| 001:001
| And
Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his
God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. |
| 001:002 | Then
Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds,
and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
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| 001:003 | So
Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was
at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses
the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness. |
| 001:004 | But
the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David
had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. |
| 001:005 | Moreover
the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he
put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought
unto it. |
| 001:006 | And
Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which was at the
tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon
it. |
| 001:007 | In
that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall
give thee. |
| 001:008 | And
Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and
hast made me to reign in his stead. |
| 001:009 | Now,
O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast
made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. |
| 001:010 | Give
me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people:
for who can judge this thy people, that is so great? |
| 001:011 | And
God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked
riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast
asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou
mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: |
| 001:012 | Wisdom
and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth,
and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee,
neither shall there any after thee have the like. |
| 001:013 | Then
Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem,
from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel. |
| 001:014 | And
Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities,
and with the king at Jerusalem. |
| 001:015 | And
the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance. |
| 001:016 | And
Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants
received the linen yarn at a price. |
| 001:017 | And
they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels
of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses
for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
|
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| 002:001
| And
Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house
for his kingdom. | | 002:002 | And
Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore
thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee
them. |
| 002:003 | And
Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David
my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein,
even so deal with me. |
| 002:004 | Behold,
I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and
to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for
the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever
to Israel. |
| 002:005 | And
the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods. |
| 002:006 | But
who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens
cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only
to burn sacrifice before him? |
| 002:007 | Send
me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave
with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David
my father did provide. |
| 002:008 | Send
me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know
that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants
shall be with thy servants, |
| 002:009 | Even
to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build
shall be wonderful great. |
| 002:010 | And,
behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand
measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty
thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. |
| 002:011 | Then
Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because
the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them. |
| 002:012 | Huram
said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth,
who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding,
that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom. |
| 002:013 | And
now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's,
|
| 002:014 | The
son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful
to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber,
in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner
of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy
cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. |
| 002:015 | Now
therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath
spoken of, let him send unto his servants: |
| 002:016 | And
we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring
it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
|
| 002:017 | And
Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the
numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found
an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. |
| 002:018 | And
he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore
thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers
to set the people a work. |
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| 003:001
| Then
Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah,
where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had
prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. | | 003:002 | And
he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year
of his reign. |
| 003:003 | Now
these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the
house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits,
and the breadth twenty cubits. |
| 003:004 | And
the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according
to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and
twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. |
| 003:005 | And
the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold,
and set thereon palm trees and chains. |
| 003:006 | And
he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold
of Parvaim. |
| 003:007 | He
overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the
doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls. |
| 003:008 | And
he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth
of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he
overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. |
| 003:009 | And
the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper
chambers with gold. |
| 003:010 | And
in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them
with gold. |
| 003:011 | And
the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub
was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was
likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. |
| 003:012 | And
one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house:
and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
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| 003:013 | The
wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood
on their feet, and their faces were inward. |
| 003:014 | And
he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought
cherubims thereon. |
| 003:015 | Also
he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the
chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. |
| 003:016 | And
he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars;
and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. |
| 003:017 | And
he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the
other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and
the name of that on the left Boaz. |
|
| 004:001
| Moreover
he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits
the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. | | 004:002 | Also
he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and
five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it
round about. |
| 004:003 | And
under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten
in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when
it was cast. |
| 004:004 | It
stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward
the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the
east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were
inward. |
| 004:005 | And
the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of
the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand
baths. |
| 004:006 | He
made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left,
to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed
in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. |
| 004:007 | And
he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the
temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. |
| 004:008 | He
made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side,
and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold. |
| 004:009 | Furthermore
he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court,
and overlaid the doors of them with brass. |
| 004:010 | And
he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south. |
| 004:011 | And
Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the
work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; |
| 004:012 | To
wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the
top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the
chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; |
| 004:013 | And
four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each
wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
|
| 004:014 | He
made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases; |
| 004:015 | One
sea, and twelve oxen under it. |
| 004:016 | The
pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments,
did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright
brass. |
| 004:017 | In
the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth
and Zeredathah. |
| 004:018 | Thus
Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass
could not be found out. |
| 004:019 | And
Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar
also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set; |
| 004:020 | Moreover
the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before
the oracle, of pure gold; |
| 004:021 | And
the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect
gold; |
| 004:022 | And
the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold:
and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place,
and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold. |
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| 005:001
| Thus
all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and
Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and
the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures
of the house of God. | | 005:002 | Then
Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up
the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
|
| 005:003 | Wherefore
all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which
was in the seventh month. |
| 005:004 | And
all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. |
| 005:005 | And
they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the
holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites
bring up. |
| 005:006 | Also
king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him
before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered
for multitude. |
| 005:007 | And
the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place,
to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings
of the cherubims: |
| 005:008 | For
the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims
covered the ark and the staves thereof above. |
| 005:009 | And
they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen
from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it
is unto this day. |
| 005:010 | There
was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb,
when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out
of Egypt. |
| 005:011 | And
it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all
the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
|
| 005:012 | Also
the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun,
with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals
and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them
an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:) |
| 005:013 | It
came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound
to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their
voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised
the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then
the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD; |
| 005:014 | So
that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the
glory of the LORD had filled the house of God. |
|
| 006:001
| Then
said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
| | 006:002 | But
I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling
for ever. |
| 006:003 | And
the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and
all the congregation of Israel stood. |
| 006:004 | And
he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled
that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying, |
| 006:005 | Since
the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no
city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might
be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel: |
| 006:006 | But
I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David
to be over my people Israel. |
| 006:007 | Now
it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel. |
| 006:008 | But
the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build
an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart: |
| 006:009 | Notwithstanding
thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy
loins, he shall build the house for my name. |
| 006:010 | The
LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen
up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the
LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
|
| 006:011 | And
in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made
with the children of Israel. |
| 006:012 | And
he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation
of Israel, and spread forth his hands: |
| 006:013 | For
Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long, and five cubits broad,
and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it
he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel,
and spread forth his hands toward heaven. |
| 006:014 | And
said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in
the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that
walk before thee with all their hearts: |
| 006:015 | Thou
which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised
him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as
it is this day. |
| 006:016 | Now
therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that
which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my
sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed
to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me. |
| 006:017 | Now
then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken
unto thy servant David. |
| 006:018 | But
will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven
of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
|
| 006:019 | Have
respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O
LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth
before thee: |
| 006:020 | That
thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof
thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer
which thy servant prayeth toward this place. |
| 006:021 | Hearken
therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel,
which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place,
even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive. |
| 006:022 | If
a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear,
and the oath come before thine altar in this house; |
| 006:023 | Then
hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked,
by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous,
by giving him according to his righteousness. |
| 006:024 | And
if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have
sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make
supplication before thee in this house; |
| 006:025 | Then
hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring
them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers. |
| 006:026 | When
the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against
thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from
their sin, when thou dost afflict them; |
| 006:027 | Then
hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people
Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk;
and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
|
| 006:028 | If
there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting,
or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities
of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be: |
| 006:029 | Then
what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all
thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief,
and shall spread forth his hands in this house: |
| 006:030 | Then
hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every
man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest
the hearts of the children of men:) |
| 006:031 | That
they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which
thou gavest unto our fathers. |
| 006:032 | Moreover
concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from
a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched
out arm; if they come and pray in this house; |
| 006:033 | Then
hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according
to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth
may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that
this house which I have built is called by thy name. |
| 006:034 | If
thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send
them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and
the house which I have built for thy name; |
| 006:035 | Then
hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain
their cause. |
| 006:036 | If
they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be
angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry
them away captives unto a land far off or near; |
| 006:037 | Yet
if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and
turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned,
we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly; |
| 006:038 | If
they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land
of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward
their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which
thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name: |
| 006:039 | Then
hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and
their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which
have sinned against thee. |
| 006:040 | Now,
my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent
unto the prayer that is made in this place. |
| 006:041 | Now
therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy
strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy
saints rejoice in goodness. |
| 006:042 | O
LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of
David thy servant. |
|
| 007:001
| Now
when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and
consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled
the house. | | 007:002 | And
the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of
the LORD had filled the LORD's house. |
| 007:003 | And
when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of
the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground
upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is
good; for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| 007:004 | Then
the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. |
| 007:005 | And
king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred
and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house
of God. |
| 007:006 | And
the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick
of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his
mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests
sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood. |
| 007:007 | Moreover
Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD:
for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because
the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings,
and the meat offerings, and the fat. |
| 007:008 | Also
at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him,
a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of
Egypt. |
| 007:009 | And
in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication
of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. |
| 007:010 | And
on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away
into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had
shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people. |
| 007:011 | Thus
Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that
came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own
house, he prosperously effected. |
| 007:012 | And
the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy
prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. |
| 007:013 | If
I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour
the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; |
| 007:014 | If
my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray,
and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. |
| 007:015 | Now
mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made
in this place. |
| 007:016 | For
now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for
ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. |
| 007:017 | And
as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do
according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes
and my judgments; |
| 007:018 | Then
will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with
David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
|
| 007:019 | But
if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have
set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; |
| 007:020 | Then
will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and
this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight,
and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. |
| 007:021 | And
this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth
by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and
unto this house? |
| 007:022 | And
it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and
worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon
them. |
|
| 008:001
| And
it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house
of the LORD, and his own house, | | 008:002 | That
the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused
the children of Israel to dwell there. |
| 008:003 | And
Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it. |
| 008:004 | And
he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built
in Hamath. |
| 008:005 | Also
he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with
walls, gates, and bars; |
| 008:006 | And
Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities,
and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem,
and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion. |
| 008:007 | As
for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel, |
| 008:008 | But
of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children
of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
|
| 008:009 | But
of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they
were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and
horsemen. |
| 008:010 | And
these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty,
that bare rule over the people. |
| 008:011 | And
Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the
house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the
house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark
of the LORD hath come. |
| 008:012 | Then
Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which
he had built before the porch, |
| 008:013 | Even
after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses,
on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times
in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks,
and in the feast of tabernacles. |
| 008:014 | And
he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the
priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister
before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by
their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded. |
| 008:015 | And
they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites
concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. |
| 008:016 | Now
all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the
house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was
perfected. |
| 008:017 | Then
went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
|
| 008:018 | And
Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge
of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence
four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon. |
|
| 009:001
| And
when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon
with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that
bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come
to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. | | 009:002 | And
Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon
which he told her not. |
| 009:003 | And
when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that
he had built, |
| 009:004 | And
the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance
of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel;
and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no
more spirit in her. |
| 009:005 | And
she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of
thine acts, and of thy wisdom: |
| 009:006 | Howbeit
I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold,
the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest
the fame that I heard. |
| 009:007 | Happy
are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before
thee, and hear thy wisdom. |
| 009:008 | Blessed
be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to
be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them
for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
|
| 009:009 | And
she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great
abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen
of Sheba gave king Solomon. |
| 009:010 | And
the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold
from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. |
| 009:011 | And
the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to
the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none
such seen before in the land of Judah. |
| 009:012 | And
king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked,
beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away
to her own land, she and her servants. |
| 009:013 | Now
the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore
and six talents of gold; |
| 009:014 | Beside
that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors
of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. |
| 009:015 | And
king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of
beaten gold went to one target. |
| 009:016 | And
three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold
went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
|
| 009:017 | Moreover
the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. |
| 009:018 | And
there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened
to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing
by the stays: |
| 009:019 | And
twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps.
There was not the like made in any kingdom. |
| 009:020 | And
all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels
of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver;
it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. |
| 009:021 | For
the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years
once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes,
and peacocks. |
| 009:022 | And
king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. |
| 009:023 | And
all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom,
that God had put in his heart. |
| 009:024 | And
they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold,
and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. |
| 009:025 | And
Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
|
| 009:026 | And
he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines,
and to the border of Egypt. |
| 009:027 | And
the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the
sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance. |
| 009:028 | And
they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands. |
| 009:029 | Now
the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the
book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and
in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat? |
| 009:030 | And
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. |
| 009:031 | And
Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his
father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. |
|
| 010:001
| And
Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
| | 010:002 | And
it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither
he fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned
out of Egypt. |
| 010:003 | And
they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam,
saying, |
| 010:004 | Thy
father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous
servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will
serve thee. |
| 010:005 | And
he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
|
| 010:006 | And
king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his
father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer
to this people? |
| 010:007 | And
they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them,
and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever. |
| 010:008 | But
he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the
young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him. |
| 010:009 | And
he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people,
which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did
put upon us? |
| 010:010 | And
the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt
thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke
heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them,
My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. |
| 010:011 | For
whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke:
my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
|
| 010:012 | So
Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king
bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day. |
| 010:013 | And
the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the
old men, |
| 010:014 | And
answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your
yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but
I will chastise you with scorpions. |
| 010:015 | So
the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the
LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite
to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. |
| 010:016 | And
when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered
the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance
in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see
to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents. |
| 010:017 | But
as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned
over them. |
| 010:018 | Then
king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel
stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him
up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. |
| 010:019 | And
Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. |
|
| 011:001
| And
when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and
Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors,
to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
| | 011:002 | But
the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, |
| 011:003 | Speak
unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah
and Benjamin, saying, |
| 011:004 | Thus
saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return
every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words
of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam. |
| 011:005 | And
Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah. |
| 011:006 | He
built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, |
| 011:007 | And
Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam, |
| 011:008 | And
Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, |
| 011:009 | And
Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, |
| 011:010 | And
Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
|
| 011:011 | And
he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual,
and of oil and wine. |
| 011:012 | And
in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong,
having Judah and Benjamin on his side. |
| 011:013 | And
the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of
all their coasts. |
| 011:014 | For
the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and
Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's
office unto the LORD: |
| 011:015 | And
he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the
calves which he had made. |
| 011:016 | And
after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek
the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of
their fathers. |
| 011:017 | So
they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon
strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
|
| 011:018 | And
Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife,
and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse; |
| 011:019 | Which
bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham. |
| 011:020 | And
after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and
Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. |
| 011:021 | And
Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his
concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat
twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.) |
| 011:022 | And
Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren:
for he thought to make him king. |
| 011:023 | And
he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries
of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in
abundance. And he desired many wives. |
|
| 012:001
| And
it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened
himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him. | | 012:002 | And
it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
|
| 012:003 | With
twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were
without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and
the Ethiopians. |
| 012:004 | And
he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
|
| 012:005 | Then
came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were
gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus
saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in
the hand of Shishak. |
| 012:006 | Whereupon
the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD
is righteous. |
| 012:007 | And
when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to
Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy
them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured
out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. |
| 012:008 | Nevertheless
they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service
of the kingdoms of the countries. |
| 012:009 | So
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures
of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all:
he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. |
| 012:010 | Instead
of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands
of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house. |
| 012:011 | And
when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched
them, and brought them again into the guard chamber. |
| 012:012 | And
when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would
not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well. |
| 012:013 | So
king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam
was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes
of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
|
| 012:014 | And
he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD. |
| 012:015 | Now
the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah
the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars
between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. |
| 012:016 | And
Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah
his son reigned in his stead. |
|
| 013:001
| Now
in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. | | 013:002 | He
reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter
of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. |
| 013:003 | And
Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four
hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against
him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour. |
| 013:004 | And
Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear
me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; |
| 013:005 | Ought
ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to
David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? |
| 013:006 | Yet
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen
up, and hath rebelled against his lord. |
| 013:007 | And
there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened
themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and
tenderhearted, and could not withstand them. |
| 013:008 | And
now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of
David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with your golden calves,
which Jeroboam made you for gods. |
| 013:009 | Have
ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites,
and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so
that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven
rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods. |
| 013:010 | But
as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests,
which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon
their business: |
| 013:011 | And
they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and
sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and
the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for
we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him. |
| 013:012 | And,
behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding
trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against
the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper. |
| 013:013 | But
Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before
Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. |
| 013:014 | And
when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they
cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. |
| 013:015 | Then
the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to
pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. |
| 013:016 | And
the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their
hand. |
| 013:017 | And
Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down
slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. |
| 013:018 | Thus
the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of
Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers. |
| 013:019 | And
Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns
thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.
|
| 013:020 | Neither
did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck
him, and he died. |
| 013:021 | But
Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons,
and sixteen daughters. |
| 013:022 | And
the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written
in the story of the prophet Iddo. |
|
| 014:001
| So
Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and
Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
| | 014:002 | And
Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God: |
| 014:003 | For
he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake
down the images, and cut down the groves: |
| 014:004 | And
commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and
the commandment. |
| 014:005 | Also
he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images:
and the kingdom was quiet before him. |
| 014:006 | And
he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in
those years; because the LORD had given him rest. |
| 014:007 | Therefore
he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and
towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought
the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side.
So they built and prospered. |
| 014:008 | And
Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred
thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred
and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour. |
| 014:009 | And
there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand
thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah. |
| 014:010 | Then
Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of
Zephathah at Mareshah. |
| 014:011 | And
Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to
help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our
God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD,
thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee. |
| 014:012 | So
the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians
fled. |
| 014:013 | And
Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians
were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed
before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.
|
| 014:014 | And
they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came
upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil
in them. |
| 014:015 | They
smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance,
and returned to Jerusalem. |
|
| 015:001
| And
the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: | | 015:002 | And
he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah
and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him,
he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. |
| 015:003 | Now
for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching
priest, and without law. |
| 015:004 | But
when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought
him, he was found of them. |
| 015:005 | And
in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came
in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. |
| 015:006 | And
nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with
all adversity. |
| 015:007 | Be
ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be
rewarded. |
| 015:008 | And
when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage,
and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin,
and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the
altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD. |
| 015:009 | And
he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim
and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance,
when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. |
| 015:010 | So
they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth
year of the reign of Asa. |
| 015:011 | And
they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought,
seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. |
| 015:012 | And
they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all
their heart and with all their soul; |
| 015:013 | That
whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether
small or great, whether man or woman. |
| 015:014 | And
they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets,
and with cornets. |
| 015:015 | And
all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and
sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD
gave them rest round about. |
| 015:016 | And
also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being
queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol,
and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. |
| 015:017 | But
the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of
Asa was perfect all his days. |
| 015:018 | And
he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated,
and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. |
| 015:019 | And
there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
|
|
| 016:001
| In
the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up
against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out
or come in to Asa king of Judah. | | 016:002 | Then
Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD
and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at
Damascus, saying, |
| 016:003 | There
is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father:
behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha
king of Israel, that he may depart from me. |
| 016:004 | And
Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against
the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the
store cities of Naphtali. |
| 016:005 | And
it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah,
and let his work cease. |
| 016:006 | Then
Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and
the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba
and Mizpah. |
| 016:007 | And
at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him,
Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy
God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
|
| 016:008 | Were
not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and
horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into
thine hand. |
| 016:009 | For
the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself
strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou
hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. |
| 016:010 | Then
Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a
rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the
same time. |
| 016:011 | And,
behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of
the kings of Judah and Israel. |
| 016:012 | And
Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until
his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD,
but to the physicians. |
| 016:013 | And
Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
|
| 016:014 | And
they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the
city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and
divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very
great burning for him. |
|
| 017:001
| And
Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against
Israel. | | 017:002 | And
he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the
land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
|
| 017:003 | And
the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father
David, and sought not unto Baalim; |
| 017:004 | But
sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not
after the doings of Israel. |
| 017:005 | Therefore
the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat
presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance. |
| 017:006 | And
his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the
high places and groves out of Judah. |
| 017:007 | Also
in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and
to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in
the cities of Judah. |
| 017:008 | And
with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and
Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah,
Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. |
| 017:009 | And
they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and
went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. |
| 017:010 | And
the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round
about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat. |
| 017:011 | Also
some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and
the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and
seven thousand and seven hundred he goats. |
| 017:012 | And
Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities
of store. |
| 017:013 | And
he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men
of valour, were in Jerusalem. |
| 017:014 | And
these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah,
the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour
three hundred thousand. |
| 017:015 | And
next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore
thousand. |
| 017:016 | And
next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto
the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour. |
| 017:017 | And
of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow
and shield two hundred thousand. |
| 017:018 | And
next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready
prepared for the war. |
| 017:019 | These
waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout
all Judah. |
|
| 018:001
| Now
Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
| | 018:002 | And
after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep
and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and
persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead. |
| 018:003 | And
Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with
me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as
thy people; and we will be with thee in the war. |
| 018:004 | And
Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word
of the LORD to day. |
| 018:005 | Therefore
the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said
unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they
said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand. |
| 018:006 | But
Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we
might enquire of him? |
| 018:007 | And
the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we
may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto
me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said,
Let not the king say so. |
| 018:008 | And
the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly
Micaiah the son of Imla. |
| 018:009 | And
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his
throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering
in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. |
| 018:010 | And
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith
the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed. |
| 018:011 | And
all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper:
for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king. |
| 018:012 | And
the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words
of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore,
I pray thee, be like one of their's, and speak thou good. |
| 018:013 | And
Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.
|
| 018:014 | And
when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go
to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper,
and they shall be delivered into your hand. |
| 018:015 | And
the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing
but the truth to me in the name of the LORD? |
| 018:016 | Then
he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have
no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return therefore
every man to his house in peace. |
| 018:017 | And
the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not
prophesy good unto me, but evil? |
| 018:018 | Again
he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his
throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
|
| 018:019 | And
the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and
fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying
after that manner. |
| 018:020 | Then
there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice
him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? |
| 018:021 | And
he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out,
and do even so. |
| 018:022 | Now
therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy
prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee. |
| 018:023 | Then
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek,
and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
|
| 018:024 | And
Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an
inner chamber to hide thyself. |
| 018:025 | Then
the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor
of the city, and to Joash the king's son; |
| 018:026 | And
say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with
bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
|
| 018:027 | And
Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken
by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people. |
| 018:028 | So
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
|
| 018:029 | And
the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and I will
go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised
himself; and they went to the battle. |
| 018:030 | Now
the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with
him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
|
| 018:031 | And
it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they
said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight:
but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart
from him. |
| 018:032 | For
it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it
was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him. |
| 018:033 | And
a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between
the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine
hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded. |
| 018:034 | And
the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up
in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the
sun going down he died. |
|
| 019:001
| And
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
| | 019:002 | And
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat,
Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore
is wrath upon thee from before the LORD. |
| 019:003 | Nevertheless
there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves
out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God. |
| 019:004 | And
Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from
Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their
fathers. |
| 019:005 | And
he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by
city, |
| 019:006 | And
said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for
the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. |
| 019:007 | Wherefore
now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is
no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
|
| 019:008 | Moreover
in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of
the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies,
when they returned to Jerusalem. |
| 019:009 | And
he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully,
and with a perfect heart. |
| 019:010 | And
what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in your cities,
between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments,
ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath
come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.
|
| 019:011 | And,
behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and
Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's
matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously,
and the LORD shall be with the good. |
|
| 020:001
| It
came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of
Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to
battle. | | 020:002 | Then
there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude
against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in
Hazazontamar, which is Engedi. |
| 020:003 | And
Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judah. |
| 020:004 | And
Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all
the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD. |
| 020:005 | And
Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house
of the LORD, before the new court, |
| 020:006 | And
said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not
thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power
and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? |
| 020:007 | Art
not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy
people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? |
| 020:008 | And
they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
|
| 020:009 | If,
when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine,
we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,)
and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help. |
| 020:010 | And
now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest
not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned
from them, and destroyed them not; |
| 020:011 | Behold,
I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which
thou hast given us to inherit. |
| 020:012 | O
our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great
company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are
upon thee. |
| 020:013 | And
all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their
children. |
| 020:014 | Then
upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the
son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD
in the midst of the congregation; |
| 020:015 | And
he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king
Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason
of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. |
| 020:016 | To
morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and
ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
|
| 020:017 | Ye
shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and
see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor
be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
|
| 020:018 | And
Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD. |
| 020:019 | And
the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the
Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
|
| 020:020 | And
they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa:
and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye
inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established;
believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. |
| 020:021 | And
when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD,
and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the
army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. |
| 020:022 | And
when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the
children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and
they were smitten. |
| 020:023 | For
the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir,
utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants
of Seir, every one helped to destroy another. |
| 020:024 | And
when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto
the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and
none escaped. |
| 020:025 | And
when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found
among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels,
which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and
they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much. |
| 020:026 | And
on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for
there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called,
The valley of Berachah, unto this day. |
| 020:027 | Then
they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront
of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice
over their enemies. |
| 020:028 | And
they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house
of the LORD. |
| 020:029 | And
the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard
that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel. |
| 020:030 | So
the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
|
| 020:031 | And
Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. |
| 020:032 | And
he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that
which was right in the sight of the LORD. |
| 020:033 | Howbeit
the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared
their hearts unto the God of their fathers. |
| 020:034 | Now
the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written
in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the
kings of Israel. |
| 020:035 | And
after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of
Israel, who did very wickedly: |
| 020:036 | And
he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the
ships in Eziongaber. |
| 020:037 | Then
Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying,
Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works.
And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish. |
|
| 021:001
| Now
Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. | | 021:002 | And
he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah,
and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat
king of Israel. |
| 021:003 | And
their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious
things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because
he was the firstborn. |
| 021:004 | Now
when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself,
and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of
Israel. |
| 021:005 | Jehoram
was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years
in Jerusalem. |
| 021:006 | And
he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab:
for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil
in the eyes of the LORD. |
| 021:007 | Howbeit
the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that
he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his
sons for ever. |
| 021:008 | In
his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves
a king. |
| 021:009 | Then
Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he
rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains
of the chariots. |
| 021:010 | So
the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same
time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the
LORD God of his fathers. |
| 021:011 | Moreover
he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of
Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto. |
| 021:012 | And
there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the
LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat
thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, |
| 021:013 | But
hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house
of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were
better than thyself: |
| 021:014 | Behold,
with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy
wives, and all thy goods: |
| 021:015 | And
thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall
out by reason of the sickness day by day. |
| 021:016 | Moreover
the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the
Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians: |
| 021:017 | And
they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance
that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that
there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. |
| 021:018 | And
after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
|
| 021:019 | And
it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels
fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people
made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. |
| 021:020 | Thirty
and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem
eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in
the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings. |
|
| 022:001
| And
the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead:
for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the
eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. | | 022:002 | Forty
and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year
in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. |
| 022:003 | He
also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor
to do wickedly. |
| 022:004 | Wherefore
he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were
his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction. |
| 022:005 | He
walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king
of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians
smote Joram. |
| 022:006 | And
he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given
him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son
of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel,
because he was sick. |
| 022:007 | And
the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come,
he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had
anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. |
| 022:008 | And
it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab,
and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that
ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them. |
| 022:009 | And
he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought
him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they,
he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the
house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom. |
| 022:010 | But
when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and
destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah. |
| 022:011 | But
Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and
stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse
in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of
Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah,
so that she slew him not. |
| 022:012 | And
he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over
the land. |
|
| 023:001
| And
in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of
hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and
Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the
son of Zichri, into covenant with him. | | 023:002 | And
they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of
Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
|
| 023:003 | And
all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And
he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said
of the sons of David. |
| 023:004 | This
is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath,
of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors; |
| 023:005 | And
a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of
the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the
LORD. |
| 023:006 | But
let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister
of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall
keep the watch of the LORD. |
| 023:007 | And
the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons
in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death:
but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out. |
| 023:008 | So
the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest
had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath,
with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed
not the courses. |
| 023:009 | Moreover
Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers,
and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God. |
| 023:010 | And
he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right
side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the
temple, by the king round about. |
| 023:011 | Then
they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the
testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said,
God save the king. |
| 023:012 | Now
when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king,
she came to the people into the house of the LORD: |
| 023:013 | And
she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and
the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced,
and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and
such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason,
Treason. |
| 023:014 | Then
Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over
the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth
her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in
the house of the LORD. |
| 023:015 | So
they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse
gate by the king's house, they slew her there. |
| 023:016 | And
Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between
the king, that they should be the LORD's people. |
| 023:017 | Then
all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his
altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before
the altars. |
| 023:018 | Also
Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the
priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to
offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses,
with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David. |
| 023:019 | And
he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was
unclean in any thing should enter in. |
| 023:020 | And
he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the
people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the
house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house,
and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. |
| 023:021 | And
all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they
had slain Athaliah with the sword. |
|
| 024:001
| Joash
was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beersheba. | | 024:002 | And
Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada
the priest. |
| 024:003 | And
Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. |
| 024:004 | And
it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the
LORD. |
| 024:005 | And
he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out
unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house
of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the
Levites hastened it not. |
| 024:006 | And
the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not
required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection,
according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation
of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness? |
| 024:007 | For
the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and
also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon
Baalim. |
| 024:008 | And
at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate
of the house of the LORD. |
| 024:009 | And
they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD
the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
|
| 024:010 | And
all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into
the chest, until they had made an end. |
| 024:011 | Now
it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office
by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the
king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and
took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered
money in abundance. |
| 024:012 | And
the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the
house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the
LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
|
| 024:013 | So
the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house
of God in his state, and strengthened it. |
| 024:014 | And
when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king
and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels
to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver.
And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the
days of Jehoiada. |
| 024:015 | But
Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty
years old was he when he died. |
| 024:016 | And
they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good
in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house. |
| 024:017 | Now
after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to
the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. |
| 024:018 | And
they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and
idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass. |
| 024:019 | Yet
he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified
against them: but they would not give ear. |
| 024:020 | And
the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which
stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress
ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken
the LORD, he hath also forsaken you. |
| 024:021 | And
they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of
the king in the court of the house of the LORD. |
| 024:022 | Thus
Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done
to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it,
and require it. |
| 024:023 | And
it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against
him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of
the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king
of Damascus. |
| 024:024 | For
the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered
a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of
their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. |
| 024:025 | And
when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his
own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the
priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city
of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings. |
| 024:026 | And
these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess,
and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess. |
| 024:027 | Now
concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the
repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the
book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. |
|
| 025:001
| Amaziah
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty
and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
| | 025:002 | And
he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect
heart. |
| 025:003 | Now
it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his
servants that had killed the king his father. |
| 025:004 | But
he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book
of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the
children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall
die for his own sin. |
| 025:005 | Moreover
Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and
captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout
all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above,
and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war,
that could handle spear and shield. |
| 025:006 | He
hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred
talents of silver. |
| 025:007 | But
there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel
go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children
of Ephraim. |
| 025:008 | But
if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall
before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down. |
| 025:009 | And
Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents
which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The
LORD is able to give thee much more than this. |
| 025:010 | Then
Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim,
to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah,
and they returned home in great anger. |
| 025:011 | And
Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley
of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand. |
| 025:012 | And
other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive,
and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top
of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces. |
| 025:013 | But
the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with
him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron,
and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil. |
| 025:014 | Now
it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites,
that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his
gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them. |
| 025:015 | Wherefore
the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet,
which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which
could not deliver their own people out of thine hand? |
| 025:016 | And
it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou
made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the
prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee,
because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel. |
| 025:017 | Then
Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz,
the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the
face. |
| 025:018 | And
Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that
was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter
to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and
trode down the thistle. |
| 025:019 | Thou
sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up
to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that
thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? |
| 025:020 | But
Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into
the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom. |
| 025:021 | So
Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both
he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah. |
| 025:022 | And
Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
|
| 025:023 | And
Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the
son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down
the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred
cubits. |
| 025:024 | And
he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in
the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the
hostages also, and returned to Samaria. |
| 025:025 | And
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of
Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. |
| 025:026 | Now
the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written
in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? |
| 025:027 | Now
after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made
a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent
to Lachish after him, and slew him there. |
| 025:028 | And
they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of
Judah. |
|
| 026:001
| Then
all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him
king in the room of his father Amaziah. | | 026:002 | He
built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
|
| 026:003 | Sixteen
years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years
in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. |
| 026:004 | And
he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that
his father Amaziah did. |
| 026:005 | And
he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions
of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper. |
| 026:006 | And
he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of
Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about
Ashdod, and among the Philistines. |
| 026:007 | And
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt
in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims. |
| 026:008 | And
the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the
entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly. |
| 026:009 | Moreover
Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate,
and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them. |
| 026:010 | Also
he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle,
both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers
in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry. |
| 026:011 | Moreover
Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according
to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah
the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains. |
| 026:012 | The
whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two
thousand and six hundred. |
| 026:013 | And
under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and
five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the
enemy. |
| 026:014 | And
Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets,
and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones. |
| 026:015 | And
he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers
and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name
spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. |
| 026:016 | But
when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed
against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense
upon the altar of incense. |
| 026:017 | And
Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the
LORD, that were valiant men: |
| 026:018 | And
they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto
thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of
Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou
hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God. |
| 026:019 | Then
Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he
was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before
the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar. |
| 026:020 | And
Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold,
he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself
hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. |
| 026:021 | And
Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several
house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham
his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land. |
| 026:022 | Now
the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the
son of Amoz, write. |
| 026:023 | So
Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the
field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper:
and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. |
|
| 028:001
| Ahaz
was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like
David his father: | | 028:002 | For
he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for
Baalim. |
| 028:003 | Moreover
he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children
in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out
before the children of Israel. |
| 028:004 | He
sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and
under every green tree. |
| 028:005 | Wherefore
the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they
smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought
them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel,
who smote him with a great slaughter. |
| 028:006 | For
Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one
day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of
their fathers. |
| 028:007 | And
Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam
the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king. |
| 028:008 | And
the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand,
women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought
the spoil to Samaria. |
| 028:009 | But
a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before
the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD
God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your
hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven. |
| 028:010 | And
now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen
and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against
the LORD your God? |
| 028:011 | Now
hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive
of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you. |
| 028:012 | Then
certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan,
Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa
the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war, |
| 028:013 | And
said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have
offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to
our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against
Israel. |
| 028:014 | So
the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the
congregation. |
| 028:015 | And
the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with
the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod
them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all
the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm
trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria. |
| 028:016 | At
that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. |
| 028:017 | For
again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. |
| 028:018 | The
Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south
of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with
the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and
the villages thereof: and they dwelt there. |
| 028:019 | For
the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah
naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD. |
| 028:020 | And
Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened
him not. |
| 028:021 | For
Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house
of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but
he helped him not. |
| 028:022 | And
in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this
is that king Ahaz. |
| 028:023 | For
he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because
the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them,
that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. |
| 028:024 | And
Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the
vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD,
and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem. |
| 028:025 | And
in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other
gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers. |
| 028:026 | Now
the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are
written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. |
| 028:027 | And
Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem:
but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah
his son reigned in his stead. |
|
| 029:001
| Hezekiah
began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and
twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of
Zechariah. | | 029:002 | And
he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that
David his father had done. |
| 029:003 | He
in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the
house of the LORD, and repaired them. |
| 029:004 | And
he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into
the east street, |
| 029:005 | And
said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify
the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out
of the holy place. |
| 029:006 | For
our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the
LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from
the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs. |
| 029:007 | Also
they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not
burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of
Israel. |
| 029:008 | Wherefore
the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them
to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes. |
| 029:009 | For,
lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and
our wives are in captivity for this. |
| 029:010 | Now
it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his
fierce wrath may turn away from us. |
| 029:011 | My
sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him,
to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense. |
| 029:012 | Then
the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of
the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi,
and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah,
and Eden the son of Joah: |
| 029:013 | And
of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah,
and Mattaniah: |
| 029:014 | And
of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah,
and Uzziel. |
| 029:015 | And
they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according
to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house
of the LORD. |
| 029:016 | And
the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it,
and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD
into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry
it out abroad into the brook Kidron. |
| 029:017 | Now
they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth
day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the
house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end. |
| 029:018 | Then
they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house
of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof,
and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof. |
| 029:019 | Moreover
all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression,
have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of
the LORD. |
| 029:020 | Then
Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went
up to the house of the LORD. |
| 029:021 | And
they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he
goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah.
And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of
the LORD. |
| 029:022 | So
they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled
it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the
blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood
upon the altar. |
| 029:023 | And
they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the
congregation; and they laid their hands upon them: |
| 029:024 | And
the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon
the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that
the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. |
| 029:025 | And
he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries,
and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's
seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his
prophets. |
| 029:026 | And
the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
|
| 029:027 | And
Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the
burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and
with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel. |
| 029:028 | And
all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded:
and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished. |
| 029:029 | And
when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with
him bowed themselves, and worshipped. |
| 029:030 | Moreover
Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto
the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises
with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped. |
| 029:031 | Then
Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD,
come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD.
And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many
as were of a free heart burnt offerings. |
| 029:032 | And
the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore
and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for
a burnt offering to the LORD. |
| 029:033 | And
the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. |
| 029:034 | But
the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings:
wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended,
and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were
more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. |
| 029:035 | And
also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings,
and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house
of the LORD was set in order. |
| 029:036 | And
Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for
the thing was done suddenly. |
|
| 030:001
| And
Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and
Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep
the passover unto the LORD God of Israel. | | 030:002 | For
the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem,
to keep the passover in the second month. |
| 030:003 | For
they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified
themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together
to Jerusalem. |
| 030:004 | And
the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. |
| 030:005 | So
they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from
Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the
LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in
such sort as it was written. |
| 030:006 | So
the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all
Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye
children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,
and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand
of the kings of Assyria. |
| 030:007 | And
be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against
the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as
ye see. |
| 030:008 | Now
be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the
LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and
serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from
you. |
| 030:009 | For
if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find
compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again
into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not
turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him. |
| 030:010 | So
the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh
even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. |
| 030:011 | Nevertheless
divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to
Jerusalem. |
| 030:012 | Also
in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of
the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD. |
| 030:013 | And
there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread
in the second month, a very great congregation. |
| 030:014 | And
they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars
for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron. |
| 030:015 | Then
they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the
priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought
in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD. |
| 030:016 | And
they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses
the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the
hand of the Levites. |
| 030:017 | For
there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the
Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was
not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD. |
| 030:018 | For
a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and
Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise
than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon
every one |
| 030:019 | That
prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be
not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. |
| 030:020 | And
the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. |
| 030:021 | And
the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened
bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised
the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD. |
| 030:022 | And
Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge
of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace
offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers. |
| 030:023 | And
the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other
seven days with gladness. |
| 030:024 | For
Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and
seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks
and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
|
| 030:025 | And
all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the
congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the
land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. |
| 030:026 | So
there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of
David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem. |
| 030:027 | Then
the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard,
and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven. |
|
| 031:001
| Now
when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities
of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw
down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim
also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the
children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
| | 031:002 | And
Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses,
every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings
and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in
the gates of the tents of the LORD. |
| 031:003 | He
appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings,
to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings
for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written
in the law of the LORD. |
| 031:004 | Moreover
he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the
priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
|
| 031:005 | And
as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance
the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase
of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. |
| 031:006 | And
concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah,
they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things
which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps. |
| 031:007 | In
the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished
them in the seventh month. |
| 031:008 | And
when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD,
and his people Israel. |
| 031:009 | Then
Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
|
| 031:010 | And
Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since
the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have
had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people;
and that which is left is this great store. |
| 031:011 | Then
Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared
them, |
| 031:012 | And
brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully:
over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
|
| 031:013 | And
Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and
Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand
of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king,
and Azariah the ruler of the house of God. |
| 031:014 | And
Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the
freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the
most holy things. |
| 031:015 | And
next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah,
in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren
by courses, as well to the great as to the small: |
| 031:016 | Beside
their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every
one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service
in their charges according to their courses; |
| 031:017 | Both
to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites
from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses; |
| 031:018 | And
to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and
their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they
sanctified themselves in holiness: |
| 031:019 | Also
of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of
their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to
give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned
by genealogies among the Levites. |
| 031:020 | And
thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and
right and truth before the LORD his God. |
| 031:021 | And
in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the
law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart,
and prospered. |
|
| 032:001
| After
these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came,
and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought
to win them for himself. | | 032:002 | And
when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight
against Jerusalem, |
| 032:003 | He
took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the
fountains which were without the city: and they did help him. |
| 032:004 | So
there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and
the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings
of Assyria come, and find much water? |
| 032:005 | Also
he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised
it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city
of David, and made darts and shields in abundance. |
| 032:006 | And
he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in
the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
|
| 032:007 | Be
strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria,
nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than
with him: |
| 032:008 | With
him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to
fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah
king of Judah. |
| 032:009 | After
this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he
himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah
king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying, |
| 032:010 | Thus
saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the
siege in Jerusalem? |
| 032:011 | Doth
not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst,
saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
|
| 032:012 | Hath
not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded
Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense
upon it? |
| 032:013 | Know
ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands?
were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their
lands out of mine hand? |
| 032:014 | Who
was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed,
that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able
to deliver you out of mine hand? |
| 032:015 | Now
therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither
yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his
people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall
your God deliver you out of mine hand? |
| 032:016 | And
his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
|
| 032:017 | He
wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against
him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their
people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people
out of mine hand. |
| 032:018 | Then
they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem
that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might
take the city. |
| 032:019 | And
they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people
of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man. |
| 032:020 | And
for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed
and cried to heaven. |
| 032:021 | And
the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the
leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with
shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god,
they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword. |
| 032:022 | Thus
the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib
the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every
side. |
| 032:023 | And
many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king
of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
|
| 032:024 | In
those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he
spake unto him, and he gave him a sign. |
| 032:025 | But
Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his
heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and
Jerusalem. |
| 032:026 | Notwithstanding
Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days
of Hezekiah. |
| 032:027 | And
Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries
for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for
shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels; |
| 032:028 | Storehouses
also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner
of beasts, and cotes for flocks. |
| 032:029 | Moreover
he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for
God had given him substance very much. |
| 032:030 | This
same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight
down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his
works. |
| 032:031 | Howbeit
in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto
him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try
him, that he might know all that was in his heart. |
| 032:032 | Now
the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written
in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the
kings of Judah and Israel. |
| 032:033 | And
Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the
sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. |
|
| 033:001
| Manasseh
was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five
years in Jerusalem: | | 033:002 | But
did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations
of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. |
| 033:003 | For
he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and
he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host
of heaven, and served them. |
| 033:004 | Also
he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem
shall my name be for ever. |
| 033:005 | And
he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of
the LORD. |
| 033:006 | And
he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of
Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft,
and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in
the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. |
| 033:007 | And
he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of
which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for
ever: |
| 033:008 | Neither
will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have
appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have
commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances
by the hand of Moses. |
| 033:009 | So
Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse
than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
|
| 033:010 | And
the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
|
| 033:011 | Wherefore
the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria,
which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried
him to Babylon. |
| 033:012 | And
when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself
greatly before the God of his fathers, |
| 033:013 | And
prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and
brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the
LORD he was God. |
| 033:014 | Now
after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon,
in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about
Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all
the fenced cities of Judah. |
| 033:015 | And
he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and
all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and
in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. |
| 033:016 | And
he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and
thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. |
| 033:017 | Nevertheless
the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their
God only. |
| 033:018 | Now
the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words
of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold,
they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. |
| 033:019 | His
prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass,
and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images,
before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
|
| 033:020 | So
Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and
Amon his son reigned in his stead. |
| 033:021 | Amon
was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years
in Jerusalem. |
| 033:022 | But
he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father:
for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had
made, and served them; |
| 033:023 | And
humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself;
but Amon trespassed more and more. |
| 033:024 | And
his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house. |
| 033:025 | But
the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon;
and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. |
|
| 034:001
| Josiah
was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one
and thirty years. | | 034:002 | And
he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways
of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
|
| 034:003 | For
in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after
the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah
and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images,
and the molten images. |
| 034:004 | And
they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that
were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images,
and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed
it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. |
| 034:005 | And
he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and
Jerusalem. |
| 034:006 | And
so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali,
with their mattocks round about. |
| 034:007 | And
when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven
images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel,
he returned to Jerusalem. |
| 034:008 | Now
in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house,
he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city,
and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his
God. |
| 034:009 | And
when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was
brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered
of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and
of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem. |
| 034:010 | And
they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house
of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the
LORD, to repair and amend the house: |
| 034:011 | Even
to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber
for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
|
| 034:012 | And
the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and
Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of
the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all
that could skill of instruments of musick. |
| 034:013 | Also
they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought
the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and
officers, and porters. |
| 034:014 | And
when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,
Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses. |
| 034:015 | And
Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the
law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. |
| 034:016 | And
Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again,
saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. |
| 034:017 | And
they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD,
and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the
workmen. |
| 034:018 | Then
Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me
a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. |
| 034:019 | And
it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent
his clothes. |
| 034:020 | And
the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son
of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
|
| 034:021 | Go,
enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah,
concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the
LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word
of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book. |
| 034:022 | And
Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess,
the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe;
(now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that
effect. |
| 034:023 | And
she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that
sent you to me, |
| 034:024 | Thus
saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants
thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read
before the king of Judah: |
| 034:025 | Because
they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might
provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall
be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched. |
| 034:026 | And
as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye
say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which
thou hast heard; |
| 034:027 | Because
thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou
heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof,
and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before
me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD. |
| 034:028 | Behold,
I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave
in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon
this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king
word again. |
| 034:029 | Then
the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
|
| 034:030 | And
the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the
people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book
of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD. |
| 034:031 | And
the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after
the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes,
with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant
which are written in this book. |
| 034:032 | And
he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And
the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God
of their fathers. |
| 034:033 | And
Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained
to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve,
even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following
the LORD, the God of their fathers. |
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| 035:001
| Moreover
Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover
on the fourteenth day of the first month. | | 035:002 | And
he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of
the house of the LORD, |
| 035:003 | And
said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD,
Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel
did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD
your God, and his people Israel, |
| 035:004 | And
prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according
to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon
his son. |
| 035:005 | And
stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers
of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the
Levites. |
| 035:006 | So
kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that
they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. |
| 035:007 | And
Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover
offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and
three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance. |
| 035:008 | And
his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites:
Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the
priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle
and three hundred oxen. |
| 035:009 | Conaniah
also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and
Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings
five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen. |
| 035:010 | So
the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites
in their courses, according to the king's commandment. |
| 035:011 | And
they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands,
and the Levites flayed them. |
| 035:012 | And
they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions
of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in
the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen. |
| 035:013 | And
they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other
holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided
them speedily among all the people. |
| 035:014 | And
afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the
priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the
fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the
priests the sons of Aaron. |
| 035:015 | And
the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment
of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters
waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren
the Levites prepared for them. |
| 035:016 | So
all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover,
and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment
of king Josiah. |
| 035:017 | And
the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and
the feast of unleavened bread seven days. |
| 035:018 | And
there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the
prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah
kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were
present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
| 035:019 | In
the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept. |
| 035:020 | After
all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up
to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
|
| 035:021 | But
he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king
of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith
I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling
with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. |
| 035:022 | Nevertheless
Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might
fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of
God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. |
| 035:023 | And
the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me
away; for I am sore wounded. |
| 035:024 | His
servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second
chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was
buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem
mourned for Josiah. |
| 035:025 | And
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women
spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance
in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. |
| 035:026 | Now
the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was
written in the law of the LORD, |
| 035:027 | And
his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings
of Israel and Judah. |
|
| 036:001
| Then
the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in
his father's stead in Jerusalem. | | 036:002 | Jehoahaz
was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three
months in Jerusalem. |
| 036:003 | And
the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred
talents of silver and a talent of gold. |
| 036:004 | And
the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and
turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried
him to Egypt. |
| 036:005 | Jehoiakim
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven
years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD
his God. |
| 036:006 | Against
him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry
him to Babylon. |
| 036:007 | Nebuchadnezzar
also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them
in his temple at Babylon. |
| 036:008 | Now
the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that
which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. |
| 036:009 | Jehoiachin
was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and
ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
|
| 036:010 | And
when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon,
with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother
king over Judah and Jerusalem. |
| 036:011 | Zedekiah
was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years
in Jerusalem. |
| 036:012 | And
he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not
himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD. |
| 036:013 | And
he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God:
but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD
God of Israel. |
| 036:014 | Moreover
all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after
all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which
he had hallowed in Jerusalem. |
| 036:015 | And
the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes,
and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
|
| 036:016 | But
they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his
prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there
was no remedy. |
| 036:017 | Therefore
he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with
the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young
man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into
his hand. |
| 036:018 | And
all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of
the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all
these he brought to Babylon. |
| 036:019 | And
they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt
all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
|
| 036:020 | And
them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they
were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
|
| 036:021 | To
fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed
her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore
and ten years. |
| 036:022 | Now
in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken
by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit
of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and put it also in writing, saying, |
| 036:023 | Thus
saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God
of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem,
which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God
be with him, and let him go up. |