2KI 01:01 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of
Ahab.
2KI 01:02 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper
chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers,
and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron
whether I shall recover of this disease.
2KI 01:03 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite,
Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say
unto them, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel,
[that] ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
2KI 01:04 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come
down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
And Elijah departed.
2KI 01:05 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said
unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
2KI 01:06 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us,
and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and
say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, [Is it] not because [there is]
not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the
god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on
which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
2KI 01:07 And he said unto them, What manner of man [was he] which
came up to meet you, and told you these words?
2KI 01:08 And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt
with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is]
Elijah the Tishbite.
2KI 01:09 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his
fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an
hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said,
Come down.
2KI 01:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If
I [be] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and
consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven,
and consumed him and his fifty.
2KI 01:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with
his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus
hath the king said, Come down quickly.
2KI 01:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I [be] a man
of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy
fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him
and his fifty.
2KI 01:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his
fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on
his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man
of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy
servants, be precious in thy sight.
2KI 01:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up
the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore
let my life now be precious in thy sight.
2KI 01:15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with
him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto
the king.
2KI 01:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as
thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron,
[is it] not because [there is] no God in Israel to inquire of his
word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou
art gone up, but shalt surely die.
2KI 01:17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah
had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of
Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
2KI 01:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, [are]
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
2KI 02:01 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah
into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from
Gilgal.
2KI 02:02 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for
the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said [unto him, As] the
LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So
they went down to Bethel.
2KI 02:03 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came
forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will
take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know
[it]; hold ye your peace.
2KI 02:04 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray
thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, [As] the
LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So
they came to Jericho.
2KI 02:05 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Jericho came
to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take
away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know
[it]; hold ye your peace.
2KI 02:06 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for
the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth,
and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went
on.
2KI 02:07 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood
to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
2KI 02:08 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped [it] together,
and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so
that they two went over on dry ground.
2KI 02:09 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that
Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be
taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double
portion of thy spirit be upon me.
2KI 02:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing:
[nevertheless], if thou see me [when I am] taken from thee, it shall
be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be [so].
2KI 02:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,
that, behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of
fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a
whirlwind into heaven.
2KI 02:12 And Elisha saw [it], and he cried, My father, my father,
the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no
more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two
pieces.
2KI 02:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him,
and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
2KI 02:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
smote the waters, and said, Where [is] the LORD God of Elijah? and
when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither:
and Elisha went over.
2KI 02:15 And when the sons of the prophets which [were] to view at
Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on
Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the
ground before him.
2KI 02:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy
servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy
master: lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up,
and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said,
Ye shall not send.
2KI 02:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said,
Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but
found him not.
2KI 02:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at
Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
2KI 02:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray
thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord seeth:
but the water [is] nought, and the ground barren.
2KI 02:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein.
And they brought [it] to him.
2KI 02:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast
the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed
these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or
barren [land].
2KI 02:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the
saying of Elisha which he spake.
2KI 02:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was
going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the
city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go
up, thou bald head.
2KI 02:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them
in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of
the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
2KI 02:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence
he returned to Samaria.
2KI 03:01 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and
reigned twelve years.
2KI 03:02 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not
like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of
Baal that his father had made.
2KI 03:03 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
2KI 03:04 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered
unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred
thousand rams, with the wool.
2KI 03:05 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of
Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
2KI 03:06 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and
numbered all Israel.
2KI 03:07 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,
saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with
me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I [am] as thou
[art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy horses.
2KI 03:08 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered,
The way through the wilderness of Edom.
2KI 03:09 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and
the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey:
and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that
followed them.
2KI 03:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath
called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of
Moab!
2KI 03:11 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of
the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the
king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha the
son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
2KI 03:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him.
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down
to him.
2KI 03:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to
do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the
prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay:
for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them
into the hand of Moab.
2KI 03:14 And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before
whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see
thee.
2KI 03:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when
the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
2KI 03:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full
of ditches.
2KI 03:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither
shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that
ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
2KI 03:18 And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the LORD:
he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
2KI 03:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice
city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water,
and mar every good piece of land with stones.
2KI 03:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat
offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of
Edom, and the country was filled with water.
2KI 03:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come
up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on
armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
2KI 03:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone
upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side
[as] red as blood:
2KI 03:23 And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely
slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to
the spoil.
2KI 03:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites
rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but
they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in [their] country.
2KI 03:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of
land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all
the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in
Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went
about [it], and smote it.
2KI 03:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too
sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords,
to break through [even] unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
2KI 03:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in
his stead, and offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the wall. And
there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from
him, and returned to [their own] land.
2KI 04:01 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons
of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead;
and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the
creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
2KI 04:02 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell
me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath
not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
2KI 04:03 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.
2KI 04:04 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon
thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels,
and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
2KI 04:05 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon
her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.
2KI 04:06 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she
said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her,
[There is] not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
2KI 04:07 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go,
sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of
the rest.
2KI 04:08 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where
[was] a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And [so]
it was, [that] as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat
bread.
2KI 04:09 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive
that this [is] an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
2KI 04:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall;
and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a
candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall
turn in thither.
2KI 04:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned
into the chamber, and lay there.
2KI 04:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite.
And when he had called her, she stood before him.
2KI 04:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast
been careful for us with all this care; what [is] to be done for
thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of
the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
2KI 04:14 And he said, What then [is] to be done for her? And
Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
2KI 04:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she
stood in the door.
2KI 04:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of
life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, [thou]
man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
2KI 04:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season
that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
2KI 04:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he
went out to his father to the reapers.
2KI 04:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he
said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
2KI 04:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother,
he sat on her knees till noon, and [then] died.
2KI 04:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of
God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out.
2KI 04:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I
pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may
run to the man of God, and come again.
2KI 04:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? [it
is] neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be] well.
2KI 04:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive,
and go forward; slack not [thy] riding for me, except I bid thee.
2KI 04:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel.
And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he
said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, [yonder is] that Shunammite:
2KI 04:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, [Is
it] well with thee? [is it] well with thy husband? [is it] well with
the child? And she answered, [It is] well.
2KI 04:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she
caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And
the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] vexed within
her: and the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and hath not told me.
2KI 04:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not
say, Do not deceive me?
2KI 04:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my
staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute
him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my
staff upon the face of the child.
2KI 04:30 And the mother of the child said, [As] the LORD liveth,
and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and
followed her.
2KI 04:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon
the face of the child; but [there was] neither voice, nor hearing.
Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child
is not awaked.
2KI 04:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the
child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.
2KI 04:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain,
and prayed unto the LORD.
2KI 04:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth
upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his
hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the
child waxed warm.
2KI 04:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and
went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven
times, and the child opened his eyes.
2KI 04:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So
he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up
thy son.
2KI 04:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself
to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
2KI 04:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth
in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him:
and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe
pottage for the sons of the prophets.
2KI 04:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and
found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full,
and came and shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for they knew
[them] not.
2KI 04:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to
pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and
said, O [thou] man of God, [there is] death in the pot. And they
could not eat [thereof].
2KI 04:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast [it] into the
pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And
there was no harm in the pot.
2KI 04:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the
man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and
full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the
people, that they may eat.
2KI 04:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an
hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for
thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [thereof].
2KI 04:44 So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left
[thereof], according to the word of the LORD.
2KI 05:01 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was
a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD
had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in
valour, [but he was] a leper.
2KI 05:02 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had
brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and
she waited on Naaman's wife.
2KI 05:03 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord [were]
with the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him of
his leprosy.
2KI 05:04 And [one] went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and
thus said the maid that [is] of the land of Israel.
2KI 05:05 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a
letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him
ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten
changes of raiment.
2KI 05:06 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying,
Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have [therewith]
sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his
leprosy.
2KI 05:07 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the
letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to kill and
to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of
his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh
a quarrel against me.
2KI 05:08 And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard
that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the
king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now
to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
2KI 05:09 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and
stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
2KI 05:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash
in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and
thou shalt be clean.
2KI 05:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I
thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the
name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and
recover the leper.
2KI 05:12 [Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better
than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?
So he turned and went away in a rage.
2KI 05:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,
My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing,
wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he
saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
2KI 05:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in
Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh
came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
2KI 05:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his
company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I
know that [there is] no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now
therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
2KI 05:16 But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I
will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he refused.
2KI 05:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be
given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant
will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto
other gods, but unto the LORD.
2KI 05:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, [that] when my
master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he
leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I
bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant
in this thing.
2KI 05:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from
him a little way.
2KI 05:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,
Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving
at his hands that which he brought: but, [as] the LORD liveth, I
will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
2KI 05:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw
[him] running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet
him, and said, [Is] all well?
2KI 05:22 And he said, All [is] well. My master hath sent me,
saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two
young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a
talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
2KI 05:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he
urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two
changes of garments, and laid [them] upon two of his servants; and
they bare [them] before him.
2KI 05:24 And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from their
hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men go, and
they departed.
2KI 05:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha
said unto him, Whence [comest thou], Gehazi? And he said, Thy
servant went no whither.
2KI 05:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart [with thee],
when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a
time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and
vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
2KI 05:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee,
and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a
leper [as white] as snow.
2KI 06:01 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold
now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
2KI 06:02 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence
every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may
dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
2KI 06:03 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy
servants. And he answered, I will go.
2KI 06:04 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they
cut down wood.
2KI 06:05 But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the
water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
2KI 06:06 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him
the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither; and
the iron did swim.
2KI 06:07 Therefore said he, Take [it] up to thee. And he put out
his hand, and took it.
2KI 06:08 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took
counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place [shall
be] my camp.
2KI 06:09 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying,
Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are
come down.
2KI 06:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of
God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once
nor twice.
2KI 06:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore
troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto
them, Will ye not show me which of us [is] for the king of Israel?
2KI 06:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but
Elisha, the prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of Israel
the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
2KI 06:13 And he said, Go and spy where he [is], that I may send
and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, [he is] in
Dothan.
2KI 06:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a
great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
2KI 06:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early,
and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses
and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how
shall we do?
2KI 06:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that [be] with us
[are] more than they that [be] with them.
2KI 06:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his
eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young
man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and
chariots of fire round about Elisha.
2KI 06:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the
LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And
he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
2KI 06:19 And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way, neither
[is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom
ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
2KI 06:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria,
that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these [men], that they may
see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold,
[they were] in the midst of Samaria.
2KI 06:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw
them, My father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?
2KI 06:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite [them]: wouldest
thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and
with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and
drink, and go to their master.
2KI 06:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they
had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their
master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
2KI 06:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of
Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
2KI 06:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold,
they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore
[pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for
five [pieces] of silver.
2KI 06:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,
there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
2KI 06:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I
help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
2KI 06:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him
to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
2KI 06:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her
on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid
her son.
2KI 06:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the
woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and
the people looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth within upon his
flesh.
2KI 06:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head
of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
2KI 06:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him;
and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger
came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a
murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger
cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the
sound of his master's feet behind him?
2KI 06:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger
came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD;
what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
2KI 07:01 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus
saith the LORD, To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine
flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a
shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2KI 07:02 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the
man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows in
heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see
[it] with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
2KI 07:03 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the
gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
2KI 07:04 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine
[is] in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here,
we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of
the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill
us, we shall but die.
2KI 07:05 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of
the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the
camp of Syria, behold, [there was] no man there.
2KI 07:06 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a
noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a
great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel
hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of
the Egyptians, to come upon us.
2KI 07:07 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left
their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it
[was], and fled for their life.
2KI 07:08 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the
camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried
thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid [it]; and
came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence
[also], and went and hid [it].
2KI 07:09 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day
[is] a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till
the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore
come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
2KI 07:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and
they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and,
behold, [there was] no man there, neither voice of man, but horses
tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they [were].
2KI 07:11 And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the
king's house within.
2KI 07:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his
servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They
know that we [be] hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to
hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the
city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
2KI 07:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some]
take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in
the city, (behold, they [are] as all the multitude of Israel that
are left in it: behold, [I say], they [are] even as all the
multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and
see.
2KI 07:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent
after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
2KI 07:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the
way [was] full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast
away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
2KI 07:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the
Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two
measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
2KI 07:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned
to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the
gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the
king came down to him.
2KI 07:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the
king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of
fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the
gate of Samaria:
2KI 07:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now,
behold, [if] the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a
thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,
but shalt not eat thereof.
2KI 07:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon
him in the gate, and he died.
2KI 08:01 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had
restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household,
and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called
for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2KI 08:02 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man
of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land
of the Philistines seven years.
2KI 08:03 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the
woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went
forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
2KI 08:04 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of
God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha
hath done.
2KI 08:05 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he
had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son
he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her
land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and
this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
2KI 08:06 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the
king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that
[was] hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she
left the land, even until now.
2KI 08:07 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of
Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come
hither.
2KI 08:08 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine
hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him,
saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
2KI 08:09 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him,
even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came
and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath
sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
2KI 08:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that he shall
surely die.
2KI 08:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept.
2KI 08:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,
Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of
Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young
men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and
rip up their women with child.
2KI 08:13 And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog, that
he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath
showed me that thou [shalt be] king over Syria.
2KI 08:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who
said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me
[that] thou shouldest surely recover.
2KI 08:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick
cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on his face, so
that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
2KI 08:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
2KI 08:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign;
and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2KI 08:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did
the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did
evil in the sight of the LORD.
2KI 08:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his
servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, [and]
to his children.
2KI 08:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah,
and made a king over themselves.
2KI 08:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with
him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed
him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled
into their tents.
2KI 08:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
2KI 08:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2KI 08:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his
stead.
2KI 08:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
2KI 08:26 Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to
reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2KI 08:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did
evil in the sight of the LORD, as [did] the house of Ahab: for he
[was] the son in law of the house of Ahab.
2KI 08:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against
Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2KI 08:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought
against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of
Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he
was sick.
2KI 09:01 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the
prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of
oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
2KI 09:02 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son
of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up
from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
2KI 09:03 Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head, and
say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
2KI 09:04 So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet, went
to Ramothgilead.
2KI 09:05 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host [were]
sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu
said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
2KI 09:06 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the
oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD,
[even] over Israel.
2KI 09:07 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I
may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of
all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
2KI 09:08 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut
off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is
shut up and left in Israel:
2KI 09:09 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of
Ahijah:
2KI 09:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel,
and [there shall be] none to bury [her]. And he opened the door, and
fled.
2KI 09:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and
[one] said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this mad [fellow]
to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his
communication.
2KI 09:12 And they said, [It is] false; tell us now. And he said,
Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have
anointed thee king over Israel.
2KI 09:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put
[it] under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets,
saying, Jehu is king.
2KI 09:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi
conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and
all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
2KI 09:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of
the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with
Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, [then]
let none go forth [nor] escape out of the city to go to tell [it] in
Jezreel.
2KI 09:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram
lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
2KI 09:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and
he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company.
And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him
say, [Is it] peace?
2KI 09:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said,
Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to
do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying,
The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
2KI 09:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to
them, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu
answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
2KI 09:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them,
and cometh not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu
the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
2KI 09:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made
ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out,
each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in
the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
2KI 09:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said,
[Is it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the
whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?
2KI 09:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to
Ahaziah, [There is] treachery, O Ahaziah.
2KI 09:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote
Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and
he sunk down in his chariot.
2KI 09:25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, [and]
cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for
remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his
father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
2KI 09:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the
blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this
plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the
plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.
2KI 09:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled by
the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said,
Smite him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at the going up to
Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
2KI 09:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem,
and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of
David.
2KI 09:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
2KI 09:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it];
and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a
window.
2KI 09:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had] Zimri
peace, who slew his master?
2KI 09:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who
[is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three
eunuchs.
2KI 09:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and
[some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses:
and he trode her under foot.
2KI 09:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said,
Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a king's
daughter.
2KI 09:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her
than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
2KI 09:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said,
This [is] the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah
the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the
flesh of Jezebel:
2KI 09:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face
of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not
say, This [is] Jezebel.
2KI 10:01 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote
letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the
elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,
2KI 10:02 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your
master's sons [are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots and
horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
2KI 10:03 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons,
and set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's
house.
2KI 10:04 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two
kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
2KI 10:05 And he that [was] over the house, and he that [was] over
the city, the elders also, and the bringers up [of the children],
sent to Jehu, saying, We [are] thy servants, and will do all that
thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou [that which
is] good in thine eyes.
2KI 10:06 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying,
If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the
heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to
morrow this time. Now the king's sons, [being] seventy persons,
[were] with the great men of the city, which brought them up.
2KI 10:07 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that
they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their
heads in baskets, and sent him [them] to Jezreel.
2KI 10:08 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They
have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them
in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
2KI 10:09 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and
stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] righteous: behold, I
conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
2KI 10:10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of
the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of
Ahab: for the LORD hath done [that] which he spake by his servant
Elijah.
2KI 10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in
Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests,
until he left him none remaining.
2KI 10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. [And] as
he [was] at the shearing house in the way,
2KI 10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and
said, Who [are] ye? And they answered, We [are] the brethren of
Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the
children of the queen.
2KI 10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive,
and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty
men; neither left he any of them.
2KI 10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab
the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted him, and said
to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart? And
Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give [me] thine hand. And he
gave [him] his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
2KI 10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.
So they made him ride in his chariot.
2KI 10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained
unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the
saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
2KI 10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto
them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.
2KI 10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all
his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a
great sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he
shall not live. But Jehu did [it] in subtlety, to the intent that he
might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
2KI 10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And
they proclaimed [it].
2KI 10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers
of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And
they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full
from one end to another.
2KI 10:22 And he said unto him that [was] over the vestry, Bring
forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them
forth vestments.
2KI 10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the
house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and
look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD,
but the worshippers of Baal only.
2KI 10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt
offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, [If] any
of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, [he that
letteth him go], his life [shall be] for the life of him.
2KI 10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the
captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And they
smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the
captains cast [them] out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
2KI 10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of
Baal, and burned them.
2KI 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the
house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
2KI 10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2KI 10:29 Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the
golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan.
2KI 10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well
in executing [that which is] right in mine eyes, [and] hast done
unto the house of Ahab according to all that [was] in mine heart,
thy children of the fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of
Israel.
2KI 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God
of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
2KI 10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and
Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
2KI 10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the
Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which
[is] by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
2KI 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did,
and all his might, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2KI 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in
Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2KI 10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria
[was] twenty and eight years.
2KI 11:01 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2KI 11:02 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of
Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the
king's sons [which were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his
nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
2KI 11:03 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six
years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
2KI 11:04 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers
over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to
him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and
took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the
king's son.
2KI 11:05 And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that
ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall
even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
2KI 11:06 And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur; and a
third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch
of the house, that it be not broken down.
2KI 11:07 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath,
even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the
king.
2KI 11:08 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with
his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let
him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he
cometh in.
2KI 11:09 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all
[things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man
his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should
go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
2KI 11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give
king David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the
LORD.
2KI 11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his
hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to
the left corner of the temple, [along] by the altar and the temple.
2KI 11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown
upon him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and
anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the
king.
2KI 11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and] of
the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
2KI 11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar,
as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters by the king,
and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and
Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
2KI 11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her
forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the
sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of
the LORD.
2KI 11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by
the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she
slain.
2KI 11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the
king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between
the king also and the people.
2KI 11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of
Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in
pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the
altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the
LORD.
2KI 11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains,
and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down
the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate
of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the
kings.
2KI 11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was
in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's
house.
2KI 11:21 Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.
2KI 12:01 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and
forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Zibiah of Beersheba.
2KI 12:02 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of
the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2KI 12:03 But the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2KI 12:04 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even]
the money of every one that passeth [the account], the money that
every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man's
heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
2KI 12:05 Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his
acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever any breach shall be found.
2KI 12:06 But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year of
king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
2KI 12:07 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the
[other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches
of the house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your
acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
2KI 12:08 And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of
the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
2KI 12:09 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in
the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one
cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the
door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of
the LORD.
2KI 12:10 And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much
money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came
up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in
the house of the LORD.
2KI 12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of
them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the
LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that
wrought upon the house of the LORD,
2KI 12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and
hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for
all that was laid out for the house to repair [it].
2KI 12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD
bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or
vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of
the LORD:
2KI 12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith
the house of the LORD.
2KI 12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand
they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt
faithfully.
2KI 12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the
house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
2KI 12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
2KI 12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things
that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of
Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold
[that was] found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in
the king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went
away from Jerusalem.
2KI 12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2KI 12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew
Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
2KI 12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son
of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him
with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned
in his stead.
2KI 13:01 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of
Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over
Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.
2KI 13:02 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made
Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
2KI 13:03 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and
he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into
the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days.
2KI 13:04 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened
unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of
Syria oppressed them.
2KI 13:05 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went
out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel
dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
2KI 13:06 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house
of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and there
remained the grove also in Samaria.)
2KI 13:07 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king
of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by
threshing.
2KI 13:08 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he
did, and his might, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2KI 13:09 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him
in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
2KI 13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah
began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria,
[and reigned] sixteen years.
2KI 13:11 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel sin: [but] he walked therein.
2KI 13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
2KI 13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon
his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of
Israel.
2KI 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he
died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over
his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel,
and the horsemen thereof.
2KI 13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he
took unto him bow and arrows.
2KI 13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon
the bow. And he put his hand [upon it]: and Elisha put his hands
upon the king's hands.
2KI 13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened
[it]. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow
of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria:
for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed
[them].
2KI 13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them]. And he
said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote
thrice, and stayed.
2KI 13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten
Syria till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou shalt smite
Syria [but] thrice.
2KI 13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of
the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
2KI 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that,
behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into the
sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the
bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
2KI 13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
Jehoahaz.
2KI 13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion
on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast
he them from his presence as yet.
2KI 13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son
reigned in his stead.
2KI 13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the
hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken
out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash
beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
2KI 14:01 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of
Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
2KI 14:02 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2KI 14:03 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things
as Joash his father did.
2KI 14:04 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the
people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
2KI 14:05 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed
in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his
father.
2KI 14:06 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according
unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein
the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death
for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers;
but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
2KI 14:07 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and
took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
2KI 14:08 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of
Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one
another in the face.
2KI 14:09 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar
that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife:
and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trode
down the thistle.
2KI 14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath
lifted thee up: glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why
shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
[even] thou, and Judah with thee?
2KI 14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of
Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another
in the face at Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.
2KI 14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they
fled every man to their tents.
2KI 14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah,
the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to
Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of
Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2KI 14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels
that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of
the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
2KI 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his
might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2KI 14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in
his stead.
2KI 14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after
the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2KI 14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI 14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and
he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him
there.
2KI 14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
2KI 14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which [was]
sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
2KI 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the
king slept with his fathers.
2KI 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in
Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one years.
2KI 14:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2KI 14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of
Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD
God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the
son of Amittai, the prophet, which [was] of Gathhepher.
2KI 14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it was]
very bitter: for [there was] not any shut up, nor any left, nor any
helper for Israel.
2KI 14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of
Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam
the son of Joash.
2KI 14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he
did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus,
and Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2KI 14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the
kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
2KI 15:01 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel
began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2KI 15:02 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
2KI 15:03 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
2KI 15:04 Save that the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2KI 15:05 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto
the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the
king's son [was] over the house, judging the people of the land.
2KI 15:06 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2KI 15:07 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him
with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in
his stead.
2KI 15:08 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah
did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six
months.
2KI 15:09 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2KI 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and
smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2KI 15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they [are]
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2KI 15:12 This [was] the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu,
saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth
[generation]. And so it came to pass.
2KI 15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month
in Samaria.
2KI 15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came
to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew
him, and reigned in his stead.
2KI 15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy
which he made, behold, they [are] written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2KI 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were] therein,
and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not [to
him], therefore he smote [it; and] all the women therein that were
with child he ripped up.
2KI 15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah
began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned]
ten years in Samaria.
2KI 15:18 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2KI 15:19 [And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and
Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might
be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2KI 15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, [even] of all
the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to
give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and
stayed not there in the land.
2KI 15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
2KI 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son
reigned in his stead.
2KI 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah
the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and
reigned] two years.
2KI 15:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin.
2KI 15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,
conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of
the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of
the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
2KI 15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he
did, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
2KI 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
[and reigned] twenty years.
2KI 15:28 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin.
2KI 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser
king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and
Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of
Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
2KI 15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against
Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned
in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
2KI 15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did,
behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
2KI 15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of
Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
2KI 15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
2KI 15:34 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
2KI 15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the
higher gate of the house of the LORD.
2KI 15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2KI 15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin
the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
2KI 15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son
reigned in his stead.
2KI 16:01 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz
the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2KI 16:02 Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign, and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which was]
right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
2KI 16:03 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and
made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations
of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of
Israel.
2KI 16:04 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places,
and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2KI 16:05 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king
of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but
could not overcome [him].
2KI 16:06 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to
Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath,
and dwelt there unto this day.
2KI 16:07 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save
me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the
king of Israel, which rise up against me.
2KI 16:08 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the
house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and
sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.
2KI 16:09 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king
of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the
people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2KI 16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser
king of Assyria, and saw an altar that [was] at Damascus: and king
Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the
pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
2KI 16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all
that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made
[it] against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
2KI 16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw
the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered
thereon.
2KI 16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering,
and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace
offerings, upon the altar.
2KI 16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which [was] before
the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar
and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the
altar.
2KI 16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon
the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening
meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat
offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and
their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it
all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the
sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire [by].
2KI 16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king
Ahaz commanded.
2KI 16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and
removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the
brazen oxen that [were] under it, and put it upon a pavement of
stones.
2KI 16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the
house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the
LORD for the king of Assyria.
2KI 16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his
stead.
2KI 17:01 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea
the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
2KI 17:02 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
2KI 17:03 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and
Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
2KI 17:04 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for
he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present
to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year: therefore the
king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
2KI 17:05 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,
and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2KI 17:06 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in
Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
Medes.
2KI 17:07 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned
against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the
land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had
feared other gods,
2KI 17:08 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of
Israel, which they had made.
2KI 17:09 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things
that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built
them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen
to the fenced city.
2KI 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high
hill, and under every green tree:
2KI 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as
[did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and
wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
2KI 17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto
them, Ye shall not do this thing.
2KI 17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah,
by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from
your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes,
according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I
sent to you by my servants the prophets.
2KI 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their
necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in
the LORD their God.
2KI 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he
made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified
against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went
after the heathen that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom
the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
2KI 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God,
and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove,
and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
2KI 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to
anger.
2KI 17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and
removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of
Judah only.
2KI 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their
God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2KI 17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and
afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until
he had cast them out of his sight.
2KI 17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from
following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
2KI 17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
2KI 17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had
said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away
out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2KI 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and
from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and
placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of
Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
2KI 17:25 And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there,
[that] they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among
them, which slew [some] of them.
2KI 17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The
nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of
Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he
hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because
they know not the manner of the God of the land.
2KI 17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither
one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and
dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the
land.
2KI 17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from
Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should
fear the LORD.
2KI 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put
[them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had
made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
2KI 17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of
Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2KI 17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
2KI 17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the
lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them
in the houses of the high places.
2KI 17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after
the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2KI 17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear
not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD
commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
2KI 17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them,
saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them,
nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
2KI 17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him
shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
2KI 17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and
the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for
evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
2KI 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not
forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
2KI 17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver
you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2KI 17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their
former manner.
2KI 17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven
images, both their children, and their children's children: as did
their fathers, so do they unto this day.
2KI 18:01 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of
Elah king of Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah
began to reign.
2KI 18:02 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
also [was] Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
2KI 18:03 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that David his father did.
2KI 18:04 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut
down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses
had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn
incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
2KI 18:05 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him
was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were
before him.
2KI 18:06 For he clave to the LORD, [and] departed not from
following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded
Moses.
2KI 18:07 And the LORD was with him; [and] he prospered
whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of
Assyria, and served him not.
2KI 18:08 He smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the
borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2KI 18:09 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah,
which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,
[that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and
besieged it.
2KI 18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the
sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of
Israel, Samaria was taken.
2KI 18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto
Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan,
and in the cities of the Medes:
2KI 18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God,
but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of
the LORD commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them].
2KI 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of
Judah, and took them.
2KI 18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to
Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou
puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto
Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty
talents of gold.
2KI 18:15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in
the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
2KI 18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the
doors of the temple of the LORD, and [from] the pillars which
Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of
Assyria.
2KI 18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and
Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against
Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they
were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool,
which [is] in the highway of the fuller's field.
2KI 18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to
them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which [was] over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
2KI 18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah,
Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is]
this wherein thou trustest?
2KI 18:20 Thou sayest, (but [they are but] vain words), [I have]
counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that
thou rebellest against me?
2KI 18:21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised
reed, [even] upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his
hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that
trust on him.
2KI 18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is]
not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken
away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before
this altar in Jerusalem?
2KI 18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the
king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if
thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
2KI 18:24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of
the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for
chariots and for horsemen?
2KI 18:25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to
destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and
destroy it.
2KI 18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and
Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the
Syrian language; for we understand [it]: and talk not with us in the
Jews' language in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
2KI 18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to
thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent
me] to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own
dung, and drink their own piss with you?
2KI 18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the
Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king,
the king of Assyria:
2KI 18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
2KI 18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying,
The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be
delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2KI 18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out to
me, and [then] eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of
his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
2KI 18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own
land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land
of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and
hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD
will deliver us.
2KI 18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his
land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2KI 18:34 Where [are] the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where [are]
the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria
out of mine hand?
2KI 18:35 Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that
have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should
deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
2KI 18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a
word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
2KI 18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which [was] over
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him the
words of Rabshakeh.
2KI 19:01 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it], that
he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went
into the house of the LORD.
2KI 19:02 And he sent Eliakim, which [was] over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
2KI 19:03 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day
[is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the
children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring
forth.
2KI 19:04 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach
the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God
hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that are
left.
2KI 19:05 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
2KI 19:06 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your
master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou
hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me.
2KI 19:07 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to
fall by the sword in his own land.
2KI 19:08 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish.
2KI 19:09 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers
again unto Hezekiah, saying,
2KI 19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying,
Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
2KI 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered?
2KI 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?
2KI 19:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and
the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
2KI 19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the
LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
2KI 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God
of Israel, which dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou art the God,
[even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made
heaven and earth.
2KI 19:16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine
eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent
him to reproach the living God.
2KI 19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the
nations and their lands,
2KI 19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were]
no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they
have destroyed them.
2KI 19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou
us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that
thou [art] the LORD God, [even] thou only.
2KI 19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [That] which thou hast prayed to
me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
2KI 19:21 This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning
him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and]
laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her
head at thee.
2KI 19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against
whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on
high? [even] against the Holy [One] of Israel.
2KI 19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast
said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height
of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the
tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I
will enter into the lodgings of his borders, [and into] the forest
of his Carmel.
2KI 19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole
of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
2KI 19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and]
of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to
pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities [into]
ruinous heaps.
2KI 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they
were dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field,
and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the house tops, and [as
corn] blasted before it be grown up.
2KI 19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming
in, and thy rage against me.
2KI 19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up
into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my
bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which
thou camest.
2KI 19:29 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this
year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that
which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap,
and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
2KI 19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2KI 19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they
that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD [of hosts] shall
do this.
2KI 19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
2KI 19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
2KI 19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own
sake, and for my servant David's sake.
2KI 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the
LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred
fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the
morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.
2KI 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
2KI 19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house
of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him
with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
2KI 20:01 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the
prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and
not live.
2KI 20:02 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the
LORD, saying,
2KI 20:03 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked
before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that
which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
2KI 20:04 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the
middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
2KI 20:05 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people,
Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy
prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the
third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
2KI 20:06 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will
deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria;
and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant
David's sake.
2KI 20:07 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and
laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.
2KI 20:08 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign
that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of
the LORD the third day?
2KI 20:09 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD,
that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the
shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
2KI 20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow
to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten
degrees.
2KI 20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he
brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down
in the dial of Ahaz.
2KI 20:12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard
that Hezekiah had been sick.
2KI 20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all the
house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the
spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of his
armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing
in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them
not.
2KI 20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said
unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, [even] from
Babylon.
2KI 20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And
Hezekiah answered, All [the things] that [are] in mine house have
they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not
showed them.
2KI 20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
2KI 20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine house,
and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day,
shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the
LORD.
2KI 20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou
shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
palace of the king of Babylon.
2KI 20:19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the
LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good], if
peace and truth be in my days?
2KI 20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might,
and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the
city, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
2KI 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son
reigned in his stead.
2KI 21:01 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign,
and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Hephzibah.
2KI 21:02 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out
before the children of Israel.
2KI 21:03 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a
grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of
heaven, and served them.
2KI 21:04 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which
the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
2KI 21:05 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of the LORD.
2KI 21:06 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed
times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and
wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke [him] to anger.
2KI 21:07 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made
in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his
son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all
tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
2KI 21:08 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out
of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to
do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all
the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
2KI 21:09 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do
more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the
children of Israel.
2KI 21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
2KI 21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations, [and] hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites
did, which [were] before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with
his idols:
2KI 21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I
[am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever
heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
2KI 21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria,
and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as
[a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down.
2KI 21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and
deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a
prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
2KI 21:15 Because they have done [that which was] evil in my sight,
and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came
forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
2KI 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he
had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin
wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in
the sight of the LORD.
2KI 21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he
did, and his sin that he sinned, [are] they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son
reigned in his stead.
2KI 21:19 Amon [was] twenty and two years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
2KI 21:20 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
2KI 21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in,
and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
2KI 21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked
not in the way of the LORD.
2KI 21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew
the king in his own house.
2KI 21:24 And the people of the land slew all them that had
conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah
his son king in his stead.
2KI 21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2KI 21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza:
and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
2KI 22:01 Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
2KI 22:02 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not
aside to the right hand or to the left.
2KI 22:03 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king
Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of
Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
2KI 22:04 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the
silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the
keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
2KI 22:05 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the
work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them
give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the
LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
2KI 22:06 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy
timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
2KI 22:07 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the
money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt
faithfully.
2KI 22:08 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe,
I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And
Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
2KI 22:09 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the
king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that
was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them
that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
2KI 22:10 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah
the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the
king.
2KI 22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of
the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
2KI 22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the
son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
2KI 22:13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people,
and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found:
for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us,
because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book,
to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
2KI 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and
Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of
Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they
communed with her.
2KI 22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me.
2KI 22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the words of the
book which the king of Judah hath read:
2KI 22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense
unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the
works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against
this place, and shall not be quenched.
2KI 22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the
LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
[As touching] the words which thou hast heard;
2KI 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled
thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against
this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should
become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept
before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD.
2KI 22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers,
and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes
shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And
they brought the king word again.
2KI 23:01 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the
elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2KI 23:02 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all
the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and
the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and
great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the
covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
2KI 23:03 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant
before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his
commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all [their]
heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this covenant
that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the
covenant.
2KI 23:04 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring
forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made
for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he
burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried
the ashes of them unto Bethel.
2KI 23:05 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of
Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities
of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that
burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the
planets, and to all the host of heaven.
2KI 23:06 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD,
without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook
Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder
thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
2KI 23:07 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that
[were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for
the grove.
2KI 23:08 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of
Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned
incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of
the gates that [were] in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the
governor of the city, which [were] on a man's left hand at the gate
of the city.
2KI 23:09 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up
to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the
unleavened bread among their brethren.
2KI 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which [is] in the valley of the
children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter
to pass through the fire to Molech.
2KI 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had
given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by
the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which [was] in the
suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
2KI 23:12 And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper
chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars
which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD,
did the king beat down, and brake [them] down from thence, and cast
the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
2KI 23:13 And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem, which
[were] on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon
the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the
Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for
Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king
defile.
2KI 23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the
groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
2KI 23:15 Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the high
place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had
made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned
the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the
grove.
2KI 23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres
that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of
the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it,
according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed,
who proclaimed these words.
2KI 23:17 Then he said, What title [is] that that I see? And the
men of the city told him, [It is] the sepulchre of the man of God,
which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast
done against the altar of Bethel.
2KI 23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So
they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came
out of Samaria.
2KI 23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that [were] in
the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke
[the LORD] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to
all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
2KI 23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that
[were] there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and
returned to Jerusalem.
2KI 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the
passover unto the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the book of
this covenant.
2KI 23:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days
of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings
of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
2KI 23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [wherein] this
passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2KI 23:24 Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the
wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations
that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah
put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were
written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of
the LORD.
2KI 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that
turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and
with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after
him arose there [any] like him.
2KI 23:26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness
of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,
because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him
withal.
2KI 23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my
sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city
Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My
name shall be there.
2KI 23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
2KI 23:29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against
the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went
against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
2KI 23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from
Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
2KI 23:31 Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began
to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2KI 23:32 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
2KI 23:33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land
of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to
a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
2KI 23:34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in
the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and
took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
2KI 23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh;
but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment
of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the
land, of every one according to his taxation, to give [it] unto
Pharaohnechoh.
2KI 23:36 Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began
to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name [was] Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
2KI 23:37 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
2KI 24:01 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and
rebelled against him.
2KI 24:02 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and
bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the
children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants
the prophets.
2KI 24:03 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came [this] upon
Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh,
according to all that he did;
2KI 24:04 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he
filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not
pardon.
2KI 24:05 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he
did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
2KI 24:06 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his
son reigned in his stead.
2KI 24:07 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his
land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto
the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
2KI 24:08 Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's
name [was] Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2KI 24:09 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father had done.
2KI 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2KI 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city,
and his servants did besiege it.
2KI 24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of
Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and
his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of
his reign.
2KI 24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house
of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in
pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made
in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
2KI 24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes,
and all the mighty men of valour, [even] ten thousand captives, and
all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort
of the people of the land.
2KI 24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's
mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of
the land, [those] carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to
Babylon.
2KI 24:16 And all the men of might, [even] seven thousand, and
craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all [that were] strong [and] apt
for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2KI 24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's
brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2KI 24:18 Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2KI 24:19 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
2KI 24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in
Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence,
that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
2KI 25:01 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in
the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that]
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against
Jerusalem, and pitched against it: and they built forts against it
round about.
2KI 25:02 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah.
2KI 25:03 And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine
prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the
land.
2KI 25:04 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled]
by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the
king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round
about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.
2KI 25:05 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and
overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were
scattered from him.
2KI 25:06 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
2KI 25:07 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and
put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass,
and carried him to Babylon.
2KI 25:08 And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the
month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the
king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
2KI 25:09 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man's] house burnt
he with fire.
2KI 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the
captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
2KI 25:11 Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city,
and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the
remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carry away.
2KI 25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land
[to be] vinedressers and husbandmen.
2KI 25:13 And the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the
LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that [was] in the house of
the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of
them to Babylon.
2KI 25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took
they away.
2KI 25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, [and] such things as
[were] of gold, [in] gold, and of silver, [in] silver, the captain
of the guard took away.
2KI 25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had
made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was
without weight.
2KI 25:17 The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and
the chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter
three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the
chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the
second pillar with wreathen work.
2KI 25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief
priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of
the door:
2KI 25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over
the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's
presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of
the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men
of the people of the land [that were] found in the city:
2KI 25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
2KI 25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at
Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their
land.
2KI 25:22 And [as for] the people that remained in the land of
Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them
he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
2KI 25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their
men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor,
there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the
Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their
men.
2KI 25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said
unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the
land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
2KI 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came,
and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews
and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
2KI 25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the
captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were
afraid of the Chaldees.
2KI 25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of
the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on
the seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach king
of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head
of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
2KI 25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon;
2KI 25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread
continually before him all the days of his life.
2KI 25:30 And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given him
of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.