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1:1	Now Moab rebelledbroke againstwith Israel after the death of Ahab.
1:2	And Ahaziah fell through the window lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and became ill. So he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness.”
1:4	Now therefore, thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘You shallwill not comeget down from the bed whereupon which you have gone uplain, but you shall surelycertainly die.’ ” Then Elijah departed.
1:5	When the messengers returned to himAhaziah, he said to them, “Why have you returned?”
1:6	They said to him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you and say to him, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shallwill not comeget down from the bed whereupon which you have gone uplain, but you shall surelycertainly die.’ ” ’ ”
1:7	HeThen he said to them, “What kinddid ofthe man waslook helike, who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
1:8	TheyAnd answeredthey said to him, “He was a hairy man with a leather girdlebelt boundworn aboutaround his loinswaist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
1:9	Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, “OYou man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’ ”
1:10	But Elijah replied to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, letmay fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.
1:11	So hethe king again sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he said to him, “OYou man of God, thusthis saysis what the king, says: ‘Come down quickly.’!’ ”
1:12	But Elijah replied to them, “If I am a man of God, letmay fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.
1:13	So hethe king again sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty men. When the third captain of fifty went up, he came and bowed down on his knees before Elijah, and begged him and said to him, “OYou man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.
1:14	Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.”
1:15	TheAnd the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arosegot up and went down with him to the king.
1:16	Then he said to him, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘BecauseSince 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? Therefore you shallwill not comeget down from the bed whereupon which you have gone uplain, but you shall surelycertainly die.’ ”
1:17	So Ahaziah died accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. And becausesince he had no son, Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.
1:18	Now as for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
2:1	AndNow it came about, when the Lord was about to takebring Elijah up Elijah by a whirlwind to heaven, that Elijah wentleft Gilgal with Elisha from Gilgal.
2:2	And Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here please, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
2:3	Then the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel camewent out to Elisha and said to him, “DoAre you knowaware that the Lord will take away your master from over you today?” And he said, “Yes, I knowam aware; besay stillnothing about it.”
2:4	And Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As surely as the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.
2:5	TheThen the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho approached Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today?” And he answered, “Yes, I know; besay stillnothing about it.”
2:6	ThenAnd Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” AndBut he said, “As surely as the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.
2:8	And Elijah took his mantlecoat, and folded it, together and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
2:9	When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask me what I shallshould do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.”
2:11	AsAnd as they were goingwalking along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire andappeared with horses of fire, whichand they separated the two of them. AndThen Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven.
2:12	And Elisha sawwas watching it and criedhe was crying out, “My father, my father, the chariotschariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he sawdid not see Elijah no moreagain. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.
2:13	He also took up the mantlecoat of Elijah that fellhad fallen from him, and returnedhe went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
2:14	HeThen he took the mantlecoat of Elijah that fellhad fallen from him and struck the waters, and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” And when he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha crossed over.
2:15	Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho opposite him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah restshas settled on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed themselvesdown to the ground before him.
2:16	TheyThen they said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men,; please let them go and search for your master;, perhapsin case the Spirit of the Lord has taken him up and cast him on some mountain or into some valley.” AndBut he said, “You shall not send anyone.”
2:17	ButYet when they urged him until he was ashamed to refuse, he said, “Send them.” TheySo they sent therefore fifty men; and they searched for three days, but did not find him.
2:18	They returned to him while he was staying atin Jericho; and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”
2:19	Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold now, the situationsite of thisthe city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”
2:20	HeAnd he said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
2:21	HeThen he went out to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘I have purified these waters; there shall not become from there death or unfruitfulness any longer.’ ”
2:22	So the waters have been purified to this day, accordingin toaccordance with the word of Elisha which he spoke.
2:23	ThenNow he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the wayroad, some young ladsboys came out from the city and mockedridiculed him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”
2:24	When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of theirthe numberboys.
2:25	He then went on from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
3:1	Now Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel at Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned for twelve years.
3:2	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, though not like his father and his mother; for he putremoved away the sacredmemorial pillarstone of Baal which his father had made.
3:3	Nevertheless, he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he mademisled Israel sin; he did not departabandon from them.
3:4	Now Mesha the king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he used to paymake tribute payments to the king of Israel 100,000of a hundred thousand lambs, and the wool of 100,000a hundred thousand rams.
3:5	ButHowever, when King Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelledbroke againstwith the king of Israel.
3:6	AndSo King Jehoram wentleft outSamaria offor Samariabattle at that time and mustered all Israel.
3:7	Then he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelledbroken againstaway from me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?” And he said, “I will go up;. IConsider amme as you areyours, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
3:8	HeThen he said, “Which way shall we go up?” And he answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
3:9	So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom;, and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey,. andBut there was no water for the army or for the cattle that followed them.
3:10	Then the king of Israel said, “AlasIt is hopeless! For the Lord has called these three kings to givehand them intoover theto hand of Moab.”!”
3:11	But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there notno a prophet of the Lord here, that we may inquire of the Lord by him?” And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”
3:12	And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the Lord is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
3:13	Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What business do Iyou have to do with youme? Go to the prophets of your father’s and to the prophets ofand your mother’s prophets.” AndBut the king of Israel said to him, “No, for the Lord has called these three kings together to givehand them intoover theto hand of Moab.”
3:14	Elisha said, “As surely as the Lord of hostsarmies lives, before whom I stand, wereif it not that I regarddid thenot presencerespect of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look at you nor see you.
3:15	But now bring me a minstrelmusician.” And it came about, when the minstrelmusician played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.
3:16	HeAnd he said, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’
3:17	For thusthe Lord says thethis: Lord, ‘You shallwill not see wind, nor shallwill you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you shallwill drink, both you, and your cattlelivestock, and your beastsother animals.
3:18	ThisAnd this is butan ainsignificant slight thing in the sight of the Lord; He will also give the Moabites into your hand.
3:19	Then you shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and fellcut down every good tree and stop up all the springs of water, and marspoil every good pieceplot of land with stones.’ ”
3:20	ItAnd it happened in the morning about the time of offering the sacrifice, that behold, water came byfrom the waydirection of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
3:21	Now all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. And all who were able to put on armor and older were summoned and stoodthey took their positions on the border.
3:22	TheyThen rosethey got up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.
3:23	ThenSo they said, “This is blood; the kings must have surely fought togethereach other, and they have slainkilled one another. Now thereforethen, Moab, to the spoilspoils!”
3:24	But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites aroserose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled beforefrom them; and theythe wentIsraelites forwardinvaded into the land, slaughteringkilling the Moabites.
3:25	ThusSo they destroyed the cities; and each one threw a stone on every pieceplot of good land and filled it. So they stopped allup theevery springsspring of water and felledcut alldown theevery good treestree, until in Kir-hareseth only they left its stones; however, the rock slingers wentsurrounded about it and struck it.
3:26	When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him 700seven hundred men who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
3:27	Then hethe king of Moab took his oldest son who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. And theregreat anger came greatupon wrath against Israel, and they departed from him and returned to their own land.
4:1	Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
4:2	So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your maidservantservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”
4:3	Then he said, “Go, borrow vesselscontainers atelsewhere large for yourself, empty containers from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; —do not get atoo few.
4:4	AndThen you shall gocome in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all these vessels,containers; and you shall set aside what is full.”
4:5	So she wentleft from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they werebegan bringing the vesselscontainers to her, and she poured the oil.
4:6	When the vesselscontainers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vesselcontainer.” AndBut he said to her, “There isare notno onemore vessel morecontainers.” AndThen the oil stopped.
4:7	ThenSo she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”
4:8	Now there came a day came when Elisha passedwent over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuadedurged him to eat food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, that he turned in there to eat food.
4:9	SheAnd she said to her husband, “Behold now, I perceiveam aware that this is a holy man of God passing by us continuallyrepeatedly.
4:10	Please, let’s us make a little walled upper chamberroom, and let’s us set up a bed for him there, and a table, and a chair, and a lampstand; andthen it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”
4:11	OneNow one day he came there, and turned in to the upper chamberroom and rested.
4:12	Then he said to Gehazi his servant Gehazi, “Call this Shunammite.” And when he had called her, she stood before him.
4:13	HeAnd he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have beentaken carefultrouble for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you belike spokenme to speak for you to the king or to the captaincommander of the army?’ ” AndBut she answered, “I live among my own people.”
4:14	So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi answered, “TrulyIt is a fact that she has no son, and her husband is old.”
4:15	He then said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
4:16	Then he said, “At this season next year, you willare going to embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, Oyou man of God, do not lie to your maidservantservant.”
4:17	TheNow the woman conceived and boregave birth to a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had saidtold to her.
4:18	When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
4:19	HeAnd he said to his father, “My head, my head.”!” And hehis father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
4:20	When he had takencarried him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
4:21	SheAnd she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and went outleft.
4:22	Then she called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may run to the man of God and return.”
4:23	HeBut he said, “Why willare you gogoing to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbathSabbath.” AndSo she just said, “It will be wellfine.”
4:24	Then she saddled athe donkey and said to her servant, “Drive the donkey and go forwardon; do not slow down the pace for me unless I tell you.”
4:25	So she went on and came to the man of God toat Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, that person there is the Shunammite.
4:26	Please run now to meet her and say to her, ‘Is it going well withfor you? Is it going well withfor your husband? Is it going well withfor the child?’ ” AndThen she answered, “It is going well.”
4:27	WhenBut she came to the man of God toat the hill, sheand caughttook hold of his feet. And Gehazi came nearup to push her away;, but the man of God said, “LetLeave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has hiddenconcealed it from me and has not toldinformed me.”
4:28	Then she said, “Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceivegive me false hope’?”
4:29	Then he said to Gehazi, “GirdGet upready your loins and take my staff in your hand, and go your way; if you meet any mananyone, do not salutegreet him, and if anyone salutesgreets you, do not answerreply to him;. andAnd lay my staff on the ladboy’s face.”
4:30	The mother of the ladboy said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” AndSo he arosegot up and followed her.
4:31	Then Gehazi passedwent on beforeahead of them and laid the staff on the ladboy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he returned to meet him and toldinformed him, saying, “The ladboy has not awakened.”
4:32	When Elisha cameentered into the house, behold the ladboy was dead, and laid on his bed.
4:33	So he entered and shut the door behind them both, and he prayed to the Lord.
4:34	AndThen he wentgot up on the bed 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 stretchedbent himselfdown on him; and the flesh of the child became warm.
4:35	Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth once, and went up and stretchedbent himselfdown on him; and the ladboy sneezed seven times, andthen the ladboy opened his eyes.
4:36	HeAnd he called Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, “TakePick up your son.”
4:37	Then she wentcame in and fell at his feet and bowed herselfdown to the ground, and she tookpicked up her son and went outleft.
4:38	When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting beforein front of him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
4:39	Then one went out into the field to gather herbsmallow, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds,; and he came and sliced them into the pot of stew, forbecause they did not know what they were.
4:40	So they poured it out for the men to eat. AndBut as they were eating of the stew, they cried out and said, “OYou man of God, there is death in the pot.”!” And they were unable to eat.
4:41	ButThen he said, “NowBring bring mealflour.” HeAnd he threw it into the pot, and said, “Pour it out for the people that they may eat.” Then there was nonothing harmharmful in the pot.
4:42	Now a man came 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. And heElisha said, “Give them to the people that they may eat.”
4:43	HisBut his attendant said, “What,How willam I setto serve this beforeto a hundred men?” ButNevertheless he said, “Give them to the people that they may eat, for thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘They shall eat and have some left over.’ ”
4:44	So he setserved it beforeto them, and they ate and had some left over, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord.
5:1	Now Naaman, captaincommander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man within the view of his master, and highly respectedeminent, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant warrior, but heafflicted waswith a leperleprosy.
5:3	SheAnd she said to her mistress, “IIf wishonly that my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy.”
5:4	And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “ThusThe and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel spoke such and such.”
5:5	Then the king of Aram said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” HeSo he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothes.
5:6	HeAnd he brought the letter to the king of Israel, sayingwhich said, “And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
5:7	WhenBut when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to makekeep alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But consider now, and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me.”
5:8	ItNow it happened, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why havedid you torntear your clothes? NowJust lethave him come to me, and he shall knowlearn that there is a prophet in Israel.”
5:9	So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots, and stood at the doorway of theElisha’s house of Elisha.
5:10	And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean.”
5:11	But Naaman was furious and went away, and he said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surelycertainly come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the placesite and cure the leperleprosy.’
5:12	Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, not better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
5:13	Then his servants cameapproached near and spoke to him, and saidsaying, “My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
5:14	So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan seven times, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
5:15	WhenThen he returned to the man of God with all his company, and came and stood before him,. And he said, “Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, butexcept in Israel; so please takeaccept a presentgift from your servant now.”
5:16	But he said, “As surely as the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will takeaccept nothing.” And he urged him to takeaccept it, but he refused.
5:17	Then Naaman said, “If not, please let your servant at least be given two mules’ load of earth; for your servant will no longer offer a burnt offering nor willa he sacrifice to other gods, but to the Lord.
5:18	InRegarding this matter may the Lord pardonforgive your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand and I bow myselfdown in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myselfdown in the house of Rimmon, may the Lord pardonplease forgive your servant in this matter.”
5:19	He said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departedwent some distance from him some distance.
5:20	But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receivingaccepting from his handshand what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”
5:21	So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw onesomeone running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is alleverything well?”
5:22	HeAnd he said, “AllEverything is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’ ”
5:23	Naaman said, “Be pleasedsure to take two talents.” And he urged him, and boundtied up two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes, and gave them to two of his servants; and they carried them before him.
5:26	Then he said to him, “Did not my heart not go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receiveaccept money and to receiveaccept clothes, and olive groves, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and male and female servantsslaves?
5:27	Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence aafflicted leperwith leprosy, as white as snow.
6:1	Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limitedcramped for us.
6:2	Please let us go to the Jordan, and eachlet of us each take from there a beam, and let us makeconstruct a place there for ourselves, whereto welive may livethere.” So he said, “Go.”
6:3	Then one of them said, “Please beagree willingand to go with your servants.” And he answeredsaid, “I shallwill go.”
6:5	But it happened that as one of them was fellingcutting down a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “AlasOh, my master! ForIt it was borrowed.”!”
6:7	HeThen he said, “TakePick it up for yourself.” So he putreached out his hand and took it.
6:8	Now the king of Aram was warringmaking war against Israel; and he counseledconsulted with his servants, saying, “In such and such a place shall be my camp.”
6:9	TheBut the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, saying, “BewareBe careful that you do not pass this place, forbecause the Arameans are coming down there.”
6:10	TheAnd the king of Israel sent scouts to the place about which the man of God had told him; thusso he warned him, so that he guardedwas himselfon his guard there, more than once or twice.
6:11	Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this thingmatter; and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?”
6:12	One of his servants said, “No, my lord, Othe king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
6:13	So he said, “Go and see where he is, so that I may send men and take him.” And it was told to him, saying, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
6:14	HeSo he sent horses and chariots and a greatsubstantial army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city.
6:15	Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. And his servant said to him, “AlasThis is hopeless, my master! What shallare we to do?”
6:16	SoAnd he answeredsaid, “Do not fearbe afraid, for those who are with us are moregreater than those who are with them.”
6:17	Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, I prayplease, open his eyes so that he may see.” And the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
6:18	WhenAnd when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, “StrikePlease strike this people with blindness, I pray.” So He struck them with blindness accordingin toaccordance with the word of Elisha.
6:20	When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open the eyes of these men, so that they may see.” So the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
6:22	HeBut he answered, “You shall not kill them. Would you kill those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, so that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”
6:23	So he preparedprovided a greatlarge feast for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the marauding bands of Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel.
6:24	Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad the king of Aram gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
6:25	ThereSo there was a greatsevere famine in Samaria; and behold, they besiegedkept besieging it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
6:26	AsAnd as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, Othe king!”
6:27	HeBut he said, “If the Lord does not help you, from where shallam I to help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
6:28	AndThen the king said to her, “What is theon matteryour with youmind?” And she answeredsaid, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
6:29	So we boiledcooked my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, so that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
6:30	When the king heard the woman’s words of the woman, he tore his clothes—nowand he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneathunderneath on his body.
6:31	Then he said, “May God do so to me and more alsoso, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.”
6:32	Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from his presence; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent a man to takecut awayoff my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet not behind him?”
7:1	Then Elisha said, “Listen to the word of the Lord; thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘TomorrowAbout about this time tomorrow a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, inat the gate of Samaria.’ ”
7:2	The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answeredresponded to the man of God and said, “Behold,Even if the Lord shouldwere to make windows in heaven, could this thing behappen?” Then he said, “Behold, you willare going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”
7:3	Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why doare we sitsitting here until we die?
7:4	If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; andbut if we sit here, we diewill also die. Now thereforethen come, and let’s us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, then we will but die.”
7:5	TheySo arosethey got up at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there.
7:6	For the Lord had causedmade the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots, and a sound of horses, eventhat is, the sound of a great army,; soand that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians against us, to comeattack upon us.”!”
7:7	ThereforeSo they arosegot up and fled inat the twilight, and leftabandoned their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys,—indeed even the camp itself, just as it was,; and they fled for their lifelives.
7:8	When these lepersmen with leprosy came to the outskirts of the camp, they entered one tent and ate and drank, and carried from there silver, and gold, and clothes, and they went and hid them; andthen they returned and entered another tent, and carried valuables from there also, and went and hid them.
7:9	Then they said to one another, “We are not doing the right thing. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent about it; if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now thereforethen come, let’s us go and tellinform the king’s household.”
7:10	So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor thea human voice; of man, only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”
7:11	TheAnd the gatekeepers called and toldannounced it withininside the king’s householdhouse.
7:12	Then the king arosegot up in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; thereforeso they have goneleft from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’ ”
7:13	One of his servants responded and said, “Please, lethave some men take five of the horses whichthat remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send them and see.”
7:14	TheyTherefore they took therefore two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the army of the Arameans, saying, “Go and see.”
7:15	They went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away when they fled in theira hastehurry. Then the messengers returned and toldinformed the king.
7:16	So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. Then a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord.
7:17	Now the king appointed the royal officer on whose hand he leaned to havebe in charge of the gate; but the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
7:18	ItSo it happened just 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, will be sold tomorrow about this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria.”
7:19	ThenAt that time the royal officer answeredhad responded to the man of God and said, “Now behold,even if the Lord shouldwere to make windows in heaven, could such a thing beas this happen?” And he had said, “Behold, you willare going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”
7:20	And sothis itis what happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.
8:1	Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go with your household, and sojournlive wherever you can sojournlive; for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will evenindeed come on the land for seven years.”
8:2	So the woman arose and didacted accordingin toaccordance with the word of the man of God,: and she went with her household and sojournedresided in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
8:3	AtThen at the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went out to appeal to the king for her house and for her field.
8:4	Now the king was talkingspeaking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relatereport to me all the great things that Elisha has done.”
8:5	AsAnd as he was relatingreporting to the king how he had restored to life the one who was dead, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and for her field. And Gehazi said, “My lord, Othe king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”
8:6	When the king asked the woman, she relatedtold iteverything to him. So the king appointed an officer for her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now.”
8:7	Then Elisha came to Damascus. Now Ben-hadad, the king of Aram, was sick, and it was told to him, saying, “The man of God has come here.”
8:8	TheAnd the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’ ”
8:10	Then Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You will surelycertainly recover,’’; but the Lord has shown me that he will certainly die.”
8:11	HeAnd fixedhe hisstared gaze steadily onat him until heHazael was ashamedembarrassed, and then the man of God wept.
8:12	And Hazael said, “Why doesis my lord weepweeping?” ThenAnd he answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their strongholds you will set their fortified cities on fire, andyou will kill their young men you will kill with the sword, and their little ones you will dashsmash into pieces, and their women with child you will rip up their pregnant women.”
8:13	Then Hazael said, “But what is your servant,—a wholowly is but a dog, —that he shouldcould do this great thing?” And Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
8:14	So he departedleft from Elisha and returnedcame to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he answered, “He told me that you would surelycertainly recover.”
8:15	OnBut on the following day, he took the cover and dipped it in water, and spread it onover his face, so that he died. And Hazael became king in his place.
8:16	Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat beingwas then the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king.
8:17	He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.
8:18	He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for theAhab’s daughter ofwas Ahab became his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
8:19	However, the Lord wasdid not willingwant to destroy Judah, for the sake of David His servant, since He had promised him to give him a lamp to him through his sons always.
8:20	In his days Edom revoltedbroke away from under the handrule of Judah, and madeappointed a king over themselves.
8:21	Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. And he arosegot byup at night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; but his army fled to their tents.
8:22	So Edom revoltedhas againstbroken away from Judah to this day. Then Libnah revoltedbroke away at the same time.
8:23	TheNow the rest of the acts of Joram and alleverything that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
8:24	So Joram sleptlay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son Ahaziah became king in his place.
8:26	Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
8:27	He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab had done, because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
8:29	So King Joram returned to behave himself healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.
9:1	Now Elisha the prophet calledsummoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “GirdGet upready your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
9:2	When you arrive there, searchthen outlook there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and bidhave him ariseget up from among his brothers, and bring him to an inner room.
9:3	Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head, and say, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “I have anointed you king over Israel.” ’ Then open the door and flee, and do not wait.”
9:5	When he camearrived, behold, the captainscommanders of the army were sitting, and he said, “I have a word for you, O captaincommander.” And Jehu said, “For which one of us?” And he said, “For you, O captaincommander.”
9:6	He arosethen got up and went into the house, and hethe prophet’s servant poured the oil on his head and said to him, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel.
9:7	YouAnd you shall strike the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.
9:8	For the wholeentire house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cuteliminate off from Ahab every male person both bondslave and free in Israel.
9:10	The dogs shallwill eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and noneno shallone will bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and fled.
9:11	Now Jehu camewent out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is alleverything well? Why did this madcrazy fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know very well the man and his talk.”
9:12	TheyAnd they said, “It is a lie,; tell us now.” And he said, “ThusSuch and thussuch he said to me, saying, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “I have anointed you king over Israel.” ’ ”
9:13	Then they hurried, and each man took his garment and placedput it under him on the bare steps, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king!”
9:15	but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to behave himself healed of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. So Jehu said to the other men, “If this is your mindintent, then let no one escape orfrom leave the city to go tell about it in Jezreel.”
9:16	Then Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, forsince Joram was lying there recovering. And Ahaziah the king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
9:17	Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and he said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send him to meet them and lethave him sayask, ‘Is ityour intention peace?’ ”
9:18	So a horseman went to meet him and said, “ThusThis saysis what the king, says: ‘Is ityour intention peace?’ ” AndBut Jehu said, “WhatHow haveis youpeace toany dobusiness withof peaceyours? Turn behindand follow me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger came to them, but he did not return.”
9:19	Then he sent out a second horseman, whoand he came to them and said, “ThusThis saysis what the king, says: ‘Is ityour intention peace?’ ” And Jehu answered, “WhatHow haveis youpeace toany dobusiness withof peaceyours? Turn behindand follow me.”
9:20	TheAnd the watchman reported, “He came evenup to them, andbut he did not return; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
9:21	Then Joram said, “Get ready.” And they made his chariot ready. Then 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 inon the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
9:22	When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is ityour intention peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What ‘peace,,’ so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel’s acts of prostitution and herwitchcraft witchcrafts are so many?”
9:23	So Joram reinedturned aboutback and fled, and he said to Ahaziah, “There is treachery, O Ahaziah!”
9:24	AndThen Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart, and he sank in his chariot.
9:25	ThenAnd Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “TakePick him up and castthrow him intoon the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite,; for I remember, when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father Ahab, that the Lord laidbrought this oraclepronouncement against him:
9:26	‘Surely I have certainly seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ saysdeclares the Lord, ‘and I will repay you inon this property,’ saysdeclares the Lord. Now then, takepick him up and castthrow him intoon the property, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord.”
9:27	When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. AndBut Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him too, in the chariot.” So they shot him at the ascent of Gur, which is at Ibleam. But he fled to Megiddo and died there.
9:28	Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city of David.
9:30	When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard ofabout it, and she paintedput makeup on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked outdown through the window.
9:31	As Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is ityour wellintention peace, Zimri, yourhis master’s murderer?”
9:32	Then he liftedraised up his face totoward the window and said, “Who is onwith myme, side? Whowho?” And two or three officials looked down at him.
9:33	HeThen he said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood wasspattered sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under footunderfoot.
9:35	TheySo they went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her thanexcept the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
9:36	Therefore they returned and toldinformed him. And he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘InOn the property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;
9:37	and the corpse of Jezebel will be aslike dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, “This is Jezebel.” ’ ”
10:1	Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulersofficials of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of the children of Ahab, saying,
10:2	“NowAnd now, when this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, as well as the chariots and horses, and a fortified city and the weapons,
10:3	select the best and fittestmost capable of your master’s sons, and setseat him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
10:4	But they feared greatly and said, “Behold, the two kings did not stand firm before him; how then can we stand?”
10:5	And the one who was overin charge of the household, and hethe one who was overin charge of the city, and the elders, and the guardians of the children, sent word to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, alland everything that you saytell to us we will do,. weWe will not makeappoint any man king; do what is good in your sight.”
10:6	Then he wrote them a letter to them a second time, saying, “If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time tomorrow.” Now the king’s sons, seventy personsmen, were with the great menpeople of the city, who were rearingraising them.
10:7	When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy personsmen, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.
10:8	When the messenger came and toldinformed him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”
10:10	Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, shall fall to the earth, for the Lord has done what He spoke through His servant Elijah.”
10:11	So Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his acquaintances, and his priests, until he left him without a survivor.
10:12	Then he aroseset andout departed and went to Samaria. On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds,
10:13	Jehu metencountered the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah; and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother.”
10:14	HeThen he said, “Take them alive.” So they took them alive, and killedslaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two men; and he left none of them.
10:15	Now when he had departedgone from there, he metencountered Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart right, just as my heart is with your heart?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said, “If it is, give me your hand.” And he gave him his hand, and he tookpulled him up to him into the chariot.
10:16	HeThen he said, “Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord.” So he madehad him ride in his chariot.
10:17	When he came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyedeliminated himthem, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke to Elijah.
10:19	Now, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let no one bego missing, forbecause I have a great sacrifice for Baal; whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it in cunningdeception, soin thatorder heto mighteliminate destroy the worshipers of Baal.
10:20	And Jehu said, “SanctifyProclaim a solemnholy assembly for Baal.” And they proclaimed it.
10:21	Then Jehu sent word throughout Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a manperson left who did not come. And when they wententered into the house of Baal, the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.
10:22	HeAnd he said to the one who was in charge of the wardrobe, “Bring out garments for all the worshipers of Baal.” So he brought out the garments for them.
10:23	Then Jehu wententered into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab; and he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search carefully and see to it that there is here with you none of the servants of the Lord, but only the worshipers of Baal.”
10:24	Then they wententered in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, “The one who permitsallows any of the men whom I bring into your hands to escape shall give up his life in exchange.”
10:25	Then it came about, as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the royal officers, “Go in, kill them; let none come out.” AndSo they killed them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the royal officers threw them out, and went to the innersanctuary room of the house of Baal.
10:26	They brought out the sacredmemorial pillarsstones of the house of Baal and burned them.
10:27	They also broketore down the sacredmemorial pillarstone of Baal and broketore down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine as it is to this day.
10:28	ThusSo Jehu eradicated Baal outfrom of Israel.
10:29	However, as for the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he mademisled Israel sin, from these Jehu did not departdesist, evenincluding the golden calves that were at Bethel and that were at Dan.
10:30	TheYet the Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in executingperforming what is right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that was in My heart, your sons ofto the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”
10:31	But Jehu was not careful to walk in the lawLaw of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not departdesist from the sins of Jeroboam, into which he mademisled Israel sin.
10:32	In those days the Lord began to cut off portionspieces from Israel; and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:
10:33	from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites,; from Aroer, which is by the valleyValley of the Arnon, eventhat is, Gilead and Bashan.
10:34	Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehu and alleverything 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 sleptlay down with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son Jehoahaz became king in his place.
10:36	NowSo the time which Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
11:1	When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rosearose and destroyedeliminated all the royal offspringchildren.
11:2	But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stoleabducted him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and placedput him and his nurse in the bedroom. So they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.
11:3	So he was kept hidden with her in the house of the Lord for six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.
11:4	Now in the seventh year Jehoiada sent orders and brought the captains of hundreds of the Carites and of the guardguards, and brought them to himhimself inat the house of the Lord. Then he made a covenant with them and put them under oath inat the house of the Lord, and showed them the king’s son.
11:5	HeAnd he commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do: onea third of you, who come in on the sabbathSabbath and keep watch over the king’s house
11:6	(onea third also shall be at the gate Sur, and onea third at the gate behind the guards), shall keep watch over the house for defense.
11:7	TwoAnd two parts of you, even all who go out on the sabbathSabbath, shall also keep watch over the house of the Lord for the king.
11:8	Then you shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes within the ranks shall be put to death. And you are to be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”
11:9	So the captains of hundreds didacted accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the sabbathSabbath, along with those who were to go out on the sabbathSabbath, and they came to Jehoiada the priest.
11:10	TheThen the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of the Lord.
11:11	The guards stood, each with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around the king.
11:12	Then he brought the king’s son out, 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!”
11:13	When Athaliah heard the noise of the guardguards and of the people, she came to the people inat the house of the Lord.
11:14	SheAnd she looked, and behold, the king was standing by the pillar, according to the custom, with the captains and the trumpeters beside the king; and all the people of the land rejoicedwere joyful and blewwere blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and cried out, “TreasonConspiracy! TreasonConspiracy!”
11:15	And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were appointed over the army and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever follows her, put to death with the sword.”!” For the priest said, “LetShe heris not to be put to death inat the house of the Lord.”
11:16	So they seized her, and when shethey arrivedbrought ather to the horses’ entrance of the king’s house, she was put to death there.
11:17	Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and the people, that they would be the Lord’s people, alsoand between the king and the people.
11:18	AllAnd all the people of the land wentcame to the house of Baal, and tore it down; they thoroughly smashed his altars and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. AndThen the priest appointed officerssentries over the house of the Lord.
11:19	HeAnd he took the captains of hundreds and the Carites, and the guards and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guards to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
11:20	So all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quietpeaceful. For they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king’s house.
11:21	Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.
12:1	In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
12:2	Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all his days inthat which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
12:3	Only the high places weredid not taken awayend; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
12:4	Then Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the sacred thingsofferings which is brought into the house of the Lord, in current money, both the money of each man’s assessment and all the money which any mananyone’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord,
12:5	letThe the priests are to take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair thedamage damagesto of the house wherever any damage mayis be found.”
12:6	But it came about that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired theany damagesdamage ofto the house.
12:7	ThenSo King Jehoash calledsummoned for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why do you not repair thedamage damagesto of the house? Now thereforethen, you are not to take noany more money from your acquaintances, but paygive it up for the damagesdamage ofto the house.”
12:8	SoThe the priests then agreed that they would not take noany more money from the people, nor would they repair thedamage damagesto of the house.
12:9	ButInstead, Jehoiada the priest took a chest and boreddrilled a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money whichthat was brought into the house of the Lord.
12:10	When they saw that there was mucha great amount of money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest camewent up and tied it up in bags, and counted the money whichthat was found in the house of the Lord.
12:11	TheyAnd gavethey handed the money which was weighedassessed outover intoto the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the Lord;
12:12	and to the masons and the stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewncut stone to repair the damagesdamage to the house of the Lord, and for alleverything that was laid out for the house to repair it.
12:13	ButHowever there were not made for the house of the Lord silver cups, snuffersshears, bowls, trumpets, any vesselsreceptacles of gold, or vesselsreceptacles of silver from the money which was brought into the house of the Lord;
12:15	Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose handhands they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, forbecause they dealtacted faithfully.
12:16	The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the Lord; it wasbelonged forto the priests.
12:17	Then Hazael the king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and Hazael setwas hisintent faceon togoing go up toagainst Jerusalem.
12:18	So Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred thingsofferings that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicatedconsecrated, and his own sacred thingsofferings, and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he wentwithdrew away from Jerusalem.
12:19	Now as for the rest of the acts of Joash and alleverything that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
12:20	HisAnd his servants aroserose up and madeformed a conspiracy; and they struck downand killed Joash at the house of Millo as he was going down to Silla.
12:21	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 Amaziah became king in his place.
13:1	In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel at Samaria, and he reigned for seventeen years.
13:2	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, withinto which he mademisled Israel sin; he did not turn from them.
13:3	So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and He gave them continually intohanded thethem handover ofto Hazael king of Aram, and intoto the hand of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael.
13:4	Then Jehoahaz entreatedappeased the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them.
13:5	TheAnd the Lord gave Israel a deliverersavior, so that they escaped from under the hand of the Arameans; and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as formerlypreviously.
13:6	Nevertheless they did not turnabandon away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, withinto which he mademisled Israel; sinrather, butthey walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria.
13:7	For he left to Jehoahaz no more of the army not more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and 10,000ten footmenthousand infantry, forbecause the king of Aram had destroyedeliminated them and made them like the dust at threshing.
13:8	Now as for 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 sleptlay down with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son Joash became king in his place.
13:10	In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for sixteen years.
13:11	He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, withinto which he mademisled Israel; sinrather, but he walked in them.
13:12	Now as for the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
13:13	So Joash sleptlay down with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
13:14	When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
13:15	And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and arrows.” So he took a bow and arrows.
13:16	Then heElisha said to the king of Israel, “PutLay your hand on the bow.” And he putlaid his hand on it, then Elisha laidput his hands on the king’s hands.
13:17	HeAnd he said, “Open the window toward the east,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” AndSo he shot. And he said, “The Lord’s arrow of victory, evenand the arrow of victory over Aram; for you will defeat the Arameans at Aphek until you have destroyedput an end to them.”
13:19	SoThen the man of God wasbecame angry withat him and said, “You should have struck five or six times, then you would have struck Aram until you wouldput havean destroyedend to it. But now you shall strike Aram only three times.”
13:20	And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the marauding bands of the Moabites would invade the land in the spring of the year.
13:21	AsAnd as they were burying a man, behold, they saw a marauding band; and they castthrew the man into the grave of Elisha. And when the man touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet.
13:23	But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,; and wouldHe notwas destroyunwilling to eliminate them or cast them away from His presence until now.
13:24	When Hazael king of Aram died, his son Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.
13:25	Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz again took again from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken in war from the hand of Jehoahaz his father Jehoahaz. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
14:2	He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
14:3	He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father David; he didacted accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that Joash his father Joash had done.
14:4	Only the high places were not taken awayeliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
14:5	Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slainkilled the king, his father.
14:6	But he did not put the sons of the slayersmurderers he did not put to death, accordingin obedience to what is written in the bookBook of the Law of Moses, as the Lord commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor the sons be put to death for the fathers; but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”
14:7	He killed ten thousand of Edomthe Edomites in the Valley of Salt 10,000 and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel, as it is to this day.
14:8	Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s us face each other in combat.”
14:9	But Jehoash king of Israel sent messengers to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thorn bush whichthat was in Lebanon sent word to the cedar whichthat was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ But there passed by a wild beastanimal that was in Lebanon, passed by and trampled the thorn bush.
14:10	You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart hasis become proudelated. Enjoy yourthe glory and stay at home; for why should you provokeget involved in trouble so that you, even you, would fall, you and Judah with you?”
14:11	But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and they faced each other, he and Amaziah king of Judah, faced each other at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
14:12	And Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled, eachevery man to his tent.
14:13	Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400four hundred cubits.
14:14	HeAnd he took all the gold and silver and all the utensils which were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house, the hostages alsoas well, and returned to Samaria.
14:15	Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehoash whichthat 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	So Jehoash sleptlay down with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son Jeroboam became king in his place.
14:17	Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.
14:18	Now as for the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
14:19	They conspiredformed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent aftermen him to Lachish after him and they killed him there.
14:20	Then they broughtcarried him on horses, and he was buried atin Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
14:21	AllAnd all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
14:22	He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king sleptlay down 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 became king in Samaria, and reigned for forty-one years.
14:24	He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not departabandon from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he mademisled Israel sin.
14:25	He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which He spoke through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was offrom Gath-hepher.
14:26	For the Lord saw the afflictionmisery of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free spared, nor was there any helper for Israel.
14:27	TheYet the Lord did not say that He would blotwipe out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
14:28	Now as for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might, how he fought and how he recovered for Israel, Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
14:29	And Jeroboam sleptlay down with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son Zechariah became king in his place.
15:2	He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
15:3	He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that his father Amaziah had done.
15:4	Only the high places were not taken awayeliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
15:5	TheAnd the Lord struckafflicted the king, so that he washad aleprosy leper to the day of his death. And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king’s son was overin charge of the household, judging the people of the land.
15:6	Now as for 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	And Azariah sleptlay down with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son Jotham became king in his place.
15:9	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his fathers had done; he did not departdesist from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he mademisled Israel sin.
15:10	Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him beforein the presence of the people and killed him, and reigned in his place.
15:11	Now as for the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
15:13	Shallum the son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for one month in Samaria.
15:14	Then Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him and became king in his place.
15:15	Now as for the rest of the acts of Shallum and his conspiracy which he madeformed, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
15:16	Then Menahem struckattacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its borders from Tirzah, because they did not open up to him; thereforeso he struckattacked it and ripped up all its women who were with childpregnant.
15:17	In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi became king over Israel and reigned for ten years in Samaria.
15:18	He did evil in the sight of the Lord; for all his days he did not departdesist all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he mademisled Israel sin.
15:19	Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his rule.
15:20	Then Menahem exactedcollected the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned and did not remainstay there in the land.
15:21	Now as for 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 sleptlay down with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son Pekahiah became king in his place.
15:23	In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned for two years.
15:24	He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not departdesist from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, into which he mademisled Israel sin.
15:25	Then Pekah the son of Remaliah, his officer, 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 became king in his place.
15:26	Now as for the rest of the acts of Pekahiah and alleverything that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
15:27	In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for twenty years.
15:28	He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not departdesist from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, into which he mademisled Israel sin.
15:29	In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and capturedtook Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carriedled themtheir captivepopulations into exile to Assyria.
15:30	And Hoshea the son of Elah madeformed a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death, and he became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
15:31	Now as for 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.
15:33	He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
15:34	He did what was right in the sight of the Lord; he didacted accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that his father Uzziah had done.
15:35	Only the high places were not taken awayeliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.
15:36	Now as for the rest of the acts of Jotham andwhich 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 Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
15:38	And Jotham sleptlay down with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father David; and Ahaz his son Ahaz became king in his place.
16:2	Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his father David had done.
16:3	But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and he even made his son pass through the fire, accordingin toaccordance with the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before the sons of Israel.
16:4	HeAnd he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
16:5	Then Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, camewent up to Jerusalem tofor wage war; and they besieged Ahaz, but couldwere not overcomecapable of fighting him.
16:6	At that time Rezin king of Aram recoveredrestored Elath forto Aram, and cleareddrove the Judeans outaway offrom Elath entirely; and the Arameans came to Elath and have lived there to this day.
16:7	So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son; come up and deliversave me from the hand of the king of Aram, and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.”
16:8	And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and sent a presentgift to the king of Assyria.
16:9	So the king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and captured it, and carriedled the people of it away into exile to Kir, and put Rezin to death.
16:10	Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the pattern of the altar and its model, according to all its workmanship.
16:11	So Urijah the priest built an altar; according to alleverything that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, thusin that way Urijah the priest made it, before the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.
16:12	WhenAnd when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; then the king approached the altar and went up to it,
16:13	and burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured out his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
16:14	TheAnd the bronze altar, which was before the Lord, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and he put it on the north side of his altar.
16:15	Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “Upon 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, tofor inquiremaking byinquiries.”
16:16	So Urijah the priest didacted accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that King Ahaz commanded.
16:17	Then King Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands, and removed the laverwash basin from them; he also took down the seaSea from the bronze oxen which were under it and put it on a pavement of stone.
16:18	TheAnd the covered way for the sabbathSabbath which they had built in the house, and the outer entry of the king, he removed from the house of the Lord because of the king of Assyria.
16:19	Now as for 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	So Ahaz sleptlay down with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
17:1	In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned for nine years.
17:2	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, only not as the kings of Israel who werepreceded before him.
17:3	Shalmaneser the king of Assyria camemarched up against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute.
17:4	But the king of Assyria founduncovered a conspiracy inby Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had offeredthen brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shutarrested him up and boundconfined him in prison.
17:5	Then the king of Assyria invaded the wholeentire land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
17:6	In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carriedled the people of Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
17:7	Now this came about because the sons of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,; and they had feared other gods.
17:8	andThey walkedalso infollowed the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out beforefrom the sons of Israel, and in the customs of the kings of Israel which they had introduced.
17:9	TheAnd the sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against the Lord their God which were not right. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.
17:10	TheyAnd they set up for themselves sacredmemorial pillarsstones and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
17:11	and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did whichthat the Lord had carriedtaken awayinto to exile before them; and they did evil things, provoking the Lord.
17:13	Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways and keep My commandments, and My statutes accordingin toaccordance with all the lawLaw which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.”
17:15	They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, and His warnings with which He warnedgave them. And they followed vanityidols and became vainempty, and wentfollowed after the nations whichthat surrounded them, concerningabout which the Lord had commanded them not to do likeas themthey did.
17:16	TheyAnd forsookthey abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves moltencast metal images,: even two calves,. andAnd they made an Asherah, and worshiped all the hostheavenly oflights, heaven and served Baal.
17:17	Then they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and they practiced divination and enchantmentsinterpreting omens, and soldgave themselves over to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him.
17:18	So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His sight; noneno one was left except the tribe of Judah.
17:19	Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God either, but walkedthey infollowed the customs which Israel had introduced.
17:20	TheSo the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gavehanded them intoover theto hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.
17:21	When He had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the Lord and mademisled them commitinto a great sin.
17:22	TheAnd the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he didcommitted; they did not departdesist from them
17:23	until the Lord removed Israel from His sight, just as He spokehad spoken through all His servants the prophets. So Israel waswent carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day.
17:24	TheThen the king of Assyria brought menpeople from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessedtook possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
17:25	AtAnd at the beginning of their living there, they did not fear the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them whichthat killedwere killing some of them.
17:26	So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations whom you have carriedtaken away into exile and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the godGod of the land; so heHe has sent lions among them, and behold, they killare killing them because they do not know the custom of the godGod of the land.”
17:27	Then the king of Assyria commandedissued commands, saying, “Take there one of the priests there whom you carriedled away into exile, and lethave him go and live there; and lethave him teach them the custom of the godGod of the land.”
17:28	So one of the priests whom they had carriedled away into exile from Samaria came and lived atin Bethel, and taught them how they shouldwere to fear the Lord.
17:29	But every nation was still mademaking gods of its own, and they put them in the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
17:31	and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnedwere burning their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
17:32	They also feared the Lord and appointed from amongtheir themselvesentire population priests of the high places, who acted for them in the houses of the high places.
17:33	They feared the Lord, andyet servedthey were serving their own gods accordingin toaccordance with the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carriedtaken away into exile.
17:34	To this day they doact accordingin toaccordance with the earlier customs: they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the lawLaw, or the commandments which the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel;.
17:35	withThe whom the Lord made a covenant with them and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow down yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them.
17:36	But the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, and to Him you shall bow yourselves down, and to Him you shall sacrifice.
17:37	TheAnd the statutes, and the ordinances, and the lawLaw, and the commandment which He wrote for you, you shall observetake care to do foreveralways; and you shall not fear other gods.
17:39	But you shall fear the Lord your God you shall fear; and He will deliversave you from the hand of all your enemies.”
17:40	However, they did not listen, but they didkept accordingacting toin accordance with their earlier custom.
17:41	So while these nations feared the Lord, they also served their idols; their children likewise and their grandchildren, just as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
18:2	He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
18:3	He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that his father David had done.
18:4	He removed the high places and brokesmashed down the sacredmemorial pillarsstones to pieces, and cut down the Asherah. He also brokecrushed into pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burnedhad been burning incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
18:5	He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel; soand that after him there was noneno one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who werecame before him.
18:6	For he clung to the Lord; he did not departdesist from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses.
18:7	And the Lord was with him; wherever he went he prosperedwas successful. And he rebelledrevolted against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
18:9	Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria camemarched up against Samaria and besieged it.
18:10	AtAnd at the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.
18:11	Then the king of Assyria carriedled Israel away into exile to Assyria, and put them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,.
18:12	This happened because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressedviolated His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; they would neither listen nor do it.
18:13	Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria camemarched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.
18:14	Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent messengers to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong. Withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bearendure.” So the king of Assyria requiredimposed ofon Hezekiah king of Judah the payment of three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
18:15	Hezekiah then gave him all the silver whichthat was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house.
18:16	At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the doorposts, which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and he gave it to the king of Assyria.
18:17	Then the king of Assyria sent Tartan, and Rab-saris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highwayroad of the fuller’s field.
18:18	WhenThen they called to the king, and Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was overin charge of the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recordersecretary, camewent out to them.
18:19	ThenAnd Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘ThusThis saysis what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is this confidence that you have?
18:20	You say (—but they are only empty words), ‘—‘I have counsela plan and strength for the war.’ Now on whom dohave you relyrelied, that you have rebelledrevolted against me?
18:21	Now behold, you relyhave relied on the staffsupport of this crushedbroken reed, even on Egypt; on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. SoThat is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who rely on him.
18:22	ButHowever, if you say to me, ‘We trusthave trusted in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken awayremoved, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
18:23	Now thereforethen, come, make a bargainwager with my master the king of Assyria,: and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to setput riders on them.!
18:24	How then can you repulsedrive back even one official of the least of my master’s servants, and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
18:26	Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, forbecause we understand it; and do not speak with us in Judean inso thethat hearing of the people who are on the wall hear you.”
18:27	But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words,? andHas he not also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
18:28	Then Rabshakeh stood up and criedshouted with a loud voice in Judean, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.!
18:29	ThusThis saysis what the king, says: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliversave you from my hand;.
18:30	norAnd do not let Hezekiah makelead you to trust in the Lord, by saying, “The Lord will surelycertainly deliversave us, and this city will not be givenhanded intoover theto hand of the king of Assyria.”
18:31	Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thusthis saysis what the king of Assyria, says: “Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat, each ofone, from his vine and each offrom his fig tree, and drink, each ofone, the waters of his own cistern,
18:32	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 producing oil, and of honey, so that you maywill live and not die.” But do not listen to Hezekiah, whenbecause he misleads you, by saying, “The Lord will deliversave us.”
18:33	Has any one of the gods of the nations deliveredactually saved his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
18:34	Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they deliveredsaved Samaria from my hand?
18:35	Who among all the gods of the lands are there who have deliveredsaved their land from my hand, that the Lord shouldwould deliversave Jerusalem from my hand?’ ”
18:36	But the people were silent and answereddid not answer him notwith even a word, forbecause it was the king’s commandmentcommand: was, “Do not answer him.”
18:37	Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was overin charge of the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recordersecretary, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and toldthey reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.
19:1	AndNow when King Hezekiah heard itthe report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the Lord.
19:2	Then he sent Eliakim, who was overin charge of the household, with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
19:3	TheyAnd they said to him, “ThusThis saysis what Hezekiah, says: ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and rejectionhumiliation; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
19:4	Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproachtaunt the living God, and will rebukeavenge the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”
19:6	And Isaiah said to them, “ThusThis is what you shall say to your master,: ‘ThusThe Lord says thethis: Lord, “Do not be afraidfearful because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
19:7	Behold, I willam going to put a spirit in him so that he will hear anews rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”
19:9	When he heard them say concerningabout Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
19:10	“ThusThis is what you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah,: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, “Jerusalem will not be givenhanded intoover theto hand of the king of Assyria.”
19:11	Behold, you yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be sparedsaved?
19:12	Did the gods of thosethe nations which my fathers destroyed deliversave them,: even Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?
19:15	Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
19:16	Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproachtaunt the living God.
19:17	Truly,It Ois Lordtrue, Lord; the kings of Assyria have devastatedlaid waste the nations and their lands,
19:18	and have casthurled their gods into the fire,; for they were not gods, but only the work of men’shuman hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
19:19	NowBut now, O Lord our God, I prayplease, deliversave us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O Lord, are God.”
19:20	Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.’
19:21	This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: ‘She, the virgin daughter of Zion, has despisedshown contempt for you and mocked you; She, Thethe virgin daughter of Zion;Jerusalem, She has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!
19:22	Whom have you reproachedtaunted and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice, And haughtily liftedraised up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
19:23	Through your messengers you have reproachedtaunted the Lord, And you have said, “With my many chariots I camewent up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I cut down its tall cedars and its choicechoicest cypressesjunipers. And I entered its farthest lodgingresting place, its thickest forest.
19:24	I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the solesoles of my feet I dried up All the riversstreams of Egypt.”
19:25	‘Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to passabout, That you shouldwould turn fortified cities into ruinousruined heaps.
19:26	Therefore their inhabitants were short of strengthpowerless, They were dismayedshattered and put to shame;. They were aslike the vegetation of the field and as the green herbgrass, AsLike grass on the housetops that is scorched before it ishas grown up.
19:27	But I know your sitting down, AndYour your going out, and your coming in, And your raging against Me.
19:28	Because of your raging against Me, And because your arrogancecomplacency has come up to My ears, Therefore I will 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.
19:29	‘Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springsgrows fromby the sameitself, and in the third year sow, reapharvest, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
19:30	The survivingsurvivors remnantthat are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
19:31	For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and survivors out of Mount Zion survivors. The zeal of the Lord will perform this.
19:32	‘Therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord concerningsays about the king of Assyria,: “He will not come to this city ornor shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield ornor throwheap up aan siegeassault ramp against it.
19:34	‘For I will defendprotect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”
19:35	Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when menthe roserest got up early in the morning, behold, all of themthe 185,000 were dead.
19:36	So Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.
19:37	ItThen it came about, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped intoto the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son Esarhaddon became king in his place.
20:1	In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Set your house in order, for you shallare going to die and not live.’ ”
20:3	“Remember nowPlease, O Lord, Ijust beseechremember You, how I have walked before You inwholeheartedly truth and within atruth, whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight.”!” And Hezekiah wept bitterlyprofusely.
20:4	BeforeAnd even before Isaiah had goneleft out of the middle courtcourtyard, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
20:5	“Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I willam going to heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
20:6	And I will add fifteen years to your life, and I will deliversave you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defendprotect this city for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.” ’ ”
20:7	Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took it and laidplaced it on the boilinflamed spot, and he recovered.
20:8	Now Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shallwill go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?”
20:9	Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will doperform the thingword that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?”
20:10	So Hezekiah answeredsaid, “It is easy for the shadow to decline ten steps; no, but lethave the shadow turn backward ten steps.”
20:11	Then Isaiah the prophet criedcalled out to the Lord, and He brought the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.
20:12	At that time Berodach-baladan, a son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a presentgift to Hezekiah, forbecause he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
20:13	And Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver, and the gold, and the spicesbalsam andoil, the preciousscented oil, and the house of his armor, and alleverything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominionrealm that Hezekiah did not show them.
20:15	HeIsaiah said, “What have they seen in your house?” So Hezekiah answered, “They have seen alleverything that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them.”
20:16	Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord.:
20:17	‘Behold, the days are coming when alleverything that is in your house, and allwhat that your fathers have laidstored up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon; nothing shallwill be left,’ says the Lord.
20:18	‘SomeAnd some of your sons who shallwill issuecome from you, whom you will begetfather, will be taken away; and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”
20:19	Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Is it not sogood, if there will be peace and truthsecurity in my days?”
20:20	Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might, and how he madeconstructed the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
20:21	So Hezekiah sleptlay down with his fathers, and Manasseh his son Manasseh became king in his place.
21:1	Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.
21:2	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, accordingin toaccordance with the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
21:3	For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father Hezekiah had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, just as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he worshiped all the hostheavenly oflights heaven and served them.
21:4	HeAnd he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
21:5	ForHe he built altars for all the hostheavenly oflights heaven in the two courtscourtyards of the house of the Lord.
21:6	HeAnd he made his son pass through the fire, practicedinterpreted witchcraftsigns, andpracticed used divination, and dealtused with mediums and spiritists. He did muchgreat evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.
21:7	Then he setput the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
21:8	And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observetake care to doact accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that I have commanded them, and accordingwith to all the lawLaw that My servant Moses commanded them.”
21:9	But they did not listen, and Manasseh seducedencouraged them to do evil, more than the nations whom the Lord destroyedeliminated beforefrom the presence of the sons of Israel.
21:11	“BecauseSince Manasseh king of Judah has donecommitted these abominations, having done wickedly more evil than all that the Amorites did who were before him, and has also mademisled Judah into sin with his idols;,
21:12	therefore thusthis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamitya disaster on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears ofabout it, both of his ears will tinglering.
21:13	I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean just as one wipes a dishbowl, wiping it and turning it upside down.
21:14	And I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliverhand them intoover theto hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoilspoils to all their enemies;,
21:16	MoreoverFurthermore, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another;, besides his sin withinto which he mademisled Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.
21:17	Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and his sin which he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
21:18	And Manasseh sleptlay down with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son Amon became king in his place.
21:19	Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
21:20	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as Manasseh his father Manasseh had done.
21:21	For he walked entirely in all the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served, and worshiped them.
21:22	So he forsookabandoned the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.
21:23	TheAnd the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.
21:24	Then the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son Josiah king in his place.
21:26	He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son Josiah became king in his place.
22:1	Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
22:2	He did what was right in the sight of the Lord and walked entirely in all the way of his father David, norand did henot turn aside to the right or to the left.
22:3	Now in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,
22:4	“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, thatand hehave mayhim count all the money brought ininto to the house of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have gatheredcollected from the people.
22:5	LetAnd have them deliverhand it intoover theto hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord, and lethave them give it to the workmen who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damagesdamage ofto the house,:
22:6	to the carpenters, and the builders, and the masons, and for buying timber and hewncut stone to repair the house.
22:7	OnlyHowever, no accounting shall be made with them for the money deliveredhanded intoover theirto handsthem, forbecause they deal faithfullyhonestly.”
22:8	Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the bookBook of the lawLaw in the house of the Lord.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, who read it.
22:9	Then Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to the king and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have deliveredhanded it intoover theto hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord.”
22:10	Moreover, Shaphan the scribe toldinformed the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
22:11	When the king heard the words of the bookBook of the lawLaw, he tore his clothes.
22:12	Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
22:13	“Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for the people and all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord that burns against us is great, because our fathers havedid not listenedlisten to the words of this book, to doact accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that is written concerningregarding us.”
22:14	So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (nowand she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her.
22:15	SheThen she said to them, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the man who sent you to meMe,
22:16	thus“This saysis what the Lord, “says: ‘Behold, I am going to bring evildisaster on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.
22:17	BecauseSince they have forsakenabandoned Me and have burned incense to other gods so that they mightmay provoke Me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore My wrath burns against this place, and it shall not be quenched.”.’ ’”
22:18	But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thusthis shallis what you shall say to him,: ‘Thus“This saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, “says: ‘Regarding the words which you have heard,
22:19	becausesince your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they shouldwould become aan desolationobject of horror and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have indeed heard you,”,’ declares the Lord..”
22:20	“Therefore, behold, I willam going to gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not seelook at all the evildevastation whichthat I willam going to bring on this place.”.’ ’ ” So they brought back word to the king.
23:1	Then the king sent messengers, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
23:2	TheAnd the king went up to the house of the Lord and allevery theman men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, bothfrom the small andto the great; and he read in their hearingpresence all the words of the bookBook of the covenantCovenant which was found in the house of the Lord.
23:3	TheAnd the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments, and His testimoniesprovisions, and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
23:4	Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vesselsutensils that werehad been made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the hostheavenly of heavenlights; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
23:5	HeThen he did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense inon the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, alsoas well as those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the hostremaining ofheavenly heavenlights.
23:6	He also brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
23:7	HeAnd alsohe broketore down the housescubicles of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.
23:8	Then he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broketore down the high places of the gates whichthat were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one’s left at the city gate.
23:10	He also defiled Topheth, which is in the valleyValley of the sonSon of Hinnom, so that no manone mightwould make his son or his daughter pass through the fire for Molech.
23:11	HeAnd he did away with the horses whichthat the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was inat the precinctscovered courtyard; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
23:12	The king also tore down the altars whichthat were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courtscourtyards of the house of the Lord, the king broke down; and he smashed them there and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.
23:13	TheAnd the king defiled the high places whichthat were beforeopposite Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction 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 sons of Ammon, the king defiled.
23:14	He brokealso insmashed to pieces the sacredmemorial pillarsstones and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with human bones.
23:15	Furthermore, the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who mademisled Israel into sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broketore down. Then he demolishedburned itsthe stoneshigh place, ground themthe remains to dust, and burned the Asherah.
23:16	Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent men and took the bones from the graves, and burned them on the altar and defiled it accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, the one who proclaimed these things.
23:17	Then he said, “What is this monumentgravestone there that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.”
23:18	HeAnd he said, “LetLeave him alone; let no one is to disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.
23:19	Then Josiah also removed all the houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had madeconstructed, provoking the Lord to anger; and he did to them just as he had done in Bethel.
23:20	AllAnd he slaughtered all the priests of the high places who were there he slaughtered on the altars, and burned human bones on them; then he returned to Jerusalem.
23:21	Then the king commanded all the people, saying, “Celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God as it is written in this bookBook of the covenantCovenant.”
23:22	SurelyTruly such a Passover had not been celebrated fromsince the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and of the kings of Judah.
23:23	But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observedcelebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.
23:24	Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums, and the spiritists, and the teraphimhousehold andidols, the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might confirmfulfill the words of the lawLaw which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
23:25	Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, accordingin conformity to all the lawLaw of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.
23:26	HoweverNevertheless, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.
23:27	TheAnd the Lord said, “I will also remove Judah also from My sight, just as I have removed Israel. And I will castreject off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the temple of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’!’ ”
23:29	In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria toat the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he killed him at Megiddo.
23:30	His servants drovecarried his body in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
23:31	Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
23:32	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, accordingin toaccordance with all that his fathersforefathers had done.
23:33	And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he mightwould not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a fine of onea hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
23:34	Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father Josiah, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away and brought him to Egypt, and he died there.
23:35	So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxedassessed the land in order to give the money at the command of Pharaoh. He exactedcollected the silver and gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuationassessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.
23:36	Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
23:37	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, accordingin toaccordance with all that his fathersforefathers had done.
24:1	In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelledrevolted against him.
24:2	TheAnd the Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.
24:3	SurelyIt indeed came upon Judah at the command of the Lord it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight becausedue ofto the sins of Manasseh, accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that he had done,
24:4	and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the Lord wouldwas notunwilling to forgive.
24:6	So Jehoiakim sleptlay down with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.
24:7	TheNow the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, forbecause the king of Babylon had taken alleverything that belonged to the king of Egypt from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
24:8	Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
24:9	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, accordingin toaccordance with all that his father had done.
24:10	At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
24:12	Then Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his captainscommanders, and his officials. SoAnd the king of Babylon took him captiveprisoner in the eighth year of his reign.
24:13	He carriedalso brought out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cuthe insmashed pieces all the vesselsarticles of gold whichthat Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, just as the Lord had said.
24:14	Then he led away into exile all the people of Jerusalem and all the captainscommanders and all the mightyvaliant men of valorwarriors, ten thousand captivesexiles, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remainedwere left except the poorest people of the land.
24:15	So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
24:16	AllAnd all the valiant men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, onea thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these too the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.
24:18	Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
24:19	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that Jehoiakim had done.
24:20	For throughit was due to the anger of the Lord that this camehappened about in Jerusalem and Judah, until He cast them out fromof His presence. And Zedekiah rebelledrevolted against the king of Babylon.
25:1	Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it, and built a siege wall all around it.
25:4	Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls that were beside the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.
25:5	But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.
25:6	Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him.
25:7	TheyAnd they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then put out theZedekiah’s eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fettersshackles, and brought him to Babylon.
25:8	Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guardbodyguards, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
25:9	HeAnd he burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.
25:10	So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guardbodyguards broketore down the walls around Jerusalem.
25:11	Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguards, led into exile the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile.
25:12	But the captain of the guardbodyguards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmenfarmers.
25:13	Now the Chaldeans smashed to pieces the bronze pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze seaSea which were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
25:14	TheyAnd they took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffersshears, the spoons, and all the bronze vesselsutensils which were used in temple service.
25:15	The captain of the guardbodyguards also took away the firepans and the basins, what was fine gold and what was fine silver.
25:16	The two pillars, the one seaSea, and the stands which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord—the bronze of all these vesselsarticles was beyondtoo weightheavy to weigh.
25:17	The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with alatticework network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, same features with networklatticework.
25:18	Then the captain of the guardbodyguards took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the templedoorkeepers.
25:19	FromAnd from the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five of the king’s advisers who were found in the city; and the scribe of 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.
25:20	Nebuzaradan the captain of the guardbodyguards took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
25:21	Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah waswent led away into exile from its land.
25:23	When all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah toat Mizpah, namely, 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.
25:24	And Gedaliah swore to them and their men and said to them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans; live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will bego well withfor you.”
25:25	But it camehappened about in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck Gedaliah down so that he died along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
25:26	Then all the people, bothfrom the small andto the great, and the captains of the forces aroseset out and wentcame to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
25:29	So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and had his meals in the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life;
25:30	and foras his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.