14-2 CHRONICLES
14-1:1 And
Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his
kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
14-1:2 Then
Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and
to the judges, and to every governor in all
Israel, the chief of the fathers.
14-1:3 So
Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at
Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses
the servant of the LORD had made in the
wilderness.
14-1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said
unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
14-1:8 And
Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and
hast made me to reign in his stead.
14-1:9 Now,
O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast
made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in
multitude.
14-1:10 Give
me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is
so great?
14-1:11 And
God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine
heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine
enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge
for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
14-1:14 And
Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
14-1:15 And
the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in
the vale for abundance.
14-2:2 And
Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore
thousand to hew in the mountain, and three
thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
14-2:7 Send
me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold,
and in silver, and in
brass, and in iron, and in
purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men
that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
14-2:8 Send
me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know
that thy servants can skill to cut timber in
Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
14-2:9 Even
to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house
which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
14-2:11 Then
Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing,
which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made
thee king over them.
14-2:14 The
son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre,
skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine
linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner
of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy
cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
14-2:16 And
we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring
it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou
shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
14-2:17 And
Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in
the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered
them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and
six hundred.
14-2:18 And
he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and
fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain,
and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
14-3:1 Then
Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David
his father, in the place that David had prepared
in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
14-3:2 And
he began to build in the second day of the
second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
14-3:4 And
the porch that was in the front of the house,
the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and
the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
14-3:10 And
in the most holy house he made two cherubims of
image work, and overlaid them with gold.
14-3:16 And
he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them
on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on
the chains.
14-4:2 Also
he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a
line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
14-4:3 And
under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows
of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
14-4:6 He
made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to
wash in them: such things as they offered for
the burnt offering they washed in them; but the
sea was for the priests to wash in.
14-4:7 And
he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the
left.
14-4:8 He
made also ten tables, and placed them in the
temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred
basons of gold.
14-4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
14-4:18 Thus
Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance:
for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
14-5:1 Thus
all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and
Solomon brought in all the things that David his
father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments,
put he among the treasures of the house of God.
14-5:3 Wherefore
all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in
the seventh month.
14-5:5 And
they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the
holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these
did the priests and the Levites bring up.
14-5:7 And
the priests brought in the ark of the covenant
of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy
place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
14-5:10 There
was nothing in the ark save the two tables which
Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of
Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
14-5:12 Also
the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of
Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and
harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty
priests sounding with trumpets:)
14-5:13 It
came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound
to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD;
and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and
instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his
mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the
house of the LORD;
14-6:1 Then
said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in
the thick darkness.
14-6:5 Since
the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city
among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in,
that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my
people Israel:
14-6:7 Now
it was in the heart of David my father to build
an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
14-6:8 But
the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in
thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine
heart:
14-6:10 The
LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the
throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name
of the LORD God of Israel.
14-6:11 And
in it have I put the ark, wherein is the
covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
14-6:12 And
he stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
14-6:13 For
Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad,
and three cubits high, and had set it in the
midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees
before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward
heaven,
14-6:14 And
said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in
the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest
covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all
their hearts:
14-6:16 Now
therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that
which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so
that thy children take heed to their way to walk in
my law, as thou hast walked before me.
14-6:18 But
will God in very deed dwell with men on the
earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much
less this house which I have built!
14-6:22 If
a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him
swear, and the oath come before thine altar in
this house;
14-6:24 And
if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have
sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make
supplication before thee in this house;
14-6:28 If
there be dearth in the land, if there be
pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their
enemies besiege them in the cities of their
land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
14-6:29 Then
what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy
people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and
shall spread forth his hands in this house:
14-6:31 That
they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long
as they live in the land which thou gavest unto
our fathers.
14-6:32 Moreover
concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far
country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out
arm; if they come and pray in this house;
14-6:37 Yet
if they bethink themselves in the land whither
they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in
the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and
have dealt wickedly;
14-6:38 If
they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have
carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their
fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which
I have built for thy name:
14-6:40 Now,
my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent
unto the prayer that is made in this place.
14-6:41 Now
therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy
strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy
saints rejoice in goodness.
14-7:8 Also
at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a
very great congregation, from the entering in of
Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
14-7:9 And
in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly:
for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
14-7:10 And
on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away
into their tents, glad and merry in heart for
the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel
his people.
14-7:11 Thus
Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king’s house: and all that came
into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of the
LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously
effected.
14-7:15 Now
mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
14-7:18 Then
will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with
David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
14-8:4 And
he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the
store cities, which he built in Hamath.
14-8:6 And
Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities,
and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in
Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
14-8:8 But
of their children, who were left after them in
the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to
pay tribute until this day.
14-8:11 And
Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the
house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the
places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
14-8:13 Even
after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses,
on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in
the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast
of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
14-8:17 Then
went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
14-9:1 And
when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon
with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that
bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious
stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was
in her heart.
14-9:4 And
the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of
his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and
his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more
spirit in her.
14-9:5 And
she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
14-9:8 Blessed
be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to
set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel,
to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do
judgment and justice.
14-9:11 And
the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the
king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such
seen before in the land of Judah.
14-9:13 Now
the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one
year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
14-9:16 And
three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold
went to one shield. And the king put them in the
house of the forest of Lebanon.
14-9:19 And
twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps.
There was not the like made in any kingdom.
14-9:20 And
all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of
the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it
was not any thing accounted of in the days of
Solomon.
14-9:22 And
king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in
riches and wisdom.
14-9:23 And
all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom,
that God had put in his heart.
14-9:25 And
Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot
cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
14-9:27 And
the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and
cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in
the low plains in abundance.
14-9:29 Now
the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the
son of Nebat?
14-9:30 And
Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
forty years.
14-9:31 And
Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in
the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
14-10:2 And
it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of
Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
14-10:16 And
when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people
answered the king, saying, What portion have we in
David? and we have none inheritance in the son
of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own
house. So all Israel went to their tents.
14-10:17 But
as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the
cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
14-11:3 Speak
unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
14-11:5 And
Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for
defence in Judah.
14-11:10 And
Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in
Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
14-11:11 And
he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in
them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
14-11:12 And
in every several city he put shields and spears,
and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
14-11:13 And
the priests and the Levites that were in all
Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
14-11:17 So
they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon
strong, three years: for three years they walked in
the way of David and Solomon.
14-11:23 And
he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries
of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
14-12:2 And
it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had
transgressed against the LORD,
14-12:5 Then
came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were
gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus
saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
14-12:12 And
when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would
not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah
things went well.
14-12:13 So
king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem,
and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the
city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name
there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
14-12:15 Now
the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the
seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
continually.
14-12:16 And
Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in
his stead.
14-13:1 Now
in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began
Abijah to reign over Judah.
14-13:2 He
reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name
also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between
Abijah and Jeroboam.
14-13:3 And
Abijah set the battle in array with an army of
valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set
the battle in array against him with eight
hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.
14-13:4 And
Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in
mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
14-13:8 And
now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in
the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with
you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
14-13:11 And
they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and
sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in
order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof,
to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have
forsaken him.
14-13:20 Neither
did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days
of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
14-13:22 And
the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
14-14:1 So
Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in
his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten
years.
14-14:2 And
Asa did that which was good and right in the
eyes of the LORD his God:
14-14:6 And
he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land
had rest, and he had no war in those years;
because the LORD had given him rest.
14-14:10 Then
Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in
array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
14-14:11 And
Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to
help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our
God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go
against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against
thee.
14-14:14 And
they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon
them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
14-14:15 They
smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
14-15:4 But
when they in their trouble did turn unto the
LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
14-15:5 And
in those times there was no peace to him that
went out, nor to him that came in, but great
vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
14-15:9 And
he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim
and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was
with him.
14-15:10 So
they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in
the third month, in the fifteenth year of the
reign of Asa.
14-15:16 And
also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being
queen, because she had made an idol in a grove:
and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
14-16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa
Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent
that he might let none go out or come in to Asa
king of Judah.
14-16:9 For
the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself
strong in the behalf of them whose heart is
perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth
thou shalt have wars.
14-16:10 Then
Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a
prison house; for he was in a rage with him
because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
14-16:11 And,
behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
14-16:12 And
Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign
was diseased in his feet, until his disease was
exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought
not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
14-16:13 And
Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one
and fortieth year of his reign.
14-16:14 And
they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he
had made for himself in the city of David, and
laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet
odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they
made a very great burning for him.
14-17:1 And
Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and
strengthened himself against Israel.
14-17:2 And
he placed forces in all the fenced cities of
Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah,
and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his
father had taken.
14-17:3 And
the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in
the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
14-17:4 But
sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in
his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
14-17:5 Therefore
the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and
all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.
14-17:6 And
his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD:
moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
14-17:7 Also
in the third year of his reign he sent to his
princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel,
and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of
Judah.
14-17:9 And
they taught in Judah, and had the book of the
law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah,
and taught the people.
14-17:12 And
Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in
Judah castles, and cities of store.
14-17:13 And
he had much business in the cities of Judah: and
the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.
14-17:19 These
waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in
the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
14-18:1 Now
Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance,
and joined affinity with Ahab.
14-18:2 And
after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and
oxen for him in abundance, and for the people
that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.
14-18:3 And
Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me
to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy
people; and we will be with thee in the war.
14-18:9 And
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his
throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets
prophesied before them.
14-18:15 And
the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing
but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?
14-18:16 Then
he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have
no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return therefore
every man to his house in peace.
14-18:21 And
he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in
the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and
thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.
14-18:22 Now
therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in
the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
14-18:26 And
say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the
prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction,
until I return in peace.
14-18:27 And
Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace,
then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
14-18:34 And
the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and
about the time of the sun going down he died.
14-19:1 And
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in
peace to Jerusalem.
14-19:3 Nevertheless
there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the
land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
14-19:5 And
he set judges in the land throughout all the
fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
14-19:6 And
said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the
LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
14-19:8 Moreover
in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites,
and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment
of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
14-19:9 And
he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the
fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
14-19:10 And
what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law
and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they
trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your
brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.
14-19:11 And,
behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in
all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the
house of Judah, for all the king’s matters: also the Levites shall be officers
before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.
14-20:2 Then
there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against
thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
14-20:5 And
Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah
and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before
the new court,
14-20:6 And
said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in
heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that
none is able to withstand thee?
14-20:9 If,
when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we
stand before this house, and in thy presence,
(for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto
thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and
help.
14-20:14 Then
upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the
son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
14-20:17 Ye
shall not need to fight in this battle: set
yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah
and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for
the LORD will be with you.
14-20:20 And
they rose early in the morning, and went forth
into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and
said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established;
believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
14-20:24 And
when Judah came toward the watch tower in the
wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies
fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
14-20:25 And
when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found
among them in abundance both riches with the
dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more
than they could carry away: and they were three days in
gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
14-20:26 And
on the fourth day they assembled themselves in
the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of
the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
14-20:27 Then
they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem
with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
14-20:31 And
Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
14-20:32 And
he walked in the way of Asa his father, and
departed not from it, doing that which was right in
the sight of the LORD.
14-20:34 Now
the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is
mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
14-20:36 And
he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the
ships in Eziongaber.
14-21:1 Now
Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
14-21:3 And
their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious
things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the
kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
14-21:5 Jehoram
was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years
in Jerusalem.
14-21:6 And
he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he
wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the
LORD.
14-21:8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the
dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
14-21:9 Then
Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose
up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
14-21:11 Moreover
he made high places in the mountains of Judah,
and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled
Judah thereto.
14-21:12 And
there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the
LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
14-21:13 But
hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to
the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy
father’s house, which were better than thyself:
14-21:17 And
they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance
that was found in the king’s house, and his sons
also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the
youngest of his sons.
14-21:18 And
after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels
with an incurable disease.
14-21:19 And
it came to pass, that in process of time, after
the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died
of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of
his fathers.
14-21:20 Thirty
and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being
desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of
David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
14-22:1 And
the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the
Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah reigned.
14-22:2 Forty
and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah the
daughter of Omri.
14-22:3 He
also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab:
for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
14-22:4 Wherefore
he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the
house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to
his destruction.
14-22:6 And
he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of
the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of
Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram
the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
14-22:9 And
he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him,
they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought
the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still
the kingdom.
14-22:11 But
Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and
stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse
in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter
of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of
Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
14-22:12 And
he was with them hid in the house of God six
years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
14-23:1 And
in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened
himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and
Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son
of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
14-23:2 And
they went about in Judah, and gathered the
Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel,
and they came to Jerusalem.
14-23:3 And
all the congregation made a covenant with the king in
the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as
the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
14-23:5 And
a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the
foundation: and all the people shall be in the
courts of the house of the LORD.
14-23:6 But
let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that
minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for
they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
14-23:7 And
the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house,
he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
14-23:8 So
the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had
commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath:
for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
14-23:9 Moreover
Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers,
and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in
the house of God.
14-23:10 And
he set all the people, every man having his weapon in
his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple,
along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
14-23:13 And
she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and
all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers
with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah
rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
14-23:14 Then
Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the
host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth
her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.
14-23:17 Then
all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his
altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan
the priest of Baal before the altars.
14-23:18 Also
Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the
priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in
the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is
written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and
with singing, as it was ordained by David.
14-23:19 And
he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was
unclean in any thing should enter in.
14-24:1 Joash
was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Zibiah of
Beersheba.
14-24:2 And
Joash did that which was right in the sight of
the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
14-24:6 And
the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not
required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah
and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the
servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of
witness?
14-24:9 And
they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant
of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
14-24:10 And
all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an
end.
14-24:11 Now
it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office
by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the
king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and
took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and
gathered money in abundance.
14-24:13 So
the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house
of God in his state, and strengthened it.
14-24:14 And
when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king
and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels
to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver.
And they offered burnt offerings in the house of
the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
14-24:16 And
they buried him in the city of David among the
kings, because he had done good in Israel, both
toward God, and toward his house.
14-24:21 And
they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of
the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
14-24:25 And
when they were departed from him, (for they left him in
great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the
sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they
buried him in the city of David, but they buried
him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
14-24:27 Now
concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the
repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
14-25:1 Amaziah
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and
nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
14-25:2 And
he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
14-25:4 But
he slew not their children, but did as it is written in
the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall
the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
14-25:10 Then
Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim,
to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and
they returned home in great anger.
14-25:12 And
other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and
brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the
rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
14-25:17 Then
Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
14-25:18 And
Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that
was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to
wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in
Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
14-25:21 So
Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at
Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
14-25:24 And
he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of
the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
14-25:26 Now
the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
14-25:27 Now
after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a
conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled
to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
14-25:28 And
they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
14-26:1 Then
all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him
king in the room of his father Amaziah.
14-26:3 Sixteen
years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years
in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was
Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
14-26:4 And
he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
14-26:5 And
he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had
understanding in the visions of God: and as long
as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
14-26:7 And
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
14-26:8 And
the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering
in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself
exceedingly.
14-26:9 Moreover
Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner
gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified
them.
14-26:10 Also
he built towers in the desert, and digged many
wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low
country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and
vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
14-26:15 And
he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning
men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great
stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped,
till he was strong.
14-26:17 And
Azariah the priest went in after him, and with
him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
14-26:19 Then
Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand
to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose
up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense
altar.
14-26:20 And
Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he
was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him
out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had
smitten him.
14-26:21 And
Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off
from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king’s house,
judging the people of the land.
14-26:23 So
Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the
kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
14-27:1 Jotham
was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was
Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
14-27:2 And
he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into
the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
14-27:4 Moreover
he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
14-27:7 Now
the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are
written in the book of the kings of Israel and
Judah.
14-27:8 He
was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years
in Jerusalem.
14-27:9 And
Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in
his stead.
14-28:1 Ahaz
was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
14-28:2 For
he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,
and made also molten images for Baalim.
14-28:3 Moreover
he burnt incense in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire,
after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the
children of Israel.
14-28:4 He
sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high
places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
14-28:6 For
Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an
hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which
were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
14-28:9 But
a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before
the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God
of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand,
and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth
up unto heaven.
14-28:13 And
said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives
hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add
more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is
fierce wrath against Israel.
14-28:22 And
in the time of his distress did he trespass yet
more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
14-28:24 And
Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up
the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
14-28:25 And
in every several city of Judah he made high
places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of
his fathers.
14-28:26 Now
the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written
in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
14-28:27 And
Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought
him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son
reigned in his stead.
14-29:1 Hezekiah
began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and
twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
14-29:2 And
he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
14-29:3 He
in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of
the LORD, and repaired them.
14-29:4 And
he brought in the priests and the Levites, and
gathered them together into the east street,
14-29:6 For
our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken
him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and
turned their backs.
14-29:7 Also
they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not
burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in
the holy place unto the God of Israel.
14-29:9 For,
lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our
wives are in captivity for this.
14-29:10 Now
it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the
LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
14-29:16 And
the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and
brought out all the uncleanness that they found in
the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites
took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
14-29:17 Now
they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth
day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the
house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an
end.
14-29:18 Then
they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We
have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with
all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
14-29:19 Moreover
all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign
did cast away in his transgression, have we
prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
14-29:25 And
he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with
cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of
David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the
commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
14-29:31 Then
Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD,
come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD.
And the congregation brought in sacrifices and
thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
14-29:34 But
the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings:
wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended,
and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were
more upright in heart to sanctify themselves
than the priests.
14-29:35 And
also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with
the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt
offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
14-30:2 For
the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
14-30:5 So
they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from
Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD
God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
14-30:12 Also
in Judah the hand of God was to give them one
heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the
LORD.
14-30:13 And
there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
14-30:14 And
they arose and took away the altars that were in
Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into
the brook Kidron.
14-30:15 Then
they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the
priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
14-30:16 And
they stood in their place after their manner,
according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood,
which they received of the hand of the Levites.
14-30:17 For
there were many in the congregation that were
not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the
passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
14-30:25 And
all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the
congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the
land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah,
rejoiced.
14-30:26 So
there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the
time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
14-31:1 Now
when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities
of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and
cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all
Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and
Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of
Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
14-31:2 And
Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their
courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt
offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to
praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
14-31:3 He
appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit,
for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the
sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
14-31:4 Moreover
he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem
to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be
encouraged in the law of the LORD.
14-31:5 And
as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil,
and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things
brought they in abundantly.
14-31:6 And
concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in
the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were
consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
14-31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of
the heaps, and finished them in the seventh
month.
14-31:11 Then
Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the
house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
14-31:12 And
brought in the offerings and the tithes and the
dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and
Shimei his brother was the next.
14-31:15 And
next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and
Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by
courses, as well to the great as to the small:
14-31:16 Beside
their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one
that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
14-31:17 Both
to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites
from twenty years old and upward, in their
charges by their courses;
14-31:18 And
to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and
their daughters, through all the congregation: for in
their set office they sanctified themselves in
holiness:
14-31:19 Also
of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in
the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in
every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to
all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies
among the Levites.
14-31:21 And
in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the
commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
14-32:5 Also
he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised
it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
14-32:6 And
he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake
comfortably to them, saying,
14-32:10 Thus
saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
14-32:18 Then
they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech
unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to
trouble them; that they might take the city.
14-32:21 And
the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the
leaders and captains in the camp of the king of
Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was
come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him
there with the sword.
14-32:23 And
many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of
Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of
all nations from thenceforth.
14-32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and
prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
14-32:26 Notwithstanding
Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
14-32:29 Moreover
he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very
much.
14-32:30 This
same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it
straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
14-32:31 Howbeit
in the business of the ambassadors of the
princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might
know all that was in his heart.
14-32:32 Now
the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz,
and in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel.
14-32:33 And
Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son
reigned in his stead.
14-33:1 Manasseh
was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five
years in Jerusalem:
14-33:2 But
did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out
before the children of Israel.
14-33:4 Also
he built altars in the house of the LORD,
whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my
name be for ever.
14-33:5 And
he built altars for all the host of heaven in
the two courts of the house of the LORD.
14-33:6 And
he caused his children to pass through the fire in
the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments,
and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he
wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger.
14-33:7 And
he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in
the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in
Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my
name for ever:
14-33:12 And
when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD
his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
14-33:14 Now
after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of
Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and
raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
14-33:15 And
he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and
all the altars that he had built in the mount of
the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and
cast them out of the city.
14-33:17 Nevertheless
the people did sacrifice still in the high
places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
14-33:18 Now
the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of
the seers that spake to him in the name of the
LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in
the book of the kings of Israel.
14-33:20 So
Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his
stead.
14-33:21 Amon
was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
14-33:22 But
he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved
images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
14-33:24 And
his servants conspired against him, and slew him in
his own house.
14-33:25 But
the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and
the people of the land made Josiah his son king in
his stead.
14-34:1 Josiah
was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
14-34:2 And
he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in the ways of David his
father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
14-34:3 For
in the eighth year of his reign, while he was
yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and
Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the
molten images.
14-34:4 And
they brake down the altars of Baalim in his
presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the
groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon
the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
14-34:6 And
so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and
Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
14-34:8 Now
in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had
purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and
Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to
repair the house of the LORD his God.
14-34:10 And
they put it in the hand of the workmen that had
the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that
wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and
amend the house:
14-34:13 Also
they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought
the work in any manner of service: and of the
Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
14-34:15 And
Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the
law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah
delivered the book to Shaphan.
14-34:17 And
they have gathered together the money that was found in
the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers,
and to the hand of the workmen.
14-34:21 Go,
enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in
Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the
book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon
us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all
that is written in this book.
14-34:22 And
Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess,
the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
14-34:24 Thus
saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the
inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of
Judah:
14-34:28 Behold,
I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil
that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So
they brought the king word again.
14-34:30 And
the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people,
great and small: and he read in their ears all
the words of the book of the covenant that was found in
the house of the LORD.
14-34:31 And
the king stood in his place, and made a covenant
before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to
perform the words of the covenant which are written in
this book.
14-34:32 And
he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and
Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the
covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
14-34:33 And
Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained
to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God.
And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their
fathers.
14-35:1 Moreover
Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in
Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first
month.
14-35:2 And
he set the priests in their charges, and
encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
14-35:3 And
said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD,
Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the
son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders:
serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,
14-35:5 And
stand in the holy place according to the
divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after
the division of the families of the Levites.
14-35:10 So
the service was prepared, and the priests stood in
their place, and the Levites in their courses,
according to the king’s commandment.
14-35:12 And
they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the
divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is
written in the book of Moses. And so did they
with the oxen.
14-35:13 And
they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other
holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in
pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.
14-35:14 And
afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the
priests the sons of Aaron were busied in
offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared
for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
14-35:15 And
the singers the sons of Asaph were in their
place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and
Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not
depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
14-35:18 And
there was no passover like to that kept in
Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel
keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all
Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
14-35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this
passover kept.
14-35:22 Nevertheless
Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might
fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of
God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
14-35:24 His
servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought
him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in
one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
14-35:25 And
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women
spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this
day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and,
behold, they are written in the lamentations.
14-35:26 Now
the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
14-35:27 And
his deeds, first and last, behold, they are
written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah.
14-36:1 Then
the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in
Jerusalem.
14-36:2 Jehoahaz
was twenty and three years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned three months in
Jerusalem.
14-36:3 And
the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
14-36:5 Jehoiakim
was twenty and five years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD his God.
14-36:6 Against
him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
14-36:7 Nebuchadnezzar
also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
14-36:8 Now
the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that
which was found in him, behold, they are written in
the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
14-36:9 Jehoiachin
was eight years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in
Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD.
14-36:11 Zedekiah
was one and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem.
14-36:12 And
he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
14-36:14 Moreover
all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all
the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he
had hallowed in Jerusalem.
14-36:17 Therefore
he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with
the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and
had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age:
he gave them all into his hand.
14-36:22 Now
in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that
the word of the LORD spoken by the
mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of
Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and put it also in writing, saying,
14-36:23 Thus
saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of
heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people?
The LORD his God be with him, and let
him go up.
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