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2 Kings
Chapter 1

1. And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

2 And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was

in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go,

inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this

sickness.

3 But the angel of Jehovah said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to

meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it

because there is no God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub, the

god of Ekron?

4 Now therefore thus saith Jehovah, Thou shalt not come down from the bed

whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

5 And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them, Why is it

that ye are returned?

6 And they said unto him, There came up a man to meet us, and said unto

us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus

saith Jehovah, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou sendest

to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come

down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet

you, and told you these words?

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.

9. Then [the king] sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he

went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he

spake unto him, O man of God, the king hath said, Come down.

10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of

God, 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.

11 And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty and his fifty. And

he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come

down quickly.

12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be 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.

13 And again he sent the captain of a 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 unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let

my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy

sight.

14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two former

captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in

thy sight.

15 And the angel of Jehovah said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not

afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

16 And he said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Forasmuch as thou hast sent

messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there

is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come

down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

17 So he died according to the word of Jehovah which Elijah had spoken.

And Jehoram began to reign in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the

son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

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 Kings
Chapter 2

1. And it came to pass, when Jehovah would take up Elijah by a whirlwind

into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah hath

sent me as far as Beth-el. And Elisha said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy

soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el.

3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha,

and said unto him, Knowest thou that Jehovah will take away thy master from

thy head to-day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah

hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul

liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.

5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came near to Elisha,

and said unto him, Knowest thou that Jehovah will take away thy master from

thy head to-day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah hath

sent me to the Jordan. And he said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul

liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.

7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over against

them afar off: and they two stood by the Jordan.

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.

9. And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto

Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I am taken from thee. And

Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: [nevertheless], if thou see

me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it

shall not be so.

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, which parted them

both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots 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.

13. He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went

back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the

waters, and said, Where is Jehovah, the God of Elijah? and when he also had

smitten the waters, they were divided hither and thither; and Elisha went

over.

15 And when the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho over against

him 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.

16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there are with thy servants fifty

strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master, lest the Spirit

of Jehovah hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some

valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.

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.

18 And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said

unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

19. And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, we pray thee, the

situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is bad,

and the land miscarrieth.

20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they

brought it to him.

21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast salt

therein, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, I have healed these waters; there

shall not be from thence any more death or miscarrying.

22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of

Elisha which he spake.

23 And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the

way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said

unto him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.

24 And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of

Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty

and two lads of them.

25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned

to Samaria.

 



2 Kings
Chapter 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.

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, but not like

his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that

his father had made.

3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,

wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered unto the

king of Israel the wool of a hundred thousand lambs, and of a hundred

thousand rams.

5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled

against the king of Israel.

6. And king Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all

Israel.

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 up: I am as thou art, my people as thy

people, my horses as thy horses.

8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way of the

wilderness of Edom.

9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of

Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there was no

water for the host, nor for the beasts that followed them.

10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! for Jehovah hath called these three

kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah, that we

may inquire of Jehovah by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants

answered and said, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on

the hands of Elijah.

12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of Jehovah is with him. So the king of

Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee?

get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother.

And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay; for Jehovah hath called these

three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

14 And Elisha said, As Jehovah 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 toward thee, nor see thee.

15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel

played, that the hand of Jehovah came upon him.

16 And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, Make this valley full of trenches.

17 For thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see

rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and ye shall drink, both

ye and your cattle and your beasts.

18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of Jehovah: he will also

deliver the Moabites into your hand.

19 And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and

shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every

good piece of land with stones.

20. And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of offering the

oblation, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the

country was filled with water.

21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight

against them, they gathered themselves together, all that were able to put

on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.

22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the

water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood:

23 and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they

have smitten each man his fellow: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and

smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward

into the land smiting the Moabites.

25 And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they

cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the fountains

of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-hareseth [only] they

left the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he

took with him seven hundred men that drew sword, to break through unto the

king of Edom; but they could not.

27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and

offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath

against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.



2 Kings
Chapter 4

1. Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the

prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou

knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take

unto him my two children to be bondmen.

2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast

thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid hath not anything in the

house, save a pot of oil.

3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even

empty vessels; borrow not a few.

4 And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons,

and pour out into all those vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is

full.

5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons;

they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.

6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her

son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel

more. And the oil stayed.

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 sons of the rest.

8. And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great

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.

9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a

holy man of God, that passeth by us continually.

10 Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set

for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a candlestick: and it

shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the

chamber and lay there.

12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he

had called her, she stood before him.

13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful

for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be

spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I

dwell among mine own people.

14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered,

Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.

15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the

door.

16 And he said, At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt

embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto

thy handmaid.

17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season, when the time

came round, as Elisha had said unto her.

18. And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to

his father to the reapers.

19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to his

servant, Carry him to his mother.

20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on

her knees till noon, and then died.

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.

22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one

of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God,

and come again.

23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to-day? it is neither new

moon nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go

forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.

25 So she went, and came unto 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 the Shunammite:

26 run, I pray thee, now to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with

thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she

answered, It is well.

27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of

his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said,

Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Jehovah hath hid it

from me, and hath not told me.

28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not

deceive me?

29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy

hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any

salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the

child.

30 And the mother of the child said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul

liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.

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 returned

to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead,

and laid upon his bed.

33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed

unto Jehovah.

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 him; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.

35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro; and went

up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and

the child opened his eyes.

36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called

her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.

37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the

ground; and she took up her son, and went out.

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 unto his

servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the

prophets.

39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild

vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred

them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.

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 man of God,

there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

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.

42 And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God

bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain

in his sack. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

43 And his servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men?

But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith Jehovah,

They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof,

according to the word of Jehovah.



2 Kings
Chapter 5

1. Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man

with his master, and honorable, because by him Jehovah had given victory

unto Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper.

2 And the Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out

of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's wife.

3 And she said unto her mistress, Would that my lord were with the

prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.

4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the

maiden that is of the land of Israel.

5 And the king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter unto 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.

6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, And now when

this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to

thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.

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 unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I

pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel

had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou

rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a

prophet in Israel.

9. So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the

door of the house of Elisha.

10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in the

Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt

be clean.

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 Jehovah his

God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

12 Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the 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.

13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father,

if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have

done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

14 Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan,

according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like

unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

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 present

of thy servant.

16 But he said, As Jehovah liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive

none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

17 And Naaman said, If not, yet, I pray thee, let there be given to thy

servant two mules' burden of earth; for thy servant will henceforth offer

neither burnt-offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto Jehovah.

18 In this thing Jehovah pardon thy servant: 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 myself in the house of Rimmon,

Jehovah pardon thy servant in this thing.

19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little

way.

20. But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my

master hath spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands

that which he brought: as Jehovah liveth, I will run after him, and take

somewhat of him.

21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw one running after

him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even

now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of

the sons of the prophets; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and

two changes of raiment.

23 And Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. And he urged him, and

bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and

laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

24 And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and

bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.

25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him,

Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.

26 And he said unto him, Went not my heart [with thee], when the man

turned from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to

receive garments, and oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and

men-servants and maid-servants?

27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy

seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as white] as

snow.



2 Kings
Chapter 6

1. And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place

where we dwell before thee is too strait for us.

2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto the 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.

3 And one said, Be pleased, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he

answered, I will go.

4 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down

wood.

5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he

cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.

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 made the iron to swim.

7 And he said, Take it up to thee. So he put out his hand, and took it.

8. Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel

with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.

9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that

thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are coming down.

10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him

and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.

11 And the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing;

and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not show me which

of us is for the king of Israel?

12 And one of his servants said, Nay, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the

prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou

speakest in thy bedchamber.

13. And he said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and fetch him.

And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and

they came by night, and compassed the city about.

15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone

forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city.

And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

16 And he answered, Fear not; for they that are with us are more than

they that are with them.

17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Jehovah, I pray thee, open his eyes, that

he may see. And Jehovah opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and,

behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about

Elisha.

18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Jehovah, and said,

Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with

blindness according to the word of Elisha.

19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the

city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. And he led

them to Samaria.

20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha

said, Jehovah, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And Jehovah

opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of

Samaria.

21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father,

shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest 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.

23 And he prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and

drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of

Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

24. And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered

all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged

it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the

fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.

26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a

woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

27 And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee, whence shall I help thee?

out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?

28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This

woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will

eat my son to-morrow.

29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next

day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.

30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that

he rent his clothes (now he was passing by upon the wall); and the people

looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

31 Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha

the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting 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 the door fast against him: is not the sound of his master's feet

behind him?

33 And while he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came

down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Jehovah; why should I

wait for Jehovah any longer?



2 Kings
Chapter 7

1. And Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: thus saith Jehovah,

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.

2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God,

and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this

thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt

not eat thereof.

3. Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they

said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

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 unto the host of the Syrians: if they save

us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians;

and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians,

behold, there was no man there.

6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of

chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: 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 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.

8 And when these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went

into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold,

and raiment, and went and hid it; and they came back, and entered into

another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.

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,

punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the

king's household.

10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city; and they told

them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no

man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the asses tied,

and the tents as they were.

11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's household

within.

12. And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will

now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are

hungry; therefore are they 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.

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, they are as

all the multitude of Israel that are consumed); and let us send and see.

14 They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after

the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

15 And they went after them unto the 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.

16 And the people went out, and plundered the camp 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 Jehovah.

17 And the king appointed the captain 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 spake when the king came down to him.

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;

19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if

Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said,

Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof:

20 it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the

gate, and he died.



2 Kings
Chapter 8

1. Now Elisha had spoken unto the woman, whose son he had restored to

life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever

thou canst sojourn: for Jehovah hath called for a famine; and it shall also

come upon the land seven years.

2 And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God;

and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the

Philistines seven years.

3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned

out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king

for her house and for her land.

4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God,

saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.

5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored to

life him that was dead, 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.

6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed

unto 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 until now.

7. And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick;

and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thy hand, and go, meet

the man of God, and inquire of Jehovah by him, saying, Shall I recover of

this sickness?

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 Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying,

Shall I recover of this sickness?

10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou shalt surely recover;

howbeit Jehovah hath showed me that he shall surely die.

11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly [upon him], until he was

ashamed: and the man of God wept.

12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know

the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strongholds

wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword,

and wilt dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with

child.

13 And Hazael said, But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he

should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, Jehovah hath showed me

that thou shalt be king over Syria.

14 Then 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 wouldest

surely recover.

15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took the coverlet, and

dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael

reigned in his stead.

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.

17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned

eight years in Jerusalem.

18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of

Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he did that which was

evil in the sight of Jehovah.

19 Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake,

as he promised him to give unto him a lamp for his children alway.

20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a

king over themselves.

21 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he

rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that compassed him about, and the

captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.

22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then did

Libnah revolt at the same time.

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?

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.

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.

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.

27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was

evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the

son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of

Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.

29 And king Joram returned 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.



2 Kings
Chapter 9

1. And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said

unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go

to Ramoth-gilead.

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.

3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith

Jehovah, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and

flee, and tarry not.

4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to

Ramoth-gilead.

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, Unto which of us

all? And he said, To thee, O captain.

6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his

head, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, I have

anointed thee king over the people of Jehovah, even over Israel.

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

Jehovah, at the hand of Jezebel.

8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab

every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in

Israel.

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.

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.

11. Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto

him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto

them, Ye know the man and what his talk was.

12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus

spake he to me, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I have anointed thee king over

Israel.

13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him

on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.

14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against

Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of

Hazael king of Syria;

15 but king Joram was 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 this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out

of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.

16. So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there.

And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.

17 Now the watchman was standing 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?

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 cometh not back.

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.

20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not

back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he

driveth furiously.

21 And Joram said, Make ready. And they made ready his chariot. And Joram

king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and

they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the

Jezreelite.

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 whoredoms of thy mother

Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is

treachery, O Ahaziah.

24 And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and smote Joram between

his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his

chariot.

25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the

portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when

I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, Jehovah laid this burden

upon him:

26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his

sons, saith Jehovah; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith Jehovah.

Now therefore take and cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the

word of Jehovah.

27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the

garden-house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the

chariot: [and they smote him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And

he fled to Megiddo, and died there.

28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him

in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to

reign over Judah.

30. And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she

painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.

31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, thou Zimri,

thy master's murderer?

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.

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.

34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said, See now to

this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.

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.

36 Wherefore they came back, and told him. And he said, This is the word

of Jehovah, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In

the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;

37 and the body 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.



2 Kings
Chapter 10

1. Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent

to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and unto them that

brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying,

2 And 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;

3 look ye 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.

4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two kings stood

not before him: how then shall we stand?

5 And he that was over the household, and he that was over the city, the

elders also, and they that 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 man king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.

6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be on my

side, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men

your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time. Now

the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the

city, who brought them up.

7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the

king's sons, and slew them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in

baskets, and sent them unto him to Jezreel.

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.

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 smote all these?

10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of

Jehovah, which Jehovah spake concerning the house of Ahab: for Jehovah hath

done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.

11 So Jehu smote all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and

all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left

him none remaining.

12 And he arose and departed, and went to Samaria. And as he was at the

shearing-house of the shepherds in the way,

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.

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.

15. And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of

Rechab coming to meet him; and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thy

heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is.

If it be, give me thy hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to

him into the chariot.

16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Jehovah. So they made

him ride in his chariot.

17 And when he came to Samaria, he smote all that remained unto Ahab in

Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the word of Jehovah, which

he spake to Elijah.

18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab

served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his

worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great

sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live.

But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the

worshippers of Baal.

20 And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. And they

proclaimed it.

21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal

came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into

the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to

another.

22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments

for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.

23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of

Baal; and he said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there

be here with you none of the servants of Jehovah, but the worshippers of

Baal only.

24 And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. Now Jehu had

appointed him fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I

bring into your hands escape, [he that letteth him go], his life shall be

for the life of him.

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.

26 And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and

burned them.

27 And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of

Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.

28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

29. Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he 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.

30 And Jehovah said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing

that which is right in mine eyes, [and] hast done unto the house of Ahab

according to all that was in my heart, thy sons of the fourth generation

shall sit on the throne of Israel.

31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Jehovah, the God of

Israel, with all his heart: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam,

wherewith he made Israel to sin.

32 In those days Jehovah began to cut off from Israel: and Hazael smote

them in all the borders of Israel;

33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the

Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the

Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

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?

35 And Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. And

Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and

eight years.



2 Kings
Chapter 11

1. Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she

arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took

Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons

that were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedchamber;

and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;

3 And he was with her hid in the house of Jehovah six years. And Athaliah

reigned over the land.

4. And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over

hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the

house of Jehovah; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of

them in the house of Jehovah, and showed them the king's son.

5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do: a

third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, shall be keepers of the

watch of the king's house;

6 And a third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate

behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, and be a

barrier.

7 And the two companies of you, even all that go forth on the sabbath,

shall keep the watch of the house of Jehovah about the king.

8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons

in his hand; and he that cometh within the ranks, let him be slain: and be

ye with the king when he goeth out, and when he cometh in.

9 And the captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the

priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those that were to come

in on the sabbath, with those that were to go out on the sabbath, and came

to Jehoiada the priest.

10 And the priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and

shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of Jehovah.

11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the

right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar

and the house, by the king round about.

12 Then he brought out 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, [Long] live the king.

13. And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and of] the people,

she came to the people into the house of Jehovah:

14 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the

manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the

people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah rent her

clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!

15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds that were

set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth between the ranks;

and him that followeth her slay with the sword. For the priest said, Let

her not be slain in the house of Jehovah.

16 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry

to the king's house: and there was she slain.

17. And Jehoiada made a covenant between Jehovah and the king and the

people, that they should be Jehovah's people; between the king also and the

people.

18 And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and brake it

down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew

Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed

officers over the house of Jehovah.

19 And he took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the

guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from

the house of Jehovah, and came by the way of the gate of the guard unto the

king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And

Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.

21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.

2 Kings 12

1. In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned

forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his

days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still

sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

4. And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things

that is brought into the house of Jehovah, in current money, the money of

the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh

into any man's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,

5 let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and

they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall

be found.

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.

7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other]

priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house?

now therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it

for the breaches of the house.

8 And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from

the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

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 Jehovah: and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all

the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah.

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 Jehovah.

11 And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of them

that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah: and they

paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought upon the house

of Jehovah,

12 and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and

hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that

was laid out for the house to repair it.

13 But there were not made for the house of Jehovah cups of silver,

snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of

the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah;

14 for they gave that to them that did the work, and repaired therewith

the house of Jehovah.

15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they

delivered the money to give to them that did the work; for they dealt

faithfully.

16 The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the

sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was the

priests'.

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.

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 Jehovah, and of the king's house, and sent it

to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

19 Now 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?

20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at the

house of Millo, [on the way] that goeth down to Silla.

21 For Jozacar 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.

 



2 Kings
Chapter 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.

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and followed

the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; he

departed not therefrom.

3 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he delivered

them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad

the son of Hazael, continually.

4 And Jehoahaz besought Jehovah, and Jehovah hearkened unto him; for he

saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.

5 (And Jehovah gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under

the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as

beforetime.

6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam,

wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the

Asherah also in Samaria.)

7 For he left not to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten

chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them,

and made them like the dust in threshing.

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?

9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria:

and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

10. In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash

the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen

years.

11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah; he departed

not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made

Israel to sin; but he walked therein.

12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might

wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in

the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne:

and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died: and Joash

the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over him, and said, My

father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!

15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows; and he took unto him

bow and arrows.

16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thy hand upon the bow; and he

put his hand [upon it]. And Elisha laid his hands upon the king's hands.

17 And he said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. Then Elisha

said, Shoot; and he shot. And he said, Jehovah's arrow of victory, even the

arrow of victory over Syria; for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek,

till thou have consumed them.

18 And he said, Take the arrows; and he took them. And he said unto the

king of Israel, Smite upon the ground; and he smote thrice, and stayed.

19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have

smitten five or six times: then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst

consumed it, whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

20. And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites

invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they

spied a band; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and as

soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on

his feet.

22 And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

23 But Jehovah was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and

had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and

Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence

as yet.

24 And Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his

stead.

25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad

the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz

his father by war. Three times did Joash smite him, and recovered the

cities of Israel.



2 Kings
Chapter 14

1. In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah

the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.

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 Jehoaddin of

Jerusalem.

3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, yet not like

David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still

sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his

hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father:

6 but the children of the murderers he put not to death; according to

that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Jehovah

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 die

for his own sin.

7 He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by

war, and called the name of it Joktheel, unto this day.

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.

9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,

The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon,

saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild

beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.

10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up:

glory thereof, and abide at home; for why shouldest thou meddle to [thy]

hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

11 But Amaziah would not hear. So 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.

12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man

to his tent.

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

brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner

gate, four hundred cubits.

14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were

found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house,

the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

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?

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.

17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of

Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book

of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

19 And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to

Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

20 And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with

his fathers in the city of David.

21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old,

and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept

with his fathers.

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.

24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed

not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made

Israel to sin.

25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the

sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel,

which he spake by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who

was of Gath-hepher.

26 For Jehovah saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for

there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for

Israel.

27 And Jehovah 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.

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 had

belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the

chronicles of the kings of Israel?

29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel;

and Zechariah his son reigned in his stead.



2 Kings
Chapter 15

1. In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah

son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

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 Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to

all that his father Amaziah had done.

4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still

sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

5 And Jehovah smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his

death, and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over

the household, judging the people of the land.

6 Now 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?

7 And 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.

8. In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah

the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as his fathers

had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,

wherewith he made Israel to sin.

10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him

before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the

book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

12 This was the word of Jehovah which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy

sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel. And so

it came to pass.

13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth

year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space of a month in

Samaria.

14 And 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 Now 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.

16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders

thereof, from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote

it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

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.

18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed

not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he

made Israel to sin.

19 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave

Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to

confirm the kingdom in his hand.

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.

21 Now 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?

22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in

his stead.

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.

24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed

not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to

sin.

25 And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and

smote him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, with Argob and

Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he slew him, and

reigned in his stead.

26 Now 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.

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.

28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed

not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to

sin.

29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of

Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and

Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried

them captive to Assyria.

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.

31 Now 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.

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.

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.

34 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah; he did

according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

35 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still

sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate

of the house of Jehovah.

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?

37 In those days Jehovah began to send against Judah Rezin the king of

Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

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.



2 Kings
Chapter 16

1. In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of

Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned

sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes

of Jehovah his God, like David his father.

3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son

to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations,

whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel.

4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the

hills, and under every green tree.

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.

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 dwelt there, unto

this day.

7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I

am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the

king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up

against me.

8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of

Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a

present to the king of Assyria.

9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria

went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it

captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

10. And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of

Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to

Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it,

according to all the workmanship thereof.

11 And Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz

had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming

of king Ahaz from Damascus.

12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and

the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

13 And he burnt his burnt-offering and his meal-offering, and poured his

drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-offerings, upon the

altar.

14 And the brazen altar, which was before Jehovah, he brought from the

forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Jehovah,

and put it on the north side of his altar.

15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great

altar burn the morning burnt-offering, and the evening meal-offering, and

the king's burnt-offering, and his meal-offering, with the burnt-offering

of all the people of the land, and their meal-offering, and their

drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offering,

and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the brazen altar shall be for me to

inquire by.

16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

17. And king Ahaz cut off the panels 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 stone.

18 And the covered way for the sabbath that they had built in the house,

and the king's entry without, turned he unto the house of Jehovah, because

of the king of Assyria.

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?

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.



2 Kings
Chapter 17

1. In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah

to reign in Samaria over Israel, [and reigned] nine years.

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, yet not as the

kings of Israel that were before him.

3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his

servant, and brought him tribute.

4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent

messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute 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.

5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up

to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and

carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the

Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

7. And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against

Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under

the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from

before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

9 And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right

against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their

cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and

under every green tree;

11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the

nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked

things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

12 and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall

not do this thing.

13 Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet,

and every seer, 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.

14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to

the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God.

15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with

their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they

followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were

round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should

not do like them.

16 And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made

them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped

all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the

fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that

which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

18 Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of

his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked

in the statutes of Israel which they made.

20 And Jehovah 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.

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 Jehovah, and

made them sin a great sin.

22 And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he

did; they departed not from them;

23 until Jehovah removed Israel out of his sight, as he spake by all his

servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to

Assyria unto this day.

24. And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and

from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of

Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and

dwelt in the cities thereof.

25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they

feared not Jehovah: therefore Jehovah sent lions among them, which killed

some of them.

26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which

thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the

law of the god of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and,

behold, they slay them, because they know not the law of the god of the

land.

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 law of the god of the land.

28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and

dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah.

29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the

houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in

their cities wherein they dwelt.

30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made

Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt

their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of

Sepharvaim.

32 So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves

priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the

high places.

33 They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of

the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

34 Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah,

neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after

the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of

Jacob, whom he named Israel;

35 with whom Jehovah 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:

36 but Jehovah, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great

power and with an outstretched arm, him shall ye fear, and unto him shall

ye bow yourselves, and to him shall ye sacrifice:

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:

38 and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget;

neither shall ye fear other gods:

39 but Jehovah your God shall ye fear; and he will deliver you out of the

hand of all your enemies.

40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

41 So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their

children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so

do they unto this day.



2 Kings
Chapter 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.

2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned

twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the

daughter of Zechariah.

3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to

all that David his father had done.

4 He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the

Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for

unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he

called it Nehushtan.

5 He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after him was none

like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among them] that were before

him.

6 For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from following him, but kept

his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.

7 And Jehovah was with him; whithersoever he went forth he prospered: and

he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

8 He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the

tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

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.

10 And at the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of

Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was

taken.

11 And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them

in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the

Medes,

12 because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah their God, but

transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Jehovah

commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of

Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish,

saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will

I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three

hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of

Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house.

16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the

temple of Jehovah, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had

overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

17. And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from

Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up

and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by

the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's

field.

18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim

the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and

Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the

great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou

trustest?

20 Thou sayest (but they are but vain words), [There is] counsel and

strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled

against me?

21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even

upon Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it:

so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is not that he,

whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said

to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my master the king of

Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy

part to set riders upon them.

24 How then canst 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?

25 Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it?

Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto

Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for

we understand it: and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears

of the people that are on the wall.

27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master,

and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men that

sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with

you?

28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'

language, and spake, saying, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king

of Assyria.

29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be

able to deliver you out of his hand:

30 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will

surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the

king of Assyria.

31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make your

peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and

every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own

cistern;

32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of

grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees

and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah,

when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us.

33 Hath any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the

hand of the king of Assyria?

34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of

Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered

their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of

my hand?

36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the

king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

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 Rabshakeh.



2 Kings
Chapter 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

Jehovah.

2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe,

and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the

prophet the son of Amoz.

3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of

trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the

birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

4 It may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom

the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will

rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy

prayer for the remnant that is left.

5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith

Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the

servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and

shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in

his own land.

8. So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against

Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come

out to fight against thee, he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

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 given

into the hand of the king of Assyria.

11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all

lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have

destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were

in Telassar?

13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of

the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?

14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and

read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of Jehovah, and spread it

before Jehovah.

15 And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah, the God of

Israel, that sittest [above] the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou

alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

16 Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah,

and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to

defy the living God.

17 Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations

and their lands,

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 Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save thou us, I beseech thee, out of

his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou Jehovah art

God alone.

20. Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith

Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against

Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [thee].

21 This is the word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning him: The virgin

daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter

of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

22 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou

exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy

One of Israel.

23 By thy messengers thou hast defied the Lord, and hast said, With the

multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to

the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars

thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into his

farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.

24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet

will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

25 Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of

ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to

lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

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 housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.

27 But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and

thy raging against me.

28 Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come

up into mine ears, therefore will I 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.

29 And this shall be the sign unto thee: Ye shall eat this year that

which groweth of itself, 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 fruit thereof.

30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take

root downward, and bear fruit upward.

31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion

they that shall escape: the zeal of Jehovah shall perform this.

32 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall

not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come

before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not

come unto this city, saith Jehovah.

34 For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my

servant David's sake.

35. And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth,

and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five

thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all

dead bodies.

36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and

dwelt at Nineveh.

37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his

god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer smote him with the sword: and they

escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his

stead.



2 Kings
Chapter 20

1. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the

son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thy

house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Jehovah, saying,

3 Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, 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 sore.

4 And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of

the city, that the word of Jehovah came to him, saying,

5 Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus saith

Jehovah, 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 unto

the house of Jehovah.

6 And I will add unto 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 mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

7 And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the

boil, and he recovered.

8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Jehovah will

heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of Jehovah the third day?

9 And Isaiah said, This shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that

Jehovah will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward

ten steps, or go back ten steps?

10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline

ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.

11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto Jehovah; and he brought the shadow

ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

12. At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,

sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah

had been sick.

13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all the house of his

precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious

oil, and 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.

14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him,

What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah

said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

15 And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered,

All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures

that I have not showed them.

16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah.

17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which

thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to

Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.

18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget,

shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king

of Babylon.

19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou

hast spoken. He said moreover, Is it not so, if peace and truth shall be in

my days?

20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he

made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, are they

not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in

his stead.



2 Kings
Chapter 21

1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned

five and fifty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hephzibah.

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, after the

abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of

Israel.

3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had

destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did

Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served

them.

4 And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In

Jerusalem will I put my name.

5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the

house of Jehovah.

6 And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and

used enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with

wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to

anger.

7 And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house

of which Jehovah said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and

in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I

put my name for ever;

8 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the

land which I gave their fathers, if only 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.

9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is

evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children

of Israel.

10. And Jehovah spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath

done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and

hath made Judah also to sin with his idols;

12 therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such

evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears

shall tingle.

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.

14 And I will cast off the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them

into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to

all their enemies;

15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have

provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt,

even unto this day.

16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled

Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah

to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

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?

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.

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.

20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did

Manasseh his father.

21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the

idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

22 and he forsook Jehovah, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the

way of Jehovah.

23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to

death in his own house.

24 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against

king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his

stead.

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?

26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah

his son reigned in his stead.



2 Kings
Chapter 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 Bozkath.

2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in

all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or

to the left.

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 Jehovah, saying,

4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is

brought into the house of Jehovah, which the keepers of the threshold have

gathered of the people:

5 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen that have the

oversight of the house of Jehovah; and let them give it to the workmen that

are in the house of Jehovah, to repair the breaches of the house,

6 unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for

buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was

delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.

8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found

the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkiah delivered the book

to Shaphan, and he read it.

9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word

again, and said, Thy servants have emptied out the money that was found in

the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen that have the

oversight of the house of Jehovah.

10 And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath

delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

11. And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of

the law, that he rent his clothes.

12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of

Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah

the king's servant, saying,

13 Go ye, inquire of Jehovah 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 Jehovah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not

hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which

is written concerning us.

14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and

Asaiah, went unto 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 second quarter); and they communed with her.

15 And she said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Tell ye

the man that sent you unto me,

16 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and

upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king

of Judah hath read.

17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other

gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands,

therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be

quenched.

18 But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Jehovah, thus

shall ye say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: As touching the

words which thou hast heard,

19 because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before

Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against

the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse,

and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee,

saith Jehovah.

20 Therefore, behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt

be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the

evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word

again.



2 Kings
Chapter 23

1. And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah

and of Jerusalem.

2 And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.

3 And the king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Jehovah,

to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies,

and his statutes, with all [his] heart, and all [his] soul, to confirm the

words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people

stood to the covenant.

4. And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the

second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the

temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the

Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without

Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto

Beth-el.

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 round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal,

to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of

heaven.

6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without

Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and

beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common

people.

7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house

of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled

the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to

Beer-sheba; and he brake down the high places of the gates that were at 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.

9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of

Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their

brethren.

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.

11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the

sun, at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of

Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned

the chariots of the sun with fire.

12 And the altars that were on the roof 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 Jehovah, did the king break down, and

beat [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook

Kidron.

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

builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the

abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of

Ammon, did the king defile.

14 And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and

filled their places with the bones of men.

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, even that

altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and

beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there

in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and

burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of

Jehovah which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

17 Then he said, What monument is that which I see? And the men of the

city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah,

and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of

Beth-el.

18 And he said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his

bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

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 [Jehovah] to anger,

Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had

done in Beth-el.

20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon

the altars, and burned men's bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto

Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

22 Surely there was not kept 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 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to

Jehovah in Jerusalem.

24 Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the

teraphim, 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 confirm

the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest

found in the house of Jehovah.

25. And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to Jehovah

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.

26 Notwithstanding, Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great

wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the

provocations wherewith Manasseh had provoked him.

27 And Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have

removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even

Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

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?

29 In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of

Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and

[Pharaoh-necoh] slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and

brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the

people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and

made him king in his father's stead.

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.

32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to

all that his fathers had done.

33 And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath,

that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of a

hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

34 And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of

Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz

away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

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 of the people of the land, of every one

according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-necoh.

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 Zebidah the

daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to

all that his fathers had done.



2 Kings
Chapter 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.

2 And Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, 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 Jehovah,

which he spake by his servants the prophets.

3 Surely at the commandment of Jehovah came this upon Judah, to remove

them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he

did,

4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem

with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.

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?

6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in

his stead.

7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land; for the

king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt unto the river

Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

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.

9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to

all that his father had done.

10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to

Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his

servants were besieging it;

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.

13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah,

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 Jehovah, as

Jehovah had said.

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 craftsmen and

the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and

the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried

he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and

the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the

king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's

brother, king is his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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.

19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to

all that Jehoiakim had done.

20 For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass in Jerusalem and

Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled

against the king of Babylon.



2 Kings
Chapter 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 round about.

2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

3 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city,

so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by

night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's

garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the

king] went by the way of the Arabah.

5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him

in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

6 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to

Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the

eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

8. Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the

nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan

the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.

9 And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the

houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were [with] the captain of the

guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

11 And the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those

that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the

multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.

12 But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be

vinedressers and husbandmen.

13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the

bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the

Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and

all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

15 And the firepans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and

that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.

16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made

for the house of Jehovah, the brass of all these vessels was without

weight.

17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of

brass was upon it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with

network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass: and

like unto these had the second pillar with network.

18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and

Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

19 and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of

war; and five men of them that saw the king's face, who were found in the

city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, who mustered the people of

the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in

the city.

20 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them

to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in

the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

22. And as for the people that were left 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, governor.

23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard

that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah

to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of

Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah

the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

24 And Gedaliah sware to them and to their men, and said unto them, Fear

not because of the servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve

the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of

Nethaniah, the son of Elisham, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with

him, and smote Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans

that were with him at Mizpah.

26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the

forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

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, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah

out of prison;

28 and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the

kings that were with him in Babylon,

29 and changed his prison garments. And [Jehoiachin] did eat bread before

him continually all the days of his life:

30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of

the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.


The American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible

Genesis § Exodus § Leviticus  § Numbers § Deuteronomy §  Joshua § Judges § Ruth § 1 Samuel § 2 Samuel § 1 Kings § 2 Kings § 1 Chronicles § 2 Chronicles § Ezra § Nehemiah § Esther § Job § Psalms § Proverbs § Ecclesiastes § Song of Solomon § Isaiah § Jerimiah § Lamentations § Ezekiel § Daniel § Hosea § Joel § Amos § Obadiah § Jonah § Mica § Nahum § Habakkuk § Zephaniah § Haggai § Zechariah § Malachi § Mathew § Mark § Luke §  John § Acts § Romans § 1 Corinthians § 2 Corinthians § Galatians § Ephesians § Philippians § Colossians § 1 Thessalonians  § 2 Thessalonians  § 1 Timothy  § 2 Timothy §  Titus § Philemon § Hebrews § James § 1 Peter  § 2 Peter  § 1 John § 2 John § 3 John § Jude § Revelation 



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