2CH 01:01  And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his

kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him

exceedingly.

2CH 01:02  Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of

thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor

in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

2CH 01:03  So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to

the high place that [was] at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of

the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had

made in the wilderness.

2CH 01:04  But the ark of God had David brought up from

Kirjathjearim to [the place which] David had prepared for it: for he

had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

2CH 01:05  Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri,

the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD:

and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

2CH 01:06  And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before

the LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle of the congregation, and

offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

2CH 01:07  In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto

him, Ask what I shall give thee.

2CH 01:08  And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great mercy

unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

2CH 01:09  Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be

established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust

of the earth in multitude.

2CH 01:10  Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and

come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, [that

is so] great?

2CH 01:11  And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart,

and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of

thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked

wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people,

over whom I have made thee king:

2CH 01:12  Wisdom and knowledge [is] granted unto thee; and I will

give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings

have had that [have been] before thee, neither shall there any after

thee have the like.

2CH 01:13  Then Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place

that [was] at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the

congregation, and reigned over Israel.

2CH 01:14  And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a

thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,

which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at

Jerusalem.

2CH 01:15  And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as

plenteous] as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees

that [are] in the vale for abundance.

2CH 01:16  And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen

yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

2CH 01:17  And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a

chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an

hundred and fifty: and so brought they out [horses] for all the

kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

2CH 02:01  And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of

the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

2CH 02:02  And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to

bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and

three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

2CH 02:03  And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As

thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to

build him an house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me].

2CH 02:04  Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God,

to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and

for the continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and

evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn

feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an ordinance] for ever to

Israel.

2CH 02:05  And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is]

our God above all gods.

2CH 02:06  But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven

and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I

should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?

2CH 02:07  Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and

in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson,

and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that

[are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did

provide.

2CH 02:08  Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out

of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in

Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants,

2CH 02:09  Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house

which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great.

2CH 02:10  And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that

cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty

thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and

twenty thousand baths of oil.

2CH 02:11  Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he

sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath

made thee king over them.

2CH 02:12  Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel,

that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise

son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an

house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

2CH 02:13  And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with

understanding, of Huram my father's,

2CH 02:14  The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his

father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver,

in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and

in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving,

and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy

cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

2CH 02:15  Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the

wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:

2CH 02:16  And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou

shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa;

and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

2CH 02:17  And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the

land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had

numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and

three thousand and six hundred.

2CH 02:18  And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be]

bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in the

mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the

people a work.

2CH 03:01  Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at

Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the Lord] appeared unto David his

father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor

of Ornan the Jebusite.

2CH 03:02  And he began to build in the second [day] of the second

month, in the fourth year of his reign.

2CH 03:03  Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed

for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the

first measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty

cubits.

2CH 03:04  And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the

length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty

cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid

it within with pure gold.

2CH 03:05  And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he

overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

2CH 03:06  And he garnished the house with precious stones for

beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.

2CH 03:07  He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the

walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved

cherubims on the walls.

2CH 03:08  And he made the most holy house, the length whereof [was]

according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the

breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold,

[amounting] to six hundred talents.

2CH 03:09  And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold.

And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

2CH 03:10  And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image

work, and overlaid them with gold.

2CH 03:11  And the wings of the cherubims [were] twenty cubits long:

one wing [of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to the wall

of the house: and the other wing [was likewise] five cubits,

reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

2CH 03:12  And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits,

reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was] five

cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.

2CH 03:13  The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth

twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were]

inward.

2CH 03:14  And he made the veil [of] blue, and purple, and crimson,

and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

2CH 03:15  Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and

five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of

them [was] five cubits.

2CH 03:16  And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on

the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put

[them] on the chains.

2CH 03:17  And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on

the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of

that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left

Boaz.

2CH 04:01  Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the

length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten

cubits the height thereof.

2CH 04:02  Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to

brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a

line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

2CH 04:03  And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did

compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round

about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.

2CH 04:04  It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the

north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward

the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea [was set]

above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.

2CH 04:05  And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the

brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of

lilies; [and] it received and held three thousand baths.

2CH 04:06  He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand,

and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered

for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea [was] for

the priests to wash in.

2CH 04:07  And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their

form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five

on the left.

2CH 04:08  He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the temple,

five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred

basins of gold.

2CH 04:09  Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the

great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them

with brass.

2CH 04:10  And he set the sea on the right side of the east end,

over against the south.

2CH 04:11  And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins.

And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for

the house of God;

2CH 04:12  [To wit], the two pillars, and the pommels, and the

chapiters [which were] on the top of the two pillars, and the two

wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which [were] on

the top of the pillars;

2CH 04:13  And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two

rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the

chapiters which [were] upon the pillars.

2CH 04:14  He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;

2CH 04:15  One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

2CH 04:16  The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and

all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for

the house of the LORD of bright brass.

2CH 04:17  In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the

clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

2CH 04:18  Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance:

for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

2CH 04:19  And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the

house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the

showbread [was set];

2CH 04:20  Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they

should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

2CH 04:21  And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, [made he

of] gold, [and] that perfect gold;

2CH 04:22  And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the

censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors

thereof for the most holy [place], and the doors of the house of the

temple, [were of] gold.

2CH 05:01  Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the

LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in [all] the things that

David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and

all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.

2CH 05:02  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the

heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of

Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the

LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.

2CH 05:03  Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto

the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.

2CH 05:04  And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took

up the ark.

2CH 05:05  And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the

congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the

tabernacle, these did the priests [and] the Levites bring up.

2CH 05:06  Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel

that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and

oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

2CH 05:07  And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the

LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy

[place, even] under the wings of the cherubims:

2CH 05:08  For the cherubims spread forth [their] wings over the

place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves

thereof above.

2CH 05:09  And they drew out the staves [of the ark], that the ends

of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they

were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.

2CH 05:10  [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables which

Moses put [therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with

the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

2CH 05:11  And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of

the holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were

sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:

2CH 05:12  Also the Levites [which were] the singers, all of them of

Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren,

[being] arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and

harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred

and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

2CH 05:13  It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers

[were] as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and

thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with the

trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD,

[saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: that

[then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the

LORD;

2CH 05:14  So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason

of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

2CH 06:01  Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell

in the thick darkness.

2CH 06:02  But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a

place for thy dwelling for ever.

2CH 06:03  And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole

congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

2CH 06:04  And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who

hath with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spake with his mouth

to my father David, saying,

2CH 06:05  Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the

land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to

build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any

man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

2CH 06:06  But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there;

and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

2CH 06:07  Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an

house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

2CH 06:08  But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was

in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in

that it was in thine heart:

2CH 06:09  Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy

son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the

house for my name.

2CH 06:10  The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath

spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set

on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the

house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

2CH 06:11  And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the covenant

of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

2CH 06:12  And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence

of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

2CH 06:13  For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits

long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it

in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down

upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread

forth his hands toward heaven,

2CH 06:14  And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like

thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and

[showest] mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all

their hearts:

2CH 06:15  Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father

that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and

hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day.

2CH 06:16  Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy

servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying,

There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne

of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk

in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

2CH 06:17  Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified,

which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

2CH 06:18  But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?

behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how

much less this house which I have built!

2CH 06:19  Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and

to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the

prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

2CH 06:20  That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and

night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put

thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth

toward this place.

2CH 06:21  Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant,

and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place:

hear thou from thy dwelling place, [even] from heaven; and when thou

hearest, forgive.

2CH 06:22  If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid

upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in

this house;

2CH 06:23  Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy

servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his

own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according

to his righteousness.

2CH 06:24  And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the

enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and

confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this

house;

2CH 06:25  Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of

thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou

gavest to them and to their fathers.

2CH 06:26  When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because

they have sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray toward this place,

and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost

afflict them;

2CH 06:27  Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy

servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the

good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land,

which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

2CH 06:28  If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence,

if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their

enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or

whatsoever sickness [there be]:

2CH 06:29  [Then] what prayer [or] what supplication soever shall be

made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall

know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his

hands in this house:

2CH 06:30  Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and

forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways,

whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the

children of men:)

2CH 06:31  That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as

they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

2CH 06:32  Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy

people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's

sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come

and pray in this house;

2CH 06:33  Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling

place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee

for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee,

as [doth] thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I

have built is called by thy name.

2CH 06:34  If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the

way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this

city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for

thy name;

2CH 06:35  Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their

supplication, and maintain their cause.

2CH 06:36  If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which

sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over

before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a

land far off or near;

2CH 06:37  Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither they

are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of

their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and

have dealt wickedly;

2CH 06:38  If they return to thee with all their heart and with all

their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried

them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto

their fathers, and [toward] the city which thou hast chosen, and

toward the house which I have built for thy name:

2CH 06:39  Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling

place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their

cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

2CH 06:40  Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and

[let] thine ears [be] attent unto the prayer [that is made] in this

place.

2CH 06:41  Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place,

thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be

clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

2CH 06:42  O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:

remember the mercies of David thy servant.

2CH 07:01  Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire

came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the

sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

2CH 07:02  And the priests could not enter into the house of the

LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.

2CH 07:03  And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came

down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed

themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and

worshipped, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for

his mercy [endureth] for ever.

2CH 07:04  Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices

before the LORD.

2CH 07:05  And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two

thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king

and all the people dedicated the house of God.

2CH 07:06  And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also

with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made

to praise the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever, when

David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets

before them, and all Israel stood.

2CH 07:07  Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that

[was] before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt

offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen

altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt

offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.

2CH 07:08  Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days,

and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the

entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

2CH 07:09  And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for

they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast

seven days.

2CH 07:10  And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month

he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart

for the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David, and to

Solomon, and to Israel his people.

2CH 07:11  Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the

king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the

house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

2CH 07:12  And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto

him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself

for an house of sacrifice.

2CH 07:13  If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I

command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence

among my people;

2CH 07:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble

themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked

ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and

will heal their land.

2CH 07:15  Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto

the prayer [that is made] in this place.

2CH 07:16  For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my

name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be

there perpetually.

2CH 07:17  And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David

thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded

thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

2CH 07:18  Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according

as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not

fail thee a man [to be] ruler in Israel.

2CH 07:19  But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my

commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve

other gods, and worship them;

2CH 07:20  Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land

which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for

my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a

proverb and a byword among all nations.

2CH 07:21  And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment

to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the

LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

2CH 07:22  And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD

God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of

Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served

them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

2CH 08:01  And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein

Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

2CH 08:02  That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon,

Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell

there.

2CH 08:03  And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against

it.

2CH 08:04  And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store

cities, which he built in Hamath.

2CH 08:05  Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the

nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

2CH 08:06  And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had,

and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all

that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and

throughout all the land of his dominion.

2CH 08:07  [As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites,

and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the

Jebusites, which [were] not of Israel,

2CH 08:08  [But] of their children, who were left after them in the

land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon

make to pay tribute until this day.

2CH 08:09  But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no

servants for his work; but they [were] men of war, and chief of his

captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.

2CH 08:10  And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers,

[even] two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

2CH 08:11  And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the

city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said,

My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel,

because [the places are] holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath

come.

2CH 08:12  Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the

altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

2CH 08:13  Even after a certain rate every day, offering according

to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons,

and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, [even] in the

feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the

feast of tabernacles.

2CH 08:14  And he appointed, according to the order of David his

father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites

to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the

duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at

every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

2CH 08:15  And they departed not from the commandment of the king

unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning

the treasures.

2CH 08:16  Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of

the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished.

[So] the house of the LORD was perfected.

2CH 08:17  Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea

side in the land of Edom.

2CH 08:18  And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships,

and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the

servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty

talents of gold, and brought [them] to king Solomon.

2CH 09:01  And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon,

she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a

very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in

abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon,

she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

2CH 09:02  And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was

nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

2CH 09:03  And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of

Solomon, and the house that he had built,

2CH 09:04  And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his

servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel;

his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he

went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

2CH 09:05  And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which I

heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

2CH 09:06  Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and

mine eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the one half of the greatness

of thy wisdom was not told me: [for] thou exceedest the fame that I

heard.

2CH 09:07  Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants,

which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

2CH 09:08  Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to

set thee on his throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because

thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he

thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

2CH 09:09  And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of

gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither

was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

2CH 09:10  And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of

Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and

precious stones.

2CH 09:11  And the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the

house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and

psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the

land of Judah.

2CH 09:12  And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her

desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which she had brought

unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and

her servants.

2CH 09:13  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year

was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

2CH 09:14  Beside [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And

all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold

and silver to Solomon.

2CH 09:15  And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten

gold: six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.

2CH 09:16  And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three

hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king put them

in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

2CH 09:17  Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and

overlaid it with pure gold.

2CH 09:18  And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a

footstool of gold, [which were] fastened to the throne, and stays on

each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

2CH 09:19  And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the

other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any

kingdom.

2CH 09:20  And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [were of]

gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon

[were of] pure gold: none [were of] silver; it was [not] any thing

accounted of in the days of Solomon.

2CH 09:21  For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants

of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing

gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

2CH 09:22  And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in

riches and wisdom.

2CH 09:23  And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of

Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

2CH 09:24  And they brought every man his present, vessels of

silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices,

horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

2CH 09:25  And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and

chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the

chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

2CH 09:26  And he reigned over all the kings from the river even

unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

2CH 09:27  And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and

cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that [are] in the low

plains in abundance.

2CH 09:28  And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and

out of all lands.

2CH 09:29  Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last,

[are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the

prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the

seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

2CH 09:30  And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty

years.

2CH 09:31  And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in

the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his

stead.

2CH 10:01  And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all

Israel come to make him king.

2CH 10:02  And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who

[was] in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the

king, heard [it], that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

2CH 10:03  And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel

came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,

2CH 10:04  Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease

thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy

yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

2CH 10:05  And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three

days. And the people departed.

2CH 10:06  And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had

stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What

counsel give ye [me] to return answer to this people?

2CH 10:07  And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this

people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be

thy servants for ever.

2CH 10:08  But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him,

and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him,

that stood before him.

2CH 10:09  And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may

return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease

somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

2CH 10:10  And the young men that were brought up with him spake

unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto

thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it]

somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little

[finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.

2CH 10:11  For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will

put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I

[will chastise you] with scorpions.

2CH 10:12  So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the

third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third

day.

2CH 10:13  And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam

forsook the counsel of the old men,

2CH 10:14  And answered them after the advice of the young men,

saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my

father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with

scorpions.

2CH 10:15  So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause

was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by

the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

2CH 10:16  And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not hearken

unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have

we in David? and [we have] none inheritance in the son of Jesse:

every man to your tents, O Israel: [and] now, David, see to thine

own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

2CH 10:17  But [as for] the children of Israel that dwelt in the

cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

2CH 10:18  Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that [was] over the

tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he

died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to [his] chariot,

to flee to Jerusalem.

2CH 10:19  And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this

day.

2CH 11:01  And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of

the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand

chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he

might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

2CH 11:02  But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God,

saying,

2CH 11:03  Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah,

and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

2CH 11:04  Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight

against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing

is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned

from going against Jeroboam.

2CH 11:05  And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for

defence in Judah.

2CH 11:06  He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

2CH 11:07  And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

2CH 11:08  And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

2CH 11:09  And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

2CH 11:10  And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which [are] in Judah

and in Benjamin fenced cities.

2CH 11:11  And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in

them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

2CH 11:12  And in every several city [he put] shields and spears,

and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his

side.

2CH 11:13  And the priests and the Levites that [were] in all Israel

resorted to him out of all their coasts.

2CH 11:14  For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession,

and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast

them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:

2CH 11:15  And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for

the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

2CH 11:16  And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as

set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem,

to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH 11:17  So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made

Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years

they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

2CH 11:18  And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth

the son of David to wife, [and] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the

son of Jesse;

2CH 11:19  Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.

2CH 11:20  And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom;

which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

2CH 11:21  And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above

all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and

threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and

threescore daughters.)

2CH 11:22  And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief,

[to be] ruler among his brethren: for [he thought] to make him king.

2CH 11:23  And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children

throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every

fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired

many wives.

2CH 12:01  And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the

kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the

LORD, and all Israel with him.

2CH 12:02  And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king

Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because

they had transgressed against the LORD,

2CH 12:03  With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand

horsemen: and the people [were] without number that came with him

out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

2CH 12:04  And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah,

and came to Jerusalem.

2CH 12:05  Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the

princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because

of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have

forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of

Shishak.

2CH 12:06  Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled

themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.

2CH 12:07  And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the

word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled

themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will grant

them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon

Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

2CH 12:08  Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may

know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

2CH 12:09  So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and

took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures

of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields

of gold which Solomon had made.

2CH 12:10  Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and

committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept

the entrance of the king's house.

2CH 12:11  And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the

guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard

chamber.

2CH 12:12  And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned

from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in

Judah things went well.

2CH 12:13  So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and

reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which

the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name

there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.

2CH 12:14  And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to

seek the LORD.

2CH 12:15  Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they not

written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer

concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars between Rehoboam and

Jeroboam continually.

2CH 12:16  And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in

the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

2CH 13:01  Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah

to reign over Judah.

2CH 13:02  He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name

also [was] Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was

war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2CH 13:03  And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of

valiant men of war, [even] four hundred thousand chosen men:

Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred

thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valour.

2CH 13:04  And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in

mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

2CH 13:05  Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the

kingdom over Israel to David for ever, [even] to him and to his sons

by a covenant of salt?

2CH 13:06  Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the

son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.

2CH 13:07  And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of

Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of

Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not

withstand them.

2CH 13:08  And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in

the hand of the sons of David; and ye [be] a great multitude, and

[there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for

gods.

2CH 13:09  Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of

Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner

of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever cometh to

consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, [the same]

may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.

2CH 13:10  But as for us, the LORD [is] our God, and we have not

forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, [are]

the sons of Aaron, and the Levites [wait] upon [their] business:

2CH 13:11  And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every

evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also [set

they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with

the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of

the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

2CH 13:12  And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our] captain,

and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O

children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your

fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

2CH 13:13  But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind

them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind

them.

2CH 13:14  And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle [was]

before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests

sounded with the trumpets.

2CH 13:15  Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of

Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all

Israel before Abijah and Judah.

2CH 13:16  And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God

delivered them into their hand.

2CH 13:17  And Abijah and his people slew them with a great

slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand

chosen men.

2CH 13:18  Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that

time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon

the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH 13:19  And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from

him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns

thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.

2CH 13:20  Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days

of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

2CH 13:21  But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and

begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2CH 13:22  And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his

sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

2CH 14:01  So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in

the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days

the land was quiet ten years.

2CH 14:02  And Asa did [that which was] good and right in the eyes

of the LORD his God:

2CH 14:03  For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and

the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

2CH 14:04  And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their

fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

2CH 14:05  Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high

places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

2CH 14:06  And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had

rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given

him rest.

2CH 14:07  Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities,

and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while]

the land [is] yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our

God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest on every side.

So they built and prospered.

2CH 14:08  And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and

spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin,

that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand:

all these [were] mighty men of valour.

2CH 14:09  And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with

an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came

unto Mareshah.

2CH 14:10  Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in

array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

2CH 14:11  And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it

is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that

have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in

thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God;

let not man prevail against thee.

2CH 14:12  So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before

Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

2CH 14:13  And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued them

unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not

recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and

before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.

2CH 14:14  And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the

fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities;

for there was exceeding much spoil in them.

2CH 14:15  They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away

sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

2CH 15:01  And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:

2CH 15:02  And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye

me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you, while

ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if

ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

2CH 15:03  Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true

God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

2CH 15:04  But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God

of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

2CH 15:05  And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went

out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all

the inhabitants of the countries.

2CH 15:06  And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for

God did vex them with all adversity.

2CH 15:07  Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak:

for your work shall be rewarded.

2CH 15:08  And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded

the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out

of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which

he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD,

that [was] before the porch of the LORD.

2CH 15:09  And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers

with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they

fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD

his God [was] with him.

2CH 15:10  So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the

third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

2CH 15:11  And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the

spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven

thousand sheep.

2CH 15:12  And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of

their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

2CH 15:13  That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel

should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or

woman.

2CH 15:14  And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with

shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

2CH 15:15  And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn

with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he

was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.

2CH 15:16  And also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the king,

he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a

grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it]

at the brook Kidron.

2CH 15:17  But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:

nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2CH 15:18  And he brought into the house of God the things that his

father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and

gold, and vessels.

2CH 15:19  And there was no [more] war unto the five and thirtieth

year of the reign of Asa.

2CH 16:01  In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha

king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent

that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

2CH 16:02  Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures

of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to

Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

2CH 16:03  [There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was]

between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver

and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he

may depart from me.

2CH 16:04  And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the

captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote

Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

2CH 16:05  And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [it], that he left

off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.

2CH 16:06  Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away

the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was

building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

2CH 16:07  And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of

Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of

Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of

the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.

2CH 16:08  Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with

very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the

LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.

2CH 16:09  For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the

whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose

heart [is] perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly:

therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

2CH 16:10  Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison

house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And

Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time.

2CH 16:11  And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they

[are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2CH 16:12  And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was

diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceeding [great]: yet

in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

2CH 16:13  And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and

fortieth year of his reign.

2CH 16:14  And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had

made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which

was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds [of spices] prepared

by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for

him.

2CH 17:01  And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and

strengthened himself against Israel.

2CH 17:02  And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah,

and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of

Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

2CH 17:03  And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in

the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

2CH 17:04  But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in

his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

2CH 17:05  Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand;

and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and

honour in abundance.

2CH 17:06  And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD:

moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

2CH 17:07  Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his

princes, [even] to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to

Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

2CH 17:08  And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and

Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and

Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and

with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.

2CH 17:09  And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the law

of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of

Judah, and taught the people.

2CH 17:10  And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of

the lands that [were] round about Judah, so that they made no war

against Jehoshaphat.

2CH 17:11  Also [some] of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat

presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks,

seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven

hundred he goats.

2CH 17:12  And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in

Judah castles, and cities of store.

2CH 17:13  And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the

men of war, mighty men of valour, [were] in Jerusalem.

2CH 17:14  And these [are] the numbers of them according to the

house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah

the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.

2CH 17:15  And next to him [was] Jehohanan the captain, and with him

two hundred and fourscore thousand.

2CH 17:16  And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, who

willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred

thousand mighty men of valour.

2CH 17:17  And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with

him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

2CH 17:18  And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and

fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

2CH 17:19  These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the king

put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

2CH 18:01  Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and

joined affinity with Ahab.

2CH 18:02  And after [certain] years he went down to Ahab to

Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and

for the people that [he had] with him, and persuaded him to go up

[with him] to Ramothgilead.

2CH 18:03  And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of

Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I

[am] as thou [art], and my people as thy people; and [we will be]

with thee in the war.

2CH 18:04  And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I

pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.

2CH 18:05  Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of

prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to

Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up;

for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.

2CH 18:06  But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of

the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?

2CH 18:07  And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is]

yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for

he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same [is]

Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say

so.

2CH 18:08  And the king of Israel called for one [of his] officers,

and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.

2CH 18:09  And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat

either of them on his throne, clothed in [their] robes, and they sat

in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all

the prophets prophesied before them.

2CH 18:10  And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of

iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push

Syria until they be consumed.

2CH 18:11  And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to

Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the

hand of the king.

2CH 18:12  And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him,

saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king

with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of

theirs, and speak thou good.

2CH 18:13  And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, even what my God

saith, that will I speak.

2CH 18:14  And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him,

Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear?

And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into

your hand.

2CH 18:15  And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure

thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the

LORD?

2CH 18:16  Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the

mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These

have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to his house

in peace.

2CH 18:17  And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not

tell thee [that] he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?

2CH 18:18  Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw

the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven

standing on his right hand and [on] his left.

2CH 18:19  And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel,

that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying

after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

2CH 18:20  Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD,

and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?

2CH 18:21  And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the

mouth of all his prophets. And [the LORD] said, Thou shalt entice

[him], and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do [even] so.

2CH 18:22  Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit

in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil

against thee.

2CH 18:23  Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote

Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the

LORD from me to speak unto thee?

2CH 18:24  And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when

thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

2CH 18:25  Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry

him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's

son;

2CH 18:26  And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the

prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of

affliction, until I return in peace.

2CH 18:27  And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace,

[then] hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye

people.

2CH 18:28  So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah

went up to Ramothgilead.

2CH 18:29  And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will

disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy

robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the

battle.

2CH 18:30  Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the

chariots that [were] with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or

great, save only with the king of Israel.

2CH 18:31  And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots

saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel.

Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried

out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from

him.

2CH 18:32  For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the

chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned

back again from pursuing him.

2CH 18:33  And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote

the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he

said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me

out of the host; for I am wounded.

2CH 18:34  And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of

Israel stayed [himself] up in [his] chariot against the Syrians

until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

2CH 19:01  And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house

in peace to Jerusalem.

2CH 19:02  And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him,

and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and

love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from

before the LORD.

2CH 19:03  Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that

thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared

thine heart to seek God.

2CH 19:04  And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again

through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them

back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH 19:05  And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced

cities of Judah, city by city,

2CH 19:06  And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye

judge not for man, but for the LORD, who [is] with you in the

judgment.

2CH 19:07  Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take

heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God,

nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

2CH 19:08  Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites,

and [of] the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for

the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned

to Jerusalem.

2CH 19:09  And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear

of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

2CH 19:10  And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren

that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and

commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that

they trespass not against the LORD, and [so] wrath come upon you,

and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

2CH 19:11  And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you in

all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler

of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites

[shall be] officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD

shall be with the good.

2CH 20:01  It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of

Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside the

Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

2CH 20:02  Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There

cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this

side Syria; and, behold, they [be] in Hazazontamar, which [is]

Engedi.

2CH 20:03  And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD,

and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2CH 20:04  And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help] of

the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the

LORD.

2CH 20:05  And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and

Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

2CH 20:06  And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God

in heaven? and rulest [not] thou over all the kingdoms of the

heathen? and in thine hand [is there not] power and might, so that

none is able to withstand thee?

2CH 20:07  [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the

inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to

the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

2CH 20:08  And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary

therein for thy name, saying,

2CH 20:09  If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword, judgment,

or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy

presence, (for thy name [is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in

our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

2CH 20:10  And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount

Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out

of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them

not;

2CH 20:11  Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast us

out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

2CH 20:12  O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might

against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we

what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee.

2CH 20:13  And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little

ones, their wives, and their children.

2CH 20:14  Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of

Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the

sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the

congregation;

2CH 20:15  And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of

Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you,

Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for

the battle [is] not yours, but God's.

2CH 20:16  To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up

by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook,

before the wilderness of Jeruel.

2CH 20:17  Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set

yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD with

you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go

out against them: for the LORD [will be] with you.

2CH 20:18  And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the

ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before

the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

2CH 20:19  And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and

of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of

Israel with a loud voice on high.

2CH 20:20  And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into

the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood

and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe

in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his

prophets, so shall ye prosper.

2CH 20:21  And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed

singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of

holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the

LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

2CH 20:22  And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set

ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir,

which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

2CH 20:23  For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the

inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and

when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one

helped to destroy another.

2CH 20:24  And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the

wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they [were]

dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

2CH 20:25  And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the

spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with

the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for

themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three

days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

2CH 20:26  And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the

valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the

name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this

day.

2CH 20:27  Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and

Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with

joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

2CH 20:28  And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and

trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

2CH 20:29  And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of [those]

countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the

enemies of Israel.

2CH 20:30  So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave

him rest round about.

2CH 20:31  And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: [he was] thirty and

five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and

five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Azubah the

daughter of Shilhi.

2CH 20:32  And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed

not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD.

2CH 20:33  Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet

the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their

fathers.

2CH 20:34  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last,

behold, they [are] written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani,

who [is] mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.

2CH 20:35  And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself

with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

2CH 20:36  And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to

Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.

2CH 20:37  Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied

against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with

Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken,

that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

2CH 21:01  Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried

with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned

in his stead.

2CH 21:02  And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and

Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all

these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

2CH 21:03  And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of

gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the

kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he [was] the firstborn.

2CH 21:04  Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his

father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the

sword, and [divers] also of the princes of Israel.

2CH 21:05  Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2CH 21:06  And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as

did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and

he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD.

2CH 21:07  Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David,

because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he

promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

2CH 21:08  In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion

of Judah, and made themselves a king.

2CH 21:09  Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his

chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites

which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.

2CH 21:10  So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah

unto this day. The same time [also] did Libnah revolt from under his

hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

2CH 21:11  Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah,

and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and

compelled Judah [thereto].

2CH 21:12  And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet,

saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou

hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the

ways of Asa king of Judah,

2CH 21:13  But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and

hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring,

like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy

brethren of thy father's house, [which were] better than thyself:

2CH 21:14  Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy

people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

2CH 21:15  And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy

bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by

day.

2CH 21:16  Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit

of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near the

Ethiopians:

2CH 21:17  And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and

carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house,

and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left

him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

2CH 21:18  And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with

an incurable disease.

2CH 21:19  And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the

end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so

he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him,

like the burning of his fathers.

2CH 21:20  Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign,

and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being

desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in

the sepulchres of the kings.

2CH 22:01  And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his

youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with

the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the

son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

2CH 22:02  Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to

reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also

[was] Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

2CH 22:03  He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his

mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

2CH 22:04  Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the

house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his

father to his destruction.

2CH 22:05  He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram

the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria

at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.

2CH 22:06  And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the

wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael

king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went

down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.

2CH 22:07  And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to

Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu

the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house

of Ahab.

2CH 22:08  And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing

judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and

the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he

slew them.

2CH 22:09  And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was

hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain

him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son of

Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of

Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

2CH 22:10  But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son

was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of

Judah.

2CH 22:11  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash

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

were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So

Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the

priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah,

so that she slew him not.

2CH 22:12  And he was with them hid in the house of God six years:

and Athaliah reigned over the land.

2CH 23:01  And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself,

and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and

Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and

Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into

covenant with him.

2CH 23:02  And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites

out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of

Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

2CH 23:03  And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in

the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son

shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.

2CH 23:04  This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you

entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, [shall

be] porters of the doors;

2CH 23:05  And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a

third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people [shall

be] in the courts of the house of the LORD.

2CH 23:06  But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the

priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in,

for they [are] holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the

LORD.

2CH 23:07  And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every

man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever [else] cometh into

the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he

cometh in, and when he goeth out.

2CH 23:08  So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things

that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men

that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go [out]

on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

2CH 23:09  Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of

hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that [had been] king

David's, which [were] in the house of God.

2CH 23:10  And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in

his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the

temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.

2CH 23:11  Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him

the crown, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king. And

Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.

2CH 23:12  Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running

and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the

LORD:

2CH 23:13  And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar

at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king:

and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets,

also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to

sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason,

Treason.

2CH 23:14  Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of

hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her

forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with

the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the

LORD.

2CH 23:15  So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the

entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.

2CH 23:16  And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all

the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S

people.

2CH 23:17  Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake

it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew

Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

2CH 23:18  Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the

LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had

distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings

of the LORD, as [it is] written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing

and with singing, [as it was ordained] by David.

2CH 23:19  And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the

LORD, that none [which was] unclean in any thing should enter in.

2CH 23:20  And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and

the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and

brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came

through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon

the throne of the kingdom.

2CH 23:21  And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was

quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

2CH 24:01  Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and

he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was]

Zibiah of Beersheba.

2CH 24:02  And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

2CH 24:03  And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons

and daughters.

2CH 24:04  And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was minded

to repair the house of the LORD.

2CH 24:05  And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and

said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all

Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and

see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened [it]

not.

2CH 24:06  And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto

him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of

Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, [according to the

commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the

congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

2CH 24:07  For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken

up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house

of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

2CH 24:08  And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set

it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.

2CH 24:09  And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem,

to bring in to the LORD the collection [that] Moses the servant of

God [laid] upon Israel in the wilderness.

2CH 24:10  And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and

brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

2CH 24:11  Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was

brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when

they saw that [there was] much money, the king's scribe and the high

priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and

carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and

gathered money in abundance.

2CH 24:12  And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work

of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and

carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought

iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

2CH 24:13  So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by

them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened

it.

2CH 24:14  And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of

the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels

for the house of the LORD, [even] vessels to minister, and to offer

[withal], and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they

offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the

days of Jehoiada.

2CH 24:15  But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he

died; an hundred and thirty years old [was he] when he died.

2CH 24:16  And they buried him in the city of David among the kings,

because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his

house.

2CH 24:17  Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of

Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto

them.

2CH 24:18  And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers,

and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem

for this their trespass.

2CH 24:19  Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto

the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give

ear.

2CH 24:20  And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of

Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto

them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the

LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he

hath also forsaken you.

2CH 24:21  And they conspired against him, and stoned him with

stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of

the LORD.

2CH 24:22  Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which

Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he

died, he said, The LORD look upon [it], and require [it].

2CH 24:23  And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that] the

host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and

Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among

the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of

Damascus.

2CH 24:24  For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of

men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand,

because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they

executed judgment against Joash.

2CH 24:25  And when they were departed from him, (for they left him

in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the

blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed,

and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they

buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

2CH 24:26  And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the

son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a

Moabitess.

2CH 24:27  Now [concerning] his sons, and the greatness of the

burdens [laid] upon him, and the repairing of the house of God,

behold, they [are] written in the story of the book of the kings.

And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

2CH 25:01  Amaziah [was] twenty and five years old [when] he began

to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his

mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2CH 25:02  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

2CH 25:03  Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to

him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

2CH 25:04  But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is]

written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded,

saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall

the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his

own sin.

2CH 25:05  Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them

captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to

the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin:

and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them

three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go forth to war, that

could handle spear and shield.

2CH 25:06  He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour

out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

2CH 25:07  But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let

not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with

Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim.

2CH 25:08  But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle:

God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to

help, and to cast down.

2CH 25:09  And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do

for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?

And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more

than this.

2CH 25:10  Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that was

come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger

was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great

anger.

2CH 25:11  And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his

people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of

Seir ten thousand.

2CH 25:12  And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children of

Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock,

and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were

broken in pieces.

2CH 25:13  But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back,

that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of

Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of

them, and took much spoil.

2CH 25:14  Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the

slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children

of Seir, and set them up [to be] his gods, and bowed down himself

before them, and burned incense unto them.

2CH 25:15  Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against

Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why

hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not

deliver their own people out of thine hand?

2CH 25:16  And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the

king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear;

why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I

know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast

done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

2CH 25:17  Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to

Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying,

Come, let us see one another in the face.

2CH 25:18  And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,

saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that

[was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and

there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trode down

the thistle.

2CH 25:19  Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and

thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why

shouldest thou meddle to [thine] hurt, that thou shouldest fall,

[even] thou, and Judah with thee?

2CH 25:20  But Amaziah would not hear; for it [came] of God, that he

might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they

sought after the gods of Edom.

2CH 25:21  So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one

another in the face, [both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at

Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.

2CH 25:22  And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they

fled every man to his tent.

2CH 25:23  And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah,

the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought

him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate

of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

2CH 25:24  And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the

vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the

treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to

Samaria.

2CH 25:25  And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after

the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

2CH 25:26  Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last,

behold, [are] they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and

Israel?

2CH 25:27  Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from

following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem;

and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew

him there.

2CH 25:28  And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his

fathers in the city of Judah.

2CH 26:01  Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was]

sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father

Amaziah.

2CH 26:02  He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the

king slept with his fathers.

2CH 26:03  Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began to reign,

and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name

also [was] Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

2CH 26:04  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

2CH 26:05  And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had

understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the

LORD, God made him to prosper.

2CH 26:06  And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and

brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of

Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

2CH 26:07  And God helped him against the Philistines, and against

the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.

2CH 26:08  And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name

spread abroad [even] to the entering in of Egypt; for he

strengthened [himself] exceedingly.

2CH 26:09  Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner

gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and

fortified them.

2CH 26:10  Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many

wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the

plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and

in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

2CH 26:11  Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went

out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the

hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of

Hananiah, [one] of the king's captains.

2CH 26:12  The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the

mighty men of valour [were] two thousand and six hundred.

2CH 26:13  And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred

thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with

mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

2CH 26:14  And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host

shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and

slings [to cast] stones.

2CH 26:15  And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning

men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and

great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was

marvellously helped, till he was strong.

2CH 26:16  But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to [his]

destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went

into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of

incense.

2CH 26:17  And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him

fourscore priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men:

2CH 26:18  And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him,

[It appertaineth] not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the

LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to

burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed;

neither [shall it be] for thine honour from the LORD God.

2CH 26:19  Then Uzziah was wroth, and [had] a censer in his hand to

burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy

even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the

LORD, from beside the incense altar.

2CH 26:20  And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked

upon him, and, behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead, and they

thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out,

because the LORD had smitten him.

2CH 26:21  And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his

death, and dwelt in a several house, [being] a leper; for he was cut

off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son [was] over the

king's house, judging the people of the land.

2CH 26:22  Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did

Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

2CH 26:23  So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him

with his fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to the

kings; for they said, He [is] a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in

his stead.

2CH 27:01  Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name

also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2CH 27:02  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he

entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet

corruptly.

2CH 27:03  He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on

the wall of Ophel he built much.

2CH 27:04  Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and

in the forests he built castles and towers.

2CH 27:05  He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and

prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same

year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of

wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon

pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

2CH 27:06  So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways

before the LORD his God.

2CH 27:07  Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and

his ways, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel

and Judah.

2CH 27:08  He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign,

and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

2CH 27:09  And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in

the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2CH 28:01  Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he began to reign, and

he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not [that which

was] right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:

2CH 28:02  For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and

made also molten images for Baalim.

2CH 28:03  Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of

Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations

of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of

Israel.

2CH 28:04  He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places,

and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2CH 28:05  Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of

the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great

multitude of them captives, and brought [them] to Damascus. And he

was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote

him with a great slaughter.

2CH 28:06  For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred

and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men;

because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH 28:07  And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the

king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah [that

was] next to the king.

2CH 28:08  And the children of Israel carried away captive of their

brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took

also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

2CH 28:09  But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was]

Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said

unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth

with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain

them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven.

2CH 28:10  And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah

and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there]

not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

2CH 28:11  Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again,

which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath

of the LORD [is] upon you.

2CH 28:12  Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim,

Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and

Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up

against them that came from the war,

2CH 28:13  And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives

hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD [already], ye

intend to add [more] to our sins and to our trespass: for our

trespass is great, and [there is] fierce wrath against Israel.

2CH 28:14  So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before

the princes and all the congregation.

2CH 28:15  And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and

took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked

among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat

and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them

upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to

their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

2CH 28:16  At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria

to help him.

2CH 28:17  For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and

carried away captives.

2CH 28:18  The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low

country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and

Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and

Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages

thereof: and they dwelt there.

2CH 28:19  For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of

Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the

LORD.

2CH 28:20  And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and

distressed him, but strengthened him not.

2CH 28:21  For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of the

LORD, and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes, and

gave [it] unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

2CH 28:22  And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more

against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.

2CH 28:23  For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote

him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them,

[therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But

they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

2CH 28:24  And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of

God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up

the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every

corner of Jerusalem.

2CH 28:25  And in every several city of Judah he made high places to

burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of

his fathers.

2CH 28:26  Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and

last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah

and Israel.

2CH 28:27  And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in

the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the

sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in

his stead.

2CH 29:01  Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty

years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And

his mother's name [was] Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

2CH 29:02  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

2CH 29:03  He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,

opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

2CH 29:04  And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and

gathered them together into the east street,

2CH 29:05  And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now

yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers,

and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy [place].

2CH 29:06  For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which

was] evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him,

and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD,

and turned [their] backs.

2CH 29:07  Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put

out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt

offerings in the holy [place] unto the God of Israel.

2CH 29:08  Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and

Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment,

and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

2CH 29:09  For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our

sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.

2CH 29:10  Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the

LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

2CH 29:11  My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen

you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister

unto him, and burn incense.

2CH 29:12  Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and

Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the

sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of

Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden

the son of Joah:

2CH 29:13  And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of

the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

2CH 29:14  And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the

sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.

2CH 29:15  And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified

themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by

the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

2CH 29:16  And the priests went into the inner part of the house of

the LORD, to cleanse [it], and brought out all the uncleanness that

they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of

the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to carry [it] out abroad into

the brook Kidron.

2CH 29:17  Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to

sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch

of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days;

and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

2CH 29:18  Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have

cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering,

with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table, with all the

vessels thereof.

2CH 29:19  Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign

did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified,

and, behold, they [are] before the altar of the LORD.

2CH 29:20  Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the

rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

2CH 29:21  And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and

seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom,

and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests

the sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the altar of the LORD.

2CH 29:22  So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the

blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they had

killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they

killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

2CH 29:23  And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin

offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their

hands upon them:

2CH 29:24  And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation

with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all

Israel: for the king commanded [that] the burnt offering and the sin

offering [should be made] for all Israel.

2CH 29:25  And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with

cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the

commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the

prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

2CH 29:26  And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and

the priests with the trumpets.

2CH 29:27  And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon

the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD

began [also] with the trumpets, and with the instruments [ordained]

by David king of Israel.

2CH 29:28  And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers

sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued] until

the burnt offering was finished.

2CH 29:29  And when they had made an end of offering, the king and

all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.

2CH 29:30  Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the

Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of

Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed

their heads and worshipped.

2CH 29:31  Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated

yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank

offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought

in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free

heart burnt offerings.

2CH 29:32  And the number of the burnt offerings, which the

congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred

rams, [and] two hundred lambs: all these [were] for a burnt offering

to the LORD.

2CH 29:33  And the consecrated things [were] six hundred oxen and

three thousand sheep.

2CH 29:34  But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay

all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did

help them, till the work was ended, and until the [other] priests

had sanctified themselves: for the Levites [were] more upright in

heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

2CH 29:35  And also the burnt offerings [were] in abundance, with

the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for [every]

burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in

order.

2CH 29:36  And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had

prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly.

2CH 30:01  And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote

letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the

house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD

God of Israel.

2CH 30:02  For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all

the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second

month.

2CH 30:03  For they could not keep it at that time, because the

priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the

people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

2CH 30:04  And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

2CH 30:05  So they established a decree to make proclamation

throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should

come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem:

for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] as it was

written.

2CH 30:06  So the posts went with the letters from the king and his

princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the

commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again

unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return

to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings

of Assyria.

2CH 30:07  And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren,

which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who]

therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

2CH 30:08  Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but]

yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which

he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the

fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

2CH 30:09  For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and

your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them

captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD

your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his]

face from you, if ye return unto him.

2CH 30:10  So the posts passed from city to city through the country

of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to

scorn, and mocked them.

2CH 30:11  Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun

humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

2CH 30:12  Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart

to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of

the LORD.

2CH 30:13  And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the

feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great

congregation.

2CH 30:14  And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in

Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast

[them] into the brook Kidron.

2CH 30:15  Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of

the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and

sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the

house of the LORD.

2CH 30:16  And they stood in their place after their manner,

according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled

the blood, [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.

2CH 30:17  For [there were] many in the congregation that were not

sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of

the passovers for every one [that was] not clean, to sanctify [them]

unto the LORD.

2CH 30:18  For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim,

and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves,

yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But

Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one

2CH 30:19  [That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of

his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the

purification of the sanctuary.

2CH 30:20  And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the

people.

2CH 30:21  And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem

kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness:

and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day,

[singing] with loud instruments unto the LORD.

2CH 30:22  And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that

taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout

the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making

confession to the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH 30:23  And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven

days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.

2CH 30:24  For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a

thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to

the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a

great number of priests sanctified themselves.

2CH 30:25  And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and

the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and

the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in

Judah, rejoiced.

2CH 30:26  So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time

of Solomon the son of David king of Israel [there was] not the like

in Jerusalem.

2CH 30:27  Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the

people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his

holy dwelling place, [even] unto heaven.

2CH 31:01  Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were

present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in

pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and

the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and

Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the

children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their

own cities.

2CH 31:02  And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the

Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the

priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to

minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the

tents of the LORD.

2CH 31:03  [He appointed] also the king's portion of his substance

for the burnt offerings, [to wit], for the morning and evening burnt

offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new

moons, and for the set feasts, as [it is] written in the law of the

LORD.

2CH 31:04  Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem

to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might

be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

2CH 31:05  And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children

of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and

oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe

of all [things] brought they in abundantly.

2CH 31:06  And [concerning] the children of Israel and Judah, that

dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen

and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto

the LORD their God, and laid [them] by heaps.

2CH 31:07  In the third month they began to lay the foundation of

the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.

2CH 31:08  And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps,

they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.

2CH 31:09  Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites

concerning the heaps.

2CH 31:10  And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok

answered him, and said, Since [the people] began to bring the

offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and

have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that

which is left [is] this great store.

2CH 31:11  Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house

of the LORD; and they prepared [them],

2CH 31:12  And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the

dedicated [things] faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite [was]

ruler, and Shimei his brother [was] the next.

2CH 31:13  And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and

Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and

Benaiah, [were] overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his

brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the

ruler of the house of God.

2CH 31:14  And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward

the east, [was] over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute

the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.

2CH 31:15  And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and

Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in

[their] set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to

the great as to the small:

2CH 31:16  Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and

upward, [even] unto every one that entereth into the house of the

LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according

to their courses;

2CH 31:17  Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of

their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in

their charges by their courses;

2CH 31:18  And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their

wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the

congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in

holiness:

2CH 31:19  Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, [which were] in

the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city,

the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the

males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by

genealogies among the Levites.

2CH 31:20  And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought

[that which was] good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

2CH 31:21  And in every work that he began in the service of the

house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his

God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered.

2CH 32:01  After these things, and the establishment thereof,

Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and

encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for

himself.

2CH 32:02  And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that

he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

2CH 32:03  He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to

stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and

they did help him.

2CH 32:04  So there was gathered much people together, who stopped

all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the

land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much

water?

2CH 32:05  Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall

that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall

without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts

and shields in abundance.

2CH 32:06  And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered

them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and

spake comfortably to them, saying,

2CH 32:07  Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for

the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that [is] with him:

for [there be] more with us than with him:

2CH 32:08  With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the LORD

our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested

themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

2CH 32:09  After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his

servants to Jerusalem, (but he [himself laid siege] against Lachish,

and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto

all Judah that [were] at Jerusalem, saying,

2CH 32:10  Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye

trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

2CH 32:11  Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to

die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver

us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

2CH 32:12  Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and

his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall

worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

2CH 32:13  Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the

people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands

any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

2CH 32:14  Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations that

my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of

mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine

hand?

2CH 32:15  Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade

you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any

nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand,

and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God

deliver you out of mine hand?

2CH 32:16  And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD God,

and against his servant Hezekiah.

2CH 32:17  He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel,

and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of

[other] lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so

shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.

2CH 32:18  Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech

unto the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to affright

them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

2CH 32:19  And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against

the gods of the people of the earth, [which were] the work of the

hands of man.

2CH 32:20  And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet

Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.

2CH 32:21  And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty

men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king

of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And

when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of

his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

2CH 32:22  Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from

the hand of all [other], and guided them on every side.

2CH 32:23  And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and

presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the

sight of all nations from thenceforth.

2CH 32:24  In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed

unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.

2CH 32:25  But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit

[done] unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was

wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

2CH 32:26  Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of

his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the

wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

2CH 32:27  And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he

made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious

stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of

pleasant jewels;

2CH 32:28  Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and

oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

2CH 32:29  Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of

flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very

much.

2CH 32:30  This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of

Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of

David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

2CH 32:31  Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the

princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that

was [done] in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know

all [that was] in his heart.

2CH 32:32  Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness,

behold, they [are] written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the

son of Amoz, [and] in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2CH 32:33  And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him

in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all

Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death.

And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

2CH 33:01  Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign,

and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

2CH 33:02  But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,

like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast

out before the children of Israel.

2CH 33:03  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his

father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made

groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

2CH 33:04  Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof

the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

2CH 33:05  And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two

courts of the house of the LORD.

2CH 33:06  And he caused his children to pass through the fire in

the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used

enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit,

and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to

provoke him to anger.

2CH 33:07  And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in

the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his

son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all

the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

2CH 33:08  Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from

out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that

they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according

to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of

Moses.

2CH 33:09  So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem

to err, [and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had

destroyed before the children of Israel.

2CH 33:10  And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but

they would not hearken.

2CH 33:11  Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the

host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns,

and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

2CH 33:12  And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his

God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

2CH 33:13  And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and

heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his

kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.

2CH 33:14  Now after this he built a wall without the city of David,

on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at

the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very

great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of

Judah.

2CH 33:15  And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of

the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the

mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast [them]

out of the city.

2CH 33:16  And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed

thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to

serve the LORD God of Israel.

2CH 33:17  Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high

places, [yet] unto the LORD their God only.

2CH 33:18  Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto

his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of

the LORD God of Israel, behold, they [are written] in the book of

the kings of Israel.

2CH 33:19  His prayer also, and [how God] was entreated of him, and

all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high

places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled:

behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.

2CH 33:20  So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him

in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

2CH 33:21  Amon [was] two and twenty years old when he began to

reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

2CH 33:22  But he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the

carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

2CH 33:23  And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his

father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

2CH 33:24  And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in

his own house.

2CH 33:25  But the people of the land slew all them that had

conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah

his son king in his stead.

2CH 34:01  Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and

he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

2CH 34:02  And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the

LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined

[neither] to the right hand, nor to the left.

2CH 34:03  For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet

young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in

the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high

places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten

images.

2CH 34:04  And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence;

and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the

groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in

pieces, and made dust [of them], and strowed [it] upon the graves of

them that had sacrificed unto them.

2CH 34:05  And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars,

and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

2CH 34:06  And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim,

and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

2CH 34:07  And when he had broken down the altars and the groves,

and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the

idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

2CH 34:08  Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had

purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,

and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz

the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

2CH 34:09  And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they

delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which

the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh

and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and

Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

2CH 34:10  And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the

oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen

that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the

house:

2CH 34:11  Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to

buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses

which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

2CH 34:12  And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of

them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari;

and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set

[it] forward; and [other of] the Levites, all that could skill of

instruments of music.

2CH 34:13  Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were]

overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and

of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters.

2CH 34:14  And when they brought out the money that was brought into

the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of

the LORD [given] by Moses.

2CH 34:15  And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I

have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah

delivered the book to Shaphan.

2CH 34:16  And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the

king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy

servants, they do [it].

2CH 34:17  And they have gathered together the money that was found

in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the

overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.

2CH 34:18  Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah

the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the

king.

2CH 34:19  And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of

the law, that he rent his clothes.

2CH 34:20  And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of

Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and

Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,

2CH 34:21  Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are

left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that

is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is poured out

upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to

do after all that is written in this book.

2CH 34:22  And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed],

went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of

Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt

in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that

[effect].

2CH 34:23  And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,

Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

2CH 34:24  Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this

place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the curses that

are written in the book which they have read before the king of

Judah:

2CH 34:25  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 poured out upon

this place, and shall not be quenched.

2CH 34:26  And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of

the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of

Israel [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;

2CH 34:27  Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble

thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place,

and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before

me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even

heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.

2CH 34:28  Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt

be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all

the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants

of the same. So they brought the king word again.

2CH 34:29  Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders

of Judah and Jerusalem.

2CH 34:30  And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all

the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests,

and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in

their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found

in the house of the LORD.

2CH 34:31  And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant

before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his

commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his

heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant

which are written in this book.

2CH 34:32  And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and

Benjamin to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did

according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

2CH 34:33  And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the

countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all

that were present in Israel to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their

God. [And] all his days they departed not from following the LORD,

the God of their fathers.

2CH 35:01  Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in

Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of

the first month.

2CH 35:02  And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged

them to the service of the house of the LORD,

2CH 35:03  And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which

were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon

the son of David king of Israel did build; [it shall] not [be] a

burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his

people Israel,

2CH 35:04  And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers,

after your courses, according to the writing of David king of

Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

2CH 35:05  And stand in the holy [place] according to the divisions

of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and

[after] the division of the families of the Levites.

2CH 35:06  So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and

prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of

the LORD by the hand of Moses.

2CH 35:07  And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and

kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to

the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these

[were] of the king's substance.

2CH 35:08  And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the

priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,

rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover

offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three

hundred oxen.

2CH 35:09  Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren,

and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto

the Levites for passover offerings five thousand [small cattle], and

five hundred oxen.

2CH 35:10  So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in

their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the

king's commandment.

2CH 35:11  And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled

[the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].

2CH 35:12  And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might

give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to

offer unto the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses. And so

[did they] with the oxen.

2CH 35:13  And they roasted the passover with fire according to the

ordinance: but the [other] holy [offerings] sod they in pots, and in

caldrons, and in pans, and divided [them] speedily among all the

people.

2CH 35:14  And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the

priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in

offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the

Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of

Aaron.

2CH 35:15  And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their place,

according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and

Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters [waited] at every gate;

they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the

Levites prepared for them.

2CH 35:16  So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day,

to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of

the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

2CH 35:17  And the children of Israel that were present kept the

passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

2CH 35:18  And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel

from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of

Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the

Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the

inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2CH 35:19  In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this

passover kept.

2CH 35:20  After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple,

Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by

Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

2CH 35:21  But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do

with thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee this day,

but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to

make haste: forbear thee from [meddling with] God, who [is] with me,

that he destroy thee not.

2CH 35:22  Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but

disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not

unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in

the valley of Megiddo.

2CH 35:23  And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to

his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

2CH 35:24  His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and

put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to

Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in [one of] the sepulchres of

his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

2CH 35:25  And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men

and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this

day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are]

written in the lamentations.

2CH 35:26  Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness,

according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD,

2CH 35:27  And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are] written

in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2CH 36:01  Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of

Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

2CH 36:02  Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

2CH 36:03  And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and

condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of

gold.

2CH 36:04  And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over

Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho

took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

2CH 36:05  Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that

which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

2CH 36:06  Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and

bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

2CH 36:07  Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house

of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

2CH 36:08  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his

abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold,

they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and

Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

2CH 36:09  Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign,

and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did

[that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.

12CH 36:10  And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent,

and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of

the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and

Jerusalem. 2CH 36:11  Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when

he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 2CH 36:12

And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God,

[and] humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking]

from the mouth of the LORD. 2CH 36:13  And he also rebelled against

king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened

his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of

Israel. 2CH 36:14  Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the

people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the

heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in

Jerusalem. 2CH 36:15  And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them

by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had

compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 2CH 36:16  But

they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and

misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his

people, till [there was] no remedy. 2CH 36:17  Therefore he brought

upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with

the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion

upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he

gave [them] all into his hand. 2CH 36:18  And all the vessels of the

house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the

LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all [these]

he brought to Babylon. 2CH 36:19  And they burnt the house of God,

and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces

thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. 2CH

36:20  And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to

Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the

reign of the kingdom of Persia: 2CH 36:21  To fulfil the word of the

LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her

sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to

fulfil threescore and ten years. 2CH 36:22  Now in the first year of

Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD [spoken] by the

mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the

spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation

throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,

2CH 36:23  Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the

earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me

to build him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is

there] among you of all his people? The LORD his God [be] with him,

and let him go up.