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1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber
 that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers,
 and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron,
 whether I shall recover from this disease.
1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite,
 Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and
 say to them, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in
 Israel, [that] ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down
 from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
 And Elijah departed.
1:5 And when the messengers turned back to him, he said to them,
 Why have ye now returned?
1:6 And they said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and
 said to us, Go, turn again to the king that sent you, and say
 to him, Thus saith the LORD, [Is it] not because [there is] not
 a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub
 the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that
 bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
1:7 And he said to them, What manner of man [was he] who came up
 to meet you, and told you these words?
1:8 And they answered him, [He was] a hairy man, and girt with a
 girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah
 the Tishbite.
1:9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty.
 And he went up to him: and behold, he sat on the top of a hill.
 And he spoke to him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come
 down.
1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I
 [am] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and
 consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from
 heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
1:11 Again also he sent to him another captain of fifty with his
 fifty. And he answered and said to him, O man of God, thus hath
 the king said, Come down quickly.
1:12 And Elijah answered and said to them, If I [am] a man of
 God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy
 fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed
 him and his fifty.
1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his
 fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and
 fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said to
 him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of
 these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the
 two captains of the former fifties with their fifties:
 therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
1:15 And the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, Go down with him:
 be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him to
 the king.
1:16 And he said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou
 hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron,
 [is it] not because [there is] no God in Israel to inquire of
 his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on
 which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
1:17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah
 had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year
 of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had
 no son.
1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, [are]
 they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?
2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into
 heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from
 Gilgal.
2:2 And Elijah said to Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the
 LORD hath sent me to Beth-el. And Elisha said, [As] the LORD
 liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So
 they went down to Beth-el.
2:3 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Beth-el came
 forth to Elisha, and said to him, Knowest thou that the LORD
 will take away thy master from thy head to-day? And he said,
 Yes, I know [it]; hold ye your peace.
2:4 And Elijah said to him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for
 the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, [As] the LORD
 liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So
 they came to Jericho.
2:5 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Jericho came to
 Elisha, and said to him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take
 away thy master from thy head to-day? And he answered, Yes, I
 know [it]; hold ye your peace.
2:6 And Elijah said to him, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the
 LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth,
 and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two
 went on.
2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to
 view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped [it] together, and
 smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so
 that they two went over on dry ground.
2:9 And it came to pass, when they had gone over, that Elijah
 said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I am taken
 away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double
 portion of thy spirit be upon me.
2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: [nevertheless],
 if thou shalt see me [when I am] taken from thee, it shall be
 so to thee; but if not, it shall not be [so].
2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,
 that behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of
 fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a
 whirlwind into heaven.
2:12 And Elisha saw [it], and he cried, My father, my father,
 the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him
 no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in
 two pieces.
2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him,
 and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
 smote the waters, and said, Where [is] the LORD God of Elijah?
 And when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and
 thither: and Elisha went over.
2:15 And when the sons of the prophets who [were] to view at
 Jericho, saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on
 Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the
 ground before him.
2:16 And they said to him, Behold now, there are with thy
 servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek
 thy master: lest perhaps the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him
 up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And
 he said, Ye shall not send.
2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send.
 They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but
 found him not.
2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at
 Jericho,) he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?
2:19 And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, I pray
 thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord
 seeth: but the water [is] bad, and the ground barren.
2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein.
 And they brought [it] to him.
2:21 And he went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast the
 salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed
 these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or
 barren [land].
2:22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the
 saying of Elisha which he spoke.
2:23 And he went up from thence to Beth-el: and as he was going
 up by the way, there came forth little children out of the
 city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, thou bald-head;
 go up, thou bald-head.
2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in
 the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of
 the wood, and tore forty and two children of them.
2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he
 returned to Samaria.
3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
 Samaria [in] the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
 and reigned twelve years.
3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like
 his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of
 Baal that his father had made.
3:3 Nevertheless, he cleaved to the sins of Jeroboam the son of
 Nebat, who made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master, and rendered to
 the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred
 thousand rams, with the wool.
3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of
 Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and
 numbered all Israel.
3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,
 saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go
 with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go: I [am]
 as thou [art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy
 horses.
3:8 And he said, which way shall we go up? And he answered, The
 way through the wilderness of Edom.
3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the
 king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days'
 journey: and there was no water for the army, and for the
 cattle that followed them.
3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath
 called these three kings together, to deliver them into the
 hand of Moab!
3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the
 LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the
 king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha
 the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.
3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So
 the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went
 down to him.
3:13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do
 with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and to the
 prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him, No:
 for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver
 them into the hand of Moab.
3:14 And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom
 I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of
 Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look towards thee,
 nor see thee.
3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the
 minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of
 ditches.
3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither
 shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water,
 that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
3:18 And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the LORD:
 he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
3:19 And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice
 city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of
 water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat-offering
 was offered, that behold, there came water by the way of Edom,
 and the country was filled with water.
3:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up
 to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put
 on armor, and upward, and stood in the border.
3:22 And they rose early in the morning, and the sun shone upon
 the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side
 [as] red as blood:
3:23 And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain,
 and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the
 spoil.
3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites
 rose and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but
 they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in [their]
 country.
3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of
 land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped
 all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in
 Kirhara-seth they left the stones of it; but the slingers went
 about [it], and smote it.
3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too
 severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew
 swords, to break through to the king of Edom: but they could
 not.
3:27 Then he took his eldest son that was to reign in his stead,
 and offered him [for] a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there
 was great indignation against Israel: And they departed from
 him, and returned to [their own] land.
4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of
 the prophets to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead;
 and thou knowest that thy servant feared the LORD: and the
 creditor hath come to take to him my two sons to be bond-men.
4:2 And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for thee? tell me,
 what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid hath
 not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
 neighbors, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4:4 And when thou hast come in, thou shalt shut the door upon
 thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those
 vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon
 her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.
4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she
 said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said to her,
 [There is] not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell
 the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children on
 the remainder.
4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where
 [was] a distinguished woman; and she constrained him to eat
 bread. And [so] it was, [that] as oft as he passed by, he
 turned in thither to eat bread.
4:9 And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that
 this [is] a holy man of God, who passeth by us continually.
4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and
 let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a
 candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he
 shall turn in thither.
4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned
 into the chamber, and lay there.
4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunamite. And
 when he had called her, she stood before him.
4:13 And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, thou hast been
 careful for us with all this care; what [is] to be done for
 thee? wouldst thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain
 of the host? And she answered, I dwell among my own people.
4:14 And he said, What then [is] to be done for her? And Gehazi
 answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she
 stood in the door.
4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of
 life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord,
 [thou] man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.
4:17 And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season that
 Elisha had said to her, according to the time of life.
4:18 And when the child was grown, it happened on a day, that he
 went out to his father to the reapers.
4:19 And he said to his father, My head, my head. And he said to
 a lad, Carry him to his mother.
4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother,
 he sat on her knees till noon, and [then] died.
4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God,
 and shut [the door] upon him, and went out.
4:22 And she called to her husband, and said, Send me, I pray
 thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may
 run to the man of God, and come again.
4:23 And he said, Why wilt thou go to him to-day? [it is]
 neither new-moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be]
 well.
4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive,
 and go forward; slack not [thy] riding for me, except I bid
 thee.
4:25 So she went and came to the man of God to mount Carmel. And
 it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he
 said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, [yonder is] that Shunamite:
4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say to her, [Is it]
 well with thee? [Is it] well with thy husband? [Is it] well
 with the child? and she answered, [It is] well.
4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught
 him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And
 the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] sorrowful
 within her: and the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and hath not
 told me?
4:28 Then she said, Did I ask a son from my lord? did I not say,
 Do not deceive me.
4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins and take my staff
 in thy hand, and go thy way: and if thou shalt meet any man,
 salute him not; and if any shall salute thee, answer him not
 again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
4:30 And the mother of the child said, [As] the LORD liveth, and
 [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and
 followed her.
4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon
 the face of the child; but [there was] neither voice, nor
 hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him,
 saying, The child is not awaked.
4:32 And when Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child
 was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.
4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them both, and
 prayed to the LORD.
4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth
 upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon
 his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the
 flesh of the child became warm.
4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and
 went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed
 seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunamite. So he
 called her. And when she had come in to him, he said, Take up
 thy son.
4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself
 to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And [there was] a dearth
 in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before
 him: and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil
 pottage for the sons of the prophets.
4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found
 a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds his lap full, and
 came and shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for they knew
 [them] not.
4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass,
 as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and
 said, O [thou] man of God, [there is] death in the pot. And
 they could not eat [of it].
4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast [it] into the
 pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat.
 And there was no harm in the pot.
4:42 And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the
 man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley,
 and full ears of corn in its husk. And he said, Give to the
 people, that they may eat.
4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before a
 hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat:
 for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [of
 it].
4:44 So he set [it] before them, and they ate, and left [of it],
 according to the word of the LORD.
5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a
 great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the
 LORD had given deliverance to Syria: he was also a mighty man
 in valor, [but he was] a leper.
5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought
 away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she
 waited on Naaman's wife.
5:3 And she said to her mistress, I would that my lord [were]
 with the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him
 of his leprosy.
5:4 And [one] went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus
 said the maid that [is] of the land of Israel.
5:5 And the king of Syria said, Come, go, and I will send a
 letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with
 him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold,
 and ten changes of raiment.
5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now
 when this letter hath come to thee, behold, I have [with this]
 sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of
 his leprosy.
5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the
 letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to kill
 and to make alive, that this man doth send to me to recover a
 man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how
 he seeketh a quarrel against me.
5:8 And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard that
 the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the
 king, saying, Why hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now
 to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and
 stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in
 Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and
 thou shalt be clean.
5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I
 thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on
 the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the
 place, and recover the leper.
5:12 [Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better
 than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be
 clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
5:13 And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My
 father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing,
 wouldst thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he
 saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
5:14 Then he went down, and dipped himself seven times in
 Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his
 flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was
 clean.
5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company,
 and came and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know
 that [there is] no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now
 therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing from thy servant.
5:16 But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I
 will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he
 refused.
5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be
 given to thy servant two mules burden of earth? for thy servant
 will henceforth offer neither burnt-offering nor sacrifice to
 other gods, but to the LORD.
5:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, [that] when my
 master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he
 leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon:
 when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon
 thy servant in this thing.
5:19 And he said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a
 little way.
5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,
 Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not
 receiving at his hands that which he brought: but [as] the LORD
 liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat from him.
5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw [him]
 running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet
 him, and said, [Is] all well?
5:22 And he said, All [is] well. My master hath sent me, saying,
 Behold, even now there have come to me from mount Ephraim two
 young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee,
 a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged
 him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two
 changes of garments, and laid [them] upon two of his servants;
 and they bore [them] before him.
5:24 And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from their
 hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men go,
 and they departed.
5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master: and Elisha
 said to him, Whence [comest thou] Gehazi? and he said, Thy
 servant went no whither.
5:26 And he said to him, Went not my heart [with thee], when the
 man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a time
 to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive-yards, and
 vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and
 maid-servants?
5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to thee, and
 to thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper
 [as white] as snow.
6:1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the
 place where we dwell with thee is too narrow for us.
6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, to Jordan, and take thence every
 man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may
 dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy
 servants. And he answered, I will go.
6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut
 down wood.
6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the
 water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was
 borrowed.
6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him
 the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither;
 and the iron floated.
6:7 Therefore said he, Take [it] up to thee. And he put out his
 hand, and took it.
6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took
 counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place
 [shall be] my camp.
6:9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying,
 Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians
 have come down.
6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of
 God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not
 once nor twice.
6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly
 troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said
 to them, Will ye not show me which of us [is] for the king of
 Israel?
6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but
 Elisha, the prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of
 Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber.
6:13 And he said, Go, and spy where he [is], that I may send and
 bring him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, [he is] in
 Dothan.
6:14 Therefore he sent thither horses, and chariots, and a great
 host: and they came by night, and encompassed the city.
6:15 And when the servant of the man of God had risen early, and
 gone forth, behold, a host compassed the city both with horses
 and chariots. And his servant said to him, Alas, my master! how
 shall we do?
6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that [are] with us
 [are] more than they that [are] with them.
6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his
 eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the
 young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain [was] full of
 horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD,
 and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And
 he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
6:19 And Elisha said to them, This [is] not the way, neither
 [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man
 whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
6:20 And it came to pass, when they had come into Samaria, that
 Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these [men], that they may
 see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold,
 [they were] in the midst of Samaria.
6:21 And the king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My
 father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?
6:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite [them]: wouldst thou
 smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and
 with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may
 eat and drink, and go to their master.
6:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had
 eaten and drank, he sent them away, and they went to their
 master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of
 Israel.
6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of
 Syria gathered all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and behold, they
 besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for eighty [pieces]
 of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five
 [pieces] of silver.
6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,
 there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
6:27 And he said, If the LORD doth not help thee, whence shall I
 help thee? out of the barn-floor, or out of the wine-press?
6:28 And the king said to her, What aileth thee? and she
 answered, This woman said to me, Give thy son, that we may eat
 him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.
6:29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the
 next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid
 her son.
6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the
 woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the
 wall, and the people looked, and behold, [he had] sackcloth
 within upon his flesh.
6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of
 Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
6:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him;
 and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the
 messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this
 son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? look, when
 the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the
 door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger
 came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] from the
 LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith
 the LORD, To-morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine
 flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a
 shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man
 of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows in
 heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt
 see [it] with thy eyes, but shalt not eat of it.
7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate:
 and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine [is]
 in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here,
 we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the army of
 the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they
 kill us, we shall but die.
7:5 And they rose in the twilight to go to the camp of the
 Syrians: and when they had come to the uttermost part of the
 camp of Syria, behold, [there was] no man there.
7:6 For the LORD had made the army of the Syrians to hear a
 noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a
 great army: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of
 Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the
 kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left
 their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp
 as it [was], and fled for their life.
7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the
 camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried
 thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid [it];
 and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried
 thence [also], and went and hid [it].
7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day [is]
 a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till
 the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now
 therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
7:10 So they came and called to the porter of the city: and they
 told him, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and
 behold, [there was] no man there, neither voice of man, but
 horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they [were].
7:11 And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the king's
 house within.
7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said to his servants,
 I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know
 that we [are] hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp,
 to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of
 the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.
7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some] take,
 I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in
 the city, (behold, they [are] as all the multitude of Israel
 that are left in it: behold, [I say], they [are] even as all
 the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us
 send and see.
7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent
 after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
7:15 And they went after them to Jordan: and lo, all the way
 [was] full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast
 away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the
 king.
7:16 And the people went out, and plundered the tents of the
 Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel,
 and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word
 of the LORD.
7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to
 have the charge of the gate: and the people trod upon him in
 the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spoke
 when the king came down to him.
7:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the
 king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a
 measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to-morrow about
 this time in the gate of Samaria:
7:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now,
 behold, [if] the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such
 a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thy
 eyes, but shalt not eat of it.
7:20 And so it happened to him: for the people trod upon him in
 the gate, and he died.
8:1 Then Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to
 life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn
 wherever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a
 famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
8:2 And the woman arose, and did according to the saying of the
 man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in
 the land of the Philistines seven years.
8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman
 returned from the land of the Philistines: and she went forth
 to cry to the king for her house, and for her land.
8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of
 God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that
 Elisha hath done.
8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
 restored a dead body to life, that behold, the woman, whose son
 he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and
 for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the
 woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
 appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that
 [was] hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that
 she left the land even till now.
8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria
 was sick; and it was told to him, saying, The man of God hath
 come hither.
8:8 And the king said to Hazael, Take a present in thy hand, and
 go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him,
 saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him,
 even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels burden, and
 came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of
 Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this
 disease?
8:10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, Thou mayest
 certainly recover: but the LORD hath showed me, that he shall
 surely die.
8:11 And he settled his countenance steadfastly, until he was
 ashamed: and the man of God wept.
8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,
 Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of
 Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their
 young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their
 children, and rip up their women with child.
8:13 And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog, that he
 should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath
 shown me that thou [wilt be] king over Syria.
8:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who
 said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told
 me [that] thou shouldest surely recover.
8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick
 cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on his face,
 so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
 Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, Jehoram the son
 of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and
 he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the
 house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he
 did evil in the sight of the LORD.
8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for David his
 servant's sake, as he promised him to give him always a light,
 [and] to his children.
8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
 made a king over themselves.
8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him:
 and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites who encompassed
 him, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into
 their tents.
8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day.
 Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
 fathers, in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in
 his stead.
8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel
 did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
8:26 Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to
 reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's
 name [was] Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil
 in the sight of the LORD, as [did] the house of Ahab: for he
 [was] the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against
 Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded
 Joram.
8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the
 wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought
 against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
 king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in
 Jezreel, because he was sick.
9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the
 prophets, and said to him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box
 of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead:
9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of
 Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise
 up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head, and
 say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over
 Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
9:4 So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet, went to
 Ramoth-gilead.
9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host [were]
 sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And
 Jehu said, To which of us all? And he said, To thee, O captain.
9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil
 on his head, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD God of
 Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD,
 [even] over Israel.
9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I
 may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood
 of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off
 from Ahab the males, and him that is shut up and left in
 Israel:
9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam
 the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of
 Ahijah:
9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel,
 and [there shall be] none to bury [her]. And he opened the
 door, and fled.
9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and [one]
 said to him, [Is] all well? Why came this mad [man] to thee?
 And he said to them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
9:12 And they said, [It is] false; tell us now. And he said,
 Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I
 have anointed thee king over Israel.
9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put
 [it] under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with
 trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
 against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all
 Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
9:15 But king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
 wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with
 Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it is your minds,
 [then] let none go forth [nor] escape from the city to go to
 tell [it] in Jezreel.
9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram
 lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see
 Joram.
9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he
 spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a
 company. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet
 them, and let him say, [Is it] peace?
9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus
 saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to
 do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told,
 saying, The messenger came to them, but he doth not return.
9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them,
 and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu
 answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and
 doth not return? and the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu
 the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready.
 And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out,
 each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met
 him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is
 it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the
 lewd acts of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so]
 many?
9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah,
 [There is] treachery, O Ahaziah.
9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote
 Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart,
 and he sunk down in his chariot.
9:25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, [and] cast
 him into the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for
 remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his
 father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
9:26 Surely I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood
 of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this
 plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into
 the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.
9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled by
 the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed him, and said,
 Smite him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at the going
 up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and
 died there.
9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
 buried him in his sepulcher with his fathers in the city of
 David.
9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
 Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
9:30 And when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it];
 and she painted her face, and adorned her head, and looked out
 at a window.
9:31 And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, [Had] Zimri peace,
 who slew his master?
9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who [is]
 on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three
 eunuchs.
9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and
 [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the
 horses: and he trod her under foot.
9:34 And when he had come in, he ate, and drank, and said, Go,
 see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a
 king's daughter.
9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her
 than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This
 [is] the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah
 the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat
 the flesh of Jezebel:
9:37 And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face
 of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall
 not say, This [is] Jezebel.
10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote
 letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the
 elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,
10:2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your
 master's sons [are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots
 and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;
10:3 Look out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and
 set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's
 house.
10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two
 kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
10:5 And he that [was] over the house, and he that [was] over
 the city, the elders also, and those who brought up [the
 children], sent to Jehu, saying, We [are] thy servants, and
 will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king:
 do thou [that which is] good in thy eyes.
10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, if
 ye [are] mine, and [if] ye will hearken to my voice, take ye
 the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to
 Jezreel by to-morrow this time. Now the king's sons [being]
 seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city, who
 brought them up.
10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that
 they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put
 their heads in baskets, and sent [them] to him to Jezreel.
10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have
 brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them
 in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.
10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and
 stood, and said to all the people, Ye [are] righteous: behold,
 I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all
 these?
10:10 Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the
 word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of
 Ahab; for the LORD hath done [that] which he spoke by his
 servant Elijah.
10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in
 Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsmen, and his
 priests, until he left him none remaining.
10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. [And] as
 he [was] at the shearing-house in the way,
10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and
 said, Who [are] ye? And they answered, We [are] the brethren of
 Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and
 the children of the queen.
10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive,
 and slew them at the pit of the shearing-house, [even] two and
 forty men; neither left he any of them.
10:15 And when he had departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab
 the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted him, and
 said to him, Is thy heart right, as my heart [is] with thy
 heart; And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it is, give [me] thy
 hand. And he gave [him] his hand; and he took him up to him
 into the chariot.
10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.
 So they made him ride in his chariot.
10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained to
 Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the
 saying of the LORD, which he spoke to Elijah.
10:18 And Jehu convened all the people, and said to them, Ahab
 served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.
10:19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his
 servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have
 a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal: whoever shall be wanting, he
 shall not live. But Jehu did [it] in subtilty, to the intent
 that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal.
10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And
 they proclaimed [it].
10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshipers
 of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not.
 And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was
 full from one end to another.
10:22 And he said to him that [was] over the vestry, Bring forth
 vestments for all the worshipers of Baal. And he brought them
 forth vestments.
10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the
 house of Baal, and said to the worshipers of Baal, Search, and
 look that there are here with you none of the servants of the
 LORD, but the worshipers of Baal only.
10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and
 burnt-offerings, Jehu appointed eighty men without, and said,
 [If] any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape,
 [he that letteth him go], his life [shall be] for the life of
 him.
10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
 offering the burnt-offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to
 the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And
 they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and
 the captains cast [them] out, and went to the city of the house
 of Baal.
10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of
 Baal, and burned them.
10:27 And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the
 house of Baal, and made it a draught-house to this day.
10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
10:29 Yet [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
 Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the
 golden calves that [were] in Beth-el, and that [were] in Dan.
10:30 And the LORD said to Jehu, Because thou hast done well in
 executing [that which is] right in my eyes, [and] hast done to
 the house of Ahab according to all that [was] in my heart, thy
 children of the fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of
 Israel.
10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God
 of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins
 of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.
10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and
 Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel;
10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites,
 and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which [is]
 by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and
 all his might, [are] they not written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel?
10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in
 Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria
 [was] twenty and eight years.
11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
 was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of
 Ahaziah, took Joash the the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from
 among the king's sons [who were] slain; and they hid him,
 [even] him and his nurse, in the bed-chamber, from Athaliah, so
 that he was not slain.
11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years.
 And Athaliah reigned over the land.
11:4 And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the rulers
 over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought
 them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant
 with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD,
 and showed them the king's son.
11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that ye
 shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath
 shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
11:6 And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur; and a third
 part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch
 of the house, that it be not broken down.
11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even
 they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the
 king.
11:8 And ye shall compass the king around, every man with his
 weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let
 him be slain. And be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he
 cometh in.
11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all
 [things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took
 every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with
 them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada
 the priest.
11:10 And to the captains over hundreds the priest gave king
 David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the
 LORD.
11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his
 hand, around the king, from the right corner of the temple to
 the left corner of the temple, [along] by the altar and the
 temple.
11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown
 upon him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king,
 and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God
 save the king.
11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and] of
 the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar,
 as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters by the
 king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with
 trumpets. And Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason,
 treason.
11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
 hundreds, the officers of the host, and said to them, Have her
 forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with
 the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the
 house of the LORD.
11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by
 which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she
 slain.
11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king
 and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between
 the king also and the people.
11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of
 Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images they broke
 wholly in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the
 altars. And the priest appointed officers over the the house of
 the LORD.
11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains,
 and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought
 down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way
 of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the
 throne of the kings.
11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was
 in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the
 king's house.
11:21 Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.
12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and
 forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
 [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
12:2 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the
 LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still
 sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
 dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD,
 [even] the money of every one that passeth [the account], the
 money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh
 into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
12:5 Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his
 acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,
 wherever any breach shall be found.
12:6 But it was [so], [that] in the three and twentieth year of
 king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the
 house.
12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the
 [other] priests, and said to them, Why repair ye not the
 breaches of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of
 your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the
 house.
12:8 And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the
 people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in
 the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side
 as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that
 kept the door put in it all the money [that was] brought into
 the house of the LORD.
12:10 And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money
 in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came
 up, and they put up in bags, and counted the money [that was]
 found in the house of the LORD.
12:11 And they gave the money, being counted, into the hands of
 them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of
 the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders,
 that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and
 hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD,
 and for all that was laid out for the house to repair [it].
12:13 Yet, there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls
 of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or
 vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the
 house of the LORD:
12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired with it
 the house of the LORD.
12:15 Moreover, they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand
 they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they
 dealt faithfully.
12:16 The trespass-money and sin-money was not brought into the
 house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
 Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to
 Jerusalem.
12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things
 that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings
 of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all
 the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the
 LORD, and in the king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of
 Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew
 Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of
 Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried
 him with his fathers in the city of David: And Amaziah his son
 reigned in his stead.
13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah
 king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over
 Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.
13:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
 Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and
 he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and
 into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days.
13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened to
 him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of
 Syria oppressed them.
13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they went out
 from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel
 dwelt in their tents, as formerly.
13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house
 of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked in them: and
 there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
 horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the
 king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the
 dust by threshing.
13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did,
 and his might, [are] they not written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel?
13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
 Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah
 began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in
 Samaria, [and he reigned] sixteen years.
13:11 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
 he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
 who made Israel sin: [but] he walked in them.
13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
 and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of
 Judah, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
 the kings of Israel?
13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon
 his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of
 Israel.
13:14 Now Elisha had fallen sick of his disease of which he
 died. And Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept
 over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of
 Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
13:15 And Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took
 to him bow and arrows.
13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thy hand upon the
 bow. And he put his hand [upon it]: and Elisha put his hands
 upon the king's hands.
13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened [it].
 Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of
 the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from
 Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou
 hast consumed [them].
13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them]. And he
 said to the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote
 thrice, and ceased.
13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
 shouldst have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou
 smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou
 shalt smite Syria [but] thrice.
13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the
 Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that
 behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into
 the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and
 touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet.
13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
 Jehoahaz.
13:23 And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on
 them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with
 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither
 did he as yet reject them from his presence.
13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Ben-hadad his son
 reigned in his stead.
13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from the hand
 of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken
 from the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times Joash
 defeated him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel,
 reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
 and [he] reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
 mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
14:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
 yet not like David his father: he did according to all things
 as Joash his father did.
14:4 But, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people
 sacrificed, and burnt incense on the high places.
14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed
 in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king
 his father.
14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according to
 that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, in which
 the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to
 death for the children, nor the children be put to death for
 the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own
 sin.
14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of Salt ten thousand, and
 took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel to this
 day.
14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz
 son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one
 another in the face.
14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
 Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the
 cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my
 son for a wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in
 Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted
 thee up: glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why shouldst
 thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldst fall, [even]
 thou, and Judah with thee?
14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of
 Israel went up: and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one
 another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which [belongeth] to
 Judah.
14:12 And Judah was defeated before Israel; and they fled every
 man to their tents.
14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the
 son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to
 Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate
 of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels
 found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
 king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his
 might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?
14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
 Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned
 in his stead.
14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
 death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and
 he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and
 slew him there.
14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
 Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who [was]
 sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father
 Amaziah.
14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the
 king slept with his fathers.
14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
 Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, began to reign
 in Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one years.
14:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
 he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
 who made Israel to sin.
14:25 He restored the border of Israel from the entering of
 Hamath to the sea of the plain, according to the word of the
 LORD God of Israel, which he spoke by the hand of his servant
 Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, who [was] of
 Gath-hepher.
14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it was]
 very bitter: for [there was] not any shut up, nor any left, nor
 any helper for Israel.
14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of
 Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of
 Jeroboam the son of Joash.
14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did,
 and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus,
 and Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, [are] they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?
14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the kings
 of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel
 began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he
 reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
 [was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
15:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
 according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people
 sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper to the
 day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the
 king's son [was] over the house, judging the people of the
 land.
15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with
 his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in
 his stead.
15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
 Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six
 months.
15:9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of
 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and
 smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his
 stead.
15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold they [are]
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:12 This [was] the word of the LORD which he spoke to Jehu,
 saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the
 fourth [generation]. And so it came to pass.
15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
 thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full
 month in Samaria.
15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came
 to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and
 slew him, and reigned in his stead.
15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy
 which he made, behold, they [are] written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were] in it, and
 the borders of it from Tirzah: because they opened not [to
 him], therefore he smote [it]; [and] all the women in it that
 were with child he ripped up.
15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah
 began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and
 reigned] ten years in Samaria.
15:18 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
 he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son
 of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
15:19 [And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and
 Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand
 might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, [even] of all the
 mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to
 give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned
 back, and stayed not there in the land.
15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Israel?
15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son
 reigned in his stead.
15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah
 the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and
 reigned] two years.
15:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
 he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
 made Israel to sin.
15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired
 against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the
 king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of
 the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
 behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Israel.
15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah,
 Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in
 Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years.
15:28 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
 he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
 made Israel to sin.
15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser
 king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and
 Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the
 land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah
 the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned
 in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of
 Uzziah.
15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did,
 behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Israel.
15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of
 Israel, began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign,
 and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
 name [was] Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
15:34 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
 LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
15:35 Yet, the high places were not removed: the people
 sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He
 built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah, Rezin
 the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
 fathers in the city of David his father: And Ahaz his son
 reigned in his stead.
16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz
 the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
16:2 Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign, and
 reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which
 was] right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his
 father.
16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even
 made his son to pass through the fire, according to the
 abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before
 the children of Israel.
16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and
 on the hills, and under every green tree.
16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of
 Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but
 could not overcome [him].
16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria,
 and drove the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath,
 and have dwelt there to this day.
16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria,
 saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me
 from the hand of the king of Syria, and from the hand of the
 king of Israel, who rise up against me.
16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the
 house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house,
 and sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.
16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened to him: for the king of
 Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the
 people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser
 king of Assyria, and saw an altar that [was] at Damascus: and
 king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar,
 and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship of it.
16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that
 king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made
 [it] against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
16:12 And when the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the
 altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered on it.
16:13 And he burnt his burnt-offering and his meat-offering, and
 poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his
 peace-offerings upon the altar.
16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which [was] before
 the LORD, from the front of the house, from between the altar
 and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the
 altar.
16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon
 the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering, and the
 evening meat-offering, and the king's burnt-sacrifice, and his
 meat-offering, with the burnt-offering of all the people of the
 land, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offerings; and
 sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all
 the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for
 me to inquire [by].
16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king
 Ahaz commanded.
16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and
 removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off
 the brazen oxen that [were] under it, and put it upon a
 pavement of stones.
16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the
 house, and the king's entry without, he turned from the house
 of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are] they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Judah?
16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
 fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in
 his stead.
17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the
 son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
17:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea
 became his servant, and gave him presents.
17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he
 had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present
 to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year:
 therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in
 prison.
17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,
 and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took
 Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them
 in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the
 cities of the Medes.
17:7 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned
 against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the
 land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt,
 and had feared other gods,
17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD
 cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings
 of Israel which they had made.
17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly things that [were]
 not right against the LORD their God, and they built for
 themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of
 the watchmen to the fortified city.
17:10 And they set up for themselves images and groves on every
 high hill, and under every green tree:
17:11 And there they burnt incense on all the high places, as
 [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and
 wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
17:12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them,
 Ye shall not do this thing.
17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah,
 by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye
 from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my
 statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your
 fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
17:14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their
 necks, like the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in
 the LORD their God.
17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he
 made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified
 against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and
 went after the heathen that [were] around them, [concerning]
 whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like
 them.
17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God,
 and made for themselves molten images, [even] two calves, and
 made a grove, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served
 Baal.
17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
 through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and
 sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke
 him to anger.
17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed
 them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of
 Judah only.
17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their
 God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and
 afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,
 until he had cast them out of his sight.
17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
 Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from
 following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
 Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had
 said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried
 away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.
17:24 And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and
 from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from
 Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead
 of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and
 dwelt in its cities.
17:25 And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there,
 [that] they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions
 among them, which slew [some] of them.
17:26 Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The
 nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of
 Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore
 he hath sent lions among them, and behold, they slay them,
 because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither
 one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go
 and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God
 of the land.
17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from
 Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they
 should fear the LORD.
17:29 Yet, every nation made gods of their own, and put [them]
 in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made,
 every nation in their cities in which they dwelt.
17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of
 Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites
 burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech,
 the gods of Sepharvaim.
17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made to themselves of the
 lowest of them priests of the high places, who sacrificed for
 them in the houses of the high places.
17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the
 manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
17:34 To this day they do after the former manners: they fear
 not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after
 their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the
 LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them,
 saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to
 them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
17:36 But the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt
 with great power and an out-stretched arm, him shall ye fear,
 and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the
 commandment which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for
 evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not
 forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he will deliver
 you out of the hand of all your enemies.
17:40 Yet they did not hearken, but they did after their former
 manner.
17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven
 images, both their children, and their children's children: as
 did their fathers, so do they to this day.
18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah
 king of Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah
 began to reign.
18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign;
 and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's
 name also [was] Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
18:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
 according to all that David his father did.
18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut
 down the groves, and broke in pieces the brazen serpent that
 Moses had made: for till those days the children of Israel
 burnt incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was
 none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were
 before him.
18:6 For he cleaved to the LORD, [and] departed not from
 following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD
 commanded Moses.
18:7 And the LORD was with him; [and] he prospered whithersoever
 he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and
 served him not.
18:8 He smote the Philistines, [even] to Gaza, and its borders,
 from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah,
 which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
 Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against
 Samaria, and besieged it.
18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the
 sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king
 of Israel, Samaria was taken.
18:11 And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria,
 and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and
 in the cities of the Medes:
18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God,
 but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant
 of the LORD commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do
 [them].
18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah Sennacherib
 king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of
 Judah, and took them.
18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to
 Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which
 thou puttest on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria
 appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of
 silver and thirty talents of gold.
18:15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in
 the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's
 house.
18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the
 doors of the temple of the LORD, and [from] the pillars which
 Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of
 Assyria.
18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and
 Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army
 against Jerusalem: and they went up, and came to Jerusalem: and
 when they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of
 the upper pool, which [is] in the highway of the fuller's
 field.
18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to
 them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the household,
 and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
18:19 And Rab-shakeh said to them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah,
 Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence
 [is] this in which thou trustest?
18:20 Thou sayest, but [they are but] vain words, I [have]
 counsel and strength for the war. Now in whom dost thou trust,
 that thou rebellest against me?
18:21 Now behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised
 reed, [even] upon Egypt, on which if a man leaneth, it will go
 into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to
 all that trust on him.
18:22 But if ye say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is]
 not that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
 taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
 worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the
 king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses,
 if thou shalt be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
18:24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of
 the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt
 for chariots and for horsemen?
18:25 Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to
 destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and
 destroy it.
18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah,
 to Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the
 Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and talk not with us
 in the Jews language in the ears of the people that [are] on
 the wall.
18:27 But Rab-shakeh said to them, Hath my master sent me to thy
 master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent
 me] to the men who sit on the wall, that they may feed on their
 vilest excretions with you?
18:28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the
 Jews language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great
 king, the king of Assyria:
18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
 shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying,
 The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be
 delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
 Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out
 to me, and [then] eat ye every man of his own vine, and every
 one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his
 cistern:
18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own
 land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a
 land of olive-oil and of honey, that ye may live, and not die:
 and hearken not to Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying,
 The LORD will deliver us.
18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his
 land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
18:34 Where [are] the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where [are]
 the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered
 Samaria out of my hand?
18:35 Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that
 have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD
 should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a
 word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the
 household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
 recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him
 the words of Rab-shakeh.
19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he
 rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went
 into the house of the LORD.
19:2 And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and
 Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
 sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
19:3 And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a
 day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children
 have come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring
 forth.
19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of
 Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
 reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the
 LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the
 remnant that are left.
19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
19:6 And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master,
 Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast
 heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have
 blasphemed me.
19:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
 rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him
 to fall by the sword in his own land.
19:8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
 warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he had departed
 from Lachish.
19:9 And when he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Cush, Behold,
 he hath come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers
 again to Hezekiah, saying,
19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let
 not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying,
 Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of
 Assyria.
19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
 done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou
 be delivered?
19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
 fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph, and
 the children of Eden who [were] in Thelasar?
19:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and
 the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
 messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of
 the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God
 of Israel, who dwellest [between] the cherubim, thou art the
 God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou
 hast made heaven and earth.
19:16 LORD, bow down thy ear, and hear: open, LORD, thy eyes,
 and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him
 to reproach the living God.
19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the
 nations and their lands,
19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no
 gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore
 they have destroyed them.
19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou
 us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know
 that thou [art] the LORD God, [even] thou only.
19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus
 saith the LORD God of Israel, [That] which thou hast prayed to
 me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
19:21 This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning
 him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and]
 laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken
 her head at thee.
19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom
 hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high:
 [even] against the Holy [One] of Israel.
19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast
 said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the
 hight of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut
 down its tall cedar trees, [and] its choice fir trees: and I
 will enter into the lodgings of his borders, [and into] the
 forest of his Carmel.
19:24 I have digged and drank strange waters, and with the sole
 of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and]
 of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it
 to pass, that thou shouldst be to lay waste fortified cities
 [in] ruinous heaps.
19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
 dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field,
 and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the house-tops, and
 [as corn] blasted before it is grown up.
19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming
 in, and thy rage against me.
19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into
 my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my
 bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
 which thou camest.
19:29 And this [shall be] a sign to thee, Ye shall eat this year
 such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that
 which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and
 reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of it.
19:30 And the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah
 shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they
 that escape from mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD [of hosts]
 shall do this.
19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
 Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
 there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against
 it.
19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
 shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake,
 and for my servant David's sake.
19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD
 went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and
 eighty five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning,
 behold, they [were] all dead corpses.
19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
 returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of
 Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
 him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia.
 And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And the prophet
 Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith
 the LORD, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not
 live.
20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the
 LORD, saying,
20:3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked
 before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
 [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept
 grievously.
20:4 And it came to pass, before Isaiah had gone out into the
 middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
20:5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people,
 Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard
 thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on
 the third day thou shalt go up to the house of the LORD.
20:6 And I will add to thy days fifteen years; and I will
 deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
 Assyria; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for
 my servant David's sake.
20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and
 laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.
20:8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign that
 the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of
 the LORD the third day?
20:9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD,
 that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the
 shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow
 to go forward ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return
 backward ten degrees.
20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD: and he brought
 the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on
 the dial of Ahaz.
20:12 At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of
 Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had
 heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened to them, and showed them all the
 house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the
 spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of his
 armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was
 nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah
 showed them not.
20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to
 him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee?
 And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country [even]
 from Babylon.
20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And
 Hezekiah answered, All [the things] that [are] in my house have
 they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not
 shown them.
20:16 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thy house,
 and that which thy fathers have laid up in store to this day,
 shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the
 LORD.
20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou
 shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in
 the palace of the king of Babylon.
20:19 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the
 LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good],
 if peace and truth shall be in my days?
20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might,
 and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into
 the city, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles
 of the kings of Judah?
20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son
 reigned in his stead.
21:1 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and
 he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
 name [was] Hephzi-bah.
21:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out
 before the children of Israel.
21:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his
 father had destroyed; and he reared altars for Baal, and made a
 grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshiped all the host
 of heaven, and served them.
21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the
 LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
 courts of the house of the LORD.
21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed
 times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits
 and wizards: he committed much wickedness in the sight of the
 LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.
21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in
 the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his
 son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out
 of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
21:8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of
 the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe
 to do according to all that I have commanded them, and
 according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do
 more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before
 the children of Israel.
21:10 And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
 abominations, [and] hath done wickedly above all that the
 Amorites did, who [were] before him, and hath made Judah also
 to sin with his idols:
21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I
 [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that
 whoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and
 the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as
 [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside
 down.
21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and
 deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall
 become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
21:15 Because they have done [that which was] evil in my sight,
 and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came
 out of Egypt, even to this day.
21:16 Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he
 had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin
 with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of
 the LORD.
21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did,
 and his sin that he sinned, [are] they not written in the book
 of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
 garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his
 son reigned in his stead.
21:19 Amon [was] twenty and two years old when he began to
 reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
 name [was] Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
21:20 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 as his father Manasseh did.
21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in,
 and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped
 them:
21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not
 in the way of the LORD.
21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew
 the king in his own house.
21:24 And 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.
21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, [are] they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Judah?
21:26 And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza:
 and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
22:1 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
 name [was] Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
22:2 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
 and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not
 aside to the right hand or to the left.
22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
 [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of
 Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
22:4 Go to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver
 which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers
 of the door have gathered from the people:
22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the
 work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let
 them give it to the doers of the work, which [is] in the house
 of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
22:6 To carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber,
 and hewn stone to repair the house.
22:7 But there was no reckoning made with them of the money that
 was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I
 have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And
 Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the
 king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money
 that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the
 hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the
 house of the LORD.
22:10 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah
 the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before
 the king.
22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of
 the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the
 son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the
 scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
22:13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and
 for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found:
 for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against
 us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this
 book, to do according to all that which is written concerning
 us.
22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and
 Shaphan, and Asahiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife
 of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
 wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they
 communed with her.
22:15 And she said to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
 Tell the man that sent you to me,
22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
 place, and upon its inhabitants, [even] all the words of the
 book which the king of Judah hath read:
22:17 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 kindled
 against this place and shall not be quenched.
22:18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the
 LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of
 Israel, [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;
22:19 Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast humbled
 thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spoke
 against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they
 should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy
 clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith
 the LORD.
22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and
 thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thy eyes
 shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.
 And they brought the king word again.
23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders
 of Judah and of Jerusalem.
23:2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all
 the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him,
 and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both
 small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the
 book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, 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 [their] heart
 and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this covenant
 that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the
 covenant.
23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
 priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to
 bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that
 were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of
 heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of
 Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Beth-el.
23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of
 Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the
 cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; them also
 that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and
 to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD,
 without Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the
 brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the
 powder of it upon the graves of the children of the people.
23:7 And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that [were]
 by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the
 grove.
23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah,
 and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt
 incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and broke down the high
 places of the gates that [were] in the entrance of the gate of
 Joshua the governor of the city, which [were] on a man's left
 hand at the gate of the city.
23:9 Nevertheless, the priests of the high places came not up to
 the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate of the
 unleavened bread among their brethren.
23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which [is] in the valley of the
 children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his
 daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had
 given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by
 the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which [was] in
 the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
23:12 And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper chamber
 of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars
 which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the
 LORD, did the king beat down, and broke [them] down from
 thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
23:13 And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem, which
 [were] on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which
 Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the
 abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination
 of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children
 of Ammon, did the king defile.
23:14 And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the
 groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
23:15 Moreover, the altar that [was] at Beth-el, [and] the high
 place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,
 had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and
 burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and
 burned the grove.
23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he espied the sepulchers
 that [were] there on the mount, and sent, and took the bones
 out of the sepulchers, and burned [them] upon the altar, and
 polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of
 God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
23:17 Then he said, What title [is] that which I see? And the
 men of the city told him, [It is] the sepulcher of the man of
 God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou
 hast done against the altar of Beth-el.
23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So
 they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that
 came out of Samaria.
23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that [were] in
 the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
 provoke [the LORD] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them
 according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places, that
 [were] there upon the altars, and burnt men's bones upon them,
 and returned to Jerusalem.
23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the
 passover to the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the book
 of this covenant.
23:22 Surely there was not held such a passover from the days of
 the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings
 of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah.
23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [in which] this
 passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.
23:24 Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the
 wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the
 abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in
 Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words
 of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the
 priest found in the house of the LORD.
23:25 And like him was there no king before him, that turned to
 the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with
 all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after
 him arose there [any] like him.
23:26 Notwithstanding, the LORD turned not from the fierceness
 of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against
 Judah, because of all the provocations by which Manasseh had
 provoked him.
23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my
 sight, as I have removed Israel, and will reject this city
 Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said,
 My name shall be there.
23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
23:29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against
 the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah
 went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen
 him.
23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from
 Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his
 own sepulcher. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son
 of Josiah and anointed him, and made him king in his father's
 stead.
23:31 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to
 reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his
 mother's name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of
 Libnah.
23:32 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 according to all that his fathers had done.
23:33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land
 of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and subjected
 the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a
 talent of gold.
23:34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in
 the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to
 Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt and
 died there.
23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but
 he taxed the land to give the money according to the
 commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold from
 the people of the land, from every one according to his
 taxation, to give [it] to Pharaoh-nechoh.
23:36 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to
 reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
 mother's name [was] Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
23:37 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 according to all that his fathers had done.
24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
 Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and
 rebelled against him.
24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and
 bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of
 the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy
 it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his
 servants the prophets.
24:3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came [this] upon
 Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of
 Manasseh, according to all that he did;
24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled
 Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son
 reigned in his stead.
24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his
 land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt
 to the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
24:8 Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to reign,
 and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name
 [was] Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
24:9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 according to all that his father had done.
24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of
 Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city,
 and his servants besieged it.
24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of
 Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes,
 and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the
 eighth year of his reign.
24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house
 of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in
 pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had
 made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes,
 and all the mighty men of valor, [even] ten thousand captives,
 and all the artificers, and smiths: none remained, save the
 poorest sort of the people of the land.
24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's
 mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty
 of the land, [those] carried he into captivity from Jerusalem
 to Babylon.
24:16 And all the men of might, [even] seven thousand, and
 artificers and smiths a thousand, all [that were] strong [and]
 apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to
 Babylon.
24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's
 brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
24:18 Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years old when he began to
 reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
 mother's name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of
 Libnah.
24:19 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
 according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in
 Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his
 presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the
 tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that]
 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his army,
 against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built
 forts against it on all sides.
25:2 And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king
 Zedekiah.
25:3 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine
 prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of
 the land.
25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled]
 by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is]
 by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city
 on all sides:) and [the king] went the way towards the plain.
25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued the king, and overtook
 him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered
 from him.
25:6 So they took the king, and brought him to the king of
 Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put
 out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass,
 and carried him to Babylon.
25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the month,
 which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of
 Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of
 the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem:
25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
 and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house
 he burnt with fire.
25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the
 captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem on all
 sides.
25:11 Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city,
 and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with
 the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of
 the guard carry away.
25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land
 [to be] vine-dressers and husbandmen.
25:13 And the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the
 LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the house
 of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the
 brass of them to Babylon.
25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
 spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they
 ministered, they took away.
25:15 And the fire-pans, and the bowls, [and] such things as
 [were] of gold, [in] gold, and of silver, [in] silver, the
 captain of the guard took away.
25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had
 made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels
 was without weight.
25:17 The hight of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the
 capital upon it [was] brass: and the hight of the capital three
 cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the
 capital around, all of brass: and like to these had the second
 pillar with wreathen work.
25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
 priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers
 of the door:
25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over
 the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's
 presence, who were found in the city, and the principal scribe
 of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men
 of the people of the land [that were] found in the city:
25:20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and
 brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at
 Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of
 their land.
25:22 And [as for] the people that remained in the land of
 Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over
 them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,
 ruler.
25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their
 men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor,
 there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
 Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son
 of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of
 Maachathite, they and their men.
25:24 And Gedaliah swore to them, and to their men, and said to
 them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the
 land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with
 you.
25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the
 son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came,
 and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the
 Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains
 of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid
 of the Chaldees.
25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
 captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on
 the seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that]
 Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to
 reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of
 prison;
25:28 And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the
 throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon;
25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he ate bread
 continually before him all the days of his life.
25:30 And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given him by
 the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.