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

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2KI-1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of

Ahab.

2KI-1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper

chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent

messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god

of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

2KI-1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite,

Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and

say unto them, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in

Israel, [that] ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

2KI-1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come

down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely

die. And Elijah departed.

2KI-1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said

unto them, Why are ye now turned back?

2KI-1:6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us,

and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you,

and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, [Is it] not because

[there is] not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to inquire

of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come

down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely

die.

2KI-1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man [was he]

which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

2KI-1:8 And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt

with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is]

Elijah the Tishbite.

2KI-1:9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his

fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of

an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath

said, Come down.

2KI-1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty,

If I [be] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and

consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven,

and consumed him and his fifty.

2KI-1:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty

with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God,

thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.

2KI-1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I [be] a

man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and

thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and

consumed him and his fifty.

2KI-1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with

his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and

fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto

him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of

these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

2KI-1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up

the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties:

therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.

2KI-1:15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down

with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with

him unto the king.

2KI-1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch

as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of

Ekron, [is it] not because [there is] no God in Israel to

inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that

bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

2KI-1:17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which

Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the

second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah;

because he had no son.

2KI-1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did,

[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Israel?

2KI-2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah

into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from

Gilgal.

2KI-2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee;

for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said [unto him,

As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave

thee. So they went down to Bethel.

2KI-2:3 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came

forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD

will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea,

I know [it]; hold ye your peace.

2KI-2:4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray

thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, [As]

the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.

So they came to Jericho.

2KI-2:5 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Jericho

came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD

will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered,

Yea, I know [it]; hold ye your peace.

2KI-2:6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for

the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, [As] the LORD

liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And

they two went on.

2KI-2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and

stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.

2KI-2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped [it] together,

and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither,

so that they two went over on dry ground.

2KI-2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that

Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I

be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a

double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

2KI-2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing:

[nevertheless], if thou see me [when I am] taken from thee, it

shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be [so].

2KI-2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,

that, behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of

fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a

whirlwind into heaven.

2KI-2:12 And Elisha saw [it], and he cried, My father, my

father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he

saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent

them in two pieces.

2KI-2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from

him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;

2KI-2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him,

and smote the waters, and said, Where [is] the LORD God of

Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted

hither and thither: and Elisha went over.

2KI-2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which [were] to view

at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on

Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the

ground before him.

2KI-2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy

servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek

thy master: lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken

him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley.

And he said, Ye shall not send.

2KI-2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said,

Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days,

but found him not.

2KI-2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at

Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

2KI-2:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I

pray thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord

seeth: but the water [is] nought, and the ground barren.

2KI-2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt

therein. And they brought [it] to him.

2KI-2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and

cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have

healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more

death or barren [land].

2KI-2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to

the saying of Elisha which he spake.

2KI-2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was

going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the

city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head;

go up, thou bald head.

2KI-2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed

them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears

out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

2KI-2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from

thence he returned to Samaria.

2KI-3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel

in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and

reigned twelve years.

2KI-3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not

like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image

of Baal that his father had made.

2KI-3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the

son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not

therefrom.

2KI-3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered

unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an

hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

2KI-3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king

of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

2KI-3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and

numbered all Israel.

2KI-3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,

saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go

with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I

[am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as

thy horses.

2KI-3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered,

The way through the wilderness of Edom.

2KI-3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and

the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days'

journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle

that followed them.

2KI-3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath

called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand

of Moab!

2KI-3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of

the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the

king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha

the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.

2KI-3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him.

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went

down to him.

2KI-3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I

to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to

the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him,

Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to

deliver them into the hand of Moab.

2KI-3:14 And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before

whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of

Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor

see thee.

2KI-3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when

the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.

2KI-3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley

full of ditches.

2KI-3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind,

neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with

water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your

beasts.

2KI-3:18 And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the

LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.

2KI-3:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice

city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of

water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

2KI-3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat

offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way

of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

2KI-3:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were

come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able

to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.

2KI-3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun

shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the

other side [as] red as blood:

2KI-3:23 And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely

slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab,

to the spoil.

2KI-3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the

Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled

before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in

[their] country.

2KI-3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece

of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they

stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees:

only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the

slingers went about [it], and smote it.

2KI-3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too

sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew

swords, to break through [even] unto the king of Edom: but they

could not.

2KI-3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned

in his stead, and offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the

wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they

departed from him, and returned to [their own] land.

2KI-4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the

sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband

is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD:

and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be

bondmen.

2KI-4:2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee?

tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine

handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.

2KI-4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy

neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.

2KI-4:4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door

upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those

vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.

2KI-4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and

upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured

out.

2KI-4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that

she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto

her, [There is] not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.

2KI-4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go,

sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children

of the rest.

2KI-4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem,

where [was] a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread.

And [so] it was, [that] as oft as he passed by, he turned in

thither to eat bread.

2KI-4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive

that this [is] an holy man of God, which passeth by us

continually.

2KI-4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall;

and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool,

and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that

he shall turn in thither.

2KI-4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he

turned into the chamber, and lay there.

2KI-4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this

Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.

2KI-4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou

hast been careful for us with all this care; what [is] to be

done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to

the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine

own people.

2KI-4:14 And he said, What then [is] to be done for her? And

Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is

old.

2KI-4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she

stood in the door.

2KI-4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time

of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord,

[thou] man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.

2KI-4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season

that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

2KI-4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that

he went out to his father to the reapers.

2KI-4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he

said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

2KI-4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his

mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and [then] died.

2KI-4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of

God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out.

2KI-4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I

pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I

may run to the man of God, and come again.

2KI-4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? [it

is] neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be]

well.

2KI-4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant,

Drive, and go forward; slack not [thy] riding for me, except I

bid thee.

2KI-4:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount

Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar

off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, [yonder is]

that Shunammite:

2KI-4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her,

[Is it] well with thee? [is it] well with thy husband? [is it]

well with the child? And she answered, [It is] well.

2KI-4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she

caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away.

And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] vexed

within her: and the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and hath not

told me.

2KI-4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I

not say, Do not deceive me?

2KI-4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my

staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man,

salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again:

and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

2KI-4:30 And the mother of the child said, [As] the LORD liveth,

and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose,

and followed her.

2KI-4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff

upon the face of the child; but [there was] neither voice, nor

hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him,

saying, The child is not awaked.

2KI-4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the

child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.

2KI-4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them

twain, and prayed unto the LORD.

2KI-4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his

mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands

upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the

flesh of the child waxed warm.

2KI-4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro;

and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child

sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

2KI-4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite.

So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said,

Take up thy son.

2KI-4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed

herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.

2KI-4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a

dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting

before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot,

and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

2KI-4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and

found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full,

and came and shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for they

knew [them] not.

2KI-4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to

pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out,

and said, O [thou] man of God, [there is] death in the pot. And

they could not eat [thereof].

2KI-4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast [it] into

the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat.

And there was no harm in the pot.

2KI-4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought

the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley,

and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give

unto the people, that they may eat.

2KI-4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before

an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may

eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave

[thereof].

2KI-4:44 So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left

[thereof], according to the word of the LORD.

2KI-5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria,

was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him

the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty

man in valour, [but he was] a leper.

2KI-5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had

brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid;

and she waited on Naaman's wife.

2KI-5:3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord

[were] with the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would

recover him of his leprosy.

2KI-5:4 And [one] went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and

thus said the maid that [is] of the land of Israel.

2KI-5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send

a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with

him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold,

and ten changes of raiment.

2KI-5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying,

Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have

[therewith] sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest

recover him of his leprosy.

2KI-5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read

the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to

kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to

recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you,

and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

2KI-5:8 And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard

that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to

the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him

come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in

Israel.

2KI-5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot,

and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

2KI-5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and

wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to

thee, and thou shalt be clean.

2KI-5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold,

I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on

the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place,

and recover the leper.

2KI-5:12 [Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus,

better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them,

and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

2KI-5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and

said, My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great

thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then,

when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

2KI-5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in

Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh

came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was

clean.

2KI-5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his

company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold,

now I know that [there is] no God in all the earth, but in

Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy

servant.

2KI-5:16 But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand,

I will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he

refused.

2KI-5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be

given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant

will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto

other gods, but unto the LORD.

2KI-5:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, [that] when

my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and

he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon:

when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon

thy servant in this thing.

2KI-5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from

him a little way.

2KI-5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,

Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not

receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, [as] the LORD

liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

2KI-5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw

[him] running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to

meet him, and said, [Is] all well?

2KI-5:22 And he said, All [is] well. My master hath sent me,

saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim

two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray

thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.

2KI-5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he

urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two

changes of garments, and laid [them] upon two of his servants;

and they bare [them] before him.

2KI-5:24 And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from

their hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men

go, and they departed.

2KI-5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And

Elisha said unto him, Whence [comest thou], Gehazi? And he said,

Thy servant went no whither.

2KI-5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart [with thee],

when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it]

a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards,

and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and

maidservants?

2KI-5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee,

and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a

leper [as white] as snow.

2KI-6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold

now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

2KI-6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence

every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may

dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

2KI-6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy

servants. And he answered, I will go.

2KI-6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan,

they cut down wood.

2KI-6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into

the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was

borrowed.

2KI-6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed

him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither;

and the iron did swim.

2KI-6:7 Therefore said he, Take [it] up to thee. And he put out

his hand, and took it.

2KI-6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took

counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place

[shall be] my camp.

2KI-6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying,

Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians

are come down.

2KI-6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man

of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not

once nor twice.

2KI-6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore

troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said

unto them, Will ye not show me which of us [is] for the king of

Israel?

2KI-6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king:

but Elisha, the prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of

Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.

2KI-6:13 And he said, Go and spy where he [is], that I may send

and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, [he is] in

Dothan.

2KI-6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a

great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

2KI-6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early,

and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with

horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my

master! how shall we do?

2KI-6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that [be] with us

[are] more than they that [be] with them.

2KI-6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open

his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the

young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of

horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

2KI-6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the

LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness.

And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

2KI-6:19 And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way,

neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to

the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.

2KI-6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria,

that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these [men], that they

may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and,

behold, [they were] in the midst of Samaria.

2KI-6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw

them, My father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?

2KI-6:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite [them]: wouldest

thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and

with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat

and drink, and go to their master.

2KI-6:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when

they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to

their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land

of Israel.

2KI-6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of

Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

2KI-6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold,

they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore

[pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung

for five [pieces] of silver.

2KI-6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,

there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

2KI-6:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence

shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

2KI-6:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she

answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat

him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

2KI-6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto

her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she

hath hid her son.

2KI-6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of

the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the

wall, and the people looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth

within upon his flesh.

2KI-6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the

head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

2KI-6:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with

him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the

messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this

son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when

the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the

door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

2KI-6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the

messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil

[is] of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?

2KI-7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus

saith the LORD, To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of

fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley

for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

2KI-7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the

man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows

in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt

see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

2KI-7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of

the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we

die?

2KI-7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine

[is] in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still

here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the

host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and

if they kill us, we shall but die.

2KI-7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp

of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of

the camp of Syria, behold, [there was] no man there.

2KI-7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a

noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a

great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel

hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings

of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

2KI-7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left

their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as

it [was], and fled for their life.

2KI-7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the

camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and

carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid

[it]; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried

thence [also], and went and hid [it].

2KI-7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day

[is] a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry

till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now

therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.

2KI-7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city:

and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians,

and, behold, [there was] no man there, neither voice of man, but

horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they [were].

2KI-7:11 And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the

king's house within.

2KI-7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his

servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us.

They know that we [be] hungry; therefore are they gone out of

the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come

out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the

city.

2KI-7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some]

take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are

left in the city, (behold, they [are] as all the multitude of

Israel that are left in it: behold, [I say], they [are] even as

all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let

us send and see.

2KI-7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king

sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

2KI-7:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the

way [was] full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had

cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told

the king.

2KI-7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the

Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and

two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of

the LORD.

2KI-7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he

leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon

him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who

spake when the king came down to him.

2KI-7:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to

the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a

measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about

this time in the gate of Samaria:

2KI-7:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now,

behold, [if] the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such

a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine

eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

2KI-7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon

him in the gate, and he died.

2KI-8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had

restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household,

and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath

called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven

years.

2KI-8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the

man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in

the land of the Philistines seven years.

2KI-8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the

woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went

forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

2KI-8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man

of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that

Elisha hath done.

2KI-8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he

had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose

son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and

for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the

woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

2KI-8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the

king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all

that [was] hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day

that she left the land, even until now.

2KI-8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of

Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is

come hither.

2KI-8:8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine

hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by

him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

2KI-8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him,

even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and

came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of

Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this

disease?

2KI-8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou

mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that

he shall surely die.

2KI-8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he

was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

2KI-8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,

Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of

Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their

young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their

children, and rip up their women with child.

2KI-8:13 And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog,

that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The

LORD hath showed me that thou [shalt be] king over Syria.

2KI-8:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master;

who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He

told me [that] thou shouldest surely recover.

2KI-8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a

thick cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on his

face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

2KI-8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of

Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, Jehoram the son

of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

2KI-8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign;

and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2KI-8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as

did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife:

and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

2KI-8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his

servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light,

[and] to his children.

2KI-8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah,

and made a king over themselves.

2KI-8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with

him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which

compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the

people fled into their tents.

2KI-8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto

this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

2KI-8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did,

[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Judah?

2KI-8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with

his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in

his stead.

2KI-8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of

Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to

reign.

2KI-8:26 Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began

to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's

name [was] Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

2KI-8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did

evil in the sight of the LORD, as [did] the house of Ahab: for

he [was] the son in law of the house of Ahab.

2KI-8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war

against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians

wounded Joram.

2KI-8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of

the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he

fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of

Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in

Jezreel, because he was sick.

2KI-9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of

the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take

this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:

2KI-9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the

son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him

arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner

chamber;

2KI-9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head,

and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over

Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.

2KI-9:4 So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet,

went to Ramothgilead.

2KI-9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host

[were] sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain.

And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O

captain.

2KI-9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured

the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God

of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD,

[even] over Israel.

2KI-9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that

I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the

blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.

2KI-9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will

cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him

that is shut up and left in Israel:

2KI-9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of

Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son

of Ahijah:

2KI-9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of

Jezreel, and [there shall be] none to bury [her]. And he opened

the door, and fled.

2KI-9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and

[one] said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this mad

[fellow] to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and

his communication.

2KI-9:12 And they said, [It is] false; tell us now. And he said,

Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I

have anointed thee king over Israel.

2KI-9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and

put [it] under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with

trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.

2KI-9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi

conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he

and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.

2KI-9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of

the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with

Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds,

[then] let none go forth [nor] escape out of the city to go to

tell [it] in Jezreel.

2KI-9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for

Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see

Joram.

2KI-9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel,

and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a

company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them,

and let him say, [Is it] peace?

2KI-9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said,

Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast

thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman

told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not

again.

2KI-9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to

them, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu

answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.

2KI-9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them,

and cometh not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of

Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

2KI-9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made

ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went

out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and

met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.

2KI-9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said,

[Is it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as

the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so]

many?

2KI-9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to

Ahaziah, [There is] treachery, O Ahaziah.

2KI-9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote

Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart,

and he sunk down in his chariot.

2KI-9:25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, [and]

cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite:

for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab

his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;

2KI-9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and

the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee

in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him

into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.

2KI-9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled

by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and

said, Smite him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at the

going up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo,

and died there.

2KI-9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem,

and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of

David.

2KI-9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab

began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

2KI-9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of

it]; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked

out at a window.

2KI-9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had]

Zimri peace, who slew his master?

2KI-9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who

[is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three

eunuchs.

2KI-9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down:

and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the

horses: and he trode her under foot.

2KI-9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and

said, Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she

[is] a king's daughter.

2KI-9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of

her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.

2KI-9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said,

This [is] the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant

Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall

dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

2KI-9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the

face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they

shall not say, This [is] Jezebel.

2KI-10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote

letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the

elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,

2KI-10:2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your

master's sons [are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots

and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;

2KI-10:3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's

sons, and set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your

master's house.

2KI-10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold,

two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?

2KI-10:5 And he that [was] over the house, and he that [was]

over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up [of the

children], sent to Jehu, saying, We [are] thy servants, and will

do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do

thou [that which is] good in thine eyes.

2KI-10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying,

If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, take

ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to

Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, [being]

seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city, which

brought them up.

2KI-10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them,

that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and

put their heads in baskets, and sent him [them] to Jezreel.

2KI-10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They

have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye

them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the

morning.

2KI-10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out,

and stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] righteous: behold,

I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all

these?

2KI-10:10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing

of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the

house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done [that] which he spake by

his servant Elijah.

2KI-10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab

in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his

priests, until he left him none remaining.

2KI-10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. [And]

as he [was] at the shearing house in the way,

2KI-10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah,

and said, Who [are] ye? And they answered, We [are] the brethren

of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king

and the children of the queen.

2KI-10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them

alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even]

two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

2KI-10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on

Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted

him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart [is]

with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give

[me] thine hand. And he gave [him] his hand; and he took him up

to him into the chariot.

2KI-10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the

LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

2KI-10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that

remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him,

according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.

2KI-10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said

unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him

much.

2KI-10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal,

all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for

I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whosoever shall be

wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did [it] in subtlety, to

the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

2KI-10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.

And they proclaimed [it].

2KI-10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the

worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that

came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of

Baal was full from one end to another.

2KI-10:22 And he said unto him that [was] over the vestry,

Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he

brought them forth vestments.

2KI-10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into

the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search,

and look that there be here with you none of the servants of

the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.

2KI-10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt

offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, [If]

any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, [he

that letteth him go], his life [shall be] for the life of him.

2KI-10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of

offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to

the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And

they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and

the captains cast [them] out, and went to the city of the house

of Baal.

2KI-10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of

Baal, and burned them.

2KI-10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down

the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.

2KI-10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

2KI-10:29 Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,

who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to

wit], the golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were]

in Dan.

2KI-10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done

well in executing [that which is] right in mine eyes, [and] hast

done unto the house of Ahab according to all that [was] in mine

heart, thy children of the fourth [generation] shall sit on the

throne of Israel.

2KI-10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD

God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the

sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.

2KI-10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and

Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

2KI-10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the

Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer,

which [is] by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

2KI-10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did,

and all his might, [are] they not written in the book of the

chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2KI-10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him

in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2KI-10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria

[was] twenty and eight years.

2KI-11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her

son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

2KI-11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of

Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among

the king's sons [which were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him

and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was

not slain.

2KI-11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six

years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.

2KI-11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the

rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and

brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a

covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the

LORD, and showed them the king's son.

2KI-11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing

that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the

sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

2KI-11:6 And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur; and a

third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the

watch of the house, that it be not broken down.

2KI-11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath,

even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about

the king.

2KI-11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man

with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the

ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth

out and as he cometh in.

2KI-11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to

all [things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took

every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them

that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the

priest.

2KI-11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give

king David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of

the LORD.

2KI-11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in

his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the

temple to the left corner of the temple, [along] by the altar

and the temple.

2KI-11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the

crown upon him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him

king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said,

God save the king.

2KI-11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and]

of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the

LORD.

2KI-11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a

pillar, as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters

by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew

with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason,

Treason.

2KI-11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the

hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her

forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with

the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the

house of the LORD.

2KI-11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way

by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there

was she slain.

2KI-11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the

king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people;

between the king also and the people.

2KI-11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of

Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in

pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the

altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the

LORD.

2KI-11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the

captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and

they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came

by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he

sat on the throne of the kings.

2KI-11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city

was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the

king's house.

2KI-11:21 Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.

2KI-12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign;

and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name

[was] Zibiah of Beersheba.

2KI-12:2 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of

the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

2KI-12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people

still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2KI-12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the

dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD,

[even] the money of every one that passeth [the account], the

money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh

into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

2KI-12:5 Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his

acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,

wheresoever any breach shall be found.

2KI-12:6 But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year

of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the

house.

2KI-12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and

the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the

breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of

your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

2KI-12:8 And the priests consented to receive no [more] money

of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

2KI-12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole

in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side

as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that

kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into

the house of the LORD.

2KI-12:10 And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much

money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest

came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was

found in the house of the LORD.

2KI-12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands

of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house

of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders,

that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

2KI-12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber

and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD,

and for all that was laid out for the house to repair [it].

2KI-12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD

bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold,

or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the

house of the LORD:

2KI-12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired

therewith the house of the LORD.

2KI-12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose

hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for

they dealt faithfully.

2KI-12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into

the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.

2KI-12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against

Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

2KI-12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed

things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers,

kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and

all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of

the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael king

of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

2KI-12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he

did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Judah?

2KI-12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and

slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

2KI-12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the

son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they

buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah

his son reigned in his stead.

2KI-13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of

Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign

over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.

2KI-13:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which

made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

2KI-13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel,

and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and

into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days.

2KI-13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened

unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king

of Syria oppressed them.

2KI-13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went

out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of

Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.

2KI-13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the

house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein:

and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)

2KI-13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but

fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for

the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the

dust by threshing.

2KI-13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he

did, and his might, [are] they not written in the book of the

chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2KI-13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried

him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

2KI-13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah

began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in

Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.

2KI-13:11 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of

Nebat, who made Israel sin: [but] he walked therein.

2KI-13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he

did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of

Judah, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of

the kings of Israel?

2KI-13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat

upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings

of Israel.

2KI-13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he

died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept

over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of

Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

2KI-13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he

took unto him bow and arrows.

2KI-13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand

upon the bow. And he put his hand [upon it]: and Elisha put his

hands upon the king's hands.

2KI-13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened

[it]. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The

arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance

from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou

have consumed [them].

2KI-13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them]. And

he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he

smote thrice, and stayed.

2KI-13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou

shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou

smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou

shalt smite Syria [but] thrice.

2KI-13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands

of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

2KI-13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that,

behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into

the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and

touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his

feet.

2KI-13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the

days of Jehoahaz.

2KI-13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had

compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his

covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy

them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

2KI-13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son

reigned in his stead.

2KI-13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the

hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had

taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times

did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

2KI-14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of

Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.

2KI-14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to

reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his

mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2KI-14:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all

things as Joash his father did.

2KI-14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet

the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

2KI-14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was

confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain

the king his father.

2KI-14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not:

according unto that which is written in the book of the law of

Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not

be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to

death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for

his own sin.

2KI-14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand,

and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto

this day.

2KI-14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of

Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look

one another in the face.

2KI-14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of

Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the

cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son

to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon,

and trode down the thistle.

2KI-14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath

lifted thee up: glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why

shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall,

[even] thou, and Judah with thee?

2KI-14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of

Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one

another in the face at Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.

2KI-14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and

they fled every man to their tents.

2KI-14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah,

the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came

to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate

of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

2KI-14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the

vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the

treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to

Samaria.

2KI-14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and

his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, [are]

they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Israel?

2KI-14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in

Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned

in his stead.

2KI-14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived

after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel

fifteen years.

2KI-14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not

written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2KI-14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem:

and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and

slew him there.

2KI-14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at

Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

2KI-14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which [was]

sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father

Amaziah.

2KI-14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that

the king slept with his fathers.

2KI-14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash

king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to

reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one years.

2KI-14:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of

Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

2KI-14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of

Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the

LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant

Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which [was] of

Gathhepher.

2KI-14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it

was] very bitter: for [there was] not any shut up, nor any left,

nor any helper for Israel.

2KI-14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name

of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of

Jeroboam the son of Joash.

2KI-14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he

did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus,

and Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not

written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2KI-14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the

kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

2KI-15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of

Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

2KI-15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and

he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's

name [was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

2KI-15:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

2KI-15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people

sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

2KI-15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper

unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And

Jotham the king's son [was] over the house, judging the people

of the land.

2KI-15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he

did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Judah?

2KI-15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him

with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son

reigned in his stead.

2KI-15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah

did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria

six months.

2KI-15:9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of

Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

2KI-15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him,

and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in

his stead.

2KI-15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they

[are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Israel.

2KI-15:12 This [was] the word of the LORD which he spake unto

Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto

the fourth [generation]. And so it came to pass.

2KI-15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine

and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a

full month in Samaria.

2KI-15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and

came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria,

and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

2KI-15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his

conspiracy which he made, behold, they [are] written in the book

of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2KI-15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were]

therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened

not [to him], therefore he smote [it; and] all the women therein

that were with child he ripped up.

2KI-15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of

Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and

reigned] ten years in Samaria.

2KI-15:18 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the

son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

2KI-15:19 [And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the land:

and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand

might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

2KI-15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, [even] of

all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of

silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria

turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

2KI-15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he

did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Israel?

2KI-15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his

son reigned in his stead.

2KI-15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah

Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in

Samaria, [and reigned] two years.

2KI-15:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,

who made Israel to sin.

2KI-15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,

conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace

of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty

men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his

room.

2KI-15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he

did, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of

the kings of Israel.

2KI-15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah

Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria,

[and reigned] twenty years.

2KI-15:28 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,

who made Israel to sin.

2KI-15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came

Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and

Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead,

and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive

to Assyria.

2KI-15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against

Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and

reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of

Uzziah.

2KI-15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he

did, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of

the kings of Israel.

2KI-15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king

of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

2KI-15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to

reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his

mother's name [was] Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

2KI-15:34 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

2KI-15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people

sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built

the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

2KI-15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he

did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Judah?

2KI-15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah

Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

2KI-15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried

with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his

son reigned in his stead.

2KI-16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah

Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2KI-16:2 Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign,

and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which

was] right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his

father.

2KI-16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea,

and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the

abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before

the children of Israel.

2KI-16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places,

and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2KI-16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah

king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged

Ahaz, but could not overcome [him].

2KI-16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to

Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to

Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

2KI-16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of

Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and

save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the

hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

2KI-16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in

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

and sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.

2KI-16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the

king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and

carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

2KI-16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser

king of Assyria, and saw an altar that [was] at Damascus: and

king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar,

and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

2KI-16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all

that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made

[it] against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

2KI-16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king

saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered

thereon.

2KI-16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering,

and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his

peace offerings, upon the altar.

2KI-16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which [was]

before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between

the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north

side of the altar.

2KI-16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying,

Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the

evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his

meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the

land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and

sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all

the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me

to inquire [by].

2KI-16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that

king Ahaz commanded.

2KI-16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and

removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off

the brazen oxen that [were] under it, and put it upon a pavement

of stones.

2KI-16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in

the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the

house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

2KI-16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are]

they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Judah?

2KI-16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with

his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned

in his stead.

2KI-17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea

the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.

2KI-17:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

2KI-17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and

Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.

2KI-17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea:

for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no

present to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year:

therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in

prison.

2KI-17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the

land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

2KI-17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took

Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them

in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities

of the Medes.

2KI-17:7 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had

sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out

of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of

Egypt, and had feared other gods,

2KI-17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the

LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the

kings of Israel, which they had made.

2KI-17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things

that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built

them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the

watchmen to the fenced city.

2KI-17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high

hill, and under every green tree:

2KI-17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places,

as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and

wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

2KI-17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto

them, Ye shall not do this thing.

2KI-17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against

Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn

ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my

statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your

fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

2KI-17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened

their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not

believe in the LORD their God.

2KI-17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that

he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he

testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became

vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them,

[concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should

not do like them.

2KI-17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their

God, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a

grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

2KI-17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to

pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and

sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke

him to anger.

2KI-17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and

removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe

of Judah only.

2KI-17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD

their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

2KI-17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and

afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,

until he had cast them out of his sight.

2KI-17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they

made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel

from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.

2KI-17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of

Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;

2KI-17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he

had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried

away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

2KI-17:24 And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon,

and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from

Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead

of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt

in the cities thereof.

2KI-17:25 And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling

there, [that] they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent

lions among them, which slew [some] of them.

2KI-17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying,

The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of

Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore

he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them,

because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

2KI-17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry

thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let

them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of

the God of the land.

2KI-17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away

from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they

should fear the LORD.

2KI-17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put

[them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had

made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

2KI-17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the

men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

2KI-17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the

Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and

Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

2KI-17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of

the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed

for them in the houses of the high places.

2KI-17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods,

after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from

thence.

2KI-17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they

fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or

after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which

the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

2KI-17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged

them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves

to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

2KI-17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of

Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye

fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.

2KI-17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law,

and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to

do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.

2KI-17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall

not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.

2KI-17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall

deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

2KI-17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after

their former manner.

2KI-17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their

graven images, both their children, and their children's

children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

2KI-18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of

Elah king of Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of

Judah began to reign.

2KI-18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to

reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His

mother's name also [was] Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

2KI-18:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that David his father did.

2KI-18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and

cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that

Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did

burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

2KI-18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after

him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any]

that were before him.

2KI-18:6 For he clave to the LORD, [and] departed not from

following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD

commanded Moses.

2KI-18:7 And the LORD was with him; [and] he prospered

whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of

Assyria, and served him not.

2KI-18:8 He smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the

borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced

city.

2KI-18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king

Hezekiah, which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah

king of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up

against Samaria, and besieged it.

2KI-18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in

the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea

king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

2KI-18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto

Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of

Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:

2KI-18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their

God, but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the

servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do

[them].

2KI-18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did

Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced

cities of Judah, and took them.

2KI-18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of

Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me:

that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of

Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred

talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2KI-18:15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found

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

house.

2KI-18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the

doors of the temple of the LORD, and [from] the pillars which

Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of

Assyria.

2KI-18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and

Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host

against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And

when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of

the upper pool, which [is] in the highway of the fuller's field.

2KI-18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out

to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which [was] over the

household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the

recorder.

2KI-18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to

Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What

confidence [is] this wherein thou trustest?

2KI-18:20 Thou sayest, (but [they are but] vain words), [I

have] counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou

trust, that thou rebellest against me?

2KI-18:21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this

bruised reed, [even] upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will

go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt

unto all that trust on him.

2KI-18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God:

[is] not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah

hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall

worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

2KI-18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord

the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses,

if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

2KI-18:24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain

of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt

for chariots and for horsemen?

2KI-18:25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place

to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and

destroy it.

2KI-18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and

Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the

Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and talk not with us in

the Jews' language in the ears of the people that [are] on the

wall.

2KI-18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me

to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not

[sent me] to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat

their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

2KI-18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in

the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the

great king, the king of Assyria:

2KI-18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you:

for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

2KI-18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD,

saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not

be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

2KI-18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of

Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out

to me, and [then] eat ye every man of his own vine, and every

one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his

cistern:

2KI-18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your

own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards,

a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die:

and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying,

The LORD will deliver us.

2KI-18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all

his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

2KI-18:34 Where [are] the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where

[are] the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they

delivered Samaria out of mine hand?

2KI-18:35 Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries,

that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the

LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

2KI-18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not

a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

2KI-18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which [was]

over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of

Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and

told him the words of Rabshakeh.

2KI-19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it],

that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth,

and went into the house of the LORD.

2KI-19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which [was] over the household,

and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered

with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

2KI-19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day

[is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the

children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to

bring forth.

2KI-19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of

Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to

reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the

LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the

remnant that are left.

2KI-19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

2KI-19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your

master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which

thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria

have blasphemed me.

2KI-19:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall

hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will

cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

2KI-19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria

warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed

from Lachish.

2KI-19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,

Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers

again unto Hezekiah, saying,

2KI-19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying,

Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying,

Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of

Assyria.

2KI-19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria

have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt

thou be delivered?

2KI-19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my

fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and

the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?

2KI-19:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,

and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

2KI-19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the

messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of

the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

2KI-19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD

God of Israel, which dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou art

the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth;

thou hast made heaven and earth.

2KI-19:16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine

eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath

sent him to reproach the living God.

2KI-19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed

the nations and their lands,

2KI-19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they

[were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone:

therefore they have destroyed them.

2KI-19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save

thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may

know that thou [art] the LORD God, [even] thou only.

2KI-19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying,

Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [That] which thou hast prayed

to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

2KI-19:21 This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken

concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised

thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem

hath shaken her head at thee.

2KI-19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against

whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on

high? [even] against the Holy [One] of Israel.

2KI-19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and

hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the

height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut

down the tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir trees

thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, [and

into] the forest of his Carmel.

2KI-19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the

sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged

places.

2KI-19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it,

[and] of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought

it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities

[into] ruinous heaps.

2KI-19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they

were dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the

field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the house tops,

and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.

2KI-19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy

coming in, and thy rage against me.

2KI-19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up

into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my

bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by

which thou camest.

2KI-19:29 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat

this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second

year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow

ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

2KI-19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah

shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

2KI-19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and

they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD [of

hosts] shall do this.

2KI-19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of

Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow

there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against

it.

2KI-19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,

and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

2KI-19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own

sake, and for my servant David's sake.

2KI-19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the

LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred

fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the

morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.

2KI-19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and

returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

2KI-19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the

house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons

smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of

Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

2KI-20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the

prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him,

Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt

die, and not live.

2KI-20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto

the LORD, saying,

2KI-20:3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked

before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done

[that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

2KI-20:4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into

the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

2KI-20:5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people,

Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard

thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on

the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

2KI-20:6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will

deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of

Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for

my servant David's sake.

2KI-20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took

and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.

2KI-20:8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What [shall be] the

sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the

house of the LORD the third day?

2KI-20:9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD,

that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the

shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

2KI-20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the

shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return

backward ten degrees.

2KI-20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he

brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone

down in the dial of Ahaz.

2KI-20:12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan,

king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for

he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

2KI-20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all

the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and

the spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of

his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was

nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah

showed them not.

2KI-20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and

said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they

unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country,

[even] from Babylon.

2KI-20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And

Hezekiah answered, All [the things] that [are] in mine house

have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have

not showed them.

2KI-20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the

LORD.

2KI-20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine

house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto

this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left,

saith the LORD.

2KI-20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which

thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be

eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

2KI-20:19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good [is] the word of

the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good],

if peace and truth be in my days?

2KI-20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his

might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water

into the city, [are] they not written in the book of the

chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2KI-20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his

son reigned in his stead.

2KI-21:1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign,

and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's

name [was] Hephzibah.

2KI-21:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast

out before the children of Israel.

2KI-21:3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah

his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and

made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the

host of heaven, and served them.

2KI-21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which

the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

2KI-21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the

two courts of the house of the LORD.

2KI-21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and

observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar

spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of

the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.

2KI-21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had

made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to

Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have

chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

2KI-21:8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more

out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will

observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and

according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

2KI-21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to

do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before

the children of Israel.

2KI-21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets,

saying,

2KI-21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these

abominations, [and] hath done wickedly above all that the

Amorites did, which [were] before him, and hath made Judah also

to sin with his idols:

2KI-21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold,

I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that

whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

2KI-21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria,

and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem

as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside

down.

2KI-21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance,

and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall

become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

2KI-21:15 Because they have done [that which was] evil in my

sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their

fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

2KI-21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till

he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin

wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil

in the sight of the LORD.

2KI-21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he

did, and his sin that he sinned, [are] they not written in the

book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2KI-21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried

in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon

his son reigned in his stead.

2KI-21:19 Amon [was] twenty and two years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's

name [was] Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

2KI-21:20 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

2KI-21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked

in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped

them:

2KI-21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and

walked not in the way of the LORD.

2KI-21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and

slew the king in his own house.

2KI-21:24 And the people of the land slew all them that had

conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made

Josiah his son king in his stead.

2KI-21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, [are]

they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Judah?

2KI-21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of

Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

2KI-22:1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign,

and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his

mother's name [was] Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.

2KI-22:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned

not aside to the right hand or to the left.

2KI-22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king

Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son

of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,

2KI-22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the

silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the

keepers of the door have gathered of the people:

2KI-22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of

the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and

let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the

house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

2KI-22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy

timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

2KI-22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the

money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt

faithfully.

2KI-22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the

scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the

LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

2KI-22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought

the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the

money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into

the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of

the house of the LORD.

2KI-22:10 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying,

Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it

before the king.

2KI-22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the

words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

2KI-22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam

the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan

the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,

2KI-22:13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people,

and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is

found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled

against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the

words of this book, to do according unto all that which is

written concerning us.

2KI-22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and

Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife

of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the

wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they

communed with her.

2KI-22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of

Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me.

2KI-22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon

this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the

words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

2KI-22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned

incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger

with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be

kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

2KI-22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of

the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of

Israel, [As touching] the words which thou hast heard;

2KI-22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled

thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against

this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they

should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy

clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the

LORD.

2KI-22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers,

and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine

eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this

place. And they brought the king word again.

2KI-23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the

elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

2KI-23:2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and

all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with

him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both

small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the

book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

2KI-23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant

before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his

commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all

[their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this

covenant that were written in this book. And all the people

stood to the covenant.

2KI-23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and

the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to

bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that

were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of

heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of

Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

2KI-23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings

of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the

cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them

also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon,

and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

2KI-23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the

LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at

the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the

powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

2KI-23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that

[were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings

for the grove.

2KI-23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of

Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned

incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places

of the gates that [were] in the entering in of the gate of

Joshua the governor of the city, which [were] on a man's left

hand at the gate of the city.

2KI-23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not

up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of

the unleavened bread among their brethren.

2KI-23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which [is] in the valley of

the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his

daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

2KI-23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah

had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the

LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which

[was] in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with

fire.

2KI-23:12 And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper

chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the

altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of

the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake [them] down from

thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

2KI-23:13 And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem,

which [were] on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which

Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the

abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of

the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of

Ammon, did the king defile.

2KI-23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the

groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

2KI-23:15 Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the

high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to

sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down,

and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder,

and burned the grove.

2KI-23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres

that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out

of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and

polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of

God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

2KI-23:17 Then he said, What title [is] that that I see? And

the men of the city told him, [It is] the sepulchre of the man

of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that

thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

2KI-23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones.

So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that

came out of Samaria.

2KI-23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that

[were] in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had

made to provoke [the LORD] to anger, Josiah took away, and did

to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

2KI-23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that

[were] there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them,

and returned to Jerusalem.

2KI-23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep

the passover unto the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the

book of this covenant.

2KI-23:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the

days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of

the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

2KI-23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [wherein]

this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

2KI-23:24 Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the

wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations

that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did

Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law

which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in

the house of the LORD.

2KI-23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that

turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul,

and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses;

neither after him arose there [any] like him.

2KI-23:26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the

fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled

against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had

provoked him withal.

2KI-23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my

sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city

Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My

name shall be there.

2KI-23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he

did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Judah?

2KI-23:29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up

against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king

Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had

seen him.

2KI-23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from

Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own

sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of

Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's

stead.

2KI-23:31 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he

began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And

his mother's name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of

Libnah.

2KI-23:32 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

2KI-23:33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the

land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put

the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a

talent of gold.

2KI-23:34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king

in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to

Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and

died there.

2KI-23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh;

but he taxed the land to give the money according to the

commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of

the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation,

to give [it] unto Pharaohnechoh.

2KI-23:36 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he

began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And

his mother's name [was] Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of

Rumah.

2KI-23:37 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

2KI-24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up,

and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and

rebelled against him.

2KI-24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees,

and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands

of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy

it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his

servants the prophets.

2KI-24:3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came [this] upon

Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of

Manasseh, according to all that he did;

2KI-24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he

filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not

pardon.

2KI-24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he

did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Judah?

2KI-24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin

his son reigned in his stead.

2KI-24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of

his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of

Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of

Egypt.

2KI-24:8 Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his

mother's name [was] Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of

Jerusalem.

2KI-24:9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that his father had done.

2KI-24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of

Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

2KI-24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the

city, and his servants did besiege it.

2KI-24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king

of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his

princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in

the eighth year of his reign.

2KI-24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the

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

cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of

Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

2KI-24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the

princes, and all the mighty men of valour, [even] ten thousand

captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save

the poorest sort of the people of the land.

2KI-24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the

king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the

mighty of the land, [those] carried he into captivity from

Jerusalem to Babylon.

2KI-24:16 And all the men of might, [even] seven thousand, and

craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all [that were] strong [and]

apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to

Babylon.

2KI-24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's

brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

2KI-24:18 Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his

mother's name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2KI-24:19 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

2KI-24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in

Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his

presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

2KI-25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in

the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that]

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,

against Jerusalem, and pitched against it: and they built forts

against it round about.

2KI-25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of

king Zedekiah.

2KI-25:3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the

famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the

people of the land.

2KI-25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war

[fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which

[is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the

city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.

2KI-25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king,

and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were

scattered from him.

2KI-25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king

of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

2KI-25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes,

and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of

brass, and carried him to Babylon.

2KI-25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the

month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar

king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a

servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

2KI-25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's

house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's]

house burnt he with fire.

2KI-25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with]

the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem

round about.

2KI-25:11 Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the

city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon,

with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain

of the guard carry away.

2KI-25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the

land [to be] vinedressers and husbandmen.

2KI-25:13 And the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of

the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the

house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried

the brass of them to Babylon.

2KI-25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and

the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they

ministered, took they away.

2KI-25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, [and] such things as

[were] of gold, [in] gold, and of silver, [in] silver, the

captain of the guard took away.

2KI-25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon

had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these

vessels was without weight.

2KI-25:17 The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits,

and the chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the

chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates

upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these

had the second pillar with wreathen work.

2KI-25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief

priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers

of the door:

2KI-25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set

over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the

king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal

scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and

threescore men of the people of the land [that were] found in

the city:

2KI-25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and

brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

2KI-25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at

Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of

their land.

2KI-25:22 And [as for] the people that remained in the land of

Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over

them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,

ruler.

2KI-25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and

their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah

governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son

of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son

of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a

Maachathite, they and their men.

2KI-25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and

said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees:

dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall

be well with you.

2KI-25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed

royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he

died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.

2KI-25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the

captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were

afraid of the Chaldees.

2KI-25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year

of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth

month, on the seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that]

Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign

did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

2KI-25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above

the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon;

2KI-25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread

continually before him all the days of his life.

2KI-25:30 And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given

him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his

life.

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