1 After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.
2 And Ahaziah fell through the window of a room of the house that he had in Samaria; and being sick, he sent messengers, and said to them, Go and inquire of Baal-zebub, god of Ekron, whether I am to be cured of this my illness.
3 Then the angel of the LORD spoke to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is there no God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub god of Ekron?
4 Therefore thus says the LORD: You shall not rise from the bed on which you lie, but you shall surely die. And Elijah left.
5 When the messengers returned to the king, he said to them, “Why have you turned back?”
6 They answered him, We found a man who said to us, Go, return to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the Lord: Is there no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal-zebub god of Ekron? ? Therefore, you will not arise from the bed on which you are; you will surely die.
7 Then he said to them: What was that man like whom you found, and he said such words to you?
8 And they answered him: A man who was clothed with hair, and girded his loins with a leather belt. Then he said, It is Elijah a Tishbite.
9 Then he sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifties, who went up to where he was; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the mountain. And the captain said to him: Man of God, the king has told you to come down.
10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume you with your fifty. And fire came down from heaven and consumed him and fifty of him.
11 The king again sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty; and he spoke to him and said, Man of God, thus says the king: Come down quickly.
12 And Elijah answered him and said, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume you with your fifty. And fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
13 He again sent the third captain of fifty with his fifty; And that third captain of fifty came up, and knelt before Elijah and besought him, saying, Man of God, I pray thee, may my life be of value in thy sight, and the lives of these thy fifty servants.
14 Behold, fire has come down from heaven, and has consumed the first two captains of fifty with their fifties; Let my life now be esteemed before your eyes.
15 Then the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, Go down with him; don’t be afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him to the king.
16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD: Because thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is there no God in Israel to inquire of his word? You will not arise, therefore, from the bed on which you are, but you will surely die.
17 And he died according to the word of the Lord, which Elijah had spoken. He reigned in his place, Jehoram, in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because Ahaziah had no son.
18 The rest of the acts of Ahaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 It came to pass, when Jehovah wanted to lift Elijah up into heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah came with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 And Elijah said to Elisha, Stay here now, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said, As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.
3 And the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you? And he said: Yes, I know; be quiet
4 And Elijah said to him again, Elisha, stay here now, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
5 And the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you? He answered: Yes, I know; be quiet
6 And Elijah said to him, I pray you, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan. And he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So it was both.
7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets came and stood before them at a distance; and they two stood by the Jordan.
8 Then Elijah took his mantle, folded it, and struck the waters, which parted to one side and the other, and they both passed through the dry land.
9 When they had passed by, Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what you want me to do for you, before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
10 He said to him: You have asked for a difficult thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it will be done so to you; but if not, no.
11 And it came to pass, as they went and spoke, behold, a chariot of fire with horses of fire separated the two; and Elijah ascended to heaven in a whirlwind.
12 Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he never saw him again; and taking his clothes, he tore them into two parts.
13 Then he picked up Elijah’s mantle that had fallen from him, and returned and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
14 And taking Elijah’s mantle that had fallen from him, he struck the waters, and said, Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah? And as soon as he had struck the waters in the same way, they parted to one side and to the other, and Elisha passed by.
15 When the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho on the other side saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah rested on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and fell down before him.
16 And they said, Behold, there are with your servants fifty strong men; go now and seek your lord; perhaps the Spirit of Jehovah has raised him up, and he has cast him on some mountain or in some valley. And he said to them, Send not.
17 But they pestered him, until he was ashamed and said, Send. Then they sent fifty men, who searched for him for three days, but they did not find him.
18 And when they returned to Elisha, who had remained in Jericho, he said to them, Did I not tell you not to go?
19 And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, the place where this city is situated is good, as my lord sees; but the waters are bad, and the land is barren.
20 Then he said, Bring me a new vessel, and put salt in it. And they brought it to him.
21 And he went out to the springs of water, and poured in the salt, and said, Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there shall be no more death or sickness in them.
22 And the waters were healthy until today, according to the word that Elisha spoke.
23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; And as he went up the road, some boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying, Bald man, go up! Bald, come up!
24 And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two bears came out of the mountain, and tore to pieces forty-two boys.
25 From there he went to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
1 Jehoram son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; and he reigned twelve years.
2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and his mother; for he removed the statues of Baal that his father had made.
3 But he gave himself over to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from them.
4 Then Mesha king of Moab was an owner of cattle, and he paid the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and one hundred thousand rams with their fleeces.
5 But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
6 Then King Jehoram left Samaria and inspected all Israel.
7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me to war against Moab? And he answered, I will go, for I am like you; my people like your people, and my horses like yours.
8 And he said, Which way shall we go? And he answered, By the way of the wilderness of Edom.
9 So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom went out; And as they traveled around the desert for seven days, they lacked water for the army and the beasts that followed them.
10 Then the king of Israel said, Ah! that the Lord has called these three kings to deliver them into the hands of the Moabites.
11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD through him? And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, who served Elijah.
12 And Jehoshaphat said, This man shall have the word of the Lord. And the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom came down to him.
13 Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? Go to your father’s prophets, and your mother’s prophets. And the king of Israel answered him: No; for the LORD has gathered together these three kings to deliver them into the hands of the Moabites.
14 And Elisha said, As the Lord of hosts live, before whom I stand, if I had not respect for the face of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, he would not look upon you, nor see you.
15 But now bring me a player. And while the player was playing, the hand of the LORD came upon Elisha,
16 who said, Thus says the LORD: Make many ponds in this valley.
17 For thus says the LORD: You will not see wind, nor will you see rain; but this valley will be full of water, and you and your beasts and your livestock will drink.
18 And this is a light thing in the eyes of the Lord; He will also deliver the Moabites into your hands.
19 And you will destroy every fortified city and every beautiful town, and you will cut down every good tree, you will stop up all the springs of water, and you will destroy every fertile land with stones.
20 So it came to pass in the morning, when the sacrifice was offered, that, behold, waters came along the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.
21 When all the people of Moab heard that the kings were going up to fight against them, they gathered together from those who could barely wear armor onwards, and stood at the border.
22 When they arose in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, the people of Moab saw from afar the waters red as blood;
23 and they said, This is the blood of a sword! The kings have turned against each other, and each has killed his companion. Now, Moab, to the spoils!
24 But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and attacked the people of Moab, who fled before them; but they pursued them, killing the people of Moab.
25 And they laid waste the cities, and in all the fertile lands each one cast his stone, and filled them; They also blocked up all the fountains of water, and cut down all the good trees; until they left only stones in Kir-hareset, because the slingers surrounded it and destroyed it.
26 And when the king of Moab saw that he was defeated in battle, he took with him seven hundred sword-wielding men to attack the king of Edom; but they couldn’t.
27 Then he snatched away his firstborn who was to reign in his place, and sacrificed him as a burnt offering on the wall. And there was great anger against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to his land.
1 A woman, one of the wives of the sons of the prophets, cried to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take two of my sons as servants.
2 And Elisha said to him, What shall I do to you? Tell me what you have at home. And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.
3 He said to him: Go and borrow vessels for yourself from all your neighbors, empty vessels, not a few.
4 Then go in, and shut yourself up and your children; and pour into all the vessels, and when one is full, set it aside.
5 And the woman went away, and shut the door, shutting herself in and her children; And they brought her the vessels, and she poured out the oil.
6 When the vessels were full, she said to one of her sons, Bring me still other vessels. And he said: There are no more vessels. Then she stopped the oil.
7 She came immediately, and she told it to the man of God, who said, Go and sell the oil, and pay your creditors; and you and your children live on what is left.
8 And it came to pass one day that Elisha passed through Shunem; and there was an important woman there, who insistently invited him to eat; and when he passed by, he would come to her house to eat.
9 And she said to her husband, Behold now, I understand that this man who always passes by our house is a holy man of God.
10 I beg you, let us make a small room with walls, and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand there, so that when he comes to us, he may stay there.
11 And it came to pass one day that he came that way, and he stayed in that room, and there he slept.
12 Then he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he called her, she came before him.
13 Then he said to Gehazi: Tell him: Behold, you have been so diligent for us; what do you want me to do for you? Do you need me to speak for you to the king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell among my people.
14 And he said, What then shall we do for her? And Gehazi answered: Behold, she has no son, and her husband is old.
15 Then he said, Call her. And he called to her, and she stood at the door.
16 And he said to her, Next year at this time you will embrace a son. And she said: No, my lord, man of God, do not make fun of your servant.
17 But the woman conceived, and she gave birth to a son the following year, at the time that Elisha had told her.
18 And the child grew. But it came to pass one day that he came to his father, who was with the reapers;
19 And he said to his father, Alas, my head, my head! And the father said to a servant: Take him to his mother.
20 And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and died.
21 She then went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and closing the door, she went out.
22 Then she called her husband and said to him, Please send with me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may run to the man of God and return.
23 He said: Why are you going to see him today? It is not a new moon, nor a day of rest. And she answered: Peace.
24 Then she saddled the donkey, and said to the servant, Guide and walk; and do not make me stop on the way, except when I tell you.
25 So she departed and came to the man of God, to Mount Carmel. And when the man of God saw her afar off, he said to her servant Gehazi, Behold the Shunammite.
26 I beseech you, run now to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with you? Is your husband and your son doing well? And she said: Good.
27When he reached the man of God on the mountain, he took hold of his feet. And Gehazi approached to take it away; But the man of God said to him, Let her go, for his soul is in bitterness, and the LORD has hidden the reason from me, and he has not revealed it to me.
28 And she said, Did I ask my lord for a son? Didn’t I say not to make fun of me?
29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go; If someone meets you, do not greet him, and if someone greets you, do not respond to him; and you will place my staff on the face of the child.
30 And the child’s mother said, As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.
31 He then he got up and followed her. And Gehazi had gone before them, and had placed the staff on the face of the child; but he had neither voice nor sense, and so he had turned to find Elisha, and declared it to him, saying: The child does not wake up.
32 And when Elisha came to the house, behold, the child was lying dead on his bed.
33 So he entered, closed the door behind them both, and prayed to the Lord.
34 Then he went up and lay down on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands; So he lay down on him, and the child’s body became warm.
35 Turning then, he walked back and forth through the house, and then he went up and lay on him again, and the child sneezed seven times, and opened his eyes.
36 Then he called Gehazi and said to him, Call this Shunammite. And he called her. And she came in, and he said unto her, Take thy son.
37 And as soon as she came in, he fell at her feet, and bowed himself to the ground; and afterward she took her son, and went out.
38 Elisha returned to Gilgal when there was a great famine in the land. And the sons of the prophets were with him, so he said to his servant, Put on a large pot, and make porridge for the sons of the prophets.
39 And a man went out into the field to gather herbs, and found one like a wild vine, and he filled his skirt with wild gourds; and he returned and cut them into the stew pot, for he did not know what it was.
40 Then he served for the men to eat; But it happened that while they were eating that stew, they cried out, saying: Man of God, there is death in that pot! And they could not eat.
41 Then he said, Bring flour. And he spread it in the pot, and said, Give the people food. And there was no more evil in the pot.
42 Then there came a man from Baal-salisa, who brought to the man of God bread of firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new wheat in his ear. And he said: Give to the people to eat.
43 And his servant said, How shall I set this before a hundred men? But he said again, Give to the people to eat, for thus says the Lord: They will eat, and there will be left over.
44 Then he set it before them, and they ate, and there was left over, according to the word of the Lord.
1 Naaman, general of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man in the sight of his master, and he held him in high esteem, because through him the Lord had given salvation to Syria. He was this extremely brave man, but he was a leper.
2 And armed bands had gone out from Syria, and had taken a girl captive from the land of Israel, who served Naaman’s wife.
3 This she said to her lady: If my lord would pray to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would heal him of his leprosy.
4 Naaman came in to her master, and she told him, saying, Thus and thus a girl said that she is from the land of Israel.
5 And the king of Syria said to him, Go, go, and I will send letters to the king of Israel. So he went out, taking with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
6 He also took letters to the king of Israel, which read as follows: When these letters reach you, know by them that I am sending my servant Naaman to you, so that you may heal him of his leprosy.
7 After the king of Israel had read the letters, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, that I should kill and give life, that this man should send to me to heal a man of his leprosy?” Consider now, and see how he seeks occasion against me.
8 When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king and said, “Why have you torn your clothes?” Come now to me, and you will know that there is a prophet in Israel.
9 And Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and he stood at the doors of Elisha’s house.
10 Then Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored to you, and you will be clean.
11 And Naaman went away angry, saying, Behold, I said to myself, He will come out immediately, and standing, he will call on the name of the Lord his God, and he will lift up his hand and touch the place, and he will heal the leprosy.
12 Abana and Pharfar, rivers of Damascus, are they not better than all the waters of Israel? If I wash in them, will I not also be clean? And he turned and went away angry.
13 But his servants came to him and spoke to him, saying, “My father, if the prophet commanded you something great, would you not do it?” How much more, saying to you: Wash yourself, and you will be clean?
14 He then went down, and dipped seven times into the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh became like the flesh of a child, and he was clean.
15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and stood before him, and said, Behold now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Please receive some gift from your servant.
16But he said, As the Lord lives, in whose presence I stand, I will not accept it. And he urged him to accept something, but he did not want to.
17 Then Naaman said, I pray you, then, will not your servant be given a pair of mule loads of this land? For from now on your servant will not sacrifice a burnt offering nor offer sacrifice to other gods, but to Jehovah.
18 In this the Lord forgive your servant: that when my lord the king enters the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and leans on my arm, if I also bow down in the temple of Rimmon; When he does so, may the Lord forgive your servant in this.
19 And he said to him, Go in peace. So he left and walked about half a league of land.
20 Then Gehazi, servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, Behold, my lord hindered this Syrian Naaman, by not taking from his hand the things which he had brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.
21 And Gehazi followed Naaman; And when Naaman saw that he was running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is everything all right?
22 And he said: Good. My lord sends me to tell you: Behold, two young men of the sons of the prophets came to me at this time from Mount Ephraim; I beg you to give them a talent of silver, and two new clothes.
23 Naaman said, Please take two talents. And he insisted, and he tied two talents of silver in two bags, and two new clothes, and he put them all on shoulders for two of his servants to carry before him.
24 And as soon as he came to a secret place, he took it from their hand, and kept it in the house; then he ordered the men to leave.
25 And he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where do you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant has gone nowhere.
26 He then said to him, Was not my heart also there when the man returned from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to take silver, and to take clothing, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, oxen, male and female servants?
27 Therefore, Naaman’s leprosy will stick to you and your descendants forever. And a leper came out from before him, white as snow.
1 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold, the place where we dwell with you is narrow for us.
2 Let us now go to the Jordan, and let us each take a beam from there, and let us make a place for us to live there. And he said: Go.
3 And one said, We pray thee, come with thy servants. And he answered: I will go.
4 So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down the wood.
5 And it came to pass, as one fell down a tree, that his ax fell into the water; and he cried out saying: Ah, my lord, it was borrowed!
6 The man of God asked: Where did it fall? And he showed him the place. Then he cut down a stick, and threw it there; and he made the iron float.
7 And he said, Take it. And he extended his hand, and he took it.
8 The king of Syria had war against Israel, and consulting with his servants, he said, In such and such a place my camp will be.
9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel and said, See that you do not pass through such a place, because the Syrians are going there.
10 Then the king of Israel sent to that place of which the man of God had spoken; and so he did it again and again in order to take care of himself.
11 And the heart of the king of Syria was troubled at this; And calling his servants, he said to them, Will you not tell me which of our people belongs to the king of Israel?
12 Then one of the servants said, No, my lord king, but the prophet Elisha is in Israel, who declares to the king of Israel the words that you speak in your innermost chamber.
13 And he said, Go and see where he is, that I may send to arrest him. And it was said unto him, Behold, he is in Dothan.
14 Then the king sent horsemen, chariots, and a great army there, and they came by night and besieged the city.
15 And early in the morning the servant of the man of God arose and went out, and behold, the army that had besieged the city, with horsemen and chariots. Then his servant said to him: Ah, my lord! What will we do?
16 He said to him, Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, open his eyes that he may see. Then the LORD opened the eyes of the servant, and he looked; And behold, the mountain was full of horsemen and chariots of fire around Elisha.
18 And when the Syrians had come down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray thee, strike these people with blindness. And he struck them with blindness, according to the request of Elisha.
19 Then Elisha said to them, This is not the way, nor is this the city; Follow me, and I will guide you to the man you seek. And he led them to Samaria.
20 And when they came to Samaria, Elisha said, Jehovah, open their eyes, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked, and they were in the midst of Samaria.
21 When the king of Israel had seen them, he said to Elisha, Shall I kill them, my father?
22 He answered him: Do not kill them. Would you kill those you took captive with your sword and your bow? Set bread and water before them, so that they may eat and drink, and return to their masters.
23 Then a great meal was prepared for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they returned to his lord. And never again did armed bands from Syria come to the land of Israel.
24 After this it came to pass that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
25 And there was a great famine in Samaria, in consequence of that siege; so much so that the head of an ass was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a quarter of a cab of pigeon dung for five pieces of silver.
26 And when the king of Israel passed through the wall, a woman cried out to him, and said, Save, my lord the king.
27 And he said, If the Lord does not save you, from where can I save you? From the barn, or from the winepress?
28 And the king said to him, What have you got? She answered: This woman said to me: Give your son here, and let us eat him today, and tomorrow we will eat mine.
29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to him: Give your son here, and let us eat him. But she has hidden her son.
30 When the king heard the words of that woman, he tore her clothes, and passed through the wall; and the people saw the sackcloth that he had inside on her body.
31 And he said, May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains upon him today.
32 And Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the king sent a man to him. But before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders: Have you not seen how this son of a murderer sends to cut off my head? Take heed, therefore, and when the messenger comes, shut the door, and prevent him from entering. Can’t you hear the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?
33 While he was still speaking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him; and he said, Surely this evil from the Lord is coming. Why should I wait for Jehovah anymore?
1 Then Elisha said, Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord: Tomorrow at this time a seah of fine flour will be worth one shekel, and two seahs of barley will be worth one shekel, at the gate of Samaria.
2 And a prince on whose arm the king leaned, answered the man of God, and said, If the Lord now made windows in heaven, would this be so? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.
3 There were four leprous men at the entrance to the gate, and they said to each other, “Why are we here until we die?”
4 If we try to enter the city, because of the famine that is in the city we will die in it; and if we stay here, we will die too. Let us now go and pass over to the camp of the Syrians; If they give us life, we will live; and if they kill us, we will die.
5 So they got up in the evening to go to the camp of the Syrians; And when they came to the entrance to the camp of the Syrians, there was no one there.
6 For the LORD had caused to be heard in the camp of the Syrians the roar of chariots, the noise of horses, and the noise of a great army; And they said to one another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come against us.
7 And so they arose and fled at nightfall, abandoning their tents, their horses, their donkeys, and the camp as it was; and they had fled for their lives.
8 When the lepers came to the entrance of the camp, they entered a tent and ate and drank, and took from there silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid it; and they returned and entered another tent, and took from there also, and went and hid it.
9 Then they said to each other, We are not doing well. Today is a day of good news, and we are silent; and if we wait until dawn, our evil will catch up with us. Come on then, now, let’s go in and give the news to the king’s house.
10 So they came and cried to the guards at the gate of the city, and declared to them, saying, We went to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no one there, nor the voice of man, but tethered horses, and donkeys. also tied, and the camp intact.
11 The gatekeepers shouted and announced it inside the king’s palace.
12 And the king rose up in the night, and said to his servants, I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry, and they have come out of the tents and hid themselves in the field, saying: When they have left the city, we will take them alive, and we will enter the city.
13Then one of his servants answered and said, Take now five of the horses that are left in the city (for those that remain here will also perish like all the multitude of Israel that have already perished), and let us send and see what there is.
14 So they took two horses from a chariot, and the king sent to the camp of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
15 And they went and followed them to the Jordan; And behold, the entire road was full of clothing and belongings that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.
16 Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. And one seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.
17 And the king placed that prince on whose arm he leaned at the door; and the people trampled him at the entrance, and he died, according to what the man of God had said, when the king came down to him.
18 So it came to pass just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel at this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria. .
19 To which that prince had answered the man of God, saying, If the Lord made windows in heaven, could this happen? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.
20 And so it happened to him; because the people trampled him at the entrance, and he died.
1 Elisha spoke to that woman whose son he had made live, saying, Arise, go, you and all your household, and live where you can; for the Lord has called a famine, which will come upon the land for seven years.
2 Then the woman stood up and did as the man of God told her; and she went away with her family, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.
3 And when the seven years had passed, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; She then went out to implore the king for her house and her lands.
4 And the king spoke to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, Please tell me all the wonders that Elisha has done.
5 And while he was telling the king how he had made a dead man live, behold, the woman, whose son he had made alive, came to implore the king for his house and for his land. Then Gehazi said, My lord, king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha made alive.
6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. Then the king ordered an officer, to whom he said: Make him return all the things that were his, and all the fruits of his land from the day he left the country until now.
7 Elisha then went to Damascus; and Ben-hadad king of Syria was sick, to whom they gave notice, saying, The man of God has come hither.
8 And the king said to Hazael, Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord for him, saying, Shall I recover from this disease?
9 So Hazael took in his hand a gift from the property of Damascus, forty camels loaded, and went to meet him, and when he came, he stood before him, and said, Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me. to you, saying: Will I recover from this disease?
10 And Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You will surely recover. However, Jehovah has shown me that he will certainly die.
11 And the man of God looked at him intently, and he remained so until he blushed; then the man of God cried.
12 Then Hazael said to him, Why does my lord weep? And he answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel; You will set fire to their fortresses, you will kill their young men with the sword, you will kill their children, and you will open the wombs of their pregnant women.
13 And Hazael said, Well, what is your servant, this dog, that he should do such great things? And Elisha said, The Lord has shown me that you will be king of Syria.
14 And Hazael went away, and came to his master, and he said unto him, What hath Elisha said unto thee? And he answered: He told me that you will surely recover.
15 The next day, he took a cloth and dipped it in water, and put it on Ben-hadad’s face, and he died; and Hazael reigned in his place.
16 In the fifth year of Jehoram son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign.
17 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for a daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
19 Nevertheless, the Lord did not want to destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, because he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his children forever.
20 In his time Edom rebelled against the dominion of Judah, and they set a king over them.
21 Therefore Jehoram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots went with him; And rising during the night he attacked the men of Edom, who had besieged him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
22 Nevertheless, Edom was freed from the dominion of Judah, until today. He also rebelled against Libna at the same time.
23 The rest of the acts of Jehoram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
24 And Joram slept with his parents, and was buried with them in the city of David; and Ahaziah, his son, reigned in his place.
25 In the twelfth year of Jehoram son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.
26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, daughter of Omri king of Israel.
27 He walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab; for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
28 And he went to war with Jehoram son of Ahab at Ramoth Gilead, against Hazael king of Syria; and the Syrians smote Jehoram.
29 And king Joram returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds that the Syrians gave him at Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to visit Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
1 Then Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up your loins, and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
2 When you come there, you will see Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi there; and going in, cause him to arise from among his brothers, and take him to the chamber.
3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus says the Lord: I have anointed you king over Israel. And opening the door, run away, and do not wait.
4 So the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead.
5 When he came in, behold, the princes of the army were sitting. And he said: Prince, I have a word to say to you. Jehu said: To which of us all? And he said: To you, prince.
6 And he arose, and went into the house; and the other poured the oil on his head, and said to him, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I have anointed you king over Israel, the people of the Lord.
7 You will strike the house of Ahab your lord, so that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.
8 And all the house of Ahab will perish, and I will destroy every male from Ahab, both bond and free in Israel.
9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
10 And dogs will eat Jezebel in the field of Jezreel, and there will be no one to bury her. Immediately he opened the door and fled.
11 Then Jehu went out to the servants of his master, and said to him, Is there peace? Why did that madman come to you? And he said to them: You know the man and his words.
12 They said: It is a lie; tell us now. And he said: Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying: Thus says the Lord: I have anointed you king over Israel.
13 Then each one hurriedly took his mantle, and put it under Jehu on a high throne, and they blew a trumpet, and said, Jehu is king.
14 Thus Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Jehoram. (Joram was then guarding Ramoth of Gilead with all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
15 but king Joram had returned to Jezreel, to be healed of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, fighting against Hazael king of Syria. .) And Jehu said: If it is your will, let no one escape from the city, to go and tell the news in Jezreel.
16 Then Jehu rode and went to Jezreel, because Joram was sick there. There was also Ahaziah king of Judah, who had come down to visit Jehoram.
17 And the watchman who was in the tower of Jezreel saw the troop of Jehu coming, and said, I see a troop. And Joram said: Command a horseman to go and recognize them, and say to them: Is there peace?
18 So the horseman went to recognize them, and said, Thus says the king: Is there peace? And Jehu said to him: What have you to do with peace? Come back to me. The watchman then gave notice, saying: The messenger came to them and is not returning.
19 Then he sent another horseman, who came to them and said, Thus says the king: Is there peace? And Jehu answered: What have you to do with peace? Come back to me.
20 The watchman said again: This man also came to them and does not return; and the march of him who comes is like the march of Jehu son of Nimshi, for he comes impetuously.
21 Then Joram said, Harness the chariot. And when his chariot was hitched, Jehoram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and went out to meet Jehu, whom they found in the field of Naboth of Jezreel.
22 When Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What peace, with the fornications of Jezebel your mother, and the many sorceries of her?
23 Then Joram turned the reins and fled, and said to Ahaziah, Betrayal, Ahaziah!
24 But Jehu bent his bow and struck Joram between his backs; and the arrow went through his heart, and he fell into his chariot.
25 Then Jehu said to Bidcar his captain, Take him and throw him to one end of the field of Naboth of Jezreel. Remember that when you and I went together with the people of Ahab his father, the LORD pronounced this sentence upon him, saying:
26 Yesterday I have seen the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, said the LORD; and I will pay you in this inheritance, says the Lord. Take it now, therefore, and cast it into the field of Naboth, according to the word of the Lord.
27 When Ahaziah king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way to the garden house. And Jehu followed him, saying, Smite this man also in the chariot. And they smote him at the ascent of Gur, near Ibleam. And Ahaziah fled to Megiddo, but he died there.
28 And his servants took him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and there they buried him with his parents, in his tomb in the city of David.
29 In the eleventh year of Jehoram son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
30 Then Jehu came to Jezreel; and when Jezebel heard it, she painted her eyes with antimony, and adorned her head, and looked out a window.
31 And when Jehu came in at the gate, she said, Was it well with Zimri, that he slew her lord?
32 He then lifted her face toward the window, and she said, Who is with me? who? And two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.
33 And he said to them, Cast it down. And they threw her out; and some of her blood splattered on the wall, and on the horses; and he ran over her.
34 He immediately entered, and after he had eaten and drank, he said, Go now and see that accursed one, and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.
35 But when they went to bury her, they found nothing of her except her skull, and her feet, and the palms of her hands.
36 And they returned and told him. And he said, This is the word of God, which he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the field of Jezreel the dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel,
37 and the body of Jezebel will be like dung on the face. of the land in the inheritance of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.
1 Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria; and Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders and to Ahab’s tutors, saying:
2 Immediately let these letters reach you who have your master’s sons, and those who have chariots and horsemen, the fortified city, and the weapons,
3 choose the best and the most upright of your lord’s sons, and put him on his father’s throne, and fight for your lord’s house.
4 But they were greatly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings were not able to withstand him; How will we resist him?
5 And the steward, the governor of the city, the elders, and the tutors sent to Jehu and said, “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you command us; We will not choose anyone as king, do what seems right to you.
6 Then he wrote to them the second time, saying: If you are mine, and will obey me, take the heads of your lord’s male children, and come to me at this time tomorrow, to Jezreel. And the king’s sons, seventy men, were with the rulers of the city, who raised them.
7 When the letters reached them, they took the king’s sons, and slaughtered the seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jezreel.
8 And a messenger came and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said to him, Put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.
9 When morning came, he went out, and standing he said to all the people, You are righteous; behold, I have plotted against my lord, and have slain him; but who has killed all these?
10 Know now that of the word that the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab, nothing will fall to the ground; and that Jehovah has done what he said for his servant Elijah.
11 Then Jehu killed all that were left of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, all his princes, all his relatives, and his priests, until there was none left.
12 He then left there to go to Samaria; and on the way he came to a shepherd’s shearing house.
13 And he found there the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said unto them, Who are you? And they said, We are brothers of Ahaziah, and we have come to greet the king’s sons, and the queen’s sons.
14 Then he said, Take them alive. And after they had taken them alive, they slaughtered them at the well of the shearing house, forty-two men, leaving none of them.
fifteenAs he left there, he met Jonadab son of Rechab; and after he had greeted him, he said to him, Is your heart right, as mine is right with yours? And Jonadab said: It is. Well, it is, give me your hand. And he shook her hand. Then he took him into the chariot with him,
16 and said to him, Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So they put it in his car.
17 And when Jehu had come to Samaria, he slew all that were left of Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed them, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken through Elijah.
18 Then Jehu gathered all the people together and said to them, Ahab served Baal little, but Jehu will serve him much.
19 Then call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let not one be missing, because I have a great sacrifice for Baal; Whoever is missing will not live. This Jehu did cunningly, to exterminate those who honored Baal.
20 And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn day to Baal. And they called.
21 And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the servants of Baal came, so that there was none that did not come. And they entered into the temple of Baal, and the temple of Baal was filled from end to end.
22 Then he said to him who had charge of the garments, Bring forth garments for all the servants of Baal. And he brought out garments for them.
23 And Jehu entered with Jonadab the son of Rechab into the temple of Baal, and said to the servants of Baal, Look and see that there is not here among you any of the servants of the Lord, but only the servants of Baal.
24 And when they came in to make sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu put eighty men outside, and said to them, Whosoever shall let live any of those men whom I have put into your hands, his life shall be the life of the other.
25 And when they had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to his guard and to the captains, Go in and kill them; let none escape. And they killed them with the sword, and the guards and the captains left them lying. And they went to the holy place of the temple of Baal,
26 and they took out the statues of the temple of Baal, and burned them.
27 And they broke the statue of Baal, and tore down the temple of Baal, and turned it into a latrine to this day.
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal of Israel.
29 Nevertheless, Jehu did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin; and he left standing the golden calves that were in Bethel and Dan.
30 And the LORD said to Jehu, Because you have done well in doing what is right in my sight, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation. .
31 But Jehu did not take care to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart, nor did he depart from the sins of Jeroboam, who had caused Israel to sin.
32 In those days Jehovah began to cut off the territory of Israel; and Hazael defeated them on every border,
33 from the Jordan to the rising of the sun, all the land of Gilead, Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh, from Aroer which is by the brook Arnon, to Gilead and Bashan.
34 The rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
35 And Jehu slept with his parents, and they buried him in Samaria; and Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
36 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
1 When Athaliah mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose up and destroyed all the royal descendants.
2 But Josheba, daughter of King Jehoram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being killed, and hid him and his mistress from Athaliah in the sleeping chamber. , and in this way they did not kill him.
3 And he was hidden with her in the house of the Lord six years; and Athaliah was queen over the country.
4 But in the seventh year she sent Jehoiada and took leaders of hundreds, captains, and men of the guard, and brought them with her into the house of the Lord, and made an alliance with them, swearing them in the house of the Lord; and he showed them the king’s son.
5 And he commanded them, saying, This is what you are to do: a third of you will guard the king’s house on the Sabbath day.
6 Another third will be at the gate of Shur, and the other third at the gate of the guard gate; This is how you will guard the house, so that it will not be broken into.
7 But the two parts of you that go out on the Sabbath will have the guard of the house of the Lord with the king.
8 And you will be around the king on all sides, each one having weapons in his hands; and whoever enters the ranks, let him be put to death. And you will be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.
9 So the leaders of hundreds did everything as Jehoiada the priest commanded them; And each one took his own, that is, those who entered on the Sabbath and those who left on the Sabbath, they came to Jehoiada the priest.
10 And the priest gave to the leaders of hundreds the spears and the shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of the Lord.
11 And those of the guard stood in a line, each having his weapons in his hands, from the right side of the house to the left side, by the altar and the temple, around the king.
12 Then Jehoiada brought out the king’s son, and he put on him the crown and the testimony, and they made him king, anointing him; and clapping their hands they said: Long live the king!
13 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running, she entered the people into the temple of the Lord.
14 And when she looked, behold, the king was standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the princes and the trumpeters were standing by the king; and all the people of the country rejoiced, and blew the trumpets. Then Athaliah, tearing her clothes, cried out loudly: Treason, betrayal!
15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the leaders of hundreds who ruled the army, and said to them, Bring her out of the temple precincts, and whoever follows her, kill him with the sword. (Because the priest said not to kill her in the temple of Jehovah.)
16 So they made way for him; And on the road where the horsemen enter the king’s house, they killed her there.
17 Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they would be the people of the LORD; and also between the king and the people.
18 And all the people of the land entered into the temple of Baal, and broke it down; They also completely broke down their altars and their images, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And the priest put a garrison over the house of the Lord.
19 Then he took the leaders of hundreds, the captains, the guard, and all the people of the land, and they led the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way from the guard gate to the king’s house; and the king sat on the throne of kings.
20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was at rest, when Athaliah was slain by the sword beside the king’s house.
21 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign.
1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Sibia from Beersheba.
2 And Joash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the time that Jehoiada the priest directed him.
3 Nevertheless, the high places were not removed, because the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
4 And Joash said to the priests, All the consecrated money that is usually brought to the house of the Lord, the ransom money of each person according to the stipulation, and all the money that each of his own free will brings to the house of the Lord 5 Let the priests receive
it , each from his relatives, and repair the breaches of the temple wherever there are cracks.
6 But in the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests had not yet repaired the cracks in the temple.
7 Then King Joash called Jehoiada the high priest and the priests, and said to them, Why do you not mend the cracks in the temple? Now, therefore, do not take money from your relatives anymore, but give it to repair the cracks in the temple.
8 And the priests agreed not to take any more money from the people, nor to have the charge of repairing the cracks in the temple.
9 But Jehoiada the high priest took an ark and made a hole in the lid, and placed it by the altar, on the right hand as one enters the temple of the Lord; and the priests who guarded the door put there all the money that was brought to the house of the Lord.
10 And when they saw that there was much money in the ark, the king’s secretary and the high priest came and counted the money that they found in the temple of the Lord, and kept it.
11 And they gave enough money to those who did the work, and to those who had charge of the house of Jehovah; and they spent it to pay the carpenters and masters who repaired the house of Jehovah,
12 and the bricklayers and stonemasons; and in buying the wood and cut stone to repair the cracks in the house of Jehovah, and in everything that was spent on the house to repair it.
13 But of the money that was brought to the house of the Lord, no silver cups, nor snuffers, nor basins, nor trumpets were made; nor was any other utensil of gold or silver made for the temple of Jehovah;
14 because they gave it to those who did the work, and with it they repaired the house of Jehovah.
15 And no account was taken of the men into whose hands the money was delivered, so that they could give it to those who did the work; because they did it faithfully.
16 Sin money and guilt money were not brought to the house of the Lord; because it belonged to the priests.
17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it. And Hazael determined to go up against Jerusalem;
18 Therefore Joash king of Judah took all the offerings that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and those that he had dedicated, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he withdrew from Jerusalem.
19 The rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 And his servants arose, and conspired in conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Milo, as he went down to Sulla;
21 So Jehoshachar the son of Shimeath and Jozabad the son of Somer, his servants, struck him, and he died. And they buried him with his parents in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
1 In the twenty-third year of Joash son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria; and he reigned seventeen years.
2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and continued in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin; and he did not depart from them.
3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, for a long time.
4 But Jehoahaz prayed before the Lord, and the Lord heard him; for he looked upon the affliction of Israel, for the king of Syria afflicted them.
5 (And the Lord gave a savior to Israel, and they came out of the power of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as before.
6 Yet they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which made sin to Israel; they walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)
7 For Jehoahaz had no people left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and made them like dust to be trampled.
8 The rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his bravery, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Joash his son reigned in his place.
10 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Joash son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria; and he reigned sixteen years.
11 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin; in them he walked.
12 The rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and the effort with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
13 And Joash slept with his parents, and Jeroboam sat on his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
14 Elisha was sick with the disease from which he died. And Joash king of Israel came down to him, and wept before him, and said, My father, my father, chariot of Israel and his horsemen!
15 And Elisha said to him, Take a bow and some arrows. He then took a bow and some arrows.
16 Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow. And he put his hand upon the bow. Then Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands,
17 and said, Open the window that faces east. And when he opened it, Elisha said, Pull. And he shot, and Elisha said, The arrow of salvation from the Lord, and the arrow of salvation against Syria; for you will strike the Syrians in Aphek until you consume them.
18 And he said to him again, Take the arrows. And when the king of Israel had taken them, he said to him, Strike the earth. And he hit her three times, and stopped.
19 Then the man of God, angry with him, said to him, If you struck five or six blows, you would have defeated Syria until there were none left; but now you will defeat Syria only three times.
20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. At the end of the year, armed bands of Moabites came to the land.
21 And it came to pass, as some were burying a man, that suddenly they saw an armed band, and they threw the body into the tomb of Elisha; And when the dead man came to touch Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood on his feet.
22 So Hazael, king of Syria, afflicted Israel all the time of Jehoahaz.
23 But the LORD had mercy on them, and had compassion on them and looked upon them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and he did not want to destroy them or drive them out of his presence until today.
24 And Hazael king of Syria died, and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his place.
25 And Joash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken in war from the hand of Jehoahaz his father. Three times Joash defeated him and restored the cities to Israel.
1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.
2 When he began to reign he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; His mother’s name was Joadan of Jerusalem.
3 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, although not like his father David; He did according to all that Joash his father had done.
4 Despite all this, the high places were not removed, because the people still sacrificed and burned incense on those high places.
5 And when he had established his kingdom in his hands, he slew the servants who had killed his father the king.
6 But he did not kill the children of those who killed him, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: They shall not kill fathers for their children, nor children for their parents. , but each one will die for his own sin.
7 He also killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Shelah in battle, and called it Jocteel, to this day.
8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, that we may see each other.
9 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah this answer: The thistle that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter as a wife to my son. And the wild beasts that are in Lebanon passed by, and trampled the thistle.
10 Surely you have defeated Edom, and your heart has become conceited; So glory in it, but stay in your house. Why do you commit evil, that you and Judah may fall with you?
11 But Amaziah did not listen; Therefore Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah saw each other in Beth-shemesh, which is of Judah.
12 And Judah fell before Israel, and they fled, each one to his tent.
13 Furthermore, Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh; and he came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14 And he took all the gold, and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and took the children as hostages, and returned to Samaria.
15 The rest of the acts that Joash did, and his exploits, and how he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16 And Joash slept with his parents, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.
17 And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
18 Are not the rest of the acts of Amaziah written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
19 They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they pursued him as far as Lachish, and there they killed him.
20 Then they brought him on horses, and buried him in Jerusalem with his parents, in the city of David.
21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of Amaziah his father.
22 He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his parents.
23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Joash began to reign over Israel in Samaria; and he reigned forty-one years.
24 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
25 He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of Arabah, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he had spoken by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, a prophet of Gathhepher. .
26 For the LORD looked upon the very bitter affliction of Israel; that there was neither slave nor free, nor anyone to help Israel;
27 and the LORD had not determined to destroy the name of Israel from under heaven; therefore he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
28 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, and all the wars that he waged, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, to the dominion of Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.
1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
2 When he began to reign he was sixteen years old, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
3 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
4 Despite all this, the high places were not removed, because the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
5 But the Lord struck the king with leprosy, and he was a leper until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house, and Jotham the king’s son had charge of the palace, governing the people.
6 The rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
7 And Azariah slept with his parents, and they buried him with them in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel for six months.
9 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his parents had done; He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
10 Shallum the son of Jabez conspired against him, and smote him in the presence of his people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
11 The rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
12 And this was the word of the Lord that he spoke to Jehu, saying: Your sons to the fourth generation will sit on the throne of Israel. And it was like that.
13 Shallum the son of Jabez began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria;
14 For Manahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabez in Samaria and killed him, and reigned in his place.
15 The rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy that he devised, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
16 Then Manahem plundered Tiphsa, and all who were in it, and also the surrounding area from Tirzah; He plundered it because the doors had not been opened to him, and he opened the womb to all his women who were pregnant.
17 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Manahem son of Gadi reigned over Israel ten years in Samaria.
18 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; Throughout his time he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
19 And Pul king of Assyria came to attack the land; and Manahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver to help him establish himself in the kingdom.
20 And Manahem imposed this money on Israel, on all the powerful and opulent; from each one fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria; and the king of Assyria returned, and did not stay there in the country.
21 The rest of the acts of Manahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
22 And Manahem slept with his fathers, and Pekaiah his son reigned in his place.
23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekaiah son of Manahem reigned over Israel in Samaria for two years.
24 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
25 And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, plotted against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the royal house, with Argob and Arieh, and fifty men of the sons of the Gileadites; and he killed him, and reigned in his place.
26 The rest of the acts of Pekaiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah reigned over Israel in Samaria; and he reigned twenty years.
28 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of the Assyrians came and took Ihon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali; and he took them captive to Assyria.
30 And Hoshea the son of Elah conspired against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twenty years of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
31 The rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel
32 In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.
33 When he began to reign he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusa, daughter of Zadok.
34 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord; He did according to all that his father Uzziah had done for him.
35 Nevertheless, the high places were not removed, because the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the highest gate of the house of Jehovah.
36 The rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
37 At that time the LORD began to send Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.
38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David his father, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years; and he did not do what was right in the sight of Jehovah his God, like David his father.
3 He before him walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even caused his son to pass through fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
4 He also sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel went up to Jerusalem to make war and besiege Ahaz; but they could not take it.
6 At that time the king of Edom recovered Elat for Edom, and drove the men of Judah out of Elat; and those of Edom came to Elath and lived there until this day.
7 Then Ahaz sent ambassadors to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; Go up and defend me from the hand of the king of Syria, and from the hand of the king of Israel, who have risen up against me.
8 And Ahaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the royal house, and he sent a present to the king of Assyria.
9 And the king of Assyria waited on him; for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the inhabitants captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
10 Then King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria in Damascus; And when King Ahaz saw the altar that was in Damascus, he sent to Uriah the priest the design and the description of the altar, according to all its workmanship.
11 And Uriah the priest built the altar; According to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Uriah the priest, while King Ahaz came from Damascus.
12 And when the king came from Damascus, and saw the altar, the king approached it, and offered sacrifices on it;
13 And he lit his burnt offering and his offering, and poured out his libations, and scattered the blood of his peace offerings beside the altar.
14 And he brought up the brazen altar that was before the LORD, in the front of the house, between the altar and the temple of the jehovah, and set it beside the altar toward the north.
15 And king Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, On the great altar you shall light the morning burnt offering and the evening offering, and the king’s burnt offering and his offering, and also the burnt offering of all the people of the land and his offering and his libations; and you shall sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice. The bronze altar will be mine to consult on.
16 And Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded him.
17 And king Ahaz cut down the boards of the sockets, and took away the fountains from them; and he also removed the sea from the bronze oxen that were under it, and laid it on the stone floor.
18 Likewise the porch for the Sabbaths, which they had built in the house, and the outside passage, the king’s, he removed from the temple of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.
19 The rest of the acts that Ahaz did, are they not all written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 And King Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria; and he reigned nine years.
2 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, although not like the kings of Israel who were before him.
3 Against him came Shalmaneser king of the Assyrians; and Hosea was made his servant, and paid tribute to him.
4 But the king of Assyria discovered that Hosea was plotting; for he had sent ambassadors to So, king of Egypt, and did not pay tribute to the king of Assyria, as he did every year; So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him in the prison house.
5 And the king of Assyria invaded the whole country, and besieged Samaria, and was upon it three years.
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah, in Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 For the children of Israel sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and they feared other gods,
8 and walked in the statutes of the nations which the LORD had driven out. before the children of Israel, and in the statutes which the kings of Israel made.
9 And the children of Israel secretly did wrong things against the Lord their God, building themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtowers to the fortified cities,
10 and they set up statues and Asherah images on every high hill, and under of every leafy tree,
11 and there they burned incense in all the high places, after the manner of the nations whom the Lord had removed from before them, and they did very evil things to provoke the Lord to anger.
12 And they served idols, of which the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this.
13 Then the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all the prophets and all the seers, saying: Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, according to all the laws that I commanded your fathers, and that I have sent you through my servants the prophets.
14 But they did not obey, but hardened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
15 And they rejected his statutes, and the covenant that he had made with his fathers, and the testimonies that he had prescribed for them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were around them, of whom the Lord had commanded them not to do after their way.
16They left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves molten images of two calves, and also Asherah images, and they worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal;
17 and they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire; and they gave themselves to divinations and omens, and gave themselves over to doing evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from before his face; and there remained only the tribe of Judah.
19 But not even Judah kept the commandments of the Lord their God, but they walked in the statutes of Israel, which they had made.
20 And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until he drove them out of his presence.
21 For he separated Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam turned Israel away from following the Lord, and caused them to commit a great sin.
22 And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam that he committed, without departing from them,
23 until the LORD removed Israel from before his face, as he had spoken through all the servant prophets. of the; and Israel was taken captive from their land to Assyria, until this day.
24 And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Ava, from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and put them in the cities of Samaria, in place of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in its cities.
25 And it came to pass at the beginning, when they began to dwell there, that since they did not fear the Lord, the Lord sent lions against them to kill them.
26 So they said to the king of Assyria, The people whom you moved and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the God of that land, and he has sent lions among them, and, behold, the lions They kill, because they do not know the law of the God of the land.
27 And the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Take thither one of the priests whom ye brought from there, and let him go and dwell there, and teach them the law of the God of the land.
28 And one of the priests whom they had taken captive from Samaria came, and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.
29 But each nation made its own gods, and they placed them in the temples of the high places that the people of Samaria had made; each nation in its city where it lived.
30 Those of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, those of Cuta made Nergal, and those of Hamath made Asimah.
31 The Havites made Nibhaz and Tartach, and those of Sepharvaim burned their children in the fire to worship Adramelech and Anamelech, gods of Sepharvaim.
32 They feared the Lord, and made the lower people priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the temples of the high places.
33 They feared the Lord, and honored their gods, according to the custom of the nations from which they had been translated.
34 To this day they do as they did before: they neither fear the LORD, nor keep his statutes or his ordinances, nor do according to the law and the commandments which the LORD commanded the sons of Jacob, to whom he called the name Israel;
35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor worship them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them.
36 But the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and outstretched arm, him you will fear, and him you will worship, and him you will sacrifice.
37 You will always be careful to put into practice the statutes and rights and law and commandments that he gave you in writing, and you will not fear other gods.
38 You will not forget the covenant I made with you, nor fear other gods;
39 But fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.
40 But they did not listen; but they did according to their ancient custom.
41Thus those people feared Jehovah, and at the same time they served their idols; and also his children and his grandchildren, as his parents did, so they do to this day.
1 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 When he began to reign he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abi daughter of Zechariah.
3 He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.
4 He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the Asherah symbols, and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because until then the children of Israel had burned incense to it; and he called her Nehustan.
5 He put his hope in Jehovah, the God of Israel; Neither after nor before him was there anyone like him among all the kings of Judah.
6 For he followed the LORD, and did not depart from him, but kept the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses.
7 And the Lord was with him; and wherever he went he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and did not serve him.
8 He also smote the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from the watchtowers to the fortified city.
9 In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of the Assyrians came up against Samaria and besieged it,
10 and after three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 And the king of Assyria carried Israel captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah, in Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes;
12 because they had not listened to the voice of the Lord his God, but had broken his covenant; and all the things that Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded, they had not listened to or done.
13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
14 Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria who was in Lachish, saying, “I have sinned; Get away from me, and I will do whatever you impose on me. And the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 Therefore Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the royal house.
16 Then Hezekiah removed the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that King Hezekiah himself had covered with gold, and gave them to the king of Assyria.
17 Then the king of Assyria sent against King Hezekiah Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish against Jerusalem, and they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they had gone up, they came and camped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, in the way of the fuller’s field.
18 Then they called for the king, and Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, the steward, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the chancellor, came out to them.
19 And Rabshakeh said to them, Now tell Hezekiah, Thus says the great king of Assyria: What confidence is this on which you rely?
20 You say (but they are empty words): I have counsel and strength for war. But in what do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
21 Behold, you trust in this staff of a bruised reed in Egypt, on which if anyone leans, it will enter his hand and pierce him. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those who trust in him.
22 And if you say to me, We trust in the Lord our God, is this not the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, I beg you, give hostages to my lord, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you can provide horsemen for them.
24 How then can you resist a captain, even the least of my lord’s servants, even though you trust in Egypt with its chariots and its horsemen?
25 Have I come now without Jehovah to this place, to destroy it? The Lord has said to me: Go up to this land and destroy it.
26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, We pray you, speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it, and do not speak to us in the language of Judah in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.
27 And Rabshakeh said to them, Has my lord sent me to speak these words to you and your lord, and not to the men who are on the wall, exposed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?
28 Then Rabshakeh stood up and cried with a loud voice in the language of Judah, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
29 Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from my hand.
30 And let not Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, Surely the LORD will deliver us, and this city will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me, and come out to me, and eat each of your own vine and of your fig tree, and drink the water of your well,
32 until I come. and take you to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olives, oil, and honey; and you will live, and you will not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he deceives you when he says, The Lord will deliver us.
33 Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where is the god of Hamath and Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Iva? Were these able to deliver Samaria from my hand?
35 Which god of all the gods of these lands has delivered the land of it out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
36 But the people were silent, and did not answer him a word; for there was a commandment of the king, which had said, Do not answer him.
37 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, the steward, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the chancellor, came to Hezekiah, rent their clothes, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
1 When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the Lord.
2 And he sent Eliakim the steward, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz,
3 to say to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of blasphemy; because children are about to be born, and she who gives birth has no strength.
4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of the Assyrians, his lord, has sent to blaspheme the living God, and to reproach with words, which the Lord your God has heard; Therefore, he lifts up prayer for the remnant that still remains.
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah answered them, Thus shall you say to your master: Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear a rumor, and he will return to his land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land.
8 And Rabshakeh returning, he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he heard that he was gone from Lachish.
9 And he heard that Tirhakah king of Ethiopia had come out to make war against him. Then he returned and sent ambassadors to Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Let not your God in whom you trust deceive you, to say, Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them; and will you escape?
12 Did their gods deliver the nations that my fathers destroyed, that is, Gozan, Haran, Resheph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Iva?
14 And Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the ambassadors; and when he had read them, he went up to the house of the Lord, and Hezekiah spread them before the Lord.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, saying, Lord God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubim, you alone are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you made heaven and earth.
16 Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; Open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, that he has sent to blaspheme the living God.
17 It is true, O Jehovah, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands;
18 and that they threw their gods into the fire, because they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood or stone, and therefore they destroyed them.
19Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save us, I pray you, from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Jehovah, are God.
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: What you asked of me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard.
21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken about him: The virgin daughter of Zion despises you, she mocks you; The daughter of Jerusalem moves her head behind you.
22 Whom have you reviled and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By the hand of your messengers you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the most inaccessible part of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will stay in its most remote places, in the forest of its fertile fields.
24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt with the soles of my feet.
25 Have you never heard that I have made it since ancient times, and that I have devised it since ancient times? And now I have brought him, and you will be to make desolations, to reduce the fortified cities to heaps of rubble.
26 Its inhabitants were of little power; They were cowed and confused; They became like the grass of the field, and like green vegetables, like hay on the housetops, withered before they were ripe.
27 I have known your situation, your going out and your coming in, and your anger against me.
28 Because you have been angry with me, because your arrogance has risen to my ears, I will put my hook on your nose, and my bridle on your lips, and I will turn you back the way you came.
29 And this I will give you as a sign, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what will be born of its own, and in the second year what will be born of its own; And in the third year you will sow, and you will reap, and you will plant vineyards, and you will eat the fruit of them.
30 And whatever is escaped, whatever is left of the house of Judah, will take root again below, and bear fruit above.
31 For he will come out of Jerusalem a remnant, and out of Mount Zion those who are saved. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will do this.
32 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not enter this city, nor shoot an arrow into it; neither will he come before her with a shield, nor will he set up a bulwark against her.
33 By the same way that he came, he will return, and he will not enter this city, says the Lord.
34 For I will defend this city to save it, for the sake of myself, and for the sake of David my servant.
35 And it came to pass that same night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when they arose in the morning, behold, all were bodies of dead men.
36 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria left, and returned to Nineveh, where he stayed.
37 And it came to pass, as he worshiped in the temple of Nisroch his god, that Adramelech and Zarezer his sons struck him with the sword, and fled to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
1 In those days Hezekiah fell sick to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said, Thus says the Lord: Put your house in order, for you will die and not live.
2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, and said,
3 I beseech thee, O LORD, I beseech thee, remember that I have walked before thee in truth and with an upright heart, and that I have done the things which They please you. And Hezekiah wept with great tears.
4 And before Isaiah went out to the middle of the court, the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
5 Return, and say to Hezekiah, prince of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer. , and I have seen your tears; behold, I heal you; On the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.
6 And I will add to your days fifteen years, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
7 And Isaiah said, Take fig dough. And taking it, they put it on the wound, and he was healed.
8 And Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, What sign shall I have that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?
9 Isaiah answered, This is a sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do what he has said: Will the shadow advance ten degrees, or will it retreat ten degrees?
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is an easy thing for the shadow to decline ten degrees; but not that the shadow goes back ten degrees.
11 Then Isaiah the prophet cried to the Lord; and he made the shadow return by the degrees it had descended on Ahaz’s clock, ten degrees back.
12 At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent messengers with letters and gifts to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah had fallen ill.
13 And Hezekiah heard them, and showed them all his treasure house, silver, gold, spices, and precious ointments, and his armor house, and all that was in his treasures; There was nothing left that Hezekiah did not show them, both in his house and in all his domain.
14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did those men say, and where did they come to you from? And Hezekiah answered him, They have come from distant lands, from Babylon.
15 And he said to him again, What did they see in your house? And Hezekiah answered: They saw everything that was in my house; There was nothing left in my treasures that I did not show you.
16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord:
17 Behold, the days are coming when everything that is in your house, and everything that your fathers have treasured up to this day, will be carried away to Babylon, and nothing will be left, said the Lord.
18 And they will take of your sons who will come from you, whom you have begotten, and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of the Lord, which you have spoken, is good. Then he said: There will at least be peace and security in my days.
20 The rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the channel, and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21 And Hezekiah slept with his parents, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
20 The rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the channel, and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21 And Hezekiah slept with his parents, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years; His mother’s name was Hepsiba.
2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations, which the LORD had driven out before the children of Israel.
3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had torn down, and set up altars to Baal, and made an Asherah image, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he worshiped all the host of heaven, and worshiped those things.
4 He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, I will put my name in Jerusalem.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
6 And he passed his son through the fire, and took to observing the times, and was a soothsayer, and appointed enchanters and soothsayers, thus multiplying the doing of evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
7 And he set up an Asherah image that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son: I will put my name forever in this house, and in Jerusalem, which I chose out of all the tribes. From Israel;
8 And I will not move the foot of Israel again from the land that I gave to their fathers, provided that they observe and do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses gave them. command.
9 But they did not listen; and Manasseh led them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 So the Lord spoke by his servants the prophets, saying:
11 Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done more evil than all that the Amorites who were before him did, and has also done sin Judah with their idols;
12 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and upon Judah, that whoever hears it will have both ears ringing.
13 And I will spread over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab; and I will cleanse Jerusalem as one cleans a dish, which is scrubbed and turned upside down.
14 And I will forsake the rest of my inheritance, and will give it into the hands of his enemies; and they will be a prey and spoil for all their adversaries;
15 because they have done evil in my sight, and provoked me to anger, from the day their fathers left Egypt until this day.
16 Besides this, Manasseh shed much innocent blood, until it filled Jerusalem from end to end; besides his sin with which he caused Judah to sin, to do evil in the sight of the Lord.
17The rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not all written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
18 And Manasseh slept with his parents, and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzzah, and Amon his son reigned in his place.
19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Mesulemeth daughter of Haruz, of Jotbah.
20 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.
21 And he walked in all the ways in which his father walked, and served the idols which his father had served, and worshiped them;
22 and he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.
23 And the servants of Ammon conspired against him, and slew the king in his house.
24 Then the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Ammon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
25 The rest of the acts of Ammon, are they not all written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
26 And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzzah, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.
1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. The name of his mother was Jedida daughter of Adaiah, of Boshcat.
2 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, turning neither to the right nor to the left.
3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, a scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,
4 Go to Hilkiah the high priest, and tell him to collect the money that they have brought to the house of Jehovah, which the gatekeepers have collected from the people,
5 and let them put it in the hands of those who do the work, who are in charge of the arrangement of the house of Jehovah, and let them hand it over to those who do the work of the house of the Lord, to repair the cracks in the house;
6 to the carpenters, masters and masons, to buy wood and cut stone to repair the house;
7 and that no account be taken of the money whose management is entrusted to them, because they act honestly.
8 Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
9 Then Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and reported to the king, and said, Your servants have collected the money that was found in the temple, and have delivered it into the power of those who do the work, who are in charge of the arrangement of the temple. the house of Jehovah.
10 Likewise Shaphan the scribe declared to the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
11 And when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.
12 Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah the priest, to Ahikam the son of Shaphan, to Acbor the son of Micaiah, to Shaphan the scribe, and to Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
13 Go and ask the Lord for me, and for the people, and for everything. Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers did not listen to the words of this book, to do according to all that was written to us.
14 Then Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to the prophetess Huldah, the wife of Shallum the son of Ticva, the son of Harhas, keeper of the garments, who dwelt in Jerusalem in the second part of the city, and they talked to her.
15 And she said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Tell the man who sent you to me:
16 Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will bring upon this place, and upon those who dwell in it, all the evil of which This book speaks, which the king of Judah has read;
17 because they forsook me, and burned incense to other gods, provoking me to anger with all the work of their hands; My anger is kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.
18 But to the king of Judah, who has sent you to ask questions of the Lord, thus say: Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Because you heard the words of the book,
19 and your heart was moved, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, When you heard what I have spoken against this place and against its inhabitants, that they will come to be desolate and cursed, and you tore your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.
20 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be brought to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil that I bring upon this place. And they gave the king the answer.
1 Then the king ordered to gather to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up to the house of the Lord with all the men of Judah, and with all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with the priests and prophets and with all the people, from the smallest to the greatest; And he read, as they heard him, all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.
3 And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, that they would follow the LORD, and keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all their heart and with all their soul, and that they would do the words of the covenant that were written in that book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the second priests, and the gatekeepers, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. ; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the field of Kidron, and had their ashes carried to Bethel.
5 And he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and around Jerusalem; and likewise to those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon, and to the signs of the zodiac, and to all the host of heaven.
6 He also brought out the Asherah image outside the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, into the Kidron Valley, and burned it in the Kidron Valley, and turned it into dust, and threw the dust on the tombs of the children of the Lord. town.
7 He also tore down the places of idolatrous prostitution that were in the house of Jehovah, in which the women were weaving tents for Asherah.
8 And he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and desecrated the high places where the priests burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the altars of the gates that were at the entrance to the gate of Joshua, governor of the city, which were on the left hand, at the gate of the city.
9 But the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
10 Likewise he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, so that no one would pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech.
11 He also removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, near the chamber of Nathan-melech the eunuch, who had charge of the common lands; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 The king also broke down the altars that were on the roof of the hall of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord; and from there he ran and threw the dust into the Kidron brook.
13 Likewise the king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, on the right hand of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, an abominable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, an abominable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, an abominable idol. abominable of the children of Ammon.
14 And he broke the statues, and tore down the Asherah images, and filled their place with the bones of men.
fifteenLikewise the altar that was in Bethel, and the high place that Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made; He destroyed that altar and the high place, and burned it, and ground it into dust, and set fire to the Asherah image.
16 And Josiah returned, and seeing the tombs that were there on the mountain, he sent and took out the bones from the tombs, and burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the Lord, which the man of God had prophesied, the who had announced this.
17 Then he said, What monument is this that I see? And those of the city answered him, This is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah, and prophesied these things which you have done on the altar of Bethel.
18 And he said, Let him be; no one moves his bones; and thus his bones were preserved, and the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
19 And all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke wrath, Josiah also removed them, and did with them as he had done in Bethel.
20 He also killed on the altars all the priests of the high places that were there, and burned men’s bones on them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 Then the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, according to what is written in the book of this covenant.
22 Such a Passover had not been kept since the days when the judges ruled over Israel, nor in all the times of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.
23 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.
24 Josiah also swept away the enchanters, the soothsayers, the teraphim, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, to fulfill the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house. of Jehovah.
25 There was no other king before him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses; nor was another like him born after him.
26 Despite all this, Jehovah did not desist from the ardor with which his great anger had been kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.
27 And the LORD said, I will also remove Judah from my sight, as I removed Israel, and I will cast away this city which I had chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28 The rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not all written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29 In those days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates, and king Josiah came out against him; But that one, as soon as he saw him, he killed him in Megiddo.
30 And his servants put him on a cart, and brought him dead from Megiddo 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 the place of his father.
31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah, of Libnah.
32 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
33 And Pharaoh Neco put him in prison at Riblah in the province of Hamath, so that he would not reign in Jerusalem; and he imposed upon the land a fine of one hundred talents of silver, and one of gold.
34 Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; and he took Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt, and he died there.
35 And Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the silver and the gold; But he had the land valued to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh, taking out the silver and gold of the people of the land, from each one according to the estimate of his property, to give it to Pharaoh Necho.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebuda, daughter of Pedaiah, of Ruma.
37 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
1 In his time Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to campaign. Jehoiakim became his servant for three years, but then he returned and rebelled against him.
2 But the LORD sent against Jehoiakim troops of the Chaldeans, troops of the Syrians, troops of the Moabites, and troops of the Ammonites, whom he sent against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the jehovah which he had spoken through his servants the prophets.
3 Surely this came against Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove it from his presence, for the sins of Manasseh, and for all that he did;
4 also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; Jehovah, therefore, did not want to forgive.
5 The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
6 And Jehoiakim slept with his parents, and Jehoiakim his son reigned in his place.
7 And the king of Egypt never again left his land; for the king of Babylon took all that was his from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. The name of his mother was Nehusta daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem.
9 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done.
10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon also came against the city, when his servants were besieging it.
12 Then Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother, his servants, his princes and his officials; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.
13 And he brought out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the royal house, and broke into pieces all the golden vessels that Solomon king of Israel had made in the house of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
14 And he carried away into captivity all Jerusalem, all the princes, and all the mighty men, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and blacksmiths; No one was left except the poor people of the land.
15 He also took Jehoiachin, the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the mighty men of the land captive to Babylon; He took them captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16 All the men of war, who were seven thousand, and the craftsmen and blacksmiths, who were one thousand, and all the mighty men to wage war, the king of Babylon took captive.
17 And the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king instead of Jehoiachin, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. The name of his mother was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah, of Libnah.
19 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
20 So the wrath of the LORD came against Jerusalem and Judah, until he drove them out of his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
