is set at, [and] all the
money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the
house of the LORD, {12:5} Let the priests take [it] to them,
every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the
breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be
found. {12:6} But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth
year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the
breaches of the house. {12:7} Then king Jehoash called for
Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto
them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now
therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance,
but deliver it for the breaches of the house. {12:8} And the
priests consented to receive no [more] money of the people,
neither to repair the breaches of the house. {12:9} But
Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid
of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one
cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that
kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought
into the house of the LORD. {12:10} And it was [so,] when
they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the
king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in
bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the
LORD. {12:11} And they gave the money, being told, into
the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight
of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the
carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the
LORD, {12:12} And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to
buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the
house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the
house to repair [it.] {12:13} Howbeit there were not made
for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons,
trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the
money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:
{12:14} But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired
therewith the house of the LORD. {12:15} Moreover they
reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered
the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt
faithfully. {12:16} The trespass money and sin money was
not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.
{12:17} Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought
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against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to
Jerusalem. {12:18} And Jehoash king of Judah took all the
hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and
Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his
own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s
house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went
away from Jerusalem.
{12:19} And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he
did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? {12:20} And his servants arose, and
made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo,
which goeth down to Silla. {12:21} For Jozachar the son of
Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants,
smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in
his stead.

13 {13:1} In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son
of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to
reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.
{13:2} And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
{13:3} And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king
of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael,
all [their] days. {13:4} And Jehoahaz besought the LORD,
and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the
oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed
them. {13:5} (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that
they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the
children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. {13:6}
Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of
Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and
there remained the grove also in Samaria.) {13:7} Neither
did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen,
and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of
Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust
by threshing.
{13:8} Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that
he did, and his might, [are] they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Israel? {13:9} And Jehoahaz
slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and
Joash his son reigned in his stead.
{13:10} In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of
Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over
Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years. {13:11} And
he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD; he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel sin: [but] he walked therein. {13:12} And
the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his
might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel? {13:13} And Joash slept with his fathers;
and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in
Samaria with the kings of Israel.
{13:14} Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness
whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down
unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my
father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
{13:15} And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows.
And he took unto him bow and arrows. {13:16} And he said
to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he
put his hand [upon it:] and Elisha put his hands upon the
king’s hands. {13:17} And he said, Open the window
eastward. And he opened [it.] Then Elisha said, Shoot.
And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD’S
deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for
thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have
consumed [them.] {13:18} And he said, Take the arrows.
And he took [them.] And he said unto the king of Israel,
Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.
{13:19} And the man of God was wroth with him, and said,
Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst
thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed [it:] whereas
now thou shalt smite Syria [but] thrice.
{13:20} And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the
bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of
the year. {13:21} And it came to pass, as they were burying
a man, that, behold, they spied a band [of men;] and they
cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man
was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived,
and stood up on his feet.
{13:22} But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the
days of Jehoahaz. {13:23} And the LORD was gracious
unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect
unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them
from his presence as yet. {13:24} So Hazael king of Syria
died; and Ben- hadad his son reigned in his stead. {13:25}
And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand
of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had
taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three
times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

14 {14:1} In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz
king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
{14:2} He was twenty and five years old when he began to
reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And
his mother’s name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. {14:3}
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
yet not like David his father: he did according to all things
as Joash his father did. {14:4} Howbeit the high places were
not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt
incense on the high places.
{14:5} And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was
confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had
slain the king his father. {14:6} But the children of the
murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written
in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death
for the children, nor the children be put to death for the
fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
{14:7} He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand,
and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel
unto this day.
{14:8} Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son
of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us
look one another in the face. {14:9} And Jehoash the king
of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle
that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that [was] in
Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and
there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and
trode down the thistle. {14:10} Thou hast indeed smitten
Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory [of this,]
and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to [thy]
hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah with
thee? {14:11} But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore
Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of
Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh,
which [belongeth] to Judah. {14:12} And Judah was put to
the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their
tents. {14:13} And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah
king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at
Beth- shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the
wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner
gate, four hundred cubits. {14:14} And he took all the gold
and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house
of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and
hostages, and returned to Samaria.
{14:15} Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did,
and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of
Judah, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel? {14:16} And Jehoash slept with his
fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel;
and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
{14:17} And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of
Israel fifteen years. {14:18} And the rest of the acts of
Amaziah, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? {14:19} Now they made a
conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish;
but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
{14:20} And they brought him on horses: and he was buried
at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
{14:21} And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which
[was] sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his
father Amaziah. {14:22} He built Elath, and restored it to
Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
{14:23} In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash
king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel
began to reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one
years. {14:24} And he did [that which was] evil in the sight
of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. {14:25} He
restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath
unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the
LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his
servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which [was]
of Gath-hepher. {14:26} For the LORD saw the affliction of
Israel, [that it was] very bitter: for [there was] not any shut
up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. {14:27} And the
LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel
from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of
Jeroboam the son of Joash.
{14:28} Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that
he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered
Damascus, and Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for
Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel? {14:29} And Jeroboam slept with his
fathers, [even] with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his
son reigned in his stead.

15 {15:1} In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam
king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah
to reign. {15:2} Sixteen years old was he when he began to
reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And
his mother’s name [was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem. {15:3}
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done; {15:4}
Save that the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
{15:5} And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a
leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house.
And Jotham the king’s son [was] over the house, judging
the people of the land. {15:6} And the rest of the acts of
Azariah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? {15:7} So
Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in
his stead.
{15:8} In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of
Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel
in Samaria six months. {15:9} And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin. {15:10} And Shallum the son of
Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the
people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. {15:11} And
the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they [are] written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. {15:12}
This [was] the word of the LORD which he spake unto
Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto
the fourth [generation.] And so it came to pass.
{15:13} Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the
nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he
reigned a full month in Samaria. {15:14} For Menahem the
son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and
smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him,
and reigned in his stead. {15:15} And the rest of the acts of
Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they
[are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
{15:16} Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that
[were] therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because
they opened not [to him,] therefore he smote [it; and] all the
women therein that were with child he ripped up. {15:17}
In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began
Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned]
ten years in Samaria. {15:18} And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days
from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin. {15:19} [And] Pul the king of Assyria came
against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents
of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the
kingdom in his hand. {15:20} And Menahem exacted the
money of Israel, [even] of all the mighty men of wealth, of
each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of
Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not
there in the land.
{15:21} And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that
he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel? {15:22} And Menahem slept with his
fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.
{15:23} In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] two years. {15:24} And he did [that
which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not
from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin. {15:25} But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a
captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in
Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and
Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he
killed him, and reigned in his room. {15:26} And the rest of
the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they [are]
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
{15:27} In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of
Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel
in Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years. {15:28} And he did
[that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin. {15:29} In the days of Pekah king of Israel
came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and
Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor,
and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried
them captive to Assyria. {15:30} And Hoshea the son of
Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah,
and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in
the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. {15:31}
And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold,
they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel.
{15:32} In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah
to reign. {15:33} Five and twenty years old was he when he
began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name [was] Jerusha, the daughter of
Zadok. {15:34} And he did [that which was] right in the
sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father
Uzziah had done.
{15:35} Howbeit the high places were not removed: the
people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places.
He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
{15:36} Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he
did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? {15:37} In those days the LORD began
to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the
son of Remaliah. {15:38} And Jotham slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his
father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

16 {16:1} In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of
Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to
reign. {16:2} Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began
to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not
[that which was] right in the sight of the LORD his God,
like David his father. {16:3} But he walked in the way of
the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through
the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen,
whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
{16:4} And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
{16:5} Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of
Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and
they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him.] {16:6}
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria,
and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to
Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. {16:7} So Ahaz sent
messengers to Tiglath-pileser 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. {16:8} And Ahaz
took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the
LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent [it
for] a present to the king of Assyria. {16:9} And the king of
Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went
up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people
of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
{16:10} And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet
Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that [was]
at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the
fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the
workmanship thereof. {16:11} And Urijah the priest built
an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from
Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it] against king Ahaz
came from Damascus. {16:12} And when the king was
come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king
approached to the altar, and offered thereon. {16:13} and he
burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured
his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace
offerings, upon the altar. {16:14} And he brought also the
brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD, from the
forefront of the house, from between the altar and the
house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the
altar. {16:15} And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest,
saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt
offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king’s
burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt
offering of all the people of the land, and their meat
offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all
the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the
sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire
[by.] {16:16} Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all
that king Ahaz commanded.
{16:17} And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases,
and removed the laver from off them; and took down the
sea from off the brasen oxen that [were] under it, and put it
upon a pavement of stones. {16:18} And the covert for the
sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry
without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king
of Assyria.
{16:19} Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah? {16:20} And Ahaz slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and
Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

17 {17:1} In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began
Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine
years. {17:2} And he did [that which was] evil in the sight
of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before
him.
{17:3} Against him came up Shalmaneser king of
Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him
presents. {17:4} And the king of Assyria found conspiracy
in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt,
and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as [he had
done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him
up, and bound him in prison.
{17:5} Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all
the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three
years.
{17:6} In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria
took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and
placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan,
and in the cities of the Medes. {17:7} For [so] it was, that
the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their
God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt,
from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had
feared other gods, {17:8} And walked in the statutes of the
heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children
of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
{17:9} And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things
that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they
built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of
the watchmen to the fenced city. {17:10} And they set them
up images and groves in every high hill, and under every
green tree: {17:11} And there they burnt incense in all the
high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried
away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke
the LORD to anger: {17:12} For they served idols, whereof
the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
{17:13} Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against
Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying,
Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments
[and] my statutes, according to all the law which I
commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my
servants the prophets. {17:14} Notwithstanding they would
not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their
fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. {17:15}
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he
made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he
testified against them; and they followed vanity, and
became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round
about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged
them, that they should not do like them. {17:16} And they
left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and
made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a
grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
Baal. {17:17} And they caused their sons and their
daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and
enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of
the LORD, to provoke him to anger. {17:18} Therefore the
LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of
his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
{17:19} Also Judah kept not the commandments of the
LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which
they made. {17:20} And the LORD rejected all the seed of
Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand
of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. {17:21}
For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel
from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
{17:22} For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
{17:23} Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as
he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel
carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
{17:24} And the king of Assyria brought [men] from
Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from
Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the
cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they
possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. {17:25}
And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there,
[that] they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent
lions among them, which slew [some] of them. {17:26}
Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The
nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of
Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land:
therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they
slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of
the land. {17:27} Then the king of Assyria commanded,
saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought
from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him
teach them the manner of the God of the land. {17:28} Then
one of the priests whom they had carried away from
Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how
they should fear the LORD. {17:29} Howbeit every nation
made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the
high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in
their cities wherein they dwelt. {17:30} And the men of
Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made
Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, {17:31} And
the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites
burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. {17:32} So they
feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest
of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them
in the houses of the high places. {17:33} They feared the
LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the
nations whom they carried away from thence. {17:34} Unto
this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the
LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the
LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named
Israel; {17:35} With whom the LORD had made a
covenant, and charged them saying, Ye shall not fear other
gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor
sacrifice to them: {17:36} But the LORD, who brought you
up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched
out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to
him shall ye do sacrifice. {17:37} And the statutes, and the
ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he
wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye
shall not fear other gods. {17:38} And the covenant that I
have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear
other gods. {17:39} But the LORD your God ye shall fear;
and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
{17:40} Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after
their former manner. {17:41} So these nations feared the
LORD, and served their graven images, both their children,
and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they
unto this day.

18 {18:1} Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea
son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz
king of Judah began to reign. {18:2} Twenty and five years
old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty
and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also [was]
Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. {18:3} And he did [that
which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that David his father did.
{18:4} He removed the high places, and brake the images,
and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen
serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the
children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it
Nehushtan. {18:5} He trusted in the LORD God of Israel;
so that after him was none like him among all the kings of
Judah, nor [any] that were before him. {18:6} For he clave
to the LORD, [and] departed not from following him, but
kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded
Moses. {18:7} And the LORD was with him; [and] he
prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled
against the king of Assyria, and served him not. {18:8} He
smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the borders
thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
{18:9} And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Hezekiah, which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of
Elah king of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came
up against Samaria, and besieged it. {18:10} And at the end
of three years they took it: [even] in the sixth year of
Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,
Samaria was taken. {18:11} And the king of Assyria did
carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and
in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
Medes: {18:12} Because they obeyed not the voice of the
LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, [and] all
that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and
would not hear [them,] nor do [them.] {18:13} Now in the
fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of
Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and
took them. {18:14} And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the
king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return
from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the
king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
{18:15} And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was
found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
king’s house. {18:16} At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the
gold from] the doors of the temple of the LORD, and [from]
the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and
gave it to the king of Assyria.
{18:17} And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris
and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great
host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to
Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and
stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the
highway of the fuller’s field. {18:18} And when they had
called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, which [was] over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. {18:19} And
Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah,
Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this wherein thou trustest? {18:20} Thou
sayest, (but [they are but] vain words,) [I have] counsel and
strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that
thou rebellest against me? {18:21} Now, behold, thou
trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, [even] upon
Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on
him. {18:22} But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD
our God: [is] not that he, whose high places and whose
altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and
Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
{18:23} Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord
the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand
horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
{18:24} How then wilt thou turn away the face of one
captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy
trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? {18:25} Am I
now come up without the LORD against this place to
destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land,
and destroy it. {18:26} Then said Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, 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. {18:27} But
Rab-shakeh 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. {18:28}
Then Rab-shakeh 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: {18:29} Thus saith the king,
Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to
deliver you out of his hand: {18:30} Neither let Hezekiah
make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely
deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand
of the king of Assyria. {18:31} Hearken not to Hezekiah:
for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with
me by a present, and come out to me, and [then] eat ye
every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree,
and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern: {18:32}
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own
land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards,
a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not
die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth
you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. {18:33} Hath any
of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the
hand of the king of Assyria? {18:34} Where [are] the gods
of Hamath, and of Arpad? where [are] the gods of
Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria
out of mine hand? {18:35} Who [are] they among all the
gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out
of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out
of mine hand? {18:36} But the people held their peace, and
answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment
was, saying, Answer him not. {18:37} Then came Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah, which [was] over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder,
to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words
of Rab-shakeh.

19 {19:1} And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard
[it,] that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. {19:2}
And he sent Eliakim, which [was] over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. {19:3}
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is]
a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the
children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to
bring forth. {19:4} It may be the LORD thy God will hear
all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his
master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will
reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that are left.
{19:5} So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
{19:6} And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to
your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the
words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the
king of Assyria have blasphemed me. {19:7} Behold, I will
send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall
return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.
{19:8} So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he
was departed from Lachish. {19:9} And when he heard say
of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to
fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah,
saying, {19:10} Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of
Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest
deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into
the hand of the king of Assyria. {19:11} Behold, thou hast
heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by
destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
{19:12} Have the gods of the nations delivered them which
my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?
{19:13} Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of
Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and
Ivah?
{19:14} And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of
the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the
house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
{19:15} And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said,
O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest [between] the
cherubims, thou art the God, [even] thou alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
{19:16} LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open,
LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of
Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living
God. {19:17} Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have
destroyed the nations and their lands, {19:18} And have
cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the
work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have
destroyed them. {19:19} Now therefore, O LORD our God,
I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD
God, [even] thou only.
{19:20} Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [That] which
thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria
I have heard. {19:21} This [is] the word that the LORD
hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of
Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the
daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. {19:22}
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against
whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes
on high? [even] against the Holy [One] of Israel. {19:23}
By the messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast
said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the
height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will
cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir
trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his
borders, [and into] the forest of his Carmel. {19:24} I have
digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
{19:25} Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it,
[and] of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I
brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste
fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps. {19:26} Therefore their
inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and
confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as]
the green herb, [as] the grass on the house tops, and [as
corn] blasted before it be grown up. {19:27} But I know thy
abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage
against me. {19:28} Because thy rage against me and thy
tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my
hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn
thee back by the way by which thou camest. {19:29} And
this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such
things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that
which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye,
and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
{19:30} And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit
upward. {19:31} For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of
the LORD [of hosts] shall do this. {19:32} Therefore thus
saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall
not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come
before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. {19:33} By
the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall
not come into this city, saith the LORD. {19:34} For I will
defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my
servant David’s sake.
{19:35} And it came to pass that night, that the angel of
the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians
an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they
arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead
corpses. {19:36} So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed,
and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. {19:37} And
it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons
smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of
Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

20 {20:1} In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And
the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said
unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order;
for thou shalt die, and not live. {20:2} Then he turned his
face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, {20:3}
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked
before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
[that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
{20:4} And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into
the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him,
saying, {20:5} Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of
my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy
father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears:
behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up
unto the house of the LORD. {20:6} And I will add unto thy
days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of
the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city
for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake. {20:7}
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid
[it] on the boil, and he recovered.
{20:8} And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What [shall be] the
sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into
the house of the LORD the third day? {20:9} And Isaiah
said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD
will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go
forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? {20:10} And
Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go
down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward
ten degrees. {20:11} And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the
LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward,
by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
{20:12} At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of
Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto
Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
{20:13} And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed
them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the
gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the
house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures:
there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
Hezekiah shewed them not.
{20:14} Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king
Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and
from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said,
They are come from a far country, [even] from Babylon.
{20:15} And he said, What have they seen in thine house?
And Hezekiah answered, All [the things] that [are] in mine
house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures
that I have not shewed them. {20:16} And Isaiah said unto
Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD. {20:17} Behold, the
days come, that all that [is] in thine house,and that which
thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be
carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
{20:18} And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which
thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be
eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. {20:19} Then
said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD
which thou hast spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good,] if
peace and truth be in my days?
{20:20} And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his
might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought
water into the city, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? {20:21} And Hezekiah
slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his
stead.

21 {21:1} Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he
began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jeru-
salem. Andhis mother’s name [was] Hephzi-bah. {21:2}
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out before the children of Israel. {21:3} For he built
up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had
destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a
grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the
host of heaven, and served them. {21:4} And he built altars
in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Je-
rusalem will I put my name. {21:5} And he built altars for all
the host ofheaven in the two courts of the house of the
LORD. {21:6} And he made his son pass through the fire,
and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt
with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wicked-
ness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.
{21:7} And he set a graven image of the grove that he had
made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and
to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which
I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name
for ever: {21:8} Neither will I make the feet of Israel move
any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only
if they will observe to do according to all that I have com-
manded them, and according to all the law that my servant
Moses commanded them. {21:9} But they hearkened not:
and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the
nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children
of Israel.
{21:10} And the LORD spake by his servants the
prophets, saying, {21:11} Because Manasseh king of Judah
hath done these abominations, [and] hath done wickedly
above all that the Amorites did, which [were] before him,
and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: {21:12}
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I
[am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that
whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. {21:13}
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and
the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe
Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it,] and turning
[it] upside down. {21:14} And I will forsake the remnant of
mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their
enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all
their enemies; {21:15} Because they have done [that which
was] evil in my sight,and have provoked me to anger, since
the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this
day. {21:16} Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very
much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another;
beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing
[that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
{21:17} Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that
he did, and his sin that he sinned, [are] they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? {21:18}
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon
his son reigned in his stead.
{21:19} Amon [was] twenty and two years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And
his mother’s name [was] Meshullemeth, the daughter of
Haruz of Jotbah. {21:20} And he did [that which was] evil
in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
{21:21} And he walked in all the way that his father walked
in, and served the idols that his father served, and
worshipped them: {21:22} And he forsook the LORD God
of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
{21:23} And the servants of Amon conspired against him,
and slew the king in his own house. {21:24} And the people
of the land slew all them that had conspired against king
Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king
in his stead. {21:25} Now the rest of the acts of Amon
which he did, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? {21:26} And he was
buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his
son reigned in his stead.

22 {22:1} Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And
his mother’s name [was] Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of
Boscath. {22:2} And he did [that which was] right in the
sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his
father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
{22:3} And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king
Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the
son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD,
saying, {22:4} Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may
sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD,
which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
{22:5} And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of
the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD:
and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in
the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
{22:6} Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to
buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. {22:7}
Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the
money that was delivered into their hand, because they
dealt faithfully.
{22:8} And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the
scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the
LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read
it. {22:9} And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and
brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have
gathered the money that was found in the house, and have
delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that
have the oversight of the house of the LORD. {22:10} And
Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the
priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before
the king. {22:11} And it came to pass, when the king had
heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his
clothes. {22:12} And the king commanded Hilkiah the
priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son
of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant
of the king’s, saying, {22:13} Go ye, enquire of the LORD
for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the
words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the
LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have
not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according
unto all that which is written concerning us. {22:14} So
Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of
Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and
they communed with her.
{22:15} And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me, {22:16}
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the words
of the book which the king of Judah hath read: {22:17}
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense
unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with
all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be
kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
{22:18} But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire
of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, [As touching] the words which thou
hast heard; {22:19} Because thine heart was tender, and
thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou
heardest what I spake against this place, and against the
inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation
and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I
also have heard [thee,] saith the LORD. {22:20} Behold
therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt
be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not
see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they
brought the king word again.

23 {23:1} And the king sent, and they gathered unto him
all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. {23:2} And the king
went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of
Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the
priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and
great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of
the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
{23:3} And the king stood by a pillar, and made a
covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to
keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes
with all [their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the
words of this covenant that were written in this book. And
all the people stood to the covenant. {23:4} And the king
commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the
second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out
of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made
for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven:
and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of
Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. {23:5}
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of
Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the
cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem;
them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to
the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
{23:6} And he brought out the grove from the house of the
LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and
burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to
powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the
children of the people. {23:7} And he brake down the
houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the
LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
{23:8} And he brought all the priests out of the cities of
Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had
burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, 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. {23:9}
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to
the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the
unleavened bread among their brethren. {23:10} And he
defiled Topheth, which [is] in the valley of the children of
Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to
pass through the fire to Molech. {23:11} And he took away
the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at
the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of
Nathan- melech the chamberlain, which [was] in the
suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
{23:12} And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper
chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and
the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the
house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake
[them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the
brook Kidron. {23:13} And the high places that [were]
before Jerusalem, which [were] on the right hand of the
mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had
builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and
for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for
Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the
king defile. {23:14} And he brake in pieces the images, and
cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones
of men.
{23:15} Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the
high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he
brake down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it]
small to powder, and burned the grove. {23:16} And as
Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that [were]
there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the
sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted
it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of
God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. {23:17}
Then he said, What title [is] that that I see? And the men of
the city told him, [It is] the sepulchre of the man of God,
which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that
thou hast done against the altar of Bethel. {23:18} And he
said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let
his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out
of Samaria. {23:19} And all the houses also of the high
places that [were] in the cities of Samaria, which the kings
of Israel had made to provoke [the LORD] to anger, Josiah
took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he
had done in Bethel. {23:20} And he slew all the priests of
the high places that [were] there upon the altars, and burned
men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
{23:21} And the king commanded all the people, saying,
Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as [it is]
written in the book of this covenant. {23:22} Surely there
was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges
that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel,
nor of the kings of Judah; {23:23} But in the eighteenth
year of king Josiah, [wherein] this passover was holden to
the LORD in Jerusalem.
{23:24} Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and
the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the
abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in
Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the
words of the law which were written in the book that
Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. {23:25}
And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned
to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and
with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither
after him arose there [any] like him.
{23:26} Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the
fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was
kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that
Manasseh had provoked him withal. {23:27} And the
LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I
have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem
which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My
name shall be there. {23:28} Now the rest of the acts of
Josiah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
{23:29} In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went
up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and
king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo,
when he had seen him. {23:30} And his servants carried
him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to
Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the
people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and
anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
{23:31} Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when
he began to reign; and he reigned three months in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {23:32} And he did [that
which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his fathers had done. {23:33} And Pharaoh-nechoh put
him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might
not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an
hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. {23:34} And
Pharaoh- nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the
room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim,
and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died
there. {23:35} And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold
to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money
according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the
silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one
according to his taxation, to give [it] unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
{23:36} Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when
he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name [was] Zebudah, the daughter of
Pedaiah of Rumah. {23:37} And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his
fathers had done.

24 {24:1} In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came
up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he
turned and rebelled against him. {24:2} And the LORD sent
against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the
Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the
children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy
it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by
his servants the prophets. {24:3} Surely at the
commandment of the LORD came [this] upon Judah, to
remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh,
according to all that he did; {24:4} And also for the
innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with
innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
{24:5} Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that
he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? {24:6} So Jehoiakim slept with his
fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. {24:7}
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his
land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of
Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king
of Egypt.
{24:8} Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
And his mother’s name [was] Nehushta, the daughter of
Elnathan of Jerusalem. {24:9} And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father
had done.
{24:10} At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was
besieged. {24:11} And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
{24:12} And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the
king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and
his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took
him in the eighth year of his reign. {24:13} And he carried
out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and
the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the
vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in
the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. {24:14}
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and
all the mighty men of valour, [even] ten thousand captives,
and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the
poorest sort of the people of the land. {24:15} And he
carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother,
and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the
land, [those] carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to
Babylon. {24:16} And all the men of might, [even] seven
thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all [that
were] strong [and] apt for war, even them the king of
Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
{24:17} And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his
father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to
Zedekiah. {24:18} Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {24:19} And he did [that
which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that Jehoiakim had done. {24:20} For through the anger of
the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he
had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon.

25 {25:1} And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign,
in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that]
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,
against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts
against it round about. {25:2} And the city was besieged
unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. {25:3} And on the
ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the
city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
{25:4} And the city was broken up, and all the men of
war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two
walls, which [is] by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees
[were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the
way toward the plain. {25:5} And the army of the Chaldees
pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of
Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. {25:6}
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
{25:7} And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes,
and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with
fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
{25:8} And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the
month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan,
captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto
Jerusalem: {25:9} And he burnt the house of the LORD,
and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and
every great [man’s] house burnt he with fire. {25:10} And
all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of
the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
{25:11} Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the
city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon,
with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the
captain of the guard carry away. {25:12} But the captain of
the guard left of the poor of the land [to be] vinedressers
and husbandmen. {25:13} And the pillars of brass that
[were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the
brasen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, did the
Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to
Babylon. {25:14} And the pots, and the shovels, and the
snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
wherewith they ministered, took they away. {25:15} And
the firepans, and the bowls, [and] such things as [were] of
gold, [in] gold, and of silver, [in] silver, the captain of the
guard took away. {25:16} The two pillars, one sea, and the
bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD;
the brass of all these vessels was without weight. {25:17}
The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the
chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter
three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates
upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto
these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
{25:18} And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the
chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the door: {25:19} And out of the city he took an
officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of
them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in
the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered
the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of
the land [that were] found in the city: {25:20} And Nebuzaradan
captain of the guard took these, and brought them to
the king of Babylon to Riblah: {25:21} And the king of
Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
{25:22} And [as for] the people that remained in the land
of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left,
even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the
son of Shaphan, ruler. {25:23} And when all the captains of
the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of
Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of
Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a
Maachathite, they and their men. {25:24} And Gedaliah
sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear
not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and
serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
{25:25} But it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the
seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote
Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that
were with him at Mizpah. {25:26} And all the people, both
small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and
came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
{25:27} And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth
year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth [day] of the
month, [that] Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year
that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king
of Judah out of prison; {25:28} And he spake kindly to him,
and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were]
with him in Babylon; {25:29} And changed his prison
garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all
the days of his life. {25:30} And his allowance [was] a
continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for
every day, all the days of his life.

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