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\c 20
\p
\v 1 Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
\v 2 He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, “Ben Hadad says,
\v 3 ‘Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’”
\p
\v 4 The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.”
\p
\v 5 The messengers came again, and said, “Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;
\v 6 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house, and the houses of your servants; whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand, and take it away.”’”
\p
\v 7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”
\p
\v 8 All the elders and all the people said to him, “Don’t listen, and don’t consent.”
\p
\v 9 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.’”
\p The messengers departed, and brought him back the message.
\v 10 Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”
\p
\v 11 The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’”
\p
\v 12 When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared to attack the city.
\p
\v 13 Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 14 Ahab said, “By whom?”
\p He said, “Yahweh says, ‘By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’”
\p Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?”
\p He answered, “You.”
\p
\v 15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
\v 16 They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
\v 17 The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”
\p
\v 18 He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
\p
\v 19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
\v 20 They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
\v 21 The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
\v 22 The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”
\p
\v 23 The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.
\v 24 Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place.
\v 25 Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they are.”
\p He listened to their voice, and did so.
\v 26 At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
\v 27 The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.
\v 28 A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys;” therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 29 They encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day.
\v 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.
\v 31 His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”
\p
\v 32 So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’”
\p He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
\p
\v 33 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.”
\p Then he said, “Go, bring him.”
\p Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
\v 34 Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.”
\p “I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.
\p
\v 35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!”
\p The man refused to strike him.
\v 36 Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.
\p
\v 37 Then he found another man, and said, “Please strike me.”
\p The man struck him and wounded him.
\v 38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
\v 39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent\f + \fr 20:39 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* of silver.’
\v 40 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.”
\p The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be. You yourself have decided it.”
\p
\v 41 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.
\v 42 He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’”
\p
\v 43 The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.


file: ./bibles/Sample/11/21/100000001
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\c 21
\p
\v 1 After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
\v 2 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”
\p
\v 3 Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”
\p
\v 4 Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
\v 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”
\p
\v 6 He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”
\p
\v 7 Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
\v 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.
\v 9 She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
\v 10 Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”
\p
\v 11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.
\v 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
\v 13 The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
\v 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”
\p
\v 15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”
\p
\v 16 When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
\p
\v 17 Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
\v 18 “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.
\v 19 You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”
\p
\v 20 Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?”
\p He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
\v 21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,\f + \fr 21:21 \ft or, male \f* and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
\v 22 I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”
\v 23 Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
\v 24 The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field.”
\p
\v 25 But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
\v 26 He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
\v 27 When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
\p
\v 28 Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
\v 29 “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/11/22/100000001
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\c 22
\p
\v 1 They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
\v 2 In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
\v 3 The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”
\v 4 He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?”
\p Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
\v 5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”
\p
\v 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?”
\p They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
\p
\v 7 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”
\p
\v 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”
\p Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
\p
\v 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
\p
\v 10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
\v 11 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”
\v 12 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
\p
\v 13 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”
\p
\v 14 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”
\p
\v 15 When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?”
\p He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
\v 16 The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”
\p
\v 17 He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”
\p
\v 18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
\p
\v 19 Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
\v 20 Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another.
\p
\v 21 A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
\p
\v 22 Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’
\p He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’
\p He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
\v 23 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
\p
\v 24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
\p
\v 25 Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”
\p
\v 26 The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.
\v 27 Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”
\p
\v 28 Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”
\p
\v 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
\v 30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
\p
\v 31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”
\p
\v 32 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.
\v 33 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
\v 34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”
\v 35 The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
\v 36 A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”
\p
\v 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
\v 38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.
\p
\v 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
\v 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
\v 43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
\v 44 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
\v 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
\v 47 There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.
\v 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.
\v 49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.
\v 50 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
\v 52 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.
\v 53 He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.


file: ./bibles/Sample/11/3/100000001
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\c 3
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\v 1 Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.
\v 2 However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.
\v 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
\v 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
\v 5 In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”
\p
\v 6 Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
\v 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
\v 8 Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.
\v 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
\p
\v 10 This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
\v 11 God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;
\v 12 behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
\v 13 I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.
\v 14 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
\p
\v 15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
\p
\v 16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
\v 17 The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
\v 18 The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.
\v 19 This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
\v 20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
\v 21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”
\p
\v 22 The other woman said, “No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.”
\p The first one said, “No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.
\p
\v 23 Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”
\p
\v 24 The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.
\p
\v 25 The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
\p
\v 26 Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!”
\p But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
\p
\v 27 Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”
\p
\v 28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.


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\c 4
\p
\v 1 King Solomon was king over all Israel.
\v 2 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
\v 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
\v 4 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
\v 5 Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;
\v 6 Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
\p
\v 7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
\v 8 These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
\v 9 Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;
\v 10 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);
\v 11 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);
\v 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
\v 13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);
\v 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
\v 15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);
\v 16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
\v 17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
\v 18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
\v 19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.
\p
\v 20 Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
\v 21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
\v 22 Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors\f + \fr 4:22 \ft 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels\f* of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
\v 23 ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
\v 24 For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.
\v 25 Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
\v 26 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
\v 27 Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.
\v 28 They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.
\v 29 God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
\v 30 Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
\v 31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.
\v 32 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand five.
\v 33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.
\v 34 People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.


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\v 1 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.
\v 2 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
\v 3 “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Yahweh put his enemies under the soles of his feet.
\v 4 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence.
\v 5 Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’
\v 6 Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
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\v 7 When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”
\v 8 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber.
\v 9 My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”
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\v 10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.
\v 11 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors\f + \fr 5:11 \ft 20,000 cors would be about 120,000 bushels or about 4.2 megaliters of wheat, which would weigh about 3,270 metric tons.\f* of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors\f + \fr 5:11 \ft 20 cors is about 1,100 gallons or about 4220 liters.\f* of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
\v 12 Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.
\v 13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
\v 14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
\v 15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
\v 16 besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
\v 17 The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
\v 18 Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.


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\v 1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.
\v 2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits,\f + \fr 6:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.
\v 3 The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.
\v 4 He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.
\v 5 Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.
\v 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
\v 7 The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.
\v 8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.
\v 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
\v 10 He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
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\v 11 Yahweh’s word came to Solomon, saying,
\v 12 “Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
\v 13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
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\v 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
\v 15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.
\v 16 He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.
\v 17 In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.
\v 18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.
\v 19 He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.
\v 20 Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.
\v 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.
\v 22 He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.
\v 23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim\f + \fr 6:23 \ft “Cherubim” is plural of “cherub”, an angelic being.\f* of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
\v 24 Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.
\v 25 The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
\v 26 One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.
\v 27 He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house.
\v 28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
\v 29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.
\v 30 He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.
\v 31 For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.
\v 32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
\v 33 He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;
\v 34 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
\v 35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
\v 36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
\v 37 The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.
\v 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.


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\v 1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
\v 2 For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits,\f + \fr 7:2 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
\v 3 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.
\v 4 There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks.
\v 5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.
\v 6 He made the porch of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits; with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.
\v 7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
\v 8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.
\v 9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
\v 10 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
\v 11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
\v 12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
\v 13 King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
\v 14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
\v 15 For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.
\v 16 He made two capitals of molten bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
\v 17 There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
\v 18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and he did so for the other capital.
\v 19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.
\v 20 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital.
\v 21 He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.
\v 22 On the top of the pillars was lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.
\v 23 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.
\v 24 Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
\v 25 It stood on 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 on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.
\v 26 It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
\v 27 He made the ten bases of bronze. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.
\v 28 The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;
\v 29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
\v 30 Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of bronze; and the four feet of it had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each.
\v 31 Its mouth within the capital and above was a cubit. Its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.
\v 32 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
\v 33 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all of cast metal.
\v 34 There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself.
\v 35 In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same.
\v 36 On the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.
\v 37 He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
\v 38 He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths;\f + \fr 7:38 \ft 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters, so 4 baths was about 224 gallons or 840 liters.\f* and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.
\v 39 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward and toward the south.
\v 40 Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:
\v 41 the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
\v 42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;
\v 43 the ten bases; the ten basins on the bases;
\v 44 the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea;
\v 45 the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished bronze.
\v 46 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
\v 47 Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.
\v 48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;
\v 49 and the lamp stands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
\v 50 the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.
\v 51 Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.


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\v 1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
\v 2 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
\v 3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.
\v 4 They brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up.
\v 5 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
\v 6 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.
\v 7 For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
\v 8 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.
\v 9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
\v 10 It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,
\v 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.
\v 12 Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
\v 13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
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\v 14 The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.
\v 15 He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
\v 16 ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’
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\v 17 “Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 18 But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
\v 19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
\v 20 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
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\v 22 Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;
\v 23 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
\v 24 who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.
\v 25 Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
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\v 26 “Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
\v 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
\v 28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;
\v 29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
\v 30 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
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\v 31 “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
\v 32 then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
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\v 33 “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;
\v 34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
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\v 35 “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
\v 36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
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\v 37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
\v 38 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
\v 39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);
\v 40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
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\v 41 “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake
\v 42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house;
\v 43 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
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\v 44 “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
\v 45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
\v 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
\v 47 yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
\v 48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
\v 49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
\v 50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
\v 51 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
\v 52 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
\v 53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”
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\v 54 It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.
\v 55 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
\v 56 “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
\v 57 May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;
\v 58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
\v 59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;
\v 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.
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\v 61 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”
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\v 62 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
\v 63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house.
\v 64 The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
\v 65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.
\v 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.


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\v 1 When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
\v 2 Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
\v 3 Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
\v 4 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
\v 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’
\v 6 But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;
\v 7 then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
\v 8 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’
\v 9 and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”
\p
\v 10 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house
\v 11 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
\v 12 Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
\v 13 He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul\f + \fr 9:13 \ft “Cabul” sounds like Hebrew for “good-for-nothing”.\f* to this day.
\v 14 Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents\f + \fr 9:14 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons\f* of gold.
\p
\v 15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
\v 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
\v 17 Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,
\v 18 Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,
\v 19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
\v 20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
\v 21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.
\v 22 But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
\v 23 These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
\v 24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.
\v 25 Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times per year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
\v 26 King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
\v 27 Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
\v 28 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents,\f + \fr 9:28 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 420 talents is about 12.6 metric tons\f* and brought it to king Solomon.


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\v 1 Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
\v 2 Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”
\p
\v 3 But Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:3 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* angel said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God\f + \fr 1:3 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?
\v 4 Now therefore Yahweh says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.”’” Then Elijah departed.
\p
\v 5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”
\p
\v 6 They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “Yahweh says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”’”
\p
\v 7 He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?”
\p
\v 8 They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.”
\p He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”
\p
\v 9 Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold,\f + \fr 1:9 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”
\p
\v 10 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
\p
\v 11 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. He answered him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’”
\p
\v 12 Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
\p
\v 13 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.
\v 14 Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”
\p
\v 15 Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.”
\p Then he arose, and went down with him to the king.
\v 16 He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”
\p
\v 17 So he died according to Yahweh’s word which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.
\v 18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


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\v 1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,
\v 2 “Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor,
\v 3 Select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
\p
\v 4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”
\v 5 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”
\p
\v 6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.”
\p Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
\v 7 When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
\v 8 A messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.”
\p He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”
\v 9 In the morning, he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, “You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?
\v 10 Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.”
\p
\v 11 So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.
\p
\v 12 He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way,
\v 13 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?”
\p They answered, “We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We are going down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.”
\p
\v 14 He said, “Take them alive!”
\p They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t leave any of them.
\p
\v 15 When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?”
\p Jehonadab answered, “It is.”
\p “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
\v 16 He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
\v 17 When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke to Elijah.
\v 18 Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.
\v 19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.
\p
\v 20 Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!”
\p So they proclaimed it.
\v 21 Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
\v 22 He said to him who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!”
\p So he brought robes out to them.
\v 23 Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”
\p
\v 24 So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”
\p
\v 25 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.
\v 26 They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.
\v 27 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
\v 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
\p
\v 29 However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.
\v 30 Yahweh said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to Ahab’s house according to all that was in my heart, your descendants shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”
\p
\v 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
\v 32 In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;
\v 33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
\v 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 35 Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
\v 36 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.


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\v 1 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
\v 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
\v 3 He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.
\v 4 In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.
\v 5 He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;
\v 6 a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.
\v 7 The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.
\v 8 You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”
\p
\v 9 The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
\v 10 The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.
\v 11 The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.
\v 12 Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
\p
\v 13 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house:
\v 14 and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”
\p
\v 15 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”
\v 16 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.
\v 17 Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.
\v 18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.
\v 19 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from Yahweh’s house, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
\v 20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword at the king’s house.
\p
\v 21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.


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\v 1 Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
\v 2 Jehoash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
\v 3 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
\v 4 Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated,\x + \xo 12:4 \xt Exodus 30:12\x* and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,
\v 5 let the priests take it to them, each man from his donor; and they shall repair the damage to the house, wherever any damage is found.”
\p
\v 6 But it was so, that in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damage to the house.
\v 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
\p
\v 8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.
\v 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.
\v 10 When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.
\v 11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house,
\v 12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
\v 13 But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;
\v 14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it.
\v 15 Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
\v 16 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.
\p
\v 17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
\v 18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
\v 19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 20 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
\v 21 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria for seventeen years.
\v 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from it.
\v 3 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.
\v 4 Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
\v 5 (Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.
\v 6 Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)
\v 7 For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
\v 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 9 Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 10 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria for sixteen years.
\v 11 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked in them.
\v 12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 13 Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
\p
\v 14 Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
\p
\v 15 Elisha said to him, “Take bow and arrows;” and he took bow and arrows for himself.
\v 16 He said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow;” and he put his hand on it. Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands.
\v 17 He said, “Open the window eastward;” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” and he shot. He said, “Yahweh’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you will strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.”
\p
\v 18 He said, “Take the arrows;” and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground;” and he struck three times, and stopped.
\v 19 The man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it; whereas now you will strike Syria just three times.”
\p
\v 20 Elisha died, and they buried him.
\p Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
\v 21 As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
\p
\v 22 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
\v 23 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
\p
\v 24 Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his place.
\v 25 Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Joash struck him three times, and recovered the cities of Israel.


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\v 1 In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.
\v 2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
\v 3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.
\v 4 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
\v 5 As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,
\v 6 but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”
\p
\v 7 He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.
\v 8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”
\p
\v 9 Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
\v 10 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”
\v 11 But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
\v 12 Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.
\v 13 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.\f + \fr 14:13 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f*
\v 14 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
\p
\v 15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 16 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 17 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
\v 18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 19 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
\v 20 They brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in David’s city.
\p
\v 21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
\v 22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.
\p
\v 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.
\v 24 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
\v 25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
\v 26 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.
\v 27 Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
\v 28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 29 Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
\v 2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
\v 3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
\v 4 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
\v 5 Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
\v 6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 7 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.
\v 9 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as his fathers had done. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
\v 10 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
\v 11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
\v 12 This was Yahweh’s word which he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” So it came to pass.
\p
\v 13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for a month in Samaria.
\v 14 Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed him, and reigned in his place.
\v 15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
\p
\v 16 Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, and all who were in it, and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.
\v 17 In the thirty ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria.
\v 18 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
\v 19 Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents\f + \fr 15:19 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons\f* of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
\v 20 Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels\f + \fr 15:20 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds.\f* of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.
\v 21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
\v 22 Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.
\v 24 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
\v 25 Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and attacked him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites. He killed him, and reigned in his place.
\v 26 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
\p
\v 27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.
\v 28 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
\v 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
\v 30 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, attacked him, killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
\v 31 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
\p
\v 32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.
\v 33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
\v 34 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. He did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
\v 35 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house.
\v 36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 37 In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
\v 38 Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
\v 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh his God’s eyes, like David his father.
\v 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.
\v 4 He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
\v 5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
\v 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there, to this day.
\v 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
\v 8 Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
\v 9 The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
\v 10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.
\v 11 Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.
\v 12 When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.
\v 13 He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
\v 14 The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and Yahweh’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.
\v 15 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering, his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”
\v 16 Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
\v 17 King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
\v 18 He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry outside to Yahweh’s house, because of the king of Assyria.
\v 19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 20 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.


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\p
\v 1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years.
\v 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
\v 3 Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
\v 4 The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized him, and bound him in prison.
\v 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
\v 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
\v 7 It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
\v 8 and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.
\v 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
\v 10 and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill, and under every green tree;
\v 11 and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
\v 12 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
\v 13 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
\v 14 Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.
\v 15 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
\v 16 They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
\v 17 They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
\v 18 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
\v 19 Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
\v 20 Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.
\v 21 For he tore Israel from David’s house; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin.
\v 22 The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from them
\v 23 until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.
\p
\v 24 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities.
\v 25 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
\v 26 Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land.”
\p
\v 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.”
\p
\v 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.
\v 29 However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
\v 30 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
\v 31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
\v 32 So they feared Yahweh, and also made from among themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
\v 33 They feared Yahweh, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
\v 34 To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear Yahweh, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
\v 35 with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;
\v 36 but you shall fear Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him.
\v 37 The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever more. You shall not fear other gods.
\v 38 You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods.
\v 39 But you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”
\v 40 However they didn’t listen, but they did what they did before.
\v 41 So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day.


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\v 1 Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
\v 2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
\v 3 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.
\v 4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
\v 5 He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.
\v 6 For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 7 Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.
\v 8 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
\p
\v 9 In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
\v 10 At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
\v 11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
\v 12 because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.
\p
\v 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
\v 14 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents\f + \fr 18:14 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of gold.
\v 15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
\v 16 At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
\p
\v 17 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
\v 18 When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.
\v 19 Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
\v 20 You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
\v 21 Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
\v 22 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’
\v 23 Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
\v 24 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
\v 25 Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”
\p
\v 26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
\p
\v 27 But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”
\v 28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
\v 29 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.
\v 30 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
\v 31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;
\v 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”
\v 33 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
\v 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
\v 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
\p
\v 36 But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
\v 37 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.


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\v 1 When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
\v 2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
\v 3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
\v 4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
\p
\v 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
\v 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
\v 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
\p
\v 8 So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
\v 9 When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
\v 10 ‘Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: “Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
\v 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?
\v 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
\v 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?”’”
\p
\v 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
\v 15 Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
\v 16 Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.
\v 17 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
\v 18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.
\v 19 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”
\p
\v 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.
\v 21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
\v 22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
\v 23 By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.
\v 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”
\v 25 Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
\v 26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
\v 27 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
\v 28 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’
\p
\v 29 “This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.
\v 30 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
\v 31 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this.
\p
\v 32 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
\v 33 He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
\v 34 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
\p
\v 35 That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
\v 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
\v 37 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.


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\p
\v 1 When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
\v 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.”
\p Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
\p
\v 3 The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?”
\p He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
\p
\v 4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.”
\p He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.
\p
\v 5 The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?”
\p He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
\p
\v 6 Elijah said to him, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan.”
\p He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” Then they both went on.
\v 7 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan.
\v 8 Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.
\v 9 When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.”
\p Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.”
\p
\v 10 He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be so for you; but if not, it will not be so.”
\p
\v 11 As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
\v 12 Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
\p He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
\v 13 He also took up Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
\v 14 He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.
\v 15 When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
\v 16 They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley.”
\p He said, “Don’t send them.”
\p
\v 17 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.”
\p Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him.
\v 18 They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go?’”
\p
\v 19 The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”
\p
\v 20 He said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.” Then they brought it to him.
\v 21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’”
\v 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to Elisha’s word which he spoke.
\p
\v 23 He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”
\v 24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.
\v 25 He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.


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\p
\v 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’”
\p
\v 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,
\v 3 “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
\p
\v 4 Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,
\v 5 “Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.
\v 6 I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’”
\p
\v 7 Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.”
\p They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
\v 8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”
\p
\v 9 Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”
\p
\v 10 Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”
\p
\v 11 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.
\p
\v 12 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
\v 13 Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.
\p
\v 14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”
\p Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.”
\p
\v 15 He said, “What have they seen in your house?”
\p Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
\p
\v 16 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Yahweh’s word.
\v 17 ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.
\v 18 ‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
\p
\v 19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”
\p
\v 20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 21 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.


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\p
\v 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
\v 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
\v 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
\v 4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
\v 5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
\v 6 He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
\v 7 He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;
\v 8 I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
\v 9 But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
\v 10 Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
\v 11 “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols;
\v 12 therefore Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.
\v 13 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
\v 14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies,
\v 15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’”
\p
\v 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
\v 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 18 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
\v 20 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as Manasseh his father did.
\v 21 He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;
\v 22 and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh.
\v 23 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.
\v 24 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
\v 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.


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\p
\v 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
\v 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
\v 3 In the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to Yahweh’s house, saying,
\v 4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into Yahweh’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.
\v 5 Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in Yahweh’s house, to repair the damage to the house,
\v 6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.
\v 7 However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”
\p
\v 8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
\v 9 Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hands of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house.”
\v 10 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me.” Then Shaphan read it before the king.
\p
\v 11 When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.
\v 12 The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
\v 13 “Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.”
\p
\v 14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
\v 15 She said to them, “Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,
\v 16 “Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.
\v 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’”
\v 18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, tell him, “Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Concerning the words which you have heard,
\v 19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.
\v 20 ‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” So they brought this message back to the king.


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\p
\v 1 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
\v 2 The king went up to Yahweh’s house, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, with the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in Yahweh’s house.
\v 3 The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.
\v 4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
\v 5 He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.
\v 6 He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
\v 7 He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
\v 8 He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
\v 9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to Yahweh’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
\v 10 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
\v 11 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
\v 12 The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
\v 13 The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.
\v 14 He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
\v 15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
\v 16 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
\v 17 Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?”
\p The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”
\p
\v 18 He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
\v 19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
\v 20 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
\p
\v 21 The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”
\v 22 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
\v 23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
\v 24 Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim,\f + \fr 23:24 \ft teraphim were household idols.\f* and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s house.
\v 25 There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.
\v 26 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
\v 27 Yahweh said, “I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”
\p
\v 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
\v 30 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.
\p
\v 31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
\v 32 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.
\v 33 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent\f + \fr 23:33 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of gold.
\v 34 Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there.
\v 35 Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
\v 36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
\v 37 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.


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\p
\v 1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
\v 2 Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
\v 3 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
\v 4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
\v 5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 7 The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that belonged to the king of Egypt.
\p
\v 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
\v 9 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his father had done.
\v 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
\v 11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,
\v 12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.
\v 13 He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.
\v 14 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No one remained, except the poorest people of the land.
\v 15 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
\v 16 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
\v 17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
\v 18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
\v 19 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
\v 20 For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence.
\p Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


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\c 25
\p
\v 1 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
\v 2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
\v 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
\v 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
\v 5 But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
\v 6 Then they captured the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.
\v 7 They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
\p
\v 8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
\v 9 He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
\v 10 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
\v 11 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
\v 12 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
\v 13 The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the bronze pieces to Babylon.
\v 14 They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
\v 15 The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.
\v 16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house, the bronze of all these vessels was not weighed.
\v 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,\f + \fr 25:17 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and a capital of bronze was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of bronze; and the second pillar with its network was like these.
\p
\v 18 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
\v 19 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.
\v 20 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
\v 21 The king of Babylon attacked them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
\v 22 As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.
\v 23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
\v 24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
\p
\v 25 But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, with the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
\v 26 All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
\v 27 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
\v 28 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
\v 29 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;
\v 30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.


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\c 3
\p
\v 1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
\v 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
\v 3 Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them.
\v 4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.
\v 5 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
\v 6 King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.
\v 7 He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?”
\p He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
\v 8 He said, “Which way shall we go up?”
\p He answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
\v 9 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.
\v 10 The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
\p
\v 11 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?”
\p One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”
\p
\v 12 Jehoshaphat said, “Yahweh’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
\p
\v 13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.”
\p The king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
\v 14 Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.
\v 15 But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, Yahweh’s hand came on him.
\v 16 He said, “Yahweh says, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’
\v 17 For Yahweh says, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain, yet that valley will be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your other animals.
\v 18 This is an easy thing in Yahweh’s sight. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
\v 19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”
\p
\v 20 In the morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
\p
\v 21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, young and old, and stood on the border.
\v 22 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.
\v 23 They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!”
\p
\v 24 When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites.
\v 25 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it.
\v 26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
\v 27 Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.


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\c 4
\p
\v 1 Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
\p
\v 2 Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?”
\p She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”
\p
\v 3 Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.
\v 4 Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”
\p
\v 5 So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.
\v 6 When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”
\p He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
\p
\v 7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
\p
\v 8 One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
\v 9 She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.
\v 10 Please let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”
\p
\v 11 One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there.
\v 12 He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
\v 13 He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’”
\p She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”
\p
\v 14 He said, “What then is to be done for her?”
\p Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”
\p
\v 15 He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.
\v 16 He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.”
\p She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
\p
\v 17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
\v 18 When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.
\v 19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!”
\p He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
\p
\v 20 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
\v 21 She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.
\v 22 She called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.”
\p
\v 23 He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.”
\p She said, “It’s all right.”
\p
\v 24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”
\p
\v 25 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.
\v 26 Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’”
\p She answered, “It is well.”
\p
\v 27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
\p
\v 28 Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”
\p
\v 29 Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”
\p
\v 30 The child’s mother said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.”
\p So he arose, and followed her.
\p
\v 31 Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”
\p
\v 32 When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed.
\v 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.
\v 34 He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm.
\v 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
\v 36 He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her.
\p When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”
\p
\v 37 Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.
\p
\v 38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
\p
\v 39 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.
\v 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out, and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
\p
\v 41 But he said, “Then bring meal.” He threw it into the pot; and he said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
\p
\v 42 A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”
\p
\v 43 His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?”
\p But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”
\p
\v 44 So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to Yahweh’s word.


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\c 5
\p
\v 1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
\v 2 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
\v 3 She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”
\p
\v 4 Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this.”
\p
\v 5 The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”
\p He departed, and took with him ten talents\f + \fr 5:5 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
\v 6 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, “Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.”
\p
\v 7 When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
\p
\v 8 It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
\p
\v 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
\v 10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”
\p
\v 11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’
\v 12 Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
\p
\v 13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”
\p
\v 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
\v 15 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
\p
\v 16 But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.”
\p He urged him to take it; but he refused.
\v 17 Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.
\v 18 In this thing may Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon. When I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh pardon your servant in this thing.”
\p
\v 19 He said to him, “Go in peace.”
\p So he departed from him a little way.
\v 20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”
\p
\v 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”
\p
\v 22 He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent\f + \fr 5:22 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* of silver and two changes of clothing.’”
\p
\v 23 Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.
\v 24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.
\v 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?”
\p He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”
\p
\v 26 He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
\v 27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring\f + \fr 5:27 \ft or, seed\f* forever.”
\p He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.


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\c 6
\p
\v 1 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.
\v 2 Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.”
\p He answered, “Go!”
\p
\v 3 One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.”
\p He answered, “I will go.”
\v 4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
\v 5 But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”
\p
\v 6 The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.
\v 7 He said, “Take it.” So he put out his hand and took it.
\p
\v 8 Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
\p
\v 9 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you not pass this place; for the Syrians are coming down there.”
\v 10 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.
\v 11 The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”
\p
\v 12 One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
\p
\v 13 He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.”
\p He was told, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
\p
\v 14 Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.
\v 15 When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
\p
\v 16 He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
\v 17 Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
\v 18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.”
\p He struck them with blindness according to Elishah’s word.
\v 19 Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria.
\v 20 When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.”
\p Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.
\v 21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”
\p
\v 22 He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”
\p
\v 23 He prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.
\p
\v 24 After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
\v 25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab\f + \fr 6:25 \ft A kab was about 2 liters, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint\f* of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
\v 26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
\p
\v 27 He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
\v 28 The king said to her, “What is your problem?”
\p She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
\v 29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”
\p
\v 30 When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.
\v 31 Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”
\p
\v 32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”
\p
\v 33 While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”


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\c 7
\p
\v 1 Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah\f + \fr 7:1 \ft 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks\f* of fine flour will be sold for a shekel,\f + \fr 7:1 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.\f* and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”
\p
\v 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?”
\p He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
\p
\v 3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
\v 4 If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”
\p
\v 5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there.
\v 6 For the Lord\f + \fr 7:6 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”
\v 7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
\v 8 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.
\v 9 Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.”
\p
\v 10 So they came and called to the city gatekeepers; and they told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, not even a man’s voice, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”
\p
\v 11 He called the gatekeepers; and they told it to the king’s household within.
\v 12 The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’”
\p
\v 13 One of his servants answered, “Please let some people take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let’s send and see.”
\p
\v 14 Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them out to the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.”
\p
\v 15 They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
\v 16 The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah\f + \fr 7:16 \ft 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks\f* of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,\f + \fr 7:16 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.\f* according to Yahweh’s word.
\v 17 The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
\v 18 It happened as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs\f + \fr 7:18 \ft 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks\f* of barley for a shekel,\f + \fr 7:18 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.\f* and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;”
\v 19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
\v 20 It happened like that to him; for the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died.


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\v 1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”
\p
\v 2 The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
\v 3 At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.
\v 4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”
\v 5 As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”
\p
\v 6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”
\p
\v 7 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. He was told, “The man of God has come here.”
\p
\v 8 The king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
\p
\v 9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
\p
\v 10 Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however Yahweh has shown me that he will surely die.”
\v 11 He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.
\p
\v 12 Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?”
\p He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”
\p
\v 13 Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?”
\p Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”
\p
\v 14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?”
\p He answered, “He told me that you would surely recover.”
\p
\v 15 On the next day, he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.
\p
\v 16 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being king of Judah then, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
\v 17 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
\v 18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
\v 19 However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
\p
\v 20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
\v 21 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
\v 22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
\v 23 The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
\v 24 Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
\v 25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.
\v 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
\v 27 He walked in the way of Ahab’s house, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house; for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house.
\v 28 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.
\v 29 King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.


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\v 1 Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
\v 2 When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.
\v 3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”
\p
\v 4 So the young man, even the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.
\v 5 When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you, captain.”
\p Jehu said, “To which of us all?”
\p He said, “To you, O captain.”
\v 6 He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel.
\v 7 You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.
\v 8 For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,\f + \fr 9:8 \ft or, male\f* both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
\v 9 I will make Ahab’s house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
\v 10 The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.
\p
\v 11 When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?”
\p He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”
\v 12 They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.”
\p He said, “He said to me, ‘Yahweh says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’”
\p
\v 13 Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”
\p
\v 14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
\v 15 but king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.”
\v 16 So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
\v 17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.”
\p Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
\p
\v 18 So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “the king says, ‘Is it peace?’”
\p Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”
\p The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”
\p
\v 19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, “The king says, ‘Is it peace?’”
\p Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”
\p
\v 20 The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
\p
\v 21 Joram said, “Get ready!”
\p They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land.
\v 22 When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?”
\p He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”
\p
\v 23 Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”
\p
\v 24 Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
\v 25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:
\v 26 ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”
\p
\v 27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
\v 28 His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in David’s city.
\v 29 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
\p
\v 30 When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.
\v 31 As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”
\p
\v 32 He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?”
\p Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
\p
\v 33 He said, “Throw her down!”
\p So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.
\v 34 When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”
\p
\v 35 They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
\v 36 Therefore they came back, and told him.
\p He said, “This is Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,
\v 37 and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”


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\v 1 Adam, Seth, Enosh,
\v 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
\v 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
\v 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
\v 5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
\v 6 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
\v 7 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
\v 8 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
\v 9 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
\v 10 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
\v 11 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
\v 12 Pathrusim, Casluhim (where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim.
\v 13 Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
\v 14 the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite,
\v 15 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
\v 16 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
\v 17 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
\v 18 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
\v 19 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
\v 20 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
\v 21 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
\v 22 Ebal, Abimael, Sheba,
\v 23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
\v 24 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,
\v 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
\v 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
\v 27 Abram (also called Abraham).
\v 28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
\v 29 These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
\v 30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
\v 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
\v 32 The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
\v 33 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
\v 34 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
\v 35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
\v 36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.
\v 37 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
\v 38 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
\v 39 The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister.
\v 40 The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
\v 41 The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
\v 42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
\p
\v 43 Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
\v 44 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.
\v 45 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
\v 46 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.
\v 47 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
\v 48 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.
\v 49 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
\v 50 Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
\v 51 Then Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,
\v 52 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
\v 53 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
\v 54 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.


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\v 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
\v 2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
\v 3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
\v 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.”
\p But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
\v 5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.
\v 6 So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together.
\v 7 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
\p
\v 8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
\v 9 They stripped him, and took his head and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.
\v 10 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
\v 11 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
\v 12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
\v 13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
\v 14 and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.


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\v 1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
\v 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”
\p
\v 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.
\v 4 David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (also called Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
\v 5 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.
\v 6 David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
\v 7 David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.
\v 8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
\v 9 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him.
\v 10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to Yahweh’s word concerning Israel.
\p
\v 11 This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
\v 12 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
\v 13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
\v 14 They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
\v 15 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
\v 16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time.
\v 17 David longed, and said, “Oh that one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
\p
\v 18 The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink any of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,
\v 19 and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
\p
\v 20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
\v 21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.
\v 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.
\v 23 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits\f + \fr 11:23 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. Therefore this Egyptian was bout 7 feet and 6 inches or 2.28 meters tall.\f* high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
\v 24 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
\v 25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard.
\p
\v 26 The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
\v 27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
\v 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
\v 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
\v 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
\v 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
\v 32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
\v 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
\v 34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
\v 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
\v 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
\v 37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
\v 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
\v 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
\v 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
\v 41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
\v 42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
\v 43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
\v 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
\v 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
\v 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
\v 47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.


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\p
\v 1 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
\v 2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.
\v 3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;
\v 4 Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;
\v 5 Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite;
\v 6 Elkanah, Isshiah Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;
\v 7 and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
\v 8 Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
\v 9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
\v 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
\v 11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
\v 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
\v 13 Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh.
\v 14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.
\v 15 These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.
\v 16 Some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.
\v 17 David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
\v 18 Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
\v 19 Some of Manasseh also joined David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle; but they didn’t help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”
\p
\v 20 As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
\v 21 They helped David against the band of rovers; for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.
\v 22 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army.
\p
\v 23 These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to Yahweh’s word.
\v 24 The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war.
\v 25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war: seven thousand one hundred.
\v 26 Of the children of Levi: four thousand six hundred.
\v 27 Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred,
\v 28 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains.
\v 29 Of the children of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives: three thousand, for until then, the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to Saul’s house.
\v 30 Of the children of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.
\v 31 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
\v 32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.
\v 33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.
\v 34 Of Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
\v 35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
\v 36 Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand.
\v 37 On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle: one hundred twenty thousand.
\v 38 All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
\v 39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.
\v 40 Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.


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\p
\v 1 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
\v 2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.
\v 3 Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again; for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”
\p
\v 4 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
\v 5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.
\p
\v 6 David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
\v 7 They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
\v 8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
\v 9 When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
\v 10 Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.
\v 11 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
\v 12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
\v 13 So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
\v 14 God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had.


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\v 1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
\v 2 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel’s sake.
\v 3 David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
\v 4 These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
\v 5 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,
\v 6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
\v 7 Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
\p
\v 8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them.
\v 9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.
\v 10 David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?”
\p Yahweh said to him, “Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.”
\p
\v 11 So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.\f + \fr 14:11 \ft “Baal Perazim” means “The Lord who breaks out”.\f*
\v 12 They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burned with fire.
\p
\v 13 The Philistines made a another raid in the valley.
\v 14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.
\v 15 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
\p
\v 16 David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
\v 17 The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all nations.


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\v 1 David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.
\v 2 Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
\p
\v 3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.
\v 4 David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
\v 5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
\v 6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
\v 7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;
\v 8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
\v 9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
\v 10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
\v 11 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,
\v 12 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
\v 13 For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
\p
\v 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 15 The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to Yahweh’s word.
\v 16 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
\v 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
\v 18 and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
\v 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;
\v 20 and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;
\v 21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.
\v 22 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.
\v 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
\v 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
\p
\v 25 So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
\v 26 When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
\v 27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.
\v 28 Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
\v 29 As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.


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\v 1 They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
\v 2 When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in Yahweh’s name.
\v 3 He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
\v 4 He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
\v 5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
\v 6 with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
\p
\v 7 Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
\q1
\v 8 Oh give thanks to Yahweh.
\q2 Call on his name.
\q2 Make what he has done known among the peoples.
\q1
\v 9 Sing to him.
\q2 Sing praises to him.
\q2 Tell of all his marvelous works.
\q1
\v 10 Glory in his holy name.
\q2 Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
\q1
\v 11 Seek Yahweh and his strength.
\q2 Seek his face forever more.
\q1
\v 12 Remember his marvelous works that he has done,
\q2 his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
\q1
\v 13 you offspring\f + \fr 16:13 \ft or, seed\f* of Israel his servant,
\q2 you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
\q1
\v 14 He is Yahweh our God.
\q2 His judgments are in all the earth.
\q1
\v 15 Remember his covenant forever,
\q2 the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
\q2
\v 16 the covenant which he made with Abraham,
\q2 his oath to Isaac.
\q1
\v 17 He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
\q2 and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
\q1
\v 18 saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan,
\q2 The lot of your inheritance,”
\q2
\v 19 when you were but a few men in number,
\q2 yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
\q1
\v 20 They went about from nation to nation,
\q2 from one kingdom to another people.
\q1
\v 21 He allowed no man to do them wrong.
\q2 Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
\q1
\v 22 “Don’t touch my anointed ones!
\q2 Do my prophets no harm!”
\q1
\v 23 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth!
\q2 Display his salvation from day to day.
\q1
\v 24 Declare his glory among the nations,
\q2 and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
\q1
\v 25 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised.
\q2 He also is to be feared above all gods.
\q1
\v 26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
\q2 but Yahweh made the heavens.
\q1
\v 27 Honor and majesty are before him.
\q2 Strength and gladness are in his place.
\q1
\v 28 Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples,
\q2 ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!
\q1
\v 29 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
\q2 Bring an offering, and come before him.
\q2 Worship Yahweh in holy array.
\q1
\v 30 Tremble before him, all the earth.
\q2 The world also is established that it can’t be moved.
\q1
\v 31 Let the heavens be glad,
\q2 and let the earth rejoice!
\q2 Let them say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns!”
\q1
\v 32 Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
\q2 Let the field exult, and all that is in it!
\q1
\v 33 Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh,
\q2 for he comes to judge the earth.
\q1
\v 34 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 35 Say, “Save us, God of our salvation!
\q2 Gather us together and deliver us from the nations,
\q2 to give thanks to your holy name,
\q2 to triumph in your praise.”
\q1
\v 36 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
\q2 from everlasting even to everlasting.
\p All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.
\p
\v 37 So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;
\v 38 and Obed-Edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
\v 39 and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,
\v 40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in Yahweh’s law, which he commanded to Israel;
\v 41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;
\v 42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
\v 43 All the people departed, each man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.


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\c 17
\p
\v 1 When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”
\p
\v 2 Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”
\p
\v 3 That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
\v 4 “Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
\v 5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
\v 6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
\p
\v 7 “Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.
\v 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
\v 9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
\v 10 and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
\v 11 It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
\v 12 He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
\v 13 I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
\v 14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.”’”
\v 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
\p
\v 16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
\v 17 This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.
\v 18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.
\v 19 Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
\v 20 Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
\v 21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
\v 22 For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
\v 23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
\v 24 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’
\v 25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.
\v 26 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.
\v 27 Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”


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\p
\v 1 After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
\v 2 He defeated Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
\v 3 David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
\v 4 David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots.
\v 5 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.
\v 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
\v 7 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
\v 8 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, the pillars, and the vessels of bronze.
\p
\v 9 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,
\v 10 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and bronze.
\v 11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
\v 12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
\v 13 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
\p
\v 14 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
\v 15 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
\v 16 Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; Shavsha was scribe;
\v 17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief officials serving the king.


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\v 1 After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
\v 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”
\p So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
\v 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
\v 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.
\v 5 Then some people went and told David how the men were treated. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
\p
\v 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents\f + \fr 19:6 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons\f* of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.
\v 7 So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
\v 8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.
\v 9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
\v 10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
\v 11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
\v 12 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.
\v 13 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”
\p
\v 14 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
\v 15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
\p
\v 16 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River,\f + \fr 19:16 \ft or, the Euphrates River\f* with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them.
\v 17 David was told that; so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
\v 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army.
\v 19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him. The Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more.


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\v 1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,
\v 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
\v 3 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s\f + \fr 2:3 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* sight; and he killed him.
\v 4 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
\v 5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
\v 6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.
\v 7 The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
\v 8 The son of Ethan: Azariah.
\v 9 The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
\v 10 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
\v 11 and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz,
\v 12 and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;
\v 13 and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
\v 14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
\v 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
\v 16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
\v 17 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
\p
\v 18 Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
\v 19 Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
\v 20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.
\p
\v 21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
\v 22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
\v 23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
\v 24 After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
\v 25 The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
\v 26 Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam.
\v 27 The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
\v 28 The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
\v 29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
\v 30 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children.
\v 31 The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai.
\v 32 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.
\v 33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
\v 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
\v 35 Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai.
\v 36 Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
\v 37 and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
\v 38 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
\v 39 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
\v 40 and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,
\v 41 and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.
\v 42 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
\v 43 The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
\v 44 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
\v 45 The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
\v 46 Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.
\v 47 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
\v 48 Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
\v 49 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
\v 50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
\v 51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
\v 52 Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
\v 53 The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
\v 54 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
\v 55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.


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\v 1 At the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, Joab led out the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
\v 2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold,\f + \fr 20:2 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city.
\v 3 He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
\p
\v 4 After this, war arose at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
\p
\v 5 Again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
\v 6 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.
\v 7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.
\v 8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.


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\v 1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
\v 2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
\p
\v 3 Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
\p
\v 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
\v 5 Joab gave up the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
\v 6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
\p
\v 7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
\v 8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
\p
\v 9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
\v 10 “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
\p
\v 11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:
\v 12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
\p
\v 13 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
\p
\v 14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
\v 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
\v 16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
\p Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
\v 17 David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
\p
\v 18 Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
\v 19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
\p
\v 20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
\v 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
\p
\v 22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
\p
\v 23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
\p
\v 24 King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
\p
\v 25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels\f + \fr 21:25 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.\f* of gold by weight for the place.
\v 26 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
\p
\v 27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
\v 28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
\v 29 For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
\v 30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.


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\v 1 Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
\p
\v 2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.
\v 3 David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and bronze in abundance without weight;
\v 4 and cedar trees without number, for the Sidonians and the people of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
\v 5 David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.
\v 6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 7 David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
\v 8 But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
\v 9 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
\v 10 He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
\v 11 Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
\v 12 May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
\v 13 Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.
\v 14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents\f + \fr 22:14 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 100,000 talents is about 3 metric tons\f* of gold, one million talents\f + \fr 22:14 \ft about 30,000 metric tons\f* of silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.
\v 15 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;
\v 16 of the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you.”
\p
\v 17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
\v 18 “Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
\v 19 Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”


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\v 1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
\v 2 He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
\v 3 The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
\v 4 David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,
\v 5 four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
\p
\v 6 David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
\p
\v 7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
\v 8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.
\v 9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ households of Ladan.
\v 10 The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
\v 11 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.
\p
\v 12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
\v 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.
\v 14 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.
\v 15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
\v 16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
\v 17 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
\v 18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
\v 19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
\v 20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
\v 21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
\v 22 Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives.
\v 23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
\p
\v 24 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.
\v 25 For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
\v 26 Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.”
\v 27 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.
\v 28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;
\v 29 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size;
\v 30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;
\v 31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;
\v 32 and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of Yahweh’s house.


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\v 1 These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
\v 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.
\v 3 David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
\v 4 There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses, eight.
\v 5 Thus they were divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
\v 6 Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
\v 7 Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
\v 8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
\v 9 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
\v 10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
\v 11 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
\v 12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
\v 13 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
\v 14 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
\v 15 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
\v 16 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
\v 17 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
\v 18 the twenty-third to Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
\v 19 This was their ordering in their service, to come into Yahweh’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
\p
\v 20 Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
\v 21 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.
\v 22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
\v 23 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
\v 24 The sons of Uzziel: Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.
\v 25 The brother of Micah: Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
\v 26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.
\v 27 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.
\v 28 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
\v 29 Of Kish, the son of Kish: Jerahmeel.
\v 30 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers’ houses.
\v 31 These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.


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\v 1 Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:
\v 2 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king.
\v 3 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp.
\v 4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.
\v 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
\v 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in Yahweh’s house, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God’s house: Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
\v 7 The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
\v 8 They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.
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\v 9 Now the first lot came out for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, he and his brothers and sons were twelve;
\v 10 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 11 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 12 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 13 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 14 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 15 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 16 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 17 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 18 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 19 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 20 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 21 for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 22 for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 23 for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 24 for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 25 for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 26 for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 27 for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 28 for the twenty-first to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 29 for the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 30 for the twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
\v 31 for the twenty-fourth to Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.


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\v 1 For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
\v 2 Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
\v 3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh.
\v 4 Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
\v 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
\v 6 Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
\v 7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
\v 8 All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.
\v 9 Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.
\v 10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),
\v 11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
\v 12 Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house.
\v 13 They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.
\v 14 The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
\v 15 To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.
\v 16 To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.
\v 17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two.
\v 18 For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
\v 19 These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
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\v 20 Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
\v 21 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
\v 22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of Yahweh’s house.
\v 23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:
\v 24 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.
\v 25 His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.
\v 26 This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.
\v 27 They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh’s house.
\v 28 All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.
\v 29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
\v 30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.
\v 31 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers’ households. They were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of David, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead.
\v 32 His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.


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\v 1 Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 2 Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 3 He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.
\v 4 Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 5 The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 6 This is that Benaiah who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was Ammizabad his son.
\v 7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. In his division were twenty-four thousand.
\v 16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;
\v 17 of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;
\v 18 of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;
\v 19 of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;
\v 20 of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;
\v 21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;
\v 22 of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.
\v 23 But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
\v 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
\p
\v 25 Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;
\v 26 Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;
\v 27 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite;
\v 28 and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;
\v 29 and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai;
\v 30 and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite; and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.
\v 31 All these were the rulers of the property which was king David’s.
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\v 32 Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.
\v 33 Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
\v 34 After Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was the captain of the king’s army.


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\v 1 David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
\v 2 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
\v 3 But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.’
\v 4 However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
\v 5 Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.
\v 6 He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
\v 7 I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it is today.’
\p
\v 8 Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
\v 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
\v 10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”
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\v 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;
\v 12 and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
\v 13 also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of Yahweh’s house, and for all the vessels of service in Yahweh’s house;
\v 14 of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
\v 15 by weight also for the lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lamp stand;
\v 16 and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
\v 17 and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
\v 18 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.
\v 19 “All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
\p
\v 20 David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
\v 21 Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service, shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.”


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\v 1 David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
\v 2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
\v 3 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
\v 4 even three thousand talents of gold,\f + \fr 29:4 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 3000 talents is about 90 metric tons\f* of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents\f + \fr 29:4 \ft about 21 metric tons\f* of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
\v 5 of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”
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\v 6 Then the princes of the fathers’ households, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly;
\v 7 and they gave for the service of God’s house of gold five thousand talents\f + \fr 29:7 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 5000 talents is about 150 metric tons\f* and ten thousand darics,\f + \fr 29:7 \ft a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.\f* of silver ten thousand talents, of bronze eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand talents.
\v 8 People with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of Yahweh’s house, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
\v 9 Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
\v 10 Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
\v 11 Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
\v 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!
\v 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
\v 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.
\v 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
\v 16 Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.
\v 17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
\v 18 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
\v 19 and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
\p
\v 20 Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!”
\p All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
\v 21 They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
\v 22 and ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.
\p
\v 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
\v 24 All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
\v 25 Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
\v 26 Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
\v 27 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
\v 28 He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
\v 29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
\v 30 with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.


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\v 1 Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;
\v 2 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
\v 3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:
\v 4 six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem;
\v 5 and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;
\v 6 and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
\v 7 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
\v 8 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
\v 9 All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
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\v 10 Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
\v 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
\v 12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
\v 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
\v 14 Amon his son, and Josiah his son.
\v 15 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.
\v 16 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son.
\v 17 The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,
\v 18 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
\v 19 The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;
\v 20 and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab Hesed, five.
\v 21 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.
\v 22 The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
\v 23 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
\v 24 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.


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\v 1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
\v 2 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
\v 3 These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.
\v 4 Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
\v 5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
\v 6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
\v 7 The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
\v 8 Hakkoz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
\p
\v 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez,\f + \fr 4:9 \ft “Jabez” sounds similar to the Hebrew word for “pain”.\f* saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”
\p
\v 10 Jabez called on the God\f + \fr 4:10 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!”
\p God granted him that which he requested.
\v 11 Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
\v 12 Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
\v 13 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
\v 14 Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.
\v 15 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.
\v 16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
\v 17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
\v 18 His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
\v 19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
\v 20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth.
\v 21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
\v 22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient.
\v 23 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: they lived there with the king for his work.
\v 24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
\v 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son.
\v 26 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
\v 27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family didn’t multiply like the children of Judah.
\v 28 They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
\v 29 at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,
\v 30 at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,
\v 31 at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign.
\v 32 Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
\v 33 and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.
\v 34 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,
\v 35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
\v 36 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,
\v 37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah—
\v 38 these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly.
\p
\v 39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
\v 40 They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.
\v 41 These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
\v 42 Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
\v 43 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.


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\v 1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.
\v 2 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—
\v 3 the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
\v 4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
\v 5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
\v 6 and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.
\v 7 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
\v 8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon;
\v 9 and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
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\v 10 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
\v 11 The sons of Gad lived beside them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:
\v 12 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
\v 13 Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.
\v 14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
\v 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses.
\v 16 They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.
\v 17 All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
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\v 18 The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war.
\v 19 They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.
\v 20 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.
\v 21 They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
\v 22 For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
\v 23 The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.
\v 24 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.
\v 25 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
\v 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.


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\v 1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
\v 2 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
\v 3 The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
\v 4 Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
\v 5 Abishua became the father of Bukki. Bukki became the father of Uzzi.
\v 6 Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah. Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth.
\v 7 Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
\v 8 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz.
\v 9 Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah. Azariah became the father of Johanan.
\v 10 Johanan became the father of Azariah, who executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem.
\v 11 Azariah became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
\v 12 Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Shallum.
\v 13 Shallum became the father of Hilkiah. Hilkiah became the father of Azariah.
\v 14 Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak.
\v 15 Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
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\v 16 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
\v 17 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
\v 18 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
\v 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.
\v 20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
\v 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, and Jeatherai his son.
\v 22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
\v 23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,
\v 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
\v 25 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.
\v 26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, Nahath his son,
\v 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.
\v 28 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.
\v 29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
\v 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
\v 31 These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there.
\v 32 They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed the duties of their office according to their order.
\v 33 These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
\v 34 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
\v 35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
\v 36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
\v 37 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
\v 38 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
\v 39 His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
\v 40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,
\v 41 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
\v 42 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
\v 43 the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
\v 44 On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
\v 45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
\v 46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
\v 47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
\v 48 Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house.
\v 49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
\p
\v 50 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
\v 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
\v 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
\v 53 Zadok his son, and Ahimaaz his son.
\v 54 Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
\v 55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its pasture lands around it;
\v 56 but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
\v 57 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its pasture lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
\v 58 Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
\v 59 Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands;
\v 60 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
\p
\v 61 To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
\v 62 To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
\v 63 To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
\v 64 The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
\v 65 They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.
\v 66 Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
\v 67 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
\v 68 Jokmeam with its pasture lands, Beth Horon with its pasture lands,
\v 69 Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands;
\v 70 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bileam with its pasture lands, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.
\p
\v 71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, and Ashtaroth with its pasture lands;
\v 72 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,
\v 73 Ramoth with its pasture lands, and Anem with its pasture lands;
\v 74 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,
\v 75 Hukok with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands;
\v 76 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, Hammon with its pasture lands, and Kiriathaim with its pasture lands.
\p
\v 77 To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands;
\v 78 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands, and Jahzah with its pasture lands,
\v 79 Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands;
\v 80 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
\v 81 Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.


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\v 1 Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
\v 2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
\v 3 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
\v 4 With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
\v 5 Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
\v 6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.
\v 7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
\v 8 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
\v 9 They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
\v 10 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
\v 11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.
\v 12 So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.
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\v 13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.
\v 14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.
\v 15 Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.
\v 16 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
\v 17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
\v 18 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
\v 19 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
\v 20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,
\v 21 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.
\v 22 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
\v 23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah,\f + \fr 7:23 \ft “Beriah” is similar to the Hebrew word for “misfortune”.\f* because there was trouble with his house.
\v 24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
\v 25 Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,
\v 26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
\v 27 Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
\v 28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;
\v 29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.
\v 30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister.
\v 31 The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
\v 32 Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.
\v 33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
\v 34 The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
\v 35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
\v 36 The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
\v 37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
\v 38 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
\v 39 The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
\v 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.


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\v 1 Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,
\v 2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
\v 3 Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,
\v 4 Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,
\v 5 Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
\v 6 These are the sons of Ehud. These are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, who were carried captive to Manahath:
\v 7 Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who carried them captive; and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.
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\v 8 Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away. Hushim and Baara were his wives.
\v 9 By Hodesh his wife, he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
\v 10 Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households.
\v 11 By Hushim, he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.
\v 12 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;
\v 13 and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
\v 14 and Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
\v 15 Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,
\v 16 Michael, Ishpah, Joha, the sons of Beriah,
\v 17 Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,
\v 18 Ishmerai, Izliah, Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
\v 19 Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi,
\v 20 Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel,
\v 21 Adaiah, Beraiah, Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
\v 22 Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
\v 23 Abdon, Zichri, Hanan,
\v 24 Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah,
\v 25 Iphdeiah, Penuel, the sons of Shashak,
\v 26 Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,
\v 27 Jaareshiah, Elijah, Zichri, and the sons of Jeroham.
\v 28 These were heads of fathers’ households throughout their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem.
\v 29 The father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon,
\v 30 with his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,
\v 31 Gedor, Ahio, and Zecher.
\v 32 Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.
\v 33 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
\v 34 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
\v 35 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
\v 36 Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah. Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.
\v 37 Moza became the father of Binea. Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.
\v 38 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
\v 39 The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
\v 40 The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.


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\v 1 So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold,\f + \fr 9:1 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
\v 2 Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
\v 3 In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
\v 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
\v 5 Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
\v 6 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
\v 7 Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
\v 8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
\v 9 and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ households by their fathers’ houses.
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\v 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,
\v 11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house;
\v 12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
\v 13 and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of God’s house.
\p
\v 14 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
\v 15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,
\v 16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
\p
\v 17 The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
\v 18 who previously served in the king’s gate eastward. They were the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi.
\v 19 Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.
\v 20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him.
\v 21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 22 All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.
\v 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of Yahweh’s house, even the house of the tent, as guards.
\v 24 On the four sides were the gatekeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.
\v 25 Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
\v 26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.
\v 27 They stayed around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to their duty was its opening morning by morning.
\v 28 Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count.
\v 29 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
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\v 30 Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.
\v 31 Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
\v 32 Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
\v 33 These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.
\v 34 These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.
\v 35 Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon with
\v 36 his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,
\v 37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.
\v 38 Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers.
\v 39 Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
\v 40 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.
\v 41 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
\v 42 Ahaz became the father of Jarah. Jarah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza.
\v 43 Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.
\v 44 Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.


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\toc1 The Second Book of Chronicles
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\mt1 The Second Book of Chronicles


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\v 1 Solomon the son of David was firmly established in his kingdom, and Yahweh \f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* his God\f + \fr 1:1 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* was with him, and made him exceedingly great.
\v 2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.
\v 3 So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for God’s Tent of Meeting was there, which Yahweh’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness.
\v 4 But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
\v 5 Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before Yahweh’s tabernacle; and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.
\v 6 Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.
\p
\v 7 That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”
\p
\v 8 Solomon said to God, “You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.
\v 9 Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
\v 10 Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”
\p
\v 11 God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,
\v 12 therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you had, and none after you will have.”
\p
\v 13 So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.
\p
\v 14 Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
\v 15 The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
\v 16 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them from Kue.
\v 17 They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty.\f + \fr 1:17 \ft The pieces of silver were probably shekels, so 600 pieces would be about 13.2 pounds or 6 kilograms of silver, and 150 would be about 3.3 pounds or 1.5 kilograms of silver.\f* They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the Syrian\f + \fr 1:17 \ft or, Aramean\f* kings.


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\v 1 Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
\v 2 When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
\v 3 They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
\v 4 “Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
\p
\v 5 He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.”
\p So the people departed.
\v 6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”
\p
\v 7 They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
\p
\v 8 But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
\v 9 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”
\p
\v 10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
\v 11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”
\p
\v 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”
\v 13 The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men,
\v 14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
\p
\v 15 So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
\v 16 When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.
\p
\v 17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
\v 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
\v 19 So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.


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\v 1 When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
\v 2 But Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
\v 3 “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
\v 4 ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me.”’” So they listened to Yahweh’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
\p
\v 5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
\v 6 He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
\v 7 Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam,
\v 8 Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,
\v 9 Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
\v 10 Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
\v 11 He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine.
\v 12 He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
\p
\v 13 The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory.
\v 14 For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to Yahweh.
\v 15 He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.
\v 16 After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
\v 17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.
\p
\v 18 Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.
\v 19 She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.
\v 20 After her, he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
\v 21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
\v 22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers; for he intended to make him king.
\v 23 He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them.


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\v 1 When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh’s law, and all Israel with him.
\v 2 In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,
\v 3 with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
\v 4 He took the fortified cities which belonged to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
\v 5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Yahweh says, ‘You have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you in the hand of Shishak.’”
\p
\v 6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”
\p
\v 7 When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
\v 8 Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”
\p
\v 9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
\v 10 King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
\v 11 As often as the king entered into Yahweh’s house, the guard came and bore them, then brought them back into the guard room.
\v 12 When he humbled himself, Yahweh’s wrath turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good things found in Judah.
\p
\v 13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
\v 14 He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek Yahweh.
\p
\v 15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, in the genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
\v 16 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city; and Abijah his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.
\v 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
\v 3 Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.
\v 4 Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:
\v 5 Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
\v 6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.
\v 7 Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them.
\p
\v 8 “Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David. You are a great multitude, and the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods are with you.
\v 9 Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of those who are no gods.
\p
\v 10 “But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests serving Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work;
\v 11 and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.
\v 12 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”
\p
\v 13 But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
\v 14 When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
\v 15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
\v 16 The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.
\v 17 Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
\v 18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
\v 19 Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.
\p
\v 20 Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.
\v 21 But Abijah grew mighty, and took for himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
\v 22 The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways, and his sayings are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.


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\v 1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days, the land was quiet ten years.
\v 2 Asa did that which was good and right in Yahweh his God’s eyes;
\v 3 for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,
\v 4 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.
\v 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.
\v 6 He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
\v 7 For he said to Judah, “Let’s build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.
\p
\v 8 Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.
\p
\v 9 Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million troops and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.
\v 10 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
\v 11 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
\p
\v 12 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
\v 13 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.
\v 14 They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them, and they plundered all the cities; for there was much plunder in them.
\v 15 They also struck the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.


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\v 1 The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:
\v 2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
\v 3 Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.
\v 4 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
\v 5 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
\v 6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
\v 7 But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”
\p
\v 8 When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.
\v 9 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
\v 10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.
\v 11 They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.
\v 12 They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
\v 13 and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
\v 14 They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.
\v 15 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 by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.
\p
\v 16 Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
\v 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
\v 18 He brought the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house.
\v 19 There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.


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\v 1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
\v 2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of Yahweh’s house and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
\v 3 “Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”
\p
\v 4 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
\v 5 When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease.
\v 6 Then Asa the king took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Rama, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and he built Geba and Mizpah with them.
\p
\v 7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.
\v 8 Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and exceedingly many horsemen? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.
\v 9 For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
\p
\v 10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
\p
\v 11 Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
\v 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.
\v 13 Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign.
\v 14 They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.


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\v 1 Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.
\v 2 He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
\v 3 Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,
\v 4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.
\v 5 Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.
\v 6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.
\v 7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
\v 8 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
\v 9 They taught in Judah, having the book of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.
\v 10 The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
\v 11 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.
\v 12 Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.
\v 13 He had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.
\v 14 This was the numbering of them according to their fathers’ houses: From Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor;
\v 15 and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand;
\v 16 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Yahweh, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.
\v 17 From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
\v 18 and next to him Jehozabad, and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready and prepared for war.
\v 19 These were those who waited on the king, in addition to those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.


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\v 1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he allied himself with Ahab.
\v 2 After some years, he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and cattle for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead.
\v 3 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead?”
\p He answered him, “I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”
\v 4 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”
\p
\v 5 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?”
\p They said, “Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
\p
\v 6 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?”
\p
\v 7 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.”
\p Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
\p
\v 8 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.”
\p
\v 9 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah each sat on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
\v 10 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”
\p
\v 11 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
\p
\v 12 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak good.”
\p
\v 13 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, I will say what my God says.”
\p
\v 14 When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?”
\p He said, “Go up, and prosper. They shall be delivered into your hand.”
\p
\v 15 The king said to him, “How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”
\p
\v 16 He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”
\p
\v 17 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
\p
\v 18 Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
\v 19 Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way.
\v 20 A spirit came out, stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
\p “Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’
\p
\v 21 “He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’
\p “He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go and do so.’
\p
\v 22 “Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
\p
\v 23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
\p
\v 24 Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”
\p
\v 25 The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
\v 26 and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.”’”
\p
\v 27 Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, you people, all of you!”
\p
\v 28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
\v 29 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.
\v 30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”
\p
\v 31 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
\v 32 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
\v 33 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded.”
\v 34 The battle increased that day. However the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening; and at about sunset, he died.


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\c 19
\p
\v 1 Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
\v 2 Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
\v 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
\p
\v 4 Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
\v 5 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
\v 6 and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
\v 7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
\p
\v 8 Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.
\v 9 He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
\v 10 Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.
\v 11 Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”


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\c 2
\p
\v 1 Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, and a house for his kingdom.
\v 2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
\v 3 Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so deal with me.
\v 4 Behold,\f + \fr 2:4 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
\p
\v 5 “The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.
\v 6 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?
\p
\v 7 “Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
\p
\v 8 “Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants,
\v 9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
\v 10 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors\f + \fr 2:10 \ft 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels, so 20,000 cors of wheat would weigh about 545 metric tons\f* of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths\f + \fr 2:10 \ft 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 20,000 baths of barley would weigh about 262 metric tons.\f* of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”
\p
\v 11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.”
\v 12 Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
\v 13 Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s,
\v 14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
\p
\v 15 “Now therefore the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants;
\v 16 and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.”
\p
\v 17 Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
\v 18 He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.


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\c 20
\p
\v 1 After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
\v 2 Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi).
\v 3 Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
\v 4 Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from Yahweh. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh.
\p
\v 5 Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in Yahweh’s house, before the new court;
\v 6 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.
\v 7 Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring\f + \fr 20:7 \ft or, seed\f* of Abraham your friend forever?
\v 8 They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,
\v 9 ‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’
\v 10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them;
\v 11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
\v 12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”
\p
\v 13 All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
\p
\v 14 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, in the middle of the assembly;
\v 15 and he said, “Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, king Jehoshaphat. Yahweh says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed because of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
\v 16 Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
\v 17 You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’”
\p
\v 18 Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshiping Yahweh.
\v 19 The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice.
\p
\v 20 They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
\p
\v 21 When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”
\v 22 When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.
\v 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other.
\p
\v 24 When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.
\v 25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.
\v 26 On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah\f + \fr 20:26 \ft “Beracah” means “blessing”.\f* Valley, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place was called “Beracah Valley” to this day.
\v 27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
\v 28 They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets to Yahweh’s house.
\v 29 The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
\v 30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.
\p
\v 31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
\v 32 He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes.
\v 33 However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
\v 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the book of the kings of Israel.
\v 35 After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did very wickedly.
\v 36 He joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish. They made the ships in Ezion Geber.
\v 37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.


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\c 21
\p
\v 1 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
\v 2 He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
\v 3 Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.
\v 4 Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.
\v 5 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
\v 6 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
\v 7 However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.
\p
\v 8 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
\v 9 Then Jehoram went there with his captains and all his chariots with him. He rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots.
\v 10 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.
\p
\v 11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.
\v 12 A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
\v 13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,
\v 14 behold, Yahweh will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions;
\v 15 and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”
\p
\v 16 Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;
\v 17 and they came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house, including his sons and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
\p
\v 18 After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
\v 19 In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
\v 20 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed without being missed; and they buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.


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\c 22
\p
\v 1 The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
\v 2 Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
\v 3 He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
\v 4 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
\v 5 He also followed their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.
\v 6 He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
\p
\v 7 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.
\v 8 When Jehu was executing judgment on Ahab’s house, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, serving Ahaziah, and killed them.
\v 9 He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
\p
\v 10 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.
\v 11 But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. 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 didn’t kill him.
\v 12 He was with them hidden in God’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.


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\c 23
\p
\v 1 In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into a covenant with him.
\v 2 They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
\v 3 All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.
\v 4 This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds.
\v 5 A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of Yahweh’s house.
\v 6 But let no one come into Yahweh’s house, except the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow Yahweh’s instructions.
\v 7 The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.”
\p
\v 8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn’t dismiss the shift.
\v 9 Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house.
\v 10 He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, near the altar and the house, around the king.
\v 11 Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”
\p
\v 12 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house.
\v 13 Then she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, “Treason! treason!”
\p
\v 14 Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t kill her in Yahweh’s house.”
\v 15 So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.
\p
\v 16 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.
\v 17 All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
\v 18 Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.
\v 19 He set the gatekeepers at the gates of Yahweh’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
\v 20 He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from Yahweh’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
\v 21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.


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\c 24
\p
\v 1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
\v 2 Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
\v 3 Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
\p
\v 4 After this, Joash intended to restore Yahweh’s house.
\v 5 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.
\v 6 The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”
\v 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.
\p
\v 8 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of Yahweh’s house.
\v 9 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
\v 10 All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
\v 11 Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
\v 12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of Yahweh’s house. They hired masons and carpenters to restore Yahweh’s house, and also those who worked iron and bronze to repair Yahweh’s house.
\v 13 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands. They set up God’s house as it was designed, and strengthened it.
\v 14 When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
\p
\v 15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
\v 16 They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
\p
\v 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
\v 18 They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
\v 19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
\p
\v 20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”
\p
\v 21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.
\v 22 Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
\p
\v 23 At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians 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 their plunder to the king of Damascus.
\v 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
\p
\v 25 When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
\v 26 These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
\v 27 Now concerning his sons, the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of God’s house, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
\v 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.
\v 3 Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.
\v 4 But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh 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.”
\p
\v 5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield.
\v 6 He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents\f + \fr 25:6 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* of silver.
\v 7 A man of God came to him, saying, “O king, don’t let the army of Israel go with you, for Yahweh is not with Israel, with all the children of Ephraim.
\v 8 But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”
\p
\v 9 Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents\f + \fr 25:9 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* which I have given to the army of Israel?”
\p The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”
\p
\v 10 Then Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again. Therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.
\v 11 Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.
\v 12 The children of Judah carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.
\v 13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much plunder.
\p
\v 14 Now after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, 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 to them.
\v 15 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?”
\p
\v 16 As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?”
\p Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”
\p
\v 17 Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”
\p
\v 18 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 your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
\v 19 You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”
\p
\v 20 But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.
\v 21 So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
\v 22 Judah was defeated by Israel; so every man fled to his tent.
\p
\v 23 Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.\f + \fr 25:23 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters, so 400 cubits is about 200 yards or 184 meters.\f*
\v 24 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in God’s house with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
\p
\v 25 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.
\v 26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren’t they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
\v 27 Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following Yahweh, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
\v 28 They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah.


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\v 1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
\v 2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
\v 3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
\v 4 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
\v 5 He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.
\p
\v 6 He went out and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
\v 7 God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
\v 8 The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceedingly strong.
\v 9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
\v 10 He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
\v 11 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
\v 12 The whole number of the heads of fathers’ households, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.
\v 13 Under their hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
\v 14 Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
\v 15 In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
\p
\v 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
\v 17 Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men.
\v 18 They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”
\p
\v 19 Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the altar of incense.
\v 20 Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there. Yes, he himself also hurried to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.
\v 21 Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from Yahweh’s house. Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.
\v 22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote.
\v 23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” Jotham his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
\v 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. However he didn’t enter into Yahweh’s temple. The people still acted corruptly.
\v 3 He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house, and he built much on the wall of Ophel.
\v 4 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers.
\v 5 He also fought with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents\f + \fr 27:5 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* of silver, ten thousand cors\f + \fr 27:5 \ft 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels. 10,000 cors of wheat would weigh about 1,640 metric tons.\f* of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley.\f + \fr 27:5 \ft 10,000 cors of barley would weigh about 1,310 metric tons.\f* The children of Ammon also gave that much to him in the second year, and in the third.
\v 6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.
\v 7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
\v 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
\v 9 Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, like David his father,
\v 2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.
\v 3 Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
\v 4 He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
\p
\v 5 Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him, and carried away from him a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.
\v 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
\v 7 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.
\v 8 The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria.
\v 9 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.
\v 10 Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?
\v 11 Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”
\v 12 Then some of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war,
\v 13 and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”
\p
\v 14 So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the princes and all the assembly.
\v 15 The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, and gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
\p
\v 16 At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
\v 17 For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.
\v 18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and also Gimzo and its villages; and they lived there.
\v 19 For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh.
\v 20 Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.
\v 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of Yahweh’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.
\p
\v 22 In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.
\v 23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him. He said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, so I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
\v 24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, and cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
\v 25 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked Yahweh, the God of his fathers, to anger.
\p
\v 26 Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
\v 27 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
\v 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.
\v 3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.
\v 4 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,
\v 5 and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify Yahweh, the God of your fathers’ house, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.
\v 6 For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.
\v 7 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 to the God of Israel.
\v 8 Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
\v 9 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
\v 10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
\v 11 My sons, don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.”
\p
\v 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 Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
\v 13 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
\v 14 and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
\v 15 They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.
\v 16 The priests went into the inner part of Yahweh’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in Yahweh’s temple into the court of Yahweh’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron.
\v 17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to Yahweh’s porch. They sanctified Yahweh’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
\v 18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, “We have cleansed all Yahweh’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels.
\v 19 Moreover have we prepared and sanctified all the vessels which king Ahaz threw away in his reign, when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before Yahweh’s altar.”
\p
\v 20 Then Hezekiah the king arose early, gathered the princes of the city, and went up to Yahweh’s house.
\v 21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on Yahweh’s altar.
\v 22 So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
\v 23 They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them.
\v 24 Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
\p
\v 25 He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.
\v 26 The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets.
\v 27 Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, Yahweh’s song also began, along with the trumpets and David king of Israel’s instruments.
\v 28 All the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
\p
\v 29 When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
\v 30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.
\p
\v 31 Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into Yahweh’s house.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.
\v 32 The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
\v 33 The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep.
\v 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
\v 35 Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of Yahweh’s house was set in order.
\v 36 Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.


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\v 1 Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
\v 2 He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
\v 3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house. The length by cubits\f + \fr 3:3 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
\v 4 The porch that was in front, its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
\v 5 He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
\v 6 He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim.
\v 7 He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
\p
\v 8 He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.\f + \fr 3:8 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 600 talents is about 18 metric tons\f*
\v 9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels\f + \fr 3:9 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or about 16 Troy ounces.\f* of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
\p
\v 10 In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving; and they overlaid them with gold.
\v 11 The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
\v 12 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
\v 13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
\v 14 He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.
\p
\v 15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits height, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
\v 16 He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
\v 17 He set 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.


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\v 1 Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 2 For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
\v 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
\v 4 The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
\v 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written.
\p
\v 6 So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
\v 7 Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
\v 8 Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
\v 9 For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
\p
\v 10 So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.
\v 11 Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
\v 12 Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.
\p
\v 13 Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
\v 14 They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.
\v 15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.
\v 16 They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.
\v 17 For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
\v 18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone
\v 19 who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”
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\v 20 Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
\v 21 The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.
\v 22 Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
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\v 23 The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.
\v 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
\v 25 All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
\v 26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.
\v 27 Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.


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\v 1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
\p
\v 2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of Yahweh’s camp.
\v 3 He also appointed the king’s portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in Yahweh’s law.
\v 4 Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to Yahweh’s law.
\v 5 As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.
\v 6 The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them in heaps.
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\v 7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
\v 8 When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and his people Israel.
\v 9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.
\v 10 Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”
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\v 11 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in Yahweh’s house, and they prepared them.
\v 12 They brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was ruler over them, and Shimei his brother was second.
\v 13 Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of God’s house.
\v 14 Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east gate, was over the free will offerings of God, to distribute Yahweh’s offerings and the most holy things.
\v 15 Under him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, to the great as well as to the small;
\v 16 in addition to those who were listed by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone who entered into Yahweh’s house, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their divisions;
\v 17 and those who were listed by genealogy of the priests by their fathers’ houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;
\v 18 and those who were listed by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation; for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.
\v 19 Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the pasture lands of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed by genealogy among the Levites.
\p
\v 20 Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
\v 21 In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.


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\v 1 After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.
\v 2 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem,
\v 3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.
\v 4 So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”
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\v 5 He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
\v 6 He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,
\v 7 “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.
\v 8 An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
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\v 9 After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,
\v 10 Sennacherib king of Assyria says, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?
\v 11 Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’
\v 12 Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’
\v 13 Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?
\v 14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
\v 15 Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”
\p
\v 16 His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
\v 17 He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”
\v 18 They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
\v 19 They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
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\v 20 Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
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\v 21 Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body\f + \fr 32:21 \ft i.e., his own sons\f* killed him there with the sword.
\v 22 Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.
\v 23 Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.
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\v 24 In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
\v 25 But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
\v 26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
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\v 27 Hezekiah had exceedingly much riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels;
\v 28 also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.
\v 29 Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions.
\v 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
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\v 31 However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to 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.
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\v 32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
\v 33 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
\v 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
\v 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
\v 4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
\v 5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
\v 6 He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
\v 7 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
\v 8 I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”
\v 9 Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
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\v 10 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.
\v 11 Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
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\v 12 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
\v 13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
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\v 14 Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
\v 15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
\v 16 He built up Yahweh’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.
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\v 18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.
\v 19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.\f + \fr 33:19 \ft or, the seers\f*
\v 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
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\v 21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
\v 22 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
\v 23 He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
\v 24 His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.
\v 25 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.


