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1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his
 kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him
 exceedingly.
1:2 Then Solomon spoke to 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.
1:3 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.
1:4 But the ark of God David had brought up from Kirjath-jearim
 to [the place which] David had prepared for it: for he had
 pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
1:5 Moreover the brazen 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 to it.
1:6 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before the
 LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle of the congregation, and
 offered a thousand burnt-offerings upon it.
1:7 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask
 what I shall give thee.
1:8 And Solomon said to God, Thou hast shown great mercy to
 David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
1:9 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise to David my father be
 established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the
 dust of the earth in multitude.
1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and
 come in before this people: for who can judge this thy great
 people?
1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thy heart, and
 thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of
 thy 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:
1:12 Wisdom and knowledge [are] granted to thee; and I will give
 thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings
 have had that [have been] before thee, neither shall there any
 after thee have the like.
1:13 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.
1:14 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.
1:15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as
 plenteous] as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore
 trees that [are] in the vale for abundance.
1:16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen
 yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
1:17 And they fetched up, and brought out of Egypt a chariot for
 six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and
 fifty: and so they brought out [horses] for all the kings of
 the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
2:1 And Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the
 LORD, and a house for his kingdom.
2:2 And Solomon numbered out seventy thousand men to bear
 burdens, and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain, and three
 thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
2:3 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 a house to dwell in it, [even so deal with me].
2:4 Behold, I build a 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 show-bread, 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.
2:5 And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is] our
 God above all gods.
2:6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and
 heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then that I
 should build him a house, save only to burn sacrifice before
 him?
2:7 Send me now therefore a man skillful to work in gold, and in
 silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson,
 and blue, and that hath skill to grave with the skillful men
 that [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my
 father provided.
2:8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees out of
 Lebanon: for I know that thy servants have skill to cut timber
 in Lebanon; and behold, my servants [shall be] with thy
 servants,
2:9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which
 I am about to build [shall be] wonderfully great.
2:10 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.
2:11 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.
2:12 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 may
 build a house for the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.
2:13 And now I have sent a skillful man, endued with
 understanding, of Huram my father's,
2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father
 [was] a man of Tyre, skillful 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 engrave any manner
 of engraving, and to find out every device which shall be put
 to him, with thy skillful men, and with the skillful men of my
 lord David thy father.
2:15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the
 wine which my lord hath spoken of, let him send to his
 servants;
2:16 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 mayest convey it to Jerusalem.
2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the
 land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father
 had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty
 thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
2:18 And he set seventy thousand of them [to be] bearers of
 burdens, and eighty thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain,
 and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people
 to work.
3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at
 Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared to David
 his father, in the place that David had prepared in the
 threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
3:2 And he began to build in the second [day] of the second
 month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3:3 Now these [are the things in which] Solomon was instructed
 for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits
 after the first measure [was] sixty cubits, and the breadth
 twenty cubits.
3:4 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 hight [was] a hundred and twenty: and he
 overlaid it within with pure gold.
3:5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he
 overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm trees and chains.
3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty:
 and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.
3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the
 walls of it, and the doors of it, with gold; and engraved
 cherubim on the walls.
3:8 And he made the most holy house, the length of which [was]
 according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the
 breadth of it twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold,
 [amounting] to six hundred talents.
3:9 And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And
 he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
3:10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image
 work, and overlaid them with gold.
3:11 And the wings of the cherubim [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.
3:12 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.
3:13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty
 cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were]
 inward.
3:14 And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson,
 and fine linen, and wrought cherubim upon it.
3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and
 five cubits high, and the capital that [was] on the top of each
 of them [was] five cubits.
3:16 And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put them on the
 heads of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates, and put
 [them] on the chains.
3:17 And he erected 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.
4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length
 of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the
 hight of it.
4:2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim,
 round in compass, and five cubits the hight of it; and a line
 of thirty cubits encompassed it.
4:3 And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which encompassed
 it: ten in a cubit, encompassing the sea. Two rows of oxen
 [were] cast, when it was cast.
4:4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking towards the north,
 and three looking towards the west, and three looking towards
 the south, and three looking towards the east: and the sea [was
 set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.
4:5 And the thickness of it [was] a hand-breadth, 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.
4:6 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.
4:7 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.
4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the temple,
 five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a
 hundred basins of gold.
4:9 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.
4:10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over
 against the south.
4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins.
 And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king
 Solomon for the house of God;
4:12 [To wit], the two pillars, and the pommels, and the
 capitals [which were] on the top of the two pillars, and the
 two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the capitals which
 [were] on the top of the pillars;
4:13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows
 of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the
 capitals which [were] upon the pillars.
4:14 He made also bases, and lavers he made upon the bases;
4:15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and
 all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king
 Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
 ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for
 the weight of the brass could not be ascertained.
4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house
 of God, the golden altar also, and the tables on which the
 show-bread [was set];
4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they
 should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
4:21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, [made he of]
 gold, [and] that perfect gold;
4:22 And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the
 censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner
 doors of it for the most holy [place], and the doors of the
 house of the temple, [were of] gold.
5:1 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, he put among the treasures of the
 house of God.
5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the
 heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children
 of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of
 the LORD from the city of David, which [is] Zion.
5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the
 king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.
5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up
 the ark.
5:5 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.
5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that
 were assembled to him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and
 oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the
 LORD to its place, to the oracle of the house, into the most
 holy [place], [even] under the wings of the cherubim:
5:8 For the cherubim spread forth [their] wings over the place
 of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark, and the staffs of
 it above.
5:9 And they drew out the staffs [of the ark], that the ends of
 the staffs were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they
 were not seen without. And there it is to this day.
5:10 [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables which
 Moses put [in it] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant]
 with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the
 holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were
 sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:
5:12 Also the Levites [who 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 a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
5:13 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 music, 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;
5:14 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.
6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in
 the thick darkness.
6:2 But I have built a house of habitation for thee, and a place
 for thy dwelling for ever.
6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole
 congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel
 stood.
6:4 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who hath
 with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spoke with his mouth
 to my father David, saying,
6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people from the land
 of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to
 build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I
 any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there;
 and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house
 for the name of the LORD God of Israel:
6:8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in
 thy heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well in that
 it was in thy heart;
6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son
 who shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house
 for my name.
6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath
 spoken; for I am raised 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.
6:11 And in it have I put the ark, in which [is] the covenant of
 the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence
 of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
6:13 (For Solomon had made a brazen 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
 upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and
 spread forth his hands towards heaven,)
6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee
 in the heaven, nor on the earth; who keepest covenant, and
 [showest] mercy to thy servants, that walk before thee with all
 their hearts:
6:15 Thou who hast kept with thy servant David my father that
 which thou hast promised him; and hast spoken with thy mouth,
 and hast fulfilled [it] with thy hand, as [it is] this day.
6:16 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; provided thy children take heed to their way
 to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified,
 which thou hast spoken to thy servant David.
6:18 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!
6:19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to
 his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken to the cry and the
 prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
6:20 That thy eyes may be open upon this house day and night,
 upon the place of which thou hast said, that thou wouldst put
 thy name there; to hearken to the prayer which thy servant
 prayeth towards this place.
6:21 Hearken therefore to the supplications of thy servant, and
 of thy people Israel, which they shall make towards this place:
 hear thou from thy dwelling-place, [even] from heaven; and when
 thou hearest, forgive.
6:22 If a man shall sin against his neighbor, and an oath be
 laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath shall come before
 thy altar in this house;
6:23 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.
6:24 And if thy people Israel shall 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;
6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy
 people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou
 gavest to them and to their fathers.
6:26 When the heaven is shut, and there is no rain, because they
 have sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray towards this
 place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou
 dost afflict them;
6:27 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 in which they should walk; and send rain upon thy
 land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
6:28 If there shall be dearth in the land, if there be
 pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or
 caterpillars; if their enemies shall besiege them in the cities
 of their land; whatever calamity, or whatever sickness [there
 be]:
6:29 [Then] whatever prayer, [or] whatever supplication shall be
 made by any man, or by all the people of Israel, when every one
 shall know his own calamity, and his own grief, and shall
 spread forth his hands in this house:
6:30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive,
 and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart
 thou knowest (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children
 of men:)
6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as
 they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers.
6:32 Moreover concerning the stranger, who is not of thy people
 Israel, but hath come from a distant country for thy great
 name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy out-stretched arm; if
 they come and pray in this house;
6:33 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 [do] thy people Israel, and may know
 that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
6:34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the
 way that thou shalt send them, and they pray to thee towards
 this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
 built for thy name;
6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
 supplication, and maintain their cause.
6:36 If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man who
 sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them
 over before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives
 to a land far off or near;
6:37 Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither they
 are carried captive, and turn and pray to thee in the land of
 their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss,
 and have dealt wickedly;
6:38 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 towards their land which thou
 gavest to their fathers, and [towards] the city which thou hast
 chosen, and towards the house which I have built for thy name:
6:39 Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy
 dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and
 maintain their cause, and forgive thy people who have sinned
 against thee.
6:40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thy eyes be open, and
 [let] thy ears [be] attentive to the prayer [that is made] in
 this place.
6:41 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.
6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thy anointed:
 remember the mercies of David thy servant.
7:1 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.
7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD,
 because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
7:3 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 worshiped, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is]
 good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before
 the LORD.
7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two
 thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the
 king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also
 with instruments of music 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.
7:7 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 brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive
 the burnt-offerings, and the meat-offerings, and the fat.
7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and
 all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the
 entrance of Hamath to the river of Egypt.
7:9 And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they
 kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast
 seven days.
7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he
 sent the people away to their tents, glad and merry in heart
 for the goodness that the LORD had shown to David, and to
 Solomon, and to Israel his people.
7:11 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.
7:12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him,
 I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself
 for a house of sacrifice.
7:13 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;
7:14 If my people, who 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.
7:15 Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive to the
 prayer [that is made] in this place.
7:16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my
 name may be there for ever: and my eyes and my heart shall be
 there perpetually.
7:17 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;
7:18 Then will I establish 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.
7:19 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;
7:20 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 by-word among all nations.
7:21 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 to this land, and to this house?
7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God
 of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt,
 and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served
 them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein
 Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
8:2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon
 built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
8:3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store
 cities, which he built in Hamath.
8:5 Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the
 nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
8:6 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.
8:7 [As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites,
 and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
 Jebusites, who [were] not of Israel,
8:8 [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.
8:9 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.
8:10 And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers,
 [even] two hundred and fifty, that bore rule over the people.
8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh from the
 city of David to 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, to which the ark of the
 LORD hath come.
8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings to the LORD on the
 altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
8:13 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.
8:14 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.
8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king to
 the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning
 the treasures.
8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the
 foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished.
 [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.
8:17 Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea
 side in the land of Edom.
8:18 And Huram sent to 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.
9:1 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 bore spices, and
 gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she had come
 to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was
 nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon,
 and the house that he had built,
9:4 And the provisions of his table, and the sitting of his
 servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their
 apparel; his cup-bearers 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.
9:5 And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which I
 heard in my own land of thy acts, and of thy wisdom:
9:6 Yet, I believed not their words, until I came, and my eyes
 had seen [it]: and behold, the one half of the greatness of thy
 wisdom was not told to me: [for] thou exceedest the fame that I
 heard.
9:7 Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants, who
 stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
9:8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, who 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 he
 made thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
9:9 And she gave the king a 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 to king
 Solomon.
9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of
 Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and
 precious stones.
9:11 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.
9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
 whatever she asked, besides [that] which she had brought to the
 king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her
 servants.
9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
 six hundred and sixty and six talents of gold;
9:14 Besides [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And all
 the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold
 and silver to Solomon.
9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold:
 six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.
9:16 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.
9:17 Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and
 overlaid it with pure gold.
9:18 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:
9:19 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.
9:20 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.
9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of
 Huram: once every three years came the ships of Tarshish
 bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
9:22 And king Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in
 riches and wisdom.
9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of
 Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
9:24 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.
9:25 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.
9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even to
 the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
 trees he made as the sycamore trees that [are] in the low
 plains in abundance.
9:28 And they brought to Solomon horses from Egypt, and from all
 lands.
9:29 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?
9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty
 years.
9:31 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.
10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem had all Israel
 come to make him king.
10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
 [was] in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of
 Solomon the king, heard [it], that Jeroboam returned from
 Egypt.
10:3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel
 came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
10:4 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.
10:5 And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And
 the people departed.
10:6 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?
10:7 And they spoke to him, saying, If thou wilt be kind to this
 people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they
 will be thy servants for ever.
10:8 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.
10:9 And he said to them, What advice give ye, that we may
 return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying,
 Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father put upon us?
10:10 And the young men that were brought up with him, spoke to
 him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spoke to
 thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou
 [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say to them, My
 little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.
10:11 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.
10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the
 third day, as the king directed, saying, Come again to me on
 the third day.
10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam
 forsook the counsel of the old men,
10:14 And answered them after the advice of the young men,
 saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it;
 my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you]
 with scorpions.
10:15 So the king hearkened not to the people: for the cause was
 of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spoke by
 the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
10:16 And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not hearken
 to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion
 have we in David? and [we have] no inheritance in the son of
 Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: [and] now, David, see
 to thy own house. So all Israel went to their tents.
10:17 But [as for] the children of Israel that dwelt in the
 cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
10:18 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 into his
 chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David to this
 day.
11:1 And when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the
 house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and eighty thousand
 chosen [men] who were warriors, to fight against Israel, that
 he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
11:2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God,
 saying,
11:3 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to
 all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
11:4 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 by me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned
 from going against Jeroboam.
11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for
 defense in Judah.
11:6 He built even Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
11:7 And Beth-zur, and Shocho, and Adullam,
11:8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
11:9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
11:10 And Zorah, and Ajalon, and Hebron, which [are] in Judah
 and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
11:11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in
 them, and store of provisions, and of oil and wine.
11:12 And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and
 made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his
 side.
11:13 And the priests and the Levites that [were] in all Israel
 resorted to him from all their borders.
11:14 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 to the LORD:
11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for
 the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
11:16 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 to the LORD God of their fathers.
11:17 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.
11:18 And Rehoboam took to himself Mahalath the daughter of
 Jerimoth the son of David for a wife, [and] Abihail the
 daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
11:19 Who bore him children, Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; who
 bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above
 all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives,
 and sixty concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and
 sixty daughters.)
11:22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, [to
 be] ruler among his brethren: for [he thought] to make him
 king.
11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children
 throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, to every
 fortified city: and he gave them provisions in abundance. And
 he desired many wives.
12:1 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.
12:2 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,
12:3 With twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen:
 and the people [were] without number that came with him out of
 Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Cushites.
12:4 And he took the fortified cities which [pertained] to
 Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
12:5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the
 princes of Judah, that were assembled at Jerusalem because of
 Shishak, and said to them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have
 forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of
 Shishak.
12:6 Upon which the princes of Israel, and the king humbled
 themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.
12:7 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.
12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know
 my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
12:9 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.
12:10 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.
12:11 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the
 guard came and conveyed them, and brought them again into the
 guard-chamber.
12:12 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.
12:13 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.
12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek
 the LORD.
12:15 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.
12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
 city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
13:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to
 reign over Judah.
13:2 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.
13:3 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 valor.
13:4 And Abijah stood upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in mount
 Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
13:5 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?
13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat the servant of Solomon the
 son of David, hath risen up, and hath rebelled against his
 lord.
13:7 And there are gathered to him vain men, the children of
 Belial, and [they] have strengthened themselves against
 Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and
 tender-hearted, and could not withstand them.
13:8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in
 the hand of the sons of David; and ye [are] a great multitude,
 and [there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you
 for gods.
13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of
 Aaron, and the Levites, and have made for you priests after the
 manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whoever cometh
 to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, [the
 same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.
13:10 But as for us, the LORD [is] our God, and we have not
 forsaken him; and the priests, who minister to the LORD, [are]
 the sons of Aaron, and the Levites [wait] upon [their]
 business:
13:11 And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening
 burnt-sacrifices and sweet incense: the show-bread also [they
 set in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold
 with its lamps to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of
 the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
13:12 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 will not prosper.
13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them:
 so they were before Judah, and the ambush [was] behind them.
13:14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle [was]
 before and behind: and they cried to the LORD, and the priests
 sounded with the trumpets.
13:15 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.
13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God
 delivered them into their hand.
13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great
 slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred
 thousand chosen men.
13:18 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.
13:19 And Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
 Beth-el with its towns, and Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephron
 with its towns.
13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of
 Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
13:21 But Abijah became mighty, and married fourteen wives, and
 begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his
 sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
14:1 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.
14:2 And Asa did [that which was] good and right in the eyes of
 the LORD his God:
14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the
 high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the
 groves:
14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers,
 and to do the law and the commandment.
14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high
 places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
14:6 And he built fortified cities in Judah: for the land had
 rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had
 given him rest.
14:7 Therefore he said to 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.
14:8 And Asa had an army [of men] that bore targets and spears,
 out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that
 bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and eighty thousand:
 all these [were] mighty men of valor.
14:9 And there came out against them Zerah the Cushite, with a
 host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and
 came to Mareshah.
14:10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in
 array in the valley of Zephathath at Mareshah.
14:11 And Asa cried to 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 not man prevail against thee.
14:12 So the LORD smote the Cushites before Asa, and before
 Judah; and the Cushites fled.
14:13 And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued them
 to Gerar: and the Cushites 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.
14:14 And they smote all the cities about Gerar; for the fear of
 the LORD came upon them: and they plundered all the cities; for
 there was exceeding much spoil in them.
14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away
 sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me,
 Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you, while
 ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you;
 but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
15:3 Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true
 God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
15:4 But when they in their trouble returned to the LORD God of
 Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
15:5 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.
15:6 And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city: for
 God troubled them with all adversity.
15:7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak; for
 your work shall be rewarded.
15:8 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.
15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers
 with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for
 they resorted to him out of Israel in multitudes, when they saw
 that the LORD his God [was] with him.
15:10 So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the
 fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
15:11 And they offered to the LORD at the same time, of the
 spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven
 thousand sheep.
15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of
 their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
15:13 That whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should
 be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
15:14 And they swore to the LORD with a loud voice, and with
 shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
15:15 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 by them: and the LORD gave them rest on all
 sides.
15:16 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.
15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:
 nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
15:18 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.
15:19 And there was no [more] war until the five and thirtieth
 year of the reign of Asa.
16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha
 king of Israel came against Judah, and built Ramah, to the
 intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of
 Judah.
16:2 Then Asa brought silver and gold out of the treasures of
 the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to
 Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
16:3 [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.
16:4 And Ben-hadad hearkened to 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.
16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [it], that he left
 off the building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the
 stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha was
 building, and he built with it Geba and Mizpah.
16:7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah,
 and said to him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria,
 and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore hath the host of
 the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.
16:8 Were not the Cushites and the Lubims a numerous army, with
 very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely
 on the LORD, he delivered them into thy hand.
16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the
 whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of [them]
 whose heart [is] perfect towards him. In this thou hast done
 foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
16:10 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.
16:11 And behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they
 [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was
 diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceedingly
 [severe]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to
 the physicians.
16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and
 fortieth year of his reign.
16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchers which he had
 made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed
 which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds [of spices]
 prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great
 burning for him.
17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and
 strengthened himself against Israel.
17:2 And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah,
 and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of
 Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
17:3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the
 first ways of his father David, and sought not to Baalim;
17:4 But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in
 his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
17:5 Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand: and
 all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches
 and honor in abundance.
17:6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD:
 moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
17:7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes,
 [even] to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to
 Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
17:8 And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and
 Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and
 Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah,
 Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
17:9 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.
17:10 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the
 lands that [were] around Judah, so that they made no war
 against Jehoshaphat.
17:11 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.
17:12 And Jehoshaphat became exceedingly great; and he built in
 Judah castles, and cities of store.
17:13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the
 men of war, mighty men of valor, [were] in Jerusalem.
17:14 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 valor three hundred
 thousand.
17:15 And next to him [was] Jehohanan the captain, and with him
 two hundred and eighty thousand.
17:16 And next to him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, who
 willingly offered himself to the LORD; and with him two hundred
 thousand mighty men of valor.
17:17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with
 him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
17:18 And next to him [was] Jehozabad, and with him a hundred
 and eighty thousand ready prepared for the war.
17:19 These waited on the king, besides [those] whom the king
 put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and
 joined affinity with Ahab.
18:2 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 Ramoth-gilead.
18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
 Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I
 [am] as thou [art], and my people as thy people; and [we will
 be] with thee in the war.
18:4 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray
 thee, at the word of the LORD to-day.
18:5 Therefore the king of Israel collected of prophets four
 hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to
 battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will
 deliver [it] into the king's hand.
18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the
 LORD besides, that we may inquire of him?
18:7 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet
 one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him;
 for he never prophesieth good to me, but always evil: the same
 [is] Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the
 king say so.
18:8 And the king of Israel called for one [of his] officers,
 and said, Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
18:9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat
 each of them on his throne, clothed in [their] robes, and they
 sat in a void place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and
 all the prophets prophesied before them.
18:10 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 shall be consumed.
18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
 Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD will deliver [it] into
 the hand of the king.
18:12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him,
 saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the
 king with one consent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be
 like one of theirs, and speak thou good.
18:13 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, even what my God
 saith, that will I speak.
18:14 And when he had come to the king, the king said to him,
 Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I
 forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be
 delivered into your hand.
18:15 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?
18:16 Then he said, I saw 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.
18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
 thee [that] he would not prophesy good to me, but evil?
18:18 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.
18:19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel,
 that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spoke
 saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
18:20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD,
 and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said to him, With
 what?
18:21 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.
18:22 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.
18:23 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 to thee?
18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when
 thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
18:25 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;
18:26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [man] in the
 prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
 affliction, until I return in peace.
18:27 And Micaiah said, If thou shalt certainly return in peace,
 [then] hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken,
 all ye people.
18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
 went up to Ramoth-gilead.
18:29 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will
 disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy
 robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went
 to the battle.
18:30 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.
18:31 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.
18:32 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.
18:33 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 thy hand, that thou mayest carry
 me out of the host; for I am wounded.
18:34 And the battle increased that day: yet the king of Israel
 supported [himself] in [his] chariot against the Syrians until
 the evening: and about the time of the sun setting he died.
19:1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in
 peace to Jerusalem.
19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him,
 and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldst thou help the ungodly,
 and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon
 thee from before the LORD.
19:3 Nevertheless, there are good things found in thee, in that
 thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast
 prepared thy heart to seek God.
19:4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again
 through the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and
 brought them back to the LORD God of their fathers.
19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified
 cities of Judah, city by city,
19:6 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.
19:7 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.
19:8 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.
19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear
 of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
19:10 And whatever cause shall come to you of your brethren that
 dwell in their 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.
19:11 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 will be with the good.
20:1 It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of
 Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [others] besides
 the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There
 cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on
 this side of Syria; and behold, they [are] in Hazazon-tamar,
 which [is] En-gedi.
20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD,
 and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
20:4 And Judah assembled, to ask [help] of the LORD: even from
 all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and
 Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God in
 heaven? and rulest thou [not] over all the kingdoms of the
 heathen? and in thy hand [is there not] power and might, so
 that none is able to withstand thee?
20:7 [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the
 inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it
 to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
20:8 And they dwelt in it, and have built thee a sanctuary in it
 for thy name, saying,
20:9 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 to
 thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount
 Seir, whom thou wouldst not let Israel invade, when they came
 from the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and
 destroyed them not;
20:11 Behold, [I say], [how] they reward us, to come to cast us
 out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
20:12 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.
20:13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little
 ones, their wives, and their children.
20:14 Then upon Jehaziel 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;
20:15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of
 Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD to
 you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great
 multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God's.
20:16 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.
20:17 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.
20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the
 ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell
 before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.
20:19 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.
20:20 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.
20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed
 singers to 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.
20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set
 ambushes against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir,
 who were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
20:23 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.
20:24 And when Judah came towards the watch-tower in the
 wilderness, they looked to the multitude, and behold, they
 [were] dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
20:25 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 the spoil, it was so much.
20:26 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 hath been called, The valley of
 Berachah, to this day.
20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and
 Jehoshaphat in the front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with
 joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and
 trumpets to the house of the LORD.
20:29 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.
20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave
 him rest on all sides.
20:31 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.
20:32 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.
20:33 But the high places were not taken away: for as yet the
 people had not prepared their hearts to the God of their
 fathers.
20:34 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.
20:35 And after this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself
 with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to
 Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
20:37 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.
21:1 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.
21:2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and
 Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, Shephatiah:
 all these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of
 gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah:
 but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram; because he [was] the
 first-born.
21:4 Now when Jehoram had risen 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.
21:5 Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began to
 reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the
 house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab for a wife: and
 he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD.
21:7 Yet 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.
21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion
 of Judah, and made themselves a king.
21:9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his
 chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites
 who encompassed him, and the captains of the chariots.
21:10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah to
 this day. The same time [also] did Libnah revolt from under his
 hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
21:11 Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah,
 and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication,
 and compelled Judah to [do the same].
21:12 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,
21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and
 hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit
 idolatry, like the idolatries of the house of Ahab, and also
 hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [who were]
 better than thyself:
21:14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy
 people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
21:15 And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy
 bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day
 by day.
21:16 Moreover, the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit
 of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near the
 Cushites.
21:17 And they came up into Judah, and broke 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 not
 a son left to him, save Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.
21:18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with
 an incurable disease.
21:19 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 severe diseases. And his people made no
 burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign,
 and he reigned in Jerusalem, eight years, and departed without
 being desired: yet they buried him in the city of David, but
 not in the sepulchers of the kings.
22:1 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.
22:2 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.
22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his
 mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
22:4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the
 house of Ahab: for they were his counselors, after the death of
 his father, to his destruction.
22:5 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 Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.
22:6 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.
22:7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was from God by coming to
 Joram: for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against
 Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off
 the house of Ahab.
22:8 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.
22:9 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 retain the kingdom.
22:10 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.
22:11 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 bed chamber. 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.
22:12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years:
 and Athaliah reigned over the land.
23:1 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.
23:2 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.
23:3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in
 the house of God. And he said to them, Behold, the king's son
 shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
23:4 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;
23:5 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.
23:6 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.
23:7 And the Levites shall encompass the king, every man with
 his weapons in his hand; and whoever [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.
23:8 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.
23:9 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.
23:10 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 on
 all sides.
23:11 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.
23:12 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:
23:13 And she looked, and behold, the king stood at his pillar
 at the entrance, 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 music, and such
 as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and
 said, Treason, treason.
23:14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of
 hundreds that were set over the host, and said to them, Have
 her forth without the ranges: and whoever followeth her, let
 him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not
 in the house of the LORD.
23:15 So they laid hands on her; and when she had come to the
 entrance of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her
 there.
23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all
 the people, and between the king, that they should be the
 LORD'S people.
23:17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke
 it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and
 slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
23:18 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.
23:19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the
 LORD, that none [who was] unclean in any thing should enter.
23:20 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.
23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was
 quiet, after they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
24:1 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 Beer-sheba.
24:2 And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the
 LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and
 daughters.
24:4 And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was minded to
 repair the house of the LORD.
24:5 And he convened the priests and the Levites, and said to
 them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel
 money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and
 see that ye hasten the matter. But the Levites hastened [it]
 not.
24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to
 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?
24:7 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 they bestowed upon Baalim.
24:8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it
 without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
24:9 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.
24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and
 brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an
 end.
24:11 Now it came to pass, that at the time the chest was
 brought to 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 its place again. Thus they did day
 by day, and collected money in abundance.
24:12 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.
24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by
 them, and they set the house of God in its state, and
 strengthened it.
24:14 And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of
 the money before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made
 vessels for the house of the LORD, [even] vessels to minister,
 and to offer [with], 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.
24:15 But Jehoiada grew old, and was full of days when he died;
 a hundred and thirty years old [was] he when he died.
24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings,
 because he had done good in Israel, both towards God, and
 towards his house.
24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah,
 and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened to
 them.
24:18 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.
24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the
 LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give
 ear.
24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of
 Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to
 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.
24:21 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.
24:22 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].
24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that] the
 army 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 to the king of
 Damascus.
24:24 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.
24:25 And when they had 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 sepulchers of the kings.
24:26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the
 son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of
 Shimrith a Moabitess.
24:27 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.
25:1 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.
25:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
 but not with a perfect heart.
25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to
 him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his
 father.
25:4 But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is]
 written in the law of 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.
25:5 Moreover, Amaziah assembled Judah, 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.
25:6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of
 Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
25:7 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.
25:8 But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God
 will make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to
 help, and to cast down.
25:9 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.
25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that had
 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.
25:11 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.
25:12 And [other] ten thousand [left] alive the children of
 Judah carried away captive, and brought them to the top of the
 rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they
 were all broken in pieces.
25:13 But the soldiers of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that
 they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of
 Judah, from Samaria even to Beth-horon, and smote three
 thousand of them, and took much spoil.
25:14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah had 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
 himself before them, and burned incense to them.
25:15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against
 Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why
 hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not
 deliver their own people out of thy hand?
25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the
 king] said to him, Art thou made of the king's council?
 forbear? why shouldst thou be smitten? Then the prophet
 forbore, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy
 thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my
 counsel.
25:17 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.
25:18 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 for
 a wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon,
 and trod down the thistle.
25:19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thy
 heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldst
 thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldst fall, [even]
 thou, and Judah with thee?
25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it [came] from God, that
 he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because
 they sought after the gods of Edom.
25:21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one
 another in the face, [both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at
 Beth-shemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.
25:22 And Judah was defeated before Israel, and they fled every
 man to his tent.
25:23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah,
 the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and
 brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem
 from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred
 cubits.
25:24 And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the
 vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and
 the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and
 returned to Samaria.
25:25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, lived after
 the death of Joash, son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, fifteen
 years.
25:26 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?
25:27 Now after the time that Amaziah turned 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.
25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his
 fathers in the city of Judah.
26:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was] sixteen
 years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after the king
 slept with his fathers.
26:3 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.
26:4 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
 according to all that his father Amaziah did.
26:5 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.
26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and
 broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the
 wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the
 Philistines.
26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the
 Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.
26:8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread
 abroad [even] to the entrance of Egypt: for he strengthened
 [himself] exceedingly.
26:9 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.
26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells:
 for he had many 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.
26:11 Moreover, Uzziah had an army 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.
26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty
 men of valor [were] two thousand and six hundred.
26:13 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.
26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the army,
 shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and
 slings [to cast] stones.
26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful
 men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows
 and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was
 helped in a wonderful manner, till he was strong.
26:16 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.
26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him
 eighty priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men:
26:18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, [It
 appertaineth] not to thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to 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 [will it be] for thy honor from the LORD
 God.
26:19 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.
26:20 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.
26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death,
 and dwelt in a separate 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.
26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, were
 written by Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos.
26:23 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.
27:1 Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to
 reign and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's
 name also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
27:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
 according to all that his father Uzziah did: yet, he entered
 not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet
 corruptly.
27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the
 wall of Ophel he built much.
27:4 Moreover, he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in
 the forests he built castles and towers.
27:5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and
 prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the
 same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand
 measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the
 children of Ammon pay to him, both the second year, and the
 third.
27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways
 before the LORD his God.
27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and
 his ways, see, they [are] written in the book of the kings of
 Israel and Judah.
27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign,
 and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
 the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
28:1 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:
28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made
 also molten images for Baalim.
28:3 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.
28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places,
 and on the hills, and under every green tree.
28:5 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.
28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and
 twenty thousand in one day, [who were] all valiant men; because
 they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
28:7 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.
28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their
 brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and
 also took away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to
 Samaria.
28:9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded:
 and he went out before the army that came to Samaria, and said
 to 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 to heaven.
28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and
 Jerusalem for bond-men and bond-women to you: [but are there]
 not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
28:11 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.
28:12 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.
28:13 And said to 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.
28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before
 the princes and all the congregation.
28:15 And the men who were expressed by name arose, 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.
28:16 At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to
 help him.
28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and
 carried away captives.
28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low
 country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh,
 and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with its villages, and
 Timnah with its villages, Gimzo also and its villages: and they
 dwelt there.
28:19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of
 Israel: for he made Judah naked, and greatly transgressed
 against the LORD.
28:20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and
 distressed him, but strengthened him not.
28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion from the house of the LORD,
 and from the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave
 [it] to the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
28:22 And in the time of his distress he trespassed yet more
 against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.
28:23 For he sacrificed to 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.
28:24 And Ahaz collected 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 for himself altars
 in every corner of Jerusalem.
28:25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to
 burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God
 of his fathers.
28:26 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.
28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
 the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into
 the sepulchers of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son
 reigned in his stead.
29:1 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.
29:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
 according to all that David his father had done.
29:3 He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month,
 opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and
 assembled them in the east street,
29:5 And said to 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].
29:6 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.
29:7 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] to the God of Israel.
29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD hath been upon Judah and
 Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to
 astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
29:9 For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons
 and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.
29:10 Now [it is] in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD
 God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
29:11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen
 you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should
 minister to him, and burn incense.
29:12 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:
29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of
 the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
29:14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the
 sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
29:15 And they assembled 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.
29:16 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.
29:17 Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to
 sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the
 porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
 eight days; and on the sixteenth day of the first month they
 made an end.
29:18 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 its vessels, and the show-bread table,
 with all its vessels.
29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign
 cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and
 sanctified, and behold, they [are] before the altar of the
 LORD.
29:20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and convened the rulers
 of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
29:21 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.
29:22 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.
29:23 And they brought forth the he-goats [for] the sin-offering
 before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands
 upon them:
29:24 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.
29:25 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.
29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and
 the priests with the trumpets.
29:27 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.
29:28 And all the congregation worshiped, and the singers sang,
 and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued] until
 the burnt-offering was finished.
29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and
 all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshiped.
29:30 Moreover, Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the
 Levites to sing praise to the LORD, with the words of David,
 and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and
 they bowed their heads and worshiped.
29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated
 yourselves to 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.
29:32 And the number of the burnt-offerings, which the
 congregation brought, was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams:
 [and] two hundred lambs: all these [were] for a burnt-offering
 to the LORD.
29:33 And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen and
 three thousand sheep.
29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay
 all the burnt-offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites
 helped 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.
29:35 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.
29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had
 prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly.
30:1 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 to the
 LORD God of Israel.
30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all
 the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the
 second month.
30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the
 priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had
 the people assembled themselves at Jerusalem.
30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation
 throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they
 should come to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel at
 Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in the
 manner] as it was written.
30:6 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 to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he
 will return to the remnant of you that have escaped from the
 hand of the kings of Assyria.
30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren,
 who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who]
 therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
30:8 Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers [were], [but]
 yield yourselves to 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.
30:9 For if ye turn again to the LORD, your brethren and your
 children [will find] compassion before them that lead them
 captive, so that they will return into this land: for the LORD
 your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away
 [his] face from you, if ye return to him.
30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country
 of Ephraim and Manasseh even to Zebulun: but they laughed them
 to scorn, and mocked them.
30:11 Nevertheless, divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun
 humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
30:12 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.
30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem many people to keep the
 feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great
 congregation.
30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in
 Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and
 cast [them] into the brook Kidron.
30:15 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.
30:16 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] from the hand of the
 Levites.
30:17 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] to the LORD.
30:18 For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and
 Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves,
 yet they ate the passover otherwise than it was written. But
 Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every
 one,
30:19 [That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of
 his fathers, though [he is] not [cleansed] according to the
 purification of the sanctuary.
30:20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
30:21 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 to the LORD.
30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that
 taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they ate throughout
 the feast seven days, offering peace-offerings, and making
 confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven
 days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave 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.
30:25 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 from the land of Israel, and that
 dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
30:26 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.
30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people:
 and their voice was heard, and their prayer ascended to his
 holy dwelling-place, [even] to heaven.
31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel [that were]
 present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke 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.
31:2 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.
31:3 [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.
31:4 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.
31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of
 Israel brought in abundance the first-fruits of corn, wine, and
 oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the
 tithe of all [things] they brought in abundantly.
31:6 And 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 to
 the LORD their God, and laid [them] by heaps.
31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the
 heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.
31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps,
 they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites
 concerning the heaps.
31:10 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 abundance.
31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house
 of the LORD; and they prepared [them],
31:12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes, and the
 dedicated [things] faithfully: over which Conaniah the Levite
 [was] ruler, and Shimei his brother [was] the next.
31:13 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 Conaniah and
 Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king,
 and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter towards
 the east, [was] over the free-will-offerings of God, to
 distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
31:15 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:
31:16 Besides their genealogy of males, from three years old and
 upward, [even] to every one that entereth into the house of the
 LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges
 according to their courses;
31:17 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;
31:18 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:
31:19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, [who 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.
31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and performed
 [that which was] good and right and truth before the LORD his
 God.
31:21 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.
32:1 After [these] things, and their establishment, Sennacherib
 king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped
 against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for
 himself.
32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that
 he purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
32:3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop
 the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and
 they helped him.
32:4 So there were assembled many people, 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?
32:5 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.
32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and assembled
 them to him in the street of the gate of the city, and
 encouraged them, saying,
32:7 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 are] more with us than with him:
32:8 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.
32:9 After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to
 Jerusalem, (but he [himself laid siege] against Lachish, and
 all his power with him,) to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all
 Judah that [were] at Jerusalem, saying,
32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, On what do ye
 trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to
 die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God will
 deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
32:12 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?
32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done to all the
 people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those
 lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
32:14 Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations that
 my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out
 of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of
 my hand?
32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade
 you in this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any
 nation or kingdom hath been able to deliver his people out of
 my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall
 your God deliver you out of my hand?
32:16 And his servants spoke yet [more] against the LORD God,
 and against his servant Hezekiah.
32:17 He wrote also letters to rail at 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 my hand,
 so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of my
 hand.
32:18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech to
 the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to affright
 them, and to fill them with consternation; that they might take
 the city.
32:19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against
 the gods of the people of the earth, the work of the hands of
 man.
32:20 And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet
 Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
32:21 And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men
 of valor, 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 had come into the house of his god, they that came
 forth from his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
32:22 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 [others], and guided them on every side.
32:23 And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem, and
 presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that from thenceforth he
 was magnified in the sight of all nations.
32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near to death, and
 [he] prayed to the LORD: and he spoke to him, and he gave him a
 sign.
32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit
 [done] to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was
 wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
32:26 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.
32:27 And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor: 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:
32:28 Store-houses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and
 oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
32:29 Moreover, he provided for himself cities, and possessions
 of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him
 substance in great abundance.
32:30 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.
32:31 But, in [the business of] the embassadors of the princes
 of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire 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.
32:32 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.
32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him
 in the chief of the sepulchers of the sons of David: and all
 Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his
 death: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
33:1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and
 he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
33:2 But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 like the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast
 out before the children of Israel.
33:3 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 worshiped all the host of heaven, and served
 them.
33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the
 LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
 courts of the house of the LORD.
33:6 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.
33:7 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:
33:8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from the
 land which I have appointed for your fathers; provided 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.
33:9 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.
33:10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh, and to his people: but
 they would not hearken.
33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the
 army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the
 thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his
 God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
33:13 And prayed to him: and he was entreated by him, and heard
 his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his
 kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [is] God.
33:14 Now after this, he built a wall without the city of David,
 on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance
 at the fish-gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a
 very great highth, and put captains of war in all the fortified
 cities of Judah.
33:15 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.
33:16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed on
 it peace-offerings and thank-offerings, and commanded Judah to
 serve the LORD God of Israel.
33:17 Nevertheless, the people sacrificed still in the high
 places, [yet] to the LORD their God only.
33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to
 his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the
 name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they [are written] in
 the book of the kings of Israel.
33:19 His prayer also, and [how God] was entreated by him, and
 all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which 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.
33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
 his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
33:21 Amon [was] two and twenty years old when he began to
 reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
33:22 But he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed to all the
 carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served
 them;
33:23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his
 father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in
 his own house.
33:25 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.
34:1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
34:2 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.
34:3 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.
34:4 And they broke 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 broke in pieces, and made dust [of them] and strewed [it]
 upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.
34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars,
 and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
34:6 And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and
 Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their mattocks around.
34:7 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.
34:8 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.
34:9 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 collected from the
 hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of
 Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to
 Jerusalem.
34:10 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
 mend the house:
34:11 Even to the artificers and builders they gave [it], to buy
 hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses
 which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
34:12 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 superintend [it]; and [others of] the Levites,
 all that had skill in instruments of music.
34:13 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.
34:14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into
 the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the
 law of the LORD [given] by Moses.
34:15 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.
34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the
 king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy
 servants, they perform.
34:17 And they have collected 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.
34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the
 priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the
 king.
34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of
 the law, that he rent his clothes.
34:20 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,
34:21 Go, inquire 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.
34:22 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 spoke to her to
 that [effect].
34:23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
 Tell ye the man that sent you to me.
34:24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
 place, and upon its inhabitants, [even] all the curses that are
 written in the book which they have read before the king of
 Judah:
34:25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to
 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.
34:26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of
 the LORD, so shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of
 Israel [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;
34:27 Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble
 thyself before God, when thou didst hear his words against this
 place, and against its inhabitants, and didst humble thyself
 before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I
 have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.
34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt
 be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thy 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.
34:29 Then the king sent and convened all the elders of Judah
 and Jerusalem.
34:30 And the king went 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.
34:31 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.
34:32 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.
34:33 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.
35:1 Moreover, Josiah kept a passover to the LORD in Jerusalem:
 and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the
 first month.
35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged
 them to the service of the house of the LORD,
35:3 And said to the Levites that taught all Israel, who were
 holy to the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon
 the son of David king of Israel built; [it shall] not [be] a
 burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and
 his people Israel,
35:4 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.
35:5 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.
35:6 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.
35:7 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.
35:8 And his princes gave willingly to the people, to the
 priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,
 rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the
 passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle],
 and three hundred oxen.
35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, his brethren,
 and Hashabiah and Jehiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites,
 gave to the Levites for passover-offerings five thousand [small
 cattle], and five hundred oxen.
35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in
 their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the
 king's commandment.
35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled
 [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
35:12 And they removed the burnt-offerings, that they might give
 according to the divisions of the families of the people, to
 offer to the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses. And
 so [did they] with the oxen.
35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the
 ordinance: but the [other] holy [offerings] they boiled in
 pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided [them] speedily
 among all the people.
35:14 And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the
 priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in
 offering burnt-offerings and the fat until night; therefore the
 Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons
 of Aaron.
35:15 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.
35:16 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.
35:17 And the children of Israel [that were] present kept the
 passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven
 days.
35:18 And there was no passover like 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.
35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this
 passover kept.
35:20 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.
35:21 But he sent embassadors 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 with which I have war: for God
 commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from [meddling with]
 God, who [is] with me, that he may not destroy thee.
35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but
 disguised himself that he might fight with him, and hearkened
 not to the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to
 fight in the valley of Megiddo.
35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to
 his servants, Have me away; for I am severely wounded.
35:24 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
 sepulchers of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned
 for Josiah.
35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men
 and the singing women have spoken of Josiah in their
 lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel:
 and behold, they [are] written in the lamentations.
35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness,
 according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD,
35:27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are] written
 in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
36:1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
 Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
36:2 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to
 reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
36:3 And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and
 condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent
 of gold.
36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over
 Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And
 Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
36:5 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.
36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and
 bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of
 the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
36:8 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.
36:9 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.
36:10 And when the year had 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.
36:11 Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to
 reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
36:12 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.
36:13 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 to the LORD God of Israel.
36:14 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.
36:15 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:
36:16 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.
36:17 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.
36:18 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.
36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall
 of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and
 destroyed all its goodly vessels.
36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword he carried away
 to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until
 the reign of the kingdom of Persia.
36:21 To fulfill 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 fulfill seventy years.
36:22 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,
36:23 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 a 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.