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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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2CH-1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his

kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him

exceedingly.

2CH-1:2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of

thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every

governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

2CH-1:3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to

the high place that [was] at Gibeon; for there was the

tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant

of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

2CH-1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from

Kirjathjearim to [the place which] David had prepared for it:

for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

2CH-1:5 Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri,

the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the

LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

2CH-1:6 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before

the LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle of the congregation, and

offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

2CH-1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said

unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

2CH-1:8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great mercy

unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

2CH-1:9 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father

be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like

the dust of the earth in multitude.

2CH-1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out

and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy

people, [that is so] great?

2CH-1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine

heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor

the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but

hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest

judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

2CH-1:12 Wisdom and knowledge [is] granted unto thee; and I

will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of

the kings have had that [have been] before thee, neither shall

there any after thee have the like.

2CH-1:13 Then Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place

that [was] at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of

the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

2CH-1:14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had

a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand

horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the

king at Jerusalem.

2CH-1:15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as

plenteous] as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore

trees that [are] in the vale for abundance.

2CH-1:16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen

yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

2CH-1:17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a

chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an

hundred and fifty: and so brought they out [horses] for all the

kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their

means.

*2CH-2:1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name

of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

2CH-2:2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to

bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and

three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

2CH-2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As

thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars

to build him an house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me].

2CH-2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God,

to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense,

and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings

morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and

on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an ordinance]

for ever to Israel.

2CH-2:5 And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is]

our God above all gods.

2CH-2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the

heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then,

that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice

before him?

2CH-2:7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold,

and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and

crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning

men that [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my

father did provide.

2CH-2:8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees,

out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut

timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy

servants,

2CH-2:9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house

which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great.

2CH-2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers

that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and

twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of

wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

2CH-2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which

he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he

hath made thee king over them.

2CH-2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of

Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the

king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that

might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

2CH-2:13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with

understanding, of Huram my father's,

2CH-2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his

father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in

silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple,

in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any

manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be

put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my

lord David thy father.

2CH-2:15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and

the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his

servants:

2CH-2:16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou

shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to

Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

2CH-2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in

the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his

father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and

fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

2CH-2:18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be]

bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in the

mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set

the people a work.

*2CH-3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at

Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the Lord] appeared unto David

his father, in the place that David had prepared in the

threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2CH-3:2 And he began to build in the second [day] of the second

month, in the fourth year of his reign.

2CH-3:3 Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was

instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by

cubits after the first measure [was] threescore cubits, and the

breadth twenty cubits.

2CH-3:4 And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house],

the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house,

twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and

he overlaid it within with pure gold.

2CH-3:5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he

overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

2CH-3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for

beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.

2CH-3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and

the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved

cherubims on the walls.

2CH-3:8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof

[was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and

the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine

gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents.

2CH-3:9 And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold.

And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

2CH-3:10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of

image work, and overlaid them with gold.

2CH-3:11 And the wings of the cherubims [were] twenty cubits

long: one wing [of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to

the wall of the house: and the other wing [was likewise] five

cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

2CH-3:12 And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits,

reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was] five

cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.

2CH-3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth

twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces

[were] inward.

2CH-3:14 And he made the veil [of] blue, and purple, and

crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

2CH-3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty

and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of

each of them [was] five cubits.

2CH-3:16 And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them]

on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates,

and put [them] on the chains.

2CH-3:17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on

the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name

of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the

left Boaz.

*2CH-4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the

length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten

cubits the height thereof.

2CH-4:2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to

brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and

a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

2CH-4:3 And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did

compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round

about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.

2CH-4:4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the

north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking

toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea

[was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were]

inward.

2CH-4:5 And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the

brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of

lilies; [and] it received and held three thousand baths.

2CH-4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand,

and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they

offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea

[was] for the priests to wash in.

2CH-4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their

form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and

five on the left.

2CH-4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the

temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he

made an hundred basins of gold.

2CH-4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the

great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of

them with brass.

2CH-4:10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end,

over against the south.

2CH-4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the

basins. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king

Solomon for the house of God;

2CH-4:12 [To wit], the two pillars, and the pommels, and the

chapiters [which were] on the top of the two pillars, and the

two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which

[were] on the top of the pillars;

2CH-4:13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two

rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of

the chapiters which [were] upon the pillars.

2CH-4:14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;

2CH-4:15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

2CH-4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks,

and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king

Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.

2CH-4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the

clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

2CH-4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance:

for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

2CH-4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the

house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the

showbread [was set];

2CH-4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they

should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

2CH-4:21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, [made

he of] gold, [and] that perfect gold;

2CH-4:22 And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and

the censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the

inner doors thereof for the most holy [place], and the doors of

the house of the temple, [were of] gold.

*2CH-5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of

the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in [all] the things

that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the

gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the

house of God.

2CH-5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all

the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the

children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the

covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.

2CH-5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves

unto the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.

2CH-5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took

up the ark.

2CH-5:5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the

congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the

tabernacle, these did the priests [and] the Levites bring up.

2CH-5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel

that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep

and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

2CH-5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of

the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the

most holy [place, even] under the wings of the cherubims:

2CH-5:8 For the cherubims spread forth [their] wings over the

place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the

staves thereof above.

2CH-5:9 And they drew out the staves [of the ark], that the

ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but

they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.

2CH-5:10 [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables

which Moses put [therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a

covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of

Egypt.

2CH-5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of

the holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were

sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:

2CH-5:12 Also the Levites [which were] the singers, all of them

of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their

brethren, [being] arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and

psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and

with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

2CH-5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers

[were] as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and

thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with

the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised

the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth]

for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even]

the house of the LORD;

2CH-5:14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by

reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the

house of God.

*2CH-6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would

dwell in the thick darkness.

2CH-6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a

place for thy dwelling for ever.

2CH-6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole

congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

2CH-6:4 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who

hath with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spake with his

mouth to my father David, saying,

2CH-6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the

land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to

build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I

any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

2CH-6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be

there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

2CH-6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an

house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

2CH-6:8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it

was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst

well in that it was in thine heart:

2CH-6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy

son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the

house for my name.

2CH-6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he

hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father,

and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and

have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

2CH-6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the

covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

2CH-6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the

presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his

hands:

2CH-6:13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits

long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set

it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled

down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and

spread forth his hands toward heaven,

2CH-6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like

thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant,

and [showest] mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee

with all their hearts:

2CH-6:15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father

that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth,

and hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day.

2CH-6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy

servant David my father that which thou hast promised him,

saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon

the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to

their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

2CH-6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be

verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

2CH-6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?

behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;

how much less this house which I have built!

2CH-6:19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant,

and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry

and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

2CH-6:20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and

night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest

put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant

prayeth toward this place.

2CH-6:21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy

servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward

this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, [even] from

heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

2CH-6:22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be

laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine

altar in this house;

2CH-6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy

servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon

his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him

according to his righteousness.

2CH-6:24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before

the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall

return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication

before thee in this house;

2CH-6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin

of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which

thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

2CH-6:26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain,

because they have sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray toward

this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when

thou dost afflict them;

2CH-6:27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy

servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them

the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy

land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

2CH-6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence,

if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if

their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land;

whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness [there be]:

2CH-6:29 [Then] what prayer [or] what supplication soever shall

be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one

shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread

forth his hands in this house:

2CH-6:30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and

forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways,

whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of

the children of men:)

2CH-6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long

as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

2CH-6:32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy

people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great

name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if

they come and pray in this house;

2CH-6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy

dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger

calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy

name, and fear thee, as [doth] thy people Israel, and may know

that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

2CH-6:34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by

the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee

toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I

have built for thy name;

2CH-6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their

supplication, and maintain their cause.

2CH-6:36 If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which

sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over

before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a

land far off or near;

2CH-6:37 Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither

they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the

land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done

amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

2CH-6:38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with

all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have

carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou

gavest unto their fathers, and [toward] the city which thou hast

chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

2CH-6:39 Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy

dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and

maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned

against thee.

2CH-6:40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open,

and [let] thine ears [be] attent unto the prayer [that is made]

in this place.

2CH-6:41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting

place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O

LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice

in goodness.

2CH-6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:

remember the mercies of David thy servant.

*2CH-7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire

came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the

sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

2CH-7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the

LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.

2CH-7:3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire

came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed

themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and

worshipped, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good;

for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

2CH-7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices

before the LORD.

2CH-7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two

thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the

king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

2CH-7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites

also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king

had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for

ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests

sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

2CH-7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that

[was] before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt

offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the

brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the

burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.

2CH-7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days,

and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the

entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

2CH-7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for

they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast

seven days.

2CH-7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh

month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry

in heart for the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David,

and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

2CH-7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the

king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in

the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously

effected.

2CH-7:12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said

unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to

myself for an house of sacrifice.

2CH-7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I

command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence

among my people;

2CH-7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall

humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from

their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will

forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2CH-7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto

the prayer [that is made] in this place.

2CH-7:16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that

my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart

shall be there perpetually.

2CH-7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David

thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded

thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

2CH-7:18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom,

according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying,

There shall not fail thee a man [to be] ruler in Israel.

2CH-7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my

commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and

serve other gods, and worship them;

2CH-7:20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land

which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified

for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to

be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.

2CH-7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an

astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall

say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this

house?

2CH-7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the

LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the

land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them,

and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon

them.

*2CH-8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years,

wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own

house,

2CH-8:2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon,

Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell

there.

2CH-8:3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against

it.

2CH-8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the

store cities, which he built in Hamath.

2CH-8:5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the

nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

2CH-8:6 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had,

and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and

all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon,

and throughout all the land of his dominion.

2CH-8:7 [As for] all the people [that were] left of the

Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites,

and the Jebusites, which [were] not of Israel,

2CH-8:8 [But] of their children, who were left after them in

the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did

Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.

2CH-8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no

servants for his work; but they [were] men of war, and chief of

his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.

2CH-8:10 And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers,

[even] two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

2CH-8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of

the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for

he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of

Israel, because [the places are] holy, whereunto the ark of the

LORD hath come.

2CH-8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on

the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

2CH-8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering

according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on

the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year,

[even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of

weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

2CH-8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his

father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the

Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the

priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by

their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God

commanded.

2CH-8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king

unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or

concerning the treasures.

2CH-8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day

of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was

finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.

2CH-8:17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the

sea side in the land of Edom.

2CH-8:18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships,

and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with

the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred

and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king Solomon.

*2CH-9:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of

Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at

Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare

spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she

was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in

her heart.

2CH-9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was

nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

2CH-9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of

Solomon, and the house that he had built,

2CH-9:4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his

servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel;

his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which

he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit

in her.

2CH-9:5 And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which

I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

2CH-9:6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and

mine eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the one half of the

greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: [for] thou exceedest

the fame that I heard.

2CH-9:7 Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants,

which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

2CH-9:8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to

set thee on his throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God:

because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever,

therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and

justice.

2CH-9:9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of

gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones:

neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king

Solomon.

2CH-9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of

Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and

precious stones.

2CH-9:11 And the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the

house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and

psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in

the land of Judah.

2CH-9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her

desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which she had

brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own

land, she and her servants.

2CH-9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one

year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

2CH-9:14 Beside [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And

all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought

gold and silver to Solomon.

2CH-9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten

gold: six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.

2CH-9:16 And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold:

three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king

put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

2CH-9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and

overlaid it with pure gold.

2CH-9:18 And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a

footstool of gold, [which were] fastened to the throne, and

stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing

by the stays:

2CH-9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on

the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any

kingdom.

2CH-9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [were of]

gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon

[were of] pure gold: none [were of] silver; it was [not] any

thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

2CH-9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the

servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of

Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and

peacocks.

2CH-9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in

riches and wisdom.

2CH-9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of

Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

2CH-9:24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of

silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices,

horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

2CH-9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and

chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the

chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

2CH-9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even

unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

2CH-9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and

cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that [are] in the low

plains in abundance.

2CH-9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and

out of all lands.

2CH-9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last,

[are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in

the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo

the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

2CH-9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty

years.

2CH-9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried

in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in

his stead.

*2CH-10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all

Israel come to make him king.

2CH-10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat,

who [was] in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of

Solomon the king, heard [it], that Jeroboam returned out of

Egypt.

2CH-10:3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all

Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,

2CH-10:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease

thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his

heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

2CH-10:5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three

days. And the people departed.

2CH-10:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that

had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying,

What counsel give ye [me] to return answer to this people?

2CH-10:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to

this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they

will be thy servants for ever.

2CH-10:8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him,

and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with

him, that stood before him.

2CH-10:9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may

return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying,

Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

2CH-10:10 And the young men that were brought up with him spake

unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake

unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou

[it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My

little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.

2CH-10:11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I

will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips,

but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.

2CH-10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on

the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the

third day.

2CH-10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam

forsook the counsel of the old men,

2CH-10:14 And answered them after the advice of the young men,

saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto:

my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you]

with scorpions.

2CH-10:15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the

cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he

spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of

Nebat.

2CH-10:16 And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not

hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What

portion have we in David? and [we have] none inheritance in the

son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: [and] now,

David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

2CH-10:17 But [as for] the children of Israel that dwelt in the

cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

2CH-10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that [was] over the

tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that

he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to [his]

chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

2CH-10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto

this day.

*2CH-11:1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered

of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore

thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against

Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

2CH-11:2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of

God, saying,

2CH-11:3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah,

and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

2CH-11:4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight

against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this

thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and

returned from going against Jeroboam.

2CH-11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for

defence in Judah.

2CH-11:6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

2CH-11:7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

2CH-11:8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

2CH-11:9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

2CH-11:10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which [are] in

Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.

2CH-11:11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains

in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

2CH-11:12 And in every several city [he put] shields and spears,

and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on

his side.

2CH-11:13 And the priests and the Levites that [were] in all

Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.

2CH-11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their

possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and

his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office

unto the LORD:

2CH-11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and

for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

2CH-11:16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such

as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to

Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH-11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made

Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years

they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

2CH-11:18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of

Jerimoth the son of David to wife, [and] Abihail the daughter of

Eliab the son of Jesse;

2CH-11:19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shemariah, and

Zaham.

2CH-11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom;

which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

2CH-11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom

above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen

wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight

sons, and threescore daughters.)

2CH-11:22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief,

[to be] ruler among his brethren: for [he thought] to make him

king.

2CH-11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his

children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin,

unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance.

And he desired many wives.

*2CH-12:1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established

the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of

the LORD, and all Israel with him.

2CH-12:2 And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king

Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

because they had transgressed against the LORD,

2CH-12:3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand

horsemen: and the people [were] without number that came with

him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

2CH-12:4 And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to

Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

2CH-12:5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to]

the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem

because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye

have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand

of Shishak.

2CH-12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled

themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.

2CH-12:7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves,

the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled

themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will

grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured

out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

2CH-12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may

know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the

countries.

2CH-12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the

treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also

the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

2CH-12:10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass,

and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard,

that kept the entrance of the king's house.

2CH-12:11 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD,

the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the

guard chamber.

2CH-12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD

turned from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and

also in Judah things went well.

2CH-12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem,

and reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the

city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,

to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an

Ammonitess.

2CH-12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to

seek the LORD.

2CH-12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they

not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the

seer concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars between

Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

2CH-12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried

in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

*2CH-13:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began

Abijah to reign over Judah.

2CH-13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name

also [was] Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there

was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2CH-13:3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of

valiant men of war, [even] four hundred thousand chosen men:

Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight

hundred thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valour.

2CH-13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in

mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

2CH-13:5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave

the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, [even] to him and to

his sons by a covenant of salt?

2CH-13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon

the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his

lord.

2CH-13:7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children

of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the

son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and

could not withstand them.

2CH-13:8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD

in the hand of the sons of David; and ye [be] a great multitude,

and [there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you

for gods.

2CH-13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons

of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the

manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever cometh

to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, [the

same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.

2CH-13:10 But as for us, the LORD [is] our God, and we have not

forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD,

[are] the sons of Aaron, and the Levites [wait] upon [their]

business:

2CH-13:11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every

evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also

[set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of

gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep

the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

2CH-13:12 And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our]

captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm

against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD

God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

2CH-13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about

behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was]

behind them.

2CH-13:14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle [was]

before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests

sounded with the trumpets.

2CH-13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of

Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all

Israel before Abijah and Judah.

2CH-13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God

delivered them into their hand.

2CH-13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great

slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred

thousand chosen men.

2CH-13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at

that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they

relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH-13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities

from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the

towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.

2CH-13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the

days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

2CH-13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives,

and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2CH-13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and

his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

*2CH-14:1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him

in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In

his days the land was quiet ten years.

2CH-14:2 And Asa did [that which was] good and right in the

eyes of the LORD his God:

2CH-14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and

the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the

groves:

2CH-14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their

fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

2CH-14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the

high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

2CH-14:6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had

rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had

given him rest.

2CH-14:7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these

cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars,

[while] the land [is] yet before us; because we have sought the

LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest on

every side. So they built and prospered.

2CH-14:8 And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and

spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin,

that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore

thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valour.

2CH-14:9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian

with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots;

and came unto Mareshah.

2CH-14:10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the

battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

2CH-14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD,

[it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with

them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on

thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou

[art] our God; let not man prevail against thee.

2CH-14:12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and

before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

2CH-14:13 And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued

them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they

could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the

LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.

2CH-14:14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for

the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the

cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.

2CH-14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away

sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

*2CH-15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of

Oded:

2CH-15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear

ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you,

while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of

you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

2CH-15:3 Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the

true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

2CH-15:4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD

God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

2CH-15:5 And in those times [there was] no peace to him that

went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were]

upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

2CH-15:6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city:

for God did vex them with all adversity.

2CH-15:7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak:

for your work shall be rewarded.

2CH-15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of

Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable

idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the

cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the

altar of the LORD, that [was] before the porch of the LORD.

2CH-15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the

strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of

Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when

they saw that the LORD his God [was] with him.

2CH-15:10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in

the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

2CH-15:11 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the

spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven

thousand sheep.

2CH-15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God

of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

2CH-15:13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel

should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or

woman.

2CH-15:14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and

with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

2CH-15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had

sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole

desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest

round about.

2CH-15:16 And also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the

king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an

idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it],

and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron.

2CH-15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:

nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2CH-15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things that

his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated,

silver, and gold, and vessels.

2CH-15:19 And there was no [more] war unto the five and

thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.

*2CH-16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa

Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to

the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king

of Judah.

2CH-16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the

treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and

sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

2CH-16:3 [There is] a league between me and thee, as [there

was] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee

silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel,

that he may depart from me.

2CH-16:4 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the

captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they

smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of

Naphtali.

2CH-16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [it], that he

left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.

2CH-16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried

away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith

Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

2CH-16:7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of

Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king

of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the

host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.

2CH-16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host,

with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst

rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.

2CH-16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the

whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of [them]

whose heart [is] perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done

foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

2CH-16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a

prison house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this

[thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time.

2CH-16:11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo,

they [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2CH-16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was

diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceeding [great]:

yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the

physicians.

2CH-16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one

and fortieth year of his reign.

2CH-16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he

had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the

bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds [of

spices] prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very

great burning for him.

*2CH-17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and

strengthened himself against Israel.

2CH-17:2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah,

and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of

Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

2CH-17:3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked

in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto

Baalim;

2CH-17:4 But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked

in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

2CH-17:5 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand;

and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches

and honour in abundance.

2CH-17:6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD:

moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

2CH-17:7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his

princes, [even] to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah,

and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of

Judah.

2CH-17:8 And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and

Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and

Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites;

and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.

2CH-17:9 And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the

law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the

cities of Judah, and taught the people.

2CH-17:10 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms

of the lands that [were] round about Judah, so that they made no

war against Jehoshaphat.

2CH-17:11 Also [some] of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat

presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him

flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven

thousand and seven hundred he goats.

2CH-17:12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built

in Judah castles, and cities of store.

2CH-17:13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and

the men of war, mighty men of valour, [were] in Jerusalem.

2CH-17:14 And these [are] the numbers of them according to the

house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands;

Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred

thousand.

2CH-17:15 And next to him [was] Jehohanan the captain, and with

him two hundred and fourscore thousand.

2CH-17:16 And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, who

willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two

hundred thousand mighty men of valour.

2CH-17:17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and

with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

2CH-17:18 And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred

and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

2CH-17:19 These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the

king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

*2CH-18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance,

and joined affinity with Ahab.

2CH-18:2 And after [certain] years he went down to Ahab to

Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance,

and for the people that [he had] with him, and persuaded him to

go up [with him] to Ramothgilead.

2CH-18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of

Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him,

I [am] as thou [art], and my people as thy people; and [we will

be] with thee in the war.

2CH-18:4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire,

I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.

2CH-18:5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of

prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to

Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up;

for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.

2CH-18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of

the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?

2CH-18:7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There

is] yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate

him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the

same [is] Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not

the king say so.

2CH-18:8 And the king of Israel called for one [of his]

officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.

2CH-18:9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah

sat either of them on his throne, clothed in [their] robes, and

they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of

Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

2CH-18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns

of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt

push Syria until they be consumed.

2CH-18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to

Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into

the hand of the king.

2CH-18:12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to

him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to

the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee,

be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.

2CH-18:13 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, even what my

God saith, that will I speak.

2CH-18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto

him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I

forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be

delivered into your hand.

2CH-18:15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I

adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the

name of the LORD?

2CH-18:16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the

mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said,

These have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to

his house in peace.

2CH-18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not

tell thee [that] he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?

2CH-18:18 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I

saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven

standing on his right hand and [on] his left.

2CH-18:19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of

Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one

spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that

manner.

2CH-18:20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the

LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him,

Wherewith?

2CH-18:21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in

the mouth of all his prophets. And [the LORD] said, Thou shalt

entice [him], and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do [even]

so.

2CH-18:22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying

spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath

spoken evil against thee.

2CH-18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and

smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the

Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

2CH-18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day

when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

2CH-18:25 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and

carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash

the king's son;

2CH-18:26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in

the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water

of affliction, until I return in peace.

2CH-18:27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace,

[then] hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all

ye people.

2CH-18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of

Judah went up to Ramothgilead.

2CH-18:29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will

disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy

robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to

the battle.

2CH-18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of

the chariots that [were] with him, saying, Fight ye not with

small or great, save only with the king of Israel.

2CH-18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the

chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of

Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but

Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved

them [to depart] from him.

2CH-18:32 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the

chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they

turned back again from pursuing him.

2CH-18:33 And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and

smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness:

therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou

mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

2CH-18:34 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king

of Israel stayed [himself] up in [his] chariot against the

Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down

he died.

*2CH-19:1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his

house in peace to Jerusalem.

2CH-19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet

him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the

ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath

upon thee from before the LORD.

2CH-19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in

that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast

prepared thine heart to seek God.

2CH-19:4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out

again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and

brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH-19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the

fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

2CH-19:6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye

judge not for man, but for the LORD, who [is] with you in the

judgment.

2CH-19:7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you;

take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD

our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

2CH-19:8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the

Levites, and [of] the priests, and of the chief of the fathers

of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies,

when they returned to Jerusalem.

2CH-19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the

fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

2CH-19:10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your

brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood,

between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall

even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and [so]

wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye

shall not trespass.

2CH-19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you

in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the

ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also

the Levites [shall be] officers before you. Deal courageously,

and the LORD shall be with the good.

*2CH-20:1 It came to pass after this also, [that] the children

of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside

the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

2CH-20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying,

There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea

on this side Syria; and, behold, they [be] in Hazazontamar,

which [is] Engedi.

2CH-20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the

LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2CH-20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help]

of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to

seek the LORD.

2CH-20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and

Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

2CH-20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou

God in heaven? and rulest [not] thou over all the kingdoms of

the heathen? and in thine hand [is there not] power and might,

so that none is able to withstand thee?

2CH-20:7 [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the

inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it

to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

2CH-20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a

sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

2CH-20:9 If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword,

judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house,

and in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in this house,) and cry

unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

2CH-20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and

mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they

came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and

destroyed them not;

2CH-20:11 Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast

us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

2CH-20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no

might against this great company that cometh against us; neither

know we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee.

2CH-20:13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their

little ones, their wives, and their children.

2CH-20:14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of

Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the

sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the

congregation;

2CH-20:15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye

inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith

the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this

great multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God's.

2CH-20:16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come

up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the

brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

2CH-20:17 Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set

yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD

with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to

morrow go out against them: for the LORD [will be] with you.

2CH-20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the

ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell

before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

2CH-20:19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites,

and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD

God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

2CH-20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth

into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth,

Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants

of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be

established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

2CH-20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he

appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the

beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say,

Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

2CH-20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD

set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount

Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

2CH-20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against

the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy

[them]: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir,

every one helped to destroy another.

2CH-20:24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the

wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they

[were] dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

2CH-20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away

the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both

riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they

stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away:

and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so

much.

2CH-20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in

the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD:

therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of

Berachah, unto this day.

2CH-20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem,

and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to

Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over

their enemies.

2CH-20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps

and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

2CH-20:29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of

[those] countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought

against the enemies of Israel.

2CH-20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God

gave him rest round about.

2CH-20:31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: [he was] thirty

and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty

and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Azubah

the daughter of Shilhi.

2CH-20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and

departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight

of the LORD.

2CH-20:33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as

yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of

their fathers.

2CH-20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and

last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Jehu the son of

Hanani, who [is] mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.

2CH-20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join

himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

2CH-20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to

Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.

2CH-20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah

prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined

thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the

ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

*2CH-21:1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was

buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his

son reigned in his stead.

2CH-21:2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah,

and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and

Shephatiah: all these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of

Israel.

2CH-21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and

of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah:

but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he [was] the

firstborn.

2CH-21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his

father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with

the sword, and [divers] also of the princes of Israel.

2CH-21:5 Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2CH-21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like

as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to

wife: and he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the

LORD.

2CH-21:7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David,

because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he

promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

2CH-21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the

dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.

2CH-21:9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his

chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the

Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the

chariots.

2CH-21:10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah

unto this day. The same time [also] did Libnah revolt from under

his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

2CH-21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of

Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit

fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].

2CH-21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the

prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father,

Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy

father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

2CH-21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel,

and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a

whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also

hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [which were]

better than thyself:

2CH-21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy

people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

2CH-21:15 And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of

thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness

day by day.

2CH-21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the

spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near

the Ethiopians:

2CH-21:17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and

carried away all the substance that was found in the king's

house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never

a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

2CH-21:18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels

with an incurable disease.

2CH-21:19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after

the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his

sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no

burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

2CH-21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to

reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed

without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of

David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

*2CH-22:1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his

youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came

with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So

Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

2CH-22:2 Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to

reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name

also [was] Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

2CH-22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for

his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

2CH-22:4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like

the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death

of his father to his destruction.

2CH-22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with

Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael

king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.

2CH-22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the

wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael

king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went

down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was

sick.

2CH-22:7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to

Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against

Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off

the house of Ahab.

2CH-22:8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing

judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah,

and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to

Ahaziah, he slew them.

2CH-22:9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he

was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had

slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son

of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the

house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

2CH-22:10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her

son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the

house of Judah.

2CH-22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took

Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's

sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber.

So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of

Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid

him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.

2CH-22:12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six

years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

*2CH-23:1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself,

and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham,

and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed,

and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri,

into covenant with him.

2CH-23:2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites

out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of

Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

2CH-23:3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king

in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's

son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.

2CH-23:4 This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of

you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites,

[shall be] porters of the doors;

2CH-23:5 And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a

third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people

[shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD.

2CH-23:6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the

priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in,

for they [are] holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of

the LORD.

2CH-23:7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about,

every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever [else]

cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with

the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

2CH-23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all

things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every

man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that

were to go [out] on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest

dismissed not the courses.

2CH-23:9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains

of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that [had been]

king David's, which [were] in the house of God.

2CH-23:10 And he set all the people, every man having his

weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the

left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by

the king round about.

2CH-23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon

him the crown, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king.

And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the

king.

2CH-23:12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people

running and praising the king, she came to the people into the

house of the LORD:

2CH-23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his

pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by

the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded

with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and

such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes,

and said, Treason, Treason.

2CH-23:14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of

hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have

her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be

slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the

house of the LORD.

2CH-23:15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to

the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew

her there.

2CH-23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between

all the people, and between the king, that they should be the

LORD'S people.

2CH-23:17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and

brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces,

and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

2CH-23:18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of

the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had

distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt

offerings of the LORD, as [it is] written in the law of Moses,

with rejoicing and with singing, [as it was ordained] by David.

2CH-23:19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of

the LORD, that none [which was] unclean in any thing should

enter in.

2CH-23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles,

and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land,

and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they

came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the

king upon the throne of the kingdom.

2CH-23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city

was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

*2CH-24:1 Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign,

and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also

[was] Zibiah of Beersheba.

2CH-24:2 And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of

the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

2CH-24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons

and daughters.

2CH-24:4 And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was

minded to repair the house of the LORD.

2CH-24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites,

and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of

all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to

year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites

hastened [it] not.

2CH-24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said

unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in

out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, [according to

the commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the

congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

2CH-24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had

broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of

the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

2CH-24:8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and

set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.

2CH-24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and

Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection [that] Moses

the servant of God [laid] upon Israel in the wilderness.

2CH-24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and

brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

2CH-24:11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was

brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and

when they saw that [there was] much money, the king's scribe and

the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took

it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day,

and gathered money in abundance.

2CH-24:12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the

work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons

and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as

wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

2CH-24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by

them, and they set the house of God in his state, and

strengthened it.

2CH-24:14 And when they had finished [it], they brought the

rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were

made vessels for the house of the LORD, [even] vessels to

minister, and to offer [withal], and spoons, and vessels of gold

and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the

LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

2CH-24:15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he

died; an hundred and thirty years old [was he] when he died.

2CH-24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among the

kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and

toward his house.

2CH-24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of

Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened

unto them.

2CH-24:18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their

fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah

and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

2CH-24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again

unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would

not give ear.

2CH-24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of

Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto

them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the

LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD,

he hath also forsaken you.

2CH-24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with

stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house

of the LORD.

2CH-24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which

Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when

he died, he said, The LORD look upon [it], and require [it].

2CH-24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that]

the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah

and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from

among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king

of Damascus.

2CH-24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company

of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand,

because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So

they executed judgment against Joash.

2CH-24:25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left

him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him

for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him

on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of

David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

2CH-24:26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad

the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of

Shimrith a Moabitess.

2CH-24:27 Now [concerning] his sons, and the greatness of the

burdens [laid] upon him, and the repairing of the house of God,

behold, they [are] written in the story of the book of the kings.

And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

*2CH-25:1 Amaziah [was] twenty and five years old [when] he

began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in

Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2CH-25:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

2CH-25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established

to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his

father.

2CH-25:4 But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is]

written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD

commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children,

neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man

shall die for his own sin.

2CH-25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made

them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds,

according to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah

and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and

above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able]

to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

2CH-25:6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour

out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

2CH-25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king,

let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not

with Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim.

2CH-25:8 But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle:

God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power

to help, and to cast down.

2CH-25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we

do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of

Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give

thee much more than this.

2CH-25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that

was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore

their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned

home in great anger.

2CH-25:11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his

people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the

children of Seir ten thousand.

2CH-25:12 And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the

children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the

top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock,

that they all were broken in pieces.

2CH-25:13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back,

that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities

of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three

thousand of them, and took much spoil.

2CH-25:14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from

the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the

children of Seir, and set them up [to be] his gods, and bowed

down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

2CH-25:15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against

Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him,

Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could

not deliver their own people out of thine hand?

2CH-25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the

king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel?

forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare,

and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee,

because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my

counsel.

2CH-25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to

Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel,

saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.

2CH-25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of

Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the

cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son

to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon,

and trode down the thistle.

2CH-25:19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and

thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why

shouldest thou meddle to [thine] hurt, that thou shouldest fall,

[even] thou, and Judah with thee?

2CH-25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it [came] of God,

that he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies],

because they sought after the gods of Edom.

2CH-25:21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one

another in the face, [both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at

Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.

2CH-25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and

they fled every man to his tent.

2CH-25:23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of

Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh,

and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of

Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four

hundred cubits.

2CH-25:24 And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all

the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom,

and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and

returned to Samaria.

2CH-25:25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived

after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen

years.

2CH-25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last,

behold, [are] they not written in the book of the kings of Judah

and Israel?

2CH-25:27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from

following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in

Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish

after him, and slew him there.

2CH-25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with

his fathers in the city of Judah.

*2CH-26:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was]

sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father

Amaziah.

2CH-26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that

the king slept with his fathers.

2CH-26:3 Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began to reign,

and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's

name also [was] Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

2CH-26:4 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

2CH-26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had

understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought

the LORD, God made him to prosper.

2CH-26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines,

and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the

wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the

Philistines.

2CH-26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and

against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.

2CH-26:8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name

spread abroad [even] to the entering in of Egypt; for he

strengthened [himself] exceedingly.

2CH-26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the

corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the

wall], and fortified them.

2CH-26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many

wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in

the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the

mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

2CH-26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that

went out to war by bands, according to the number of their

account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler,

under the hand of Hananiah, [one] of the king's captains.

2CH-26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the

mighty men of valour [were] two thousand and six hundred.

2CH-26:13 And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred

thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with

mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

2CH-26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host

shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and

slings [to cast] stones.

2CH-26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning

men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows

and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he

was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

2CH-26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to

[his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God,

and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the

altar of incense.

2CH-26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with

him fourscore priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men:

2CH-26:18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him,

[It appertaineth] not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto

the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are

consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou

hast trespassed; neither [shall it be] for thine honour from the

LORD God.

2CH-26:19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and [had] a censer in his hand

to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the

leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the

house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.

2CH-26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests,

looked upon him, and, behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead,

and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to

go out, because the LORD had smitten him.

2CH-26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his

death, and dwelt in a several house, [being] a leper; for he was

cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son [was]

over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

2CH-26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last,

did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

2CH-26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him

with his fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to

the kings; for they said, He [is] a leper: and Jotham his son

reigned in his stead.

*2CH-27:1 Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His

mother's name also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2CH-27:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he

entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet

corruptly.

2CH-27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and

on the wall of Ophel he built much.

2CH-27:4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah,

and in the forests he built castles and towers.

2CH-27:5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and

prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the

same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand

measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the

children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the

third.

2CH-27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways

before the LORD his God.

2CH-27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars,

and his ways, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of

Israel and Judah.

2CH-27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to

reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

2CH-27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him

in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

*2CH-28:1 Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he began to reign,

and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not [that

which was] right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:

2CH-28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and

made also molten images for Baalim.

2CH-28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of

Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the

abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before

the children of Israel.

2CH-28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high

places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2CH-28:5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand

of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a

great multitude of them captives, and brought [them] to Damascus.

And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel,

who smote him with a great slaughter.

2CH-28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred

and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men;

because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH-28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the

king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah

[that was] next to the king.

2CH-28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of

their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters,

and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil

to Samaria.

2CH-28:9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was]

Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and

said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was

wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye

have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven.

2CH-28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of

Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are

there] not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your

God?

2CH-28:11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again,

which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce

wrath of the LORD [is] upon you.

2CH-28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim,

Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth,

and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai,

stood up against them that came from the war,

2CH-28:13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the

captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD

[already], ye intend to add [more] to our sins and to our

trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce wrath

against Israel.

2CH-28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil

before the princes and all the congregation.

2CH-28:15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and

took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were

naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them

to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the

feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city

of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

2CH-28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of

Assyria to help him.

2CH-28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah,

and carried away captives.

2CH-28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the

low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken

Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the

villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo

also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.

2CH-28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king

of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore

against the LORD.

2CH-28:20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him,

and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

2CH-28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of

the LORD, and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes,

and gave [it] unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

2CH-28:22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet

more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.

2CH-28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which

smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria

help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may

help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

2CH-28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house

of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and

shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him

altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

2CH-28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high

places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger

the LORD God of his fathers.

2CH-28:26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first

and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of

Judah and Israel.

2CH-28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him

in the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into

the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son

reigned in his stead.

*2CH-29:1 Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty

years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem.

And his mother's name [was] Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

2CH-29:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

2CH-29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,

opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

2CH-29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and

gathered them together into the east street,

2CH-29:5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now

yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your

fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy [place].

2CH-29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which

was] evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him,

and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the

LORD, and turned [their] backs.

2CH-29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put

out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt

offerings in the holy [place] unto the God of Israel.

2CH-29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and

Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to

astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

2CH-29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our

sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.

2CH-29:10 Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the

LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

2CH-29:11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath

chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should

minister unto him, and burn incense.

2CH-29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and

Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of

the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of

Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and

Eden the son of Joah:

2CH-29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and

of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

2CH-29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of

the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.

2CH-29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified

themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king,

by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

2CH-29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house

of the LORD, to cleanse [it], and brought out all the

uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the

court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to

carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron.

2CH-29:17 Now they began on the first [day] of the first month

to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the

porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in

eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they

made an end.

2CH-29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We

have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt

offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table,

with all the vessels thereof.

2CH-29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his

reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and

sanctified, and, behold, they [are] before the altar of the LORD.

2CH-29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the

rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

2CH-29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and

seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the

kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded

the priests the sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the altar of

the LORD.

2CH-29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received

the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they

had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar:

they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon

the altar.

2CH-29:23 And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin

offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid

their hands upon them:

2CH-29:24 And the priests killed them, and they made

reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an

atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded [that] the

burnt offering and the sin offering [should be made] for all

Israel.

2CH-29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with

cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the

commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the

prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the LORD by his

prophets.

2CH-29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David,

and the priests with the trumpets.

2CH-29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering

upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of

the LORD began [also] with the trumpets, and with the

instruments [ordained] by David king of Israel.

2CH-29:28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers

sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued]

until the burnt offering was finished.

2CH-29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king

and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and

worshipped.

2CH-29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded

the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David,

and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and

they bowed their heads and worshipped.

2CH-29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have

consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring

sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And

the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and

as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.

2CH-29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the

congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an

hundred rams, [and] two hundred lambs: all these [were] for a

burnt offering to the LORD.

2CH-29:33 And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen

and three thousand sheep.

2CH-29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not

flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the

Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the

[other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites

[were] more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the

priests.

2CH-29:35 And also the burnt offerings [were] in abundance,

with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for

[every] burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD

was set in order.

2CH-29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God

had prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly.

*2CH-30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote

letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to

the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto

the LORD God of Israel.

2CH-30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and

all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the

second month.

2CH-30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the

priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had

the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

2CH-30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the

congregation.

2CH-30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation

throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they

should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at

Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such

sort] as it was written.

2CH-30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and

his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to

the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn

again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he

will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the

hand of the kings of Assyria.

2CH-30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your

brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers,

[who] therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

2CH-30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but]

yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary,

which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God,

that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

2CH-30:9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and

your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them

captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the

LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away

[his] face from you, if ye return unto him.

2CH-30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the

country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they

laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

2CH-30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of

Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

2CH-30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one

heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by

the word of the LORD.

2CH-30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep

the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great

congregation.

2CH-30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that [were]

in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and

cast [them] into the brook Kidron.

2CH-30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day]

of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were

ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt

offerings into the house of the LORD.

2CH-30:16 And they stood in their place after their manner,

according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests

sprinkled the blood, [which they received] of the hand of the

Levites.

2CH-30:17 For [there were] many in the congregation that were

not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the

killing of the passovers for every one [that was] not clean, to

sanctify [them] unto the LORD.

2CH-30:18 For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim,

and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed

themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was

written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD

pardon every one

2CH-30:19 [That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God

of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the

purification of the sanctuary.

2CH-30:20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the

people.

2CH-30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at

Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with

great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD

day by day, [singing] with loud instruments unto the LORD.

2CH-30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites

that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat

throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and

making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH-30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other

seven days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.

2CH-30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the

congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and

the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten

thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified

themselves.

2CH-30:25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests

and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of

Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel,

and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

2CH-30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the

time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel [there was] not

the like in Jerusalem.

2CH-30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the

people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to

his holy dwelling place, [even] unto heaven.

*2CH-31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were

present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in

pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places

and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also

and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then

all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession,

into their own cities.

2CH-31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and

the Levites after their courses, every man according to his

service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for

peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise

in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

2CH-31:3 [He appointed] also the king's portion of his

substance for the burnt offerings, [to wit], for the morning and

evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the

sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as [it

is] written in the law of the LORD.

2CH-31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in

Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites,

that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

2CH-31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the

children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn,

wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field;

and the tithe of all [things] brought they in abundantly.

2CH-31:6 And [concerning] the children of Israel and Judah,

that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the

tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were

consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid [them] by heaps.

2CH-31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of

the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.

2CH-31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the

heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.

2CH-31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the

Levites concerning the heaps.

2CH-31:10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok

answered him, and said, Since [the people] began to bring the

offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat,

and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and

that which is left [is] this great store.

2CH-31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the

house of the LORD; and they prepared [them],

2CH-31:12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the

dedicated [things] faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite

[was] ruler, and Shimei his brother [was] the next.

2CH-31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and

Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and

Benaiah, [were] overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei

his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and

Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

2CH-31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter

toward the east, [was] over the freewill offerings of God, to

distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.

2CH-31:15 And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua,

and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the

priests, in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by

courses, as well to the great as to the small:

2CH-31:16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old

and upward, [even] unto every one that entereth into the house

of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their

charges according to their courses;

2CH-31:17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of

their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward,

in their charges by their courses;

2CH-31:18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their

wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the

congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves

in holiness:

2CH-31:19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, [which were]

in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several

city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to

all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned

by genealogies among the Levites.

2CH-31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and

wrought [that which was] good and right and truth before the

LORD his God.

2CH-31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the

house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek

his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered.

*2CH-32:1 After these things, and the establishment thereof,

Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and

encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for

himself.

2CH-32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and

that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

2CH-32:3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to

stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city:

and they did help him.

2CH-32:4 So there was gathered much people together, who

stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the

midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come,

and find much water?

2CH-32:5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the

wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and

another wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David,

and made darts and shields in abundance.

2CH-32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and

gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the

city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,

2CH-32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed

for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that [is]

with him: for [there be] more with us than with him:

2CH-32:8 With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the

LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the

people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of

Judah.

2CH-32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his

servants to Jerusalem, (but he [himself laid siege] against

Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of

Judah, and unto all Judah that [were] at Jerusalem, saying,

2CH-32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye

trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

2CH-32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over

yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our

God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

2CH-32:12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places

and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye

shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

2CH-32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all

the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of

those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine

hand?

2CH-32:14 Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations

that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people

out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you

out of mine hand?

2CH-32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor

persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god

of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of

mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less

shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

2CH-32:16 And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD

God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

2CH-32:17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of

Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the

nations of [other] lands have not delivered their people out of

mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people

out of mine hand.

2CH-32:18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech

unto the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to

affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the

city.

2CH-32:19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as

against the gods of the people of the earth, [which were] the

work of the hands of man.

2CH-32:20 And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the

prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.

2CH-32:21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the

mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp

of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his

own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they

that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

2CH-32:22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and

from the hand of all [other], and guided them on every side.

2CH-32:23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem,

and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified

in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

2CH-32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and

prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a

sign.

2CH-32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the

benefit [done] unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore

there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

2CH-32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the

pride of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of

Hezekiah.

2CH-32:27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour:

and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for

precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all

manner of pleasant jewels;

2CH-32:28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine,

and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for

flocks.

2CH-32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of

flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance

very much.

2CH-32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse

of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the

city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

2CH-32:31 Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the

princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder

that was [done] in the land, God left him, to try him, that he

might know all [that was] in his heart.

2CH-32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his

goodness, behold, they [are] written in the vision of Isaiah the

prophet, the son of Amoz, [and] in the book of the kings of

Judah and Israel.

2CH-32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried

him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and

all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his

death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

*2CH-33:1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

2CH-33:2 But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,

like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had

cast out before the children of Israel.

2CH-33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his

father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and

made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served

them.

2CH-33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof

the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

2CH-33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the

two courts of the house of the LORD.

2CH-33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in

the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and

used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a

familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the

sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2CH-33:7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made,

in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to

Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have

chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for

ever:

2CH-33:8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from

out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that

they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them,

according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances

by the hand of Moses.

2CH-33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem to err, [and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the

LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

2CH-33:10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people:

but they would not hearken.

2CH-33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of

the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the

thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

2CH-33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD

his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his

fathers,

2CH-33:13 And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and

heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into

his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.

2CH-33:14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of

David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the

entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and

raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all

the fenced cities of Judah.

2CH-33:15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out

of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built

in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and

cast [them] out of the city.

2CH-33:16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed

thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah

to serve the LORD God of Israel.

2CH-33:17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the

high places, [yet] unto the LORD their God only.

2CH-33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer

unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in

the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they [are written]

in the book of the kings of Israel.

2CH-33:19 His prayer also, and [how God] was entreated of him,

and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he

built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before

he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of

the seers.

2CH-33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried

him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

2CH-33:21 Amon [was] two and twenty years old when he began to

reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

2CH-33:22 But he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all

the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served

them;

2CH-33:23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh

his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and

more.

2CH-33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him

in his own house.

2CH-33:25 But the people of the land slew all them that had

conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made

Josiah his son king in his stead.

*2CH-34:1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign,

and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

2CH-34:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined

[neither] to the right hand, nor to the left.

2CH-34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet

young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and

in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from

the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the

molten images.

2CH-34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his

presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut

down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten

images, he brake in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strowed

[it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

2CH-34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their

altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

2CH-34:6 And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim,

and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

2CH-34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves,

and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all

the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to

Jerusalem.

2CH-34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had

purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of

Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son

of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

2CH-34:9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they

delivered the money that was brought into the house of God,

which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand

of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and

of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

2CH-34:10 And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had

the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the

workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and

amend the house:

2CH-34:11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it],

to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the

houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

2CH-34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the

overseers of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the

sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the

Kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levites, all

that could skill of instruments of music.

2CH-34:13 Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and

[were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of

service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers,

and porters.

2CH-34:14 And when they brought out the money that was brought

into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of

the law of the LORD [given] by Moses.

2CH-34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe,

I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And

Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

2CH-34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought

the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy

servants, they do [it].

2CH-34:17 And they have gathered together the money that was

found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the

hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.

2CH-34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying,

Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it

before the king.

2CH-34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the

words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

2CH-34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of

Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and

Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,

2CH-34:21 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are

left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book

that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is

poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word

of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.

2CH-34:22 And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed],

went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of

Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she

dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to

that [effect].

2CH-34:23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of

Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

2CH-34:24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon

this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the

curses that are written in the book which they have read before

the king of Judah:

2CH-34:25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned

incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger

with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be

poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

2CH-34:26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire

of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God

of Israel [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;

2CH-34:27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble

thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this

place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst

thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before

me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.

2CH-34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou

shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine

eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and

upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word

again.

2CH-34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the

elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

2CH-34:30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and

all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the

priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small:

and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the

covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

2CH-34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant

before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his

commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all

his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the

covenant which are written in this book.

2CH-34:32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and

Benjamin to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did

according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

2CH-34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all

the countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and

made all that were present in Israel to serve, [even] to serve

the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed not from

following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

*2CH-35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in

Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day]

of the first month.

2CH-35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and

encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,

2CH-35:3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel,

which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house

which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; [it

shall] not [be] a burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the

LORD your God, and his people Israel,

2CH-35:4 And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers,

after your courses, according to the writing of David king of

Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

2CH-35:5 And stand in the holy [place] according to the

divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the

people, and [after] the division of the families of the Levites.

2CH-35:6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and

prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word

of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

2CH-35:7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and

kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present,

to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks:

these [were] of the king's substance.

2CH-35:8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the

priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,

rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the

passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle],

and three hundred oxen.

2CH-35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his

brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the

Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five

thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.

2CH-35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in

their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the

king's commandment.

2CH-35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests

sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed

[them].

2CH-35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might

give according to the divisions of the families of the people,

to offer unto the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses.

And so [did they] with the oxen.

2CH-35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to

the ordinance: but the [other] holy [offerings] sod they in pots,

and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided [them] speedily among

all the people.

2CH-35:14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for

the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied]

in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night;

therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the

priests the sons of Aaron.

2CH-35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their

place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and

Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters [waited] at

every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their

brethren the Levites prepared for them.

2CH-35:16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same

day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the

altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

2CH-35:17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the

passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven

days.

2CH-35:18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel

from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings

of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests,

and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and

the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2CH-35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was

this passover kept.

2CH-35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple,

Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by

Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

2CH-35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I

to do with thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee

this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God

commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from [meddling with]

God, who [is] with me, that he destroy thee not.

2CH-35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him,

but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and

hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and

came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

2CH-35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king

said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

2CH-35:24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot,

and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought

him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in [one of] the

sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned

for Josiah.

2CH-35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing

men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations

to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold,

they [are] written in the lamentations.

2CH-35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness,

according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD,

2CH-35:27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are]

written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

*2CH-36:1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of

Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

2CH-36:2 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

2CH-36:3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and

condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent

of gold.

2CH-36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king

over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And

Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

2CH-36:5 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he

did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

2CH-36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,

and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

2CH-36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the

house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at

Babylon.

2CH-36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his

abominations which he did, and that which was found in him,

behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel

and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

2CH-36:9 Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem:

and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.

2CH-36:10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar

sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the

house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah

and Jerusalem.

2CH-36:11 Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began

to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

2CH-36:12 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD his God, [and] humbled not himself before Jeremiah the

prophet [speaking] from the mouth of the LORD.

2CH-36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who

had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and

hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.

2CH-36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,

transgressed very much after all the abominations of the

heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had

hallowed in Jerusalem.

2CH-36:15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his

messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had

compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

2CH-36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised

his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD

arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy.

2CH-36:17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the

Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house

of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or

maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all

into his hand.

2CH-36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and

small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the

treasures of the king, and of his princes; all [these] he

brought to Babylon.

2CH-36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the

wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire,

and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

2CH-36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he

away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons

until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

2CH-36:21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of

Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long

as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and

ten years.

2CH-36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that

the word of the LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be

accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of

Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,

and [put it] also in writing, saying,

2CH-36:23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of

the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath

charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in

Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD his

God [be] with him, and let him go up.