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II Chronicles Chapter 35

II Chronicles Chapter 35
1 Moreover Josiah kept a Passover unto
the Lord in Jerusalem, and they slew the
Passover in the fourteenth day of the first
month.
2 And he appointed the priests to their
charges, and encouraged them to the
service of the house of the Lord,
3 And he said unto the Levites that taught
all Israel and were sanctified unto the
Lord, Put the holy ark in the house which
Solomon the son of David king of Israel
did build: it shall be no more a burden
upon your shoulders: serve now the Lord
your God and his people Israel,
4 And prepare yourselves by the houses
of your fathers according to your
courses, as David the king of Israel hath
written, and according to the writing of
Solomon his son,
5 And stand in the sanctuary according
to the division of the families of your
brethren the children of the people, and
after the division of the family of the
Levites:
6 So kill the Passover and sanctify
yourselves, and prepare your brethren
that they may do according to the word
of the Lord by the hand of Moses. 7
Josiah also gave to the people sheep,
lambs and kids, all for the Passover ,
even to all that were present, to the
number of thirty thousand, and three
thousand bullocks: these were of the
king's substance.
8 And his princes offered willingly unto
the people, to the priests and to the
Levites: Hilkiah, and Zechariah, and
Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave
unto the priests for the Passover, even
two thousand and six hundred sheep, and
three hundred bullocks.
9 Conaniah also and Shemaiah and
Nethanel his brethren, and Hashabiah
and Jeiel, and Jozabad, chief of the
Levites gave unto the Levites for the
Passover, five thousand sheep, and five
hundred bullocks. 10 Thus the service
was prepared, and the priests stood in
their places, also the Levites in their
orders, according to the king's
commandment: 11 And they slew the
Passover, and the priests sprinkled the
blood with their hands, and the Levites
flayed them.
12 And they took away from the burnt
offering to give it according to the
divisions of the families of the children
of the people, to offer unto the Lord, as it
is written in the book of Moses, and so
of the bullocks.
13 And they roasted the Passover with
fire, according to the custom, but the
sanctified things they sod in pots, pans,
and cauldrons, and distributed them
quickly to all the people.
14 Afterward also they prepared for
themselves and for the priests: for the
priests the sons of Aaron were occupied
in offering of burnt offerings, and the fat
until night: therefore the Levites
prepared for themselves, and for the
priests the sons of Aaron.
15 And the singers the sons of Asaph
stood in their standing according to the
commandment of David, and Asaph, and
Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer: and
the porters at every gate, who might not
depart from their service: therefore their
brethren the Levites prepared for them.
16 So all the service of the Lord was
prepared the same day, to keep the
Passover, and to offer burnt offerings
upon the altar of the Lord, according to
the commandment of king Josiah.
17 And the children of Israel that were
present, kept the Passover the same time,
and the feast of the unleavened bread
seven days.
18 And there was no Passover kept like
that, in Israel, from the days of Samuel
the prophet: neither did all the kings of
Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah
kept, and the priests and the Levites, and
all Judah, and Israel that were present,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
19 This Passover was kept in the
eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah. 20
After all this, when Josiah had prepared
the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up
to fight against Carchemish by Perath,
and Josiah went out against him.
21 But he sent messengers to him,
saying, What have I to do with thee, thou
king of Judah? I come not against thee
this day, but against the house of mine
enemy, and God commanded me to make
haste: leave off to come against God,
which is with me, lest he destroy thee.
22 But Josiah would not turn his face
from him, but changed his apparel to
fight with him, and hearkened not unto
the words of Necho, which were of the
mouth of God, but came to fight in the
valley of Megiddo.
23 And the shooters shot at king Josiah:
then the king said to his servants, Carry
me away, for I am very sick.
24 So his servants took him out of that
chariot, and put him in the second
chariot which he had, and when they had
brought him to Jerusalem, he died, and
was buried in the sepulchres of his
fathers: and all Judah and Jerusalem
mourned for Josiah.
25 And Jeremiah lamented Josiah, and
all singing men and singing women
mourned for Josiah in their lamentations
to this day, and made the same for an
ordinance unto Israel: and behold, they
be written in the lamentations. 26
Concerning the rest of the acts of Josiah
and his goodness , doing as it was
written in the law of the Lord,
27 And his deeds, first and last, behold,
they are written in the book of the kings
of Israel and Judah.

II Chronicles Chapter 34

II Chronicles Chapter 34
1 Josiah was eight year old when he
began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem one and thirty year.
2 And he did uprightly in the sight of the
Lord, and walked in the ways of David
his father, and bowed neither to the right
hand nor to the left. 3 And in the eighth
year of his reign (when he was yet a
child) he began to seek after the God of
David his father: and in the twelfth year
he began to purge Judah, and Jerusalem
from the high places, and the groves, and
the carved images, and molten images:
4 And they break down in his sight the
altars of Baalim, and he caused to cut
down the images that were on high upon
them: he break also the groves, and the
carved images, and the molten images,
and stamped them to powder, and
strowed it upon the graves of them that
had sacrificed unto them. 5 Also he
burned the bones of the priests upon
their altars, and purged Judah and
Jerusalem.
6 And in the cities of Manasseh, and
Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto
Naphtali, with their mauls they break all
round about.
7 And when he had destroyed the altars
and the groves, and had broken and
stamped to powder the images, and had
cut down all the idols throughout all the
land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
8 Then in the eighteenth year of his
reign, when he had purged the land and
the temple, he sent Shaphan the son of
Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of
the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the
recorder, to repair the house of the Lord
his God.
9 And when they came to Hilkiah the
high priest, they delivered the money that
was brought into the house of God,
which the Levites that kept the door, had
gathered at the hand of Manasseh, and
Ephraim, and of all the residue of Israel,
and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of
the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 And they
put it in the hands of them that should do
the work and had the oversight in the
house of the Lord: and they gave it to the
workmen that wrought in the house of the
Lord, to repair and amend the house. 11
Even to the workmen and to the builders
gave they it, to buy hewed stone and
timber for couples and for beams of the
houses, which the kings of Judah had
destroyed.
12 And the men did the work faithfully,
and the overseers of them were Jahath
and Obadiah the Levites, of the children
of Merari, and Zechariah, and
Meshullam, of the children of the
Kohathites to set it forward: and of the
Levites all that could skill of instruments
of music.
13 And they were over the bearers of
burdens, and them that set forward all
the workmen in every work: and of the
Levites were scribes, and officers and
porters.
14 And when they brought out the money
that was brought into the house of the
Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the book
of the law of the Lord given by the hand
of Moses.
15 Therefore Hilkiah answered and said
to Shaphan the chancellor, I have found
the book of the law in the house of the
Lord: and Hilkiah gave the book to
Shaphan.
16 And Shaphan carried the book to the
king, and brought the king word again,
saying, All that is committed to the hand
of thy servants, that do they. 17 For they
have gathered the money that was found
in the house of the Lord, and have
delivered it into the hands of the
overseers, and to the hands of the
workmen.
18 Also Shaphan the chancellor
declared to the king, saying, Hilkiah the
priest hath given me a book, and
Shaphan read it before the king.
19 And when the king had heard the
words of the law, he tore his clothes. 20
And the king commanded Hilkiah, and
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon
the son of Micah, and Shaphan the
chancellor, and Asaiah the king's
servant, saying,
21 Go and inquire of the Lord for me,
and for the rest in Israel and Judah,
concerning the words of this book that is
found: for great is the wrath of the Lord
that is fallen upon us, because our
fathers have not kept the word of the
Lord, to do after all that is written in this
book.
22 Then Hilkiah and they that the king
had appointed, went to Huldah the
prophetess the wife of Shallum, the son
of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah keeper of
the wardrobe (and she dwelt in
Jerusalem within the college) and they
communed hereof with her.
23 And she answered them, Thus saith
the Lord God of Israel, Tell ye the man
that sent you to me,
24 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will
bring evil upon this place, and upon the
inhabitants thereof, even all the curses,
that are written in the book which they
have read before the king of Judah:
25 Because they have forsaken me, and
burned incense unto other gods, to anger
me with all the works of their hands,
therefore shall my wrath fall upon this
place, and shall not be quenched.
26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you
to inquire of the Lord, so shall ye say
unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of
Israel, The words which thou hast heard,
shall come to pass.
27 But because thine heart did melt, and
thou didst humble thyself before God,
when thou heardest his words against
this place and against the inhabitants
thereof, and humbledst thyself before me
and tearest thy clothes, and wept before
me, I have also heard it, saith the Lord.
28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy
fathers, and thou shalt be put in thy grave
in peace, and thine eyes shall not see all
the evil, which I will bring upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants of the
same. Thus they brought the king word
again.
29 Then the king sent and gathered all
the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30
And the king went up into the house of
the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the
priests and the Levites, and all the
people from the greatest to the smallest,
and he read in their ears all the words of
the book of the covenant that was found
in the house of the Lord. 31 And the king
stood by his pillar, and made a covenant
before the Lord, to walk after the Lord,
and to keep his commandments, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, with all his
heart, and with all his soul, and that he
would accomplish the words of the
covenant written in the same book.
32 And he caused all that were found in
Jerusalem, and Benjamin to stand to it:
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did
according to the covenant of God, even
the God of their fathers.
33 So Josiah took away all the
abominations out of all the countries that
pertained to the children of Israel, and
compelled all that were found in Israel,
to serve the Lord their God: so all his
days they turned not back from the Lord
God of their fathers.

II Chronicles Chapter 33

II Chronicles Chapter 33
1 Manasseh was twelve year old, when
he began to reign, and he reigned five
and fifty year in Jerusalem:
2 And he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, like the abominations of the
heathen, who the Lord had cast out
before the children of Israel.
3 For he went back and built the high
places, which Hezekiah his father had
broken down: and he set up altars for
Baalim, and made groves, and
worshiped all the host of the heaven, and
served them.
4 Also he built altars in the house of the
Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In
Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
5 And he built altars for all the host of
the heaven in the two courts of the house
of the Lord.
6 And he caused his sons to pass through
the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom: he
gave himself to witchcraft and to
charming and to sorcery, and he used
them that had familiar spirits, and
soothsayers: he did very much evil in the
sight of the Lord to anger him.
7 He put also the carved image, which
he had made, in the house of God:
whereof God had said to David and to
Solomon his son, In this house and in
Jerusalem, which I have chosen before
all the tribes of Israel, will I put my
name forever,
8 Neither will I make the foot of Israel
to remove anymore out of the land which
I have appointed for your fathers, so that
they take heed, and do all that I have
commanded them, according to the law
and statutes and judgments by the hand of
Moses.
9 So Manasseh made Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do
worse than the heathen, whom the Lord
had destroyed before the children of
Israel.
10 And the Lord spake to Manasseh and
to his people, but they would not regard.
11 Wherefore the Lord brought upon
them the captains of the host of the king
of Asshur [Assyria], which took
Manasseh and put him in fetters, and
bound him in chains, and carried him to
Babylon.
12 And when he was in tribulation, he
prayed to the Lord his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of his
fathers,
13 And prayed unto him: and God was
entreated of him, and heard his prayer,
and brought him again to Jerusalem into
his kingdom: then Manasseh knew that
the Lord was God.
14 Now after this he built a wall without
the city of David, on the Westside of
Gihon in the valley, even at the entry of
the fish gate, and compassed about
Ophel, and raised it very high, and put
captains of war in all the strong cities of
Judah.
15 And he took away the strange gods
and the image out of the house of the
Lord, and all the altars that he had built
in the mount of the house of the Lord,
and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of
the city.
16 Also he prepared the altar of the
Lord, and sacrificed thereon peace
offerings, and of thanks, and commanded
Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice
still in the high places, but unto the Lord
their God.
18 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God,
and the words of the seers, that spake to
him in the name of the Lord God of
Israel, behold, they are written in the
book of the kings of Israel. 19 And his
prayer and how God was entreated of
him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and
the places wherein he built high places,
and set groves and images (before he
was humbled) behold, they are written in
the book of the seers.
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in his own house:
and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
21 Amon was two and twenty year old,
when he began to reign, and reigned two
year in Jerusalem.
22 But he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, as did Manasseh his father: for
Amon sacrificed to all the images, which
Manasseh his father had made, and
served them,
23 And he humbled not himself before
the Lord, as Manasseh his father had
humbled himself: but this Amon
trespassed more and more.
24 And his servants conspired against
him, and slew him in his own house. 25
But the people of the land slew all them
that had conspired against king Amon:
and the people of the land made Josiah
his son king in his stead.

II Chronicles Chapter 32

II Chronicles Chapter 32
1 After these things faithfully described,
Sennacherib king of Asshur [Assyria]
came and entered into Judah, and
besieged the strong cities, and thought to
win them for himself.
2 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib
was come, and that his purpose was to
fight against Jerusalem,
3 Then he took counsel with his princes
and his nobles, to stop the water of the
fountains without the city: and they did
help him.
4 So many of the people assembled
themselves, and stopped all the
fountains, and the river that ran through
the midst of the country, saying, Why
should the kings of Asshur [Assyria]
come, and find much water?
5 And he took courage, and built all the
broken wall, and made up the towers,
and another wall without, and repaired
Millo in the city of David, and made
many darts and shields.
6 And he set captains of war over the
people, and assembled them to him in
the broad place of the gate of the city,
and spake comfortably unto them, saying,
7 Be strong and courageous: fear not,
neither be afraid for the king of Asshur
[Assyria], neither for all the multitude
that is with him: for there be more with
us, than is with him.
8 With him is an arm of flesh, but with
us is the Lord our God for to help us,
and to fight our battles. Then the people
were confirmed by the words of
Hezekiah king of Judah.
9 After this, did Sennacherib king of
Asshur [Assyria] send his servants to
Jerusalem (while he was against
Lachish, and all his dominion with him)
unto Hezekiah king of Judah and unto all
Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying, 10
Thus saith Sennacherib the king of
Asshur [Assyria], Wherein do ye trust,
that ye will remain in Jerusalem, during
the siege?
11 Doth not Hezekiah entice you to give
over yourselves unto death by famine
and by thirst, saying, The Lord our God
shall deliver us out of the hand of the
king of Asshur [Assyria]?
12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken
away his high places and his altars, and
commanded Judah and Jerusalem,
saying, Ye shall worship before one
altar, and burn incense upon it?
13 Know ye not what I and my fathers
have done unto all the people of other
countries? Were the gods of the nations
of other lands able to deliver their land
out of mine hand?
14 Who is he of all the gods of those
nations (that my fathers have destroyed)
that could deliver his people out of mine
hand? That your God should be able to
deliver you out of mine hand?
15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah
deceive you, nor seduce you after this
sort, neither believe ye him: for none of
all the gods of any nation or kingdom
was able to deliver his people out of
mine hand and out of the hand of my
fathers: how much less shall your gods
deliver you out of mine hand?
16 And his servants spake yet more
against the Lord God, and against his
servant Hezekiah.
17 He wrote also letters, blaspheming
the Lord God of Israel and speaking
against him, saying, As the gods of the
nations of other countries could not
deliver their people out of mine hand, so
shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his
people out of mine hand.
18 Then they cried with a loud voice in
the Jews' speech unto the people of
Jerusalem that were on the wall, to fear
them and to astonish them, that they
might take the city.
19 Thus they spake against the God of
Jerusalem, as against the gods of the
people of the earth, even the works of
man's hands,
20 But Hezekiah the king, and the
prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed
against this and cried to heaven.
21 And the Lord sent an angel which
destroyed all the valiant men, and the
princes and captains of the host of the
king of Asshur [Assyria]: so he returned
with shame to his own land. And when
he was come into the house of his god,
they that came forth of his own bowels,
slew him there with the sword.
22 So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of
Sennacherib king of Asshur [Assyria],
and from the hand of all other, and
maintained them on every side.
23 And many brought offerings unto the
Lord to Jerusalem, and presents to
Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was
magnified in the sight of all nations from
thenceforth.
24 In those days Hezekiah was sick unto
the death, and prayed unto the Lord, who
spake unto him, and gave him a sign.
25 But Hezekiah did not render
according to the reward bestowed upon
him: for his heart was lift up, and wrath
came upon him, and upon Judah and
Jerusalem.
26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled
himself (after that his heart was lifted
up) he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and the wrath of the Lord came not upon
them in the days of Hezekiah.
27 Hezekiah also had exceeding much
riches and honor, and he gat him
treasures of silver, and of gold, and of
precious stones, and of sweet odors, and
of shields, and of all pleasant vessels:
28 And of storehouses for the increase
of wheat and wine and oil, and stalls for
all beasts, and rows for the stables.
29 And he made him cities, and had
possession of sheep and oxen in
abundance: for God had given him
substance exceeding much.
30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the
upper water springs of Gihon, and led
them straight underneath toward the city
of David westward. So Hezekiah
prospered in all his works.
31 But because of the ambassadors of
the princes of Babylon, which sent unto
him to inquire of the wonder that was
done in the land, God left him to try him,
and to know all that was in his heart.
32 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they
are written in the vision of Isaiah the
prophet, the son of Amoz, in the book of
the kings of Judah and Israel.
33 So Hezekiah slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in the highest
sepulchre of the sons of David: and all
Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
did him honor at his death: and
Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

II Chronicles Chapter 31

II Chronicles Chapter 31
1 And when all these things were
finished, all Israel that were found in the
cities of Judah, went out and break the
images, and cut down the groves, and
break down the high places, and the
altars throughout all Judah and
Benjamin, in Ephraim also and
Manasseh, until they had made an end:
afterward all the children of Israel
returned every man to his possession,
into their own cities.
2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of
the priests and Levites by their turns,
every man according to his office, both
priests and Levites, for the burnt offering
and peace offerings, to minister and to
give thanks, and to praise in the gates of
the tents of the Lord.
3 (And the king's portion was of his own
substance for the burnt offerings, even
for the burnt offerings of the morning and
of the evening, and the burnt offerings
for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons,
and for the solemn feasts, as it is written
in the law of the Lord)
4 He commanded also the people that
dwelt in Jerusalem, to give a part to the
priests, and Levites, that they might be
encouraged in the law of the Lord. 5 And
when the commandment was spread, the
children of Israel brought abundance of
first fruits, of corn, wine, and oil, and
honey, and of all the increase of the
field, and the tithes of all things brought
they abundantly. 6 And the children of
Israel and Judah that dwelt in the cities
of Judah, they also brought the tithes of
bullocks and sheep, and the holy tithes
which were consecrated unto the Lord
their God, and laid them on many heaps.
7 In the third month they began to lay the
foundation of the heaps, and finished
them in the seventh month.
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes
came, and saw the heaps, they blessed
the Lord and his people Israel.
9 And Hezekiah questioned with the
priests and the Levites concerning the
heaps.
10 And Azariah the chief priest of the
house of Zadok answered him, and said,
Since the people began to bring the
offerings into the house of the Lord, we
have eaten and have been satisfied, and
there is left in abundance: for the Lord
hath blessed his people, and this
abundance that is left.
11 And Hezekiah commanded to prepare
chambers in the house of the Lord: and
they prepared them,
12 And carried in the first fruits, and the
tithes, and the dedicated things faithfully:
and over them was Conaniah the Levite,
the chief, and Shimei his brother the
second.
13 And Jehiel, and Azariah, and Nahath,
and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad,
and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath,
and Benaiah were overseers by the
appointment of Conaniah, and Shimei his
brother, and by the commandment of
Hezekiah the king, and of Azariah the
chief of the house of God.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite
porter toward the east, was over the
things that were willingly offered unto
God, to distribute the oblations of the
Lord, and the holy things that were
consecrated.
15 And at his hand were Eden, and
Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah,
Amariah, and Shechaniah, in the cities of
the priests, to distribute with fidelity to
their brethren by courses, both to the
great and small,
16 Their daily portion: beside their
generation being males from three year
old and above, even to all that entered
into the house of the Lord to their office
in their charge, according to their
courses:
17 Both to the generation of the priests
after the house of their fathers, and to the
Levites from twenty year old and above,
according to their charge in their
courses:
18 And to the generation of all their
children, their wives, and their sons and
their daughters throughout all the
congregation: for by their fidelity are
they partakers of the holy things.
19 Also to the sons of Aaron, the priests,
which were in the fields and suburbs of
their cities, in every city the men that
were appointed by names, should give
portions to all the males of the priests,
and to all the generation of the Levites.
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all
Judah, and did well, and uprightly, and
truly before the Lord his God.
21 And in all the works that he began for
the service of the house of God, both in
the law and in the commandments, to
seek his God, he did it with all his heart,
and prospered.

II Chronicles Chapter 30

II Chronicles Chapter 30
1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel, and
Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim
and Manasseh, that they should come to
the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to
keep the Passover unto the Lord God of
Israel.
2 And the king and his princes and all
the congregation had taken counsel in
Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the
second month.
3 For they could not keep it at this time,
because there were not priests enough
sanctified, neither was the people
gathered to Jerusalem. 4 And the thing
pleased the king, and all the
congregation.
5 And they decreed to make
proclamation throughout all Israel from
Beersheba even to Dan, that they should
come to keep the Passover unto the Lord
God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had
not done it of a great time, as it was
written.
6 So the posts went with letters by the
commission of the king, and his princes,
throughout all Israel and Judah, and with
the commandment of the king, saying, Ye
children of Israel, turn again unto the
Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,
and he will return to the remnant that are
escaped of you, out of the hands of the
kings of Asshur [Assyria].
7 And be not ye like your fathers, and
like your brethren, which trespassed
against the Lord God of their fathers:
and therefore he made them desolate, as
ye see.
8 Be not ye now stiff necked like your
fathers, but give the hand to the Lord and
come into his sanctuary, which he hath
sanctified forever, and serve the Lord
your God, and the fierceness of his
wrath shall turn away from you. 9 For if
ye return unto the Lord, your brethren
and your children shall find mercy
before them that led them captives, and
they shall return unto this land: for the
Lord your God is gracious and merciful,
and will not turn away his face from you,
if ye convert unto him.
10 So the posts went from city to city
through the land of Ephraim and
Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: but they
laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
11 Nevertheless divers of Asher, and
Manasseh, and of Zebulun submitted
themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
12 And the hand of God was in Judah, so
that he gave them one heart to do the
commandment of the king, and of the
rulers, according to the word of the
Lord.
13 And there assembled to Jerusalem
much people, to keep the feast of the
unleavened bread in the second month, a
very great assembly.
14 And they arose, and took away the
altars that were in Jerusalem: and all
those for incense took they away, and
cast them into the brook Kidron. 15
Afterward they slew the Passover the
fourteenth day of the second month: and
the priests and Levites were ashamed,
and sanctified themselves, and brought
the burnt offerings into the house of the
Lord.
16 And they stood in their place after
their manner, according to the law of
Moses the man of God: and the priests
sprinkled the blood, received of the
hands of the Levites.
17 Because there were many in the
congregation that were not sanctified,
therefore the Levites had the charge of
the killing of the Passover for all that
were not clean, to sanctify it to the Lord.
18 For a multitude of the people, even a
multitude of Ephraim, and Manasseh,
Issachar and Zebulun had not cleansed
themselves, yet did eat the Passover, but
not as it was written: wherefore
Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The
good Lord be merciful toward him,
19 That prepareth his whole heart to
seek the Lord God, the God of his
fathers, though he be not cleansed,
according to the purification of the
sanctuary.
20 And the Lord heard Hezekiah, and
healed the people.
21 And the children of Israel that were
present at Jerusalem, kept the feast of the
unleavened bread seven days with great
joy, and the Levites, and the priests
praised the Lord, day by day, singing
with loud instruments unto the Lord.
22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably
unto all the Levites that had good
knowledge to sing unto the Lord: and
they did eat in that feast seven days, and
offered peace offerings, and praised the
Lord God of their fathers. 23 And the
whole assembly took counsel to keep it
other seven days. So they kept it seven
days with joy.
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah had given
to the congregation a thousand bullocks,
and seven thousand sheep. And the
princes had given to the congregation a
thousand bullocks, and ten thousand
sheep: and many priests were sanctified.
25 And all the congregation of Judah
rejoiced with the priests and the Levites,
and all the congregation that came out of
Israel, and the strangers that came out of
the land of Israel, and that dwelt in
Judah.
26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem:
for since the time of Solomon the son of
David king of Israel there was not the
like thing in Jerusalem. 27 Then the
priests and the Levites arose, and
blessed the people, and their voice was
heard, and their prayer came up unto
heaven, to his holy habitation.

II Chronicles Chapter 29

II Chronicles Chapter 29
1 Hezekiah began to reign, when he was
five and twenty year old, and reigned
nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: and
his mother's
name was Abijah the daughter of
Zechariah.
2 And he did uprightly in the sight of the
Lord, according to all that David his
father had done.
3 He opened the doors of the house of
the Lord in the first year, and in the first
month of his reign, and repaired them.
4 And he brought in the priests and the
Levites, and gathered them into the east
street,
5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye
Levites: sanctify now yourselves, and
sanctify the house of the Lord God of
your fathers, and carry forth the
filthiness out of the sanctuary.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and
done evil in the eyes of the Lord our
God, and have forsaken him, and turned
away their faces from the tabernacle of
the Lord, and turned their backs.
7 They have also shut the doors of the
porch, and quenched the lamps, and have
neither burned incense, nor offered burnt
offerings in the sanctuary unto the God of
Israel.
8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lord hath
been on Judah and Jerusalem: and he
hath made them a scattering, a
desolation, and an hissing, as ye see
with your eyes.
9 For lo, our fathers are fallen by the
sword, and our sons, and our daughters,
and our wives are in captivity for the
same cause.
10 Now I purpose to make a covenant
with the Lord God of Israel, that he may
turn away his fierce wrath from us.
11 Now my sons, be not deceived: for
the Lord hath chosen you to stand before
him, to serve him, and to be his
ministers, and to burn incense. 12 Then
the Levites arose, Mahath the son of
Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah of
the sons of the Kohathites: and of the
sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi,
and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of
the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah,
and Eden the son of Joah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri,
and Jeiel [Jeuel]: and of the sons of
Asaph, Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14 And of the sons of Heman, Jeuel, and
Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun,
Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15 And they gathered their brethren, and
sanctified themselves and came
according to the commandment of the
king, and by the words of the Lord, for
to cleanse the house of the Lord.
16 And the priests went into the inner
parts of the house of the Lord, to cleanse
it, and brought out all the uncleanness
that they found in the temple of the Lord,
into the court of the house of the Lord:
and the Levites took it, to carry it out
unto the brook Kidron.
17 They began the first day of the first
month to sanctify it, and the eighth day of
the month came they to the porch of the
Lord: so they sanctified the house of the
Lord in eight days, and in the sixteenth
day of the first month they made an end.
18 Then they went into Hezekiah the
king, and said, We have cleansed all the
house of the Lord and the altar of burnt
offering, with all the vessels thereof, and
the showbread table, with all the vessels
thereof:
19 And all the vessels which king Ahaz
had cast aside when he
reigned, and transgressed, have we
prepared and sanctified: and behold,
they are before the altar of the Lord.
20 And Hezekiah the king rose early,
and gathered the princes of the city, and
went up to the house of the Lord.
21 And they brought seven bullocks, and
seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven
he goats, for a sin offering for the
kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for
Judah. And he commanded the priests
the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the
altar of the Lord.
22 So they slew the bullocks, and the
priests received the blood, and sprinkled
it upon the altar: they slew also the rams
and sprinkled the blood upon the altar,
and they slew the lambs, and they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 Then they brought the he goats for the
sin offering before the king and the
congregation, and they laid their hands
upon them.
24 And the priests slew them, and with
the blood of them they cleansed the altar
to reconcile all Israel: for the king had
commanded for all Israel the burnt
offering and the sin offering.
25 He appointed also the Levites in the
house of the Lord with cymbals, with
viols, and with harps, according to the
commandment of David, and Gad the
king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for
the commandment was by the hand of the
Lord, and by the hand of his prophets.
26 And the Levites stood with the
instruments of David, and the priests
with the trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer
the burnt offering upon the altar: and
when the burnt offering began, the song
of the Lord began with the trumpets, and
the instruments of David king of Israel.
28 And all the congregation worshiped,
singing a song, and they blew the
trumpets: all this continued until the
burnt offering was finished. 29 And
when they had made an end of offering,
the king and all that were present with
him, bowed themselves, and worshiped.
30 Then Hezekiah the king and the
princes commanded the Levites to praise
the Lord with the words of David, and of
Asaph the seer. so they praised with joy,
and they bowed themselves, and
worshiped.
31 And Hezekiah spake, and said, Now
ye have consecrated yourselves to the
Lord: come near and bring the sacrifices
and offerings of praise into the house of
the Lord. And the congregation brought
sacrifices; and offerings of praises, and
every man that was willing in heart,
offered burnt offerings. 32 And the
number of the burnt offerings, which the
congregation brought, was seventy
bullocks, an hundred rams, and two
hundred lambs: all these were for a
burnt offering to the Lord:
33 And for sanctification six hundred
bullocks, and three thousand sheep. 34
But the priests were too few, and were
not able to flay all the burnt offerings:
therefore their brethren the Levites did
help them, till they had ended the work,
and until other priests were sanctified:
for the Levites were more upright in
heart to sanctify themselves, than the
priests. 35 And also the burnt offerings
were many with the fat of the peace
offerings and the drink offerings for the
burnt offering. So the service of the
house of the Lord was set in order.
36 Then Hezekiah rejoiced and all the
people, that God had made the people so
ready: for the thing was done suddenly.

II Chronicles Chapter 28

II Chronicles Chapter 28
1 Ahaz was twenty year old when he
began to reign, and reigned sixteen year
in Jerusalem, and did not uprightly in the
sight of the Lord, like David his father.
2 But he walked in the ways of the kings
of Israel, and made even molten images
for Baalim.
3 Moreover he burned incense in the
valley of Ben-hinnom, and burned his
sons with fire, after the abominations of
the heathen whom the Lord had cast out
before the children of Israel.
4 He sacrificed also and burned incense
in the high places, and on hills, and
under every green tree.
5 Wherefore the Lord his God delivered
him into the hand of the king of the
Aramites [Syrians], and they smote him,
and took of his, many prisoners, and
brought them to Damascus: and he was
also delivered into the hand of the king
of Israel, which smote him with a great
slaughter.
6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in
Judah sixscore thousand in one day, all
valiant men, because they had forsaken
the Lord God of their fathers. 7 And
Zichri a mighty man of Ephraim slew
Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam
the governor of the house, and Elkanah
the second after the king. 8 And the
children of Israel took prisoners of their
brethren, two hundred thousand of
women, sons and daughters, and carried
away much spoil of them, and brought
the spoil to Samaria.
9 But there was a prophet of the Lord's,
(whose name was Oded) and he went out
before the host that came to Samaria, and
said unto them, Behold, because the
Lord God of your fathers is wroth with
Judah, he hath delivered them into your
hand, and ye have slain them in a rage,
that reacheth up to heaven.
10 And now ye purpose to keep under
the children of Judah and Jerusalem, as
servants and handmaids unto you: but are
not you such, that sins are with you
before the Lord your God?
11 Now therefore hear me, and deliver
the captives again, which ye have taken
prisoners of your brethren: for the fierce
wrath of the Lord is toward you. 12
Wherefore certain of the chief of the
children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of
Johanan, Berechiah the son of
Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of
Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai,
stood up against them that came from the
war,
13 And said unto them, Bring not in the
captives hither: for this shall be a sin
upon us against the Lord: ye intend to
add more to our sins and to our trespass,
though our trespass be great, and the
fierce wrath of God is against Israel.
14 So the army left the captives and the
spoil before the princes and all the
congregation.
15 And the men that were named by
name, rose up and took the prisoners,
and with the spoil clothed all that were
naked among them, and arrayed them,
and shod them, and gave them meat, and
gave them drink, and anointed them, and
carried all that were feeble of them upon
asses, and brought them to Jericho the
city of Palm trees to their brethren: so
they returned to Samaria. 16 At that time
did king Ahaz send unto the kings of
Asshur [Assyria], to help him.
17 (For the Edomites came moreover,
and slew of Judah, and carried away
captives.
18 The Philistines also invaded the
cities in the low country, and toward the
south of Judah, and took Bethshemesh,
and Aijalon, and Gederoth and Shocho,
with the villages thereof, and Timnah,
with her villages, and Gimzo, with her
villages, and they dwelt there.
19 For the Lord had humbled Judah,
because of Ahaz king of Israel: for he
had brought vengeance upon Judah, and
had grievously transgressed against the
Lord)
20 And Tilgath Pilneser [Pul] king of
Asshur [Assyria] came unto him who
troubled him and did not strengthen him.
21 For Ahaz took a portion out of the
house of the Lord and out of the king's
house and of the princes, and gave unto
the king of Asshur [Assyria]: yet it
helped him not.
22 And in the time of his tribulation did
he yet trespass more against the Lord,
(this is king Ahaz)
23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of
Damascus, which plagued him, and he
said, Because the gods of the kings of
Aram [Syria] helped them, I will
sacrifice unto them, and they will help
me: yet they were his ruin, and of all
Israel.
24 And Ahaz gathered the vessels of the
house of God, and break the vessels of
the house of God, and shut up the doors
of the house of the Lord, and made him
altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 And in every city of Judah he made
high places, to burn incense unto other
gods, and provoked to anger the Lord
God of his fathers.
26 Concerning the rest of his acts, and
all his ways first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of
Judah, and Israel.
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the city of Jerusalem,
but brought him not unto the sepulchres
of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his
son reigned in his stead.

II Chronicles Chapter 27

II Chronicles Chapter 27
1 Jotham was five and twenty year old
when he began to reign, and reigned
sixteen year in Jerusalem, and his
mother's name was Jerushah the daughter
of Zadok.
2 And he did uprightly in the sight of the
Lord according to all that his father
Uzziah did, save that he entered not into
the temple of the Lord, and the people
did yet corrupt their ways.
3 He built the high gate of the house of
the Lord, and he built very much on the
wall of the castle.
4 Moreover he built cities in the
mountains of Judah, and in the forests he
built palaces and towers.
5 And he fought with the king of the
children of Ammon, and prevailed
against them. And the children of
Ammon gave him the same year an
hundred talents of silver, and ten
thousand measures of wheat, and ten
thousand of barley: this did the children
of Ammon give him both in the second
year and the third. 6 So Jotham became
mighty because he directed his way
before the Lord his God.
7 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Jotham, and all his wars and his ways,
lo, they are written in the book of the
kings of Israel, and Judah. 8 He was five
and twenty year old when he began to
reign, and reigned sixteen year in
Jerusalem.
9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the city of David: and
Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

II Chronicles Chapter 26

II Chronicles Chapter 26
1 Then all the people of Judah took
Uzziah, which was sixteen year old, and
made him king in the stead of his father
Amaziah.
2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah
after that the king slept with his fathers.
3 Sixteen year old was Uzziah, when he
began to reign, and he reigned two and
fifty year in Jerusalem, and his mother's
name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem. 4 And
he did uprightly in the sight of the Lord,
according to all that his father Amaziah
did.
5 And he sought God in the days of
Zechariah (which understood the visions
of God) and when as he sought the Lord,
God made him to prosper. 6 For he went
forth and fought against the Philistines
and break down the wall of Gath, and
the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of
Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod, and
among the Philistines.
7 And God helped him against the
Philistines, and against the Arabians that
dwelt in Gur-baal and Hammeunim.
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to
Uzziah, and his name spread to the
entering in of Egypt: for he did most
valiantly.
9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in
Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the
valley gate, and at the turning, and made
them strong.
10 And he built towers in the
wilderness, and digged many cisterns:
for he had much cattle both in the valleys
and plains, plowmen, and dressers of
vines in the mountains, and in Carmel:
for he loved husbandry.
11 Uzziah had also an host of fighting
men that went out to war by bands,
according to the count of their number
under the hand of Jeiel the scribe, and
Maaseiah the ruler, and under the hand
of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the
families of the valiant men were two
thousand and six hundred.
13 And under their hand was the army
for war, three hundred and seven
thousand, and five hundred that fought
valiantly to help the king against the
enemy.
14 And Uzziah prepared them throughout
all the host, shields, and spears, and
helmets, and brigandines, and bows, and
stones to sling.
15 He made also very artificial engines
in Jerusalem, to be upon the towers and
upon the corners, to shoot arrows and
great stones: and his name spread far
abroad, because God did help him
marvelously, till he was mighty. 16 But
when he was strong, his heart was lift up
to his destruction: for he transgressed
against the Lord his God, and went into
the temple of the Lord to burn incense
upon the altar of incense.
17 And Azariah the priest went in after
him, and with him fourscore priests of
the Lord, valiant men.
18 And they withstood Uzziah the king,
and said unto him, It pertaineth not to
thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the
Lord, but to the priests the sons of
Aaron, that are consecrated for to offer
incense: go forth of the sanctuary: for
thou hast transgressed, and thou shalt
have none honor of the Lord God. 19
Then Uzziah was wroth, and had incense
in his hand to burn it: and while he was
wroth with the priests, the leprosy rose
up in his forehead before the priests in
the house of the Lord beside the incense
altar.
20 And when Azariah the chief priest
with all the priests looked upon him,
behold, he was leprous in his forehead,
and they caused him hastily to depart
thence: and he was even compelled to go
out, because the Lord had smitten him.
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto
the day of his death, and dwelt as a leper
in an house apart, because he was cut off
from the house of the Lord: and Jotham
his son ruled over the king's house, and
judged the people of the land.
22 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz write.
23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and
they buried him with his fathers in the
field of the burial, which pertained to the
kings: for they said, He is a leper. And
Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

II Chronicles Chapter 25

II Chronicles Chapter 25
1 Amaziah was five and twenty year old
when he began to reign, and he reigned
nine and twenty year in Jerusalem: and
his mother's
name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
2 And he did uprightly in the eyes of the
Lord, but not with a perfect heart. 3 And
when the kingdom was established unto
him, he slew his servants, that had slain
the king his father.
4 But he slew not their children, but did
as it is written in the law, and in the
book of Moses, where the Lord
commanded, saying, The fathers shall
not die for the children, neither shall the
children die for the fathers, but every
man shall die for his own sin.
5 And Amaziah assembled Judah, and
made them captains over thousands, and
captains over hundreds, according to the
houses of their fathers, throughout all
Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered
them from twenty year old and above,
and found among them three hundred
thousand chosen men, to go forth to the
war, and to handle spear and shield.
6 He hired also an hundred thousand
valiant men out of Israel for an hundred
talents of silver.
7 But a man of God came to him, saying,
O king, let not the army of Israel go with
thee: for the Lord is not with Israel ,
neither with all the house of Ephraim. 8
If not, go thou on, do it, make thyself
strong to the battle, but God shall make
thee fall before the enemy: for God hath
power to help, and to cast down.
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God,
What shall we do then for the hundred
talents, which I have given to the host of
Israel? Then the man of God answered,
The Lord is able to give thee more than
this.
10 So Amaziah separated them, to wit,
the army that was come to him out of
Ephraim, to return to their place:
wherefore their wrath was kindled
greatly against Judah, and they returned
to their places with great anger. 11 Then
Amaziah was encouraged, and led forth
his people, and went to the salt valley,
and smote of the children of Seir, ten
thousand.
12 And other ten thousand did the
children of Judah take alive, and carried
them to the top of a rock, and cast them
down from the top of the rock, and they
all burst to pieces.
13 But the men of the army, which
Amaziah sent away, that they should not
go with his people to battle, fell upon the
cities of Judah from Samaria unto Bethhoron,
and smote three thousand of them,
and took much spoil. 14 Now after that
Amaziah was come from the slaughter of
the Edomites, he brought the gods of the
children of Seir, and set them up to be
his gods, and worshiped them, and
burned incense unto them.
15 Wherefore the Lord was wroth with
Amaziah, and sent unto him a prophet,
which said unto him, Why hast thou
sought the gods of the people, which
were not able to deliver their own
people out of thine hand?
16 And as he talked with him, he said
unto him, Have they made thee the king's
counselor? Cease thou: why should they
smite thee? And the prophet ceased, but
said, I know that God hath determined to
destroy thee, because thou hast done this,
and hast not obeyed my counsel.
17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took
counsel, and sent to Jehoash the son of
Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu king of Israel,
saying, Come, let us see one another in
the face.
18 But Jehoash king of Israel sent to
Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The
thistle that is in Lebanon, sent to the
cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give
thy daughter to my son to wife: and the
wild beast that was in Lebanon went and
trod down the thistle.
19 Thou thinkest: lo, thou hast smitten
Edom, and thine heart lifteth thee up to
brag: abide now at home: why dost thou
provoke to thine hurt, that thou shouldest
fall, and Judah with thee?
20 But Amaziah would not hear: for it
was of God, that he might deliver them
into his hand, because they had sought
the gods of Edom. 21 So Jehoash the
king of Israel went up: and he, and
Amaziah king of Judah saw one another
in the face at Bethshemesh, which is in
Judah.
22 And Judah was put to the worse
before Israel, and they fled every man to
his tents.
23 But Jehoash the king of Israel took
Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz in
Bethshemesh, and brought him to
Jerusalem, and break down the wall of
Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim unto
the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
24 And he took all the gold and the
silver, and all the vessels that were
found in the house of God with Obed
Edom, and in the treasures of the king's
house, and the children that were in
hostage, and returned to Samaria. 25
And Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of
Judah lived after the death of Jehoash
son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, fifteen
year.
26 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Amaziah first and last, are they not
written in the book of the kings of Judah
and Israel?
27 Now after the time that Amaziah did
turn away from the Lord, they wrought
treason against him in Jerusalem: and
when he was fled to Lachish, they sent to
Lachish after him, and slew him there.
28 And they brought him upon horses,
and buried him with his fathers in the
city of Judah.

II Chronicles Chapter 24

II Chronicles Chapter 24
1 Jehoash was seven year old, when he
began to reign, and he reigned forty year
in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2 And Jehoash did
uprightly in the sight of the Lord, all the
days of Jehoiada the priest.
3 And Jehoiada took him two wives, and
he begat sons and daughters. 4 And
afterward it came into Jehoash's mind, to
renew the house of the Lord. 5 And he
assembled the priests and the Levites,
and said to them, Go out unto the cities
of Judah, and gather of all Israel money
to repair the house of your God, from
year to year, and haste the thing: but the
Levites hasted not. 6 Therefore the king
called Jehoiada, the chief, and said unto
him, Why hast thou not required of the
Levites to bring in out of Judah and
Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant
of the Lord, and of the congregation of
Israel, for the tabernacle of the
testimony?
7 For wicked Athaliah, and her children
break up the house of God: and all the
things that were dedicated for the house
of the Lord, did they bestow upon
Baalim.
8 Therefore the king commanded, and
they made a chest, and set it at the gate
of the house of the Lord without.
9 And they made proclamation through
Judah and Jerusalem, to bring unto the
Lord the tax of Moses the servant of God
, laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
10 And all the princes and all the people
rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into
the chest, until they had finished.
11 And when it was time, they brought
the chest unto the king's officer by the
hand of the Levites: and when they saw
that there was much silver, then the
king's scribe (and one appointed by the
high priest) came and emptied the chest,
and took it, and carried it to his place
again: thus they did day by day, and
gathered silver in abundance.
12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to
such as did the labor and work in the
house of the Lord, and hired masons and
carpenters to repair the house of the
Lord: they gave it also to workers of
iron and brass, to repair the house of the
Lord.
13 So the workmen wrought, and the
work amended through their hands: and
they restored the house of God to his
state, and strengthened it. 14 And when
they had finished it, they brought the rest
of the silver before the king and
Jehoiada, and he made thereof vessels
for the house of the Lord, even vessels to
minister, both mortars and incense cups,
and vessels of gold, and of silver: and
they offered burnt offerings in the house
of the Lord continually all the days of
Jehoiada.
15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full
of days and died. An hundred and thirty
year old was he when he died.
16 And they buried him in the city of
David with the kings, because he had
done good in Israel, and toward God and
his house.
17 And after the death of Jehoiada, came
the princes of Judah, and did reverence
to the king, and the king hearkened unto
them.
18 And they left the house of the Lord
God of their fathers, and served groves
and idols: and wrath came upon Judah
and Jerusalem, because of this their
trespass.
19 And God sent prophets among them,
to bring them again unto the Lord: and
they made protestation among them, but
they would not hear. 20 And the Spirit of
God came upon Zechariah the son of
Jehoiada the priest, which stood above
the people, and said unto them, Thus
saith God, Why transgress ye the
commandments of the Lord? Surely it
shall not prosper: because ye have
forsaken the Lord, he also hath forsaken
you.
21 Then they conspired against him and
stoned him with stones at the
commandment of the king, in the court of
the house of the Lord. 22 Thus Jehoash
the king remembered not the kindness
which Jehoiada his father had done to
him, but slew his son. And when he
died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and
require it.
23 And when the year was out, the host
of Aram [Syria] came up against him,
and they came against Judah and
Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes
of the people from among the people,
and sent all the spoil of them unto the
king of Damascus.
24 Though the army of Aram [Syria]
came with a small company of men, yet
the Lord delivered a very great army
into their hand, because they had
forsaken the Lord God of their fathers:
and they gave sentence against Jehoash.
25 And when they were departed from
him, (for they left him in great diseases)
his own servants conspired against him
for the blood of the children of Jehoiada
the priest, and slew him on his bed, and
he died, and they buried him in the city
of David: but they buried him not in the
sepulchres of the kings. 26 And these are
they that conspired against him, Zabad
the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and
Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a
Moabitess.
27 But his sons, and the sum of the tax
gathered by him, and the foundation of
the house of God, behold, they are
written in the story of the book of the
kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in
his stead.

II Chronicles Chapter 23

II Chronicles Chapter 23
1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada
waxed bold, and took the captains of
hundreds, to wit, Azariah the son of
Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of
Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed,
and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and
Elishaphat the son of Zichri in covenant
with him.
2 And they went about in Judah, and
gathered the Levites out of all the cities
of Judah, and the chief fathers of Israel:
and they came to Jerusalem. 3 And all
the congregation made a covenant with
the king in the house of God: and he said
unto them, Behold, the king's son must
reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of
David.
4 This is it that ye shall do, The third
part of you that come on the Sabbath of
the priests, and the Levites, shall be
porters of the doors. 5 And another third
part toward the king's house, and
another third part at the gate of the
foundation, and all the people shall be in
the courts of the house of the Lord.
6 But let none come into the house of the
Lord, save the priests, and the Levites
that minister: they shall go in, for they
are holy: but all the people shall keep
the watch of the Lord.
7 And the Levites shall compass the king
round about, and every man with his
weapon in his hand, and he that entereth
into the house, shall be slain, and be you
with the king, when he cometh in, and
when he goeth out. 8 So the Levites and
all Judah did according to all things that
Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and
took every man his men that came on the
Sabbath, with them that went out on the
Sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest did not
discharge the courses.
9 And Jehoiada the priest delivered to
the captains of hundreds spears, and
shields, and bucklers which had been
king David's, and were in the house of
God.
10 And he caused all the people to stand
(every man with his weapon in his hand)
from the right side of the house, to the
left side of the house by the altar and by
the house round about the king.
11 Then they brought out the king's son,
and put upon him the crown and gave
him the testimony, and made him king.
And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him,
and said, God save the king.
12 But when Athaliah heard the noise of
the people running and praising the king,
she came to the people into the house of
the Lord.
13 And when she looked, behold, the
king stood by his pillar at the entering in,
and the princes and the trumpets by the
king, and all the people of the land
rejoiced, and blew the trumpets, and the
singers were with instruments of music,
and they that could sing praise: then
Athaliah rent her clothes, and said,
Treason, treason.
14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out
the captains of hundreds that were
governors of the host, and said unto
them, Have her forth of the ranges, and
he that followeth her, let him die by the
sword: for the priest had said, Slay her
not in the house of the Lord.
15 So they laid hands on her: and when
she was come to the entering of the horse
gate by the king's house, they slew her
there.
16 And Jehoiada made a covenant
between him, and all the people, and the
king, that they would be the Lord's
people.
17 And all the people went to the house
of Baal, and destroyed it, and break his
altars and his images, and slew Mattan
the priest of Baal before the altars. 18
And Jehoiada appointed officers for the
house of the Lord, under the hands of the
priests and Levites, whom David had
distributed for the house of the Lord, to
offer burnt offerings unto the Lord, as it
is written in the law of Moses, with
rejoicing and singing by the appointment
of David.
19 And he set porters by the gates of the
house of the Lord, that none that was
unclean in anything should enter in.
20 And he took the captains of hundreds,
and the noble men, and the governors of
the people, and all the people of the
land, and he caused the king to come
down out of the house of the Lord, and
they went through the high gate of the
king's house, and set the king upon the
throne of the kingdom.
21 Then all the people of the land
rejoiced, and the city was quiet, after
that they had slain Athaliah with the
sword.

II Chronicles Chapter 22

II Chronicles Chapter 22
1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made
Ahaziah his youngest son king in his
stead: for the army that came with the
Arabians to the camp, had slain all the
eldest: therefore Ahaziah the son of
Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 2 Two
and forty year old was Ahaziah when he
began to reign, and he reigned one year
in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
3 He walked also in the ways of the
house of Ahab: for his mother counseled
him to do wickedly.
4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of
the Lord, like the house of Ahab: for they
were his counselors after the death of his
father, to his destruction. 5 And he
walked after their counsel, and went
with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of
Israel to fight against Hazael king of
Aram [Syria] at Ramoth Gilead: and the
Aramites [Syrians] smote Joram.
6 And he returned to be healed in
Jezreel, because of the wounds where
with they had wounded him at Ramah,
when he fought with Hazael king of
Aram
[Syria]. Now Azariah the son of
Jehoram king of Judah went down to see
Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel,
because he was diseased.
7 And the destruction of Ahaziah came
of God in that he went to Joram: for
when he was come, he went forth with
Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi,
whom the Lord had anointed to destroy
the house of Ahab. 8 Therefore when
Jehu executed judgment upon the house
of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah
and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah
that waited on Ahaziah, he slew them
also.
9 And he sought Ahaziah, and they
caught him where he was hid in Samaria,
and brought him to Jehu, and slew him,
and buried him, because, said they, he is
the son of Jehoshaphat, which sought the
Lord with all his heart. So the house of
Ahaziah was not able to retain the
kingdom.
10 Therefore when Athaliah the mother
of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead,
she arose and destroyed all the king's
seed of the house of Judah. 11 But
Jehoshabeath the daughter of the king,
took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole
him from among the king's sons, that
should be slain, and put him and his
nurse in the bed chamber: so
Jehoshabeath the daughter of king
Jehoram the wife of Jehoiada the priest
(for she was the sister of Ahaziah) hid
him from Athaliah: so she slew him not.
12 And he was with them hid in the
house of God six years, whiles Athaliah
reigned over the land.

II Chronicles Chapter 21

II Chronicles Chapter 21
1 Jehoshaphat then slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David: and Jehoram his son
reigned in his stead.
2 And he had brethren the sons of
Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and
Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael,
and Shephatiah. All these were the sons
of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
3 And their father gave them great gifts
of silver and of gold, and of precious
things, with strong cities in Judah, but
the kingdom gave he to Jehoram: for he
was the eldest.
4 And Jehoram rose up upon the
kingdom of his father, and made himself
strong, and slew all his brethren with the
sword, and also of the princes of Israel.
5 Jehoram was two and thirty year old,
when he began to reign, and he reigned
eight year in Jerusalem.
6 And he walked in the way of the kings
of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done:
for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife,
and he wrought evil in the eyes of the
Lord.
7 Howbeit the Lord would not destroy
the house of David, because of the
covenant that he had made with David,
and because he had promised to give a
light to him, and to his sons forever.
8 In his days Edom rebelled from under
the hand of Judah, and made a king over
them.
9 And Jehoram went forth with his
princes, and all his chariots with him:
and he rose up by night, and smote
Edom, which had compassed him in, and
the captains of the chariots.
10 But Edom rebelled from under the
hand of Judah unto this day. Then did
Libnah rebel at the same time from under
his hand, because he had forsaken the
Lord God of his fathers.
11 Moreover he made high places in the
mountains of Judah, and caused the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit
fornication, and compelled Judah
thereto. 12 And there came a writing to
him from Elijah the prophet, saying,
Thus saith the Lord God of David thy
father, Because thou hast not walked in
the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor
in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
13 But hast walked in the way of the
kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a
whoring, as the house of Ahab went a
whoring, and hast also slain thy brethren
of thy father's house, which were better
than thou,
14 Behold, with a great plague will the
Lord smite thy people, and thy children,
and thy wives, and all thy substance,
15 And thou shalt be in great diseases in
the disease of thy bowels, until thy
bowels fall out for the disease, day by
day.
16 So the Lord stirred up against
Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and
the Arabians that were beside the
Ethiopians.
17 And they came up into Judah, and
break into it, and carried away all the
substance that was found in the king's
house, and his sons also, and his wives,
so that there was not a son left him, save
Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
18 And after all this, the Lord smote him
in his bowels with an incurable disease.
19 And in process of time, even after the
end of two years, his guts fell out with
his disease: so he died of sore diseases:
and his people made no burning for him
like the burning of his fathers.
20 When he began to reign, he was two
and thirty year old, and reigned in
Jerusalem eight year, and lived without
being desired: yet they buried him in the
city of David, but not among the
sepulchres of the kings.

II Chronicles Chapter 20

II Chronicles Chapter 20
1 After this also came the children of
Moab and the children of Ammon, and
with them of the Ammonites against
Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 Then there came that told Jehoshaphat,
saying, There cometh a great multitude
against thee from beyond the sea, out of
Aram [Syria]: and behold, they be in
Hazazon Tamar, which is En-gedi.
3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set
himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed
a fast throughout all Judah.
4 And Judah gathered themselves
together to ask counsel of the Lord: they
came even out of all the cities of Judah
to inquire of the Lord, 5 And
Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of
Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the
Lord before the new court,
6 And said, O Lord God of our fathers,
art not thou God in heaven? And reignest
not thou on all the kingdoms of the
heathen? And in thine hand is power and
might, and none is able to withstand
thee.
7 Didst not thou our God cast out the
inhabitants of this land before thy people
Israel, and gavest it to the seed of
Abraham thy friend forever?
8 And they dwelt therein, and have built
thee a sanctuary therein for thy name,
saying,
9 If evil come upon us, as the sword of
judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we
will stand before this house and in thy
presence (for thy name is in this house)
and will cry unto thee in our tribulation,
and thou wilt hear and help. 10 And now
behold, the children of Ammon and
Moab, and mount Seir, by whom thou
wouldest not let Israel go, when they
came out of the land of Egypt: but they
turned aside from them, and destroyed
them not: 11 Behold, I say, they reward
us, in coming to cast us out of thine
inheritance, which thou hast caused us to
inherit.
12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them?
For there is no strength in us to stand
before this great multitude that cometh
against us, neither do we know what to
do: but our eyes are toward thee.
13 And all Judah stood before the Lord
with their young ones, their wives, and
their children.
14 And Jahaziel the son of Zechariah the
son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son
of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of
Asaph was there, upon whom came the
Spirit of the Lord, in the midst of the
congregation.
15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah,
and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
thou, king Jehoshaphat: thus saith the
Lord unto you, Fear you not, neither be
afraid for this great multitude: for the
battle is not yours, but God's. 16
Tomorrow go ye down against them:
behold, they come up by the cleft of Ziz,
and ye shall find them at the end of the
brook before the wilderness of Jeruel.
17 Ye shall not need to fight in this
battle: stand still, move not, and behold
the salvation of the Lord towards you: O
Judah, and Jerusalem, fear ye not,
neither be afraid: tomorrow go out
against them, and the Lord will be with
you. 18 Then Jehoshaphat bowed down
with his face to the earth, and all Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell
down before the Lord, worshiping the
Lord.
19 And the Levites of the children of the
Kohathites and of the children of the
Korahites stood up to praise the Lord
God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
20 And when they arose early in the
morning, they went forth to the
wilderness of Tekoa: and as they
departed, Jehoshaphat stood and said,
Hear ye me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants
of Jerusalem: put your trust in the Lord
your God, and ye shall be assured:
believe his prophets, and ye shall
prosper.
21 And when he had consulted with the
people, and appointed singers unto the
Lord, and them that should praise him
that is in the beautiful sanctuary, in
going forth before the men of arms, and
saying, Praise ye the Lord, for his mercy
lasteth forever,
22 And when they began to shout, and to
praise, the Lord laid ambushments
against the children of Ammon, Moab,
and mount Seir, which were come
against Judah, and they slew one
another.
23 For the children of Ammon and Moab
rose against the inhabitants of mount
Seir, to slay and to destroy them and
when they had made an end of the
inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to
destroy another.
24 And when Judah came toward
Mizpah in the wilderness, they looked
unto the multitude: and behold, the
carcasses were fallen to the earth, and
none escaped.
25 And when Jehoshaphat and his
people came to take away the spoil of
them, they found among them in
abundance both of substance and also of
bodies laden with precious jewels,
which they took for themselves, till they
could carry no more: they were three
days in gathering of the spoil: for it was
much.
26 And in the fourth day they assembled
themselves in the valley of Berachah: for
there they blessed the Lord: therefore
they called the name of that place, The
valley of Berachah unto this day.
27 Then every man of Judah and
Jerusalem returned with Jehoshaphat
their head, to go again to Jerusalem with
joy: for the Lord had made them to
rejoice over their enemies.
28 And they came to Jerusalem with
viols and with harps, and with trumpets,
even unto the house of the Lord.
29 And the fear of God was upon all the
kingdoms of the earth, when they had
heard that the Lord had fought against the
enemies of Israel.
30 So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was
quiet, and his God gave him rest on
every side.
31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah,
and was five and thirty year old, when
he began to reign: and reigned five and
twenty year in Jerusalem, and his
mother's name was Azubah the daughter
of Shilhi.
32 And he walked in the way of Asa his
father, and departed not there from,
doing that which was right in the sight of
the Lord.
33 Howbeit the high places were not
taken away: for the people had not yet
prepared their hearts unto the God of
their fathers.
34 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Jehoshaphat first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of Jehu the son of
Hanani, which is mentioned in the book
of the kings of Israel.
35 Yet after this did Jehoshaphat king of
Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of
Israel, who was given to do evil.
36 And he joined with him, to make
ships to go to Tarshish: and they made
the ships in Ezion Gaber.
37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of
Mareshah prophesied against
Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast
joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord
hath broken thy works, and the ships
were broken, that they were not able to
go to Tarshish.