II Kings 1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
II Kings 1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber
that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them,
Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this
disease.
II Kings 1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise,
go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it
not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub
the god of Ekron?
II Kings 1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down
from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah
departed.
II Kings 1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto
them, Why are ye now turned back?
II Kings 1:6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and
said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him,
Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou
sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not
come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
II Kings 1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came
up to meet you, and told you these words?
II Kings 1:8 And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a
girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
II Kings 1:9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his
fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And
he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
II Kings 1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I
be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy
fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
II Kings 1:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with
his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king
said, Come down quickly.
II Kings 1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of
God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the
fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
II Kings 1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his
fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees
before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee,
let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy
sight.
II Kings 1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the
two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life
now be precious in thy sight.
II Kings 1:15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with
him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
II Kings 1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou
hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not
because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt
not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
II Kings 1:17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah
had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the
son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
II Kings 1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
II Kings 2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into
heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
II Kings 2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the
LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
II Kings 2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth
to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
II Kings 2:4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee;
for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
II Kings 2:5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your
peace.
II Kings 2:6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the
LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
II Kings 2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to
view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
II Kings 2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and
smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two
went over on dry ground.
II Kings 2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah
said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from
thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon
me.
II Kings 2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if
thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not,
it shall not be so.
II Kings 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,
that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted
them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
II Kings 2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the
chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he
took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
II Kings 2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
II Kings 2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also
had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
II Kings 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at
Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they
came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
II Kings 2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy
servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master:
lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon
some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
II Kings 2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send.
They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
II Kings 2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at
Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
II Kings 2:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray
thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water
is naught, and the ground barren.
II Kings 2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And
they brought it to him.
II Kings 2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast
the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters;
there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
II Kings 2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the
saying of Elisha which he spake.
II Kings 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going
up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked
him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
II Kings 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in
the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and
tare forty and two children of them.
II Kings 2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he
returned to Samaria.
II Kings 3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve
years.
II Kings 3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like
his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his
father had made.
II Kings 3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
II Kings 3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto
the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams,
with the wool.
II Kings 3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of
Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
II Kings 3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and
numbered all Israel.
II Kings 3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,
saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me
against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people
as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
II Kings 3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The
way through the wilderness of Edom.
II Kings 3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the
king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was
no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
II Kings 3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called
these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
II Kings 3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the
LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's
servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured
water on the hands of Elijah.
II Kings 3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
II Kings 3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do
with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy
mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called
these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
II Kings 3:14 And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I
stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
II Kings 3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the
minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
II Kings 3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of
ditches.
II Kings 3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither
shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may
drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
II Kings 3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he
will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
II Kings 3:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city,
and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every
good piece of land with stones.
II Kings 3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering
was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the
country was filled with water.
II Kings 3:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up
to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and
upward, and stood in the border.
II Kings 3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone
upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as
blood:
II Kings 3:23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain,
and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
II Kings 3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites
rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went
forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
II Kings 3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of
land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells
of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the
stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
II Kings 3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore
for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through
even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
II Kings 3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his
stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great
indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their
own land.
II Kings 4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of
the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou
knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take
unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
II Kings 4:2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me,
what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing
in the house, save a pot of oil.
II Kings 4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
II Kings 4:4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee
and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt
set aside that which is full.
II Kings 4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her
sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
II Kings 4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she
said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a
vessel more. And the oil stayed.
II Kings 4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell
the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
II Kings 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was
a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as
oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
II Kings 4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that
this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
II Kings 4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and
let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick:
and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
II Kings 4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned
into the chamber, and lay there.
II Kings 4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And
when he had called her, she stood before him.
II Kings 4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast
been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest
thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she
answered, I dwell among mine own people.
II Kings 4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi
answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
II Kings 4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood
in the door.
II Kings 4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of
life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God,
do not lie unto thine handmaid.
II Kings 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that
Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
II Kings 4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went
out to his father to the reapers.
II Kings 4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said
to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
II Kings 4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he
sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
II Kings 4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God,
and shut the door upon him, and went out.
II Kings 4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray
thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of
God, and come again.
II Kings 4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is
neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
II Kings 4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and
go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
II Kings 4:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel.
And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to
Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
II Kings 4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it
well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And
she answered, It is well.
II Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught
him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God
said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid
it from me, and hath not told me.
II Kings 4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say,
Do not deceive me?
II Kings 4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff
in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if
any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the
child.
II Kings 4:30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
II Kings 4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon
the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he
went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
II Kings 4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child
was dead, and laid upon his bed.
II Kings 4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and
prayed unto the LORD.
II Kings 4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth
upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and
he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
II Kings 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and
went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times,
and the child opened his eyes.
II Kings 4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he
called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
II Kings 4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to
the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
II Kings 4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in
the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said
unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the
prophets.
II Kings 4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a
wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred
them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
II Kings 4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass,
as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man
of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
II Kings 4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot;
and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm
in the pot.
II Kings 4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man
of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of
corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may
eat.
II Kings 4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an
hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith
the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
II Kings 4:44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left
thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
II Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a
great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given
deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a
leper.
II Kings 5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought
away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on
Naaman's wife.
II Kings 5:3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with
the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
II Kings 5:4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus
said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
II Kings 5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a
letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents
of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
II Kings 5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now
when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my
servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
II Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the
letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make
alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy?
wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
II Kings 5:8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the
king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying,
Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall
know that there is a prophet in Israel.
II Kings 5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and
stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
II Kings 5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in
Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be
clean.
II Kings 5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I
thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the
LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
II Kings 5:12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than
all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned
and went away in a rage.
II Kings 5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My
father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not
have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
II Kings 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan,
according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto
the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
II Kings 5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company,
and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is
no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a
blessing of thy servant.
II Kings 5:16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will
receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
II Kings 5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given
to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth
offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
II Kings 5:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my
master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my
hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the
house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
II Kings 5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a
little way.
II Kings 5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,
Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his
hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him,
and take somewhat of him.
II Kings 5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him
running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is
all well?
II Kings 5:22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying,
Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the
sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two
changes of garments.
II Kings 5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged
him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of
garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before
him.
II Kings 5:24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand,
and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
II Kings 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said
unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no
whither.
II Kings 5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when
the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive
money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and
oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
II Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and
unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as
snow.
II Kings 6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now,
the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
II Kings 6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every
man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he
answered, Go ye.
II Kings 6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy
servants. And he answered, I will go.
II Kings 6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut
down wood.
II Kings 6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the
water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
II Kings 6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the
place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
II Kings 6:7 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his
hand, and took it.
II Kings 6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took
counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
II Kings 6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying,
Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
II Kings 6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of
God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
II Kings 6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled
for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not
shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
II Kings 6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but
Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words
that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
II Kings 6:13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and
fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
II Kings 6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great
host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
II Kings 6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and
gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots.
And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
II Kings 6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more
than they that be with them.
II Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his
eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he
saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round
about Elisha.
II Kings 6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD,
and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them
with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
II Kings 6:19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is
this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he
led them to Samaria.
II Kings 6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that
Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD
opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of
Samaria.
II Kings 6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them,
My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
II Kings 6:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou
smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set
bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their
master.
II Kings 6:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had
eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the
bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
II Kings 6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria
gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
II Kings 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they
besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and
the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
II Kings 6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,
there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
II Kings 6:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I
help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
II Kings 6:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day,
and we will eat my son to morrow.
II Kings 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on
the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
II Kings 6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the
woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the
people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
II Kings 6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of
Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
II Kings 6:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him;
and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he
said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away
mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast
at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
II Kings 6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger
came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should
I wait for the LORD any longer?
II Kings 7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith
the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for
a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
II Kings 7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of
God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this
thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt
not eat thereof.
II Kings 7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the
gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
II Kings 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in
the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now
therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us
alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
II Kings 7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the
Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria,
behold, there was no man there.
II Kings 7:6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise
of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they
said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of
the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
II Kings 7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their
tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled
for their life.
II Kings 7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp,
they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and
gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into
another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
II Kings 7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a
day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning
light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and
tell the king's household.
II Kings 7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and
they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there
was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and
the tents as they were.
II Kings 7:11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's
house within.
II Kings 7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants,
I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be
hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the
field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and
get into the city.
II Kings 7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I
pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city,
(behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold,
I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are
consumed:) and let us send and see.
II Kings 7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent
after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
II Kings 7:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way
was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their
haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
II Kings 7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the
Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of
barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
II Kings 7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to
have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he
died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
II Kings 7:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the
king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour
for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
II Kings 7:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now,
behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And
he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
II Kings 7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him
in the gate, and he died.
II Kings 8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored
to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn
wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it
shall also come upon the land seven years.
II Kings 8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of
God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the
Philistines seven years.
II Kings 8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman
returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto
the king for her house and for her land.
II Kings 8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of
God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
II Kings 8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had
restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi
said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha
restored to life.
II Kings 8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and
all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until
now.
II Kings 8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria
was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
II Kings 8:8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand,
and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I
recover of this disease?
II Kings 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even
of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood
before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee,
saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
II Kings 8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
II Kings 8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept.
II Kings 8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,
Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their
strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with
the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
II Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he
should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that
thou shalt be king over Syria.
II Kings 8:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said
to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou
shouldest surely recover.
II Kings 8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick
cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and
Hazael reigned in his stead.
II Kings 8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Je hoshaphat
king of Judah began to reign.
II Kings 8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and
he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
II Kings 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the
house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the
sight of the LORD.
II Kings 8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's
sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
II Kings 8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
made a king over themselves.
II Kings 8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him:
and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and
the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
II Kings 8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
II Kings 8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
II Kings 8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel
did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
II Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign;
and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the
daughter of Omri king of Israel.
II Kings 8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil
in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law
of the house of Ahab.
II Kings 8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against
Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
II Kings 8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael
king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see
Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
II Kings 9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the
prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in
thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
II Kings 9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his
brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
II Kings 9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say,
Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the
door, and flee, and tarry not.
II Kings 9:4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to
Ramothgilead.
II Kings 9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were
sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto
which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
II Kings 9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil
on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have
anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
II Kings 9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may
avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the
servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
II Kings 9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off
from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left
in Israel:
II Kings 9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
II Kings 9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel,
and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
II Kings 9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one
said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he
said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
II Kings 9:12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus
and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee
king over Israel.
II Kings 9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it
under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is
king.
II Kings 9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of
Hazael king of Syria.
II Kings 9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of
Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape
out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
II Kings 9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram
lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
II Kings 9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he
spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram
said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
II Kings 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus
saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace?
turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to
them, but he cometh not again.
II Kings 9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them,
and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou
to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
II Kings 9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and
cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of
Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
II Kings 9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready.
And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his
chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth
the Jezreelite.
II Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is
it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy
mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
II Kings 9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah,
There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
II Kings 9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote
Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk
down in his chariot.
II Kings 9:25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him
in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that,
when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden
upon him;
II Kings 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the
blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith
the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according
to the word of the LORD.
II Kings 9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the
way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also
in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam.
And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
II Kings 9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
II Kings 9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
II Kings 9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and
she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
II Kings 9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri
peace, who slew his master?
II Kings 9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on
my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
II Kings 9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and
some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode
her under foot.
II Kings 9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go,
see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
II Kings 9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her
than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
II Kings 9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This
is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
II Kings 9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of
the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is
Jezebel.
II Kings 10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote
letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and
to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
II Kings 10:2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your
master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a
fenced city also, and armour;
II Kings 10:3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons,
and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
II Kings 10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two
kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
II Kings 10:5 And he that was over the house, and he that was over the
city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu,
saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will
not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
II Kings 10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If
ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men
your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the
king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which
brought them up.
II Kings 10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they
took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in
baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
II Kings 10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have
brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at
the entering in of the gate until the morning.
II Kings 10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and
stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired
against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
II Kings 10:10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of
the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for
the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
II Kings 10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in
Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he
left him none remaining.
II Kings 10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he
was at the shearing house in the way,
II Kings 10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and
said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go
down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
II Kings 10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and
slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither
left he any of them.
II Kings 10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab
the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is
thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It
is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up
to him into the chariot.
II Kings 10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So
they made him ride in his chariot.
II Kings 10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto
Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the
LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
II Kings 10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto
them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
II Kings 10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all
his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great
sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But
Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers
of Baal.
II Kings 10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And
they proclaimed it.
II Kings 10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers
of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came
into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to
another.
II Kings 10:22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth
vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth
vestments.
II Kings 10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the
house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that
there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers
of Baal only.
II Kings 10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt
offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men
whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life
shall be for the life of him.
II Kings 10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains,
Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge
of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the
city of the house of Baal.
II Kings 10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal,
and burned them.
II Kings 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the
house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
II Kings 10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
II Kings 10:29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden
calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
II Kings 10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in
executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of
Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth
generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
II Kings 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of
Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam,
which made Israel to sin.
II Kings 10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and
Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
II Kings 10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites,
and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river
Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
II Kings 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and
all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
II Kings 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in
Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
II Kings 10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was
twenty and eight years.
II Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
II Kings 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of
Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's
sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the
bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
II Kings 11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years.
And Athaliah did reign over the land.
II Kings 11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers
over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into
the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them
in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
II Kings 11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye
shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be
keepers of the watch of the king's house;
II Kings 11:6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third
part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house,
that it be not broken down.
II Kings 11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even
they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
II Kings 11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with
his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be
slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
II Kings 11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all
things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men
that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the
sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
II Kings 11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king
David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
II Kings 11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his
hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left
corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
II Kings 11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon
him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and
they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
II Kings 11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the
people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
II Kings 11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as
the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her
clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
II Kings 11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without
the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had
said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
II Kings 11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the
which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
II Kings 11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king
and the people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the king also
and the people.
II Kings 11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal,
and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly,
and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed
officers over the house of the LORD.
II Kings 11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and
the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from
the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the
king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
II Kings 11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was
in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
II Kings 11:21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
II Kings 12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and
forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of
Beersheba.
II Kings 12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
II Kings 12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
II Kings 12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of
every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and
all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the
LORD,
II Kings 12:5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his
acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any
breach shall be found.
II Kings 12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king
Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
II Kings 12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the
other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the
house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver
it for the breaches of the house.
II Kings 12:8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the
people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
II Kings 12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in
the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh
into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all
the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
II Kings 12:10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in
the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up
in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
II Kings 12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them
that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they
laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the
LORD,
II Kings 12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and
hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that
was laid out for the house to repair it.
II Kings 12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls
of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of
silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
II Kings 12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith
the house of the LORD.
II Kings 12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand
they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
II Kings 12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the
house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
II Kings 12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath,
and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
II Kings 12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that
Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had
dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to
Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
II Kings 12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew
Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
II Kings 12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of
Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
II Kings 13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah
king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
and reigned seventeen years.
II Kings 13:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and
followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he
departed not therefrom.
II Kings 13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
II Kings 13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto
him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed
them.
II Kings 13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out
from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their
tents, as beforetime.
II Kings 13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of
Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the
grove also in Samaria.)
II Kings 13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria
had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
II Kings 13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did,
and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
II Kings 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
II Kings 13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned
sixteen years.
II Kings 13:11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
sin: but he walked therein.
II Kings 13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and
his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
II Kings 13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his
throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
II Kings 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died.
And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and
said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
II Kings 13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took
unto him bow and arrows.
II Kings 13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the
bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's
hands.
II Kings 13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it.
Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's
deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the
Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
II Kings 13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said
unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and
stayed.
II Kings 13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till
thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
II Kings 13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the
Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
II Kings 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that,
behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of
Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he
revived, and stood up on his feet.
II Kings 13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
Jehoahaz.
II Kings 13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on
them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence
as yet.
II Kings 13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned
in his stead.
II Kings 13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand
of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand
of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered
the cities of Israel.
II Kings 14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
II Kings 14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
II Kings 14:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his
father did.
II Kings 14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the
people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
II Kings 14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in
his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
II Kings 14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according
unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor
the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to
death for his own sin.
II Kings 14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took
Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
II Kings 14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the
face.
II Kings 14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in
Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a
wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
II Kings 14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted
thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to
thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
II Kings 14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of
Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the
face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
II Kings 14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled
every man to their tents.
II Kings 14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the
son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and
brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner
gate, four hundred cubits.
II Kings 14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels
that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's
house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
II Kings 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his
might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
II Kings 14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
II Kings 14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
II Kings 14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he
fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
II Kings 14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
II Kings 14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen
years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
II Kings 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the
king slept with his fathers.
II Kings 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and
reigned forty and one years.
II Kings 14:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
to sin.
II Kings 14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath
unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel,
which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the
prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
II Kings 14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very
bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for
Israel.
II Kings 14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of
Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of
Joash.
II Kings 14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did,
and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which
belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
II Kings 14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of
Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
II Kings 15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel
began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
II Kings 15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah
of Jerusalem.
II Kings 15:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
II Kings 15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
II Kings 15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the
day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was
over the house, judging the people of the land.
II Kings 15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with
his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
II Kings 15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
II Kings 15:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as
his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
II Kings 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and
smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
II Kings 15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
II Kings 15:12 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu,
saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation.
And so it came to pass.
II Kings 15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in
Samaria.
II Kings 15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came
to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and
reigned in his stead.
II Kings 15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy
which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
II Kings 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and
the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he
smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
II Kings 15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah
began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in
Samaria.
II Kings 15:18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
II Kings 15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and
Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him
to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
II Kings 15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the
mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king
of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the
land.
II Kings 15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
II Kings 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son
reigned in his stead.
II Kings 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the
son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
II Kings 15:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin.
II Kings 15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with
Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him,
and reigned in his room.
II Kings 15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
II Kings 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah
the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty
years.
II Kings 15:28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin.
II Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser
king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh,
and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them
captive to Assyria.
II Kings 15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah
the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in
the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
II Kings 15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
II Kings 15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of
Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
II Kings 15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha,
the daughter of Zadok.
II Kings 15:34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD:
he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
II Kings 15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher
gate of the house of the LORD.
II Kings 15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin
the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
II Kings 15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
stead.
II Kings 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz
the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
II Kings 16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the
sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
II Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and
made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the
heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
II Kings 16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and
on the hills, and under every green tree.
II Kings 16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of
Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not
overcome him.
II Kings 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria,
and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there
unto this day.
II Kings 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,
saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of
the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up
against me.
II Kings 16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the
house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a
present to the king of Assyria.
II Kings 16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it
captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
II Kings 16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king
of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to
Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according
to all the workmanship thereof.
II Kings 16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that
king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king
Ahaz came from Damascus.
II Kings 16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the
altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
II Kings 16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and
poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings,
upon the altar.
II Kings 16:14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the
LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of
the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
II Kings 16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the
great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering,
and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering
of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink
offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all
the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire
by.
II Kings 16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz
commanded.
II Kings 16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed
the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that
were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
II Kings 16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the
house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for
the king of Assyria.
II Kings 16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
II Kings 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the
son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
II Kings 17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but
not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
II Kings 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea
became his servant, and gave him presents.
II Kings 17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he
had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of
Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him
up, and bound him in prison.
II Kings 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,
and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
II Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in
Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
II Kings 17:7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned
against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of
Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other
gods,
II Kings 17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which
they had made.
II Kings 17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that
were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in
all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
II Kings 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill,
and under every green tree:
II Kings 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did
the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things
to provoke the LORD to anger:
II Kings 17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them,
Ye shall not do this thing.
II Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah,
by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil
ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which
I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
II Kings 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their
necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD
their God.
II Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he
made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them;
and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that
were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they
should not do like them.
II Kings 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God,
and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped
all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
II Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to
do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
II Kings 17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed
them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
II Kings 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God,
but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
II Kings 17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted
them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out
of his sight.
II Kings 17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the
LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
II Kings 17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
II Kings 17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had
said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their
own land to Assyria unto this day.
II Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from
Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in
the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed
Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
II Kings 17:25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there,
that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which
slew some of them.
II Kings 17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The
nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not
the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them,
and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of
the land.
II Kings 17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither
one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell
there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
II Kings 17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from
Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the
LORD.
II Kings 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them
in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation
in their cities wherein they dwelt.
II Kings 17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of
Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
II Kings 17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites
burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of
Sepharvaim.
II Kings 17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the
lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the
houses of the high places.
II Kings 17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the
manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
II Kings 17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear
not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances,
or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of
Jacob, whom he named Israel;
II Kings 17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them,
saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve
them, nor sacrifice to them:
II Kings 17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye
worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
II Kings 17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the
commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and
ye shall not fear other gods.
II Kings 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not
forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
II Kings 17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver
you out of the hand of all your enemies.
II Kings 17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their
former manner.
II Kings 17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven
images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their
fathers, so do they unto this day.
II Kings 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah
king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
II Kings 18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and
he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi,
the daughter of Zachariah.
II Kings 18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that David his father did.
II Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut
down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made:
for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he
called it Nehushtan.
II Kings 18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was
none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
II Kings 18:6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following
him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
II Kings 18:7 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he
went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
II Kings 18:8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders
thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
II Kings 18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah,
which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
II Kings 18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the
sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,
Samaria was taken.
II Kings 18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria,
and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of
the Medes:
II Kings 18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God,
but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
II Kings 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib
king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
II Kings 18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to
Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on
me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
II Kings 18:15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the
house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
II Kings 18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors
of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah
had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
II Kings 18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and
Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem.
And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came
and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the
fuller's field.
II Kings 18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to
them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
II Kings 18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah,
Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this
wherein thou trustest?
II Kings 18:20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel
and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest
against me?
II Kings 18:21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised
reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
II Kings 18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not
that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath
said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
II Kings 18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the
king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able
on thy part to set riders upon them.
II Kings 18:24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen?
II Kings 18:25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to
destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
II Kings 18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah,
unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears
of the people that are on the wall.
II Kings 18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy
master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men
which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own
piss with you?
II Kings 18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the
Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king
of Assyria:
II Kings 18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
II Kings 18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying,
The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
II Kings 18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then
eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye
every one the waters of his cistern:
II Kings 18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own
land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil
olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto
Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
II Kings 18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his
land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
II Kings 18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the
gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine
hand?
II Kings 18:35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have
delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver
Jerusalem out of mine hand?
II Kings 18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a
word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
II Kings 18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to
Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
II Kings 19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he
rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house
of the LORD.
II Kings 19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
II Kings 19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a
day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the
birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
II Kings 19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the
living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
II Kings 19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
II Kings 19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master,
Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with
which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
II Kings 19:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.
II Kings 19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
II Kings 19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold,
he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah,
saying,
II Kings 19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let
not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be
delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
II Kings 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done
to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
II Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of
Eden which were in Thelasar?
II Kings 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the
king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
II Kings 19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and
spread it before the LORD.
II Kings 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God
of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou
alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
II Kings 19:16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes,
and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach
the living God.
II Kings 19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the
nations and their lands,
II Kings 19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no
gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have
destroyed them.
II Kings 19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us
out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the
LORD God, even thou only.
II Kings 19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
II Kings 19:21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him;
The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn;
the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
II Kings 19:22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom
hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against
the Holy One of Israel.
II Kings 19:23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast
said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the
mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees
thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings
of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
II Kings 19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole
of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
II Kings 19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of
ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou
shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
II Kings 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green
herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown
up.
II Kings 19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me.
II Kings 19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into
mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy
lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
II Kings 19:29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year
such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth
of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and
eat the fruits thereof.
II Kings 19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall
yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
II Kings 19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they
that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
II Kings 19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come
before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
II Kings 19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
II Kings 19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake,
and for my servant David's sake.
II Kings 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD
went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five
thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead
corpses.
II Kings 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
II Kings 19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the
sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son
reigned in his stead.
II Kings 20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet
Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
II Kings 20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the
LORD, saying,
II Kings 20:3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked
before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is
good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
II Kings 20:4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the
middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
II Kings 20:5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus
saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have
seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up
unto the house of the LORD.
II Kings 20:6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will
deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will
defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
II Kings 20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid
it on the boil, and he recovered.
II Kings 20:8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that
the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the
third day?
II Kings 20:9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that
the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward
ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
II Kings 20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow
to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
II Kings 20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought
the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of
Ahaz.
II Kings 20:12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that
Hezekiah had been sick.
II Kings 20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the
house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and
the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found
in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion,
that Hezekiah shewed them not.
II Kings 20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said
unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
II Kings 20:15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And
Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there
is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
II Kings 20:16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
II Kings 20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and
that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried
into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
II Kings 20:18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou
shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of
the king of Babylon.
II Kings 20:19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the
LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth
be in my days?
II Kings 20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might,
and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son
reigned in his stead.
II Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and
reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Hephzibah.
II Kings 21:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the
children of Israel.
II Kings 21:3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as
did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
them.
II Kings 21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the
LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
II Kings 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of the LORD.
II Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed
times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he
wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
II Kings 21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in
the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this
house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will
I put my name for ever:
II Kings 21:8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of
the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according
to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my
servant Moses commanded them.
II Kings 21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more
evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of
Israel.
II Kings 21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
II Kings 21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these
abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which
were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
II Kings 21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am
bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it,
both his ears shall tingle.
II Kings 21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and
the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a
dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
II Kings 21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and
deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and
a spoil to all their enemies;
II Kings 21:15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and
have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of
Egypt, even unto this day.
II Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he
had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made
Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
II Kings 21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did,
and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in
his stead.
II Kings 21:19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth,
the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
II Kings 21:20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as
his father Manasseh did.
II Kings 21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and
served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
II Kings 21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not
in the way of the LORD.
II Kings 21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew
the king in his own house.
II Kings 21:24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his
stead.
II Kings 21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza:
and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
II Kings 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah,
the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
II Kings 22:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the
right hand or to the left.
II Kings 22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the
scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
II Kings 22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver
which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door
have gathered of the people:
II Kings 22:5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the
work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it
to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the
breaches of the house,
II Kings 22:6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber
and hewn stone to repair the house.
II Kings 22:7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money
that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
II Kings 22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I
have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the
book to Shaphan, and he read it.
II Kings 22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the
king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found
in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work,
that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
II Kings 22:10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the
priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
II Kings 22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of
the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
II Kings 22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the
son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and
Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
II Kings 22:13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and
for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is
the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not
hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is
written concerning us.
II Kings 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of
Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem
in the college;) and they communed with her.
II Kings 22:15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Tell the man that sent you to me,
II Kings 22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which
the king of Judah hath read:
II Kings 22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto
other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their
hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not
be quenched.
II Kings 22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the
LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching
the words which thou hast heard;
II Kings 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled
thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place,
and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and
a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard
thee, saith the LORD.
II Kings 22:20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and
thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see
all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king
word again.
II Kings 23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders
of Judah and of Jerusalem.
II Kings 23:2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the
men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests,
and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in
their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the
house of the LORD.
II Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before
the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his
testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to
perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the
people stood to the covenant.
II Kings 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out
of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the
grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in
the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
II Kings 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of
Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah,
and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto
Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of
heaven.
II Kings 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD,
without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron,
and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of
the children of the people.
II Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by
the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
II Kings 23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah,
and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to
Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the
entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a
man's left hand at the gate of the city.
II Kings 23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to
the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread
among their brethren.
II Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the
children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass
through the fire to Molech.
II Kings 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had
given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber
of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the
chariots of the sun with fire.
II Kings 23:12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of
Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had
made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and
brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
II Kings 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were
on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel
had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh
the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the
children of Ammon, did the king defile.
II Kings 23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves,
and filled their places with the bones of men.
II Kings 23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place
which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that
altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped
it small to powder, and burned the grove.
II Kings 23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that
were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres,
and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the
LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
II Kings 23:17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of
the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from
Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of
Bethel.
II Kings 23:18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So
they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of
Samaria.
II Kings 23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the
cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to
anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had
done in Bethel.
II Kings 23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were
there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to
Jerusalem.
II Kings 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the
passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this
covenant.
II Kings 23:22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days
of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel,
nor of the kings of Judah;
II Kings 23:23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this
passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
II Kings 23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the
wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were
spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he
might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah
the priest found in the house of the LORD.
II Kings 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned
to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might,
according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
II Kings 23:26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of
his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all
the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
II Kings 23:27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my
sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I
have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
II Kings 23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 23:29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the
king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and
he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
II Kings 23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from
Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre.
And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him,
and made him king in his father's stead.
II Kings 23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
II Kings 23:32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his fathers had done.
II Kings 23:33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of
Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of
an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
II Kings 23:34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in
the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took
Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
II Kings 23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but
he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh:
he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one
according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
II Kings 23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
II Kings 23:37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his fathers had done.
II Kings 24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against
him.
II Kings 24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and
bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of
Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the
LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
II Kings 24:3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah,
to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all
that he did;
II Kings 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled
Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
II Kings 24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
II Kings 24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son
reigned in his stead.
II Kings 24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his
land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river
Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
II Kings 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta,
the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
II Kings 24:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father had done.
II Kings 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
II Kings 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city,
and his servants did besiege it.
II Kings 24:12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of
Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his
officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
II Kings 24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of
the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the
vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the
LORD, as the LORD had said.
II Kings 24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and
all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the
craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of
the land.
II Kings 24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's
mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land,
those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
II Kings 24:16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and
craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even
them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
II Kings 24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother
king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
II Kings 24:18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
II Kings 24:19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
II Kings 24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in
Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
II Kings 25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the
tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it;
and they built forts against it round about.
II Kings 25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah.
II Kings 25:3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine
prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
II Kings 25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by
night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden:
(now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the
way toward the plain.
II Kings 25:5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and
overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from
him.
II Kings 25:6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
II Kings 25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put
out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him
to Babylon.
II Kings 25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month,
which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came
Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto
Jerusalem:
II Kings 25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with
fire.
II Kings 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the
captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
II Kings 25:11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and
the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the
multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
II Kings 25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land
to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
II Kings 25:13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the
LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did
the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
II Kings 25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they
away.
II Kings 25:15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of
gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
II Kings 25:16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had
made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without
weight.
II Kings 25:17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the
chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and
the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of
brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
II Kings 25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
II Kings 25:19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over
the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which
were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered
the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were
found in the city:
II Kings 25:20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
II Kings 25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah
in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
II Kings 25:22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah,
whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
II Kings 25:23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their
men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of
Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the
son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
II Kings 25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto
them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and
serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
II Kings 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men
with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that
were with him at Mizpah.
II Kings 25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains
of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
II Kings 25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that
he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of
prison;
II Kings 25:28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
II Kings 25:29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread
continually before him all the days of his life.
II Kings 25:30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of
the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
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