The Leeser Bible
1853 by Isaac Leeser
2Ch 1:1 ¶ And Solomon the son of David strengthened himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and caused him to become exceedingly great.
2Ch 1:2 Then said Solomon unto all Israel, to the captains of the thousands and of the hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the chiefs of the family divisions [that they should go with him].
2Ch 1:3 Thereupon went Solomon, and all the assembly with him, to the high–place that was at Gib’on; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness.
2Ch 1:4 Nevertheless the ark of God had David brought up from Kiryath–ye’arim to [the place which] David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
2Ch 1:5 But the copper altar, which Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Chur, had made, he placed before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the assembly sought for it.
2Ch 1:6 And Solomon sacrificed there on the copper altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered upon it a thousand burnt–offerings.
2Ch 1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
2Ch 1:8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shown unto David my father great kindness, and hast made me king in his stead.
2Ch 1:9 Now, O Lord God, let thy word unto David my father be verified; for thou hast made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
2Ch 1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who could [otherwise] judge this thy great people?
2Ch 1:11 And God said unto Solomon, Whereas this hath been in thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of thy enemies, and hast not even asked long life; but hast asked for thyself wisdom and knowledge, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
2Ch 1:12 [Therefore] are the wisdom and the knowledge granted unto thee; and riches, and wealth, and honor, will I give thee, such as no kings that have been before thee have had, and the like of which after thee none shall have.
2Ch 1:13 ¶ Then came Solomon from the high–place that was at Gib’on to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
2Ch 1:14 And Solomon brought together chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placed them in the chariot–cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
2Ch 1:15 And the king rendered the silver and gold at Jerusalem like stones, and cedar–trees he rendered as the sycamore–trees that are in the lowlands for abundance.
2Ch 1:16 And Solomon had his horses brought out of Egypt; a company of the king’s merchants bought a quantity at a price.
2Ch 1:17 And they brought up, and fetched out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
2Ch 2:1 (1:18) ¶ And Solomon ordered to build a house for the name of the Lord, and a house for his royal residence.
2Ch 2:2 (2:1) And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and as superintendents over them three thousand and six hundred.
2Ch 2:3 (2:2) And Solomon sent to Churam the king of Tyre, saying, As thou hast dealt with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me].
2Ch 2:4 (2:3) Behold, I am building a house to the name of the Lord my God, to sanctify it to him, to burn before him incense of spices, and for the continual rows of show–bread, and for the burnt–offerings at morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new–moons, and on the stated festivals of the Lord our God: this being for ever obligatory on Israel.
2Ch 2:5 (2:4) And the house which I am building is great; for greater is our God than all the gods.
2Ch 2:6 (2:5) But who possesseth the power to build him a house? for the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain him: and who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?
2Ch 2:7 (2:6) And now send me a skilful man to work in gold, and in silver and in copper, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that understandeth how to engrave with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem whom David my father hath provided.
2Ch 2:8 (2:7) Send me also cedar–trees, fir–trees, and sandal–wood, from the Lebanon; for I know well that thy servants have the skill to cut the trees of Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
2Ch 2:9 (2:8) Even to prepare for me timber in abundance; for the house which I am building is to be wonderfully great.
2Ch 2:10 (2:9) And, behold, for the hewers that cut the timber will I give unto thy servants twenty thousand cors of threshed wheat, and twenty thousand cors of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
2Ch 2:11 (2:10) ¶ Then answered Churam the king of Tyre in writing, and he sent it to Solomon, Out of the love of the Lord for his people hath he set thee as king over them.
2Ch 2:12 (2:11) And Churam said, Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, that hath made the heavens and the earth, who hath given to king David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and understanding, who is to build a house unto the Lord, and a house for royal residence.
2Ch 2:13 (2:12) And now have I sent a skilful man, endowed with understanding, namely, Churam–Abi,
2Ch 2:14 (2:13) The son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, while his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in copper, in iron, in stone, and in wood, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to execute any manner of engraving, and to devise every kind of work of art which may be given to him, together with thy skilful men, and skilful men of my lord David thy father.
2Ch 2:15 (2:14) And now the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, of which my lord hath spoken, let him send unto his servants:
2Ch 2:16 (2:15) And we will truly cut down trees out of the Lebanon, as much as thou mayest need; and we will bring them to thee in boats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry them up to Jerusalem.
2Ch 2:17 (2:16) And Solomon numbered all the strange men that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found to be one hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
2Ch 2:18 (2:17) And he made of them seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred superintendents to set the people to work.
2Ch 3:1 ¶ And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where He had appeared unto David his father, on the place that David had prepared in the threshing–floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2Ch 3:2 And he began to build on the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2Ch 3:3 Now in this manner was the foundation laid of the house of God [at its] building [by] Solomon: The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
2Ch 3:4 And the porch that was in the front of the length was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
2Ch 3:5 And the great house he ceiled with fir–wood, which he overlaid with pure gold, and he wrought thereon palm–trees and chains.
2Ch 3:6 And he overlaid the house with costly stones for ornament: and the gold was gold of Parvayim.
2Ch 3:7 And he covered the house, the beams, the sills, and its walls, and its doors, with gold: and he engraved cherubim on the walls.
2Ch 3:8 And he made the most holy house, its length being in front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits: and he covered it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents.
2Ch 3:9 And the weight of the nails [amounted] to fifty shekels of gold. And the upper chambers he covered with gold.
2Ch 3:10 ¶ And he made in the most holy house two cherubim of sculpture work, and they overlaid them with gold.
2Ch 3:11 And regarding the wings of the cherubim their length was twenty cubits; the wing of the one amounting to five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing of five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
2Ch 3:12 And the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing of five cubits was joined closely to the wing of the other cherub.
2Ch 3:13 The wings of these cherubim [as they were] spread out were twenty cubits: and they were standing on their feet, and their faces were inward.
2Ch 3:14 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought thereon cherubim.
2Ch 3:15 And he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits in length, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
2Ch 3:16 And he made chains in the debir; and [others which] he placed on the top of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and placed them on the chains.
2Ch 3:17 And he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and he called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Bo’az.
2Ch 4:1 ¶ He made also an altar of copper, twenty cubits being its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.
2Ch 4:2 He made also the molten sea, being ten cubits from the one brim to the other, rounded all about, and it was five cubits in height: and a line of thirty cubits did encompass it round about.
2Ch 4:3 And likenesses of oxen were under it, encompassing it all round about, ten in a cubit, encircling the sea round about: the oxen were in two rows [and were] cast [with it], when it was cast.
2Ch 4:4 It was standing upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was resting above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
2Ch 4:5 And its thickness was a hand’s breadth, and its brim like the brim of a cup, with lily–buds; and it could hold and contain three thousand baths.
2Ch 4:6 He made also ten lavers; and he placed five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: what belonged to the burnt–offering they rinsed off at them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
2Ch 4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their prescribed manner: and he placed [them] in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left.
2Ch 4:8 He made also ten tables, and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred bowls of gold.
2Ch 4:9 And he made the court of the priests, and the great out–court, and doors for the out–court, and their doors he overlaid with copper.
2Ch 4:10 And the sea he placed on the right side toward the east, opposite to the south.
2Ch 4:11 ¶ And Churam made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Churam made an end of doing the work which he made for king Solomon in the house of God:
2Ch 4:12 The two pillars, and the bowls, and the capitals on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the bowl–shaped capitals which were on the top of the pillars;
2Ch 4:13 And the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl–shaped capitals which were upon the front of the pillars.
2Ch 4:14 The bases also did he make, and the lavers made he upon the bases.
2Ch 4:15 The one sea, and the twelve oxen under it,
2Ch 4:16 And the pots also, and the shovels, and the forks, and all their instruments, did Churam–Abiv make for king Solomon for the house of the Lord, of polished copper.
2Ch 4:17 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay–ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
2Ch 4:18 And Solomon made all these vessels in very great abundance; for the weight of the copper was not inquired into.
2Ch 4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of God; and the altar of gold also, and the tables whereon the show–bread [was set];
2Ch 4:20 And the candlesticks with their lamps, to light them after the prescribed manner before the debir, of pure gold.
2Ch 4:21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, were of gold, the purest of gold;
2Ch 4:22 And the knives, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers were of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
2Ch 5:1 ¶ And so was ended all the work which Solomon made for the house of the Lord; and Solomon brought in the things sanctified by David his father; and the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he placed in the treasuries of the house of God.
2Ch 5:2 Then did Solomon assemble the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the divisions of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2Ch 5:3 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast which is [in] the seventh month.
2Ch 5:4 All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.
2Ch 5:5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle: these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
2Ch 5:6 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, which could not be numbered nor told for multitude.
2Ch 5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto its place, into the debir of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim.
2Ch 5:8 And the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves from above.
2Ch 5:9 And they had made the staves so long that the ends of the staves were seen [standing out] from the ark in the front of the debir; but they were not seen without; and they have remained there until this day.
2Ch 5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses had placed [therein] at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
2Ch 5:11 ¶ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place; for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, the divisions not having been observed; ––
2Ch 5:12 And the Levites the singers, all together, of Assaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east side of the altar, and with them were one hundred and twenty priests blowing on trumpets; ––
2Ch 5:13 And it came thus to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice [accompanied] with trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and in praising the Lord, For he is good; because unto everlasting endureth his kindness: that the house, even the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud;
2Ch 5:14 And the priests were not able to stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
2Ch 6:1 ¶ Then said Solomon, "The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
2Ch 6:2 And I have indeed built a dwelling–house for thee, and have settled a place for thy abode for ever."
2Ch 6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel was standing.
2Ch 6:4 And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hands fulfilled it, when he said,
2Ch 6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I did not make choice of any city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be therein; nor did I make choice of any man to be a ruler over my people of Israel;
2Ch 6:6 But I have made choice of Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have made choice of David to be over my people Israel,
2Ch 6:7 And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.
2Ch 6:8 But the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well in that it was in thy heart:
2Ch 6:9 Nevertheless thou shalt not thyself build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
2Ch 6:10 And the Lord hath fulfilled his word that he hath spoken; and I am risen up in the stead of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord hath spoken, and I have built the house unto the name of the Lord the God of Israel.
2Ch 6:11 And I have placed there the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord which he hath made with the children of Israel.
2Ch 6:12 ¶ And he now placed himself before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands;
2Ch 6:13 For Solomon had made a laver of copper, and had placed it in the midst of the out–court, five cubits being its length, five cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height; and he placed himself upon it, and kneeled down upon his knees in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
2Ch 6:14 And he said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like thee in the heavens, or on the earth, thou who keepest the covenant, and the kindness for thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart;
2Ch 6:15 Who has kept for thy servant David my father that which thou hadst promised him; and thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day.
2Ch 6:16 And now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for thy servant David my father that which thou hast spoken concerning him, saying, There shall never fail thee a man in my sight who sitteth on the throne of Israel, if thy children but take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
2Ch 6:17 And now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant, unto David.
2Ch 6:18 For, in truth, will God then dwell with men on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built!
2Ch 6:19 Yet wilt thou turn thy regard unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen unto the entreaty and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
2Ch 6:20 That thy eyes may be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which thou hast said that thou wouldst put thy name there; that thou mayest listen unto the prayer which thy servant will pray at this place.
2Ch 6:21 And listen thou to the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they will pray at this place: and oh, do thou hear from thy dwelling–place, from heaven; and hear, and forgive.
2Ch 6:22 If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thy altar in this house:
2Ch 6:23 Then do thou hear from heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
2Ch 6:24 And if thy people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and they return and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication before thee in this house:
2Ch 6:25 Then do thou hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and cause them to return unto the land which thou hast given to them and to their fathers.
2Ch 6:26 When the heavens be shut up, and there he no rain, because they have sinned against thee, and they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them:
2Ch 6:27 Then do thou hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel; for thou wilt direct them unto the good way, wherein they should walk; and give then rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
2Ch 6:28 If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, blasting, or mildew, if there be locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in their land, in their gates at whatsoever plague, and at whatsoever sickness;
2Ch 6:29 What prayer and what supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, when they shall be conscious every man of his plague and his pain, and he then spread forth his hands toward this house:
2Ch 6:30 Then do thou hear from heaven the place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and give to every man in accordance with all his ways, as thou mayest know his heart; for thou, thyself alone, knowest the heart of the children of men;
2Ch 6:31 In order that they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, all the days that they live on the face of the land which thou hast given unto our fathers.
2Ch 6:32 But also to the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far–off country for the sake of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thy outstretched arm,–– if they come and pray in this house,––
2Ch 6:33 Mayest thou likewise listen from heaven, from the place of thy dwelling, and do according to all that the stranger will call on thee for: in order that all people of the earth may know thy name, both to fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and to understand that this house, which I have built, is called by thy name.
2Ch 6:34 If thy people go out to battle against their enemies on the way on which thou mayest send them, and they do pray unto thee in the direction of this city which thou hast chosen, and of the house that I have built unto thy name:
2Ch 6:35 Then hear thou from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and procure them justice.
2Ch 6:36 If they sin against thee––for there is no man that may not sin,––and thou be angry with them, and give them up before the enemy, so that their captors carry them away captive unto a land far off or near;
2Ch 6:37 And if they then take it to their heart in the land whither they have been carried captive, and repent and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, and have acted wickedly;
2Ch 6:38 And they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have been carried captive, and they pray in the direction of their land, which thou hast given unto their fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built unto thy name:
2Ch 6:39 Then hear thou from heaven, from the place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and procure them justice, and forgive thy people for what they have sinned against thee.
2Ch 6:40 Now, my God, let I beseech thee, thy eyes be open, and thy ears be attentive unto the prayer on this place.
2Ch 6:41 And now arise, O Lord God, unto thy resting–place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, clothe themselves with salvation, and let thy pious servants rejoice in happiness.
2Ch 6:42 O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the pious deeds of David thy servant.
2Ch 7:1 ¶ And when Solomon had made an end of praying, a fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt–offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
2Ch 7:2 And the priests were not able to enter into the house of the Lord; because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord’s house.
2Ch 7:3 And all the children of Israel were looking on as the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord [was resting] upon the house; and they kneeled down with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and prostrated themselves, and gave thanks unto the Lord, for he is good; because unto everlasting endureth his kindness.
2Ch 7:4 And the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord.
2Ch 7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: and so they dedicated the house of God, the king and all the people.
2Ch 7:6 And the priests were standing on their stations, and the Levites with the instruments of the music of the Lord, which king David had made to give thanks unto the Lord, because unto everlasting endureth his kindness, with the song of praise of David in their hand; and the priests blew the trumpets opposite to them, and all Israel were standing.
2Ch 7:7 And Solomon hallowed the interior of the court that was before the house of the Lord; for he prepared there the burnt–offerings, and the fat of the peace–offerings; because the copper altar which Solomon had made was not able to contain the burnt–offerings, and the meat–offerings, and the fat.
2Ch 7:8 And Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Chamath unto the river of Egypt.
2Ch 7:9 And they held on the eighth day a solemn assembly; for the dedication of the altar they held seven days, and the feast seven days.
2Ch 7:10 And on the three–and–twentieth day of the seventh month he dismissed the people unto their tents, joyful and glad of heart because of the good that the Lord had done for David, and for Solomon, and for Israel his people.
2Ch 7:11 Thus did Solomon complete the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and [in] all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, he prospered.
2Ch 7:12 ¶ Then appeared the Lord to Solomon during the night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and I have made choice of this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
2Ch 7:13 If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I give a charge to the locusts to devour off the land, or if I send a pestilence among my people:
2Ch 7:14 And if my people, over whom my name is called, do then humble themselves, and pray, and seek my presence, and turn away from their evil ways: then will I also hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2Ch 7:15 Now, my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive unto the prayer on this place.
2Ch 7:16 And now I have chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there at all times.
2Ch 7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father hath walked, so as to do in accordance with all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my ordinances:
2Ch 7:18 Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, just as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall never fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
2Ch 7:19 But if ye will indeed turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and will go and serve other gods, and bow down to them:
2Ch 7:20 Then will I pluck them up out of my land which I have given unto them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast away from my sight, and I will render it to be for a proverb and for a by–word among all the people.
2Ch 7:21 And this house, which hath been so exalted, shall become an astonishment to every one that passeth by it: so that he will say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
2Ch 7:22 And men shall then say, For the cause that they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and they took hold of other gods, and bowed down to them, and served them: therefore hath he brought upon them all this evil.
2Ch 8:1 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house,
2Ch 8:2 That [as regardeth] the cities which Churam had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
2Ch 8:3 And Solomon went to Chamath–zobah, and prevailed against it.
2Ch 8:4 And he built Thadmor in the wilderness, and all the treasure–cities, which he built in Chamath.
2Ch 8:5 And he built the upper Beth–choron, and the lower Beth–choron, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
2Ch 8:6 And Ba’alath, and all the treasure–cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen, and all the [other] desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in the Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
2Ch 8:7 All the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Emorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
2Ch 8:8 Out of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not destroyed––these did Solomon levy as tributary [laborers] until this day.
2Ch 8:9 Yet of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen for his work; but they were men of war, and chiefs of his captains; and officers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
2Ch 8:10 And these were the chiefs of the superintendents whom king Solomon had, [even] two hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people.
2Ch 8:11 And the daughter of Pharaoh did Solomon bring up out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said, No wife of mine shall dwell in a house of David the king of Israel, because they are holy, because there came [once] unto them the ark of the Lord.
2Ch 8:12 ¶ Then did Solomon offer burnt–offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch,
2Ch 8:13 Even according to what was the due of [every] day on its day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new–moons, and on the stated festivals, three times in the year, on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of weeks, and on the feast of tabernacles.
2Ch 8:14 And he stationed, according to the prescription of David his father, the divisions of the priests at their service, and the Levites at their stations, to praise and minister next to the priests, in the requirement of every day on its day, and the gate–keepers in their divisions at every gate; for so was the charge of David the man of God.
2Ch 8:15 And they departed not from the charge of the king concerning the priests and Levites respecting every matter, and respecting the treasuries.
2Ch 8:16 And [so] was all the work of Solomon successful from the day of founding the house of the Lord, even until it was finished. [So] was perfected the house of the Lord.
2Ch 8:17 Then went Solomon to ‘Ezyon–geber, and to Eloth, at the sea–shore in the land of Edom.
2Ch 8:18 And Churam sent him by means of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and they fetched away thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought the same to king Solomon.
2Ch 9:1 ¶ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with riddles at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and with camels bearing spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she spoke with him of all that was on her heart.
2Ch 9:2 And Solomon solved for her all her questions; and there was nothing hidden from Solomon which he did not tell her.
2Ch 9:3 And when the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
2Ch 9:4 And the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cup–bearers, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her.
2Ch 9:5 And she said to the king, The truth [only] was the word that I heard in my own land of thy acts, and of thy wisdom.
2Ch 9:6 And I believed not in their words, until I came, and my eyes saw [all]; and, behold, the one–half of the greatness of thy wisdom hath not been told me: thou excellest the report which I have heard.
2Ch 9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, who stand before thee continually, and hear thy wisdom.
2Ch 9:8 Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath had delight in thee to place thee on his throne, as a king for the Lord thy God; because thy God loved Israel, to sustain them for ever, therefore hath he placed thee over them as king, to exercise justice and righteousness.
2Ch 9:9 And she gave to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in very great abundance, and precious stones: and there never were any such spices as those which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
2Ch 9:10 And also the servants of Churam, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought sandal–trees and precious stones.
2Ch 9:11 And the king made of the sandal–trees steps for the house of the Lord, and for the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were never seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.
2Ch 9:12 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her pleasure, whatsoever she asked, beside [a return for] that which she had brought unto the king. And she turned about and went away to her own country, she and her servants.
2Ch 9:13 ¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty and six talents of gold;
2Ch 9:14 Besides what the travelling tradesmen and the merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
2Ch 9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold he used for each one target.
2Ch 9:16 And [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold he used for each one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
2Ch 9:17 The king also made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
2Ch 9:18 And the throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold, fastened into the throne; and there were arms on either side, on the place of the seat; and two lions stood beside the arms;
2Ch 9:19 And twelve lions stood there upon the six steps on both sides: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
2Ch 9:20 And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: no silver was valued in the days of Solomon at the least.
2Ch 9:21 For the king’s ships went to Tharshish with the servants of Churam; once in three years did the Tharshish–ships use to come home laden with gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2Ch 9:22 And king Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom.
2Ch 9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
2Ch 9:24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, armor, and spices, horses, and mules; [and] so year by year.
2Ch 9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he quartered in the cities for chariots, and near the king at Jerusalem.
2Ch 9:26 And he was ruling over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and as far as the boundary of Egypt.
2Ch 9:27 And the king rendered silver in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedar–trees he rendered like the sycamore–trees that are in the lowlands, for abundance.
2Ch 9:28 And men were bringing out horses for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.
2Ch 9:29 And the remainder of the acts of Solomon, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Achiyah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Ye’do the seer concerning Jerobo’am the son of Nebat.
2Ch 9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
2Ch 9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father: and Rehobo’am his son became king in his stead.
2Ch 10:1 ¶ And Rehobo’am went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
2Ch 10:2 And it came to pass, when Jerobo’am the son of Nebat heard of it, for he was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, that Jerobo’am returned out of Egypt.
2Ch 10:3 And they sent and called him: and so came Jerobo’am with all Israel and spoke to Rehobo’am, saying,
2Ch 10:4 Thy father made our yoke hard; but now do thou make lighter the hard service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
2Ch 10:5 And he said unto them, After but three days, then return unto me. And the people went away.
2Ch 10:6 Then consulted king Rehobo’am with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, How do you advise that I should return an answer to this people?
2Ch 10:7 And they spoke unto him, saying, If thou wilt be kind to this people, and please them, and speak to them good words: then will they be servants unto thee for all times.
2Ch 10:8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and who stood before him.
2Ch 10:9 And he said unto them, How do you counsel how we should give an answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make lighter the yoke which thy father did put upon us?
2Ch 10:10 Then spoke with him the young men that were grown up with him, saying, Thus must thou say unto the people that have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but do thou make it lighter unto us: thus must thou say unto them, My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.
2Ch 10:11 And now [if] my father hath burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: [if] my father hath chastised you with whips, then will I [do it] with scorpion–thorns.
2Ch 10:12 ¶ When now Jerobo’am and all the people came to Rehobo’am on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, Return to me on the third day:
2Ch 10:13 The king answered them harshly; and king Rehobo’am forsook the counsel of the old men;
2Ch 10:14 And he spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add thereto; my father chastised you with whips, but I will [do it] with scorpion–thorns.
2Ch 10:15 And the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was so brought about from God, in order that the Lord might fulfill his word, which he had spoken by means of Achiyahu the Shilonite unto Jerobo’am the son of Nebat.
2Ch 10:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? nor have we an inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel; now, see to thy own house, David. So did all Israel go to their tents.
2Ch 10:17 But as for the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah, over them did Rehobo’am reign.
2Ch 10:18 Then sent king Rehobo’am Hadoram who was over the tribute; but the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehobo’am made speed with his might to get upon his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
2Ch 10:19 So did Israel rebel against the house of David unto this day.
2Ch 11:1 ¶ And when Rehobo’am was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring back the kingdom again to Rehobo’am.
2Ch 11:2 But the word of the Lord came unto Shema’yahu the man of God, saying,
2Ch 11:3 Say unto Rehobo’am the son of Solomon, the king of Judah and Benjamin, saying,
2Ch 11:4 Thus hath said the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight with your brethren: return every man to his house; for from me hath this thing been brought about. And they hearkened to the words of the Lord, and returned from going against Jerobo’am.
2Ch 11:5 And Rehobo’am dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities as fortresses in Judah.
2Ch 11:6 He built, namely, Beth–lechem, and ‘Etam, and Thekoa’.
2Ch 11:7 And Beth–zur, and Socho, and ‘Adullam,
2Ch 11:8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
2Ch 11:9 And Adorayim and Lachish, and ‘Azekah,
2Ch 11:10 And Zor’ah, and Ayalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
2Ch 11:11 And he strengthened the strong–holds, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine;
2Ch 11:12 And in each and every city [he placed] shields and spears, and made them exceedingly strong: and thus remained with him Judah and Benjamin.
2Ch 11:13 ¶ And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel presented themselves to him out of all their territory.
2Ch 11:14 For the Levites left their open districts and their possession, and went to Judah and Jerusalem; because Jerobo’am and his sons cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the Lord,
2Ch 11:15 And [because] he ordained for himself priests for the high–places, and for the evil spirits, and for the calves which he had made.
2Ch 11:16 And after them [came] out of all the tribes of Israel such as directed their heart to seek the Lord the God of Israel: these came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the Lord, the God of their fathers.
2Ch 11:17 And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and brought power to Rehobo’am, the son of Solomon, during three years; for they walked in the way of David and Solomon during three years.
2Ch 11:18 And Rehobo’am took himself as wife Machalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and] Abichayil the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
2Ch 11:19 And she bore to him sons: Je’ush, and Shamaryah, and Zaham.
2Ch 11:20 And after her did he take Ma’achah the daughter of Abshalom; and she bore to him Abiyah, and ‘Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
2Ch 11:21 And Rehobo’am loved Ma’achah the daughter of Abshalom more than all his wives and his concubines; for he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines; and he begat twenty and eight sons, and sixty daughters.
2Ch 11:22 And Rehobo’am appointed Abiyah the son of Ma’achah to be the chief, to be ruler among his brethren; because [he desired] to make him king.
2Ch 11:23 And he dealt understandingly, and dispersed all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto all the fortified cities; and he gave them food in abundance and he required [for them] a multitude of wives.
2Ch 12:1 ¶ And it came to pass, when Rehobo’am had established the kingdom, and when he had become strong, that he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
2Ch 12:2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehobo’am, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,––because they had acted faithlessly against the Lord,––
2Ch 12:3 With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen: and innumerable were the people that came with him out of Egypt––the Lubim, the Sukkiyim, and the Ethiopians.
2Ch 12:4 And he captured the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and he came as far as Jerusalem.
2Ch 12:5 And Shem’ayah the prophet came to Rehobo’am, and the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus hath said the Lord, Ye have indeed forsaken me, and therefore have I also relinquished you into the hand of Shishak.
2Ch 12:6 Thereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord is righteous.
2Ch 12:7 And when the Lord saw that they had humbled themselves, then came the word of the Lord to Shem’ayah, saying, "They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will permit some little to escape from them; and my wrath shall not be poured out over Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak."
2Ch 12:8 However they shall be servants unto him, and they shall know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the [various] countries.
2Ch 12:9 And so came up Shishak the king of Egypt against Jerusalem, and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house: every thing did he take away; and he took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
2Ch 12:10 And king Rehobo’am made in their stead shields of copper, and committed them for keeping into the hand of the chiefs of the runners, who kept guard at the door of the king’s house.
2Ch 12:11 And it happened whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, that the runners came and bore them, and carried them back into the apartment of the runners.
2Ch 12:12 And when he had humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, so that he destroyed him not to make an end [of him]: and also in Judah were some good things [found].
2Ch 12:13 ¶ And king Rehobo’am strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned; for Rehobo’am was one and forty years old when he became king, and seventeen years did he reign in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Na’amah the ‘Ammonitess.
2Ch 12:14 And he did the evil; because he directed not his heart to seek the Lord.
2Ch 12:15 And the acts of Rehobo’am, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the history of Shem’ayah the prophet, and of ‘Iddo, the seer concerning the genealogies. And the wars of Rehobo’am and Jerobo’am [lasted] all the days.
2Ch 12:16 And Rehobo’am slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abiyah his son became king in his stead.
2Ch 13:1 ¶ In the eighteenth year of king Jerobo’am became Abiyah king over Judah.
2Ch 13:2 Three years he reigned in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Michayahu the daughter of Uriel of Gib’ah. And there was war between Abiyah and Jerobo’am.
2Ch 13:3 And Abiyah joined the battle with an army of valiant men of war, even of four hundred thousand chosen men: Jerobo’am also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valor.
2Ch 13:4 And Abiyah stood up above mount Zemarayim, which is in the mountain of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, O Jerobo’am, and all Israel;
2Ch 13:5 Ought ye not to know that the Lord the God of Israel hath given the kingdom over Israel to David for eternity, yea, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salts?
2Ch 13:6 But there rose up Jerobo’am the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, and rebelled against his lord.
2Ch 13:7 And there were gathered unto him idle men, worthless persons, and put themselves in violent resistance against Rehobo’am the son of Solomon: while Rehobo’am was young and tender hearted, and could not sustain himself before them.
2Ch 13:8 And now ye think to sustain yourselves before the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David; and ye are a great multitude; and with you are golden calves, which Jerobo’am hath made for you as gods.
2Ch 13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the people of the [various] lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams can become a priest to things that are no gods?
2Ch 13:10 But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, who minister unto the Lord, are the sons of Aaron; and the Levites are at their [appointed] work;
2Ch 13:11 And they burn unto the Lord burnt–offerings every morning and every evening and incense of sweet spices; and the rows of the show–bread [do they place] upon the pure table; and there is the candlestick of gold with its lamps, to light the same every evening; for we keep the charge of the Lord our God, while ye have truly forsaken him.
2Ch 13:12 And, behold, with us at our head, is the [true] God, with his priests with trumpets for blowing the alarm, to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the Lord the God of your fathers; for ye will not prosper.
2Ch 13:13 ¶ But Jerobo’am caused an ambush to come around behind them: so they themselves were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
2Ch 13:14 And when Judah turned round, behold, they had the battle before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests blew with the trumpets.
2Ch 13:15 And then gave the men of Judah a shout: and it came to pass, as the men of Judah shouted, that God struck down Jerobo’am and all Israel before Abiyah and Judah.
2Ch 13:16 And the children of Israel fled from before Judah, and God gave them up into their hand.
2Ch 13:17 And Abiyah and his people smote them with a great defeat, and there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
2Ch 13:18 Thus were the children of Israel humbled at that time: and the children of Judah became powerful, because they relied upon the Lord the God of their fathers.
2Ch 13:19 And Abiyah made pursuit after Jerobo’am, and captured cities from him, Bethel with its villages, and Jeshanah with its villages, and ‘Ephrayin with its villages.
2Ch 13:20 And Jerobo’am did not recover strength again in the days of Abiyahu: and the Lord struck him, and he died.
2Ch 13:21 But Abiyahu became strong, and he took himself fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
2Ch 13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abiyah, and his ways, and his speeches, are written in the writing of the prophet ‘Iddo.
2Ch 14:1 (13:23) ¶ And Abiyah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Assa his son became king in his stead. In his days the land had repose ten years.
2Ch 14:2 (14:1) And Assa did what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
2Ch 14:3 (14:2) And he removed the altars of the strange [gods], and the high–places, and broke up the statues, and cut down the groves;
2Ch 14:4 (14:3) And he ordered Judah to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and to execute the law and the commandment.
2Ch 14:5 (14:4) Also he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high–places and the sun–images: and the kingdom had repose before him.
2Ch 14:6 (14:5) And he built fortified cities in Judah; for the land had repose, and no one had war with him in those years; because the Lord had given him rest.
2Ch 14:7 (14:6) Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and surround them with walls, and towers, gates, and bars: the land is yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God,––we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
2Ch 14:8 (14:7) And Assa had an army that bore targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew the bow, two hundred and eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.
2Ch 14:9 (14:8) ¶ And there came out against them Zerach the Ethiopian with an army of a thousand times thousand, and three hundred chariots; and he came as far as Mareshah.
2Ch 14:10 (14:9) Then went Assa out against him, and they set themselves in battle–array in the valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.
2Ch 14:11 (14:10) And Assa called unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, nothing can hinder thee to help, whether it be the mighty, or those that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for on thee do we rely, and in thy name are we come against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God! no mortal can place a restraint against thee.
2Ch 14:12 (14:11) Thereupon did the Lord strike down the Ethiopians before Assa, and before Judah: and the Ethiopians fled.
2Ch 14:13 (14:12) And Assa and the people that were with him pursued them as far as Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians [so many], that they could not recover themselves; for they were broken down before the Lord, and before his camp; and they carried away exceedingly much booty.
2Ch 14:14 (14:13) And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the dread of the Lord was upon them: and they plundered all the cities; for abundant spoil was in them.
2Ch 14:15 (14:14) And also the tents of [the owners of] cattle did they smite, and they carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
2Ch 15:1 ¶ And as for ‘Azaryahu the son of ‘Oded––on him came the spirit of God;
2Ch 15:2 And he went out to meet Assa, and said unto him, Hear me, O Assa, and all Judah and Benjamin, The Lord is with you, while ye remain with him; and if ye seek him, he will let himself be found by you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
2Ch 15:3 And many days [had elapsed] for Israel, [they being] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
2Ch 15:4 But they returned when they were in distress unto the Lord, the God of Israel, and they sought him, and he let himself be found by them.
2Ch 15:5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, and to him that came in; but there were great confusions among all the inhabitants of the countries.
2Ch 15:6 And nation was dashed to pieces against nation, and city against city; for God did confound them with all kind of distress.
2Ch 15:7 But as for you, be ye strong, and let not your hands be weak; for there is a reward for your doing.
2Ch 15:8 ¶ And when Assa heard these words, and the prophecy of ‘Oded the prophet, he was strengthened, and he put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had captured from the mountain of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of the Lord, that was before the porch of the Lord.
2Ch 15:9 And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, and those that sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Menasseh, and out of Simeon; for they had joined him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
2Ch 15:10 And so they assembled themselves at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Assa.
2Ch 15:11 And they sacrificed unto the Lord on the same day, of the booty which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
2Ch 15:12 And they entered into the covenant to seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
2Ch 15:13 So that whosoever would not seek the Lord the God of Israel should be put to death, from the small even up to the great, whether it be man or woman.
2Ch 15:14 And they swore unto the Lord with a loud voice, and with [joyful] shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
2Ch 15:15 And all Judah rejoiced because of the oath; for with all their heart had they sworn, and with their whole desire did they seek him, and he let himself be found by them: and the Lord gave them rest on every side.
2Ch 15:16 And also concerning Ma’achah the mother of king Assa, he removed her from being queen, because she had made a scandalous image for the grove; and Assa cut down her scandalous image, and had it ground up, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
2Ch 15:17 But the high–places were not removed out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Assa was entire all his days.
2Ch 15:18 And be brought the things which his father had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, into the house of God,––silver, and gold, and vessels.
2Ch 15:19 And there was no war until the five–and–thirtieth year of the reign of Assa.
2Ch 16:1 ¶ In the six–and–thirtieth year of the reign of Assa, came up Ba’sha the king of Israel against Judah, and built Kamah, in order not to suffer any one to go out or come in to Assa the king of Judah.
2Ch 16:2 Then did Assa bring out silver and gold out of the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent [them] to Ben–hadad the king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,
2Ch 16:3 A covenant is between me and thee, as between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee silver and gold; go, break thy covenant with Ba’sha the king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.
2Ch 16:4 And Ben–hadad hearkened unto king Assa, and sent the captains of the armies that he had against the cities of Israel, and they smote ‘Iyon, and Dan, and Abel–mayim, and all the treasure–cities of Naphtali.
2Ch 16:5 And it came to pass, when Ba’sha heard this, that he left off the building of Ramah, and stopped his work.
2Ch 16:6 And king Assa took then all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, wherewith Ba’sha had built; and he built therewith Geba’ and Mizpah.
2Ch 16:7 ¶ And at that time came Chanani the seer to Assa the king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and hast not relied on the Lord thy God: therefore is the army of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hands.
2Ch 16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a numerous army, with chariots and horsemen in great abundance? yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he gave them up into thy hand.
2Ch 16:9 For as regardeth the Lord, his eyes roam throughout the whole earth, to hold strongly with those whose heart is entire toward him: thou hast done foolishly for this reason; because from this time forth there will be wars with thee.
2Ch 16:10 Then became Assa incensed toward the seer, and put him in a prison–house; for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Assa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
2Ch 16:11 And, behold, the acts of Assa, the first and the last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2Ch 16:12 And Assa became sick in the thirty–and–ninth year of his reign in his feet, his disease being exceedingly severe: yet even in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but [applied] to the physicians.
2Ch 16:13 And Assa slept with his fathers, and died in the one–and–fortieth year of his reign.
2Ch 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the couch which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices mixed by the apothecary’s art; and they made for him a burning uncommonly great.
2Ch 17:1 ¶ And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
2Ch 17:2 And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and placed garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Assa his father had captured.
2Ch 17:3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat; because he walked in the first ways of David his father, and sought not after the Be’alim;
2Ch 17:4 On the contrary, after the God of his father did he seek, and in his commandments did he walk, but not after the doings of Israel.
2Ch 17:5 Therefore did the Lord establish the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah gave presents to Jehoshaphat; and he had riches and honor in abundance.
2Ch 17:6 And his heart raised itself up in the ways of the Lord, and he removed moreover the high–places and groves out of Judah.
2Ch 17:7 And in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben–chayil, and ‘Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Michayahu, to teach in the cities of Judah.
2Ch 17:8 And with them were the Levites, Shema’yahu, and Nethanyahu, and Zebadyahu, and ‘Assahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adoniyahu, and Tobiyahu, and Tobadoniyah, the Levites; and with them Elishama’ and Jehoram, the priests.
2Ch 17:9 And they taught in Judah, and with them was the book of the law of the Lord, and they moved about through all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
2Ch 17:10 ¶ And the dread of the Lord was upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war with Jehoshaphat.
2Ch 17:11 Also from the Philistines did people bring unto Jehoshaphat presents and silver, as tribute: also the Arabians brought him small cattle, rams seven thousand and seven hundred, and he–goats seven thousand and seven hundred.
2Ch 17:12 And Jehoshaphat went on becoming exceedingly great, and he built in Judah castles and treasure–cities.
2Ch 17:13 And he had great works in the cities of Judah, and men of war, mighty in valor, in Jerusalem.
2Ch 17:14 And these are their numbers according to their family divisions: Of Judah, of the captains of the thousands was ‘Adnah the chief, and with him were mighty men of valor, three hundred thousand.
2Ch 17:15 And next to him was Jehochanan the chief, and with him were two hundred and eighty thousand.
2Ch 17:16 And next to him was ‘Amassyah the son of Zichri, who voluntarily offered himself unto the Lord; and with him were two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.
2Ch 17:17 And of Benjamin, the mighty valiant Elyada’, and with him were those armed with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
2Ch 17:18 And next him was Jehozabad, and with him were one hundred and eighty thousand ready armed for the host.
2Ch 17:19 These were those that ministered to the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
2Ch 18:1 ¶ And Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and he intermarried with Achab.
2Ch 18:2 And he went down after [some] years to Achab to Samaria. And Achab killed for him sheep and oxen in abundance, and for the people that were with him, and persuaded him to go up to Ramoth–gil’ad.
2Ch 18:3 Then said Achab the king of Israel unto Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me against Ramoth–gil’ad! And he said to him, I [will be] like thee, and my people [shall be] as thy people; and we will be with thee in the battle.
2Ch 18:4 ¶ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, today [first] of the word of the Lord.
2Ch 18:5 Then did the king of Israel assemble the prophets, four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramoth–gil’ad to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, and God will deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
2Ch 18:6 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Eternal besides, that we might inquire of him?
2Ch 18:7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the Lord; but I hate him; for he never prophesieth any good concerning me, but at all times evil: it is Michayhu the son of Yimla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
2Ch 18:8 Then called the king of Israel a certain court–officer, and said, "Hasten hither Michayhu the son of Yimla."
2Ch 18:9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, dressed in their royal garments, and they were sitting in a threshing–floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria: and all the prophets prophesied before them.
2Ch 18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Kena’anah had made himself horns of iron; and he said, Thus hath said the Lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians until thou have made an end of them.
2Ch 18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up against Ramoth–gil’ad, and prosper, and the Lord will deliver it into the king’s hand.
2Ch 18:12 And the messenger that went to call Michayhu spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets are with one voice good for the king: so do let thy word, I pray thee, be like [that of] any one of them, and speak something good.
2Ch 18:13 And Michayhu said, As the Lord liveth, truly what my God may say, that will I speak.
2Ch 18:14 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Michah, shall we go to Ramoth–gil’ad to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and may they be delivered into your hand.
2Ch 18:15 And the king said to him, How many times yet must I adjure thee that thou shalt not speak to me any thing but the truth in the name of the Lord?
2Ch 18:16 Then said he, I saw all Israel scattered over the mountains, as flocks that have not a shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.
2Ch 18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say unto thee that he would not prophesy concerning me any good, but [only] for evil?
2Ch 18:18 And he said, Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right and his left.
2Ch 18:19 And the Lord said, Who will persuade Achab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth–gil’ad? And one said––one saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
2Ch 18:20 Then came there forth a spirit, and placed himself before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?
2Ch 18:21 And he said, I will go forth, and I will become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou wilt persuade him, and also prevail: go forth, and do so.
2Ch 18:22 And now, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets: but the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.
2Ch 18:23 And Zedekiah the son of Kena’anah went near, and struck Michayhu on the cheek, and said, Which is the way the Spirit of the Lord passed away from me to speak with thee?
2Ch 18:24 And Michayhu said, Behold, thou shalt see it on that day when thou shalt go into the innermost chamber to hide thyself.
2Ch 18:25 And the king of Israel said, Take ye Michayhu, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
2Ch 18:26 And say ye, Thus hath said the king, Put this man in the prison, and feed him with sparing bread and with sparing water, until I return in peace.
2Ch 18:27 And Michayhu said, If thou return at all in peace, then hath the Lord not spoken through me. And he said, Hear it, O all ye nations!
2Ch 18:28 ¶ And the king of Israel went up with Jehoshaphat the king of Judah to Ramoth–gil’ad.
2Ch 18:29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but do thou put on thy royal garments. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into the battle.
2Ch 18:30 And the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that he had, saying, Fight ye not with the small or with the great, save only with the king of Israel alone.
2Ch 18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, This is the king of Israel. And they encompassed him to fight; and Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him; and God induced them to go away from him.
2Ch 18:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from following him.
2Ch 18:33 But a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the armor: wherefore he said to the chariot–driver, Turn about, and carry me out of the camp; for I am wounded.
2Ch 18:34 And the battle increased on that day: and the king of Israel stayed [himself] up in the chariot against the Syrians until the evening, and he died at the time of the sun’s going down.
2Ch 19:1 ¶ And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace, to Jerusalem.
2Ch 19:2 And there came out to meet him Jehu the son of Chanani the seer, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldst thou help the wicked, and love those that hate the Lord? and because of this there is wrath over thee from before the Lord.
2Ch 19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found on thee; because thou hast removed the Asheroth out of the land, and hast directed thy heart firmly to seek God.
2Ch 19:4 And Jehoshaphat remained at Jerusalem; but he went out again through the people from Beer–sheba’ as far as the mountain of Ephraim, and caused them to return unto the Lord the God of their fathers.
2Ch 19:5 ¶ And he appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, in city by city.
2Ch 19:6 And he said to the judges, Look [well] at what ye are doing; because not for man are ye to judge, but for the Lord, who is with you in pronouncing judgment.
2Ch 19:7 And now let the dread of the Lord be upon you: take heed and act; for with the Lord our God there is no injustice, nor respect for persons, nor taking of bribes.
2Ch 19:8 But also in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat appoint some of the Levites, and the priests, and of the chiefs of the family divisions of Israel, for the [giving of] the judgment of the Lord, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
2Ch 19:9 And he charged on them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with an undivided heart.
2Ch 19:10 And whatsoever controversy may come to you from your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, ye shall truly warn them that they incur not guilt against the Lord, and so there come wrath over you, and over your brethren: so must ye do, and ye will not incur guilt.
2Ch 19:11 And, behold, Amaryahu the chief priest is over you for every matter of the Lord; and Zebadyahu the son of Yishma’el, the ruler for the house of Judah, for every matter of the king; and the Levites are officers before you. Be strong and act, and may the Lord be with the good.
2Ch 20:1 ¶ And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of ‘Ammon, and with them some of the ‘Ammonim, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
2Ch 20:2 And there came some and told unto Jehoshaphat, saying, There is coming against thee a great multitude from beyond the sea, from Syria; and, behold, they are in Chazazon–thamar, which is ‘En–gedi.
2Ch 20:3 Then became Jehoshaphat afraid, and he directed his face to seek the Lord; and he proclaimed a fast over all Judah.
2Ch 20:4 And [the people of] Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help] of the Lord: also out of all the cities of Judah did they come to seek the Lord.
2Ch 20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood forward in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court.
2Ch 20:6 And he said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, thou art God in the heavens, and thou rulest over all the kingdoms of the nations; and in thy hand are the power and might, and there is none that can withstand thee.
2Ch 20:7 Behold, it is thou, O our God, who hast driven out the inhabitants of this land from before thy people Israel; and thou gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend to eternity.
2Ch 20:8 And they have dwelt therein, and have built for thee therein a sanctuary for thy name, saying,
2Ch 20:9 If there should come over us any evil, the sword, punishment, or pestilence, or famine, [then] will we stand before this house, and in thy presence, for thy name is in this house, and we will cry unto thee out of our distress, and thou wilt hear and help.
2Ch 20:10 And now, behold, the children of ‘Ammon and Moab and mount Se’ir, against whom thou wouldst not suffer Israel to come, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and destroyed them not:––
2Ch 20:11 And behold, they recompense us, by coming to drive us out of thy inheritance, which thou hast given us to possess.
2Ch 20:12 O our God, wilt thou not execute justice on them? for there is no power in us against this great multitude that is coming against us; and we indeed know not what we are to do: but upon thee are our eyes [directed].
2Ch 20:13 And all Judah were standing before the Lord, also their little ones, their wives, and their sons.
2Ch 20:14 ¶ And upon Jachaziel the son of Zecharyahu, the son of Benayah, the son of Je’iel, the son of Matthanyah, the Levite, of the sons of Assaph, came the spirit of the Lord in the midst of the assembly;
2Ch 20:15 And he said, Listen ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus hath said the Lord unto you, Be ye not afraid and be not dismayed because of this great multitude; for not unto you belongeth the battle, but unto God.
2Ch 20:16 Tomorrow go ye down against them behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and ye will find them at the end of the valley, in front of the wilderness of Jeruel.
2Ch 20:17 Ye shall not need to fight in this place: stand firmly, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, and be not dismayed; tomorrow go out to meet them, and the Lord will be with you.
2Ch 20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, to prostrate themselves unto the Lord.
2Ch 20:19 And then arose the Levites, of the children of the Kehathites, and of the children of the Korehites, to praise the Lord the God of Israel with a very loud voice.
2Ch 20:20 ¶ And they rose up early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Thekoa’: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood forward and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; believe in the Lord your God, and ye will have permanence; believe his prophets, and ye will prosper.
2Ch 20:21 And he consulted with his people, and he appointed singers unto the Lord, and those that should praise in the holy ornaments, as they went out before the armed array, and said, Give thanks unto the Lord; for unto everlasting endureth his kindness.
2Ch 20:22 And at the time when they began with the song and the praise, the Lord set an ambush against the children of ‘Ammon, Moab, and mount Se’ir, who were come against Judah, and they were smitten.
2Ch 20:23 And the children of ‘Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Se’ir, utterly to annihilate and to destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Se’ir, they helped to destroy one another.
2Ch 20:24 And when Judah came toward the watchtower in the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none had escaped.
2Ch 20:25 And then came Jehoshaphat and his people to plunder their booty, and they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and costly vessels, which they stript off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in plundering the booty, for it was so much.
2Ch 20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the Lord: therefore did they call the name of this place, The valley of Berachah [Blessing], until this day.
2Ch 20:27 Then returned all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, to return to Jerusalem with joy; for the Lord had caused them to rejoice over their enemies.
2Ch 20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and with harps and with trumpets unto the house of the Lord.
2Ch 20:29 And a dread from God was on all the kingdoms of [those] countries, when they heard that the Lord had fought with the enemies of Israel.
2Ch 20:30 So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat had repose, and his God gave him rest all round about.
2Ch 20:31 ¶ And [so] did Jehoshaphat reign over Judah; thirty and five years old was he when he became king, and twenty and five years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was ‘Azubah the daughter of Shilchi.
2Ch 20:32 And he walked in the way of his father Assa, and turned not aside from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
2Ch 20:33 Nevertheless the high–places were not removed; for the people had not yet directed their heart firmly unto the God of their fathers.
2Ch 20:34 And the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Chanani, which was entered into the book of the kings of Israel.
2Ch 20:35 And after this did Jehoshaphat the king of Judah connect himself with Achazyah the king of Israel, the same who acted very wickedly;
2Ch 20:36 And he connected himself with him to make ships to go to Tharshish: and they made ships in ‘Ezyon–geber.
2Ch 20:37 Then prophesied Eli’ezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast connected thyself with Achazyahu, the Lord hath broken down thy works. And the ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tharshish.
2Ch 21:1 ¶ And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son became king in his stead.
2Ch 21:2 And he had brothers the sons of Jehoshaphat: ‘Azaryah, and Jechiel, and Zecharyahu, and ‘Azaryahu, and Michael, and Shephatyahu, all these being sons of Jehoshaphat the king of Israel.
2Ch 21:3 And their father gave them many gifts [consisting] of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the first–born.
2Ch 21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he slew all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.
2Ch 21:5 Thirty and two years was Jehoram old when he became king, and eight years did he reign in Jerusalem.
2Ch 21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as had done the house of Achab; for the daughter of Achab had he for wife: and he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2Ch 21:7 Yet would the Lord not destroy the house of David, on account of the covenant which he had made with David, and as he had said to give to him a government and to his sons at all times.
2Ch 21:8 In his days Edom revolted from under the power of Judah, and they appointed a king over themselves.
2Ch 21:9 Then did Jehoram go over with his princes, and all the chariots were with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites who compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots.
2Ch 21:10 Yet Edom revolted from under the power of Judah even until this day: then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his power; because he had forsaken the Lord the God of his fathers.
2Ch 21:11 He also made high–places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, and misled Judah.
2Ch 21:12 ¶ And there came unto him a writing from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus hath said the Lord the God of David thy father, Inasmuch as thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, and in the ways of Assa the king of Judah,
2Ch 21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, as the house of Achab hath caused [others] to go astray, and hast also slain thy brothers of thy father’s house, who were better than thyself:
2Ch 21:14 Behold, the Lord will inflict a great plague on thy people, and on thy children, and on thy wives, and on all thy possessions;
2Ch 21:15 And thou shalt be [afflicted] with great diseases by a disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels pass out [from thee] by reason of the disease days upon days.
2Ch 21:16 And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that are alongside of the Cushim:
2Ch 21:17 And they went up against Judah, and made an incursion into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and also his sons, and his wives; and there was not left unto him any son, save Jehoachaz, the youngest of his sons.
2Ch 21:18 And after all this did the Lord afflict him in his bowels with a disease which was incurable.
2Ch 21:19 And it came to pass, from days to days, and when the [fixed] time was expired, after two years, that his bowels passed out [from him] by reason of his disease: so he died of evil diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning for his fathers.
2Ch 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he became king, and eight years did he reign in Jerusalem, and departed without joy: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2Ch 22:1 ¶ And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Achazyahu his youngest son king in his stead; for the predatory band that was come with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So became Achazyahu, the son of Jehoram the king of Judah, king.
2Ch 22:2 Forty and two years old was Achazyahu when he became king, and one year did he reign in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Athalyahu the [grand–]daughter of ‘Omri.
2Ch 22:3 Also he walked in the ways of the house of Achab; for his mother was his counsellor to act wickedly.
2Ch 22:4 And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord like the house of Achab; for these were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
2Ch 22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Achab the king of Israel to war against Chazael the king of Syria at Ramoth–gil’ad: and the Syrians smote Joram.
2Ch 22:6 And he returned to be healed in Yizre’el because of the wounds which had been given him at Ramah, when he fought with Chazael the king of Syria. And ‘Azaryahu the son of Jehoram the king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Achab at Yizre’el, because he was sick.
2Ch 22:7 But from God was the confusion of Achazyahu that he should come to Joram: and when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to cut off the house of Achab.
2Ch 22:8 And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Achab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brothers of Achazyahu, that ministered to Achazyahu, and he slew them.
2Ch 22:9 And he sought Achazyahu, and they caught him while he was hiding himself in Samaria, and they brought him to Jehu, and they slew him, and buried him; because they said, He is son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart. And there was none of the house of Achazyahu who had sufficient power [to obtain] the kingdom.
2Ch 22:10 ¶ And when ‘Athalyahu the mother of Achazyahu saw that her son was dead, she arose and exterminated all the royal seed of the house of Judah.
2Ch 22:11 But Yehoshab’ath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Achazyahu, and stole him away from the midst of the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse into the bed–chamber. So did Yehoshab’ath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Yehoyada’ the priest,––for she was the sister of Achazyahu,––hide him from ‘Athalyahu, so that she slew him not.
2Ch 22:12 And he was with them in the house of God hidden six years, while ‘Athalyah was reigning over the land.
2Ch 23:1 ¶ And in the seventh year Yehoyada’ strengthened himself, and took the captains of the hundreds, ‘Azaryah the son of Jerocham and Yishma’el the son of Jehochanan, and ‘Azaryahu the son of ‘Obed, and Ma’asseyahu the son of ‘Adayahu, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, with him into a covenant.
2Ch 23:2 And they moved about in Judah, and gathered the Levites together out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the families of Israel; and they came to Jerusalem.
2Ch 23:3 And all the congregation made a covenant in the house of God with the king. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall be king, as the Lord hath spoken concerning the sons of David.
2Ch 23:4 This is the thing that ye shall do, A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers at the thresholds;
2Ch 23:5 And a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the foundation–gate; and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.
2Ch 23:6 But let none come into the house of the Lord, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites: they shall enter, for they are holy; but all the people shall keep the charge of the Lord.
2Ch 23:7 And the Levites shall encompass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he who cometh into the house shall be put to death; and be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
2Ch 23:8 And the Levites and all Judah did in accordance with all that Yehoyada’ the priest had commanded, and they took every man his men that came in on the sabbath, with those that were to be relieved on the sabbath; for Yehoyada’ the priest had not dismissed the divisions.
2Ch 23:9 And Yehoyada’ the priest gave to the captains of the hundreds the spears, and the shields, and the quivers, that belonged to king David, which were in the house of God.
2Ch 23:10 And he placed all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the temple, all round about the king,
2Ch 23:11 Then did they bring forth the king’s son, and put upon him the crown, and [gave him] the testimony, and they made him king. And Yehoyada’ and his sons anointed him, and said, Long live the king.
2Ch 23:12 ¶ And when ‘Athalyah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord.
2Ch 23:13 And she looked, and behold, the king stood upon his stand at the entrance, and the princes and the trumpets were around the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew on trumpets; also the singers [were there] leading with instruments of music in the songs of praise; and ‘Athalyah rent her clothes, and said, "Treason, treason."
2Ch 23:14 But Yehoyada’ the priest ordered the captains of the hundreds, the commanders of the army, to go out, and said unto them, Lead her forth to within the ranges; and he that followeth her shall be put to death with the sword. For the priest had said, Ye shall not put her to death in the house of the Lord.
2Ch 23:15 And they made way for her: and she went to the entrance of the horse–gate by the king’s house, and they put her to death there.
2Ch 23:16 And Yehoyada’ made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be a people unto the Lord.
2Ch 23:17 And then came all the people into the house of Ba’al, and pulled it down, and his altars and his images did they break in pieces, and Mathhan the priest of Ba’al they slew before the altars.
2Ch 23:18 And Yehoyada’ placed the supervision over the house of the Lord into the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had divided off over the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt–offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, after the manner of David.
2Ch 23:19 And he appointed the gatekeepers over the gates of the house of the Lord, that none unclean in any thing should enter therein.
2Ch 23:20 And he took the captains of the hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors over the people, and all the people of the land, and he brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and they came through the midst of the upper gate into the king’s house; and they caused the king to sit upon the throne of the kingdom.
2Ch 23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; but ‘Athalyahu they had slain with the sword.
2Ch 24:1 ¶ Seven years old was Joash when he became king, and forty years did he reign in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Zibyah of Beer–sheba’.
2Ch 24:2 And Joash did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, all the days of Yehoyada’ the priest.
2Ch 24:3 And Yehoyada’ took for himself two wives, and he begat sons and daughters.
2Ch 24:4 And it came to pass after this, that Yoash had it in his mind to renew the house of the Lord.
2Ch 24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and ye shall make haste in this matter. But the Levites made no haste.
2Ch 24:6 Then called the king for Yehoyada’ the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required from the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the contribution [fixed by] Moses the servant of the Lord, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of the testimony?
2Ch 24:7 For the sons of the wicked ‘Athalyahu have made breaches [in] the house of God; and also the holy things of the house of the Lord have they applied to the Be’alim.
2Ch 24:8 And at the king’s order they made a chest, and placed it at the gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.
2Ch 24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the Lord the contribution [fixed by] Moses the servant of God upon Israel in the wilderness.
2Ch 24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and they brought it in, and cast it into the chest, until it was full.
2Ch 24:11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, then came the king’s scribe and the high–priest’s officer and emptied the chest, and took it up, and brought it back to its place. Thus did they day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
2Ch 24:12 And the king and Yehoyada’ gave it to those who overlooked the service of the house of the Lord, and these hired masons and carpenters to renew the house of the Lord, and also to the workers in iron and copper to repair the house of the Lord.
2Ch 24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was restored through their means, and they replaced the house of God in its [former] state, and strengthened it.
2Ch 24:14 And when they had completed it, they brought before the king and Yehoyada’ the rest of the money, and they made of it vessels for the house of the Lord, the vessels of the service and for the sacrificing, and the spoons, and [other] vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt–offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Yehoyada’.
2Ch 24:15 ¶ And Yehoyada’ became old, and was full of days, and died: he was old one hundred and thirty years when he died.
2Ch 24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings; because he had done a good thing in Israel, and toward God, and his house.
2Ch 24:17 But after the death of Yehoyada’ came the princes of Judah, and bowed themselves down to the king. Then did the king hearken unto them.
2Ch 24:18 And they forsook the house of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and there came wrath over Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
2Ch 24:19 And he sent prophets among them, to bring them back again unto the Lord; and they gave them warning; but they did not give ear.
2Ch 24:20 And the spirit of God endued Zechariah the son of Yehoyada’ the priest, and he stood up above the people, and he said unto them, Thus hath said the [true] God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord? ye cannot prosper so; because [as] ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.
2Ch 24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.
2Ch 24:22 And king Joash did not remember the kindness which Yehoyada’ his father had shown to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord will see [this], and require [my blood].
2Ch 24:23 And it came to pass at the expiration of the year, that the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and all their spoil they sent off unto the king of Damascus.
2Ch 24:24 Indeed with a small company of men did the army of Syria come; but the Lord delivered into their hand an army exceedingly numerous; because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers. And on Joash they executed punishment.
2Ch 24:25 And when these were gone away from him––for they left him [suffering] with great diseases––his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Yehoyada’ the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2Ch 24:26 And these are those that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shim’ath the ‘Ammonitess, and Yehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
2Ch 24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the great prophecy concerning him, and the founding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amazyahu his son became king in his stead.
2Ch 25:1 ¶ When twenty and five years old did Amazyahu become king, and twenty and nine years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Yeho’addan of Jerusalem.
2Ch 25:2 And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with an entire heart.
2Ch 25:3 And it came to pass, when the kingdom was firmly established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
2Ch 25:4 But their children he put not to death; but [did] as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, that the Lord had commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, nor shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
2Ch 25:5 And Amazyahu gathered Judah together, and stationed them after the family divisions, after the captains over the thousands, and after the captains over the hundreds, of all Judah and Benjamin; and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them [to be] three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to the army, that could handle spear and shield.
2Ch 25:6 He hired also out of Israel one hundred thousand mighty men of valor for one hundred talents of silver.
2Ch 25:7 But a man of God came unto him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the Lord is not with Israel, [with] all the children of Ephraim.
2Ch 25:8 But if thou wilt go, [and be ever so] active [and] strong for the battle: God will cause thee to stumble before the enemy; for there is power with God to help, and to cause to stumble.
2Ch 25:9 Then said Amazyahu to the man of God, But what is it to be done for the hundred talents which I have given to the band of Israel? And the man of God said, The Lord hath [enough in his power] to give thee much more than this.
2Ch 25:10 Then did Amazyahu separate them, [to wit,] the band that was come to him out of Ephraim, that they might go to their place: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned to their home in burning anger.
2Ch 25:11 And Amazyahu strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and smote of the children of Se’ir ten thousand [men].
2Ch 25:12 And ten thousand did the children of Judah take captive alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were crushed.
2Ch 25:13 But the men of the band whom Amazyahu had sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, spread themselves about in the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth–choron, and smote of them three thousand [persons], and plundered much spoil.
2Ch 25:14 ¶ And it came to pass, after Amazyahu was come home from smiting the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Se’ir, and set them up unto himself as gods, and before them he used to prostrate himself and unto them he used to burn incense.
2Ch 25:15 Wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Amazyahu, and he sent unto him a prophet, who said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, that have not delivered their own people out of thy hand?
2Ch 25:16 And it came to pass, as he was speaking unto him, that he said unto him, Have we ever appointed thee as a counsellor to the king? forbear this: why shouldst thou be smitten? Then did the prophet forbear; and he said, I know that God hath resolved to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
2Ch 25:17 ¶ Then held Amazyahu the king of Judah a council, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoachaz, the son of Jehu, the king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
2Ch 25:18 And Joash the king of Israel sent to Amazyahu the king of Judah, saying, The thorn–bush that was in the Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in the Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for wife. And there passed along the wild beasts that were in the Lebanon, and trod down the thorn–bush.
2Ch 25:19 Thou hast thought, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and thy heart hath lifted thee up to acquire much glory: now stay in thy house; why wilt thou meddle with misfortune, that thou mayest fall, thou, and Judah with thee?
2Ch 25:20 But Amazyahu would not hear; for it was [ordained] by God, in order to deliver them into the hand [of Joash]; because they had sought after the gods of Edom.
2Ch 25:21 Thereupon did Joash the king of Israel go up: and they looked one another in the face, he and Amazyahu the king of Judah, at Beth–shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
2Ch 25:22 And Judah was defeated before Israel, and they fled every man to his tents.
2Ch 25:23 And Joash the king of Israel caught Amazyahu the king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoachaz, at Beth–shemesh; and he brought him to Jerusalem, and made a breach in the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner–gate, four hundred cubits.
2Ch 25:24 And [taking] all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with ‘Obed–edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, and the children of the chiefs as hostages, he returned to Samaria.
2Ch 25:25 And Amazyahu the son of Joash the king of Judah lived after the death of Joash the son of Jehoachaz the king of Israel fifteen years.
2Ch 25:26 And the rest of the acts of Amazyahu the first and the last, behold, they are fully written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2Ch 25:27 Now from the time that Amazyahu departed from following the Lord, they raised a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: wherefore he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
2Ch 25:28 And they carried him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
2Ch 26:1 ¶ And all the people of Judah took ‘Uzziyahu, who was then sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amazyahu.
2Ch 26:2 He it was that built Eloth, and brought it back to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
2Ch 26:3 Sixteen years old was ‘Uzziyahu when he became king, and fifty and two years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Yecholyah of Jerusalem.
2Ch 26:4 And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, in accordance with all that his father Amazyahu had done.
2Ch 26:5 And he was [inclined] to seek God in the days of Zecharyahu, who had understanding in the visions of God; and during the time that he sought the Lord, God caused him to prosper.
2Ch 26:6 And he went forth and made war against the Philistines, and he broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2Ch 26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur–ba’al, and the Me’unim.
2Ch 26:8 And the ‘Ammonites gave presents to ‘Uzziyahu: and his name extended even to the entrance of Egypt; for he became exceedingly strong.
2Ch 26:9 And ‘Uzziyahu built towers in Jerusalem, above the corner–gate, and above the valley–gate, and at the angle, and made them strong.
2Ch 26:10 He built also towers in the desert, and hewed out many wells; for he had much cattle, both in the lowlands and in the plain; [also] husbandmen, and vintners in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he loved husbandry.
2Ch 26:11 Moreover ‘Uzziyah had an army of fighting men, that went out to the host by bands, according to the number of those mustered of them through the hand of Je’iel the scribe and Ma’asseyahu the overseer, under the supervision of Chananyahu, one of the king’s captains.
2Ch 26:12 The whole number of the chiefs of the family divisions of the mighty men of valor was two thousand and six hundred.
2Ch 26:13 And under their supervision was an efficient army, [of] three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
2Ch 26:14 And ‘Uzziyahu prepared for them, for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
2Ch 26:15 And he made in Jerusalem artificial contrivances, contrived by a skilful man, to be [stationed] on the towers and upon the ramparts, to shoot off arrows and great stones. And his name extended ever so far abroad; for he was marvelously assisted, till he became strong.
2Ch 26:16 ¶ But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction; and he became unfaithful against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
2Ch 26:17 And there went in after him ‘Azaryahu the priest, and with him were priests of the Lord, valiant men, [to the number of] eighty;
2Ch 26:18 And they stood forward against king ‘Uzziyahu, and they said unto him, It is not for thee, O ‘Uzziyahu, to burn incense unto the Lord, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; and it will not be for thy honor from the Lord God.
2Ch 26:19 But ‘Uzziyahu became wroth, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, above the altar of the incense.
2Ch 26:20 And when ‘Azaryahu the chief priest, with all the priests, turned about toward him, behold, he was leprous on his forehead, and they hurried him away from there: yea, he also made haste to go out, because the Lord had afflicted him.
2Ch 26:21 And king ‘Uzziyahu was a leper until the day of his death, and dwelt in the leper–house, as a leper; for he was excluded from the house of the Lord: and Jotham his son was over the king’s house, [and] judged the people of the land.
2Ch 26:22 And the rest of the acts of ‘Uzziyahu, the first and the last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos write.
2Ch 26:23 And ‘Uzziyahu slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial–field which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son became king in his stead.
2Ch 27:1 ¶ Twenty and five years old was Jotham when he became king, and sixteen years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Yerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
2Ch 27:2 And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, in accordance with all that his father ‘Uzziyahu had done: only he entered not into the temple of the Lord. But the people acted still corruptly.
2Ch 27:3 He it was that built the upper gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of the hill–fort he built much.
2Ch 27:4 Moreover he built cities in the mountain of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
2Ch 27:5 And he likewise fought with the king of the sons of ‘Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of ‘Ammon gave him in that same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of ‘Ammon pay unto him again, both in the second year, and in the third.
2Ch 27:6 So Jotham became strong; because he directed his ways before the Lord his God.
2Ch 27:7 And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
2Ch 27:8 Five and twenty years old was he when he became king, and sixteen years did he reign in Jerusalem.
2Ch 27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz his son became king in his stead.
2Ch 28:1 ¶ Twenty years old was Achaz when he became king, and sixteen years did he reign in Jerusalem; and he did not what is right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father;
2Ch 28:2 But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Be’alim.
2Ch 28:3 And he also burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his sons in the fire, after the abominable acts of the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel.
2Ch 28:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high–places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2Ch 28:5 Wherefore the Lord his God gave him up into the hand of the king of Syria; and they defeated his people, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And also into the hand of the king of Israel was he given up, and he defeated his people with a great slaughter.
2Ch 28:6 ¶ And Pekach the son of Remalyahu slew in Judah one hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all being valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.
2Ch 28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Ma’asseyahu the king’s son, and ‘Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah the second in rank to the king.
2Ch 28:8 And the children of Israel led away captive from their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and also much booty did they plunder from them, and they brought the booty to Samaria.
2Ch 28:9 But there was a prophet of the Lord, ‘Oded was his name; and he went out to meet the host that was coming to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because of the fury of the Lord the God of your fathers against Judah, hath he given them up into your hand, and ye have slain among them in a rage that reacheth as far as the heavens.
2Ch 28:10 And now ye think to force the children of Judah and Jerusalem to become bond–men and bond–women unto you; but surely are there not with you, even with you, trespasses against the Lord your God?
2Ch 28:11 And now hear me, and restore the captives, whom ye have taken captive from your brethren; for the fierce wrath of the Lord is over you.
2Ch 28:12 Then arose certain men of the heads of the children of Ephraim, ‘Azaryahu the son of Jehochanan, Berechyahu the son of Meshillemoth, and Jechizkiyahu the son of Shallum, and ‘Amassa the son of Chadlai, against those that were come from the army.
2Ch 28:13 And they said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither; for in addition to the guiltiness against the Lord [resting] on us, ye think to add unto our sins and unto our guiltiness; for great is the guiltiness [resting] on us, and there is fierce wrath over Israel.
2Ch 28:14 So the armed men abandoned the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
2Ch 28:15 And then arose the men who have been expressed by name, and took hold of the captives, and all that were naked among them they clothed from the booty; and they gave them garments and shoes, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm–trees, near their brethren; and then did they return to Samaria.
2Ch 28:16 ¶ At that time sent king Achaz unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
2Ch 28:17 Moreover the Edomites came again and defeated [the men of] Judah, and carried away captives.
2Ch 28:18 And the Philistines invaded the cities of the lowlands, and of the south of Judah, and captured Beth–shemesh, and Ayalon, and Gederoth, and Socho with its villages, and Thimnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they dwelt there.
2Ch 28:19 For the Lord humbled Judah on account of Achaz the king of Israel; for he made Judah unruly, and acted very faithlessly against the Lord.
2Ch 28:20 Then came against him Tilgath–pilneesser the king of Assyria, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
2Ch 28:21 Although Achaz took away a portion [out] of the house of the Lord, and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: he yet gave him no assistance.
2Ch 28:22 And in the time that he distressed him, became he yet more faithless against the Lord,––yea, he, king Achaz;
2Ch 28:23 And he sacrificed unto the gods of [the people of] Damascus, who had smitten him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria do help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice unto them, that they may help me. But they only became to him a stumbling–block for him and for all Israel.
2Ch 28:24 And Achaz gathered up the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and locked up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
2Ch 28:25 And in each and every city of Judah made he high–places to burn incense unto other gods; and he provoked to anger the Lord the God of his fathers.
2Ch 28:26 And the rest of his acts and of all his ways, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2Ch 28:27 And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem; for they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son became king in his stead.
2Ch 29:1 ¶ Hezekiah became king when five and twenty years old, and twenty and nine years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abiyah, the daughter of Zecharyahu.
2Ch 29:2 And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, in accordance with all that David his father had done.
2Ch 29:3 He it was that in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
2Ch 29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the open place at the east;
2Ch 29:5 And he said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify yourselves now, and sanctity the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and carry forth the unclean thing out of the sanctuary.
2Ch 29:6 For our fathers have dealt faithlessly, and have done what is evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him; and they have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.
2Ch 29:7 They had also locked up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and incense have they not burnt, and the burnt–offerings have they not offered in the sanctuary, unto the God of Israel.
2Ch 29:8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lord is upon Judah and Jerusalem. and he hath rendered them to be a horror, an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
2Ch 29:9 And, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.
2Ch 29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant for the Lord the God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
2Ch 29:11 My sons, be not negligent now; for of you hath the Lord made choice to stand before him, to minister unto him, and that ye might be unto him ministers and those that burn incense.
2Ch 29:12 ¶ Then arose the Levites, Machath the son of ‘Amassai, and Joel the son of ‘Azaryahu, of the sons of the Kehathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of ‘Abdi, and ‘Azaryahu the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershunites, Joach the son of Zimmah, and ‘Eden the son of Joach:
2Ch 29:13 And of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri, and Je’iel; and of the sons of Assaph, Zecharyahu and Matthanyahu;
2Ch 29:14 And of the sons of Heman, Jechiel and Shim’i; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shema’yah and ‘Uzziel;
2Ch 29:15 And they gathered together their brethren, and they sanctified themselves, and came, according to the command of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
2Ch 29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it; and they brought out every thing unclean which they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord; and the Levites received it, to carry it out abroad unto the brook Kidron.
2Ch 29:17 And they commenced on the first day of th
