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He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. +001:009 Then [the king] sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. + He went up to him: and behold, he was sitting on the top + of the hill. He spoke to him, man of God, the king + has said, Come down. +001:010 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, + let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. + Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. +001:011 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. + He answered him, man of God, thus has the king said, + Come down quickly. +001:012 Elijah answered them, If I be a man of God, let fire come + down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. + The fire of God came down from the sky, and consumed him + and his fifty. +001:013 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. + The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees + before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, man of God, + please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, + be precious in your sight. +001:014 Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former + captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life + be precious in your sight. +001:015 The angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, Go down with him: + don't be afraid of him. He arose, and went down with him + to the king. +001:016 He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have sent messengers + to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because + there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore + you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, + but shall surely die. +001:017 So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken. + Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram + the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son. +001:018 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +002:001 It happened, when Yahweh would take up Elijah by a whirlwind + into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. +002:002 Elijah said to Elisha, Please wait here, for Yahweh has + sent me as far as Bethel. Elisha said, As Yahweh lives, + and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went + down to Bethel. +002:003 The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, + and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away + your master from your head today?" He said, "Yes, I know it; + hold your peace." +002:004 Elijah said to him, Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent + me to Jericho. He said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, + I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho. +002:005 The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, + and said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh will take away your + master from your head today?" He answered, "Yes, I know it. + Hold your peace." +002:006 Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent + me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your + soul lives, I will not leave you." They two went on. +002:007 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over + against them afar off: and they two stood by the Jordan. +002:008 Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck + the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they + two went over on dry ground. +002:009 It happened, when they had gone over, that Elijah said + to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you. + Elisha said, please let a double portion of your spirit + be on me. +002:010 He said, You have asked a hard thing: [nevertheless], if you + see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so to you; + but if not, it shall not be so. +002:011 It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, + [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, + which parted them both apart; and Elijah went up by a + whirlwind into heaven. +002:012 Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots + of Israel and the horsemen of it! He saw him no more: + and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces. +002:013 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, + and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan. +002:014 He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck + the waters, and said, Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah? + and when he also had struck the waters, they were divided + here and there; and Elisha went over. +002:015 When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him + saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha. + They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the + ground before him. +002:016 They said to him, See now, there are with your servants + fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek + your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, + and cast him on some mountain, or into some valley. + He said, You shall not send. +002:017 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, Send. + They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, + but didn't find him. +002:018 They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said + to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'" +002:019 The men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, + the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: + but the water is bad, and the land miscarries. +002:020 He said, Bring me a new jar, and put salt therein. + They brought it to him. +002:021 He went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, + and said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; + there shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying. +002:022 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word + of Elisha which he spoke. +002:023 He went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up + by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, + and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead. +002:024 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name + of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled + forty-two of those youths. +002:025 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there + he returned to Samaria. +003:001 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in + Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, + and reigned twelve years. +003:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like + his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar + of Baal that his father had made. +003:003 Nevertheless he cleaved to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it. +003:004 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered + to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, + and of one hundred thousand rams. +003:005 But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab + rebelled against the king of Israel. +003:006 King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, + and mustered all Israel. +003:007 He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, + The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go + with me against Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: + I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses + as your horses. +003:008 He said, Which way shall we go up? He answered, The way + of the wilderness of Edom. +003:009 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king + of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: + and there was no water for the army, nor for the animals + that followed them. +003:010 The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these + three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab. +003:011 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, + that we may inquire of Yahweh by him? One of the king of + Israel's servants answered, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, + who poured water on the hands of Elijah. +003:012 Jehoshaphat said, The word of Yahweh is with him. + So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom + went down to him. +003:013 Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? + get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets + of your mother. The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh + has called these three kings together to deliver them into + the hand of Moab. +003:014 Elisha said, As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, + surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat + the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you. +003:015 But now bring me a minstrel. It happened, when the minstrel played, + that the hand of Yahweh came on him. +003:016 He said, Thus says Yahweh, Make this valley full of trenches. +003:017 For thus says Yahweh, You shall not see wind, neither shall you + see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you + shall drink, both you and your livestock and your animals. +003:018 This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: + he will also deliver the Moabites into your hand. +003:019 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, + and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, + and mar every good piece of land with stones. +003:020 It happened in the morning, about the time of offering + the offering, that behold, there came water by the way of Edom, + and the country was filled with water. +003:021 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up + to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, + all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood + on the border. +003:022 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, + and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood: +003:023 and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, + and they have struck each man his fellow: now therefore, + Moab, to the spoil. +003:024 When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose + up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; + and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites. +003:025 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they + cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped + all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, + until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left the stones of it; + however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it. +003:026 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe + for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, + to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not. +003:027 Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, + and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. + There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, + and returned to their own land. +004:001 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons + of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband + is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: + and the creditor is come to take to him my two children + to be bondservants. +004:002 Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; + what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has + nothing in the house, except a pot of oil. +004:003 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, + even empty vessels; borrow not a few. +004:004 You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, + and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside + that which is full. +004:005 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; + they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out. +004:006 It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, + Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn't another vessel. + The oil stayed. +004:007 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, + and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest. +004:008 It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was + a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. + So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there + to eat bread. +004:009 She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy + man of God, that passes by us continually. +004:010 Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; + and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, + and a lamp stand: and it shall be, when he comes to us, + that he shall turn in there. +004:011 It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into + the chamber and lay there. +004:012 He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. + When he had called her, she stood before him. +004:013 He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful + for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would + you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army? + She answered, I dwell among my own people. +004:014 He said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, + Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old. +004:015 He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door. +004:016 He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall + embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, + do not lie to your handmaid. +004:017 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time + came round, as Elisha had said to her. +004:018 When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out + to his father to the reapers. +004:019 He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to his servant, + Carry him to his mother. +004:020 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat + on her knees until noon, and then died. +004:021 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, + and shut [the door] on him, and went out. +004:022 She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of + the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man + of God, and come again. +004:023 He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon + nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well. +004:024 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, + and go forward; don't slacken me the riding, except I bid you. +004:025 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. + It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said + to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite: +004:026 please run now to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you? + is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? + She answered, It is well. +004:027 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold + of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man + of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; + and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me. +004:028 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, + Do not deceive me? +004:029 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your waist, and take my + staff in your hand, and go your way: if you meet any man, + Don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again: + and lay my staff on the face of the child. +004:030 The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your + soul lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and followed her. +004:031 Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face + of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. + Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child + has not awakened. +004:032 When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, + and laid on his bed. +004:033 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, + and prayed to Yahweh. +004:034 He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, + and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands: + and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the + child grew warm. +004:035 Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; + and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child + sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. +004:036 He called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. + So he called her. When she was come in to him, he said, + Take up your son. +004:037 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself + to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out. +004:038 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; + and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; + and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil + stew for the sons of the prophets. +004:039 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, + and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred + them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them. +004:040 So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, + as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, + and said, man of God, there is death in the pot. + They could not eat of it. +004:041 But he said, Then bring meal. He cast it into the pot; + and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. + There was no harm in the pot. +004:042 There came a man from Baal Shalishah, and brought the man + of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, + and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, Give to the people, + that they may eat. +004:043 His servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? + But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus + says Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave of it. +004:044 So he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it, + according to the word of Yahweh. +005:001 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, + was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him + Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man + of valor, [but he was] a leper. +005:002 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive + out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited + on Naaman's wife. +005:003 She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet + who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy. +005:004 One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said + the maiden who is of the land of Israel. +005:005 The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter + to the king of Israel. He departed, and took with him + ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, + and ten changes of clothing. +005:006 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this + letter is come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant + to you, that you may recover him of his leprosy. +005:007 It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, + that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to + make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man + of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks + a quarrel against me. +005:008 It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king + of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, + saying, Why have you torn your clothes? let him come now to me, + and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel. +005:009 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, + and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. +005:010 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the + Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, + and you shall be clean. +005:011 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, + He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on + the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, + and recover the leper. +005:012 Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the 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. +005:013 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, + My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, + wouldn't you have done it? how much rather then, when he says + to you, Wash, and be clean? +005:014 Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times + in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; + and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, + and he was clean. +005:015 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, + and came, and stood before him; and he said, See now, + I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: + now therefore, please take a present from your servant. +005:016 But he said, As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will + receive none. He urged him to take it; but he refused. +005:017 Naaman said, If not, yet, please let there be given to your servant + two mules' burden of earth; for your servant will henceforth + offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, + but to Yahweh. +005:018 In this thing Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master + goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans + on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I + bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh pardon your servant + in this thing. +005:019 He said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him + a little way. +005:020 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, + my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving + at his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, + I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. +005:021 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running + after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, + Is all well? +005:022 He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, + even now there are come to me from the hill country of Ephraim + two young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them + a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing. +005:023 Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, + and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two + changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; + and they bore them before him. +005:024 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, + and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, + and they departed. +005:025 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, + Whence come you, Gehazi? He said, Your servant went no where. +005:026 He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned + from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, + and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, + and sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants? +005:027 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, + and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence + a leper [as white] as snow. +006:001 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, See now, the place + where we dwell before you is too strait for us. +006:002 Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man + a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. + He answered, Go you. +006:003 One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. + He answered, I will go. +006:004 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, + they cut down wood. +006:005 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; + and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed. +006:006 The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. + He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float. +006:007 He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took it. +006:008 Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took + counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place + shall be my camp. +006:009 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you + not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down. +006:010 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God + told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, + not once nor twice. +006:011 The heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; + and he called his servants, and said to them, Won't you show + me which of us is for the king of Israel? +006:012 One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, + the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel + the words that you speak in your bedchamber. +006:013 He said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him. + It was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. +006:014 Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great army: + and they came by night, and surrounded the city. +006:015 When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, + behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. + His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? +006:016 He answered, Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are + more than those who are with them. +006:017 Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, + that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; + and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses + and chariots of fire round about Elisha. +006:018 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, + and said, Please smite this people with blindness. + He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. +006:019 Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: + follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. + He led them to Samaria. +006:020 It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, + Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. + Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, + they were in the midst of Samaria. +006:021 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, + shall I strike them? shall I strike them? +006:022 He answered, You shall not strike them: would you strike those + whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? + set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, + and go to their master. +006:023 He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten + and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. + The bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel. +006:024 It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered + all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria. +006:025 There was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they besieged it, + until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, + and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five + [pieces] of silver. +006:026 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried + a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. +006:027 He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? + out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress? +006:028 The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman + said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, + and we will eat my son tomorrow. +006:029 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, + Give your son, that we may eat him; and she has hid her son. +006:030 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, + that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); + and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within + on his flesh. +006:031 Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head + of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day. +006:032 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were + sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: + but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, + See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away + my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, + and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his + master's feet behind him? +006:033 While he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came + down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Yahweh; + why should I wait for Yahweh any longer? +007:001 Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says + Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour + be [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, + in the gate of Samaria. +007:002 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man + of God, and said, Behold, if Yahweh should make windows + in heaven, might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall + see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it. +007:003 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: + and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? +007:004 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 to the army + of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; + and if they kill us, we shall but die. +007:005 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians; + and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp + of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there. +007:006 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise + of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: + and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has + hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings + of the Egyptians, to come on us. +007:007 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, + and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, + and fled for their life. +007:008 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, + they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried + there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; + and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried + there also, and went and hid it. +007:009 Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. + This day is a day of good news, and we hold our peace: + if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; + now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. +007:010 So they came and called to 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 the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents + as they were. +007:011 He called the porters; and they told it to the king's + household within. +007:012 The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, + I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. + They know that we are 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 take them alive, and get + into the city. +007:013 One of his servants answered, Please let some take five + of the horses that remain, which are left in the city + (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are + left in it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel + who are consumed); and let us send and see. +007:014 They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king + sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. +007:015 They went after them to the Jordan: and behold, all the way + was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians + had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, + and told the king. +007:016 The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. + So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two + measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh. +007:017 The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have + the charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, + and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king + came down to him. +007:018 It happened, 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 tomorrow about this time + in the gate of Samaria; +007:019 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, + if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing + be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, + but shall not eat of it: +007:020 it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, + and he died. +008:001 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored + to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn + wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; + and it shall also come on the land seven years. +008:002 The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; + and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land + of the Philistines seven years. +008:003 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned + out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry + to the king for her house and for her land. +008:004 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man + of God, saying, Please tell me all the great things that + Elisha has done. +008:005 It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life + him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored + to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. + Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this + is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. +008:006 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed + to 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. +008:007 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; + and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come here. +008:008 The king said to Hazael, Take a present in your hand, and go, + meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, + Shall I recover of this sickness? +008:009 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, Your son + Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, Shall I + recover of this sickness? +008:010 Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You shall surely recover; + however Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely die. +008:011 He settled his gaze steadfastly [on him], until he was ashamed: + and the man of God wept. +008:012 Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I + know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: + their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men + will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their + little ones, and rip up their women with child. +008:013 Hazael said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, + that he should do this great thing? Elisha answered, + Yahweh has shown me that you shall be king over Syria. +008:014 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; + who said to him, What said Elisha to you? He answered, + He told me that you would surely recover. +008:015 It happened on the next day, that he took the coverlet, and dipped + it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: + and Hazael reigned in his place. +008:016 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. +008:017 Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign; + and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. +008:018 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house + of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife; and he did + that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. +008:019 However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his + servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp + for his children always. +008:020 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, + and made a king over themselves. +008:021 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: + and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, + and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled + to their tents. +008:022 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. + Then did Libnah revolt at the same time. +008:023 The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +008:024 Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers + in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. +008:025 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. +008:026 Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; + and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name + was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel. +008:027 He walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which + was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; + for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. +008:028 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king + of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram. +008:029 King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds + which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought + against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king + of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, + because he was sick. +009:001 Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, + and said to him, Gird up your waist, and take this vial of oil + in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead. +009:002 When you come there, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat + the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among + his brothers, and carry him to an inner chamber. +009:003 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, + Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel. + Then open the door, and flee, and don't wait. +009:004 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, + went to Ramoth Gilead. +009:005 When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting; + and he said, I have an errand to you, captain. Jehu said, + To which of us all? He said, To you, O captain. +009:006 He arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil + on his head, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, the God + of Israel, I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, + even over Israel. +009:007 You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may + avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood + of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel. +009:008 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off + from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,{or, male} and + him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel. +009:009 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. +009:010 The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there + shall be none to bury her. He opened the door, and fled. +009:011 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: + and one said to him, Is all well? why came this mad fellow to you? + He said to them, You know the man and what his talk was. +009:012 They said, It is false; tell us now. He said, Thus and thus + spoke he to me, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed + you king over Israel. +009:013 Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it + under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, + saying, Jehu is king. +009:014 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired + against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, + he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria; +009:015 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.) Jehu said, If this be your mind, + then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go + to tell it in Jezreel. +009:016 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. + Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram. +009:017 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied + the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. + Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let + him say, Is it peace? +009:018 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says + the king, Is it peace? Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? + turn you behind me. The watchman told, saying, The messenger + came to them, but he isn't coming back. +009:019 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, + and said, Thus says the king, Is it peace? Jehu answered, + What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me. +009:020 The watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and isn't + coming back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu + the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously. +009:021 Joram said, Make ready. They made ready his chariot. + Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, + each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, + and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. +009:022 It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it + peace, Jehu? He answered, What peace, so long as the prostitution + of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound? +009:023 Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There + is treachery, Ahaziah. +009:024 Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram + between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, + and he sunk down in his chariot. +009:025 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 you rode together after Ahab + his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him: +009:026 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood + of his sons, says Yahweh; and I will requite you in this plat, + says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat + [of ground], according to the word of Yahweh. +009:027 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way + of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, + Smite him also in the chariot: [and they struck him] at + the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, + and died there. +009:028 His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried + him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David. +009:029 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah + to reign over Judah. +009:030 When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; + and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked + out at the window. +009:031 As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, you Zimri, + your master's murderer? +009:032 He lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my + side? who? There looked out to him two or three eunuchs. +009:033 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 trod her under foot. +009:034 When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See now to this + cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter. +009:035 They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, + and the feet, and the palms of her hands. +009:036 Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, This is + the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Elijah + the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs + eat the flesh of Jezebel; +009:037 and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field + in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, + This is Jezebel. +010:001 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, + and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, + and to those who brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying, +010:002 Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's + sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, + a fortified city also, and armor; +010:003 look you out the best and meet of your master's sons, and set + him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house. +010:004 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two + kings didn't stand before him: how then shall we stand? +010:005 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, + the elders also, and those who brought up [the children], + sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, and will do + all that you shall bid us; we will not make any man king: + you do that which is good in your eyes. +010:006 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, + If you be on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, + take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me + to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, + being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, + who brought them up. +010:007 It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took + the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, + and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel. +010:008 There came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought + the heads of the king's sons. He said, Lay you them in two + heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning. +010:009 It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, + and said to all the people, You are righteous: + behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; + but who struck all these? +010:010 Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word + of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab: + for Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah. +010:011 So Jehu struck all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, + and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, + until he left him none remaining. +010:012 He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at + the shearing house of the shepherds in the way, +010:013 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, + Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah: + and we go down to Greet the children of the king and the children + of the queen. +010:014 He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed + them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; + neither left he any of them. +010:015 When he was departed there, he lighted on Jehonadab the son + of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said + to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart? + Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me your hand. + He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. +010:016 He said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh. + So they made him ride in his chariot. +010:017 When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab + in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word + of Yahweh, which he spoke to Elijah. +010:018 Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, + Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much. +010:019 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, + all his worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting: + for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whoever shall + be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, + to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. +010:020 Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. + They proclaimed it. +010:021 Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of + Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. + They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was + filled from one end to another. +010:022 He said to him who was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments + for all the worshippers of Baal. He brought them forth vestments. +010:023 Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; + and he said to the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look + that there be here with you none of the servants of Yahweh, + but the worshippers of Baal only. +010:024 They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. + Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, + If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, + [he who lets him go], his life shall be for the life of him. +010:025 It happened, 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 kill them; let none come forth. + They struck 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. +010:026 They brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, + and burned them. +010:027 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house + of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day. +010:028 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. +010:029 However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin, Jehu didn't depart from + after them, [to wit], the golden calves that were in Bethel, + and that were in Dan. +010:030 Yahweh said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing + that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house + of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons + of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. +010:031 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God + of Israel, with all his heart: he didn't depart from the sins + of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin. +010:032 In those days Yahweh began to cut off from Israel: + and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel; +010:033 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, + and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is + by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. +010:034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all + his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +010:035 Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. + Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place. +010:036 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria + was twenty-eight years. +011:001 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, + she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. +011:002 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, + took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among + the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, + [and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, + so that he was not slain; +011:003 He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. + Athaliah reigned over the land. +011:004 In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains + over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought + them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant + with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, + and shown them the king's son. +011:005 He commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do: + a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be + keepers of the watch of the king's house; +011:006 A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate + behind the guard: so shall you keep the watch of the house, + and be a barrier. +011:007 The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the Sabbath, + shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh about the king. +011:008 You shall compass the king round about, every man with his + weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, + let him be slain: and be you with the king when he goes out, + and when he comes in. +011:009 The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada + the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, + those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were + to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. +011:010 The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears + and shields that had been king David's, which were in the + house of Yahweh. +011:011 The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, + from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, + along by the altar and the house, by the king round about. +011:012 Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, + and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, + and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, + [Long] live the king. +011:013 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and of] the people, + she came to the people into the house of Yahweh: +011:014 and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, + as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; + and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. + Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason! +011:015 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were + set over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between + the ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword. + For the priest said, Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh. +011:016 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' + entry to the king's house: and there was she slain. +011:017 Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king + and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; + between the king also and the people. +011:018 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke + it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, + and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. + The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh. +011:019 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, + and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they + brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came + by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. + He sat on the throne of the kings. +011:020 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. + Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house. +011:021 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. +012:001 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; + and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Zibiah of Beersheba. +012:002 Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all + his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. +012:003 However the high places were not taken away; the people still + sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +012:004 Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things + that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, + the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, + and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring + into the house of Yahweh, +012:005 let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; + and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any + breach shall be found. +012:006 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king + Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. +012:007 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for + the [other] priests, and said to them, Why don't you repair + the breaches of the house? now therefore take no [more] money + from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches + of the house. +012:008 The priests consented that they should take no [more] money + from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. +012:009 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 comes into the house of Yahweh: + and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money + that was brought into the house of Yahweh. +012:010 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 counted the money that was found + in the house of Yahweh. +012:011 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those + who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: + and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, + who worked on the house of Yahweh, +012:012 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber + and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, + and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. +012:013 But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups + of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, + or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into + the house of Yahweh; +012:014 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired + therewith the house of Yahweh. +012:015 Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose + hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; + for they dealt faithfully. +012:016 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for + the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: + it was the priests'. +012:017 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, + and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. +012:018 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat + and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, + had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold + that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, + and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: + and he went away from Jerusalem. +012:019 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +012:020 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash + at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goes down to Silla. +012:021 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son + of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; + and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: + and Amaziah his son reigned in his place. +013:001 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. +013:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and followed + the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made + Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it. +013:003 The anger of Yahweh 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, continually. +013:004 Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; + for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king + of Syria oppressed them. +013:005 (Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under + the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived + in their tents as before. +013:006 Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins of the house + of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: + and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.) +013:007 For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, + and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria + destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing. +013:008 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, + and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +013:009 Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: + and Joash his son reigned in his place. +013:010 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah began + Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, + [and reigned] sixteen years. +013:011 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he didn't + depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked therein. +013:012 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, + and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king + of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +013:013 Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne: + and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. +013:014 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: + and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, + and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel + and the horsemen of it! +013:015 Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows; and he took to him + bow and arrows. +013:016 He said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow; + and he put his hand [on it]. Elisha laid his hands on + the king's hands. +013:017 He said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. + Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. He said, Yahweh's arrow + of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall + strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them. +013:018 He said, Take the arrows; and he took them. He said to the king + of Israel, Smite on the ground; and he struck thrice, and stayed. +013:019 The man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have + struck five or six times: then had you struck Syria until you + had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria but thrice. +013:020 Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites + invaded the land at the coming in of the year. +013:021 It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied + a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: + and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, + and stood up on his feet. +013:022 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. +013:023 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, + and had respect to them, because of his covenant + with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, + neither cast he them from his presence as yet. +013:024 Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned + in his place. +013:025 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 strike him, and recovered the cities of Israel. +014:001 In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began + Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign. +014:002 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: + and his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. +014:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not + like David his father: he did according to all that Joash + his father had done. +014:004 However the high places were not taken away: the people still + sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +014:005 It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, + that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father: +014:006 but the children of the murderers he didn't put to death; + according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, + as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put + to death for the children, nor the children be put to death + for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin. +014:007 He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, + and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, + to this day. +014:008 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. +014:009 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 your daughter to my son as wife: + and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, + and trod down the thistle. +014:010 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: + glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you + meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, + and Judah with you? +014:011 But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; + and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face + at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. +014:012 Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every + man to his tent. +014:013 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son + of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came + to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate + of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. +014:014 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found + in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, + the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. +014:015 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, + and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +014:016 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria + with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned + in his place. +014:017 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death + of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. +014:018 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written + in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +014:019 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; + and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, + and killed him there. +014:020 They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem + with his fathers in the city of David. +014:021 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, + and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. +014:022 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king + slept with his fathers. +014:023 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-one years. +014:024 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: + he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin. +014:025 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath + to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, + the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son + of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher. +014:026 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; + for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there + any helper for Israel. +014:027 Yahweh didn't say that he would blot out the name of Israel + from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam + the son of Joash. +014:028 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 had belonged] to Judah, for Israel, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Israel? +014:029 Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; + and Zechariah his son reigned in his place. +015:001 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began + Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. +015:002 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned + fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was + Jecoliah of Jerusalem. +015:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to + all that his father Amaziah had done. +015:004 However the high places were not taken away: the people still + sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +015:005 Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day + of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king's + son was over the household, judging the people of the land. +015:006 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +015:007 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his + fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned + in his place. +015:008 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah + the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. +015:009 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his + fathers had done: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam + the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. +015:010 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him + before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place. +015:011 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written + in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. +015:012 This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons + to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. + So it came to pass. +015:013 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth + year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space + of a month in Samaria. +015:014 Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, + and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him, + and reigned in his place. +015:015 Now 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. +015:016 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, + and the borders of it, from Tirzah: because they didn't open + to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein + who were with child he ripped up. +015:017 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. +015:018 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: + he didn't depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam + the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. +015:019 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; + and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his + hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. +015:020 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 didn't stay there in the land. +015:021 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Israel? +015:022 Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned + in his place. +015:023 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. +015:024 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: + he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin. +015:025 Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, + and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, + with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: + and he killed him, and reigned in his place. +015:026 Now 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. +015:027 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. +015:028 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: + he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + with which he made Israel to sin. +015:029 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king + of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, + and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land + of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria. +015:030 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son + of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in + his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. +015:031 Now 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. +015:032 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel + began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. +015:033 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. +015:034 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did + according to all that his father Uzziah had done. +015:035 However the high places were not taken away: the people + still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. + He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh. +015:036 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +015:037 In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king + of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. +015:038 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 place. +016:001 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz + the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. +016:002 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; + and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't + do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, + like David his father. +016:003 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made + his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations + of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the + children of Israel. +016:004 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on + the hills, and under every green tree. +016:005 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. +016:006 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, + and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, + and lived there, to this day. +016:007 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, + saying, I am your servant and your 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, who rise up against me. +016:008 Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house + of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, + and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. +016:009 The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria + went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people + of] it captive to Kir, and killed Rezin. +016:010 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king + of Assyria, and saw the 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 of it. +016:011 Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king + Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make + it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. +016:012 When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: + and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon. +016:013 He burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his + drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, + on the altar. +016:014 The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from + the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house + of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar. +016:015 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great altar + burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, + and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt + offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, + and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood + of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: + but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by. +016:016 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that + king Ahaz commanded. +016:017 King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin + from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen + that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone. +016:018 The covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, + and the king's entry outside, turned he to the house of Yahweh, + because of the king of Assyria. +016:019 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +016:020 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers + in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. +017:001 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son + of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, [and reigned] nine years. +017:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not + as the kings of Israel who were before him. +017:003 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea + became his servant, and brought him tribute. +017:004 The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had + sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute + 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. +017:005 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, + and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. +017:006 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, + and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, + and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities + of the Medes. +017:007 It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against + Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land + of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, + and had feared other gods, +017:008 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out + from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, + which they made. +017:009 The children of Israel did secretly things that were not + right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high + places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen + to the fortified city; +017:010 and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, + and under every green tree; +017:011 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, + as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; + and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger; +017:012 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, + You shall not do this thing. +017:013 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, + and every seer, saying, Turn you 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. +017:014 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, + like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in + Yahweh their God. +017:015 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with + their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; + and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after + the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh + had charged those who they should not do like them. +017:016 They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made + them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, + and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal. +017:017 They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through + the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold + themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, + to provoke him to anger. +017:018 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed + them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe + of Judah only. +017:019 Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, + but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. +017:020 Yahweh 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. +017:021 For he tore Israel from the house of David; and they made + Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel + from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin. +017:022 The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam + which he did; they didn't depart from them; +017:023 until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke + by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away + out of their own land to Assyria to this day. +017:024 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, + and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them + in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; + and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it. +017:025 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they + didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, + which killed some of them. +017:026 Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations + which you have carried away, and placed in the cities + of Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land: + therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, + because they don't know the law of the god of the land. +017:027 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one + of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go + and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god + of the land. +017:028 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from + Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they + should fear Yahweh. +017:029 However 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 in which they lived. +017:030 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth + made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, +017:031 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites + burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, + the gods of Sepharvaim. +017:032 So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves + priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses + of the high places. +017:033 They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the manner + of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. +017:034 To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear Yahweh, + neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, + or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh + commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; +017:035 with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, + You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, + nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: +017:036 but Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt + with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall + you fear, and to him shall you bow yourselves, and to him + shall you sacrifice: +017:037 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, + which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forevermore; + and you shall not fear other gods: +017:038 and the covenant that I have made with you you shall not forget; + neither shall you fear other gods: +017:039 but Yahweh your God shall you fear; and he will deliver you + out of the hand of all your enemies. +017:040 However they did not listen, but they did after their former manner. +017:041 So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images; + their children likewise, and their children's children, + as did their fathers, so do they to this day. +018:001 Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king + of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah + began to reign. +018:002 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: + and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. +018:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to + all that David his father had done. +018:004 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut + down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent + that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel + did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. +018:005 He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him + was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among + them] that were before him. +018:006 For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, + but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses. +018:007 Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: + and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve him. +018:008 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and the borders of it, + from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. +018:009 It happened 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. +018:010 At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year + of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king + of Israel, Samaria was taken. +018:011 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, + and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, + and in the cities of the Medes, +018:012 because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their God, + but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant + of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it. +018:013 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king + of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, + and took them. +018:014 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria + to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: + that which you put on me will I bear. The king of Assyria + appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents + of silver and thirty talents of gold. +018:015 Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house + of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house. +018:016 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors + of the temple of Yahweh, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah + king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. +018:017 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh + from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. + They went up and came to Jerusalem. 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. +018:018 When they had called to the king, there came out to them + Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, + and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. +018:019 Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says + the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this + in which you trust? +018:020 You say (but they are but vain words), [There is] counsel + and strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, + that you have rebelled against me? +018:021 Now, behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, + even on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, + and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who + trust on him. +018:022 But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God; isn't that + he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, + and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship + before this altar in Jerusalem? +018:023 Now therefore, Please give pledges to my master the king + of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you + are able on your part to set riders on them. +018:024 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least + of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots + and for horsemen? +018:025 Am I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? + Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. +018:026 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, + to Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; + for we understand it: and don't speak with us in the Jews' + language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall. +018:027 But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your master, + and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men + who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink + their own water with you? +018:028 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' + language, and spoke, saying, Hear you the word of the great king, + the king of Assyria. +018:029 Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; + for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand: +018:030 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will + surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into + the hand of the king of Assyria. +018:031 Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king + of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; + and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, + and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern; +018:032 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, + a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, + a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die: + and don't listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, + Yahweh will deliver us. +018:033 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land + out of the hand of the king of Assyria? +018:034 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods + of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria + out of my hand? +018:035 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have + delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should + deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? +018:036 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; + for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him. +018:037 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, + and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, + to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the + words of Rabshakeh. +019:001 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore + his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went + into the house of Yahweh. +019:002 He sent Eliakim, who 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. +019:003 They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, + and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children are come + to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. +019:004 It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, + whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, + and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. + Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. +019:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. +019:006 Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, + Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you + have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria + have blasphemed me. +019:007 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, + and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall + by the sword in his own land. +019:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring + against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. +019:009 When he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is + come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again + to Hezekiah, saying, +019:010 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don't let + your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall + not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. +019:011 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria + have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: + and shall you be delivered? +019:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers + have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children + of Eden that were in Telassar? +019:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king + of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? +019:014 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, + and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, + and spread it before Yahweh. +019:015 Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, Yahweh, the God + of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, + even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have + made heaven and earth. +019:016 Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and see; + and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent + him to defy the living God. +019:017 Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste + the nations and their lands, +019:018 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. +019:019 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save you us, I beg you, + out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know + that you Yahweh are God alone. +019:020 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus + says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me + against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [you]. +019:021 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: + The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; + the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. +019:022 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you + exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] + against the Holy One of Israel. +019:023 By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, + With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height + of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; + and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir + trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, + the forest of his fruitful field. +019:024 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my + feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. +019:025 Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it + of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should + be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. +019:026 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were + dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, + and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, + and as grain blasted before it is grown up. +019:027 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your + coming in, and your raging against me. +019:028 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is + come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, + and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way + by which you came. +019:029 This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year + that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which + springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, + and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it. +019:030 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again + take root downward, and bear fruit upward. +019:031 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out + of Mount Zion those who shall escape: the zeal of Yahweh + shall perform this. +019:032 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall + not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall + he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. +019:033 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, + and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh. +019:034 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, + and for my servant David's sake. +019:035 It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth, + and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred + eighty-five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, + behold, these were all dead bodies. +019:036 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, + and lived at Nineveh. +019:037 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, + that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword: + and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son + reigned in his place. +020:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the + prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, + Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order: for you shall die, + and not live. +020:002 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying, +020:003 Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you + in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is + good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore. +020:004 It happened, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part + of the city, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, +020:005 Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, + Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard + your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; + on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh. +020:006 I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver + you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; + and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my + servant David's sake. +020:007 Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it + on the boil, and he recovered. +020:008 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh + will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh + the third day? +020:009 Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, + that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: + shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps? +020:010 Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline + ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. +020:011 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten + steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz. +020:012 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, + sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard + that Hezekiah had been sick. +020:013 Hezekiah listened to them, and shown them all the house of his + precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, + and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that + was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, + nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them. +020:014 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, + What said these men? and from whence came they to you? + Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, + even from Babylon. +020:015 He said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, + All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing + among my treasures that I have not shown them. +020:016 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh. +020:017 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, + and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, + shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh. +020:018 Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, + shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace + of the king of Babylon. +020:019 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh + which you have spoken. He said moreover, Isn't it so, + if peace and truth shall be in my days? +020:020 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, + and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water + into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Judah? +020:021 Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned + in his place. +021:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Hephzibah. +021:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, + after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out + before the children of Israel. +021:003 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father + had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made + an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all + the army of the sky, and served them. +021:004 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, + In Jerusalem will I put my name. +021:005 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts + of the house of Yahweh. +021:006 He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, + and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, + and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, + to provoke him to anger. +021:007 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, + in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon + his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen + out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever; +021:008 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out + of the land which I gave their fathers, if only 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. +021:009 But they didn't listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that + which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed + before the children of Israel. +021:010 Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying, +021:011 Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, + and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were + before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols; +021:012 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring + such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, + both his ears shall tingle. +021:013 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 + wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. +021:014 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver + them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become + a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; +021:015 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, + and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers + came forth out of Egypt, even to this day. +021:016 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had + filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin + with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil + in the sight of Yahweh. +021:017 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, + and his sin that he sinned, aren't they written in the book + of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +021:018 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 place. +021:019 Amon was twenty-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. +021:020 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did + Manasseh his father. +021:021 He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served + the idols that his father served, and worshiped them: +021:022 and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn't walk + in the way of Yahweh. +021:023 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king + to death in his own house. +021:024 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired + against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah + his son king in his place. +021:025 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +021:026 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: + and Josiah his son reigned in his place. +022:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. +022:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked + in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside + to the right hand or to the left. +022:003 It happened in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king + sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, + the scribe, to the house of Yahweh, saying, +022:004 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money + which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers + of the threshold have gathered of the people: +022:005 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have + the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them give it + to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair + the breaches of the house, +022:006 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, + and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house. +022:007 However there was no reckoning made with them of the money + that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully. +022:008 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, + I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahweh. + Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it. +022:009 Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king + word again, and said, Your servants have emptied out the money + that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand + of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh. +022:010 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest + has delivered me a book. Shaphan read it before the king. +022:011 It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book + of the law, that he tore his clothes. +022:012 The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son + of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, + and Asaiah the king's servant, saying, +022:013 Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for + all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; + for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us, + because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, + to do according to all that which is written concerning us. +022:014 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, + and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum + the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe + (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); + and they talked with her. +022:015 She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell you + the man who sent you to me, +022:016 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, + and on the inhabitants of it, even all the words of the book + which the king of Judah has read. +022:017 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense + to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all + the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled + against this place, and it shall not be quenched. +022:018 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, + thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God + of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard, +022:019 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself + before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, + and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become + a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, + and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh. +022:020 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you + shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall + your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. + They brought the king word again. +023:001 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah + and of Jerusalem. +023:002 The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah + and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, + and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: + and he read in their ears all the words of the book of + the covenant which was found in the house of Yahweh. +023:003 The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, + to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, + and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his] heart, + and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant + that were written in this book: and all the people stood + to the covenant. +023:004 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests + of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring + forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made + for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, + and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields + of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel. +023:005 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; those also + who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, + and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. +023:006 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, + outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it + at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust + of it on the graves of the common people. +023:007 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house + of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. +023:008 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 he broke down the high places + of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua + the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand + at the gate of the city. +023:009 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up + to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened + bread among their brothers. +023:010 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. +023:011 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given + to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the + chamber of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; + and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. +023:012 The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, + which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which + Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, + did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there, + and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. +023:013 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on + the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon + the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination + of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, + and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, + did the king defile. +023:014 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, + and filled their places with the bones of men. +023:015 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place + which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, + had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; + and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, + and burned the Asherah. +023:016 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there + in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of + the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, + according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, + who proclaimed these things. +023:017 Then he said, What monument is that which I see? + The men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God, + who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you + have done against the altar of Bethel. +023:018 He said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. + So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet + who came out of Samaria. +023:019 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities + of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke + [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according + to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. +023:020 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, + on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; + and he returned to Jerusalem. +023:021 The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover + to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant. +023:022 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of + the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings + of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; +023:023 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover + kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem. +023:024 Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, + and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations + that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, + did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law + which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found + in the house of Yahweh. +023:025 Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh with + all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, + according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose + there any like him. +023:026 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his + great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, + because of all the provocation with which Manasseh + had provoked him. +023:027 Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I + have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I + have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, + My name shall be there. +023:028 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +023:029 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king + of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went + against him; and [Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, + when he had seen him. +023:030 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, + and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. + The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, + and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place. +023:031 Jehoahaz was twenty-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. +023:032 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that his fathers had done. +023:033 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, + that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a + tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. +023:034 Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room + of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: + but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there. +023:035 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 everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh. +023:036 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. +023:037 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that his fathers had done. +024:001 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, + and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned + and rebelled against him. +024:002 Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands + of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the + children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, + according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his + servants the prophets. +024:003 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, + to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, + according to all that he did, +024:004 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled + Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon. +024:005 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +024:006 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son + reigned in his place. +024:007 The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; + for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt + to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt. +024:008 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. +024:009 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that his father had done. +024:010 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon + came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. +024:011 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his + servants were besieging it; +024:012 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. +024:013 He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, + and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all + the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made + in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said. +024:014 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, + and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, + and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, + save the poorest sort of the people of the land. +024:015 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, + and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of + the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. +024:016 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen + and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, + even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. +024:017 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's brother, + king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. +024:018 Zedekiah was twenty-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. +024:019 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to + all that Jehoiakim had done. +024:020 For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem + and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. + Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. +025:001 It happened 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 army, against Jerusalem, + and encamped against it; and they built forts against + it round about. +025:002 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. +025:003 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore + in the city, so that there was no bread for the people + of the land. +025:004 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war + [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, + which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were + against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way + of the Arabah. +025:005 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, + and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army + was scattered from him. +025:006 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king + of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him. +025:007 They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out + the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried + him to Babylon. +025:008 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, + which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, + king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, + a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem. +025:009 He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; + and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, + burnt he with fire. +025:010 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were [with] the captain + of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. +025:011 The residue of the people who were left in the city, + and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, + and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain + of the guard carry away captive. +025:012 But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land + to work the vineyards and fields. +025:013 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, + and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, + did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass + of them to Babylon. +025:014 The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, + and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, + took they away. +025:015 The fire pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, + in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain + of the guard took away. +025:016 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had + made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels + was without weight. +025:017 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital + of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was + three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital + round about, all of brass: and like to these had the second + pillar with network. +025:018 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, + and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers + of the threshold: +025:019 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men + of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, + who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain + of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty + men of the people of the land, who were found in the city. +025:020 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought + them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. +025:021 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah + in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive + out of his land. +025:022 As for the people who were left 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, governor. +025:023 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, + heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, + they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, + and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth + the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, + they and their men. +025:024 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, + Don't be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans: + dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it + shall be well with you. +025:025 But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son + of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, + and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, + and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. +025:026 All the people, both small and great, and the captains of + the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid + of the Chaldeans. +025:027 It happened 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; +025:028 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne + of the kings who were with him in Babylon, +025:029 and changed his prison garments. 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