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10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria.
And Jehu wrote letters, and
sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel,
to the elders, and to
them that brought up Ahab's children,
saying, 10:2 Now as soon as this
letter cometh to you, seeing your master's
sons are with you, and
there are with you chariots and horses, a
fenced city also, and
armour; 10:3 Look even out the best and
meetest of your master's sons,
and set him on his father's throne, and
fight for your master's house.
10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and
said, Behold, two kings
stood not before him: how then shall we
stand? 10:5 And he that was
over the house, and he that was over the
city, the elders also, and
the bringers up of the children, sent to
Jehu, saying, We are thy
servants, and will do all that thou shalt
bid us; we will not make any
king: do thou that which is good in thine
eyes.
10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time
to them, saying, If ye be
mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice,
take ye the heads of the
men your master's sons, and come to me to
Jezreel by to morrow this
time. Now the king's sons, being seventy
persons, were with the great
men of the city, which brought them up.
10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter
came to them, that they took
the king's sons, and slew seventy persons,
and put their heads in
baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
10:8 And there came a messenger, and told
him, saying, They have
brought the heads of the king's sons. And he
said, Lay ye them in two
heaps at the entering in of the gate until
the morning.
10:9 And it came to pass in the morning,
that he went out, and stood,
and said to all the people, Ye be righteous:
behold, I conspired
against my master, and slew him: but who
slew all these? 10:10 Know
now that there shall fall unto the earth
nothing of the word of the
LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the
house of Ahab: for the LORD
hath done that which he spake by his servant
Elijah.
10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the
house of Ahab in Jezreel,
and all his great men, and his kinsfolks,
and his priests, until he
left him none remaining.
10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to
Samaria. And as he was at
the shearing house in the way, 10:13 Jehu
met with the brethren of
Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye?
And they answered, We are
the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to
salute the children of the
king and the children of the queen.
10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they
took them alive, and slew
them at the pit of the shearing house, even
two and forty men; neither
left he any of them.
10:15 And when he was departed thence, he
lighted on Jehonadab the son
of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted
him, and said to him, Is
thine heart right, as my heart is with thy
heart? And Jehonadab
answered, It is. If it be, give me thine
hand. And he gave him his
hand; and he took him up to him into the
chariot.
10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my
zeal for the LORD. So they
made him ride in his chariot.
10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew
all that remained unto Ahab
in Samaria, till he had destroyed him,
according to the saying of the
LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people
together, and said unto them,
Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall
serve him much.
10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the
prophets of Baal, all his
servants, and all his priests; let none be
wanting: for I have a great
sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be
wanting, he shall not
live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the
intent that he might destroy
the worshippers of Baal.
10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn
assembly for Baal. And they
proclaimed it.
10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and
all the worshippers of
Baal came, so that there was not a man left
that came not. And they
came into the house of Baal; and the house
of Baal was full from one
end to another.
10:22 And he said unto him that was over the
vestry, Bring forth
vestments for all the worshippers of Baal.
And he brought them forth
vestments.
10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son
of Rechab, into the house
of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of
Baal, Search, and look that
there be here with you none of the servants
of the LORD, but the
worshippers of Baal only.
10:24 And when they went in to offer
sacrifices and burnt offerings,
Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and
said, If any of the men whom
I have brought into your hands escape, he
that letteth him go, his
life shall be for the life of him.
10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had
made an end of offering
the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the
guard and to the captains,
Go in, and slay them; let none come forth.
And they smote them with
the edge of the sword; and the guard and the
captains cast them out,
and went to the city of the house of Baal.
10:26 And they brought forth the images out
of the house of Baal, and
burned them.
10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal,
and brake down the house
of Baal, and made it a draught house unto
this day.
10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of
Israel.
10:29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after
them, to wit, the golden
calves that were in Bethel, and that were in
Dan.
10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because
thou hast done well in
executing that which is right in mine eyes,
and hast done unto the
house of Ahab according to all that was in
mine heart, thy children of
the fourth generation shall sit on the
throne of Israel.
10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the
law of the LORD God of
Israel with all his heart: for he departed
not from the sins of
Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut
Israel short: and Hazael
smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
10:33 From Jordan eastward,
all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the
Reubenites, and the
Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the
river Arnon, even Gilead and
Bashan.
10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and
all that he did, and all
his might, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel? 10:35 And Jehu slept with
his fathers: and they
buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son
reigned in his stead.
10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over
Israel in Samaria was twenty
and eight years.
11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah
saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed
royal.
11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king
Joram, sister of Ahaziah,
took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him
from among the king's
sons which were slain; and they hid him,
even him and his nurse, in
the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was
not slain.
11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of
the LORD six years. And
Athaliah did reign over the land.
11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and
fetched the rulers over
hundreds, with the captains and the guard,
and brought them to him
into the house of the LORD, and made a
covenant with them, and took an
oath of them in the house of the LORD, and
shewed them the king's son.
11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This is
the thing that ye shall
do; A third part of you that enter in on the
sabbath shall even be
keepers of the watch of the king's house;
11:6 And a third part shall
be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at
the gate behind the guard:
so shall ye keep the watch of the house,
that it be not broken down.
11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth
on the sabbath, even they
shall keep the watch of the house of the
LORD about the king.
11:8 And ye shall compass the king round
about, every man with his
weapons in his hand: and he that cometh
within the ranges, let him be
slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth
out and as he cometh in.
11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did
according to all things
that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they
took every man his men
that were to come in on the sabbath, with
them that should go out on
the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the
priest.
11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did
the priest give king
David's spears and shields, that were in the
temple of the LORD.
11:11 And the guard stood, every man with
his weapons in his hand,
round about the king, from the right corner
of the temple to the left
corner of the temple, along by the altar and
the temple.
11:12 And he brought forth the king's son,
and put the crown upon him,
and gave him the testimony; and they made
him king, and anointed him;
and they clapped their hands, and said, God
save the king.
11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of
the guard and of the
people, she came to the people into the
temple of the LORD.
11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king
stood by a pillar, as the
manner was, and the princes and the
trumpeters by the king, and all
the people of the land rejoiced, and blew
with trumpets: and Athaliah
rent her clothes, and cried, Treason,
Treason.
11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the
captains of the hundreds,
the officers of the host, and said unto
them, Have her forth without
the ranges: and him that followeth her kill
with the sword. For the
priest had said, Let her not be slain in the
house of the LORD.
11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she
went by the way by the which
the horses came into the king's house: and
there was she slain.
11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between
the LORD and the king and
the people, that they should be the LORD's
people; between the king
also and the people.
11:18 And all the people of the land went
into the house of Baal, and
brake it down; his altars and his images
brake they in pieces
thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of
Baal before the altars. And
the priest appointed officers over the house
of the LORD.
11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds,
and the captains, and the
guard, and all the people of the land; and
they brought down the king
from the house of the LORD, and came by the
way of the gate of the
guard to the king's house. And he sat on the
throne of the kings.
11:20 And all the people of the land
rejoiced, and the city was in
quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword
beside the king's house.
11:21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he
began to reign.
12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash
began to reign; and forty
years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Zibiah of
Beersheba.
12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in
the sight of the LORD all
his days wherein Jehoiada the priest
instructed him.
12:3 But the high places were not taken
away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places.
12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All
the money of the dedicated
things that is brought into the house of the
LORD, even the money of
every one that passeth the account, the
money that every man is set
at, and all the money that cometh into any
man's heart to bring into
the house of the LORD, 12:5 Let the priests
take it to them, every man
of his acquaintance: and let them repair the
breaches of the house,
wheresoever any breach shall be found.
12:6 But it was so, that in the three and
twentieth year of king
Jehoash the priests had not repaired the
breaches of the house.
12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada
the priest, and the other
priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye
not the breaches of the
house? now therefore receive no more money
of your acquaintance, but
deliver it for the breaches of the house.
12:8 And the priests consented to receive no
more money of the people,
neither to repair the breaches of the house.
12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest,
and bored a hole in the lid
of it, and set it beside the altar, on the
right side as one cometh
into the house of the LORD: and the priests
that kept the door put
therein all the money that was brought into
the house of the LORD.
12:10 And it was so, when they saw that
there was much money in the
chest, that the king's scribe and the high
priest came up, and they
put up in bags, and told the money that was
found in the house of the
LORD.
12:11 And they gave the money, being told,
into the hands of them that
did the work, that had the oversight of the
house of the LORD: and
they laid it out to the carpenters and
builders, that wrought upon the
house of the LORD, 12:12 And to masons, and
hewers of stone, and to
buy timber and hewed stone to repair the
breaches of the house of the
LORD, and for all that was laid out for the
house to repair it.
12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the
house of the LORD bowls of
silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any
vessels of gold, or vessels of
silver, of the money that was brought into
the house of the LORD:
12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and
repaired therewith the
house of the LORD.
12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the
men, into whose hand they
delivered the money to be bestowed on
workmen: for they dealt
faithfully.
12:16 The trespass money and sin money was
not brought into the house
of the LORD: it was the priests'.
12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and
fought against Gath, and
took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to
Jerusalem.
12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the
hallowed things that
Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his
fathers, kings of Judah,
had dedicated, and his own hallowed things,
and all the gold that was
found in the treasures of the house of the
LORD, and in the king's
house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria:
and he went away from
Jerusalem.
12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and
all that he did, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
12:20 And his servants arose, and made a
conspiracy, and slew Joash in
the house of Millo, which goeth down to
Silla.
12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and
Jehozabad the son of
Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he
died; and they buried him with
his fathers in the city of David: and
Amaziah his son reigned in his
stead.
13:1 In the three and twentieth year of
Joash the son of Ahaziah king
of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to
reign over Israel in
Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
13:2 And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD, and
followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, which made Israel to
sin; he departed not therefrom.
13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hand of Hazael king
of Syria, and into the
hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all
their days.
13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the
LORD hearkened unto him:
for he saw the oppression of Israel, because
the king of Syria
oppressed them.
13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so
that they went out from
under the hand of the Syrians: and the
children of Israel dwelt in
their tents, as beforetime.
13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the
sins of the house of
Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked
therein: and there remained
the grove also in Samaria.) 13:7 Neither did
he leave of the people
to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten
chariots, and ten thousand
footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed
them, and had made them
like the dust by threshing.
13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz,
and all that he did, and
his might, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel? 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept
with his fathers; and they
buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son
reigned in his stead.
13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of
Joash king of Judah began
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over
Israel in Samaria, and
reigned sixteen years.
13:11 And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD; he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made
Israel sin: but he walked therein.
13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and
all that he did, and his
might wherewith he fought against Amaziah
king of Judah, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel? 13:13
And Joash slept with his fathers; and
Jeroboam sat upon his throne:
and Joash was buried in Samaria with the
kings of Israel.
13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his
sickness whereof he died. And
Joash the king of Israel came down unto him,
and wept over his face,
and said, O my father, my father, the
chariot of Israel, and the
horsemen thereof.
13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and
arrows. And he took unto
him bow and arrows.
13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put
thine hand upon the bow.
And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put
his hands upon the king's
hands.
13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward.
And he opened it. Then
Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he
said, The arrow of the LORD's
deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance
from Syria: for thou shalt
smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have
consumed them.
13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he
took them. And he said unto
the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground.
And he smote thrice, and
stayed.
13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him,
and said, Thou shouldest
have smitten five or six times; then hadst
thou smitten Syria till
thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou
shalt smite Syria but thrice.
13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him.
And the bands of the
Moabites invaded the land at the coming in
of the year.
13:21 And it came to pass, as they were
burying a man, that, behold,
they spied a band of men; and they cast the
man into the sepulchre of
Elisha: and when the man was let down, and
touched the bones of
Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his
feet.
13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed
Israel all the days of
Jehoahaz.
13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them,
and had compassion on them,
and had respect unto them, because of his
covenant with Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy
them, neither cast he them
from his presence as yet.
13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and
Benhadad his son reigned in
his stead.
13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took
again out of the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which
he had taken out of the
hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three
times did Joash beat him,
and recovered the cities of Israel.
14:1 In the second year of Joash son of
Jehoahaz king of Israel
reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah.
14:2 He was twenty and five years old when
he began to reign, and
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
14:3 And he did that which was right in the
sight of the LORD, yet not
like David his father: he did according to
all things as Joash his
father did.
14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken
away: as yet the people
did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high
places.
14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the
kingdom was confirmed in his
hand, that he slew his servants which had
slain the king his father.
14:6 But the children of the murderers he
slew not: according unto
that which is written in the book of the law
of Moses, wherein the
LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall
not be put to death for the
children, nor the children be put to death
for the fathers; but every
man shall be put to death for his own sin.
14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt
ten thousand, and took
Selah by war, and called the name of it
Joktheel unto this day.
14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to
Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son
of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let
us look one another in the
face.
14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to
Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent
to the cedar that was in
Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son
to wife: and there passed
by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and
trode down the thistle.
14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and
thine heart hath lifted thee
up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for
why shouldest thou meddle to
thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even
thou, and Judah with thee?
14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore
Jehoash king of Israel
went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah
looked one another in the
face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to
Judah.
14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before
Israel; and they fled
every man to their tents.
14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took
Amaziah king of Judah, the son
of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at
Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from
the gate of Ephraim unto the
corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14:14 And he took all the gold and silver,
and all the vessels that
were found in the house of the LORD, and in
the treasures of the
king's house, and hostages, and returned to
Samaria.
14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash
which he did, and his might,
and how he fought with Amaziah king of
Judah, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel? 14:16 And Jehoash
slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria with the kings of
Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his
stead.
14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah lived after the death
of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
fifteen years.
14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah,
are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? 14:19 Now they made a
conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he
fled to Lachish; but they
sent after him to Lachish, and slew him
there.
14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he
was buried at Jerusalem
with his fathers in the city of David.
14:21 And all the people of Judah took
Azariah, which was sixteen
years old, and made him king instead of his
father Amaziah.
14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to
Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the
son of Joash king of Judah
Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel
began to reign in Samaria,
and reigned forty and one years.
14:24 And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD: he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from
the entering of Hamath unto
the sea of the plain, according to the word
of the LORD God of Israel,
which he spake by the hand of his servant
Jonah, the son of Amittai,
the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of
Israel, that it was very
bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor
any left, nor any helper
for Israel.
14:27 And the LORD said not that he would
blot out the name of Israel
from under heaven: but he saved them by the
hand of Jeroboam the son
of Joash.
14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam,
and all that he did, and
his might, how he warred, and how he
recovered Damascus, and Hamath,
which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are
they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
14:29 And Jeroboam slept
with his fathers, even with the kings of
Israel; and Zachariah his son
reigned in his stead.
15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of
Jeroboam king of Israel began
Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to
reign.
15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began
to reign, and he reigned
two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Jecholiah
of Jerusalem.
15:3 And he did that which was right in the
sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had
done; 15:4 Save that the
high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burnt incense
still on the high places.
15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he
was a leper unto the day
of his death, and dwelt in a several house.
And Jotham the king's son
was over the house, judging the people of
the land.
15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah,
and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and
they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his
son reigned in his stead.
15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of
Azariah king of Judah did
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over
Israel in Samaria six months.
15:9 And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD, as his
fathers had done: he departed not from the
sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh
conspired against him, and smote
him before the people, and slew him, and
reigned in his stead.
15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah,
behold, they are written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel.
15:12 This was the word of the LORD which he
spake unto Jehu, saying,
Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel
unto the fourth generation.
And so it came to pass.
15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to
reign in the nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and
he reigned a full month in
Samaria.
15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up
from Tirzah, and came to
Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh
in Samaria, and slew him,
and reigned in his stead.
15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum,
and his conspiracy which he
made, behold, they are written in the book
of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all
that were therein, and the
coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they
opened not to him, therefore
he smote it; and all the women therein that
were with child he ripped
up.
15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of
Azariah king of Judah began
Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over
Israel, and reigned ten years in
Samaria.
15:18 And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD: he
departed not all his days from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin.
15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came
against the land: and Menahem
gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that
his hand might be with him
to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of
Israel, even of all the mighty
men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of
silver, to give to the
king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria
turned back, and stayed not
there in the land.
15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem,
and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers;
and Pekahiah his son reigned
in his stead.
15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king
of Judah Pekahiah the son
of Menahem began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, and reigned two
years.
15:24 And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a
captain of his, conspired
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in
the palace of the king's
house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him
fifty men of the Gileadites:
and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah,
and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of
Azariah king of Judah Pekah the
son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel
in Samaria, and reigned
twenty years.
15:28 And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel
came Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah,
and Janoah, and Kedesh,
and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the
land of Naphtali, and
carried them captive to Assyria.
15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a
conspiracy against Pekah the
son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew
him, and reigned in his
stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the
son of Uzziah.
15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and
all that he did, behold,
they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of
Remaliah king of Israel
began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah
to reign.
15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when
he began to reign, and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Jerusha,
the daughter of Zadok.
15:34 And he did that which was right in the
sight of the LORD: he did
according to all that his father Uzziah had
done.
15:35 Howbeit the high places were not
removed: the people sacrificed
and burned incense still in the high places.
He built the higher gate
of the house of the LORD.
15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham,
and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
15:37 In those days the LORD began to send
against Judah Rezin the
king of Syria, and Pekah the son of
Remaliah.
15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father: and
Ahaz his son reigned in
his stead.
16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the
son of Remaliah Ahaz the son
of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began
to reign, and reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that
which was right in the
sight of the LORD his God, like David his
father.
16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings
of Israel, yea, and made
his son to pass through the fire, according
to the abominations of the
heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before
the children of Israel.
16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in
the high places, and on
the hills, and under every green tree.
16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son
of Remaliah king of Israel
came up to Jerusalem to war: and they
besieged Ahaz, but could not
overcome him.
16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria
recovered Elath to Syria, and
drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians
came to Elath, and dwelt
there unto this day.
16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to
Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,
saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come
up, and save me out of the
hand of the king of Syria, and out of the
hand of the king of Israel,
which rise up against me.
16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that
was found in the house of
the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's
house, and sent it for a
present to the king of Assyria.
16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto
him: for the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus, and took
it, and carried the people
of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet
Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, and saw an altar that was at
Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to
Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar,
and the pattern of it,
according to all the workmanship thereof.
16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar
according to all that king
Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the
priest made it against king
Ahaz came from Damascus.
16:12 And when the king was come from
Damascus, the king saw the
altar: and the king approached to the altar,
and offered thereon.
16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and
his meat offering, and
poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the
blood of his peace
offerings, upon the altar.
16:14 And he brought also the brasen altar,
which was before the LORD,
from the forefront of the house, from
between the altar and the house
of the LORD, and put it on the north side of
the altar.
16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the
priest, saying, Upon the
great altar burn the morning burnt offering,
and the evening meat
offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice,
and his meat offering, with
the burnt offering of all the people of the
land, and their meat
offering, and their drink offerings; and
sprinkle upon it all the
blood of the burnt offering, and all the
blood of the sacrifice: and
the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire
by.
16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according
to all that king Ahaz
commanded.
16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of
the bases, and removed the
laver from off them; and took down the sea
from off the brasen oxen
that were under it, and put it upon the
pavement of stones.
16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that
they had built in the house,
and the king's entry without, turned he from
the house of the LORD for
the king of Assyria.
16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which
he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah? 16:20
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in
the city of David: and Hezekiah his son
reigned in his stead.
17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of
Judah began Hoshea the son of
Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine
years.
17:2 And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD, but not
as the kings of Israel that were before him.
17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of
Assyria; and Hoshea
became his servant, and gave him presents.
17:4 And the king of Assyria found
conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had
sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and
brought no present to the
king of Assyria, as he had done year by
year: therefore the king of
Assyria shut him up, and bound him in
prison.
17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up
throughout all the land, and
went up to Samaria, and besieged it three
years.
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of
Assyria took Samaria, and
carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed
them in Halah and in
Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the
cities of the Medes.
17:7 For so it was, that the children of
Israel had sinned against the
LORD their God, which had brought them up
out of the land of Egypt,
from under the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and had feared other
gods, 17:8 And walked in the statutes of the
heathen, whom the LORD
cast out from before the children of Israel,
and of the kings of
Israel, which they had made.
17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly
those things that were
not right against the LORD their God, and
they built them high places
in all their cities, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fenced
city.
17:10 And they set them up images and groves
in every high hill, and
under every green tree: 17:11 And there they
burnt incense in all the
high places, as did the heathen whom the
LORD carried away before
them; and wrought wicked things to provoke
the LORD to anger: 17:12
For they served idols, whereof the LORD had
said unto them, Ye shall
not do this thing.
17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel,
and against Judah, by all
the prophets, and by all the seers, saying,
Turn ye from your evil
ways, and keep my commandments and my
statutes, according to all the
law which I commanded your fathers, and
which I sent to you by my
servants the prophets.
17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear,
but hardened their necks,
like to the neck of their fathers, that did
not believe in the LORD
their God.
17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and
his covenant that he made
with their fathers, and his testimonies
which he testified against
them; and they followed vanity, and became
vain, and went after the
heathen that were round about them,
concerning whom the LORD had
charged them, that they should not do like
them.
17:16 And they left all the commandments of
the LORD their God, and
made them molten images, even two calves,
and made a grove, and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and
served Baal.
17:17 And they caused their sons and their
daughters to pass through
the fire, and used divination and
enchantments, and sold themselves to
do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke
him to anger.
17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with
Israel, and removed them
out of his sight: there was none left but
the tribe of Judah only.
17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments
of the LORD their God, but
walked in the statutes of Israel which they
made.
17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of
Israel, and afflicted
them, and delivered them into the hand of
spoilers, until he had cast
them out of his sight.
17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of
David; and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam
drave Israel from
following the LORD, and made them sin a
great sin.
17:22 For the children of Israel walked in
all the sins of Jeroboam
which he did; they departed not from them;
17:23 Until the LORD
removed Israel out of his sight, as he had
said by all his servants
the prophets. So was Israel carried away out
of their own land to
Assyria unto this day.
17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men
from Babylon, and from
Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and
from Sepharvaim, and placed
them in the cities of Samaria instead of the
children of Israel: and
they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the
cities thereof.
17:25 And so it was at the beginning of
their dwelling there, that
they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD
sent lions among them,
which slew some of them.
17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of
Assyria, saying, The nations
which thou hast removed, and placed in the
cities of Samaria, know not
the manner of the God of the land: therefore
he hath sent lions among
them, and, behold, they slay them, because
they know not the manner of
the God of the land.
17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded,
saying, Carry thither one of
the priests whom ye brought from thence; and
let them go and dwell
there, and let him teach them the manner of
the God of the land.
17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had
carried away from Samaria
came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them
how they should fear the
LORD.
17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of
their own, and put them in the
houses of the high places which the
Samaritans had made, every nation
in their cities wherein they dwelt.
17:30 And the men of Babylon made
Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth
made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made
Ashima, 17:31 And the Avites
made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites
burnt their children in
fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods
of Sepharvaim.
17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto
themselves of the lowest
of them priests of the high places, which
sacrificed for them in the
houses of the high places.
17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their
own gods, after the
manner of the nations whom they carried away
from thence.
17:34 Unto this day they do after the former
manners: they fear not
the LORD, neither do they after their
statutes, or after their
ordinances, or after the law and commandment
which the LORD commanded
the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
17:35 With whom the LORD
had made a covenant, and charged them,
saying, Ye shall not fear other
gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve
them, nor sacrifice to
them: 17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up
out of the land of Egypt
with great power and a stretched out arm,
him shall ye fear, and him
shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do
sacrifice.
17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances,
and the law, and the
commandment, which he wrote for you, ye
shall observe to do for
evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
17:38 And the covenant that I have made with
you ye shall not forget;
neither shall ye fear other gods.
17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear;
and he shall deliver you
out of the hand of all your enemies.
17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they
did after their former
manner.
17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and
served their graven
images, both their children, and their
children's children: as did
their fathers, so do they unto this day.
18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year
of Hoshea son of Elah king
of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz
king of Judah began to reign.
18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when
he began to reign; and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name also was
Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
18:3 And he did that which was right in the
sight of the LORD,
according to all that David his father did.
18:4 He removed the high places, and brake
the images, and cut down
the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen
serpent that Moses had
made: for unto those days the children of
Israel did burn incense to
it: and he called it Nehushtan.
18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel;
so that after him was none
like him among all the kings of Judah, nor
any that were before him.
18:6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed
not from following him,
but kept his commandments, which the LORD
commanded Moses.
18:7 And the LORD was with him; and he
prospered whithersoever he went
forth: and he rebelled against the king of
Assyria, and served him
not.
18:8 He smote the Philistines, even unto
Gaza, and the borders
thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to
the fenced city.
18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year
of king Hezekiah, which
was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah
king of Israel, that
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against
Samaria, and besieged it.
18:10 And at the end of three years they
took it: even in the sixth
year of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year
of Hoshea king of Israel,
Samaria was taken.
18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away
Israel unto Assyria, and
put them in Halah and in Habor by the river
of Gozan, and in the
cities of the Medes: 18:12 Because they
obeyed not the voice of the
LORD their God, but transgressed his
covenant, and all that Moses the
servant of the LORD commanded, and would not
hear them, nor do them.
18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah did Sennacherib king
of Assyria come up against all the fenced
cities of Judah, and took
them.
18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the
king of Assyria to
Lachish, saying, I have offended; return
from me: that which thou
puttest on me will I bear. And the king of
Assyria appointed unto
Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents
of silver and thirty
talents of gold.
18:15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver
that was found in the house
of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
king's house.
18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the
gold from the doors of the
temple of the LORD, and from the pillars
which Hezekiah king of Judah
had overlaid, and gave it to the king of
Assyria.
18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan
and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh
from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great
host against Jerusalem. And
they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when
they were come up, they
came and stood by the conduit of the upper
pool, which is in the
highway of the fuller's field.
18:18 And when they had called to the king,
there came out to them
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over
the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder.
18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye
now to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria,
What confidence is this
wherein thou trustest? 18:20 Thou sayest,
(but they are but vain
words,) I have counsel and strength for the
war. Now on whom dost thou
trust, that thou rebellest against me? 18:21
Now, behold, thou
trustest upon the staff of this bruised
reed, even upon Egypt, on
which if a man lean, it will go into his
hand, and pierce it: so is
Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on
him.
18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the
LORD our God: is not that
he, whose high places and whose altars
Hezekiah hath taken away, and
hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar
in Jerusalem? 18:23 Now therefore, I pray
thee, give pledges to my
lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver
thee two thousand horses,
if thou be able on thy part to set riders
upon them.
18:24 How then wilt thou turn away the face
of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy
trust on Egypt for chariots
and for horsemen? 18:25 Am I now come up
without the LORD against
this place to destroy it? The LORD said to
me, Go up against this
land, and destroy it.
18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
and Shebna, and Joah, unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy
servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and talk not with us
in the Jews' language in
the ears of the people that are on the wall.
18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my
master sent me to thy
master, and to thee, to speak these words?
hath he not sent me to the
men which sit on the wall, that they may eat
their own dung, and drink
their own piss with you? 18:28 Then
Rabshakeh stood and cried with a
loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake,
saying, Hear the word of
the great king, the king of Assyria: 18:29
Thus saith the king, Let
not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not
be able to deliver you out
of his hand: 18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make
you trust in the LORD,
saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and
this city shall not be
delivered into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus
saith the king of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and
come out to me, and then
eat ye every man of his own vine, and every
one of his fig tree, and
drink ye every one the waters of his
cistern: 18:32 Until I come and
take you away to a land like your own land,
a land of corn and wine, a
land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil
olive and of honey, that ye
may live, and not die: and hearken not unto
Hezekiah, when he
persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will
deliver us.
18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations
delivered at all his land
out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
18:34 Where are the gods of
Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of
Sepharvaim, Hena, and
Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of
mine hand? 18:35 Who are
they among all the gods of the countries,
that have delivered their
country out of mine hand, that the LORD
should deliver Jerusalem out
of mine hand? 18:36 But the people held
their peace, and answered him
not a word: for the king's commandment was,
saying, Answer him not.
18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
which was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah
the son of Asaph the
recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes
rent, and told him the words
of Rabshakeh.
19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah
heard it, that he rent
his clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the
house of the LORD.
19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the
household, and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests,
covered with sackcloth, to
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith
Hezekiah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for
the children are come to
the birth, and there is not strength to
bring forth.
19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear
all the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath
sent to reproach the living
God; and will reprove the words which the
LORD thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant
that are left.
19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came
to Isaiah.
19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall
ye say to your master, Thus
saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words
which thou hast heard, with
which the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me.
19:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him,
and he shall hear a rumour,
and shall return to his own land; and I will
cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.
19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the
king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king
of Ethiopia, Behold, he is
come out to fight against thee: he sent
messengers again unto
Hezekiah, saying, 19:10 Thus shall ye speak
to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying, Let not thy God in whom thou
trustest deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings
of Assyria have done to
all lands, by destroying them utterly: and
shalt thou be delivered?
19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered
them which my fathers
have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of
Eden which were in Thelasar? 19:13 Where is
the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arpad, and the king of the city
of Sepharvaim, of Hena,
and Ivah? 19:14 And Hezekiah received the
letter of the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went
up into the house of the
LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD,
and said, O LORD God of
Israel, which dwellest between the
cherubims, thou art the God, even
thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the
earth; thou hast made heaven
and earth.
19:16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear:
open, LORD, thine eyes, and
see: and hear the words of Sennacherib,
which hath sent him to
reproach the living God.
19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria
have destroyed the
nations and their lands, 19:18 And have cast
their gods into the fire:
for they were no gods, but the work of men's
hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them.
19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I
beseech thee, save thou us out
of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the
earth may know that thou art
the LORD God, even thou only.
19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to
Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast
prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
19:21 This is the word that the LORD hath
spoken concerning him; The
virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised
thee, and laughed thee to
scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken
her head at thee.
19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and
blasphemed? and against whom hast
thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine
eyes on high? even against
the Holy One of Israel.
19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached
the LORD, and hast said,
With the multitude of my chariots I am come
up to the height of the
mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will
cut down the tall cedar
trees thereof, and the choice fir trees
thereof: and I will enter into
the lodgings of his borders, and into the
forest of his Carmel.
19:24 I have digged and drunk strange
waters, and with the sole of my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of
besieged places.
19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I
have done it, and of ancient
times that I have formed it? now have I
brought it to pass, that thou
shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into
ruinous heaps.
19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of
small power, they were
dismayed and confounded; they were as the
grass of the field, and as
the green herb, as the grass on the house
tops, and as corn blasted
before it be grown up.
19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going
out, and thy coming in, and
thy rage against me.
19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy
tumult is come up into mine
ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy
nose, and my bridle in thy
lips, and I will turn thee back by the way
by which thou camest.
19:29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye
shall eat this year such
things as grow of themselves, and in the
second year that which
springeth of the same; and in the third year
sow ye, and reap, and
plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah shall yet
again take root downward, and bear fruit
upward.
19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant, and they that
escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the
LORD of hosts shall do this.
19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD
concerning the king of Assyria, He
shall not come into this city, nor shoot an
arrow there, nor come
before it with shield, nor cast a bank
against it.
19:33 By the way that he came, by the same
shall he return, and shall
not come into this city, saith the LORD.
19:34 For I will defend this city, to save
it, for mine own sake, and
for my servant David's sake.
19:35 And it came to pass that night, that
the angel of the LORD went
out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians
an hundred fourscore and
five thousand: and when they arose early in
the morning, behold, they
were all dead corpses.
19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned,
and dwelt at Nineveh.
19:37 And it came to pass, as he was
worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and
Sharezer his sons smote him with
the sword: and they escaped into the land of
Armenia. And Esarhaddon
his son reigned in his stead. |
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