# bible_fts_content

c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
When these who had the skin disease came to the edge of the camp, they went into a certain tent and they ate, drank, and took from there silver and gold and clothes. Then they went and hid them, then returned and came to another tent, and they took from there and went and hid them. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then they said {to one another},Literally "each to his friend" "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news! If we are silent and wait until the light of morning, they will find us and {we will be punished}.Literally "guiltiness" So then, come, let us go and tell the house of the king."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
When they came, they called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, "We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no man or the voice of a man there! Only the horses and the donkeys were tied up, and the tents were left as they were."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The king got up in the night and said to his servants, "Please let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. The Arameans know that we are hungry, so they went out from the camp to hide in the field, saying, 'When they go out from the city, we shall seize them alive and go into the city.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then one of his servants replied and said, "Please let them take five of the remaining horses which remain in the city; behold, they are like all of the multitude of Israel that remain in it; they are like all the multitude of Israel who have perished. Let us send and see."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So he took two charioteer horsemen, and the king sent after the camp of the Arameans, saying, "Go, find out,"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and they went after them to the Jordan. Look, all of the way was littered with clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. A seah of wheat flour went for a shekel and two seahs of barley went for a shekel according to the word of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then the king appointed the officer he was depending on over the gate, but the people trampled him and he died, according to that which the man of God had said which he spoke when the king came down to him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
It happened as the man of God spoke to the king, saying, "Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel and a seah of wheat flour for a shekel at this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then the officer had replied to the man of God and said, "Look, even if Yahweh is opening the windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he had said, "Look you are about to see it with your eyes, but you will not eat from it."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Get up and go, you and your household, and dwell as an alien wherever you can, for Yahweh has called for a famine, and it will come to the land for seven years."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and dwelt as an alien in the land of the Philistines for seven years.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
It happened at the end of seven years that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went out to appeal to the king for her household and for her {properties}.Literally "fields"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Now the king was speaking to Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me all of the great things which Elisha has done."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
It happened that as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, suddenly the woman whose son he had restored to life was crying out to the king about her household and about her field. Then Gehazi said, "My lord the king, this is the woman and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So the king asked the woman, and she told him. So the king appointed for her a certain court official, saying, "Restore all that is hers and all the yield of the field from the day she left the land up to now." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Elisha came to Damascus. Now Ben-Hadad king of Aram was ill, and he was told, "The man of God has come up here."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then the king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand and go meet the man of God. Inquire of Yahweh from him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this illness?'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift in his hand of all of the good things of Damascus, a load on each of forty camels, and he came and stood before him. Then he said, "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this illness?'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Elisha said to him, "Go; say to him, 'You shall certainly recover,' but Yahweh has shown me that he certainly will die."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then the man {fixed his gaze and stared at him}Literally "caused his face to stand and set it" until he was ashamed and the man of God cried.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Hazael asked, "Why is my lord crying?" He said, "Because I know what evil you will do to the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" You will {set their fortifications on fire},Literally "you will send their fortifications with the fire" and you will kill their young men with the sword. Their little ones you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip open!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Hazael said, "But how could your servant, who is like a dog, do this great thing?" Elisha said, "Yahweh has shown me that you are to be king over Aram."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So he departed from Elisha and came to his master. He asked him, "What did Elisha say to you." So he said, "He said to me that you will certainly recover."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
On the next day, he took the bed cover, dipped it in the water, and spread it over his face so that he died. Then Hazael became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Now in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Joram son of Jehoshaphat became the king of Judah.This likely indicates a coregency in Judah at the time.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
He walked in the way of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife, and he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Yet Yahweh was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, as he had promised to give him a lamp for his sons always. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
In his days, Edom rebelled {against the rule}Literally "from under the hand" of Judah, and they set up a king over them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So Joram crossed over to Zair and all the chariots with him. It happened that he arose by night and attacked Edom who had surrounded him and the commanders of the chariots; but the army fled to their tents.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So Edom has rebelled {against the rule}Literally "from under the hand" of Judah until this day; then Libnah also rebelled at that time.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 24
c3content:
So Joram slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and he was buried with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son became king in place of him. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 25
c3content:
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Joram became king of Judah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Athaliah daughter of Omri, king of Israel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 27
c3content:
He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, as the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 28
c3content:
He went with Joram the son of Ahab for the battle against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-Gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Joram the king returned to Jezreel to heal from the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted at Ramah when Hazael king of Aram fought him. Ahaziah the son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Elisha the prophet called for one of the sons of the prophets, and he said to him, "Gird your loins, and take this flask of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-Gilead.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Go there and look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi. Go, for you must cause him to arise from among his brothers, and you must bring him into an {inner room}.Literally "inner room of the inner room"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You must take the flask of olive oil and pour it out on his head. You must say, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I hereby anoint you as king over Israel." ' Then you must open the door and flee; do not linger!" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He came, and look, the commanders of the army were sitting there. He said, "I have a word for you, O commander!" Jehu said, "For whom? For all of us?" And he said, "For you, O commander!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He got up and went to the house, and poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'I hereby anoint you as king over the people of Yahweh, over Israel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
You will destroy the house of Ahab your master, and you will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all of the servants of Yahweh, from the hand of Jezebel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
All of the house of Ahab will perish, and I shall cut off {all males}Literally "the one who urinates against a wall" from Ahab, both bond and free.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
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.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and there shall not be {anyone to bury her}.'"Literally "burying" Then he opened the door and fled. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Jehu came out to the officers of his master, and they said to him, "Peace? Why did this madman come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the man and his foolish talk."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then they said, "Liar. Please tell us." He said, "{Thus and so}Literally "As this and as this" he said to me, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I hereby anoint you as king over Israel." '"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So they hastened each one to take his cloak, and they spread them under him on the bare steps, blew on the trumpet, and said, "Jehu is king!" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram was keeping guard in Ramoth-Gilead, he and all of Israel, because of the {threat}Literally "from the face/presence of" of Hazael king of Aram.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But Joram the king had returned to heal in Jezreel from the wound which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. Jehu said, "{If this is what you want},Literally "If there is your soul" do not let him go out as a fugitive from the city to go to make it known in Jezreel."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there, and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to visit Joram.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu when he came, and he said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them." And he said, "Is it peace?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
So the rider of the horse went out to meet him, and he said, "Thus the king asks, 'Is it peace?'" Then Jehu said, "{What do you have to do with peace}?Literally "What is for you and for peace" Turn after me." Then the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger went up to them, but he did not return."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then he sent out a second horseman, and he came to them and said, "Thus the king asks, 'Is it peace?'" Then Jehu said, "{What do you have to do with peace}?Literally "What is for you and for peace" Turn after me."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So the sentinel reported, saying, "He went up to them, but he did not return, and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives with madness." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then Joram said, "Get ready," so he got his chariot ready. Joram king of Israel went out, and Ahaziah king of Judah, each with his chariot. They went out to meet Jehu, and they found him at the tract of land of Naboth the Jezreelite.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 22
c3content:
When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, "Is it peace?" And he said, "What peace is there while the prostitutions of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are numerous?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then Jehu {drew his bow}Literally "filled his hand with the bow" and shot Joram between his shoulders so that the arrow went out from his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
He said to Bidkar his third servant, "Lift him out and throw him on the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember, you and I were with the pair of chariots behind Ahab his father when Yahweh pronounced this oracle against him:


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
'"Since I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his children yesterday," declares Yahweh, "I will requite it for you in this tract of land," declares Yahweh.' So then lift him out and throw him on the tract of land according to the word of Yahweh." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
When Ahaziah king of Judah saw, he fled the way of Beth-Haggen. Jehu pursued after him and said, "Shoot him also, in the chariot." They shot him at the ascent of Gur which is in Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo, but he died there.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then his officers carried him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his tomb with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 30
c3content:
When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, so she painted her eyes with black eye paint and adorned her head and looked through the window.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 32
c3content:
When he lifted up his face to the window, he asked, "Who is with me?" Two or three eunuchs looked down to him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 33
c3content:
So he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled her.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Then he came and ate and drank, and said, "Please take care of this cursed one and bury her, for she is the daughter of a king."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 35
c3content:
When they went to bury her, they could not find her, except the skull, the feet, and the palms of the hands.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 36
c3content:
They returned and told him, and he said, "This is the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'On the plot of ground of Jezreel, the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 37
c3content:
So the dead body of Jezebel became dung on the surface spread on the field in the plot of ground of Jezreel, so one cannot say, "This is Jezebel." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria, and Jehu wrote letters, and he sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab, saying,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Now, when this letter comes to you and your master's sons are with you, the chariots are with you, the horses, a fortified city, and weapons,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
then you must select the best and the most suitable from the sons of your master, and you must place him on the throne of his father, and they must fight for the house of your masters."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But they were very afraid, and they said, "Look, two kings could not stand before him; how can we stand?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So whoever was over the house, and whoever was over the city, and the elders and the guardians sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants; all that you say to us, we shall do. We shall not make anyone a king. Do what is good in your eyes." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, "If you are for me, and you are listening to my voice, take the heads of the men of the sons of your master and come to me at this time tomorrow at Jezreel." Now the sons of the king, seventy men, were with the leaders of the city who were raising them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king, and they killed seventy men. Then they put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then the messenger came and told him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," and he said, "Put them in two piles at the entrance of the gate until morning."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
It happened in the morning that he went out, stood, and said to all of the people, "You are righteous. Look, I conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all of these?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Know then that {the word of Yahweh will not fail}Literally "it shall not fall from the word of Yahweh to the ground" which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab; Yahweh has done what he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Jehu killed all of the remainder of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all of his leaders, his close friends, and his priests, until there was no survivor left for him. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and Jehu met the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah. He asked, "Who are you?" They said, "We are the brothers of Ahaziah; we came down for the peace of the king's children and the children of the queen."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then he said, "Seize them alive!" So they seized them alive but then slaughtered them at the cistern of Beth-Eked, forty-two men. He did not allow any of them to survive. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Next he went from there and found Jehonadab the son of Recab to meet him. He greeted him and asked him, "{Is your heart right with me as my heart is with you}?"Literally "Is there uprightness with your heart as that of my heart with your heart" Then Jehonadab said, "Yes, it is. Give your hand!" And he gave his hand and took him up to him on the chariot.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then he came to Samaria and killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria until he wiped them out according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to Elijah. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Jehu assembled all of the people and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will worship him greatly.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
So then, summon to me all of the prophets of Baal and all of his servants and his priests; no man should fail to come, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come shall not live!" Now Jehu was acting with cunning in order to destroy the servants of Baal.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Jehu sent word through all of Israel, and all of the servants of Baal came; there did not remain a man who did not come. They came to the house of Baal so that the house of Baal was filled from {wall to wall}.Literally "edge to edge"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He said to the one who was over the wardrobe, "Bring out clothing for all of the servants of Baal." So he brought the clothing out for them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Recab came to the temple of Baal, and he said to the servants of Baal, "Search and see that there is none of the servants of Yahweh here with you; only those who serve Baal."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 24
c3content:
They came to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he said, "The man who lets anyone escape from the men who I am {entrusting to you},Literally "bringing upon your hand" {he will pay with his life}!"Literally "his life in place of his life" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 25
c3content:
It happened that when he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the royal guard and to the officers, "Come and kill them; let no man go free!" So {they put them to the sword},Literally "they struck them with the edge of the sword" and the royal guard and the officers threw them out, then they went up to the citadel of the temple of Baal.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 27
c3content:
So they broke down the stone pillars of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine until this day.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Only Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat by which he caused Israel to sin; namely, the calf-shaped idols of gold which were in Bethel and Dan.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well by doing right in my eyes and you have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart; therefore, sons of the fourth generation will sit for you on the throne of Israel."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 31
c3content:
But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of Yahweh God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam by which he caused Israel to sin. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 33
c3content:
from the Jordan eastward: all of the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer which is on the Wadi Arnon and Gilead and Bashan.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and all of his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 35
c3content:
So Jehu slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoahaz his son became king in his place.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, so she prepared to destroy all of the offspring of the royal family.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
But Jehosheba the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah took Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, and she stole him from among the sons of the king who were being put to death, putting him and his nurse in the inner bedroom. So they hid him from the presence of Athaliah, and he was not killed.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He remained with her in the temple of Yahweh, hidden for six years while Athaliah was reigning over the land. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the commanders of the hundreds of the Carites and the runners, and he brought them to himself to the temple of Yahweh. Then he {made}Literally "cut" a covenant with them and made them swear in the house of Yahweh and showed them the son of the king.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He commanded them, saying, "This is the thing which you must do: one third of you {who go off duty on the Sabbath},Literally "who go on the Sabbath" the keepers of the guard in the house of the king,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and another third at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the runners, shall guard the post of the palace alternately.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Two of the units among you, all {who go on duty on the Sabbath},Literally "the going out of the Sabbath" guard the post of the temple of Yahweh for the king.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
You must surround the king all about, each with his weapon in his hand; whoever comes to the ranks must be killed. Be with the king {wherever he goes}."Literally "when he goes out and when he comes" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So the commanders of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and each took his men {who went off duty on the Sabbath}Literally "the coming of the Sabbath" and those {who came on duty on the Sabbath},Literally "the going out of the Sabbath" and they came to Jehoiada the priest.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then the priest gave to the commanders of the hundreds spears and small round shields which were King David's, which were in the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So the royal runners stood, each with his weapons in his hand, from the side of the temple to the south up to the side of the temple on the north, around the altar and around the temple, about the king all around.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then he brought out the son of the king, put the crown on him with the testimony, and they made him king, anointed him, clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
When Athaliah heard the sound of the runners of the people, she came to the people at the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
She looked, and there was the king standing by the pillar according to the custom. The commanders and the trumpeters were by the king, and all of the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing on the trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and she called, "Treason, treason!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of the hundreds, the appointed of the army, and he said to them, "Bring her out to the house of the ranks! The one coming after her should kill her with the sword," for the priest had said, "Let her not be killed in the temple of Yahweh."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So {they grabbed her}Literally "they put hands to her" as she went by the entranceway of the horses to the palace of the king, and she was killed there.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then Jehoiada {made}Literally "cut" a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that the people should be as a people for Yahweh, and also a covenant between the king and the people.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down, and its altars and its images they broke completely into pieces. Mattan the priest of Baal they killed in front of the altars. Then the priest put guards over the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He took the commanders of the hundreds and the Carites and the runners and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the temple of Yahweh. And they marched by the way of the runner's gate to the palace of the king, and he sat on the throne of the kings.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city rested; for Athaliah had been killed with the sword in the palace of the king. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
2 Kings 11:21-12:21 in the English Bible is 2 Kings 12:1-22 in the Hebrew Bible Jehoash was {seven years old}Literally "a son of seven years" when he began to reign. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years, and the name of his mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Jehoash did right in the eyes of Yahweh all of his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Only the high places were not removed; the people were still making sacrifices and offering incense on the high places. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Jehoash said to the priests, "All of the money for the sacred things that is brought to the temple of Yahweh, {the money taxed at its proper value for each person}Literally "money passing over a man, the money of persons his proper value" and all of the money which comes upon the heart of a man to bring to the temple of Yahweh,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
let the priests take for themselves, each from his treasurers, and let them repair the breach of the temple for every place where damage is found." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
It happened in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash that the priests had not repaired the damage in the temple.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the priests, and he said to them, "Why are you not repairing the damage in the temple? Now, you shall not take money from your treasurers for the damage in the temple. You must provide it."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So the priests agreed not to take money from the people and not to repair the damage to the temple. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Jehoiada the priest took a certain chest and bored a hole in its lid, and he put it beside the altar to the right as a man enters into the temple of Yahweh; then the priests who were keepers of the threshold would put there all of the money brought into the temple.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
It happened that when they saw a great deal of money in the chest, the secretary of the king and the high priest would come up, put the money in bags, then count the money found in the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
They placed the money, which was weighed out, into the hands of the workers who were appointed over the temple of Yahweh, and they paid it to the skilled craftsmen of wood and to the builders working on the temple of Yahweh


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and to the masons and the stonecutters, to buy timber and stones for hewing, in order to repair the damage of the temple of Yahweh, and for all who went to the temple to repair it.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Only, for the temple of Yahweh, there were not any silver basins, snuffers, bowls for drinking wine, trumpets, or any vessel of gold or silver from the money being brought to the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
They did not have to settle accounts with the men into whose hands they placed the money to give to the workers, for they were dealing honestly.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The money of the guilt offering and the money of the sin offering was not brought into the templeOr "house" of Yahweh, but were each for the priests. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 17
c3content:
At that time, Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it; then Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Jehoash king of Judah took all of the holy objects that Jehoshaphat, Joram, and Ahaziah his ancestors,Or "fathers" the kings of Judah, had devoted, and all his holy objects and all of the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of Yahweh, and in the palace of the king, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, so that he went up from Jerusalem. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then his servants arose and conspired and killed Joash in the house of the Millo as he was going down toward Silla.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 21
c3content:
JozabadA number of Hebrew manuscripts read "Jozakar" here, a reading followed by many English versions. The Hebrew letters for K and B are very similar, as are the letters for R and D. Scribal error may account for the variant reading. the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and killed him, so they buried him with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David. Then Amaziah his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel in Samaria, reigning seventeen years.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat with which he had caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from it.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So the {anger of Yahweh was kindled}Literally "the nose of Yahweh became hot" against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of Hazael king of Aram and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael {repeatedly}.Literally "all the days"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Jehoahaz entreated Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Aram oppressed them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Yahweh gave Israel a savior, and they went out from under the hand of Aram. So the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" lived in their tents as {formerly}.Literally "as yesterday and the day before"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Yet they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to sin, but walked in it; and also, the pole of the Asherah worship was still standing in Samaria.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For there was no army left over for Jehoahaz except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them as the dust at threshing.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did and his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Jehoahaz slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoash his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, reigning sixteen years.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all of the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin, but walked in it.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of JoashThat is, the king of Israel rather than the king of Judah; "Jehoash" and "Joash" are variant spellings of one another and all that he did, his powerful deeds, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Joash slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and Jeroboam sat on his throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Elisha became ill with the illness with which he would die, so Jehoash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, and said, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He said to the king of Israel, "{Lay your hand on the bow},"Literally "Let your hand climb upon the bow" so he lay hold of it; then Elisha put his hand on the hands of the king.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then he said, "Open the window to the east," so he opened it. Elisha said, "Shoot," and he shot. Then he said, "An arrow of victory for Yahweh, and an arrow of victory against Aram; you shall fight the Arameans in Aphek until finishing them."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then he said, "Take the arrows," so he took them. He said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," so he struck three times and stopped.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Yet the man of God became angry against him and said, "For striking five or six times, then you would have defeated Aram until finishing them, but now you will defeat Aram only three times." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Elisha died and they buried him. Now the raiding parties of Moab came {in the spring}.Literally "coming year"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And it happened that they were burying a man; suddenly they saw the marauding band, so they threw the man in the grave of Elisha. As he went in, the man touched the bones of Elisha, and became alive and got up on his feet! 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But Yahweh had mercy on them and showed compassion to them and turned to them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them nor cast them from his presence up to now. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took the cities from the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael which he had taken from the hand of Jehoahaz his father in the war. Three times Jehoash defeated him and recovered the towns of Israel. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the second year of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah began to reign.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Jehoaddin from Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as David his ancestor;Or "father" as all which Jehoash his father had done, he did.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Only the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
It happened that when the kingdom was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But the sons of the killers he did not kill, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which Yahweh had commanded, saying, "Fathers should not be killed because of children, and children should not be killed because of fathers; but a man should die because of his own sin."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He also killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and he seized Sela in the battle, and he called its name Jokteel, until this day. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, "Come let us meet {face-to-face}."Literally "faces"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah, saying, "The thornbush which is in Lebanon sent to the cedar which is in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son as wife,' but an animal of the field which is in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thornbush.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You have indeed defeated Edom and your heart is lifted up; enjoy the honor and stay home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But Amaziah would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel went up and they met face-to-face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-Shemesh which belongs to Judah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-Shemesh. Then they came to Jerusalem, and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim up to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits!


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He also took all of the gold and silver and all the vessels found in the temple of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the palace of the king, as well as the {hostages};Literally "sons of the pledges" then he returned to Samaria. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his powerful deeds, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Jehoash slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 19
c3content:
They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent men after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then they carried him on the horses, and he was buried with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 21
c3content:
All of the people of Judah took sixteen-year-old Azariah and made him king in place of this father Amaziah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 23
c3content:
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, reigning forty-one years.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 25
c3content:
He restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-Hamath up to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet, who was from Gath-Hepher.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 26
c3content:
For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Yahweh did not decree to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, all that he did, his powerful deeds, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath of Judah to Israel, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 29
c3content:
So Jeroboam slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" the kings of Israel, and his son Zechariah became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Only he did not remove the high places; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Yahweh struck the king, and he was infected with a skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, while Jotham the son of the king was over the house, governing the people of the land.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So Azariah slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David, and Jotham his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria for six months.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as his ancestorsOr "fathers" had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, struck him in front of the people, killed him, and reigned in his place.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Zechariah, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 12
c3content:
This is the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, "Sons of a fourth generation shall sit for you on the throne of Israel," and it was so. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned {a full month}Literally "a month of days" in Samaria.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah, and he came to Samaria and struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him. Then he became king in place of him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he conspired; look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 16
c3content:
At that time Menahem destroyed Tiphsah, all who were in it, and all its territory from Tirzah, because it had not opened to him, so he destroyed it and ripped open all of its pregnant women. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 17
c3content:
In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart all of his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, so Menahem gave a thousand talents of silver to Pul so that his hand would be with him {to strengthen his hold on the kingdom}.Literally "to strengthen the kingship in his hand"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all {the very rich},Literally "the mighty of the wealth" to give to the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each one. Then the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 23
c3content:
In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, so he attacked him in Samaria in the citadel fortress of the palace of the king, with Argob and Arieh. With him also were fifty men from the children of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Pekahiah and all that he did, look, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 27
c3content:
In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 28
c3content:
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 29
c3content:
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-Beth-Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, the Gilead, the Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali; then he deported them to Assyria.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Hoshea the son of Elah conspired against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and he attacked and killed him. He reigned in place of him in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, look, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 32
c3content:
In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 33
c3content:
He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Only the high places were not removed; the people still were sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Jotham which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 37
c3content:
(Now, in those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.)


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 38
c3content:
So Jotham slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and was buried with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David his ancestor,Or "father" and his son Ahaz became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do right in the eyes of Yahweh his God as David his ancestor.Or "father"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even let his son pass through the fire according to the detestable things of the nations which Yahweh drove out from before the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Rezin the king of Aram went up with Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel against Jerusalem for battle, and they besieged Ahaz but were not able to {defeat}Literally "fight" him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and drove out the Judeans from Elath. The Arameans came to Elath and have lived there until this day. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel who are rising up against me."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the house of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the palace of the king, and he sent a gift to the king of Assyria.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So the king of Assyria listened to him and he went up to Damascus and captured it and deported them to Kir. He also killed Rezin. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria in Damascus, and he saw the altar which was in Damascus, so King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the builder's plan of the altar and the {exact model of how it had been made}.Literally "and its model according to all its work"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So Uriah the priest built the altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus; thus Uriah the priest did before King Ahaz came from Damascus.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar, so he went near to the altar and went up on it.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then he offered his burnt offerings and his grain offerings, he poured his libations and dashed the blood of his fellowship offerings against the altar.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Now the bronze altar which was before Yahweh, he brought over from the front of the temple, from between his altar and the temple of Yahweh, and he placed it at the side of his altar to the north.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the grain offering of the evening, the burnt offering of the king and his grain offering, the burnt offering of all of the people of the land, their offerings, their libations, and all of the blood of the burnt offerings, the blood of the sacrifices you must dash on it. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then King Ahaz cut off the side panels of the water carts and removed from upon them the basin, and the sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The covering for the Sabbath which they had built in the palace and in the entrance of the king to the outside, he removed from the temple of Yahweh because of the presence of the king of Assyria.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So Ahaz slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and was buried with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the twelfth year of Ahaz the king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, reigning nine years.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Shalmaneser the king of AssyriaThis would have been Shalmaneser V of Assyria (ruled ca. 727-722 bc) came up against him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid tribute to him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and he did not offer tribute to the king of Assyria as he had year after year; so the king of Assyria arrested him, and confined him in a house of imprisonment.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So the king of Assyria went up in all the land, then he went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported Israel to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, in Habor, in the river regions of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now this happened because the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" had sinned against Yahweh their God when he brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt and they feared other gods.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from before the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" which the kings of Israel had introduced.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" secretly did things which were not right, against Yahweh their God; they built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower up to the fortified city.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
They burned incense there on all the high places, like the nations which Yahweh deported before them, and they did evil things to provoke Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of his every prophet, with every seer saying, "Turn from all of your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, according to all the law which I commanded your ancestors,Or "fathers" which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But they did not listen and they stiffened their necks, like the necks of their ancestorsOr "fathers who did not believe in Yahweh their God.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he {made}Literally "cut" with their ancestors,Or "fathers" and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and went after all the nations which were all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they did.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
They abandoned all the commands of Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 18
c3content:
So Yahweh was very angry with Israel and he removed them from his presence; none remained except the tribe of Judah alone. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Even Judah did not keep the commands of Yahweh their God, and they walked in the customs of Israel which they introduced,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 20
c3content:
so Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel and punished them, and he gave them into the hand of the plunderers until he banished them from his presence.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For he had torn Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, but Jeroboam detached Israel from following Yahweh, and he made them sin a great sin.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he committed, and they did not depart from it,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 23
c3content:
until Yahweh removed Israel from his presence as he had foretold by the hand of all his servants, the prophets. And so he deported Israel from upon his land to Assyria until this day. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 24
c3content:
The king of Assyria brought from Babylonia, from Cush, from Arva, from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and he settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" so they took possession of Samaria and lived in her cities.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 25
c3content:
It happened that when they began living there, they did not fear Yahweh, so Yahweh sent lions among them, and they were killing them.Leviticus 26:22 warns that non-belief will result in attacks from wild animals.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 26
c3content:
So they said to the king of Assyria, "The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the customs of the God of the land, so he sent lions among them, and now they are killing them because they do not know the customs of the God of the land."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Release one of the priests whom you deported from there, and let him go and settle there. Let him teach them the customs of the God of the land."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 28
c3content:
So one of the priests went, whom they had deported from Samaria, and he settled in Bethel and was teaching them how they should fear Yahweh. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Yet every nation was making theirHebrew "his" gods, and they put them in the shrine of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they were living.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 30
c3content:
The men of Babylonia made Succoth Benoth; the men of Cush made Nergal; the men of Hamath made Ashima.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 31
c3content:
The Arvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites were burning their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Those who were fearing Yahweh made priests of the high places {from among themselves},Literally "for them from their ends" and they were sacrificing for them in the shrines of the high places.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Yahweh they were fearing, but their gods they were serving, according to the customs of the nations from which they were deported. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Until this day they are doing according to their former customs; none of them are fearing Yahweh, and none of them are doing according to their statutes, to their decisions, to the law, or to the commands that Yahweh commanded the descendantsOr "sons" of Jacob to which he had given the name Israel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Yahweh had {made}Literally "cut" a covenant with them and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods, nor shall you bow down to them, nor shall you serve them, nor shall you sacrifice to them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Rather, Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt with great strength and with an outstretched arm--him you shall fear, and to him you shall bow down, and to him you shall sacrifice.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 37
c3content:
The statutes, the decisions, the law, and the commands that he wrote to you, you shall observe to do always, and you shall not fear other gods.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 38
c3content:
The covenant that I have {made}Literally "cut" with you, you shall not forget, and you shall not fear other gods.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 41
c3content:
So these nations were fearing Yahweh, but they were serving their idols, as were their children and their children's children; as their ancestorsOr "fathers" did, they are doing until this day. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel; there was no one like him, before or after, among all the kings of Judah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Yahweh was with him; everywhere he went, he succeeded. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 8
c3content:
He attacked the Philistines up to Gaza and its territory from the watchtower up to the fortified city. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 9
c3content:
It happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, that is, the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came against Samaria and laid siege against her.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
At the end of three years, he captured it in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel; Samaria was captured.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then the king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Habor, in the river regions of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh their God, and they transgressed his covenant; all that he had commanded Moses, the servant of Yahweh, they did not listen to nor did they obey. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 13
c3content:
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me. What you impose on me I will bear." So the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Hezekiah gave all of the silver found in the temple of Yahweh and in the storerooms of the house of the king.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 16
c3content:
At that time, Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of Yahweh and the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and he gave them to the king of Assyria.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So the king of Assyria sent the commander in chief, the chief eunuch, and the {chief advisor}Traditionally "Rabshekah" from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a heavy army. They went up and came to Jerusalem, then they went up and came and stood at the aqueduct of the upper pool which is on the main road of the {washer's}Or "fuller's" field.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then they called to the king, so Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then the chief advisor said to them, "Please say to Hezekiah: 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What is this confidence that you trust?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You think only a word of lips, 'I have advice and power for the war.' Now, on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Now, look! You {rely}Literally "trust for yourself" on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which when a man leans on it, it goes into his hand and pierces it! So is Pharaoh the king of Egypt for all who are trusting on him!


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But if you say to me, 'On Yahweh our God we trust,' is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and he had said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'In the presence of this altar you shall bow down only in Jerusalem?'


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 23
c3content:
So then, please make a wager with my lord, with the king of Assyria, and I will give to you a thousand horses {if you are able on your part to put riders on them.}Literally "if you are able to give for yourself riders upon them"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 24
c3content:
How {can you repulse a single captain among the least of the servants of my master}Literally "can you return the face of the governor one of the servants of my master"? Yet you rely for yourself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen!


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Have I now come up against this place without Yahweh to destroy it? Yahweh has said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it!'" '" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and Shebna and Joah said to the chief commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we are understanding, but you must not speak Judean with us in the ears of the people who are on the wall."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The chief commander said to them, "Is it solely to your master and to you my master has sent me to speak these words? Is it not for the men who sit on the wall to eat their feces and to drink their urine with you?" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then the chief commander stood and called with a great voice in Judean, and he spoke and said, "Hear the word of the king, the great king of Assyria!


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you from myHebrew "his" hand.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Certainly Yahweh will rescue us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!" '


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make with me a treaty of peace and come out to me that each may eat from his vine and each from his fig tree, and each may drink water from his cistern!


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees, olive oil, and honey, that you may live and not die! You must not listen to Hezekiah, for he has misled you by saying, "Yahweh will deliver us!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? For did they rescue Samaria from my hand?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Who among all of the gods of the countries have rescued their countries from my hand that Yahweh should rescue Jerusalem from my hand?'" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 36
c3content:
The people were silent, and they did not answer him a word, for the command of that king was saying, "You shall not answer him."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with torn clothes, and they told him the words of the chief commander. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened that when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went to the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
He sent Eliakim who was over the palace, Shebna the secretary, the elders, and the priests, all clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'A day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace is this day, for the children {are about to be born},Literally "came up to the outer vagina" but there is no strength to bear them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all of the words of the chief commander whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to insult the living God, and he will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remainder who are left.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and Isaiah said to them, "Thus you must say to your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You must not be afraid because the face of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Look, I am putting in him a spirit. He will hear a rumor and return to his land. Then I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land." '" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
When the chief commander returned, he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He heard about Tirhakah, the king of Cush, saying, "Look, he has set out to fight with you," so he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Thus you shall say to Hezekiah the king of Judah, 'Let not your God whom you are trusting deceive you, by his saying, "Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, by utterly destroying them, and shall you be delivered?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Did the gods of the nations that my {predecessors}Literally "fathers" destroyed deliver them? Not Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, nor the children of Eden who were in Tel Assar.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them. Then he went up to the temple of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread them out before the presence of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Hezekiah prayed before the face of Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel who lives above the cherubim. You are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the world; you have made the heavens and the earth.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Incline your ears and hear; open, O Yahweh, your eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to insult the living God.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 18
c3content:
He has hurled their gods in the fire because they are not gods, but the work of the hands of a human made of wood and stone, so they destroyed them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 19
c3content:
So then, O Yahweh our God, rescue us, please, from his hand, that all of the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Yahweh, you alone are God!" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'What you have prayed to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Whom have you mocked and reviled? And against whom have you have raised your voice and have haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 23
c3content:
By the hand of your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, 'With my many chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains. To the remote areas of Lebanon, I have felled the tallest of its cedars, the choicest of its cypresses. I have entered the place of overnight lodging. Even to the edge of forest of its fertile land.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 24
c3content:
I dug wells and I drank foreign water, and I dried up with the sole of my steps all the canals of Egypt.'


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Have you not heard? From long ago I have determined it, from the days of old I have planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. It shall be turned into a pile of rocks; fortified cities are ruined.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Because you are raging against me, and your arrogance has come up in my ears, I will put my nose ring in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. And I will turn you back on the way that you have come.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 29
c3content:
" 'This will be the sign for you: Eat the volunteer plants for the year, and in the second year, the volunteer plants that spring up from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 31
c3content:
For from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and survivors from Mount Zion; the zeal of Yahweh will do this. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 32
c3content:
" 'Therefore thus says Yahweh to the king of Assyria, "He shall not come to this city, nor shall he shoot an arrow there, nor shall he bring a small shield near her, nor shall he cast a siege ramp against her.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 33
c3content:
By the way that he came to her he shall return; but to this city, he shall not come," declares Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 35
c3content:
It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them were dead corpses.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 37
c3content:
It happened that he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and SharezerSo Kethib; Qere adds "his sons" struck him with the sword. Then they escaped into the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In those days Hezekiah became {deathly ill},Literally "ill to die" and Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Command your house, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"O Yahweh, please remember how I went about before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and remember the good that I have done in your eyes." Then Hezekiah {wept bitterly}.Literally "wept a great weeping"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Return; you must say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'Thus says Yahweh the God of David your ancestor,Or "father" "I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Look, I am about to heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
I will add to your days fifteen years, and from the hand of the king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of David my servant." '"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that Yahweh will heal me that I shall go up on the third day to the temple of Yahweh?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Isaiah said, "This is the sign for you from Yahweh that Yahweh will do the thing that he has promised: Shall the shadow advance ten steps or shall it return ten steps?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backwards ten steps."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Isaiah the prophet called to Yahweh, and he brought back the shadow on the steps where it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten steps. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
At that time, Berodak-Baladan the son of Baladan king of {Babylon}Or "Babel." Babel was the ancient name for Babylon, the capital of Babylonia. See also Genesis 11:9 sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Hezekiah heard about them and showed them all of the house of his treasure, both the silver and the gold, the spices, the good olive oil, the room of his weapons, and all that could be found in his treasuries. There was nothing that he did not show them in his palace and in all of his kingdom.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "From a far land; they have come from Babylon."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then he asked, "What did they see in your palace?" And Hezekiah said, "All that is in my palace they have seen; there is nothing that I did not show them in my treasuries." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
'Look, days are coming when all that is in your palace will be carried off; even all that your ancestorsOr "fathers" have stored up until this day, to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
'Your sons who went out from you, whom you brought forth, will be taken, and they shall be eunuchs in the temple of the king of Babylon.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh which you have spoken is good," and he thought, "Is it not that peace and security shall be in my days?"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Now the remainder of the acts of Hezekiah, all of his powerful deeds, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hephzibah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, according to the detestable things of the nations that Yahweh had driven out from the presence of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He returned and rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal and made a pole of Asherah worship just as Ahab king of Israel had made, and he bowed down to all of the host of heaven and served them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He built altars in the temple of Yahweh about which Yahweh had said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying and divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He increased the doing of evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He put the image of the Asherah that he had made in the temple which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this temple and in Jerusalem which I have chosen from all of the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I have given to their ancestors,Or "fathers" if they only observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, as far as the law that Moses my servant commanded them."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But Manasseh did not listen and tempted them to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh destroyed before the presence of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"Because Manasseh the king of Judah committed these detestable things and did evil more than the Amorites did who were before him and caused even Judah to sin with his idols,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
therefore, thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Look, I am bringing disaster upon Jerusalem and Judah about which the two ears of all who hear it will tingle.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the dish; he wipes it and turns it on its face.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I will give up the remainder of my inheritance, and I will give them into the hand of their enemies. They shall become as prey and as spoil for all their enemies,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
because they have done evil in my eyes and were provoking me from the day that their ancestorsOr "fathers" came out from Egypt up to this day.'" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he filled Jerusalem {from one end to another},Literally "end to end" apart from his sin which he caused Judah to sin by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin that he committed, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Manasseh slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and was buried in the garden of his palace, in the garden of Uzza. Amon his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz from Jotbah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 21
c3content:
He walked in all of the way which his father had walked, and he served the idols which his father had served and bowed down to them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But the people of the land killed all who conspired against the king and made Josiah his son king in his place.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 2
c3content:
He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in all of the way of David his ancestorOr "father" and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
It happened in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent word to Shaphan the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the secretary of the temple of Yahweh, saying,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and let them count the money being brought to the temple of Yahweh which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and let them give it into the hand of those appointed doers of the work at the temple of Yahweh. Let them give it to the doers of the work who are at the temple of Yahweh to repair the breach of the temple:


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
to the skilled craftsmen, to the builders, to the masons, and to buy timber and hewing stones to repair the temple.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Only the money being given to them is not to be accounted for by them, for they are dealing with honesty." 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the scroll of the Torah in the temple of Yahweh," and Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Shaphan the secretary came to the king and returned the king a word, and he said, "Your servant poured out the money found in the temple, and they have given it into the hand of the doers of the work appointed over the temple of Yahweh."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king saying, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll." Then Shaphan read before the king. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Acbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Go, inquire of Yahweh for me and for the people and for all of Judah concerning the words of this scroll that was found. For the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us is great because our ancestorsOr "fathers" did not listen to the words of this scroll to do according to all that is written concerning us!" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah the son of Harhas, the keeper of the robes. Now she was living in Jerusalem in the second district. Then they spoke to her,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh, 'Look I am bringing evil to this place and upon its inhabitants, according to all of the words of that scroll that the king of Judah has read


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 17
c3content:
because they have abandoned me and they have burned incense to other gods, provoking me to anger with all of the works of their hands. My wrath shall be kindled against this place and not be quenched.'"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And to the king of Judah who sent all of you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall say to him, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Concerning the words that you have heard,


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
because you have a responsive heart, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants to become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before my face, I have also heard, declares Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Therefore look, I am gathering you to your ancestors,Or "fathers" and you shall be gathered to your tombs in peace. Your eyes will not see all of the disaster that I am bringing onto this place.'" '" Then they {reported the word}Literally "they returned a word" to the king. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then the king went up to the temple of Yahweh, and all of the men of Judah and all of the inhabitants of Jerusalem were with him, including the priests, the prophets, and all of the people from smallest to greatest; and in their {hearing}Literally "ears" he read all of the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been found in the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the king stood by the pillar, and he {made}Literally "cut" a covenant before Yahweh, to go after Yahweh and to keep his commands and his warnings and his statutes, with all of his heart and with his all of his soul, to keep the words of this covenant written on this scroll. Then all of the people {joined}Literally "stood" in the covenant. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the {king}That is, Josiah commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the second priests, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all of the objects made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and then he carried their ashes to Bethel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He removed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem and who offered incense to, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He brought out the Asherah image from the temple of Yahweh outside of Jerusalem to the Wadi of the Kidron and burnt it {there};Literally "at the wadi of the Kidron" then he pulverized it to dust and threw its dust upon the tombs of the children of the people.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He tore down the shrines of the male shrine prostitutes which were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women were weaving shrines for the Asherah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then he brought all of the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests from Geba up to Beersheba burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on the left of each gate of the city.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread in the midst of their relatives.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He defiled the Topheth which is in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, {to prevent}Literally "so that not" anyone causing his sons or his daughters to pass through the fire for Molech.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He kept the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun from coming to the temple of Yawheh at the side room of Nathan-Melech the eunuch, which was in the court; and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The altars which were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the temple of Yahweh, the king tore down and ran from there and threw their ashes into the Wadi Kidron.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The high places which were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mountain of Destruction which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the detestable thing of the {Ammonites},Literally "sons/children of Ammon" the king defiled.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He also broke into pieces the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and covered their sites with human bones. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Moreover, the altar which was in Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin, had built, even that altar and the high place, Josiah tore down. Then he burned down the high place and crushed the pole of Asherah worship to dust and burned it with fire.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When Josiah turned and saw the tombs which were there on the hill, he sent and took the bones from the tombs and burned them on the altar. Thus he defiled them according to the word of Yahweh that the man of God had proclaimed who had proclaimed these things.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then he said, "What is this gravestone that I am seeing?" The men of the city said to him, "This is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 18
c3content:
So Josiah said, "Let him rest and let no man move his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Moreover, all of the shrines of the high places which were in the towns of Samaria which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh, Josiah removed, and he did to them like all of the deeds he had done in Bethel.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then he slaughtered all of the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and he burned the bones of the humans on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then the king commanded all of the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as has been written on the scroll of this covenant."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For they had not kept this Passover from the days of the judges who had judged over Israel {or}Or "and" during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Moreover, the mediums and the spiritists, the household gods and the idols, and all of the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah removed in order to establish the words of the law written on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the temple of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 25
c3content:
There was not a king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all of his heart and with all of his soul and with all of his might according to the lawOr "Torah" of Moses, nor did one arise like him afterwards. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 26
c3content:
However, Yahweh did not turn from the fierceness of his great anger which was kindled against Judah because of all of the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Yahweh had said, "Even Judah I will remove from my face, as I have removed Israel; I will reject this city that I have chosen, even Jerusalem and the house of which I said, 'My name shall be there'!" 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 28
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 29
c3content:
In his days, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to meet him, and heThat is, Neco killed him at Megiddo as soon as he saw him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 30
c3content:
So his servants drove him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and they brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Then Pharaoh Neco confined him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and imposed a levy on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt, and he died there.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 35
c3content:
The silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh; however, he taxed the land to give the silver {to meet the demands of Pharaoh}.Literally "on the hunger of Pharaoh" Each according to assessment, he exacted payment of the silver and the gold from the people of the land to give to Pharaoh Neco. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebudah,According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib reads "Zebidah" the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up because Jehoiakim had become his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So Yahweh sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, raiding bands of Aram, raiding bands of Moab, and raiding bands of the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons/children of Ammon" He had sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Surely, it was {on the command}Literally "on the mouth" of Yahweh against Judah to remove them from his sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Also, for the blood of the innocent that he had shed--and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood--Yahweh was not willing to forgive.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The remainder of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The king of Egypt did not again come out from his land, for the king of Babylon had taken territory from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and the city came under the siege.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his court officials. The king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then he took from there all of the treasures of the temple of Yahweh and the treasures of the palace of the king. He cut up all of the vessels of gold which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had foretold.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He deported all of Jerusalem: all of the commanders, ten thousand of the skilled warriors, and the artisans; no one was left over except the poorest of the people of the land.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king, the wives of the king, his court officials, and the citizenry of the land he caused to go into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
of all of the skilled men, seven thousand, and of the skilled craftsmen and the artisans, one thousand. All of the mighty warriors {fit for war}Literally "doers of war" the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his uncle king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For it happened because of the anger of Yahweh, in Jerusalem and in Judah, until they were cast out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened that in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and his army, against Jerusalem. He encamped against it and built siege works against it all around.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war entered by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans were against the city all around, so heThat is, Zedekiah left by the way of the Arabah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the Arabah of Jericho, and all of his army scattered from him.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and {they passed sentence on him}.Literally "they spoke justice with him"


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He and all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the imperial guard tore down the wall of Jerusalem all around.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The remainder of the people left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard deported. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But the poor of the land the commander of the imperial guard left for the vineyards and for tilling. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The bronze pillars which were in the templeOr "house" of Yahweh, the water carts, and the bronze sea that was in the temple of Yahweh, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried their bronze to Babylon.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the dishes, and the vessels of bronze with which they served there, they took.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The firepans and the basins, whatever was gold, the commander of the imperial guard took for the gold and whatever was silver, for the silver.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The two pillars, the one sea, and the water cart which Solomon had made for the temple of Yahweh, there was no weighing to the bronze of all of these vessels.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; a bronze capital was on it, with the height of the capital being three cubits. The latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around were bronze, and likewise on the latticework for the second pillar. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then the commander of the imperial guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and three of the threshold keepers.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 19
c3content:
From the city he took one court official who was chief officer over the men of war, five men {from the king's council}Literally "from those who saw the face of the king" who were found in the city, the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath; thus Judah was removed from its land. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Now as far as the people left in Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left behind, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan over them.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 23
c3content:
When all of the commanders of the troops heard, they and the men, that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seriah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and he said to them, "You must not be afraid because of the Chaldeans. Settle in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and may it go well with you."


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 25
c3content:
But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama from the offspring of the kingship came, and ten men with him, and they struck down Gedaliah so that he died with the Judeans and with the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then all the people, from youngest to oldest, and the commanders of the troops, went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans. 


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 27
c3content:
It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 28
c3content:
He spoke {kindly}Literally "good things" to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who were with him in Babylon.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 29
c3content:
So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life.


c0book: 2Kgs
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 30
c3content:
His allowance was continually given to him from the king, {a portion every day}Literally "a thing of day on his day" all the days of his life. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And two sons were born to Eber: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and the name of his brother was Joktan.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And the sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 36
c3content:
The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi,Spelled "Zepho" in Genesis 36:11 Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 43
c3content:
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the {Israelites}:Literally "sons/children of Israel" Bela son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 46
c3content:
When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has "Avuth"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 50
c3content:
When Baal-Hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place, and the name of his city was Pai.Spelled "Pau" in Genesis 36:39 And the name of his wife was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Me-Zahab.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three were born to him from Bathshua the Canaanite. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he put him to death.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who acted unfaithfully in the matter of the devoted thing.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife and by Jerioth. And these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead. And he marriedOr "took" her when he was sixty years old. And she bore Segub to him.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-Jair from them, Kenath and its villages, sixty cities. All these were the {descendants}Literally "sons" of Makir, the father of Gilead.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn; he was the father of Ziph. The sons of Mareshah: Hebron.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 49
c3content:
She also gave birth to Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Acsah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 53
c3content:
And the families of Kiriath-Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these descended the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 54
c3content:
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Ataroth-Beth-Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 55
c3content:
And the families of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These were the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Recab. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
the third, Absalom, the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Six were born to him in Hebron. And he reigned there seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah. The sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And these were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would surely bless me and enlarge my border. And may your hand be with me, that you would keep me from evil so that it might not harm me!" And God granted what he asked.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Eshton fathered Beth-Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash. These are the men of Recah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-Harashim, because they were craftsmen.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And she became pregnant with Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these were the sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of linen workers at Beth Ashbea;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem. (Now the records are ancient).


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 23
c3content:
These were the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there with the king in his service. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children. But all their families did not multiply like the men of Judah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 33
c3content:
and all their villages that surrounding these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for them. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 38
c3content:
These {mentioned by name}Literally "coming in the names" were leaders in their families, and their fathers' households increased greatly.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And they went to the entrance of Gedor, up to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And they found fertile and good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and at ease, for the former inhabitants there were from Ham.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 41
c3content:
These, mentioned by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there. And they devoted them to destruction to this day, and they settled among them because there was pasture there for their flocks.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And some of them from the Simeonites went to Mount Seir, five hundred men. And Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, were under their leadership.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 43
c3content:
And they destroyed the remainder of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but when he defiled the couch of his father, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that he was not enrolled in the genealogy as the firstborn,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, but the birthright belonged to Joseph).


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Beerah his son, a leader of the Reubenites, whom Tiglath-Pilneser king of Assyria deported into exile.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And his kinsmen by their families, when their generations were recorded in the genealogy: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He also lived to the east up to the entrance of the desert {this side of}Or "from" the River Euphrates, for their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And in the days of Saul they made war against the Hagrites, and theyThat is, the Hagrites fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents in all the region east of Gilead. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And their kinsmen according to their fathers' households: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in {its towns},Literally "her daughters" and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
All of them were enrolled in the genealogy in the days of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, king of Israel. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had {valiant}Literally "sons of strength" men who carried a shield and a sword, and archers, and who were expert in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty for going out as an army.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he responded to their prayer because they trusted in him.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And they captured their livestock: fifty thousand of their camels; two hundred and fifty thousand sheep; two thousand donkeys; and one hundred thousand men alive.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They were numerous.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Now these were the heads of their fathers' households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of strength, {famous men},Literally "men of the name" heads of their fathers' households.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 25
c3content:
But they transgressed against the God of their ancestorsOr "fathers" and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 26
c3content:
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pilneser, king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, until this day. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
1 Chronicles 6:1-81 in the English Bible is 5:27-6:66 in the Hebrew Bible The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and Johanan fathered Azariah. It was he who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Jehozadak went into exile when Yahweh sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. Now these are the families of the Levites according to their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 28
c3content:
The sons of Samuel: Joel"Joel" is from 1 Samuel 8:2, the parallel to this genealogy. The name has dropped out of the text here his firstborn and Abijah the second.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Now these are the men whom David appointed for {control of singing}Literally "to the hands of song" in the house of Yahweh where the ark rested.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 32
c3content:
They were ministering with song before the tabernacle of the tent of assemblyOr "meeting" until Solomon built the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they stood according to their order with respect to their duty.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Now these are those who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, son of Samuel,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 44
c3content:
On the left were their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 48
c3content:
And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 49
c3content:
But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 54
c3content:
And these are their dwellings according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for the first lot was theirs,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 57
c3content:
To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 60
c3content:
And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities were thirteen cities throughout their clans.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 61
c3content:
To the Kohathites who remained from the family of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, were given by lot ten cities.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 62
c3content:
To the Gershomites according to their clans thirteen cities were allotted out of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 63
c3content:
To the Merarites twelve cities were allotted according to their clans out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 64
c3content:
So the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 65
c3content:
And they gave by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 67
c3content:
And they gave them the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 70
c3content:
And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands for the remaining the clans of the Kohathites.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 71
c3content:
To the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 76
c3content:
And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 77
c3content:
To the remainder of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 78
c3content:
And beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 80
c3content:
And out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses; for Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David were twenty-two thousand six hundred.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah; all five of them were chiefs.Or "heads"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And in addition to them, according to their generations, according to the house of their fathers, were troops of the army for war: thirty-six thousand. For {they had}Literally "there were" many wives and sons.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Now their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled according to their genealogy. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, the heads of the house of the fathers, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogy was twenty-two thousand thirty-four.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beker.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And their enrollment by genealogy according to their generations, as heads of the house of their fathers, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of the {families},Literally "fathers" mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred, {able to go to war}.Literally "going out to the army to the war"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the {descendants}Literally "sons" of Bilhah. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. And the name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second, Zelophehad. And Zelophehad had daughters.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son, and she called his name Peresh. And the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead. And the men of Gath who were born in the land killed them because they came down to take their livestock.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And he called his name Beriah because disaster had been upon his house.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And their property and their dwellings were Bethel and {its towns}.Literally "her daughters," here and below And to the east, Naaran. And to the west, Gezer and its towns, and Shechem and its towns, up to Aija and its towns.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And along the borders of the sons of Manasseh: Beth-Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 31
c3content:
The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel, who was the father of Birzayith.According to the reading tradition (Qere)


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 40
c3content:
All of these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, chosen mighty warriors, heads of the princes. And their number enrolled by genealogy, in the army for the war, was twenty-six thousand men. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And these are the sons of Ehud (these were heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" for the inhabitants of Geba, and they took them away to Manahath):


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Shaharaim fathered children in the fields of Moab after he had sent them away--Hushim and Baara, his wives.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, Shemed (he built Ono and Lod with {its towns}),Literally "her daughters"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and Beriah and Shema who were the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of the inhabitants of Aijalon (they themselves chased away the inhabitants of Gath).


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 28
c3content:
These were the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" according to their generations, chiefs. These lived in Jerusalem.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And JeielThe name Jeiel comes from 1 Chronicles 9:35; it has dropped out of the text here the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. And the name of his wife was Maacah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 32
c3content:
and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their kinsmen.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And the sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, and they had many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were Benjaminites. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
So all Israel was enrolled in genealogy. And behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away to Babylon on account of their sin.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Now the first inhabitants who were settled on their property in their cities in Israel were the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani,According to the reading tradition (Qere) from the sons of Perez,According to the reading tradition (Qere) the son of Judah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Ibneah the son of Jeroham; Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri; Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
and their brethren according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" in the house of their fathers. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Azariah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the commander of the house of God;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah; Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and their kinsmen, heads of the house of their fathers, one thousand seven hundred and sixty mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And from the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, from the sons of Merari;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of Netophathite. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief);


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
until then they were gatekeepers at the gate of the king on the east side toward the camps of the Levites.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of the house of his fathers, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, the guardians of the entrances to the tent, and their fathers were over the camp of Yahweh, guardians of the entrance.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the leader over them {in time past};Or "before" Yahweh was with him.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 22
c3content:
All of them were chosen as gatekeepers at the entrances, two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. They were established by David and Samuel the seer on account of their faithfulness.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 23
c3content:
So they and their sons were over the gates of the house of Yahweh at the house of the tent as guards.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And their brethren in their villages were to come every seven days {by turn}Literally "from time to time" to be with these.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
For the four mighty gatekeepers, they who were Levites, {were entrusted}Literally "they in their faithfulness" and were over the chambers and over the storerooms of the house of God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And they lodged all around the house of God, for upon them was a responsibility. And {they had charge of opening the house of God every morning}.Literally "they were over the key and to morning to morning" 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And some of them were over the utensils of the service, for {they count them}Literally "in number" when they are brought in and {they count them}Literally "in number" when they are brought out.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And some of them were appointed over the objects, over the objects of the sanctuary, and over the wheat flour and the wine, the olive oil, the frankincense, and the spices.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite and {was entrusted}Literally "in faithfulness" with the work of the pan breads.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And from the sons of the Kohathites, some of their kinsmen were over the {showbread}Literally "bread of the rows" to prepare it {every Sabbath}.Literally "Sabbath Sabbath" 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Now these were the singers; the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of the Levites were in the chambers free from other service, for day and night they were over them on the service.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 34
c3content:
These were the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of the Levites according to their genealogies, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And Mikloth fathered Shimeam. And they also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their brothers.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And the sons of Micah were Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.The name is drawn from 1 Chronicles 8:35; it has dropped out of the text here


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 44
c3content:
And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and every Israelite fled away from before the Philistines. And they fell slain upon Mount Gilboa.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the Philistines {overtook}Literally "caught up behind" Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the battle was heavy against Saul, and the {archers}Literally "shooters with the bow" found him, and he was wounded by the {archers}.Literally "shooters"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and deal harshly with me." But he was very afraid. Then Saul took the sword and fell upon it.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that theyThat is, the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. Then the Philistines came and dwelled in them.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And it happened that on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And they stripped him and took his head and his weapons, and they sent them throughout the land of the Philistines to bring news to their idols and the nation.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And they put his weapons in the temple of their gods, and they fastened his skull to the temple of Dagon.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
every strong man arose and took the dead body of Saul and the dead bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So Saul died on account of his sin which he had sinned against Yahweh concerning the command of Yahweh that he did not keep. He also consulted a medium to seek guidance.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But he did not seek Yahweh. So Yahweh put him to death and turned over the kingship to David, the son of Jesse. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{For some time now},Literally "also yesterday also in the past" even when Saul was king, you were {the one who led the army of Israel in battle}.Literally "the one who went out and brought in Israel" And Yahweh your God said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel and will be leader over my people Israel.'"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh. And they anointed David as king over Israel according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Samuel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (that is Jebus). And the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You will not enter here." But David captured the stronghold of Zion; that is, the city of David.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then David said, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites first will be chief and commander." And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first and became chief.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he built the city all around from the Millo and up to the circuit. And Joab restored the remainder of the city.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And David {became greater and greater}.Literally "increased certainly and in greatness" And Yahweh of hosts was with him. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now these are the chiefs of the mighty men who were for David, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel to make him king according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And this is the numbering of the mighty warriors who were for David: Jashobeam son of Hachmoni was chief of the three. He himself raised his spear against three hundred whom he killed on one occasion. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
He himself was with David at Pas-Dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for the battle. And there was a plot of the field filled with barley, and the people fled before the Philistines.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But they took their stand in the middle of the plot and defended it. And they killed the Philistines. And Yahweh saved them with a great victory. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And three of the thirty chiefs went down toward the rock to David at the cave of Adullam when the army of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And David had a craving, and he said, "Who could give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then the three broke through into the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and brought it and came to David. But David would not drink it and poured it out before Yahweh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And he said, "Far be it from me that I would do this before my God. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For {at the risk of their lives}Literally "against their lives" they brought it." And he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty men did. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Now Abishai the brother of Joab was himself the head of the three.Other manuscripts have "thirty" which makes better sense in the context And he roused himself with his spear against three hundred whom he killed and made a name for himselfAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) among the three.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{He was twice as renowned}Literally "he was glorified double" among the threeOther manuscripts have "thirty," which makes better sense in the context and was their commander. But he did not attain to the three.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was {a strong man}Literally "a son of a strong man" from Kabzeel, one who did great deeds. He himself struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab. And he himself went down and struck down a lion within a pit on a snowy day.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And he himself struck down an Egyptian man, a large man five cubits tall. And in the hand of the Egyptian was a spear like a weaver's beam. But he went down to him with a club and seized the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his own spear.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 25
c3content:
He himself was certainly distinguished among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David appointed him over his bodyguard. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Now the mighty warriors of the troops were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo from Bethlehem,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag while he was still shut up because {of Saul},Literally "of the face of Saul" the son of Kish. And they were the mighty warriors helping with the war.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
They were armed with the bow, able to shoot right-handed or left-handed, slinging stones or shooting arrows with the bow; they were kinsmen of Saul from Benjamin.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The leader was Ahiezer, then Jehoash, sons of Shemaah the Gibeonite; Jeiel and Pelet, sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty warrior among the thirty who was over the thirty;1 Chronicles 12:5 begins here in the Hebrew Bible Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
1 Chronicles 12:5-40 in the English Bible is 12:6-41 in the Hebrew Bible Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Hariphite;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And from the Gadites, valiant mighty warriors, {soldiers fit for war},Literally "men of battle for the war" expert with shield and spear, defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And {they had faces like lions}Literally "faces of a lion were their faces" and were swift as gazelles upon the mountains.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
These were the sons of Gad, leaders of the army. The smallest one was as a hundred, and the greatest as a thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
These were they who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was filled over its banks. And they put to flight all who were in the valley to the east and to the west. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And David went out {to meet them}Literally "before them" and answered and said to them, "If you come in peace to me, to help me, {my heart will be joined with you},Literally "the heart will be to me to you together" but if you come to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong on my hands, may the God of our fathers see and pass judgment."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And some Manassites deserted to David when he came with the Philistines to the battle against Saul, but he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines sent him away upon counsel, saying, "He will desert to his master Saul at the cost of our heads."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 20
c3content:
When he went to Ziklag some Manassites deserted to him: Adnah, Jehozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, heads of the thousands that were for Manasseh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And they themselves helped David against the troops, for all of them were mighty men of strength and were commanders in the army.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{Day in and day out}Literally "for to the time of day to the day" they came to David to help him until there was a great army, like the army of God. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And these are the numbers of the chiefs of those prepared for the army who came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him according to the word of Yahweh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Zadok, a young man, a mighty warrior of strength, and the house of his father: twenty-two commanders.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 29
c3content:
From the men of Benjamin, kinsmen of Saul, three thousand, and {even still}Literally "and even they" the majority of them {remained loyal}Literally "keeping the responsibility" to the house of Saul.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And from the men of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred mighty warriors of strength, famous men in the house of their fathers.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand who were designated by name to come to make David king.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And from the men of Issachar: {men who were skilled in understanding the times}Literally "men who knew the understanding of the times" to know what Israel should do. Their chiefs were two hundred, and all their kinsmen were under their command.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 33
c3content:
From Zebulun, those who went out armed, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war: fifty thousand to help David {with singleness of purpose}.Literally "with not heart and heart"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 34
c3content:
From Naphtali: one thousand commanders; and those with them with shield and spear: thirty-seven thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And from beyond the Jordan, from the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all their weapons of war for battle: one hundred and twenty thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 38
c3content:
All these were men of war arrayed in battle line {with a whole heart}.Literally "with heart well" They came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel had one heart to make David king.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen were prepared for them.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And also their relatives, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen--provisions of flour, cakes of figs, raisin cakes, wine and oil, cattle and sheep in abundance, for there was great joy in Israel. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "{If it seems good to you}Literally "If to you good" and before Yahweh our God, {let us send word abroad}Literally "let us spread out, let us send" to our brothers who remain in all the land of Israel and to the priests and Levites with them in the cities with their pasturelands that they might be gathered to us.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And David summoned all Israel from Shihor of Egypt up to Lebo-Hamath to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-Jearim.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, Kiriath-Jearim of Judah, to bring up from there the ark of Yahweh God who is enthroned between the cherubim, which is called the name.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio were driving the cart. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their strength, and with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And when they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzza reached out his hand to hold the ark because the cattle had stumbled.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Yahweh {was angry}Literally "nostrils became hot" with Uzza, and he struck him down because he reached his hand upon the ark. And he died there before God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And David {was angry}Literally "it was hot" because Yahweh had broken out in wrath against Uzza. And that place is called Perez Uzza unto this day.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So David did not move the ark to himself into the city of David but diverted it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-Edom in his house three months. And Yahweh blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that he had. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David and cedar trees, {masons},Literally "craftsmen of the wall" and {carpenters}Literally "craftsmen of wood" to build a house for him.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And David knew that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Now these are the names of the children who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed as king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard and went out from before them.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then David inquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you put them into my hand?" And Yahweh said to him, "Go up. I will put them into your hand."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And he went up to Baal-Perazim, and David struck them there. And David said, "God has burst out against my enemies by my hand like waters burst out." Therefore they will call the name of this place Baal-Perazim.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then the Philistines {carried out another raid}Literally "they added again and made a raid" in the valley.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then David inquired again of God. And God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Go around from before them and come against them the opposite way of the balsam trees.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And it shall be that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out into battle, for God goes out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And David did as God commanded him, and they struck the camp of the Philistines from Gibeon to Gezer.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the fame of David went out through all the lands. And Yahweh put the fear of him upon all the nations. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he established a place for the ark of God. And he pitched a tent for it.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then David ordered that none except the Levites should carry the ark of God, for Yahweh had chosen them to carry the ark of Yahweh and to serve him forever.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its place that he had established for it.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he said to them, "You are the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" for the Levites. Sanctify yourselves and your brothers and bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place I have established for it.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Because the first time you did not, and Yahweh our God burst out against us, for we did not care for it according to the law."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God according to what Moses commanded, according to the word of Yahweh, on their shoulders with the carrying poles upon them. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then David ordered the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of song, musical instruments, stringed instruments, and cymbals, {raising their voices for joy}.Literally "causing to hear to the mountains with a sound of rejoicing"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel, and from his brothers, Asaph the son of Berekiah, and from the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah the son, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-Edom and Jeiel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play on harps according to Alamoth;


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 21
c3content:
and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to play lyres, directing according to the Sheminith.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Kenaniah, chief of the Levites in singing, was to be an instructor in singing because he understood.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And Shebaniah, Jehoshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Elizezer the priests {sounded the trumpets}Literally "trumpet blowers with trumpets" before the ark of God. And Obed-Edom and Jehiah were gatekeepers for the ark. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And it happened that David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the house of Obed-Edom with joy.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And it happened that when God helped the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen; so also all the Levites who were carrying the ark, the singers, and Kenaniah the chief of the singing. And David wore a linen ephod.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, with the sound of a shofar,Or "horn, trumpet" and with trumpets and cymbals, making loud music with musical instruments and stringed instruments. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the city of David, then Michal the daughter of Saul looked down from the window and saw the king, David, leaping and dancing. And she despised him in her heart. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And they brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he distributed to every man of Israel, both men and women, to each person a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of Yahweh, to invoke, thank, and praise Yahweh the God of Israel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Asaph was chief, and his second was Zechariah; Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel were on harps and lyres. And Asaph played on the cymbals.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew on the trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then on that day David first appointed to give thanks to Yahweh by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Ascribe to Yahweh the glory of his name! Lift up an offering and come before him! Bow down to Yahweh in the splendor of holiness!


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Then say, "Save us, O God of our salvation; gather us and rescue us from the nations that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 37
c3content:
So heThat is, David left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to minister before the ark regularly {as each day required},Literally "according to the word of a day with respect to its day"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 38
c3content:
and he left Obed-Edom with his sixty-eight brothers. And Obed-Edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were gatekeepers.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the high place which was at Gibeon


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 40
c3content:
to offer burnt offerings regularly to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the law of Yahweh that he commanded concerning Israel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And with them were Heman and Jeduthun and the remainder of those chosen, who were designated by name to give thanks to Yahweh, for his loyal love is everlasting.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And Heman and Jeduthun with them had trumpets and cymbals for making music, along with instruments for the song of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were at the gate.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And as David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under tent curtains."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Go and say to David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You are not to build a house for me to live in,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
for I have not lived in a house from the day that I brought out Israel unto this day. I have been from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In every place I have moved about, did I say one word with the judges of Israel I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, 'Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?'" '


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So now, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over my people Israel,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut down your enemies from before you and will make a name for you, like the name of the great ones on the earth.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them,Or "him" (i.e., the nation) and theyOr "he" shall dwell in theirOr "his" place and be in anguish no longer. And wicked men will no longer wear them down as before,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
from the day that I commanded judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue your enemies, and I declare to you that Yahweh will build for you a house.Or "household" (that is, a dynasty)


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And it shall be that when your days are fulfilled to go and sleep with your ancestors,Or "fathers" then I will raise up your seed after you, who will be one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I myself will be a father to him, and he himself will be a son to me. And I will not remove my steadfast love from him as I took it away from whoever was before you.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I will establish him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever." '"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who am I, O Yahweh God, and what is my house that you have brought me thus far?


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And this was a small matter in your eyes, O God. And you have spoken concerning the house of your servant for a long time and have shown me {future generations to come},Literally "with a turn of humankind ascending" O Yahweh God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 18
c3content:
{What more}Literally "What to add again" can David do to you for honoring your servant? Now you know your servant.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 19
c3content:
O Yahweh, for the sake of your servant and according to your heart you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 20
c3content:
O Yahweh, there is none like you, and there is no God except you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And who is like your people Israel, the one nation upon earth whom God went to redeem for himself, to establish for you a reputationOr "name" for great and awesome things, to drive out nations from before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And you made your people Israel an everlasting nation for yourself. And you, O Yahweh, became their God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 23
c3content:
So now, O Yahweh, let the word that you spoke to your servant and to his house be established forever, that you might do what you have spoken.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And let your name be established and be magnified forever, saying, 'Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God, and may the house of David your servant be established before you.'


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 25
c3content:
For you, my God, {have informed}Literally "have opened the ear of" your servant that you will build a house for him. Therefore, your servant has found courage to pray before you.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And now may you begin to bless the house of your servant {to continue forever}Literally "to be forever" before you, for you, O Yahweh, have blessed. And it will be blessed forever." 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that after David struck the Philistines and subdued them, he captured Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And David captured from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left one hundred of them to remain for chariots.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And when the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah-Hamath, David struck down twenty-two thousand men of Aram.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then David set up garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became servants to David, bearing tribute. And Yahweh delivered David wherever he went.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And David took small round shields of gold that were upon the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David captured very much bronze. Solomon made the bronze sea with it along with the columns and objects of bronze. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And when Tou the king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer the king of Zobah,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
he sent Hadoram his son to King David to ask him for peace and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Tou {had been at war}Literally "a man of battles" with Hadadezer. And he brought with him all the objects of gold, silver, and bronze.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
King David dedicated these also to Yahweh, along with the silver and gold that he had taken from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Philistines, and Amalek. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he put garrisons in Edom, and all Edom became servants to David. And Yahweh delivered David wherever he went. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So David reigned over all Israel, and {he administered justice}Literally "he was a doer of justice" and righteousness to all his people.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites. And the sons of David were chief officials under the hand of the king. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that after this Nahash the king of the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" died, and his son reigned in his place.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And David said, "I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of David came to the land of the {Ammonites},Literally "sons of Ammon" to Hanun, to comfort him.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But the princes of the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" said to Hanun, "{Do you think}Literally "In your eyes" because David sent comforters to you that David honors your father? Is it not for the purpose of exploring so as to overthrow and spy out the land that his servants have come to you?"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So Hanun took the servants of David and shaved them and cut off their garments at the middle, up to the buttocks, and sent them away.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And they went and told David concerning the men, and he inquired of them, for the men were very disgraced. And the king said, "Dwell in Jericho until your beards grow out; then return." 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And when the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" saw that they made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" sent one thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves horses and chariots from Aram-Naharaim, Aram-Maacah, and Zobah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maacah and his people, and they came and encamped before Medeba. And the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" were gathered from their cities and came to the battle.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" went out and took up positions for battle at the entrance of the city. And the kings who had come were alone in the field. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
When Joab saw that there was {a battle line}Literally "the face of the battle" against him at the front and the back, he chose from among the chosen men in Israel and arranged them to meet Aram.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the remainder of the people he put in the hand of Abishai his brother, and they were arranged to meet the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons of Ammon"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he said, "If Aram is too strong for me, then you must be a help to me, but if the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" are too strong for you, then I will help you.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Be strong! Let us strengthen ourselves on behalf of our people and on behalf of the cities of our God. And may Yahweh do what is good in his eyes."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Joab and the people who were with him drew near before Aram for battle, and they fled before him.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And when the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" saw that Aram had fled, they also fled before Abishai his brother, and they came to the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And when Aram saw that they were defeated before Israel, they sent messengers and brought out Aram, who was from beyond the Euphrates,Or "the river" with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer before them.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And when it was told to David, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan. And he came to them and was arrayed against them. Then David was arrayed to meet Aram in battle, and they fought with him.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Aram fled before Israel. And David killed from Aram the men of seven thousand chariots and forty thousand foot soldiers, and he put to death Shophach the commander of the army.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with David and became servants to him. So Aram was no longer willing to help the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons of Ammon" 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that {in the spring time of year},Literally "at the time of the returning of the year" the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led the troops of the army and destroyed the land of the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons of Ammon" And he came and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And David took the crown of their king from his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold. And in it was a precious stone. Then it was placed upon the head of David. And he brought out the booty of the city, a large amount.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the people who were in it he brought out, and {he set them to work with saws and iron implements and axes}.The translation comes from 2 Samuel 12:31 since the Hebrew text here is uncertain Thus David did to all the cities of the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons of Ammon" Then David returned, and all the nation went with him. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And after this there arose a war in Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaim. And they were subdued.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And again there was war with the Philistines. And Elhanan son of Jair struck down Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And again there was war in Gath. And there was a {very tall}Literally "measured" man there, and {he had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all}.Literally "and his fingers, six and six, twenty-four" He himself was also a descendant of the Rephaim.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 8
c3content:
These were born to the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So David said to Joab and to the commanders of the nation, "Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan and bring a report to me that I might know their number."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But Joab said, "May Yahweh add to the people a hundred times what they are! Are they not, O my lord the king, all of them the king's servants? Why does my lord seek this? Why would he bring guilt to Israel?"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But the word of the king prevailed over Joab. Then he went about through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Joab gave the number of the enrollment of the people to David. And it happened that all Israel was one million one hundred thousand men drawing a sword, and in Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men drawing a sword.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then David said to God, "I have sinned severely in that I have done this thing. But now, please forgive the sin of your servant, for I have been very foolish."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Go, you must speak to David, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Three choices I offer to you. Choose one of them for yourself that I will do to you." '"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
whether three years of famine or three months of devastation by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days of the sword of Yahweh, with disease in the land and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory in Israel.' So now, see what word I should return to my sender."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then David said to Gad, "{I am very troubled}.Literally "Great trouble to me" Let me into the hand of Yahweh, for his compassion is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of a man." 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he was about to destroy it, Yahweh saw and was grieved on account of the calamity. Then he said to the angel, the destroyer, "It is enough; slacken your hand." And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then David said to God, "Was it not I who gave a command to count the people? Now I am he who has sinned, and I have certainly done wickedness, but these sheep, what have they done? O Yahweh, my God, please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father, but against your people, let there be no plague." 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Now the angel of Yahweh had spoken to Gad to say to David that David should go up and erect an altar for Yahweh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and Ornan turned and saw the angel, and his four sons with him hid themselves.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and they bowed down to David, faces to the ground.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then David said to Ornan, "Please give me the place, the threshing floor, that I might build an altar on it to Yahweh; at full price please give it to me, that the plague against the people might be stopped."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Ornan said to David, "Take it to yourself; let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. See, I give the cattle for the burnt offerings and threshing sledges for the wood and wheat for the grain offering--I give it all."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But King David said to Ornan, "No, for I will certainly buy it at full value; indeed, I will not take what is yours for Yahweh and offer burnt offerings for nothing."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then David built an altar there to Yahweh, and he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he called to Yahweh. And he answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 28
c3content:
At that time, when David saw that Yahweh answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Now the tabernacle of Yahweh that Moses had made in the desert and the altar of burnt offering were at that time at the high place of Gibeon.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 30
c3content:
But David was not able to go before it to seek God, for he was afraid on account of the sword of the angel of Yahweh. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then David said, "This will be the house of Yahweh God, and this altar of burnt offering for Israel." 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And David commanded to assemble the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel and appointed stone craftsmen to cut dressed stones to build the house of God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And David provided much iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for the seams, and abundant copper that could not be weighed,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then David said, "Solomon my son is a boy and inexperienced, and the house built for Yahweh must be exceedingly great in fame and splendor throughout every land. I will make preparations for him." So David provided abundant materials before he died. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And David said to Solomon his son, "I myself had in my heart to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
but it happened that the word of Yahweh came over me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have made much war; you shall not build a house for my name because you have shed much blood upon the ground before me.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Behold, a son shall be born to you; he himself will be a man of rest, and I will give rest to him from all his enemies all around, for his name will be Solomon, and peace and quietness I will give to Israel in his days.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He himself will build a house for my name, and he himself will be to me a son, and I will be to him as a father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.'


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Now, my son, Yahweh will be with you, that you may succeed and build the house of Yahweh your God as he has spoken concerning you.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Only may Yahweh give to you understanding and insight that he might give you charge over Israel and the keeping of the law of Yahweh your God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then you will prosper if you take care to do the statutes and judgments which Yahweh commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and be courageous; fear not and do not be dismayed.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Now see, with great effort I have made provision for the house of Yahweh: 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron that cannot be weighed, for there is an abundance. Also timber and stone I have provided, but to these you should add.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And with you there is an abundance of craftsmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and everyone skilled in every kind of craftsmanship


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Is not Yahweh your God with you? And has he not given you rest all around? For he has put in my hand the inhabitants of the land, and the land is subdued before Yahweh and before his people.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Now set your heart and mind to seek Yahweh your Go, and arise and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, that the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the holy vessels of God might be brought into the house built for the name of Yahweh. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their number according to their head count for the men was thirty-eight thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Of these, David said, "Twenty-four thousand are to direct the work of the house of Yahweh, along with six thousand judges and officials,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand offering praise with the instruments that I have made for praise."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And David organized them in divisions according to the sons of Levi: to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of Ladan.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons. They were enrolled as one for the house of a father. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things. He and his sons were to burn offerings forever before Yahweh to serve him and to bless in his name forever.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah, the head. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Eleazar died, and he did not have sons, but only daughters. And the sons of Kish, their relatives, married them.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 24
c3content:
These were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, the heads of the {families},Literally "fathers" according to their enrollment, by the number of the names, according to their head count, who were to do the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and above.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 25
c3content:
For David said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For by the last words of David, they are the number of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and above.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 28
c3content:
For their station was {to assist}Literally "for the hand of" the sons of Aaron with the service of the house of Yahweh, over the courtyards, over the chambers, and over the cleansing of all the sanctified objects, and with the work of the service of the house of God,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 29
c3content:
and with the rows of bread, the flour, the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and for all the amounts and measurements.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And they were to stand {every morning},Literally "in the morning, in the morning" thanking and praising Yahweh, and likewise in the evening,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 31
c3content:
and for every burnt offering offered to Yahweh, on Sabbaths, on new moon festivals, and at the appointed feasts, according to the customary number {required of them},Literally "over them" regularly before Yahweh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And they shall keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly,Or "meeting" the responsibility of the sanctified objects, and the responsibility of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, to serve the house of Yahweh. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And as for the sons of Aaron, these were their divisions. The sons of Aaron were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and {they had no sons},Literally "sons were not to them" so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their appointments for their service.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And more sons of Eleazar were found as heads of the men than the sons of Ithamar, so they divided them to the sons of Eleazar to be sixteen heads over the house of the fathers, and to the sons of Ithamar over the house of the fathers were eight heads.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They divided them by lot {all alike},Literally "these with those" for they were commanders of the sanctuary and commanders of God from among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel, the scribe, from the Levites, recorded them before the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of the priests and Levites, one father's house drawn by Lot for Eleazar and one drawn by lot for Ithamar.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 19
c3content:
These were their appointments for their service to come into the house of Yahweh according to their custom by the hand of Aaron their father, as Yahweh the God of Israel had commanded him. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And as for the remainder of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And lots were also cast for these, just as their brothers, the sons of Aaron, before David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" for the priests and for the Levites the fathers, {on the principle of the chief and younger brother alike}.Literally "the head like his brother the younger" 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with stringed instruments, with harps, and with cymbals. And their inventory of the men of the work and for their duty was:


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 2
c3content:
for the sons of Asaph: Zakkur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah, sons of Asaph, under the handThat is, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the handsThat is, under the direction of the king.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah,One Hebrew manuscript and the LXX add "Shimei" between Jeshaiah and Heshabiah (see verse 17) Heshabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the handsThat is, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the stringed instrument with thanksgiving and praise to Yahweh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
All these were sons to Heman, the seer of the king, according to the words of God to raise a horn.That is, to exalt Heman And God had given to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
All these were under the {direction}Literally "hands" of their father in the music of the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the {direction}Literally "hands" of the king.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And their number, along with their brothers, trained singers, all the skilled people for Yahweh, were two hundred and eighty-eight.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And they cast lots for responsibilities {on the principle of small and great alike},Literally "for like the small, like the great" teacher with student. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And the first lot for Asaph went out to Joseph; the second to Gedaliahu; he and his brothers and his twelve sons.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 1
c3content:
As for the working groups of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, from the sons of Asaph.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And to Shemaiah his son were sons born who were rulers in the house of their father, for they were mighty warriors of ability.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were sons of ability, Elihu and Semakiah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
All these from the sons of Obed-Edom, they and their sons, and their brothers were men of ability with strength for service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Hosah, from the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (though he was not firstborn, his father appointed him as chief),


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Hilkiah the second, Tabaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 12
c3content:
These working groups of gatekeepers, corresponding to the chief men, had responsibilities like their brothers to serve in the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And they cast lots, small and great alike, by their fathers' houses, {for their gates}.Literally "for gate and gate"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the lot fell to the east to Shelemiah. As for Zechariah his son, {a wise counselor},Literally "giving counsel with understanding" they cast lots. And his lot came out for the north.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For Shuppim and Hosah it went out for the west, at the gate of Shalleketh, on the road that goes up, guard for guard.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 17
c3content:
To the east, six Levites; to the north, four daily; to the south, four daily; and at the storerooms, two by two.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 19
c3content:
These were the working groups of the gatekeepers among the sons of the Korahites and among the sons of Merari. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And of the Levites: Ahijah was over the treasuries of the house of God and over the treasuries of the sanctified objects.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The sons of Ladan: the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And his brothers: from Eliezer were Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zikri his son, and Shelomoth his son.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 26
c3content:
That Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasuries of the sanctified objects that King David and the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" to the commanders of thousands and hundreds and the commanders of the army had dedicated.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 27
c3content:
From the battles and from the spoil they had dedicated these things to strengthen the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated--all the dedicated gifts were under the hand of Shelomith and his brothers.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 29
c3content:
For the Izharites: Kenaniah and his sons were appointed to the duties outside of Israel as officials and as judges.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 30
c3content:
For the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his brothers, one thousand seven hundred men of ability, were over the administration of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the work of Yahweh and for the service of the king.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 31
c3content:
For the Hebronites: Jeriah the chief of the Hebronites for the genealogy for the {families}.Literally "fathers" (In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were examined, and there was found among them mighty warriors of strength at Jazer in Gilead.)


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And his brothers, sons of ability, were two thousand seven hundred heads of the {families},Literally "fathers" and King David appointed them over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for every matter of God and matter of the king. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And as for the number of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" the heads of {families},Literally "fathers" the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officials who serve the king in all matters of the working groups that came and went, month by month, throughout all the months of the year, each working group: twenty-four thousand. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Over the first working group for the first month: Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And over the working groups of the second month: Dodai the Ahohite and his working group, and Mikloth the commander. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The third commander of the army for the third month was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the chief priest. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 6
c3content:
This was Benaiah who was a mighty warrior of thirty, and over the thirty and his working group was Ammizabad his son.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab and his son Zebadiah after him. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The fifth, for the fifth month, the commander was Shamhuth the Izrahite. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, from the sons of Ephraim. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zerahites. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite of the Benjamites. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai the Netophathite of the Zerahites. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite from the sons of Ephraim. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites: the commander was Eliezer the son of Zikri. For the Simeonites: Shephatiah the son of Maacah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For the Ephraimites: Hoshea the son of Azaziah. For the half-tribe of Manasseh: Joel the son of Pedaiah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead: Iddo the son of Zechariah. For Benjamin: Jaasiel son of Abner.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And David did not {take a census of those twenty years old or under}Literally "take up their count from a son of twenty years and to less" because Yahweh promisedOr "said" to make Israel more numerous than the stars of heaven.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but he did not finish. But wrath came upon Israel concerning this, and the number was not included in {the chronicles}Literally "in the numbering of the words of the days" of King David. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And over the treasury rooms of the king was Azmaveth the son of Adiel. And over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the unwalled villages, and in the towers was Jonathan the son of Uzziah.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And over the vineyards was Shemei the Ramathite. And over the produce in the vineyards for the storehouses of the wine was Zabdi the Shiphmite.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the Shephelah was Baal-Hanan the Gederite. And over the treasury houses of olive oil was Joash.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And over the cattle pastured in the Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite. And over the cattle in the valley was Shaphat the son of Adlai.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite. And over the female donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite.1 Chronicles 27:31 begins here in the Hebrew Bible And over the sheep was Jaziz the Hagrite.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And Jehonathan the uncle of David was an adviser, a man of insight, and he was a scribe. And Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the sons of the king.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And after Ahithophel came Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. And Joab was the commander of the king's army. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then David assembled all the commanders of Israel, the commanders of the tribes and the commanders of working groups who served the king, and the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, and the commanders over all the property of the king and his sons, with the court officials and mighty warriors, and all the mighty warriors of ability, at Jerusalem.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And King David rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. {I myself wanted}Literally "I myself with my heart" to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the footstool of our God, and I prepared to build.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name because you are a man of war, and you have shed blood.'


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But Yahweh the God of Israel chose me from all of the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to reign over all Israel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And from all my sons--for Yahweh has given many sons to me--he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he said to me, 'Solomon your son, he himself shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him as a son to myself, and I myself will be as a father to him,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
and I will establish his kingdom forever if {he firmly performs}Literally "if he is strong to do" my commandments and my judgments as he has to this day.'


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek all the commandments of Yahweh your God so that you may take possession of this good land and bestow it as an inheritance to your children after you forever." 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for Yahweh searches all hearts and understands every plan and all thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then David gave to Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, and of the house of the lid of the ark,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and the plan of all {that he had in mind}Literally "that was in the spirit with him" for the courtyards of the house of Yahweh and for all the surrounding storage rooms, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for sanctified objects,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and for the working groups of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels for the service of the house of Yahweh,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and for the gold, according to the weight of the gold for all the vessels of the service, and the service of all the vessels of silver according to the weight of all the vessels {for every kind of service}.Literally "service and service"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the weight of the golden lampstands and the golden lamps, {the weight of each lampstand and each lamp},Literally "by weight of lampstand and lampstand, with its lamp and to the lamps" and the silver according to the weight of a lampstand and its lamp, according to the use of {each lampstand},Literally "lampstand and lampstand"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and the weight of gold for the tables of the arranged bread, {each table},Literally "to table and table" and silver for the tables of silver,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 17
c3content:
and pure gold for the three-pronged meat forks, and the bowls and the pitchers, and for the golden bowls, by weight for {each bowl},Literally "for bowl and bowl" and for the silver bowls, by weight for {each bowl},Literally "for bowl and bowl"


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and for the altar of incense made of refined gold, by weight, and gold for the plan for the chariot--the cherubim with outspread and covering wings over the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"All this I give you in writing; from the hand of Yahweh he instructed me about all the workings of this plan." 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do this! Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for Yahweh God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you and will not forsake you until all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And behold, the working groups of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work for all those willing with the skill for every service, and the commanders and all the people for all your commands." 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then David the king said to all the assembly, "God has chosen Solomon my son alone, a young man and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the citadel is not for humankind, but for Yahweh God.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So I have provided for the house of my God according to all my strength, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood, along with an abundance of onyx stones, stones for settings, stones of turquoise, and variegated stones, and all kinds of precious stones and alabaster stones.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And moreover, with respect to my provisions for the house of my God I have a treasure of gold and silver that I have given to the house of my God above all that I have provided for the holy house:


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 4
c3content:
three thousand talents of gold from the gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of refined silver to overlay the walls of the houses,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 5
c3content:
gold for the golden things and silver for the silver things, for all the work by the hand of skilled craftsmen. Now who will offer willingly, {consecrating himself}Literally "to consecrate his hand" today to Yahweh?" 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then the commanders of the {families},Literally "fathers" the commanders of the tribes of Israel, and the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and the commanders of the work of the king offered themselves willingly.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they gave for the service of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of Yahweh under the authorityOr "hand" of Jehiel the Gershonite.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And the people rejoiced over their freewill offering, for with a whole heart they had willingly offered to Yahweh, and King David also rejoiced with great joy. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then David blessed Yahweh in the sight of all the assembly, and David said, "Blessed are you, O Yahweh, God of Israel, our father forever and ever!


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 11
c3content:
To you, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the splendor and the glory and the strength, for everything in the heavens and in the earth. Yours, O Yahweh, is the kingdom and exaltation over all as head!


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And wealth and glory are from you, and you rule over all. And in your hand is power and might. And in your hand is power to make great and to give strength to all.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And indeed, who am I, and who are my people that we retain power to offer according to these offerings willingly? For everything is from you, and from your hand we have given to you.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For we are strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors.Or "fathers" Our days are like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope of abiding.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
O Yahweh our God, all this abundance that we have provided to build for you a house for your holy name is from your hand, and all of it is yours.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And I know, my God, that you yourself test the heart and are pleased with uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are found here willingly offer to you.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 18
c3content:
O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors,Or "fathers" keep this forever as a plan and thoughts of the heart of your people, and establish their heart toward you.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Grant to Solomon my son a heart of peace to keep your commands, your statutes, and your regulations to do everything, and to build the citadel for which I have provided."


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And David said to all the assembly, "Bless Yahweh your God!" And all the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers" And they bowed down and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And they offered sacrifices to Yahweh, and on that next day they offered burnt offerings to Yahweh: one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, one thousand lambs, with their libations and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And they ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great joy. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him commander for Yahweh, and Zadok the priest. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then Solomon sat upon the throne of Yahweh as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And all the officials and mighty warriors, and also all the sons of King David, {pledged allegiance to}Literally "placed a hand under" King Solomon.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And Yahweh made Solomon exceedingly great in the sight of all Israel, and he bestowed upon him royal splendor that was not bestowed upon any king before him in Israel. 


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And the days that he reigned over Israel were forty years. In Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And he died in a good old age, full of days, wealth, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Now the words of King David, from the first to the last, see, they are written among the words of Samuel the seer, and among the words of Nathan the prophet, and among the words of Gad the seer,


c0book: 1Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 30
c3content:
with all the accounts of his kingdom, his power, and the times that came upon him, and upon Israel, and upon all the kingdoms of the earth. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Solomon the son of David strengthened himself concerning his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to all the leaders for all Israel, the heads of the {families}.Literally "fathers"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of assemblyOr "meeting" of God that Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the desert was there.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
(But the ark of God David had brought up from Kiriath-Jearim to the place David had prepared for it, for David had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the tent of assembly,Or "meeting" and he offered upon it a thousand burnt offerings. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then Solomon said to God, "You yourself have shown steadfastOr "great" loyal love to David my father and have made me king in his place.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Now, O Yahweh God, let your word to David my father be fulfilled, for you yourself have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now, give to me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this, your great people?" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then God said to Solomon, "Because this was with your heart and you did not ask for wealth, possessions, honor, and the lives of your enemies, and also did not ask for {long life},Literally "many days" but have asked for wisdom and knowledge that you might judge my people over whom I have made you king,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
wisdom and knowledge is given to you. And I will also give to you wealth, possessions, and honor, the like of which was not had by the kings who were before you, nor will there be the like after you."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So Solomon went from the high place which was at Gibeon to Jerusalem before the tent of assembly.Or "meeting" And he reigned over Israel. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. And he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the king made silver and gold in Jerusalem like the stones. And he made cedar as abundant as the sycamore fig trees that were in the Shephelah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue. The traders of the king received them from Kue at a price.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They went up and exported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for one hundred and fifty shekels. And these were {likewise exported}Literally "likewise through their hand" to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.Or "Syria" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
2 Chronicles 2:1-18 in the English Bible is 1:18-2:17 in the Hebrew Bible And Solomon planned to build a house for the name of Yahweh and a {royal palace for himself}.Literally "house for his kingdom"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Solomon assigned seventy thousand men {to bear burdens}Literally "carriers" and eighty thousand {quarriers}Literally "stone craftsmen" in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred men to supervise them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Solomon sent word to HuramThis is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram" king of Tyre, saying, "As you have dealt with David my father and sent cedar to him to build for himself a house in which to live, please deal with me.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Look, I am building a house for the name of Yahweh my God to dedicate to him, to offer sweet spices of incense before him, and for the regular rows of bread, and burnt offerings for mornings, evenings, Sabbaths, and new moon festivals, and for appointed feasts of Yahweh our God which are everlasting for Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now who indeed has adequate strength to build a house for him? For the heavens and {the highest heavens}Literally "the heavens of the heavens" are not able to contain him. Now who am I that I would build a house for him, except to burn incense before him?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So then, send to me skilled men to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue fabric, knowledgeable in engraving, with the skilled men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father has established.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Send me trees of cedar, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I myself know that your servants are knowledgeable in cutting the trees of Lebanon. Now see, my servants will be with your servants


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now see, I will provide twenty thousand dry measures of crushed wheat, twenty thousand dry measures of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil to the woodcarvers and those who cut timber." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then HuramThis is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram" king of Tyre answered in a letter, and he sent word to Solomon: "Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then HuramThis is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram" said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made the heavens and the earth, who has given to King David a wise son knowing discretion and understanding, who will build for Yahweh a house and a royal palace for himself.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So now I have sent a skilled man, knowledgeable and with understanding: my masterOr "my father" Huram,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, knowledgeable for working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and with purple, blue, and crimson fabric, and with fine linen, for engraving any engraving and devising any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and the skilled men of my lord David your father.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Now as for the wheat, barley, oil, and wine that my lord mentioned, let him send that to his servants.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And we ourselves will cut trees from Lebanon according to all your need, and we will bring them to you on rafts over the sea to Joppa, so that you may bring them up to Jerusalem." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then Solomon counted all the resident alien men who were in the land of Israel after the census that David his father had taken of them. And there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he appointed from them seventy thousand {to bear burdens},Literally "carriers" eighty thousand {to quarry}Literally "stone craftsmen" in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had established, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Now these were the measurements of Solomon for building the house of God: the length in cubits by the former measurement was sixty cubits, and the width was twenty cubits.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{The length of the portico that was in front was the same as the front of the width of the house}:Literally "The length at the front of the portico the front of the width of the house" twenty cubits. And its height was one hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the great house itself he covered with cypress wood, then he overlaid it with pure gold. And he put on it palm tree images and ornate chains.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then he overlaid the house with precious stone as decoration. (Now the gold was the gold of Parvaim.)


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he overlaid the house with gold--the beams, the thresholds, the walls, and the doors. And he carved cherubim upon the walls.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then he made {the most holy place}.Literally "the house of the holy of the holies" Its length {was equal to}Literally "at the front of" the width of the house: twenty cubits. And its breadth was twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he made two sculpted wood cherubim in {the most holy place},Literally "the house of the holy of the holies" and he overlaid them with gold.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The length of the outstretched wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits; one wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house, and the other wing of five cubits was touching the outstretched wing of the other cherub.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the wing of five cubits of the other cherub was touching the wall of the house, and its other wing five cubits long touching the wing of the firstOr "other" cherub.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they were standing on their feet, their faces toward the house.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And at the front of the house he made two columns, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on their top was five cubits.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he made decorative chains in the inner sanctuary and put them on top of the columns. And he made one hundred pomegranate ornaments, and put them on the chains.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he erected the columns in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. He called the name of the southern one Jakin, and the name of the northern one Boaz. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits was its length, and twenty cubits was its width, and ten cubits was its height.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then he made the sea of molten metal, from brim to brim it was ten cubits, completely round. And it was five cubits in height, and {its circumference measured}Literally "and it measured a line all around it" thirty cubits.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Under it were figures of oxen all around it, ten cubits high, encircling the sea all around. The oxen were in two rows {cast as one piece with it}.Literally "molten with its casting"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
It was standing upon twelve oxen, three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set upon them from above, and all their hindquarters faced {inward}.Literally "into the house"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was like the working of the lip of a cup, the blossom of a lily. And it held three thousand baths.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he made ten basins. And he set five on the south and five on the north in which to wash; they washed off the work of the burnt offering in them, but the sea was for the priests to wash therein.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he made ten golden lampstands according to their custom, and he set them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north. And he made a hundred drinking bowls of gold.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he made the courtyard of the priests and the great outer courtyard and the doors for the outer court. And he overlaid their doors with bronze.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And HuramThis is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram" made the pots, the shovels, and the drinking bowls. So HiramThe spelling ("Hiram") is different here than in the previous occurrences finished making the work that he made on the house of God for King Solomon:


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
the two columns, the bowls, and the two capitals on top of the columns, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on top of the columns,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for the latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were before the columns.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Huram-abi made for King Solomon the pots, the shovels, the three-pronged meat forks, and all the utensils of polished bronze for the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Solomon made all these utensils in great abundance, for the weight of the bronze could not be determined.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
So Solomon made all the objects that were in the house of God: the altar of gold; the tables upon which was the bread of the presence;


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
the lampstands, and the lamps for burning according to the custom before the inner sanctuary, of solid gold;


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
and the snuffers, the drinking bowls, the dishes, and the firepans, of solid gold; and the entrance to the house, the inner doors to {the most holy place}, and the doors to the house of the temple were of gold. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished, Solomon brought the holy objects of David his father: the silver, the gold, and all the objects he had put into the storehouses of the house of God.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then Solomon assembled all the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the {families}Literally "fathers" for the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" to Jerusalem in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, which is Zion.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And they brought up the ark, the tent of assembly,Or "meeting" and all the holy objects that were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And King Solomon and the whole community of Israel that was assembled before him were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted nor numbered for abundance.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then the priests brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, into {the most holy place}, underneath the wings of the cherubim.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim were covering the ark and over its poles from above.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But the poles were so long that the ends of the poles from the ark were seen from before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside. And they are there until this day.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets that Moses had put inside at Horeb on which Yahweh had {made}Literally "cut" a covenant with the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" when they went out from Egypt.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And when the priests came out of the sanctuary (for all the priests who were presentOr "who were found" sanctified themselves without keeping their divisions)


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and all the Levitical singers--Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons, their brothers, dressed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments--they were standing to the east of the altar. And with them outside were one hundred and twenty priests who were trumpet blowers.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it was the primary duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard with one voice, to praise and give thanks to Yahweh. And when a sound from the trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments of song was raised to Yahweh--for he is good, because his loyal love is everlasting--then the house, the house of Yahweh, was filled with a cloud.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the priests were not able to stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the king turned aroundOr "turned his face" and blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel were standing.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth with David my father, and with his hands he has fulfilled it, saying,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
'From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt I did not choose a city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in order for my name to be there. Nor did I choose a man to be leader over my people Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But I have chosen my name to be there in Jerusalem, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now, it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But Yahweh said to David my father, 'Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
but you yourself will not build the house, but your son who will proceed from your loins; he himself will build the house for my name.'


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now Yahweh has fulfilled his word that he spoke. I have risen in the place of David my father and am seated on the throne of Israel as Yahweh has spoken. I have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And I have there the ark in which is the covenant of Yahweh that he {made}Literally "cut" with the {Israelites}."Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh before all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
(For Solomon had made a platform of bronze five cubits long and five cubits wide and three cubits high, and placed it in the midst of the outer court.) And he stood upon it, then knelt down on his knees before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands to heaven.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, there is none like you, a God in the heavens and on the earth, keeping the covenant and loyal love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
that you have kept for your servant David my father what you spoke to him. You spoke with your mouth, and by your hand you have fulfilled it on this day.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And now, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David, my father, what you have spoken to him, saying, '{You shall not lack}Literally "There shall not be cut off" a man to sit on the throne of Israel before me, if only your sons keep their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And now, O Yahweh, God of Israel, let your word that you have spoken to your servant David be confirmed. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"But will God indeed dwell with humankind upon the earth? Look, the heavens and {the highest heavens}Literally "the heavens of the heavens" cannot contain you! Surely then this house that I have built will not contain you!


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
But turn to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Yahweh my God, to hearken to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant is praying before you,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
that your eyes may be open day and night to this house, to the place that you have promised to place your name there, that you may hear the prayer that your servant has prayed to this place.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And listen to the pleas of your servant and your people Israel when they pray toward this place, that you yourself might hear from the place of your dwelling, from the heavens, that you might hear and forgive. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"If a man sins against his neighbor and {makes him swear an oath}Literally "places upon him an oath to swear an oath" and comes with an oath before your altar in this house,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 23
c3content:
then may you yourself hear from the heavens and act and judge your servants, to repay the guilty by bringing his way upon his head and to vindicate the righteous by giving to him according to his righteousness. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"And if your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against you and they repent and confess your name and pray and plead before you in this house,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 25
c3content:
then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your people Israel and again bring them back to the land that you gave to them and to their ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"When the heavens are stopped up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and they pray to this place and confess your name and turn back from their sin when you humble them,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 27
c3content:
then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon your land that you have given to your people as an inheritance. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 28
c3content:
"If there is a famine in the land; if there is disease, blight, mildew, locust, and caterpillar; if it happens that his enemy lays siege to him in the land and his gates; any kind of plague, any kind of disease,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 29
c3content:
then any prayer, any plea that is made by any person and by all your people Israel, each one who knows his own affliction and his own anguish and who spreads out his hands to this house,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 30
c3content:
then may you yourself hear from the heavens, your dwelling place, and forgive and give to each according to all his ways, since you know the heart of the children of humankind,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 31
c3content:
that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they are alive upon the face of the land that you have given to our ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 32
c3content:
"And also, with respect to the foreigner, he who is not of your people Israel, but comes from a distant land, for the sake of your great name and your powerful hand and outstretched arm, when he comes and prays to this house,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 33
c3content:
then may you yourself hear from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner asks of you, so that all peoples of earth will know of your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that your name {possesses}Literally "is called over" this house that I have built. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 34
c3content:
"When your people go out to battle against their enemy according to the way that you have sent them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 36
c3content:
When they sin against you--for there is no person who does not sin--and you become angry with them and place them before their enemy that they carry them away as captives to a land far or near,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 37
c3content:
but {if they repent}Literally "if they turn back to their heart" in the land where they were taken captive and {repent}Literally "turn back" and beg you for mercy in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and acted perversely and done wickedly,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 38
c3content:
and we return to you,' with their whole heart and with all their inmost being in the land of their captivity where they took them captive, and if they pray toward their land that you have given to their ancestorsOr "fathers" and the city that you have chosen and to the house that I have built for your name,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 39
c3content:
then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and uphold their case and forgive your people who sinned against you.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 41
c3content:
"And now arise, O Yahweh God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! O Yahweh God, let the priests be clothed with salvation, and let your holy ones rejoice in your goodness!


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 42
c3content:
O Yahweh God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember the loyal love of your servant, David!" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And when Solomon finished praying, then fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the priests were not able to go into the house of Yahweh, for the glory of Yahweh had filled the house.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
When all the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" saw the fire come down and the glory of Yahweh upon the house, they knelt down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love is everlasting. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the priests stood at their posts with the Levites, with the instruments of the song of Yahweh that King David had made to give thanks to Yahweh--for his loyal love is everlasting--whenever David offered praise by their hand. Now the priests sounded trumpets standing opposite them, and all Israel stood. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was before the house of Yahweh, for there he had made the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, for the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offerings, cereal offerings, and the fat. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Solomon heldOr "made" a feast at that time of seven days. And all Israel was with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-Hamath to the river of Egypt.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly, for they heldOr "made" the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents rejoicing and festive of heart on account of the goodness that Yahweh had done for David, Solomon, and Israel his people.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Solomon finished the house of Yahweh and the house of the king. And all that came into the heart of Solomon to do with respect to the house of Yahweh and his own house he accomplished. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
When I hold back the heavens so that there is not rain, and when I command the locust to devour the earth, and if I send disease among my people,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and will pray and will seek my face and will turn from their evil ways, then I myself shall hear from the heavens and will forgive their sins and heal their land.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And now I have chosen and consecrated this house for my name to be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there {for all time}.Literally "all the days"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Now as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked and do according to all that I have commanded you and will keep my ordinances and judgments,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
then I will establish the throne of your kingdom as I promisedOr "covenanted" to David your father, saying, 'A man shall not be cut off for you from ruling over Israel.' 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"But if you turn yourselves away and forsake my ordinances and my commandments which I have given before you all and will go and serve other gods and bow down to them,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
then I will uproot them from upon my land that I have given to them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face, and I will make it a proverb and a taunt among all the nations.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And as for this house, which was exalted, all who pass by it will be appalled and will say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?'


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then they will say, 'Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,Or "fathers" who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought upon them all this evil.'" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh and his own house,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Solomon also built the cities that HuramThis is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram" had given to him, and he settled the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" in them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Baalath and all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon; all the cities for chariotsHebrew "chariot" and cities for horses; and any desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All the people who remained from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not from Israel,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
from the descendantsOr "sons/children" who were left over after them in the land, whom the Israelites had not destroyed, Solomon conscripted them as forced labor until this day.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But from the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" Solomon did not give as servants for his work, but they were men of war, his commanders of his officers, and commanders of his chariotsHebrew "chariot" and his horses.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And these were the commanders of the garrisons that belonged to King Solomon, two hundred and fifty who exercised authority over the people. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, for those places to which the ark of Yahweh has come are holy.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh that he had built before the portico,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{as was the daily requirement},Literally "with respect to the word of the day, by day" to offer up according to the commandments of Moses for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and the three {annual}Literally "occurrences in the year" feasts: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And in accord with the ordinance of David his father he appointed working groups of priests for their service, Levites for their responsibilities for praise and cultic service before the priests {according to the daily requirement},Literally "according to the word of the day, by day" and the gatekeepers in their working groups, gate by gate. For thus David the man of God had commanded.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And they did not turn aside from the commandment of the king concerning the priests and the Levites concerning anything, and concerning the treasury rooms.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Solomon accomplished all the work from the day the foundation stone was laid for the house of Yahweh until its completion, and the house of Yahweh was finished.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And HuramThis is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram" sent to him, by the hand of his servants, ships and servants knowledgeable of the sea. And they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and from there they collected four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, with much wealth and camels, bearing spices and much gold and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and told him all that was {on her mind}.Literally "in her heart"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Solomon {answered all her questions}.Literally "made known to her all her words" Not a word was hidden from Solomon that he did not answer for her.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and the food of his table, and the position of his officers, the duty of his servants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of Yahweh, there was no longer any breathOr "spirit" in her.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And she said to the king, "The word which I heard in my land concerning your words and your wisdom is true,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
but I did not believe their words until I came and saw with my own eyes. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not reported to me; you surpass the rumors that I had heard.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Blessed are your men, and blessed are these your servants who stand before you regularly and hear your wisdom!


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Blessed be Yahweh your God who took delight in you, to put you on his throne as king for Yahweh your God! Because your God loved Israel, he established him forever and has put you over them as king to do justice and righteousness!"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And she gave to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. And there were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Moreover the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir brought algum wood and precious stones.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the king made steps for the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers from the algum wood. And there was not seen anything like them before in the land of Judah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba every desired thing she asked, besides what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her land, she and her servants. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it happened that the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
besides the gold and silver the traders and merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he made three hundred small shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels went into each small shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to the throne. And there were armrests {on each side}.Literally "from this and from that" And by {the seat}Literally "the place of sitting" were two lions standing beside the armrests.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And twelve lions were standing there on each of the six steps {on each end}.Literally "from this and from that" And there was nothing like it made in all the kingdom.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
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. Silver was not valued as anything in the days of Solomon.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram.This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram" Once {every three years}Literally "for three years" the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God put in his heart.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And each of them brought his gifts, objects of silver, objects of gold, cloaks, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, as an amount year by year.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And he ruled over all the kings from the RiverThat is, the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, to the boundary of Egypt.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as the sycamore trees that are in the Shephelah for abundance.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 29
c3content:
As for the remainder of the words of Solomon from the first to the last, are they not written in the chroniclesOr "words" of Nathan the prophet and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer, concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And Solomon slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And it happened that when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it--now he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon--Jeroboam returned from Egypt.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel went, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had been {serving}Literally "standing" before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, "What word do you advise to answer this people?"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they said to him, "If you will be good to this people and please them, then speak good words to them. Then they will be your servants {forever}."Literally "all the days"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But he forsook the advice of the elders that advised him and took counsel of the young men who had grown up with him who were {serving}Literally "standing" before him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he said to them, "What do you advise that we should say in return to this people, who said to me, 'Lighten the yoke that your father has put upon us'?"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus you should say to this people who have said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, so you yourself should lighten it for us.' Thus you should say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So now, my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, but I myself will add to the yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I myself will do so with scorpions.'" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had spoken, saying, "Return to me on the third day."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "I will make your yoke heavy, and I myself will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will do so with scorpions."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turning of events from God, so that Yahweh might fulfill his word that he had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, and the people answered the king, saying, "What portion is there for us in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each to your tents, O Israel! Now look to your own house, David!" And all Israel went to their own tents.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But as for the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" who were living in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam ruled over them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was {in charge of}Literally "over" the forced labor, but the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" stoned him with stones, and he died. Then King Rehoboam hastily went up into the chariot to flee to Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand {chosen warriors},Literally "chosen makers of war" to fight against Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
'Thus says Yahweh: "Do not go up, and do not fight against your brothers. Return, each man to his house, for this matter has come from me." '" So they obeyed the words of Yahweh and turned back from going against Jeroboam. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And he strengthened the fortifications and put commanders in them, along with stores of food, olive oil, and wine.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And in all the cities he put shields and spears, and he greatly strengthened them. So he had Judah and Benjamin. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Now the priests and the Levites who were throughout all Israel took their stand with himThat is, Rehoboam from all their territories.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For the Levites left their pasturelands and their property and came to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the bull calves that he had made.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then after them, from all the tribes of Israel, those who set their heart to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to offer to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, secure for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Rehoboam took to himself as a wife Mahalath, the daughterThis follows the reading tradition (Qere); the Kethib reading has "son" of Yerimot son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief and crown prince over his brothers, in order to make him king.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons throughout all the land of Judah and Benjamin, through all the fortified cities, and gave abundant provisions to them and obtained many wives for them. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and when he was strengthened, he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And it happened that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam (for they had acted unfaithfully against Yahweh), Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
with one thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And there was no number to the people who came up with him from Egypt--Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem from before Shishak. And he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh: 'You yourselves have abandoned me, and I myself have surely abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.'"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And when Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy. I will give to them some way of escape, that my anger not be poured out against Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
However, they shall be his servants, that they might know my service and the service of the kingdoms of other countries." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and he took the treasures out of the house of Yahweh and the treasures out of the king's house. He took everything. He also took the small shields of gold that Solomon had made.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And King Rehoboam made small shields of bronze in their place and committed them into the hand of the commanders of the guards who were keeping the entrance of the house of the king.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And whenever the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guards came and carried them, and then they returned them to the alcove of the guards.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And when he humbled himself, the anger of Yahweh was turned away from him, so that he did not destroy the city completely. Moreover, matters were well in Judah. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So King Rehoboam was strengthened in Jerusalem, and he reigned there. Now, Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonite.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Now the words of Rehoboam from the first to the last, are they not written in the chroniclesOr "words" of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer as a record? And there were battles between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all theirOr "the" days.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Rehoboam slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and he was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Abijah joined in the battle with an army of four hundred thousand {battle-hardened warriors},Literally "mighty warriors of battle" chosen men, and Jeroboam put the battle in order against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, an army of mighty warriors. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Abijah stood up on top of Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Do you not all know that Yahweh the God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
and worthless men, {sons of wickedness},Literally "sons of Belial" were gathered about him and became hostile against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was a boy and gentle of heart and was not strong enough to stand before them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So now you yourselves are considering that you are strong before the kingdom of Yahweh which is in the hand the sons of David, since you yourselves are a great multitude and you have bull calves of gold that Jeroboam has made for idols.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Did you not drive out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, the Levites? Have you not made for yourselves priests like all the peoples of the lands? All who come {to be consecrated for priestly service}Literally "to fill his hand" (a Hebrew idiom for ordination) with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what is not a god.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests serving Yahweh are the sons of Aaron, the Levites, according to their service.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
They offer burnt offerings to Yahweh {every morning}Literally "in the morning, in the morning" and {every evening},Literally "in the evening, in the evening" sweet spices of incense, and the rows of bread upon the pure table. And the golden lampstand with its lamps they keep kindled {every evening},Literally "in the evening, in the evening" for we are keeping the requirement of Yahweh our God, but you yourselves have forsaken him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And look, God is with us at the head, and his priests have the trumpets for sounding blasts against you, O sons of Israel. Do not fight against Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" for you will not succeed." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Jeroboam sent around an ambush to come behind them. So they were in front of Judah, but the ambush was behind them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
When Judah turned, then behold, the battle against them was in front and behind, and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests blew on the trumpets.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then the men of Judah shouted, and it happened that when the men of Judah were shouting, then God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" fled from before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And Abijah and his people struck a great blow against them, and the dead from Israel that fell were five hundred thousand chosen men.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" were subdued at that time, and the peopleOr "sons" of Judah were victorious, for they relied upon Yahweh the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Jeroboam did not regain strength again in the days of Abijah. And Yahweh plagued him and he died.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But Abijah became strong, and he took to himself fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Now the rest of the words of Abijah and his ways and his words are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
2 Chronicles 14:1-15 in the English Bible is 13:23-14:14 in the Hebrew Bible And Abijah slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son became king in his place. In his days the land was at rest ten years.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He removed the foreign altars and high places, broke down the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherahs.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,Or "fathers" and to keep the law and the commandment.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he removed the high places and the incense stands from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom had rest underOr "before" him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land was at rest. UnderOr "With" him there was no war in those years, for Yahweh had given rest to him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities and surround them with walls, towers, gates, and bars while the land is before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought and he has given rest to us on every side." So they built and had success.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand from Judah, bearing shields and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand from Benjamin who carried shields and drew bows. All of these were mighty warriors of strength. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Zerah the Cushite came out against them with an army of a thousand thousands and three hundred chariots. And he came to Mareshah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Asa cried out to Yahweh his God. And he said, "O Yahweh, there is none with you to help between the great and the powerless. Help us, O Yahweh our God, for we rely upon you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Yahweh, you are our God! Let no man prevail against you!" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Asa and the armyOr "people" with him pursued them to Gerar. And many from the Cushites fell, for they had no deliverance, for they were shattered before Yahweh and before his army. And they carried away much war booty.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And they struck all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of Yahweh was upon them. And they plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And they also struck the tents of the herdsmen and carried away many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he went out before Asa and said to him, "Hear me, O Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him. And if you will seek him he will be found by you. But if you forsake him he will forsake you.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
but at its trouble he returned to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They sought him, and he was found by them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And in those times there was no peace for the one going out and the one coming in, for great tumults were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Nation was crushed by nation, and city was against city, for God threw them into confusion by all sorts of trouble.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the vile idols from all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was in front of the portico of Yahweh. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those sojourning with them, from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for many had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And they sacrificed to Yahweh on that day from the war booty they brought back: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And they entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,Or "fathers" with all their heart and with all their inmost being,Or "soul"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 13
c3content:
but all who will not seek Yahweh the God of Israel should be killed, from young to old, from men to women.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they swore with all their heart. And they sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and Yahweh gave rest to them all around. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And also Maacah, the mother of Asa, the king removed her from being queen, because she had made a repulsive image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her repulsive image, and he crushed and burned it at the WadiOr "valley"; a wadi is a valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season Kidron.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was fully devoted all his days.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects into the house of God--silver and gold and vessels.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha the king of Israel went up against Judah. And he built Ramah in order not to allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa, king of Judah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the storehouses of the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and he sent them to Ben-Hadad, king of Aram,Or "Syria" who lived in Damascus, saying,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"There is a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Look, I am sending you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha, king of Israel, that he might withdraw from me." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent commanders of his troops that were with him against the cities of Israel. And they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel-Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then King Asa took all of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and he built Geba and Mizpah with them. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "On account of your reliance upon the king of Aram,Or "Syria" and since you did not rely on Yahweh your God, therefore the troops of the king of AramOr "Syria" escaped from your hand.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty army with very abundant chariots and horsemen? And because of your reliance on Yahweh he gave them into your hand.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose heart is fully devoted to him. You have been foolish in this, for from now on you will have wars." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in {the prison},Literally "the house of the stocks" for he was enraged with him concerning this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Now behold, the words of Asa from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, he fell {severely}Literally "until his illness unto severity" ill in his feet. But even in his illness he did not seek Yahweh, but only among the healers.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And they buried him in his burial site, which had been cut out for him in the city of David. And they laid him on the bier which they had filled with all kinds of spices made by the perfumers as a fragment ointment. And they made a great fire in his honor. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he put troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had taken.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former ways of David his father and did not seek after the Baals,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
but he sought after the God of his ancestorsOr "fathers" and walked in his commandments and not according to the works of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah gave tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had much wealth and honor.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And his heart was courageous in the ways of Yahweh. Moreover, he removed the high places and the Asherahs from Judah. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
and with them the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah; and with them the priests Elisham and Joram.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And they taught in Judah, and the scroll of the law of Yahweh was with them when they went around in all the cities of Judah, and they taught the people. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the fear of Yahweh was upon all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah, and they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And some of the Philistines brought a gift and silver to Jehoshaphat as tribute. The Arabians also brought him seven thousand seven hundred sheep and seven thousand seven hundred goats. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Jehoshaphat {grew greater and greater},Literally "was going and becoming great to the height" and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Now these were their enrollment by the house of their ancestors:Or "fathers" of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah, the commander, and with him were three hundred thousand mighty armed warriors;


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and at his side,Or "hand" Jehohanan the commander, and with him were two hundred and eighty thousand;


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and at his side,Or "hand" Amasiah the son of Zicri, who had made a freewill offering to Yahweh, and with him were two hundred thousand mighty armed warriors.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And from Benjamin: Eliada, a powerful mighty warrior, and with him were two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and at his side,Or "hand" Jehozabad, and with him were one hundred and eighty thousand armed for war.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 19
c3content:
These were serving the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And {after some years}Literally "at the end of years" he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and for the people who were with him, and urged him to go up against Ramoth-Gilead.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Ahab the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, "Will you go up with me to Ramoth-Gilead?" And he answered him, "I am as you are, and my people are as your people with you in war." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Seek {first of all}Literally "as the day" the word of Yahweh."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men. And he said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall we cease?" And they said, "Go up, since God will give it into the hand of the king."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom to seek Yahweh, but I hate him, because he never prophesies good concerning me, but {always}Literally "all his days" disaster. He is Micaiah the son of Imlah." Then Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say thus."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were each sitting on his throne, clothed in robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'With these you will gore AramOr "Syria" to their destruction.'"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And all the prophets prophesied thus, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-Gilead and triumph! Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then the messenger who went to call Micaiah said to him, "Behold, the words of the prophets are good with one voice to the king. Please let your word be as one with them and speak good."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war or shall I cease?" And he said, "Go up and triumph! They shall be given into your hand."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But the king said to him, "How many times shall I make you swear that you speak nothing except the truth in the name of Yahweh?"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains like sheep that had no shepherd. And Yahweh said, 'These have no masters; let them return to his own house in peace.'"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not say to you he would not prophesy good concerning me, but only disaster?"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting upon his throne with all the host of heaven standing on his right and on his left.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Yahweh said, 'Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel that he would go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?' And one said this, and another said that.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then a spirit came forth and stood before Yahweh and said, 'I will entice him.' Then Yahweh said to him, 'By what means?'


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then he said, 'I will go forth and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You will entice him and will also succeed. Go out and do so.'


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So now, behold, Yahweh has put a spirit of deception into the mouths of these your prophets. Yahweh has spoken disaster against you." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "{Which way}Literally "Where is this the way" did the Spirit of Yahweh come from me to speak to you?"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then Micaiah said, "Behold, you will see on that day when you go into a private room to hide yourself."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the commander of the city and to Jehoash the son of the king,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 26
c3content:
and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this one into the prison house, and let him eat {a meager ration of bread and water}Literally "bread a short ration and water a short ration" until I return in peace." '"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And Micaiah said, "If you surely return in peace Yahweh has not spoken with me." Then he said, "Hear, peoples, all of them!" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you, wear your garments." So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went to war.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Now the king of AramOr "Syria" had commanded the commanders of his chariots,Hebrew "chariot" saying, "Do not fight with the small or the great, but only with the king of Israel."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And it happened that when the commanders of the chariotsHebrew "chariot" saw Jehoshaphat, then they said, "It is the king of Israel!" And they turned against him to fight. Then Jehoshaphat cried out and Yahweh helped him. God drove them away from him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And it happened that when the commanders of the chariotsHebrew "chariot" saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from following him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Now a certain man drew the bow {at random}Literally "in his innocence" and struck the king of Israel between the soldering of his breastplate armor. Then he said to the chariot driver, "{Turn around};Literally "Turn away your hand" get me away from the war camp, for I am wounded."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And the battle went on that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in the chariot facing AramOr "Syria" until the evening. And he died at the time of the going down of the sun. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you be a help to the wicked and love those who hate Yahweh? On account of this, wrath has come against you from Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Nevertheless some good things have been found in regard to you, for you burned the Asherahs out of the land and set your heart to seek God." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem and returned and went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you are not judging for a man but for Yahweh. Now he is with you in speaking justice.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So now, let the fear of Yahweh be upon you all. {Be careful what you do},Literally "Keep and do" for there is neither wickedness nor {showing partiality}Literally "lifting faces" and taking bribes with Yahweh our God." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and the priests and heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of Israel as judges and to decide legal disputes for Yahweh. And they satOr "lived" in Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he commanded them, saying, "Thus you must do in the fear of Yahweh in faithfulness and with a whole heart.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Any legal dispute that comes before you from your brothers who live in their cities concerning bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, and justice, you must warn them, so that they do not incur guilt before Yahweh, and that wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you must do that you do not incur guilt.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the word of Yahweh, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all matters of the king, and the Levites shall be before you as officials. Be strong and do well! May Yahweh be with the upright." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that afterward, the {Moabites},Literally "sons/children of Moab" the {Ammonites},Literally "sons/children of Ammon" and some of the MeunitesThe Hebrew term is difficult; it may also mean "Ammonim" came against Jehoshaphat for war.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And they came and reported it to Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude from beyond the sea, from Aram,Or "Syria" is coming against you. Now behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar" (that is, En Gedi).


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek Yahweh. And he called for a fast through all Judah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Judah assembled to seek after Yahweh; even from all the cities of Judah they came to seek Yahweh. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of Yahweh before the new courtyard.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he said, "O Yahweh, God of our ancestors,Or "fathers" are you not God in heaven? Now you rule in all the kingdoms of the nations, and in your hand are power and might, and there is none who can resist against you.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 7
c3content:
O, our God, did you yourself not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it to the descendantsOr "seed" of Abraham your friend forever?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
'If disaster, a sword, punishment, disease, or famine come upon us, we shall stand before this house and before you--for your name is in this house--and cry out to you out of our trouble, then you will hear and save us.'


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And now, look, the peopleOr "sons" of Moab and Ammon and Mount Seir whom you did not allow Israel to come against when they came from Egypt, from whom they turned aside and did not destroy,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
now behold, they are rewarding us by coming to dispossess us from your possession which you gave us as an inheritance.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
O our God, will you not judge them, for there is no power in us before this great multitude that is coming against us. Now we do not know what we shall do, for our eyes are upon you." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And all Judah was standing before Yahweh, and also their little children, their wives, and their children.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite from the descendantsOr "sons" of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And he said, "Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat, thus says Yahweh to you: 'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed before this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they are coming up the ascent of Ziz. And you will find them at the end of the valley facing the desert of Jeruel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
There will be no need for you to fight in this battle. Take your stand! Stand and see the deliverance of Yahweh among you, O Judah and Jerusalem! Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out before them and Yahweh will be with you.'"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Jehoshaphat bowed his faceLiterally "nostrils" down to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before Yahweh to worship Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then the Levites, from the {Kohathites}Literally "sons of the Kohathites" and from the {Korahites}Literally "sons of the Korahites" stood up to praise Yahweh the God of Israel with an exceedinglyLiterally "above" loud voice. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And they rose up early in the morning and went out to the desert of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, and you shall be established! Believe in his prophets, and you shall succeed!"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed singers to Yahweh who were giving praise to the splendor of his holiness when they went out before the army. And they said, "Give thanks to Yahweh, for his loyal love is everlasting!" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And {when}Or "on time" or "at the time" they began with singing and praise, Yahweh set ambushes against the peopleOr "sons" of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who were coming against Judah. And they were defeated


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 23
c3content:
when the peopleOr "sons" of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to destroy and demolish them. And when the inhabitants of Seir had made an end of them, each helped to destroy his comrade. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And Judah came against the watchtower of the wilderness. And they looked at the crowd, and behold, corpses were lying on the ground. There was none who had escaped.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 25
c3content:
When Jehoshaphat came with his people to plunder their booty, they found among them in abundance possessions, corpses, and precious items. And they took plunder for themselves {until they could carry no more}.Literally "until not carrying" And they were three days in plundering the booty, for it was abundant.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And on the fourth day, they assembled in the Valley of Berakah, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place is called the Valley of Berakah up to this day.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned, and Jehoshaphat was at their head in returning to Jerusalem with joy, for Yahweh caused them to rejoice over their enemies.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And the fear of God came upon all the kingdoms of the earth when they heard that Yahweh had fought against the enemies of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 31
c3content:
So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign. And he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, to do what was right in the eyes of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Only the high places were not removed. The people still had not yet set their heart on the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Now the rest of the words of Jehoshaphat, from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the chroniclesOr "words" of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the scroll of the kings of Israel. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And afterward Jehoshaphat the king of Judah joined with Ahaziah the king of Israel, who acted wickedly.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because of your joining with Ahaziah, Yahweh will break down your works." And the ships were destroyed and were not able to go to Tarshish. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestorsOr "fathers" and was buried with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Now he had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And their father gave to them many gifts of silver, gold, and valuables, with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, for he was the firstborn.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
When Jehoram ascended to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself and murdered all his brothers with the sword, and even some of the princes of Israel. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did evil in the sight of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But Yahweh was not willing to destroy the house of David on account of the covenant that he had {made}Literally "cut" with David and since he had promisedOr "said" to give a lamp to him and to his descendantsOr "sons" {forever}.Literally "all the days" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all the chariots with him, and when night came he struck Edom who was all around him and the commanders of his chariots.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah until this day. Then Libnah also revolted at that time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah, and he enticed the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful, and he led Judah astray.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And a letter from Elijah the prophet came to him, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father: 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father or in the ways of Asa, the king of Judah,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful like the unfaithfulness of the house of Ahab, and have also murdered your brothers of the house of your father who were better than you,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 14
c3content:
behold, Yahweh is inflicting a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and you yourself will be afflicted with great illness, with sickness in your bowels, until your bowels come out on account of the illness, day by day.'" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who were {near}Literally "at the hand of" the Cushites against Jehoram.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions found in the house of the king, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz his youngest son. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And it happened that {after many days, at the end of two years},Literally "for days from days and as the time went out to the end for two days" his bowels came out because of his illness, and he died in terrible agony. And his people did not make a fire for him like the fire for his ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 20
c3content:
He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departedOr "went" with no one's regret. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the burial sites of the kings. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, for the band of men who had come with the Arabs to the camp had murdered all the older sons. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, the king of Judah, reigned.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Ahaziah was forty-twoThe Septuagint reads "twenty-two" here years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Athaliah, the daughterSome translations render the term "granddaughter" of Omri.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for doing wickedness.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as the house of Ahab had done, for they were his counselors to his destruction after the death of his father.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He also walked in their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, to war against Hazael king of AramOr "Syria" at Ramoth-Gilead. And the Arameans wounded Joram.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds he had suffered at Ramah, when he made war against Hazael king of Aram.Or "Syria" And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram son of Ahab in Jezreel for he was sick. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But the downfall of Ahaziah was from God, and intended to come to Joram. And when he came, he went out with Jehoram to Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And it happened that when Jehu was judging the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah who ministered to Ahaziah, and he killed them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he searched for Ahaziah and captured him. And he was hiding in Samaria. And they brought him to Jehu and put him to death. And they buried him, for they said, "He is the descendantOr "son"; Ahaziah was Jehoshaphat's grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with his whole heart." And the house of Ahab had no one to exercise power over the kingdom. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and murdered all the {royal descendants}Literally "seed of the kingdom" of the house of Judah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But Jehosheba the daughter of the king took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and kidnapped him away from the sons of the king who were to be put to death. And she put him and his nurse in a private bedroom. So Jehosheba the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from before Athaliah so that she did not put him to death.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself and took with him into a covenant relationship the commanders of hundreds: Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zicri.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And they went around in Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And all the assembly {made}Literally "cut" a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, "Behold, the son of the king shall reign as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
This is the thing that you must do: one third of you priests and Levites {coming off duty on the Sabbath}Literally "coming the Sabbath" shall be gatekeepers at the entrances,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and one third at the house of the king, and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courtyards of the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Let no one enter into the house of Yahweh except the priests and the ministering Levites. They themselves may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the requirements of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the Levites shall surround the king all around, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes into the house shall be put to death. You shall be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And they each took his men who were {coming off duty on the Sabbath}Literally "coming the Sabbath" with {the ones going out to duty on the Sabbath},Literally "going out the Sabbath" for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the working groups.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Jehoiada the priest gave the spears and small shields that had belonged to King David that were in the house of God to the commanders of hundreds.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he appointed all the people, each with his weapon in his hand from the south side of the house to the north side of the house around the altar and the house.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then they brought out the son of the king and set upon him the crown and gave him the statute and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said, "{Long live the king}!"Or "May the king live!" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When Athaliah heard the sound of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people at the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And she looked and, behold, the king was standing by his column at the entrance, and the commanders and trumpeters beside the king, along with all the people of the land, rejoicing and blowing with trumpets, and the singers with the instruments of song leading the praise. And Athaliah tore her garments and cried, "Conspiracy! Conspiracy!"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of the hundreds appointed over the troops, and he said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever goes after her shall be put to death with the sword." For the priest had said, "You must not kill her in the house of Yahweh."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the Horse Gate of the house of the king, and they killed her there. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Jehoiada {made}Literally "cut" a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down. And they smashed his altars and his images, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Jehoiada placed appointees at the house of Yahweh under the hand of the Levitical priests whom David had allotted to the house of Yahweh to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh as was written in the law of Moses, with joy and with song, according to the {order of David}.Literally "hands of David"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahweh so that no person unclean with respect to any matter could enter.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And he took the commanders of hundreds, the noblemen, the governors over the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of Yahweh. And they came through the upper gate to the house of the king, and they set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been killed with the sword. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and gather money from all Israel to strengthen the house of your God sufficiently year by year. Now you yourselves must hasten to the matter." But the Levites did not act with haste.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So the king called Jehoiada the chief, and he said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel for the tent of the testimony?"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had used all the holy vessels of the house of Yahweh for the Baals. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And {they issued a proclamation}Literally "they gave a voice" in Judah and in Jerusalem to bring to Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God had levied upon Israel in the wilderness.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and they brought their tax and threw it into the chest until it was finished.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And whenever he brought the chest to the appointee of the king by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money in it, then the secretary of the king and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest, then they took it and returned it to its place. Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh. And they hired stonemasons and skilled craftsmen to restore the house of Yahweh, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So those doing the work labored, and the restoration for the work made progress under their hand. And they restored the house of God to its position and strengthened it.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And when they had finished, they brought the remainder of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and they used it for objects for the house of Yahweh, objects for the service and the burnt offerings, dishes, and objects of gold and silver. And they were offering burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh regularly, all the days of Jehoiada. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and he died; he was one hundred and thirty years old at his death.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And they buried him in the city of David with the kings, for he did good in Israel and with respect to God and his house. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And they forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their ancestorsOr "fathers" and served the Asherahs and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem on account of this guilt.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 19
c3content:
But he sent prophets among them, to bring them back to Yahweh. And they testified against them, and they did not obey. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people and said to them, "Thus says God: 'Why are you transgressing the commandments of Yahweh so that you will not succeed? For you have forsaken Yahweh, so he will forsake you.'"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So King Joash did not remember the loyal love that Jehoiada had shown to him, and he killed his son. And as he was dying he said, "May Yahweh see and avenge!" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And it happened at the turn of the year that the army of AramOr "Syria" went up against him, and they came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the commanders of the people from among the people, and all the war booty they sent to the king of Damascus.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Though the army of AramOr "Syria" came with few men, Yahweh gave a very large army into their hand, for they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers" And they inflicted punishment on Joash. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And when they were going away from him (for they had left him with many wounds), his servants conspired against him on account of the blood of the sonsThe Septuagint reads "son" of Jehoiada the priest. So they killed him on his bed and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him at the burial sites of the kings.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Now these are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath, the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith, the Moabite.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And as for his sons, the many oracles against him, and his repair of the foundation of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the scroll of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king. And he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Jehoaddan from Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And it happened that as his reign was strengthened, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the scroll of Moses, where Yahweh commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death on account of the sons, and the sons shall not be put to death on account of the fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by {families}Literally "the house of the fathers" under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. And he counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found them to be three hundred thousand chosen for going out to battle, able with spear and shield.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But a man of God came to him, saying, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for Yahweh is not with Israel, all the Ephraimites.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But even still, you yourself go, do! Be strong for the battle else God will make you stumble before the enemy! For there is power with God to help and to cause stumbling."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Amaziah said to the man of God, "Now what should I do with the one hundred talents that I have given to the troops of Israel?" And the man of God said, "{Yahweh is able to give}Literally "There is to Yahweh to give" to you more than this."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Amaziah dismissed the troops that came to him from Ephraim to go to their home.Or "their place" And {they became very angry}Literally "their noses became very hot" with Judah, and they returned to their home {in great anger}.Literally "in hotness of nose" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Amaziah strengthened himself, and leading his army, he went to the Valley of Salt. And he struck down ten thousand menOr "sons" of Seir.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now the {troops}Literally "the sons of the troop" captured ten thousand others alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock and threw them from the top of the rock. So all of them were smashed to pieces. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 13
c3content:
As for the {troops}Literally "sons of the troop" Amaziah had sent back from going with him to war, they raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-Horon. And they struck down three thousand of them and plundered much booty. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And it happened that after Amaziah came back from killing the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and he stood them up to himself as gods and bowed down before them and make smoke offerings for them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So {Yahweh became very angry}Literally "Yahweh's nose became very hot" with Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, and he said to him, "Why have you sought the gods of the people who could not deliver their own people from your hand?"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And it happened that while he was speaking to him, he said to him, "Have we appointed you as a counselor to the king? Stop--{why should you be killed}?"Literally "why shall he strike you?" So the prophet stopped and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and he sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come,This translation follows the Qere reading {let us face one another}.Literally "let us look at faces"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Joash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thorn bush that is in Lebanon has sent to the cedar which is in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son as wife.' But a wild animal of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Look, you say that you have struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up to boast. Now remain at your home. Why stir up disaster that you fall, you and Judah with you?" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But Amaziah did not listen, for it was from God that he might give them into the hand of enemies, because they sought the gods of Edom.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So Joash the king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah the king of Judah {faced one another}Literally "looked at one another's faces" at Beth-Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Joash the king of Israel captured Amaziah the king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-Shemesh. And they brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then with all the gold and silver, all the objects found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, the storehouses of the house of the king, and {the hostages},Literally "the sons of the pledges" he returned to Samaria. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel, fifteen years.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Now the remainder of the words of Amaziah, from the first to the last, behold, are they not written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And from the time that Amaziah turned away from Yahweh, they had plotted a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And they carried him on the horses and buried him with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the city of Judah. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah (now he was sixteen years old) and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. And the name of his mother was Yecoliah of Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he began to seekOr "was seeking" God in the days of Zechariah who was teaching in visions of God. And {whenever}Literally "in the days" he sought Yahweh God made him have success. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he went out and made war against the Philistines, and he broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who were living in Gur-Baal and Meunim.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah, and his fameOr "name" went out to the boundaryLiterally "to coming in" of Egypt, for he became {very strong}.Literally "to above"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the Angle, and he strengthened them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he built towers in the desert and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and on the plain, along with farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Uzziah had troops {trained and ready for war}Literally "making war, going out to fight" in divisions according to the number of their enrollment at the hand of Jeuel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah of the king's commanders.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The whole number of the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" for mighty warriors of strength was two thousand six hundred.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And under their hand were army troops numbering three hundred and seven thousand five hundred who could make war with power and strength to help the king against an enemy.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Uzziah prepared small shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the whole army.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And he made siege machines in Jerusalem designed by skillful men to be set upon the towers and upon the corners to shoot arrows and large slingstones. And his fameOr "name" went out far, for he helped marvelously, for he was strong. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But on account of his strength his heart grew proud unto destruction. And he acted unfaithfully against Yahweh his God and went into the temple of Yahweh to offer an incense offering on the altar.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And they stood against King Uzziah and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but it is for the priests, the descendantsOr "sons" of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully. There will be no honor for you from Yahweh God."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then Uzziah, his censer in hand to burn incense, became angry. And when he became angry with the priests, then leprosy appeared on his forehead in front of the priests in the house of Yahweh at the altar of incense.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 20
c3content:
When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him, behold, he was leprous in the forehead. So they rushed him away from there, and he also hastened to go out, for Yahweh had smitten him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So King Uzziah was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house as a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh. And Jotham his son was over the house of the king, judging the people of the land. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Now the remainder of the words of Uzziah, from the first to the last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Uzziah slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him with his ancestorsOr "fathers" in the burial field which belonged to the kings, because, they said, "He was leprous." And Jotham his son reigned in his place. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done--only he did not go into the temple of Yahweh. But the people still acted corruptly.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and {he did much restoration}Literally "he built much" on the wall of Ophel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built forts and towers in the wooded places.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Now he fought with the king of the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" and prevailed against them. And the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" gave to him in that year one hundred talents of silver and ten thousand measures of wheat and ten thousand measures of barley. This is what the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" rendered to him, as well as in the second and third year.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now the remainder of the words of Jotham and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Jotham slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Ahaz became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh like David his ancestor.Or "father"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he himself burned incense in the valley of Ben-Hinnom and burned his sons in the fire, according to the detestable practices of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the Israelites.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops, and under every flourishing tree. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Yahweh his God gave him into the hand of the king of AramOr "Syria" who defeated him and captured many captives from him and brought them to Damascus. Moreover, he was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he defeated him by a great attack.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, killed in one day one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah, all men of strength, because they forsook Yahweh the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Zikri, a mighty warrior of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, Azrikam the commander of the house, and Elkanah the second to the king.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the Israelites captured two hundred thousand of their brothers, women, sons, and daughters. And they also plundered much booty from them and brought the booty to Samaria. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Now a prophet of Yahweh was there; Oded was his name. And he went out before the army that was coming to Samaria and said to them, "Look, it is on account of the anger of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" against Judah that he gave them into your hands, and you killed them in a rage reaching to the heavens.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So now, you yourselves plan to subdue people of Judah and Jerusalem as slaves and female servants for yourselves. {Is there not also guilt on your part}Literally "Is there not only you with yourselves guilt?" against Yahweh your God?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So now, listen to me and return the captives of your brothers whom you have taken captive, for the fierce anger of Yahweh is against you." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then men from the heads of Ephraim--Azariah the son of Jehohanan, Berekiah the son of Meshillemoth, Hezekiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai--stood against those returning from the fight.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And they said to them, "You shall not bring the captives here, for it is as guilt against Yahweh upon us. You yourselves plan to add to our sins and to our guilt, but our guilt is very great, and there is great anger against Israel."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then the men designated by name arose and took the captives and from the plunder clothed all their nakedness. So they clothed them, gave them sandals, gave them food to eat, gave them water to drink, anointed them, and guided them with the donkeys provided for all those who stumbled, and brought them to Jericho, the city of the palm trees, next to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the Philistines sent raids into the cities of the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah. And they captured Beth-Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Socoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For Yahweh subdued Judah for the sake of Ahaz, king of Israel, for he created disorder in Judah and acted unfaithfully against Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then Tiglath-PileserThe Hebrew reads "Tilgath-Pilneser" the king of Assyria came against him and brought trouble for him, {instead of helping him},Literally "and did not strengthen him"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 21
c3content:
for Ahaz took a portion from the house of Yahweh and the house of the king and the princes, and he gave it to the king of Assyria, but it was no help to him. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 23
c3content:
He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, "Because the gods of the king of AramOr "Syria" helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me." But they were {a disaster}Literally "a cause of stumbling" to him and to all Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then Ahaz gathered the objects of the house of God, and he cut the objects of the house of God to pieces. And he shut the doors of the house of Yahweh and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And {in every city}Literally "in all city and city" of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and he provoked Yahweh, the God of his ancestors,Or "fathers" to anger. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Now the remainder of his words and all his ways, from the first to the last, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And Ahaz slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him to the burial site of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 3
c3content:
In the first year of his kingship, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and strengthened them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he said to them, "Hear me, O Levites! Sanctify yourselves now, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" and bring out the defilement from the sanctuary.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For our ancestorsOr "fathers" acted unfaithfully and did evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him and turned away their faces from the dwelling place of Yahweh. {They have turned their backs}Literally "And they have given back" on it.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. And they did not burn incense or offer burnt offerings in the sanctuary to the God of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the wrath of Yahweh was upon Judah and Jerusalem. And he made them as an abhorrence, as a desolation and an object of scorn, as you see with your own eyes.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Now behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity on account of this.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now {it is in my heart}Literally "with my heart" to {make}Literally "cut" a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger might turn away from him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and incense burners." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then the Levites arose--Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, from the Kohathites; and Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel from the Merarites; and Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah, from the Gershonites.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And from the descendantsOr "sons" of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel; and from the descendantsOr "sons" of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and from the descendantsOr "sons" of Heman: Jeiel and Shimei; and from the descendantsOr "sons" of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel--


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and they went in according to the command of the king because of the words of Yahweh, to purify the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Yahweh to purify it. And they brought out all the impurity that they found in the temple of Yahweh out to the courtyard of the house of Yahweh. And the Levites took them to bring them outside to the WadiOr "valley"; a wadi is a valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season Kidron.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And they began to sanctify themselves on the first day of the first month. And on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of Yahweh. And they sanctified the house of Yahweh for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And they went into the inner part to King Hezekiah and said, "We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh: the altar of burnt offering, all its objects, the table of the rows of bread and all its objects,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 19
c3content:
and all the objects that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he sinned, we have prepared and sanctified. Look, they are before the altar of Yahweh." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then King Hezekiah rose early and gathered the officials of the city, and he went up to the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a purification offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the descendantsOr "sons" of Aaron, the priests, to offer them on the altar of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And they slaughtered the cattle, and the priests received the blood and threw it toward the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and threw the blood toward the altar, and then they slaughtered the lambs and threw the blood toward the altar.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then they brought the goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid hands upon them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And the priest killed them and offered their blood against the altar to make atonement for all Israel, for the king had commanded the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And he stood the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the command of David and Gad, the seer of the king, and Nathan the prophet, for the command was by the hand of Yahweh by the hand of his prophets.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And at the time the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began, and also the trumpets, at the hands of the instruments of David king of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then all the assembly bowed down, and the song was sung, and the trumpeters trumpeted--all together until the end of the burnt offering.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And when the offering was finished, the king and all who were found with him knelt down and bowed themselves.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then King Hezekiah and the princes commanded the Levites to praise Yahweh with the words of David and Asaph the seer. So they offered praise with joy, and they bowed down and worshiped. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then Hezekiah answered and said, "Now {you have consecrated yourselves}Literally "you have filled your hands" to Yahweh. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of Yahweh!" And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were willing in heart brought burnt offerings.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And the number of burnt offerings that the assembly brought was seventy cattle, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs--all these were to offer to Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 34
c3content:
But the priests were too few, and they were not able to offer all the burnt offerings, so their brothers, the Levites, strengthened them to finish the work, and until the rest of the priests consecrated themselves. (For the Levites were {more conscientious}Literally "more upright of heart" to sanctify themselves than the priests.)


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And beside the many burnt offerings was the fat of the peace offerings and the libations for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of Yahweh was established.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had established with the people, for the matter happened suddenly. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Now the king and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to make the Passover feast in the second month--


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
but they were not able to make it at that time, for the priests had not consecrated themselves {in sufficient numbers},Literally "for enough" and the people had not been assembled in Jerusalem--


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So they let the decree stand, {to make a proclamation}Literally "to spread a voice" throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, to come to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the runners went with the letter from the hand of the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah according to the command of the king, saying, "O sons of Israel, return to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who acted unfaithfully before Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,Or "fathers" so that he made them as a desolation, as you see.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now, do not stiffen your neck as your fathers,Or "ancestors" but give a hand to Yahweh and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve Yahweh your God that his fierce anger may turn away from you.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before their captors and return to this land, for Yahweh your God is gracious and compassionate, and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And it happened that the runners were passing from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and up to Zebulun, but they were laughing at them and mocking them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The hand of God was also upon Judah, to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and the princes concerning the word of Yahweh. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So many people gathered in Jerusalem to hold the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month; it was a very great assembly.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And they rose up and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem. And they removed all the incense altars and threw them away in the WadiOr "valley"; a wadi is a valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season Kidron.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were disgraced, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then they stood at their positions according to custom, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests were sprinkling the blood from the hand of the Levites.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For there were many in the assembly who did not consecrate themselves, so the Levites were over the killing of the Passover sacrifices for all who were not clean, to consecrate them to Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 18
c3content:
For a majority of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves. But they ate the Passover sacrifice {otherwise than prescribed},Literally "in not as it is written" but Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Yahweh make atonement unto


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 19
c3content:
everyone whose heart is set to seek God, Yahweh the God of his ancestors,Or "fathers" though not according to the cleansing for the sanctuary."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" who were found in Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy. And the Levites and the priests were offering praise to Yahweh day by day, with powerful instruments to Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites {who were skilled at service}Literally "who were showing good understanding" to Yahweh. So they ate the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and giving thanks to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then the whole assembly decided to make seven more days of feasting, so they made seven more days with joy,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 24
c3content:
for Hezekiah the king of Judah had {provided}Literally "lifted up" one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the princes {provided}Literally "lifted up" one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly. And many priests consecrated themselves.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And the whole assembly of Judah, the priests and the Levites, all the assembly who had come from the land of Israel, and those living in Judah rejoiced.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And there was great joy in Jerusalem, for from the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there was nothing such as this in Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy dwelling place in the heavens. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And when all this was finished, all Israel who were found in the cities of Judah went out and shattered the stone pillars, cut down the Asherahs, and destroyed the high places and the altars from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh {to the very last one}.Literally "until finishing" Then all the Israelites returned, each to his own property and to their cities. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Hezekiah appointed working groups of the priests and the Levites, each according to their divisions, {according to the service for priests and Levites},Literally "according to the mouth of his service, for priests and Levites" for burnt offerings, for peace offerings, to serve, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camps of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the gift of the king was out of his own possessions for the burnt offerings--the burnt offerings for the morning and the evening and for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and appointed feasts, as is written in the law of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then he said to the people, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to give a gift for the priests and the Levites, so that they might be strong in the law of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the word spread. The Israelites gave abundantly from the firstfruits of grain, new wine, olive oil, honey, and all kinds of grains from the field. And they brought tithes of everything in abundance.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then the people of Israel and Judah who were living in the cities of Judah, they also brought a tithe of cattle and sheep and a tithe of consecrated objects to Yahweh their God. And they gave heaps upon heaps.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, saying, "Since the offerings began to be brought to the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and been satisfied, and have much to spare, for Yahweh has blessed his people. Now see this abundant remainder!" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then they brought the offerings and tithes and holy objects faithfully. And over them as leader was Conaniah the Levite. And Shimei his brother was second in rank.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Jehiel, Azaziah, Nathan, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were chief officers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei, his brother, by appointment of King Hezekiah. And Azaraiah was leader of the house of God.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Now Kore the son of Imlah, the Levite, the gatekeeper of the east gate was over the freewill offerings of God, to give offerings to Yahweh and the most holy things.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And at his hand were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests and {entrusted}Literally "in faithfulness" to give to their brothers by working groups, according to the eldest to the youngest,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 16
c3content:
besides their enrollment by genealogy, to males from three years old and upward, to all who came into the house of Yahweh, {as each day required}Literally "for the word of the day by his day" for their service in their posts according to their working groups.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the enrollment of the priests was according to the house of their fathers, and the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, according to their posts by their working groups.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And they were enrolled with all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters for the whole assembly because of their faithfulness. And they sanctified themselves in holiness.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And for the descendantsOr "sons" of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of the pasturelands of their cities, {in each and every one of their cities}Literally "in every city and the city" were men who were designated by name to give shares to every male among the priests and to everyone enrolled among the Levites. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Hezekiah did according to this throughout all Judah. And he did what is good and what is right and what is faithful before Yahweh his God.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God or with respect to the law and the commandment to seek his God, he did with all his heart, and he prospered. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 1
c3content:
After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came, and he came against Judah. And he encamped against the fortified cities and planned to break them down for himself.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 3
c3content:
he took counsel with his commanders and his mighty warriors to block off the waters of the springs that came from outside the city, and they helped him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then many people were gathered, and they blocked off all the springs and the river that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then he strengthened himself and built up all the walls that were broken down, and raised towers upon them and another wall {outside}.Literally "toward the street" And he strengthened the Millo of the city of David and made much weaponry and small shields.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he appointed commanders for battle over the people and gathered them to himself into the public square of the gate of the city. And he spoke to their hearts, saying,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"Be strong! Be courageous! Do not fear and do not be dismayed before the king of Assyria and before all the crowd that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 8
c3content:
With him is the arm of flesh, and with us is Yahweh our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people took confidence with the words of Hezekiah, king of Judah. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 9
c3content:
After this Sennacherib the king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem (now he and all his armies with him were against Lachish) to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all of Judah that was in Jerusalem, saying,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Thus says Sennacherib the king of Assyria: 'On what are you relying that you are dwelling in siege works in Jerusalem?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Is not Hezekiah urging you to give you up to die by starvation and thirst, saying, "Yahweh our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria"?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Has not Hezekiah himself removed his high places and his altars and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, "You must bow down before one altar and upon it you must make offerings"?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Do you not know what I have done, I and my ancestors,Or "fathers" to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of all the lands at all able to save their land from my hand?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Who among all the gods of those nations whom my ancestorsOr "fathers" utterly destroyed was able to save his people from my hand, that your God will be able to save you from my hand?


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you. Do not let him urge you according to this. Do not put trust in him, for no god of any nation and kingdom has been able to save his people from my hand and from the hand of my ancestors.Or "fathers" Surely then your God will not save you from my hand!'" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he wrote letters to treat Yahweh the God of Israel with contempt and spoke against him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of the earth who did not save their people from my hand, so likewise the God of Hezekiah will not save his people from my hand."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then they called with a great voice in Judean to the people of Jerusalem who were upon the wall to frighten them and terrify them, so that they could take the city captive.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And they spoke about the God of Jerusalem as about the gods of the peoples of the earth, the works of the hands of humankind. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then King Hezekiah and Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, prayed concerning this. And they cried to the heavens.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then Yahweh sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty warrior of strength, commander, and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. And he returned with shamed face to his land and went into the house of his god. And some of the offspring of his loins fell upon him there with the sword.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and from the all their enemies, and gave them rest all around.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And many brought tribute to Yahweh, to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the eyes of all the nations thereafter. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 24
c3content:
In those days Hezekiah fell ill unto death, and he prayed to Yahweh. And he answered him and gave him a sign.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 25
c3content:
But Hezekiah did not reciprocate according to the benefit placed upon him, because his heart became proud. So wrath was upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But Hezekiah humbled himself with respect to the arrogance of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And Hezekiah had very much wealth and honor, and he made storehouses for himself for silver, gold, precious stones, spices, small shields, and all sorts of desirable objects;


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 28
c3content:
and storage buildings for the yield of grain, new wine, and olive oil; and animal stalls for all kinds of animals, and animals and herds for animal stalls.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And he made cities for himself, and livestock of sheep and abundant cattle, for God had given to him very abundant possessions.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And this same Hezekiah blocked off the flow of the waters of the upper Gihon, and directed them down the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And thus in the matter of the envoys of the commanders of Babylon who had been sent to him to seek the sign that had happened in the land, God forsook him, to test him and to know all that was in his heart. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Now the remainder of the words of Hezekiah and his loyal love, behold, they are written in the visions of Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And Hezekiah slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him in the upper part of the burial sites of the descendantsOr "sons" of David. And all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son became king in his place. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to the detestable things of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And {he rebuilt}Literally "returned and built" the high places that Hezekiah his father broke down, and he set up altars for the Baals, made Asherahs, and bowed down to the host of heaven and served them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, "In Jerusalem my name shall be forever."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he himself burned his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom. And he practiced sorcery and divination, and he engaged in witchcraft and dealt with mediums and spiritists. And he did much evil in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he placed the carved image of the idol that 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 from all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I will {never}Literally "not continue to" remove the foot of Israel from upon the land that I appointed to your ancestors,Or "fathers" if only you will take care to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the regulations, and the judgments by the hand of Moses."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh destroyed before the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So Yahweh brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria upon them, and they took Manasseh captive with hooks, and they bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And when he was in distress he entreated Yahweh his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his ancestorsOr "fathers"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and prayed to him. And God responded to him and heard his plea and let him return to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of the Gihon in the valley, and for the entrance into the Gate of the Fishes. And it encircled the Ophel and raised it very high. Then he placed strong commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And he removed the foreign gods and the carved image from the house of Yahweh and all the altars which he built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he restored the altar of Yahweh and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and thank offerings upon it. And he commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Now the remainder of the words of Manasseh and his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the words of the kings of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And his prayer, and how heThat is, God responded to him, all his sin and his unfaithful acts, and the places where he built the high places and set up Asherahs and idols before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the words of the seers. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Manasseh slept with his ancestors,Or "fathers" and they buried him in his house. And Amon his son became king in his place.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh as Manasseh his father had done. And Amon sacrificed to all the idols that Manasseh his father had made, and he served them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And he did not humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father humbled himself, but Amon himself multiplied his guilt.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 25
c3content:
But the people of the land struck down all who conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the ways of David his ancestorOr "father" and did not deviate to the right or to the left.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 3
c3content:
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of David his ancestor.Or "father" And in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherahs, the idols, and the images.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he destroyed before him the altars for the Baals, and he cut down the incense stands above them. And the Asherahs, the idols, and the images he smashed. And he ground them to powder and sprinkled the dust over the burial sites of those who sacrificed to them.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 7
c3content:
he broke down the altars and the Asherahs and crushed the idols, grinding them to dust, and he cut down all the incense stands in all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign after he purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the commander of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And they came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave the money that was brought for the house of God, which the Levites, the guardians of the threshold, had gathered from the hand of Manasseh, Ephraim, and from the whole remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen who were appointed in the house of Yahweh, and they in turn gave it to those doing the work who were at work in the house of Yahweh, to repair and restore the house.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And they dispensedOr "gave" it to the skilled craftsmen and the builders to buy stone for hewing and timber for the seams and for binding the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the men did the work faithfully. Over them as supervisors were appointed Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites from the Merarites, and Zechariah and Meshullam from the Kohathites. And other Levites, all who were skilled in instruments of song,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 13
c3content:
were over the porters and were directing all who worked {on each task}.Literally "for service and service" And some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And when they brought out the money that had been brought to the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found a scroll of the law of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found a scroll of the law in the house of Yahweh!" Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and {also informed}Literally "returned again a word to" the king, saying, "All that was put into the hand of your servants they are doing.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They have dispensedOr "emptied out" the money which was found in the house of Yahweh and have put it into the hand of the overseers and those doing the work."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Shaphan the scribe reported to the king, "Hilkiah the priest gave to me a scroll." Then Shaphan read from it before the king.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"Go! Seek Yahweh on my behalf and on behalf of those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words of the scroll that was found, for the anger of Yahweh that was poured out on us is great, because our ancestorsOr "fathers" have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do all that is written in this scroll." 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum, son of Tikvath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the garments. (Now she was living in Jerusalem in the second district.) And they spoke to her concerning this.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"Thus says Yahweh: 'Behold, I am bringing disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants--all the curses written in the scroll that were read before the king of Judah--


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 25
c3content:
because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods so as to provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands. And my wrath will be poured out on this place and it will not be quenched.'


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But to the king of Judah who sent you to seek Yahweh, thus shall you say to him: 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As for the words which you heard,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 27
c3content:
because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants and you humbled yourself before me and tore your garments and wept before me, now I also have heard,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 28
c3content:
'Behold, I will gather you to your ancestors,Or "fathers" and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see any of the disaster that I am bringing upon this place.'" '" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And the king went up to the house of Yahweh with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with the priests and the Levites--all the people from great to small--and they read in their ears all the words of the scroll of the covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And the king stood at his position. And he made the covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh and to keep his commands and statutes and regulations with all his heart and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant that were written on this scroll.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Then he obligatedOr "stood" all who were found in Jerusalem and in Benjamin, that the inhabitants of Jerusalem would do according to the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And Josiah removed all the detestable things from the whole land that belonged to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and obligatedOr "made" all who were found in Israel to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they did not turn aside from followingOr "after" Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Josiah keptOr "made" the Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover sacrifice on the fourteenth day of the first month.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he said to the Levites who were teaching all Israel, who were sanctified to Yahweh, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. There is no need to carry it on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God and his people Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And prepare yourselves according to {your families},Literally "the house of your fathers" according to your working groups, according to the decreeOr "writing" of David king of Israel and according to the decreeOr "writing" of Solomon his son.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And stand in the sanctuary according to the clans of {your families}Literally "the house of your fathers" for your brothers, the {lay people},Literally "sons of the people" and a part of the {family}Literally "house of the father" of the Levites.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And slaughter the Passover lamb and consecrate yourself and prepare for your brothers to do according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then Josiah provided for the {lay people}Literally "sons of the people" sheep, lambs, and young goats, all for the Passover for all who were found there, to the sum of thirty thousand, along with three thousand bulls. These were the possession of the king.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And his officials contributed a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, commanders of the house of God, gave to the priests two thousand six hundred Passover lambs and three hundred bulls.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jehozabad, commanders of the Levites, contributed to the Levites five thousand Passover lambs and five hundred bulls. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And when the work had been completed, the priests stood at their positions and the Levites in their working groups according to the command of the king.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the sacrifices.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And they set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the clans of the {families}Literally "house of the fathers" for the {lay people},Literally "sons of the people" to offer to Yahweh according to what is written in the scroll of Moses. And thus they did with the bulls.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then they roasted the Passover lamb in the fire according to the ordinance. And they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in kettles, and in dishes and brought it quickly to the {lay people}.Literally "sons of the people"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendantsOr "sons" of Aaron, were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. So the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the descendantsOr "sons" of Aaron.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the singers, the descendantsOr "sons" of Asaph, were at their stations according to the decreeOr "command" of David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the seer of the king. And the gatekeepers were at {each gate}.Literally "gate to gate" They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites had made preparations for them. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So all the service of Yahweh was prepared on that day to keepOr "make" the Passover and to sacrifice burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the command of King Josiah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the Israelites who were present keptOr "made" the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And there was no Passover like it keptOr "made" in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. And none of the kings of Israel keptOr "made" a Passover like that which Josiah and the priests and the Levites, and all of Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, kept.Or "made"


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 20
c3content:
After all of this that Josiah had prepared for the temple,Or "house" Neco the king of Egypt went up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went up to meet him.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And heThat is, Neco sent messengers to him, saying, "{What is there between us},Literally "What to me and to you" O king of Judah? I am not against you yourself this day, but against the house making war against me. And God has commanded me to make haste. Stop opposing God, who is with me that he will not destroy you."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But Josiah did not turn his face from him, but he disguised himself to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and he went out to fight in the plain of Megiddo.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And the archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded."


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 24
c3content:
So his servants took him out of the chariot and transported him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the burial sites of his ancestors.Or "fathers" And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned over Josiah.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And Jeremiah uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken in their laments about Josiah to this day. And they made them a requirement in Israel, and behold, they are written in the laments. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Now the remainder of the words of Josiah and his loyal love for what is written in the law of Yahweh


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 27
c3content:
and his words, from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid a tribute upon the land of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and brought him to Egypt. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up against him, and he bound him with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Nebuchadnezzar brought to Babylon the objects of the house of Yahweh and put them into the temple in Babylon.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now the remainder of the words of Jehoiakim and the detestable things that he did and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And at the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with objects of the treasure of the house of Yahweh. And he made Zedekiah his brother king in Judah and Jerusalem. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet {who spoke for}Literally "from the mouth of" Yahweh.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 14
c3content:
All the leaders of the priests and the people likewise increased in unfaithfulness according to all the detestable things of the nations. And they polluted the house of Yahweh that he had consecrated in Jerusalem. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,Or "fathers" had repeatedly and persistently sent to them by the hand of his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He showed no mercy on a young man, a virgin, the elderly, or decrepit. He delivered all into his hand.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, the storehouses of the house of Yahweh, and the storehouses of the king and his princes, these all he brought to Babylon.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And they burned the house of God. And they shattered the walls of Jerusalem and burned its citadels with fire and destroyed all the vessels of its treasuries.


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And he took {those who escaped the sword}Literally "the remainder from the sword" to Babylon. And they became servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 21
c3content:
to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land has enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of desolation it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. 


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And in the first year of Cyrus, the king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that he {made a proclamation}Literally "extended a voice" throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:


c0book: 2Chr
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: 'Yahweh the God of heaven has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has appointed me to build a house for him at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you from all his people, may Yahweh his God go up with him.'" 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to accomplish the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia and he sent a message to all of his kingdom and also put the message in writing: 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: Yahweh, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. And he himself has appointed me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Whoever among you who is from all of his people, may his God be with him and may he go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may he build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel. He is the God who is in Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And let every survivor, from wherever he {resides}Literally "resides as a foreigner" be assisted by the men of that place with silver and gold, with possessions and domestic animals, and with the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" for Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites--to all whose spirit God had stirred--prepared to go up and build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And all of their neighbors {helped them}Literally "helped with their hands" with objects of silver, gold, possessions, domestic animals, and with valuable gifts--besides all of the freewill offering.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Cyrus the king brought out the objects of the house of Yahweh that Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Cyrus the king of Persia let them go out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Now these were the inventories: thirty gold metal dishes, one thousand silver metal dishes, twenty-nine vessels,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
thirty bowls of gold, four hundred and ten matching silver metal bowls, and one thousand other objects.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
All of the objects of gold and silver metal were five thousand four hundred. All this Sheshbazzar brought up along with the exiles from Babylonia to Jerusalem. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now these were the peopleOr "sons" of the province who came up from the captivity of the exile whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Pahath-moab, particularly the descendantsOr "sons" of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve;


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 36
c3content:
The priests: the descendantsOr "sons" of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three;


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 40
c3content:
The Levites: the descendantsOr "sons" of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the descendantsOr "sons" of Hodaviah, seventy-four. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 42
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of the gatekeepers: the descendantsOr "sons" of Shallum, the descendantsOr "sons" of Ater, the descendantsOr "sons" of Talmon, the descendantsOr "sons" of Akkub, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hatita, and the descendantsOr "sons" of Shobai; in total one hundred and thirty-nine. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 43
c3content:
The temple servants: the descendantsOr "sons" of Ziha, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hasupha, the descendantsOr "sons" of Tabbaoth,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 44
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Keros, the descendantsOr "sons" of Siaha, the descendantsOr "sons" of Padon,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 45
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Lebanah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hagabah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Akkub,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 46
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Hagab, the descendantsOr "sons" of Shamlai, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hanan,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 47
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Giddel, the descendantsOr "sons" of Gahar, the descendantsOr "sons" of Reaiah,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 48
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Rezin, the descendantsOr "sons" of Nekoda, the descendantsOr "sons" of Gazzam,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 49
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Uzza, the descendantsOr "sons" of Paseah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Besai,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 50
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Asnah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Meunim, the descendantsOr "sons" of Nephisim,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 51
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Bakbuk, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hakupha, the descendantsOr "sons" of Harhur,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 52
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Bazluth, the descendantsOr "sons" of Mehida, the descendantsOr "sons" of Harsha,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 53
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Barkos, the descendantsOr "sons" of Sisera, the descendantsOr "sons" of Temah,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 55
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Solomon's servants: the descendantsOr "sons" of Sotai, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hassophereth, the descendantsOr "sons" of Peruda,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 56
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Jaalah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Darkon, the descendantsOr "sons" of Giddel,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 57
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Shephatiah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hattil, the descendantsOr "sons" of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the descendantsOr "sons" of Ami. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 58
c3content:
All the temple servants and the descendantsOr "sons" of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 59
c3content:
Now these were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their fathers' household and their descent, if they were from Israel:


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 60
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Delaiah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Tobiah, and the descendantsOr "sons" of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 61
c3content:
And from the descendantsOr "sons" of the priests: the descendantsOr "sons" of Habaiah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hakkoz, and the descendantsOr "sons" of Barzillai (who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 62
c3content:
These sought their record in the genealogy records, but they were not found, and {were excluded from the priesthood as unclean}.Literally "they were unclean from the priesthood"


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 63
c3content:
The governor said to them that they could not eat from the holy food of the sanctuaryOr "most holy things" until there was present a priest for the Urim and Thummim. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 65
c3content:
apart from their male and female servants, of whom were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 66
c3content:
Their horses numbered seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules numbered two hundred and forty-five,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 67
c3content:
their camels numbered four hundred and thirty-five, their donkeys numbered six thousand seven hundred and twenty. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 68
c3content:
When some of the heads of {families}Literally "the fathers" came to the house of Yahweh that is in Jerusalem, they gave freewill offerings for the house of God to erect it on its place.


