1 Solomon the son of David was established in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him exceeding great.
2 And Solomon summoned all Israel, leaders of thousands and hundreds, judges, and all the princes of all Israel, heads of families.
3 And Solomon, and all this assembly with him, went to the high place that was in Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness.
4 But David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for him in Jerusalem.
5 Likewise the brazen altar that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the tabernacle of the Lord, where Solomon went to consult with that assembly.
6 So Solomon went up there before the Lord to the bronze altar that was in the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered on it a thousand burnt offerings.
7 And that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask me for whatever you want and I will give you.
8 And Solomon said to God, You have shown great mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.
9 Now therefore, O Lord God, let your word be confirmed to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
10 Now give me wisdom and knowledge, to appear before this people; Because, who can govern this great people of yours?
11 And God said to Solomon: Because this was in your heart, and you did not ask for riches, goods, or glory, nor for the life of those who wish you harm, nor did you ask for many days, but you have asked for yourself wisdom and knowledge to govern. to my people, over whom I have made you king,
12 wisdom and knowledge are given to you; And I will also give you riches, goods and glory, such as the kings who were before you never had, nor will those who come after you ever have.
13 And from the high place that was in Gibeon, before the tabernacle of the congregation, Solomon returned to Jerusalem, and reigned over Israel.
14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
15 And the king stored up silver and gold in Jerusalem like stones, and cedar like goat figs from Shephelah in abundance.
16 And the king’s merchants bought by contract horses and fine linen from Egypt for Solomon.
17 And they went up and bought in Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty; and so they bought through them, for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria.
1 So Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the Lord, and a house for his kingdom.
2 And Solomon appointed seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men to cut in the mountains, and three thousand five hundred to guard them.
3 And Solomon sent to Hiram king of Tyre, saying, Do to me as you did to David my father, sending him cedars to build a house for himself to live in.
4 Behold, I must build a house to the name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it to him, to burn fragrant incense before him, and for the continual placing of the shewbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the days of rest, new moons, and festivals of Jehovah our God; which is to be perpetual in Israel.
5 And the house that I have to build must be large; because our God is great above all gods.
6 But who will be able to build him a house, since the heavens and the highest of heavens cannot contain him? Who then am I to build him a house, except to burn incense before him?
7 Now send me a skilled man who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, purple, scarlet, and blue, and who knows how to carve with the masters who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, who my father ordered.
8 Send me also wood from Lebanon: cedar, cypress and sandalwood; for I know that your servants know how to cut wood in Lebanon; and behold, my servants will go with yours,
9 to prepare much wood for me, because the house that I have to build must be great and mighty.
10 And behold, for the workers of your servants, hewers of wood, I have given twenty thousand cors of wheat in grain, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
11 Then Hiram king of Tire answered in writing that he sent to Solomon: Because the LORD loved his people, he has made you king over them.
12 And Hiram said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, and who gave to King David a son who was wise, understanding, sane, and prudent, who would build a house for the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.
13 So I have sent you a skilled and knowledgeable man, Hiram-abi,
14 son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, but his father was from Tyre; who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze and iron, in stone and wood, in purple and blue, in linen and crimson; Likewise, he knows how to sculpt all kinds of figures, and make every form of design that is asked of him, with your expert men, and with those of my lord David your father.
15 Now therefore let my lord send to his servants the wheat and barley, and oil and wine, which he has spoken;
16 And we will cut the wood you need in Lebanon, and we will bring it to you on rafts across the sea to Joppa, and you will have it carried to Jerusalem.
17 And Solomon numbered all the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, after David his father had numbered them, and they were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.
18 And he appointed of them seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand stonemasons on the mountain, and three thousand six hundred foremen to make the people work.
1 Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, which had been shown to David his father, in the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 And he began to build in the second month, on the second day of the month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 These are the measurements that Solomon gave for the foundations of the house of God. The first, the length, was sixty cubits, and the width was twenty cubits.
4 The porch that was in front of the building was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and its height was one hundred and twenty cubits; and he covered it inside with pure gold.
5 And he roofed the main body of the building with cypress wood, which he covered with fine gold, and he made palm trees and chains embossed on them.
6 He also covered the house with precious stones for ornament; and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
7 So he covered the house, its beams, its thresholds, its walls and its doors with gold; and he carved cherubs on the walls.
8 He also made the most holy place, the length of which was twenty cubits according to the width of the house, and the width of it twenty cubits; and he covered it with fine gold amounting to six hundred talents.
9 And the weight of the nails was from one to fifty shekels of gold. He also covered the rooms with gold.
10 And within the most holy place he made two cherubs of wood, which were covered with gold.
11 The length of the wings of the cherubim was twenty cubits; for one wing was five cubits, which reached to the wall of the house, and the other was five cubits, which touched the wing of the other cherub.
12 In the same way, one wing of the other cherub was five cubits long, reaching to the wall of the house, and the other was five cubits long, touching the wing of the other cherub.
13 These cherubim had their wings spread twenty cubits, and they stood with their faces toward the house.
14 He also made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and linen, and had cherubim embossed on it.
15 In front of the house he made two columns, each thirty-five cubits high, with their capitals on top, five cubits high.
16 He also made chains in the sanctuary, and put them on the capitals of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, which he put in the chains.
17 And he placed the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and one on the left; and he called the one on the right hand Jachin, and the one on the left, Boaz.
1 He also made an altar of bronze twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
2 He also made a molten sea, which was ten cubits from one edge to the other, completely round: its height was five cubits, and a cord of thirty cubits girded it around.
3 And under the sea there were figures of gourds surrounding it, ten in each cubit all around; They were two rows of pumpkins fused together with the sea.
4 It sat on twelve oxen, three of which faced north, three toward the west, and three toward the south, and three toward the east: and the sea rested on them, and their anchors were inward.
5 And it was a hand’s breadth thick, and the rim was shaped like the rim of a chalice, or a fleur-de-lys. And it held three thousand baths.
6 He also made ten lavers, and placed five on the right and five on the left, to wash and cleanse in them what was offered as a burnt offering; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 He also made ten golden lampstands according to their shape, which he put in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left.
8 He also made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left: he also made a hundred golden bowls.
9 He also made the court of the priests, and the great court, and the doors of the court, and covered their doors with bronze.
10 And he placed the sea on the right side, toward the southeast of the house.
11 Hiram also made cauldrons, and shovels, and bowls; and Hiram finished the work that he was doing for King Solomon for the house of God;
12 Two columns, and the cords, the capitals on the heads of the two columns, and two nets to cover the two spheres of the capitals that were on top of the columns;
13 Four hundred pomegranates in the two nets, two rows of pomegranates in each net, so that they covered the two spheres of the capitals that were on top of the columns.
14 He also made the bases, on which he placed the lavers;
15 One sea, and the twelve oxen under it:
16 And cauldrons, shovels, and hooks; Of very fine bronze Hiram-abi made all his belongings to King Solomon for the house of the Lord.
17 And the king melted them in the plains of the Jordan, in clay land, between Sukkoth and Seredatha.
18 And Solomon made all these articles in such great numbers that he could not know the weight of the bronze.
19 Thus Solomon made all the utensils for the house of God, and the golden altar, and the tables on which the shewbread was placed;
20 Likewise the lampstands and their lamps were of pure gold, to be lit before the most holy place according to the ordinance.
21 The flowers, lamps, and tongs were made of gold, the finest gold;
22 Also the snuffers, the basins, the spoons and the censers were of pure gold. And the entrance of the house also of gold, its interior doors to the most holy place, and the doors of the temple house.
1 When all the work that Solomon had done for the house of the Lord was finished, Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated; and he put the silver, and the gold, and all the utensils, into the treasuries of the house of God.
2 Then Solomon gathered to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, and all the princes of the tribes, the heads of the families of the children of Israel, to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David, which is Zion.
3 And all the men of Israel gathered to the king for the feast of the seventh month.
4 So all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took the ark:
5 And they carried up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the articles of the sanctuary that were in the tabernacle: the priests and the Levites carried them up.
6 And King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that had gathered with him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which, because there were so many, could not be counted or numbered.
7 And the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the sanctuary of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim:
8 For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim They covered the top of the ark and its bars.
9 And they brought out the bars, so that the heads of the bars of the ark could be seen before the most holy place, but they could not be seen from outside: and they are there to this day.
10 In the ark there was nothing but the two tables that Moses had placed in Horeb, with which the Lord had made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they left Egypt.
11 And when the priests were gone out of the sanctuary, (for all the priests that were found had been sanctified, and did not keep their shifts;
12 and the Levites who were singers, all of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, together with their sons and their brothers, dressed in fine linen, stood with cymbals and psalteries and harps on the east side of the altar; and with them one hundred and twenty priests playing trumpets:)
13 So when the trumpets sounded, and they all sang together, to praise and give thanks to the Lord: and as they lifted up their voices with trumpets and cymbals and other instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, Because he is good , for his mercy endures forever: then the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the Lord.
14 And the priests could not be there to minister, because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
1 Then Solomon said, The Lord has said that he would dwell in darkness.
2 I have therefore built a dwelling house for you, and a habitation in which you may dwell forever.
3 And the king turning his face, blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
4 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,
5 Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen any city. of all the tribes of Israel to build a house where my name would be, nor have I chosen a man to be prince over my people Israel.
6 But I have chosen Jerusalem to have my name on it, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
7 And David my father had it in his heart to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
8 But the LORD said to David my father: As for having had it in your heart to build a house for my name, you have done well to have had this in your heart.
9 But you will not build the house, but your son who will come from your loins, he will build a house for my name.
10 And the LORD has fulfilled his word which he had spoken, for I have arisen in the place of David my father, and have sat on the throne of Israel, as the LORD had said, and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
11 And in it I have put the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with the children of Israel.
12 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and stretched out his hands.
13 For Solomon had made a dais of bronze, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the court: and he stood upon it, and knelt before all the people. congregation of Israel, and stretched out his hands toward heaven, and said,
14 O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like unto thee in heaven or on earth, who keepeth covenant and mercy with thy servants who walk before thee. all your heart;
15 You have kept for your servant David my father what you promised him: you said it with your mouth, and with your hand you have fulfilled it, as is seen on this day.
16 Now therefore, Jehovah God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail of you a man before me, to sit on the throne of Israel, provided that your sons keep his way. , walking in my law, as you have walked before me.
17 Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, let your word be fulfilled, which you spoke to your servant David.
18But is it true that God will dwell with man on earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain you: how much less this house that I have built?
19 But you will look to the prayer of your servant, and to his prayer, O Lord my God, to hear the cry and the prayer with which your servant prays before you.
20 Let your eyes be open on this house day and night, on the place of which you said, My name will be there; May you hear the prayer with which your servant prays in this place.
21 Also that you hear the prayer of your servant and of your people Israel, when they make prayer in this place, that you will hear from heaven, from the place of your dwelling: that you hear and forgive.
22 If anyone sins against his neighbor, and an oath is required of him, and he comes to swear before your altar in this house,
23 you will hear from heaven, and you will act, and you will judge your servants, giving the reward to the wicked, causing him to repay his proceeding over his head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.
24 If your people Israel are defeated before their enemies because they have transgressed against you, and turn and confess your name and pray before you in this house,
25 you will hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people. Israel, and you will bring them back to the land that you gave them and their fathers.
26 If the heavens be closed, and there be no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray to you toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sins, when you afflict them,
27 You will hear them in heaven, and you will forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, and you will teach them the good way to walk in it, and you will give rain on your land, which you gave as an inheritance to your people.
28 If there is famine in the land, or if there is pestilence, if there is blight or blight, or locust or aphid; or if their enemies besiege them in the land where they live; whatever pest or disease it may be;
29 Every prayer and supplication that any man makes, or all your people Israel, whoever knows his wound and his pain in his heart, if he stretches out his hands toward this house,
30 You will hear from heaven, from your dwelling place. , and you will forgive, and give to each one according to his ways, having known his heart; because only you know the hearts of the children of men;
31 That they may fear you and walk in your ways as long as they live on the face of the land that you gave to our fathers.
32 And also to the stranger who is not of your people Israel, who has come from a far country because of your great name, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm, if he comes and prays toward this house,
33 you will hear from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and you will do according to all things for which the foreigner has cried to you; so that all the people of the earth may know your name, and fear you as your people Israel do, and know that your name is called upon this house that I have built.
34 If your people go out to war against their enemies in the way that you send them, and they pray to you towards this city that you have chosen, towards the house that I have built for your name,
35 You will hear their prayer from heaven and their I pray, and you will protect their cause.
36 If they sin against you, (for there is no man who does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and you hand them over to their enemies, so that those who take them may take them captive to the land of their enemies, whether far or near,
37 and they will come to their senses in the land where they were taken captive; If they turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, and say, We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have done wickedly;
38 If they turn to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they were taken captive, and pray towards the land that you gave to their fathers, towards the city that you chose, and towards the house that I have built in your name;
39 You will hear from heaven, from your dwelling place, their prayer and their supplication, and you will defend their cause, and you will forgive your people who have sinned against you.
40 Now therefore, O my God, I pray you, let your eyes be open, and your ears attentive to prayer in this place.
41 O Lord God, arise now to dwell in your rest, you and the ark of your power; O Lord God, let your priests be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in your goodness.
42Jehovah God, do not reject your anointed: remember your mercies toward David your servant.
1 When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the victims; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
2 And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
3 When all the children of Israel saw the fire and the glory of the LORD descend upon the house, they fell on their faces on the pavement and worshiped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good, and his mercy is for always.
4 Then the king and all the people sacrificed victims before the Lord.
5 And King Solomon offered a sacrifice twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep; and so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
6 And the priests carried out their ministry; and the Levites with the musical instruments of the Lord, which King David had made to praise the Lord, for his mercy endures forever; when David praised through them. Likewise the priests blew trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
7 Solomon also consecrated the central part of the court that was before the house of the Lord, because he had offered there the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings; because the brazen altar that Solomon had made could not accommodate the burnt offerings, the offerings, and the fat.
8 Then Solomon celebrated a festival seven days, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt.
9 On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, because they had dedicated the altar in seven days, and had celebrated the solemn feast for seven days.
10 And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people home, rejoicing and rejoicing in heart because of the benefits that the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to his people Israel.
11 So Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the house of the king: and all that Solomon purposed to do in the house of the Lord and in his house was successful.
12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
13 If I close the heavens, so that there is no rain, and if I command the locusts to consume the land, or if I send pestilence to my people;
14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins, and will heal their land.
15 Now my eyes will be open, and my ears attentive, to prayer in this place:
16 For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, so that my name may be in it forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there forever.
17 And if you walk before me as David your father walked, and do all that I have commanded you, and keep my statutes and my decrees,
18 I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I agreed with David your father, saying : You will not lack a man to rule in Israel.
19 But if you turn and forsake my statutes and commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
20 I will uproot you from my land which I have given you; and this house that I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out from my presence, and will make it a mockery and a mockery of all people.
21 And this house, which is so exalted, will be a terror to everyone who passes by, and they will say: Why has the Lord done this way to this land and to this house?
22 And it will be answered: Because they have forsaken the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped and served them: therefore he has brought all this evil upon them.
1 After twenty years, during which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house,
2 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given him, and settled the children of Israel in them.
3 Then Solomon came to Hamath in Zobah, and took it.
4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the supply cities which he built in Hamath.
5 He also rebuilt Beth-horon above, and Beth-horon below, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
6 And to Baalat, and to all the supply cities that Solomon had; also all the cities of chariots and those of horsemen; and all that Solomon wanted to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
7 And all the people that were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
8 the children of those who were left in the land after them, to whom the children of Israel they did not completely destroy, Solomon made tributaries until today.
9 But Solomon did not appoint servants from the children of Israel for his work; because they were men of war, and their officers and their captains, and their commanders of their chariots, and their horsemen.
10 And Solomon had two hundred and fifty chief governors, who ruled over that people.
11 And Solomon took Pharaoh’s daughter from the city of David to the house which he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for those rooms where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.
12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built before the porch,
13 so that they might offer each thing in its day, according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts three times in the year, that is, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles.
14 And he appointed the priests in his office, according to what David his father had commanded; and the Levites by their offices, to praise and minister before the priests, every thing in his day; likewise the doorkeepers by their order at each door: for so David, the man of God, had commanded.
15 And they did not depart from the commandment of the king, concerning the priests and the Levites, and the treasures, and all matters:
16 for all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day that the foundations of the house of the Lord were laid. until it was finished, until the house of Jehovah was completely finished.
17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, to the coast of the sea in the land of Edom.
18 For Hiram had sent him ships by the hand of his servants, and sailors skilled in the sea, who went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Solomon.
1 When the queen of Sheba heard the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels loaded with spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones, to test Solomon with difficult questions. And when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him all that was in her heart.
2 But Solomon answered all her questions: and there was nothing that Solomon did not answer.
3 And the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,
4 And the food of his table, the habitations of his officers, the condition of his servants and their clothing, his chambermaids and their clothing, and the steps by which he ascended to the house of Jehovah were astonished.
5 And she said to the king, It is true what I had heard in my land concerning your things and your wisdom;
6 But I did not believe their words, until I came, and my eyes saw: and, behold, not even the half of the greatness of your wisdom had been told to me; because you surpass the fame that I had heard.
7 Blessed are your men, and blessed are these your servants, who are always before you, and hear your wisdom.
8 Blessed be the Lord your God, who is pleased with you to set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God: because your God loved Israel to establish them forever, therefore he has made you king over them, to do judgment and justice.
9 And he gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great quantity of spices, and precious stones: there were never such spices as those which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
10 Also the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who had brought the gold from Ophir, brought sandalwood and precious stones.
11 And of sandalwood the king made steps in the house of the Lord, and in the royal houses, and harps and psalteries for the singers: such wood had never been seen in the land of Judah.
12 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba everything she wanted and asked for, more than she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her land with her servants.
13 The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
14 Without what the merchants and merchants brought; Also all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.
15 King Solomon also made two hundred shields of beaten gold, each of which had six hundred shekels of worked gold:
16 also three hundred shields of beaten gold, each shield having three hundred shekels of gold: and the king put them in the house of the forest. from Lebanon.
17 Furthermore the king made a great throne of ivory, and covered it with pure gold.
18 The throne had six steps, and a golden footstool fixed to the throne, and arms of the seat, and two lions that were by the arms.
19 There were also twelve lions there on the six steps on either side. Such a throne was never made in any kingdom.
20 All the vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. In Solomon’s day silver was not valued.
21 For the king’s fleet went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram, and every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come and bring gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
22 And King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.
23 And all the kings of the earth sought to see the face of Solomon, to hear the wisdom that God had given him:
24 Each of these brought his gift, silver jewelry, gold jewelry, clothing, weapons, perfumes, horses. and mules, every year.
25 Solomon also had four thousand stables for his horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.
26 And he had dominion over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
27 And the king stored up silver in Jerusalem like stones, and cedars like the goat figs of Shephelah in abundance.
28 They also brought horses for Solomon from Egypt and all the countries
29 The rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not all written in the books of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the prophecies of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
30 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.
31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all Israel had gathered at Shechem to make him king.
2 And when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled because of king Solomon, heard it, he returned from Egypt.
3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
4 Your father has made our yoke heavy; now he relieves some of the hard bondage, and the heavy yoke with which your father pressed us, and we will serve you.
5 And he said to them, Come back to me in three days. And the people departed .
6 Then king Rehoboam took counsel with the elders, who had been before Solomon his father when he was alive, and said to them, How do you advise that I should respond to this people?
7 And they answered him, saying, If you behave humanely with this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will always serve you.
8 But he, leaving the advice that the elders gave him, took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, and who were in his service;
9 And he said to them, What do you advise us to answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Relieve some of the yoke that your father put on us?
10 Then the young men who had grown up with him answered him: Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten our burden: Thus you shall say to them: My smallest finger is thicker than the loins. of my father.
11 Therefore, if my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father punished you with stripes, and I with scorpions.
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had commanded them, saying, “Return to me in three days.”
13 And the king answered them harshly; for King Rehoboam left the counsel of the elders,
14 And he spake unto them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father punished you with stripes, but I with scorpions.
15 And the king did not listen to the people; for the cause was from God, that the LORD might fulfill the word which he had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite, to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16 And when all Israel saw that the king had not heard them, the people answered the king, saying, What part have we with David? No inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, every man to his tents! David, look around your house now! So all Israel went to his tents.
17 But Rehoboam reigned over the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.
18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of the taxes; But the children of Israel stoned him, and he died. Then King Rehoboam made haste, and got into his chariot and fled to Jerusalem.
19 So Israel separated from the house of David until today.
1 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he gathered from the house of Judah and Benjamin one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men of war to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
3 Speak to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin, saying to them,
4 Thus says the LORD: Do not go up and fight against your brothers. ; Let everyone return to his house, for I have done this. And they heard the word of the Lord, and turned, and did not go against Jeroboam.
5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities to fortify Judah.
6 He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
7 Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,
8 Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,
9 Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
10 Sorah, Ajalon, and Hebron, which were fortified cities of Judah and Benjamin.
11 He also reinforced the fortresses, and placed in them captains, and provisions, and wine, and oil;
12 And in all the cities he set up shields and spears. He greatly strengthened them; and Judah and Benjamin were subject to him.
13 And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel gathered to him from all the places where they lived.
14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons excluded them from the ministry of the Lord.
15 And he appointed his own priests for the high places, and for the demons, and for the calves which he had made.
16 After them came also those from all the tribes of Israel who had set their hearts on seeking the Lord God of Israel; and they came to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to Jehovah, the God of his fathers.
17 Thus they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and established Rehoboam the son of Solomon for three years; for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
18 And Rehoboam took to wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.
19 Who bore him these sons: Jeus, Shemarias, and Zaham.
20 After her he took Maacah daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Atai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
21 But Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begat twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maacah chief and prince of his brothers, because he wanted to make him king.
23 He acted shrewdly, and scattered all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, and throughout all the fortified cities, and gave them plenty of provisions, and many wives.
1 When Rehoboam had established the kingdom, he left the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
2 And because they had rebelled against the Lord, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt went up against Jerusalem,
3 with twelve hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen: but the people who came with him out of Egypt, that is, of Libyans, Sukians, and Ethiopians, he had no number.
4 And he took the fortified cities of Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
5 Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says the Lord: You have left me, and I also have left you in the hand of Shishak.
6 And the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and said, The Lord is righteous.
7 And when the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them; but I will save them quickly, and my wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
8 But they will be his servants; so that they may know what it is to serve me, and what it is to serve the kingdoms of the nations.
9 So Shishak king of Egypt went up to Jerusalem, and took the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house; He carried everything: and he took the golden shields that Solomon had made.
10 And in their place king Rehoboam made shields of bronze, and gave them to the chiefs of the guard, who guarded the entrance to the king’s house.
11 When the king went to the house of the Lord, the guards came and took them away, and then they returned to the guard chamber.
12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord departed from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and things were well in Judah also.
13 So Rehoboam was strengthened and reigned in Jerusalem: and Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name in it. And the name of Rehoboam’s mother was Naama the Ammonite.
14 And he did evil, because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
15 And the things of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the books of the prophet Shemaiah and of the seer Iddo, in the register of the families? And between Rehoboam and Jeroboam there was constant war.
16 And Rehoboam slept with his parents, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
1 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah reigned over Judah.
2 And he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
3 Then Abijah commanded battle with an army of four hundred thousand chosen men of war: and Jeroboam commanded battle against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, strong and valiant.
4 And Abijah stood up on mount Zemaraim, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel.
5 Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his children under a covenant of salt?
6 But Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.
7 And vain and wicked men gathered together with him, and they were stronger than Rehoboam the son of Solomon, because Rehoboam was young and faint-hearted, and did not defend himself against them.
8 And now you are trying to resist the kingdom of Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David, because you are many, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.
9 Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and appointed yourselves priests after the manner of the people of other lands, so that anyone may come to consecrate himself with a bullock and seven rams, and so be a priest of those who are not gods?
10 But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him: and the priests who minister before the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and those who are doing the work are the Levites,
11 Who burn the burnt offerings every morning and every evening, and sweet incense; and they put the loaves on the clean table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps to burn every evening: for we keep the ordinance of the Lord our God; but you have left him.
12 And behold, God is with us as chief, and his priests with the trumpets of joy to sound against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the Lord God of your fathers, for you will not prosper.
13 But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come at them from behind: and while he was thus before them, the ambush was behind Judah.
14 And when Judah looked, behold, there was battle before him and behind him; So they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets.
15 Then the people of Judah shouted loudly; and as soon as they raised a cry, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah:
16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hands.
17 And Abijah and his people made a great slaughter among them; and five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell wounded.
18 Thus were the children of Israel humbled at that time: and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Jehovah the God of their fathers.
19 And Abijah followed Jeroboam, and took some cities from him, Bethel with its towns, Jesana with its towns, and Ephraim with its towns.
20 And Jeroboam had no more power in the days of Abijah: and the LORD smote him, and he died.
21 But Abijah became more powerful. He took fourteen wives, and fathered twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
22 The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the history of Iddo the prophet.
1 Abijah slept with his parents, and was buried in the city of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, in whose days he had peace in the country for ten years.
2 And Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.
3 For he removed the altars of strange worship, and the high places; he broke the images, and destroyed the symbols of Asherah;
4 And he commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of his fathers, and to do his law and his commandments.
5 He also removed the high places and the images from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under his reign.
6 And he built fortified cities in Judah, because there was peace in the land, and there was no war against him in those days; because the Lord had given him peace.
7 Therefore he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and let us surround them with walls, with towers, gates, and bars, since the land is ours: for we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought him, and he has given us peace for everywhere. So they built and prospered.
8 Asa also had an army carrying shields and spears: from Judah three hundred thousand, and from Benjamin two hundred eighty thousand carrying shields and bending bows; all right-handed men.
9 And Zerah the Ethiopian went out against them with an army of millions, and three hundred chariots; and he came to Maresah.
10 Then Asa went out against him, and they ordered battle in the valley of Shephathah near Mareshah.
11 And Asa cried to the Lord his God, and said, O Lord, it makes no difference to you whether you give help to the powerful or to the powerless. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we come against this army. O Lord, you are our God: let no man prevail against you.
12 And the LORD destroyed the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
13 And Asa and the people who were with him followed him to Gerar; and the Ethiopians fell until there was no breath left in them; for they were destroyed before the Lord and before his army. And they took very great booty from them.
14 They also attacked all the cities around Gerar, because the terror of the LORD fell on them: and they plundered all the cities, because there was great plunder in them.
15 They also attacked the huts of those who had livestock, and took away many sheep and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
1 The spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Obed;
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord will be with you, if ye be with him: and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if you leave him, he will also leave you.
3 Israel has been many days without a true God and without a priest to teach and without law;
4 But when in his tribulation they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found among them.
5 In those times there was no peace, neither for him who entered, nor for him who left, but many afflictions upon all the inhabitants of the lands.
6 And one people destroyed another, and one city another city: for God troubled them with all kinds of calamities.
7 But be strong, and do not let your hands fail; for there is a reward for your work.
8 When Asa heard the words and the prophecy of the prophet Azariah the son of Obed, he took courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities which he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim; and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was before the porch of the LORD.
9 Then he gathered together all Judah and Benjamin, and with them the strangers of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon: for many of Israel had defected to him, seeing that the LORD their God was with him.
10 So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.
11 And on that same day they sacrificed to the Lord, of the plunder they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
12 Then they solemnly promised that they would seek the Lord God of his fathers, with all his heart, and with all his soul;
13 And whoever did not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, would die, whether great or small, man or woman.
14 And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice and shout, with the sound of trumpets and trumpets:
15 All the people of Judah rejoiced at this oath; for they swore with all their heart, and with all their will they sought him: and he was found of them; and the Lord gave them peace everywhere.
16 And even Maacah, mother of King Asa, he himself deposed from her dignity, because she had made an Asherah image: and Asa destroyed the image, and broke it in pieces, and burned it in the brook Kidron.
17 Yet the high places were not taken away from Israel, although Asa’s heart was perfect all his days.
18 And he brought to the house of God what his father had dedicated, and what he had consecrated, silver, gold, and utensils.
19 And there was no more war until the thirty-five years of Asa’s reign.
1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and fortified Ramah, so that he would not let any king Asa, king of Judah, leave or enter.
2 Then Asa brought out the silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the Lord and from the royal house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who was in Damascus, saying,
3 Let there be an alliance between you and me, as the there was between your father and my father; Behold, I have sent you silver and gold, so that you may come and break the alliance that you have with Baasha king of Israel, so that he may withdraw from me.
4 And Ben-hadad consented to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel: and they conquered Ihon, Dan, Abel-maim, and the supply cities of Naphtali.
5 When Baasa heard this, he stopped building Rama, and abandoned his work.
6 Then king Asa took all Judah, and they took away from Ramah the stone and the wood with which Baasha built, and with it he built Geba and Mizpah.
7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hands.
8 Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Libyans a very numerous army, with chariots and many horsemen? Yet because you relied on the Lord, he delivered them into your hands.
9 For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the whole earth, to show his power on behalf of those whose hearts are perfect toward him. You have done madly in this; because from now on there will be more war against you.
10 Then Asa was angry with the seer and threw him into prison, because he was very angry because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.
11 But behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became seriously ill with his feet, and in his illness he sought not the Lord, but the doctors.
13 And Asa slept with his parents, and died in the forty-first year of his reign.
14 And they buried him in the tombs that he had made for himself in the city of David; and they put him in a coffin, which they filled with perfumes and various aromatic species, prepared by expert perfumers; and they made a great fire in his honor.
1 Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and became strong against Israel.
2 He put an army in all the fortified cities of Judah, and placed garrisons in the land of Judah, and also in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had taken.
3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father, and did not seek the Baalim;
4 But he sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not according to the works of Israel.
5 The Lord therefore established his kingdom in his hand, and all Judah gave gifts to Jehoshaphat; and he had riches and glory in abundance.
6 And he encouraged his heart in the ways of the Lord, and he removed the high places and the Asherah images from the midst of Judah.
7 In the third year of his reign he sent his princes Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nathanael and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah;
8 And with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jonathan, Adonijah, Tobiah, and Tobadonijah; and with them the priests Elishama and Joram.
9 And they taught in Judah, having with them the book of the law of the Lord, and they went throughout all the cities of Judah teaching the people.
10 And the fear of the LORD fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah; and they did not dare to make war against Jehoshaphat.
11 And they brought gifts from the Philistines to Jehoshaphat, and tributes of silver. The Arabs also brought him livestock, seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred goats.
12 So Jehoshaphat became very great; and he built in Judah fortresses and cities of provision.
13 He had many provisions in the cities of Judah, and very valiant men of war in Jerusalem.
14 And this is the number of them according to his father’s house: of the commanders of the thousands of Judah, the general Adnah, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men;
15 After him was the chief Johanan, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;
16 After him, Amaziah the son of Zicri, who had offered himself voluntarily to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men;
17 Of Benjamin, Eliada, a very valiant man, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
18 After him, Jozabad, and with him one hundred and eighty thousand ready for war.
19 These were the king’s servants, without whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.
17 And to the man he said, Because you obeyed the voice of your wife, and ate of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed will be the land because of you; In pain you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat plants of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the land, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
20 And Adam called the name of his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
21 And the LORD God made the man and his woman coats of skin, and clothed them.
22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is like one of us, knowing good and evil; Now therefore let him not stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.
23 And the Lord brought him out of the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24 So he cast out the man, and placed cherubim on the east side of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword moving on every side, to guard the way to the tree of life.
1 So Jehoshaphat had riches and glory in abundance, and he became related to Ahab.
2 And after some years he went down to Samaria to visit Ahab; Therefore Ahab killed many sheep and oxen for himself, and for the people who came with him: and he persuaded him to go with him against Ramoth Gilead.
3 And Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Will you come with me against Ramoth Gilead? And he answered: I am like you; and my people like your people; We will go with you to war.
4 Moreover Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I pray you, consult the word of the Lord today.
5 Then the king of Israel gathered together four hundred prophets, and asked them, Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I stand still? And they said, Go up, for God will deliver them into the king’s hand.
6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there still a prophet of the Lord here, that we may ask through him?
7 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still a man here about whom we may ask the Lord: but I hate him, because he never prophecies to me good, but always evil. This is Micaiah, son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat answered, Let not the king speak thus.
8 Then the king of Israel called an officer and said to him, Send for Micaiah the son of Imlah.
9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, dressed in their royal robes; in the square by the entrance to the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made horns of iron for himself, and said, Thus says the Lord: With these you will gore the Syrians until you completely destroy them.
11 In this way all the prophets also prophesied, saying, Go up against Ramoth Gilead, and you will prosper; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
12 And the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying: Behold, the words of the prophets with one voice announce good things to the king; I therefore beseech you that your word be like that of one of them, that you speak well.
13 Micaiah said, As the Lord lives, whatever my God tells me, that will I speak. And he came to the king.
14 And the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to fight against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I remain still? He answered: Go up, and you will prosper, for they will be delivered into your hands.
15 The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you by the name of Jehovah to speak only the truth to me?
16 Then Micaiah said, I have seen all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep without a shepherd; and the LORD said, These have no master; Let each one return in peace to his house.
17And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good to me, but evil?
18 Then he said, Hear therefore the word of the Lord: I have seen the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven was on his right hand and on his left.
19 And the LORD asked, Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said like this, and another said another way.
20 Then a spirit came out, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said to him: In what way?
21 And he said, I will come out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: You will induce him, and you will achieve it; Go ahead and do it like this.
22 And now, behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouths of these your prophets; for the Lord has spoken evil against you.
23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came to him, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, By what way did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?
24 And Micaiah answered, Behold, you will see it on that day, when you go from chamber to chamber to hide yourself.
25 Then the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and bring him to Ammon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.
26 And tell them, Thus says the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I return in peace.
27 And Micaiah said, If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken for me. He further said: Listen, all you people.
28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
29 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself to go into battle, but you put on your royal clothes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and entered into battle.
30 The king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that he had with him, saying, Do not fight with small or great, but only with the king of Israel.
31 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, This is the king of Israel. And they surrounded him to fight; But Jehoshaphat cried, and the Lord helped him, and God separated them from him;
32 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they desisted from harassing him.
33 But when one shot his bow at random, he struck the king of Israel between the joints and the corselet. He then said to the coachman: Turn the reins and take me out of the field, because I am badly wounded.
34 And the battle raged that day, so that the king of Israel stood in the chariot in front of the Syrians until the evening; and he died at sunset.
1 Jehoshaphat king of Judah returned in peace to his home in Jerusalem.
2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer came out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Do you help the wicked, and love those who hate the Lord? For wrath has gone out from the presence of the Lord against you because of this.
3 But good things have been found in you, because you have removed the Asherah images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God.
4 So Jehoshaphat dwelt in Jerusalem; But he turned and went out to the people, from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim, and led them to the Lord God of his fathers.
5 And he appointed judges in all the fortified cities of Judah, in all places.
6 And he said to the judges, Take heed what you do: for you judge not in the place of man, but in the place of the Lord, who is with you when you judge.
7 Therefore let the fear of the Lord be with you; Take heed what you do, for with Jehovah our God there is no injustice, nor respect of persons, nor admission of bribery.
8 Jehoshaphat also placed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and priests, and of the fathers of families of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord and for the causes. And they returned to Jerusalem.
9 And he commanded them, saying, You shall also proceed with the fear of the Lord, in truth, with a complete heart.
10 In whatever case comes to you from your brothers who live in the cities, in cases of blood, between law and precept, statutes and decrees, you will warn them not to sin against the Lord, so that wrath will not come on you and on your brothers. . By doing this you will not sin.
11 And behold, Amariah the priest will be the one who presides over you in all matters of the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, prince of the house of Judah, in all the king’s affairs; The Levites will also be officers in your presence. Therefore strive to do it, and Jehovah will be with the good.
1 After these things had passed, it came to pass that the children of Moab and Ammon, and with them other of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to war.
2 And some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, and from Syria; and behold, they are in Hazezon-tamar, which is En-gedi.
3 Then he was afraid; and Jehoshaphat humbled his face to inquire of the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
4 And the people of Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord: and also from all the cities of Judah they came to ask help from the Lord.
5 Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court;
6 And he said, Lord God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven, and have dominion over all the kingdoms of the nations? Is there not such strength and power in your hand that there is no one who can resist you?
7 Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever?
8 And they have lived in it, and have built a sanctuary in it for your name, saying:
9 If evil comes upon us, or a sword of punishment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you , (for your name is in this house,) and because of our tribulations we will cry to you, and you will hear us and save us.
10 Now, therefore, behold the children of Ammon and Moab, and those of Mount Seir, into whose land you did not want Israel to pass when they came from the land of Egypt, but that they should depart from them, and not destroy them;
11 Behold, they repay us by coming to drive us out of the inheritance that you gave us to possess.
12 O our God! won’t you judge them? because in us there is no strength against such a great multitude that comes against us: we do not know what to do, and we turn our eyes to you.
13 And all Judah stood before the Lord, with his children, and his wives, and his children.
14 And there was Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, upon whom the spirit of the Lord came in the midst of the meeting;
15 And he said, Hear, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat. This is what Jehovah says to you: Do not be afraid or intimidated by this great crowd; because the war is not yours, but God’s.
16 Tomorrow you will go down against them; behold, they will go up the hill of Sish, and you will find them by the brook, before the desert of Jeruel.
17There will be no reason for you to fight in this case: stop, be still, and see the salvation of Jehovah with you. O Judah and Jerusalem, do not fear or be dismayed; Go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord will be with you.
18 Then Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord and worshiped the Lord.
19 And the Levites of the children of Kohath and the children of Korah rose up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud and loud voice.
20 And when they arose in the morning, they went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be safe; believe his prophets, and you will prosper.
21 And when he had counseled with the people, he appointed some to sing and praise the Lord, dressed in sacred ornaments, while the armed people went out, and to say: Glorify the Lord, for his mercy endures forever.
22 And when they began to sing songs of praise, the LORD set against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, the ambushes of their own coming against Judah, and they killed one another:
23 For the children of Ammon and Moab rose up against those of Mount Seir, to kill them and destroy them; and when they had finished off those from Mount Seir, each helped in the destruction of his companion.
24 And as soon as Judah came to the tower of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and behold, they lay dead on the ground, for none had escaped.
25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder them, they found among the corpses a great deal of riches, dressed like precious jewels, which they took for themselves, so much that they could not carry them: they spent three days collecting the loot, because it was so much.
26 And on the fourth day they gathered together in the valley of Beracah; because there they blessed Jehovah, and for this reason they called the name of that place the valley of Beracah, until today.
27 And all Judah and those of Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returned to Jerusalem rejoicing, because the Lord had given them joy by delivering them from his enemies.
28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries, harps, and trumpets, to the house of the Lord.
29 And the fear of God fell on all the kingdoms of that land, when they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.
30 And the kingdom of Jehoshaphat had peace; because his God gave him peace from all sides.
31 Thus Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah; He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azuba, daughter of Silhi.
32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, not departing from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord.
33 Yet the high places were not removed; for the people had not yet straightened their hearts to the God of their fathers.
34 The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, of whom mention is made in the book of the kings of Israel.
35 After these things had passed, Jehoshaphat king of Judah became friends with Ahaziah king of Israel, who was given to impiety:
36 and he joined company with him to build ships to go to Tarshish; and they built the ships in Ezion-geber.
37 Then Eliezer son of Dodava, of Mareshah, prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have kept company with Ahaziah, the Lord will destroy your works. And the ships were broken, and they could not go to Tarshish.
1 Jehoshaphat slept with his parents, and they buried him with his parents in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his place,
2 who had as brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were sons of Jehoshaphat king of Judah.
3 And his father had given them many gifts of gold and silver, and precious things, and fortified cities in Judah; but he had given the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.
4 So Joram was elevated to the kingdom of his father; And as soon as he became strong, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.
5 When he began to reign he was thirty-two years old, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had Ahab’s daughter to wife, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
7 But the Lord did not want to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and because he had told him that he would give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
8 In his days Edom rebelled against the dominion of Judah, and they set a king over themselves.
9 Then Jehoram passed by with his princes, and all his chariots; and he arose during the night, and defeated the Edomites that had besieged him, and all the commanders of his chariots.
10 Nevertheless, Edom was freed from the dominion of Judah, until today. Also at the same time Libna was freed from his dominion, because he had forsaken Jehovah the God of his fathers.
11 Besides this he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and he compelled Judah to do so.
12 And a letter came to him from the prophet Elijah, saying, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
13 But you have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, as the house of Ahab committed fornication; and you have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you:
14 behold, the Lord will strike your people with a great plague, and your children, and your wives, and all that you have;
15 And you with many diseases, with disease of your intestines, until they come out because of your persistent illness.
16 Then the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the wrath of the Philistines, and of the Arabs who were with the Ethiopians;
17 And they went up against Judah, and invaded the land, and took all the goods that they found in the king’s house, and his sons and his wives; and there was no more son left to him, but only Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.
18 After all this, the Lord struck him with an incurable disease of the intestines.
19 And it came to pass that after many days, at last, at the end of two years, his intestines came out because of the disease, and he died of a very painful disease. And they did not light a fire in his honor, as they had done for his parents.
20 When he began to reign he was thirty-two years old, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he died without being desired any more. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
1 The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in Jehoram’s place; because an armed band that had come with the Arabs to the camp had killed all the elders; Therefore Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 When Ahaziah began to reign he was forty-two years old, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, daughter of Omri.
3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother advised him to act wickedly.
4 So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab; because after the death of his father, they advised him for his perdition.
5 And he walked in their counsel, and went to war with Jehoram son of Ahab, king of Israel, against Hazael king of Syria, at Ramoth-gilead, where the Syrians smote Jehoram.
6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that had been given him at Ramoth, fighting 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 there.
7 But this was from God, so that Ahaziah might be destroyed when he came to Jehoram: for when he came, he went out with Joram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed to destroy the family of Ahab.
8 And when Jehu brought judgment against the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers, who served Ahaziah, and killed them.
9 And searching for Ahaziah, who had hidden himself in Samaria, they found him, and brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who with all his heart sought the Lord. And the house of Ahaziah did not have the strength to retain the kingdom.
10 Then Athaliah mother of Ahaziah, seeing that her son was dead, rose up and destroyed all the royal descendants of the house of Judah.
11 But Josabet, the king’s daughter, took Joash son of Ahaziah, and hid him from among the king’s other sons, whom they killed, and kept him and his mistress in one of the chambers. Thus Josabet, daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, and they did not kill him.
12 And he was hidden with them in the house of God six years. Meanwhile Athaliah reigned in the country.
1 In the seventh year Jehoiada was encouraged, and took with him the leaders of hundreds Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Johanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elisaphat the son of Zichri,
2 land of Judah, and they gathered together the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the princes of the families of Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
3 And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, Behold, the king’s son will reign, as the Lord has spoken to the sons of David.
4 Now do this: a third of you, those who enter on the Sabbath, will be gatekeepers with the priests and the Levites;
5 Another third, to the king’s house; and the other third part, at the gate of the Foundation: and all the people will be in the courts of the house of the Lord.
6 And no man shall enter into the house of the LORD, but the priests and the Levites that minister: these shall enter, because they are consecrated; and all the people will stand guard before the Lord.
7 And the Levites will surround the king on all sides, and each one will have his weapons in his hand; Whoever enters the house, let him die: and you will be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.
8 And the Levites and all Judah did everything as Jehoiada the priest had commanded: and each leader took his own, those who came in on the Sabbath, and those who went out on the Sabbath: because Jehoiada the priest did not give permission to the companies.
9 Jehoiada the priest also gave to the leaders of the hundreds the spears, the bucklers, and the shields that had belonged to King David, and that were in the house of God;
10 And he put all the people in order, each one having his sword in his hand, from the right corner of the temple to the left, toward the altar and the house, all around the king.
11 Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown and the testimony on him, and proclaimed him king; and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, saying: Long live the king!
12 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and of those shouting for the king, she came to the people to the house of the Lord;
13 And looking, he saw the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the princes and the trumpeters standing by the king, and that all the people of the land were rejoicing, and trumpets were blowing, and the singers with musical instruments were leading. the praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, Treason! Treason!
14 But Jehoiada the priest ordered the leaders of hundreds of the army to come out, and he said to them, Bring her out of the enclosure; and whoever follows her, kill him with the edge of the sword: for the priest had commanded that she should not be killed in the house of the Lord.
15 So they laid hands on her, and after she had passed the entrance to the horse gate of the king’s house, they killed her there.
16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they would be the people of the Lord.
17 After this all the people entered the temple of Baal, and broke it down, and also its altars; and they broke his images in pieces, and killed Mattan, priest of Baal, before the altars.
18 Then Jehoiada ordained the services in the house of the Lord, under the hand of the priests and Levites, according as David had distributed them in the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with joy. and with songs, according to the command of David.
19 He also appointed gatekeepers at the doors of the house of the Lord, so that no unclean person could enter by any means.
20 Then he called the leaders of hundreds, and the rulers, those who ruled over the people, and all the people of the land, to lead the king from the house of the Lord; And when they came to the middle of the main gate of the king’s house, they seated the king on the throne of the kingdom.
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet after they killed Atalia with the edge of the sword.
1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for 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 days of Jehoiada the priest.
3 And Jehoiada took two wives for him; and he begat sons and daughters.
4 After this it came to pass that Joash decided to restore the house of the Lord.
5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out into the cities of Judah, and collect money from all Israel, that the house of your God may be repaired year after year; and you put diligence into the matter. But the Levites were not diligent.
6 Therefore the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said to him, Why have you not caused the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the offering that Moses the servant of the Lord imposed on the congregation of Israel for the tabernacle of the testimony?
7 For wicked Athaliah and her sons had destroyed the house of God, and had spent all the consecrated things of the house of Jehovah on idols.
8 So the king commanded that they make an ark, which they put outside at the door of the house of the Lord;
9 And they made it known in Judah and in Jerusalem that they should bring to Jehovah the offering that Moses the servant of God had imposed on Israel in the desert.
10 And all the leaders and all the people rejoiced, and brought offerings, and put them into the ark until it was full.
11 And when the time came to take the ark to the king’s secretary by the hand of the Levites, when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe came, and he who was appointed by the high priest, and they carried the ark, and the They emptied it and returned it to its place. They did this from day to day, and collected a lot of money;
12 and the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and they hired stonemasons and carpenters to repair the house of Jehovah, and craftsmen in iron and bronze to repair the house.
13 So the craftsmen did the work, and by their hands the work was restored, and they restored the house of God to its former condition, and strengthened it.
14 And when they had finished, they brought to the king and Jehoiada what was left of the money, and they made of it utensils for the house of the Lord, utensils for the service, mortars, spoons, vessels of gold and silver. And they sacrificed burnt offerings continually in the house of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada.
15 But Jehoiada grew old, and died full of days: he was one hundred and thirty years old when he died.
16 And they buried him in the city of David with the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to God, and to his house.
17When Jehoiada was dead, the princes of Judah came and offered obedience to the king; and the king heard them.
18 And they forsook the house of the Lord God of his fathers, and served the Asherah symbols and the graven images. Then the wrath of God came upon Judah and Jerusalem for his sin.
19 And he sent them prophets to bring them back to Jehovah, and they warned them; but they did not listen to them.
20 Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; And standing where he was higher than the people, he said to them, Thus says God: Why do you break the commandments of the Lord? It will not do you any good for it; because because you have forsaken Jehovah, he will also forsake you.
21 But they plotted against him, and at the king’s command they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the house of the Lord.
22 So King Joash did not remember the mercy that Jehoiada, father of Zechariah, had shown him, but rather killed his son, who said as he died, “The Lord sees it and demands it.”
23 At the turn of the year the army of Syria came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all their princes among the people, and sent all the spoil to the king in Damascus.
24 For although the army of Syria had come with a few people, the Lord delivered into their hands a very numerous army, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgments against Joash.
25 And when the Syrians left, they left him burdened with his illnesses; and his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and they struck him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings. .
26 Those who conspired against him were Zabad, son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jozabad, son of Shimrit the Moabite.
27 Concerning the sons of Joash, and the multiplication which he made of the revenues, and the restoration of the house of the Lord, behold, it is written in the history of the book of kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: his mother’s name was Joadan of Jerusalem.
2 He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, although not from a perfect heart.
3 And after he was confirmed in the kingdom, he killed the servants who had killed the king his father;
4 But he did not kill their children, according to what is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: Fathers shall not die for their children, nor children for their fathers; but each one will die for his sin.
5 Then Amaziah gathered Judah, and appointed them leaders of thousands and hundreds over all Judah and Benjamin according to families. Then he listed all those from twenty years old and up, and three hundred thousand were found chosen to go out to war, who had spear and shield.
6 And from Israel he hired a hundred thousand valiant men for a hundred talents of silver.
7 But a man of God came to him and said, “King, do not let the army of Israel go with you; for the Lord is not with Israel, nor with all the children of Ephraim.
8 But if you go like this, if you do it, and strive to fight, God will cause you to fall before your enemies; because in God is the power, either to help, or to tear down.
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, What then shall be done of the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered: The Lord can give you much more than this.
10 Then Amaziah separated the army of the people that had come to him from Ephraim, so that they went to his houses: and they were very angry with Judah, and they returned to their houses in anger.
11 Then Amaziah being strong, he brought out the people from him, and came to the Valley of Salt: and he killed ten thousand of the children of Seir.
12 And the children of Judah took ten thousand others alive, and brought them to the top of a rock, and from there they threw them down, and they all fell to pieces.
13 But those of the army that Amaziah had sent away, so that they would not go with him to war, invaded the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and killed three thousand of them, and took a great spoil.
14 Then Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, and he also brought with him the gods of the children of Seir, and set them before him as gods, and worshiped them, and burned incense to them.
15 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said to him, Why have you sought the gods of another nation, who did not deliver their people out of your hands?
16And when the prophet spoke these things to him, he answered him: Have they made you the king’s advisor? Get over it: why do you want to be killed? And when he had finished speaking, the prophet then said: I know that God has decreed to destroy you, because you have done this, and did not obey my advice.
17 And Amaziah king of Judah, after taking counsel, sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, and let us meet face to face.
18 Then Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as a wife. And behold, the wild beasts that were in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.
19 You say, Behold, I have defeated Edom; and your heart is lifted up to glorify you. Stay at home now. Why do you cause harm to yourself and Judah with you?
20 But Amaziah would not listen; because it was the will of God, who wanted to deliver them into the hands of his enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.
21 So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah met face to face in the battle of Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
22 But Judah fell before Israel, and everyone fled to his habitation.
23 And Joash king of Israel arrested Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem: and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, a section of four hundred elbows.
24 He also took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God in the house of Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, and the sons of the nobles; then he returned to Samaria.
25 And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
26 The rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
27 From the time that Amaziah turned away from the Lord, they began to conspire against him in Jerusalem; and when he fled to Lachish, they sent after him to Lachish, and there they killed him;
28 And they brought him on horses, and buried him with his parents in the city of Judah.
1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of Amaziah his father.
2 Uzziah built Eloth, and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah slept with his parents.
3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah, from Jerusalem.
4 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.
5 And he persisted in seeking God in the days of Zechariah, understanding in visions of God; and in these days that he sought the Lord, he prospered him.
6 And he went out, and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabnia, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in Ashdod, and in the land of the Philistines.
7 God gave him help against the Philistines, and against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Ammonites.
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah, and his fame spread to the border of Egypt; because he had become highly powerful.
9 Uzziah also built towers in Jerusalem, by the corner gate, and by the valley gate, and by the corners; and he fortified them.
10 He also built towers in the desert, and opened many cisterns: for he had many cattle, both in the Sephelah and in the plains; and vineyards, and fields, both in the mountains and in the fertile plains; because he was a friend of agriculture.
11 Uzziah also had an army of warriors, who went out to war in divisions, according to the list made by the hand of Jehiel the scribe, and by Maaseiah the governor, and by the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s leaders.
12 The entire number of the heads of families, mighty and mighty, was two thousand six hundred.
13 And under their hand was the army of war, three hundred and seven thousand five hundred mighty and strong warriors, to help the king against the enemies.
14 And Uzziah prepared for the whole army shields, spears, helmets, corselets, bows, and slings for throwing stones.
15 And he made machines in Jerusalem, invented by engineers, to be in the towers and in the ramparts, to throw arrows and great stones, and his fame spread far, because he was wonderfully helped, until he became powerful.
16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his ruin; for he rebelled against Jehovah his God, entering into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense on the altar of incense.
17 And Azariah the priest came in after him, and with him eighty priests of the Lord, mighty men.
18 And they stood against king Uzziah, and said to him, It is not for you, O Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn it. Come out of the sanctuary, for you have transgressed, and it will not be for your glory before the Lord God.
19 Then Uzziah, having a censer in his hand to offer incense, was filled with anger; and in his anger against the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense.
20 And Azariah the high priest and all the priests looked at him, and, behold, the leprosy was on his forehead; and they made him leave hastily from that place; and he also hastened to leave, because the Lord had struck him.
21 So king Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death, and he lived as a leper in a secluded house, for which reason he was excluded from the house of the Lord; and Jotham his son had charge of the royal house, ruling the people of the land.
22 The rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, were written by the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz.
23 And Uzziah slept with his parents, and they buried him with his parents in the field of the royal tombs; for they said, He is a leper. And Jotham his son reigned in his place.
1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusa, daughter of Zadok.
2 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Uzziah his father had done, except that he did not enter the sanctuary of the LORD. But the town continued to become corrupt.
3 He built the main gate of the house of the Lord, and on the fortress wall he built much.
4 He also built cities in the mountains of Judah, and built forts and towers in the forests.
5 He also had war with the king of the children of Ammon, whom he defeated; And the children of Ammon gave him in that year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. This the children of Ammon gave him, and the same in the second year, and in the third.
6 So Jotham became strong, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
7 The rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
8 When he began to reign he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
9 And Jotham slept with his parents, and they buried him in the city of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father.
2 But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baalim.
3 He also burned incense in the valley of the children of Hinnom, and caused his children to pass through fire, according to the abominations of the nations, which the Lord had driven out from the presence of the children of Israel.
4 He also sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
5 Therefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of the Syrians, who defeated him, and took a great number of his prisoners and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who smote him with great slaughter.
6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah one hundred and twenty thousand mighty men in one day; because they had forsaken Jehovah the God of his fathers.
7 Likewise Zicri, a powerful man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, and Azricam his steward, and Elkanah, second after the king.
8 The children of Israel also took captives from their brothers two hundred thousand, women, boys, and girls, in addition to taking much booty from them, which they took to Samaria.
9 Then there was a prophet of the LORD named Obed, who went out before the army as they entered Samaria, and said to them, Behold, the LORD God of your fathers, in his anger against Judah, has delivered them into your hands; and you have killed them with anger that has reached to heaven.
10 And now you have determined to subject Judah and Jerusalem to you as male and female servants; but have you not sinned against the Lord your God?
11 Hear me therefore now, and return the captives which ye have taken from your brethren; for the Lord is angry with you.
12 Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Mesilemoth, Hezekiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, arose against those who came from the war.
13 And they said to them, Do not bring the captives hither, for the sin against the Lord will be upon us. You try to add to our sins and our faults, our crime being very great, and the burning of anger against Israel.
14 Then the army left the captives and the plunder before the princes and all the crowd.
fifteenAnd the appointed men arose, and took the captives, and of the spoil they clothed those that were naked among them; They clothed them, shod them, gave them food and drink, and anointed them, and led all the weak ones on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, near their brothers; and they returned to Samaria.
16 At that time King Ahaz sent to ask the kings of Assyria to help him:
17 For the Edomites had also come and attacked those of Judah, and had taken captives.
18 Likewise the Philistines had spread through the cities of Shephelah and the Negev of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, and Soco with its towns, Timna also with its towns, and Gimzo with its towns; and they lived in them.
19 For the LORD had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel: because he had acted wantonly in Judah, and had transgressed gravely against the LORD.
20 Tiglath-Pileser, king of the Assyrians, also came against him, and reduced him to straitness, and did not strengthen him.
21 Although Ahaz plundered the house of the Lord, and the royal house, and those of the princes, to give to the king of the Assyrians, he did not help him.
22 Furthermore, King Ahaz, in the time that he was pressed, added a greater sin against Jehovah;
23 For he offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus who had defeated him, and said, Since the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will also offer sacrifices to them to help me; Well, these were his ruin, and that of all Israel.
24 Furthermore, Ahaz gathered the vessels of the house of God, and broke them, and closed the doors of the house of the Lord, and made altars for himself in Jerusalem in every corner.
25 He also made high places in all the cities of Judah, to burn incense to other gods, thereby provoking the Lord God of his fathers to anger.
26 The rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
27 And Ahaz slept with his parents, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem: but they did not put him in the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.
3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.
4 And he called for the priests and Levites, and gathered them together in the east square.
5 And he said to them, Hear me, Levites! Sanctify yourselves now, and sanctify the house of Jehovah the God of your fathers, and put away the uncleanness of the sanctuary.
6 For our fathers have rebelled, and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God; for they forsook him, and turned away their faces from him from the tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs upon him.
7 And they even closed the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps; They burned no incense, nor sacrificed a burnt offering in the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
8 Therefore the wrath of the Lord has come upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them over to confusion, and to execration and ridicule, as you see with your eyes.
9 And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives have been taken captive for this.
10 Now therefore I have determined to make a covenant with Jehovah the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
11 My children, do not be deceived now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him, and to serve him, and to be his ministers, and to burn incense to him.
12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of Kohath; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel; of the sons of Gershom, Joah the son of Zima, and Eden the son of Joah;
13 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
14 of the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15 These gathered together their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the king’s commandment and the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
16 And when the priests entered into the house of the Lord to cleanse it, they brought out all the filth that they found in the temple of the Lord, into the court of the house of the Lord; and from there the Levites carried her out to the Kidron brook.
17 They began to sanctify themselves on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth of the same month they came to the porch of the Lord: and they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days, and on the sixteenth of the first month they finished.
18 Then they came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “We have now cleansed the whole house of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering, and all its instruments, and the table of shewring with all its utensils.”
19Likewise We have prepared and sanctified all the vessels that King Ahaz, when he reigned, rejected in his unfaithfulness: and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
20 And early in the morning King Hezekiah gathered the leaders of the city and went up to the house of the Lord.
21 And they presented seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he told the priests, Aaron’s sons, to offer them on the altar of the Lord.
22 So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar; Then they killed the rams, and spread the blood on the altar; They also killed the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
23 Then they brought the goats for atonement before the king and the multitude, and laid their hands on them:
24 And the priests killed them, and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to reconcile all. Israel; because the king ordered the burnt offering and atonement to be made throughout Israel.
25 He also placed Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for that commandment came from the LORD through his prophets.
26 And the Levites were with the instruments of David, and the priests with trumpets.
27 Then he commanded Hezekiah to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar; and when the burnt offering began, the song of Jehovah also began, with the trumpets and instruments of David king of Israel.
28 And all the multitude worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters blew the trumpets; everything even lasted until the holocaust was consumed.
29 And when they had finished offering, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped.
30 Then King Hezekiah and the princes told the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David and Asaph the seer: and they praised with great joy, and bowed down and worshiped.
31 And Hezekiah answered and said, You have now consecrated yourselves to the Lord; Come therefore, and offer sacrifices and praises in the house of the Lord. And the multitude presented sacrifices and praises; and all the generous of heart brought burnt offerings.
32 And the number of the burnt offerings that the congregation brought was seventy oxen, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all for the holocaust of Jehovah.
33 And the offerings were six hundred oxen, and three thousand sheep.
34 But the priests were few, and they were not sufficient to flay the burnt offerings; And so his brothers the Levites helped them until they finished the work, and until the other priests were sanctified: because the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
35 So there was an abundance of burnt offerings, with the fatness of the peace offerings, and libations for each burnt offering. And the service of the house of Jehovah was restored.
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced with all the people, because God had prepared the people; because the thing was done quickly.
1 Then Hezekiah sent throughout all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Jerusalem to the house of the Lord to celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.
2 And the king had taken counsel with his princes, and with all the congregation in Jerusalem, to celebrate the Passover in the second month:
3 For then they could not celebrate it, because there were not enough sanctified priests, nor were the people gathered together in Jerusalem.
4 This pleased the king and all the crowd.
5 And they decided to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, so that they would come to celebrate the Passover to Jehovah, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem: because for a long time they had not celebrated it in the manner that is written.
6 So couriers went with letters from the hand of the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, as the king had commanded, saying: Children of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, and he will return to the remnant that is left from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
7 Do not be like your fathers and brothers, who rebelled against the Lord God of their fathers, and he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
8 Therefore do not now harden your neck like your fathers; Submit yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever; and serve the Lord your God, and his fierce anger will depart from you.
9 For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find mercy before those who hold them captive, and they will return to this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn his face from you, if you turn him.
10 So the couriers passed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun: but they laughed and mocked them.
11 With all this, some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
12 The hand of God was also in Judah to give them one heart to fulfill the message of the king and the princes, according to the word of the Lord.
13 And many people gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a vast gathering.
14 And they rose up and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem; They also removed all the altars of incense, and threw them into the Kidron brook.
15 Then they sacrificed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month; and the priests and the Levites, full of shame, sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.
16And they took their place in the usual shifts, according to the law of Moses the man of God; and the priests scattered the blood which they received from the hands of the Levites:
17 For there were many in the congregation who were not sanctified, and therefore the Levites sacrificed the passover for all who were not purified, to sanctify them to the Lord.
18 For a great multitude of the people of Ephraim and Manasseh, and of Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, and ate the Passover not according to what is written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The Lord, who is good, be merciful to everyone who has prepared his heart to seek God,
19 to Jehovah the God of his fathers, even if he is not purified according to the purification rites of the sanctuary.
20 And the LORD heard Hezekiah, and healed the people.
21 So the children of Israel who were in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy: and the Levites and the priests glorified the Lord every day, singing with loud instruments to the Lord.
22 And Hezekiah spoke to the hearts of all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of the Lord. And they ate of the sacrifices at the feast for seven days, offering peace offerings, and giving thanks to the Lord God of their fathers.
23 And all that assembly determined that they should celebrate the festival for another seven days; and they celebrated it another seven days with joy.
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah had given to the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and also the princes gave to the people a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and many priests had already been sanctified.
25 So the whole congregation of Judah rejoiced, as well as the priests and Levites, and all the multitude that had come from Israel; likewise the strangers who had come from the land of Israel, and those who lived in Judah.
26 Then there was great rejoicing in Jerusalem; for since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel, there had been no such thing in Jerusalem.
27 Then the priests and Levites stood up and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer reached the room of their sanctuary, to heaven.
1 When all these things were done, all the Israelites who had been there went out through the cities of Judah, and broke down the statues and destroyed the Asherah images, and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until everything was finished. Then all the children of Israel returned to their cities, each one to his possession.
2 And Hezekiah arranged the distribution of the priests and the Levites according to their turns, each according to his office, the priests and the Levites to offer the burnt offering and the peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks and praise within. of the gates of the courts of Jehovah.
3 The king contributed from his own substance for the burnt offerings morning and evening, and for the burnt offerings of the Sabbaths, new moons, and feasts, as it is written in the law of the Lord.
4 He also commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion to the priests and Levites, so that they would devote themselves to the law of the Lord.
5 And when this edict was published, the children of Israel gave many firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the fruits of the land: they also brought in abundance the tithes of all things.
6 Also the children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, gave tithes of the herds and sheep in the same way; And they brought tithes of what had been sanctified, of the things they had promised to Jehovah their God, and laid them in heaps.
7 In the third month they began to form those heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
8 When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord, and his people Israel.
9 And Hezekiah asked the priests and the Levites about those heaps.
10 And Azariah the high priest of the house of Zadok answered him, Since they began to bring the offerings to the house of the Lord, we have eaten and been satisfied, and have had much left over: for the Lord has blessed his people, and This abundance of provisions has remained.
11 Then he commanded Hezekiah to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them.
12 And in them they deposited the firstfruits and the tithes and the consecrated things, faithfully; and they gave charge of it to the Levite Conaniah, the first, and Shimei his brother was the second.
13 And Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahat, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ishmachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah, were the stewards in the service of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the commandment of king Hezekiah and Azariah, prince of the house of God.
14 And the Levite Korah the son of Imna, keeper of the eastern gate, had charge of the freewill offerings to God, and of the distribution of the offerings dedicated to the Lord, and of the most holy things.
15 And Eden, Benjamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were at his service in the cities of the priests, to faithfully give to their brothers their portions according to their groups, both to the older and the younger;
16 to the males recorded by their lineages, from three years old and up, to all those who entered the house of Jehovah, to carry out their ministry, according to their offices and groups;
17 Also to those who were numbered among the priests according to their fathers’ houses; and to the Levites from twenty years old and upward, according to their offices and groups;
18 They were enrolled with all their children, their wives, their sons and daughters, the whole multitude; because they faithfully devoted themselves to holy things.
19 Likewise for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the suburbs of their cities, throughout all the cities, the men appointed had charge of giving their portions to all the men among the priests, and to all the lineage of the Levites.
20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout all Judah: and he did what was good, right, and true before the Lord his God.
21 In all that he undertook in the service of the house of God, according to the law, he sought his God, he did it with all his heart, and he prospered.
1 After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came and invaded Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, intending to conquer them.
2 Now when Hezekiah saw the coming of Sennacherib, and his intention to fight against Jerusalem,
3 He took counsel with the princes and with his mighty men, to stop the fountains of water that were outside the city. ; and they supported him.
4 Then a great crowd gathered together, and they stopped up all the springs, and the stream that ran through the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria find much water when they come?
5 Then Hezekiah resolutely built up all the fallen walls, and raised up the towers, and another wall on the outside: he also fortified Milo in the city of David, and also made many swords and shields.
6 And he appointed captains of war over the people, and gathered them together in the square of the city gate, and spoke to their hearts, saying,
7 Be strong and be encouraged; Do not be afraid, nor be afraid of the king of Assyria, nor of all the multitude that comes with him; because there is more with us than with him.
8 With him is the arm of flesh, but the Lord our God is with us to help us and fight our battles. And the people trusted in the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
9 After this Sennacherib king of the Assyrians, while he was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to say to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all those of Judah who were in Jerusalem:
10 Thus says Sennacherib king of the Assyrians: Assyrians: Who do you trust in resisting the siege of Jerusalem?
11 Does not Hezekiah deceive you, to give you over to death, famine, and thirst, saying, The Lord our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
12 Is he not the same Hezekiah who has removed his high places and the altars from him, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem: Before this one altar you will worship, and burn incense on it?
13 Have you not known what I and my fathers have done to all the people of the earth? Could the gods of the nations of those lands deliver their land from my hand?
14 What god was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers destroyed, who could save his people from my hands? How can your God deliver you from my hand?
15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, nor believe him; For if no god of all those nations and kingdoms could deliver his people from my hands, and from the hands of my fathers, how much less can your God deliver you from my hand?
16And his servants spoke other things against Jehovah God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
17 Furthermore he wrote letters blaspheming against Jehovah the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands were not able to deliver their people from my hands, neither will the God of Hezekiah deliver his people from my hands.
18 And they cried with a loud voice in Judaic to the people of Jerusalem who were on the walls, to frighten and terrify them, so that they might take the city.
19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which are the work of human hands.
20 But king Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed for this and cried to heaven.
21 And the LORD sent an angel, who destroyed every mighty man and mighty man, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. This man therefore returned, ashamed to his land; And entering the temple of his god, there his own sons killed him with the sword.
22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hands of Sennacherib king of Assyria, and from the hands of all; and he gave them rest from all sides.
23 And many brought to Jerusalem an offering to the Lord, and rich gifts to Hezekiah king of Judah; and he was greatly exalted before all the nations after this.
24 At that time Hezekiah became deathly ill; and he prayed to the LORD, who answered him, and gave him a sign.
25 But Hezekiah did not return the good that had been done to him: but his heart was lifted up, and wrath came against him, and against Judah and Jerusalem.
26 But Hezekiah, after his heart had been lifted up, humbled himself and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
27 And Hezekiah had riches and glory, very many; and he acquired treasures of silver and gold, precious stones, perfumes, shields, and all kinds of desirable jewels.
28 He also made deposits for the revenue of grain, wine, and oil; stables for all kinds of beasts, and sheepfolds for livestock.
29 He also acquired cities, and herds of sheep and herds in great abundance; because God had given him many riches.
30 This Hezekiah covered the springs of Gihon above, and led the water to the west of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
31 But as for the messengers of the princes of Babylon, which they sent to him to learn of the wonder that had happened in the country, God left him to test him, to make known all that was in his heart.
32 The rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his mercies, behold, they are all written in the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the most prominent place of the tombs of the sons of David, all Judah and all Jerusalem honoring him in his death: and Manasseh the son of David reigned in his place. he.
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 But 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 the Baalim. , and made Asherah images, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and worshiped them.
4 He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, My name will be in Jerusalem forever.
5 He also built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
6 And he passed his children through the fire in the valley of the children of Hinnom; and he observed the times, looked into omens, was given to divinations, and consulted soothsayers and enchanters: he went too far in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah, until he inflamed his anger.
7 In addition to this he placed a molten image that he made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose above all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever:
8 And I will never again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to your fathers, provided that they keep and do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the precepts, through Moses.
9 So Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they did not listen:
11 therefore the LORD brought against them the generals of the army of the king of the Assyrians, who bound Manasseh in fetters, and bound him with chains, and led him away. Babylon.
12 But when he was in trouble, he prayed to the Lord his God, greatly humbled in the presence of the God of his fathers.
13 And when he had prayed to him, he was attended to; for God heard his prayer, and restored him to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. Then Manasseh recognized that Jehovah was God.
14 After this he built the outer wall of the city of David, west of Gihon, in the valley at the entrance to the Fish Gate, and walled Ophel, and raised the wall very high; and he appointed captains of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah.
15 He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and cast them outside the city.
16 Then he repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings and praise offerings on it; and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.
17 But the people still sacrificed in the high places, although they did so to Jehovah their God.
18 The rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel, behold, they are all written in the records of the kings of Israel.
19 His prayer also, and how it was heard, all his sins, and his transgression, the places where he built high places and set up Asherah images and idols, before he humbled himself, behold, these things are written in the words of the seers.
20 And Manasseh slept with his parents, and they buried him in his house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
22 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; for he offered sacrifices and served all the idols that his father Manasseh had made.
23 But he never humbled himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father humbled himself; rather sin increased.
24 And his servants conspired against him, and killed him in his house.
25 But 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.
1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
2 This man did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, turning neither to the right nor to the left.
3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father; and at the age of twelve he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah images, graven images, and molten images.
4 And they broke down before him the altars of the Baalim, and he broke in pieces the images of the sun, which were placed above him; He also broke in pieces the Asherah images, and the molten sculptures and statues, and broke them in pieces, and scattered the dust on the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
5 He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
6 He did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and even Naphtali, and in the desolate places around.
7 And when he had broken down the altars and the Asherah images, and broken and crushed the sculptures, and destroyed all the idols throughout the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, after he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah governor of the city, and Joah son of Jehoahaz, chancellor, to repair the house of the Lord his God. .
9 These came to Hilkiah the high priest, and gave the money that had been brought into the house of the LORD, which the Levites who kept the gate had collected from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10 And they gave it into the hand of those who did the work, who were stewards in the house of the Lord, who gave it to those who did the work and worked in the house of the Lord, to repair and restore the temple.
11 They also gave to the carpenters and stonemasons to buy hewn stone, and wood for the frames, and for the cladding of the buildings that the kings of Judah had destroyed.
12 And these men proceeded faithfully in the work: and their stewards were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of Kohath, to activate the work; and of the Levites, all those skilled in musical instruments.
13 They also watched over the bearers, and were overseers of those who were engaged in any kind of work; and of the Levites there were scribes, governors, and doorkeepers.
14 And when Hilkiah the priest brought out the money that had been brought into the house of the LORD, he found the book of the law of the LORD given through Moses.
15 And Hilkiah told it, and 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.
16 And Shaphan brought him to the king, and told him the matter, saying, Your servants have fulfilled all that was entrusted to them.
17 They have gathered the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have given it into the hands of those in charge, and into the hands of those who do the work.
18 Furthermore, Shaphan the scribe declared to the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest gave me a book. And Shaphan read in it before the king.
19 After the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes;
20 And he commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
21 Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the remnant of Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; For great is the wrath of the LORD that has fallen upon us, because our fathers did not keep the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.
22 Then Hilkiah and the king’s men went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Ticva, the son of Harhas, keeper of the garments, who lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter, and spoke to her the words previously spoken.
23 And she answered, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Tell the man who sent you to me, thus says the Lord:
24 Behold, I bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the curses that They are written in the book which they read before the king of Judah:
25 Because they have forsaken me, and have offered sacrifices to other gods, provoking me to anger with all the works of their hands; Therefore my wrath will be poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.
26 But to the king of Judah, who has sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus you shall say: Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Because you heard the words of the book,
27 And your heart was moved, and you humbled yourself before God When you heard his words concerning this place and its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before me, and tore your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.
28 Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered into your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil that I bring on this place and on the inhabitants of it. And they reported the answer to the king.
29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
30 And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people from the greatest to the least; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.
31 And while the king stood in his place, he made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments, his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and with all his soul, putting into practice the words of the Lord. covenant that were written in that book.
32 And he forced all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin to do so; and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, of the God of his fathers.
33 And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the land of the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel serve the LORD their God. They did not turn away from following the Lord God of his fathers all the time he lived.
1 Josiah celebrated the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and they sacrificed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 He also appointed the priests to his office, and established them in the ministry of the house of the Lord.
3 And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel, and who were dedicated to the Lord, Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built, so that you will no longer carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God, and his people his Israel.
4 Prepare yourselves according to the families of your fathers, in your turns, as David king of Israel and Solomon his son commanded.
5 Stay in the sanctuary according to the distribution of the families of your brothers the children of the people, and according to the distribution of the family of the Levites.
6 Then sacrifice the Passover; And after you have sanctified yourselves, prepare your brothers to do according to the word of the Lord given through Moses.
7 And king Josiah gave to the people sheep, lambs, and goats of the flocks, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen, all for the Passover, for all who were present; this from the king’s estate.
8 His princes also gave liberally to the people and to the priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah and Jehiel, officials of the house of God, gave to the priests, to celebrate the Passover, two thousand six hundred sheep and three hundred oxen.
9 Likewise Conaniah, and Shemaiah and Nathanael his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Joshabad, leaders of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover sacrifices five thousand sheep and five hundred oxen.
10 Having thus prepared the service, the priests took their places, and also the Levites in their turn, according to the king’s commandment.
11 And they sacrificed the Passover; and the priests scattered the blood received from the hand of the Levites, and the Levites skinned the victims.
12 They took after the burnt offering, to give according to the divisions of the families of the people, so that they might offer to the Lord as it is written in the book of Moses; and they also took from the oxen.
13 And they roasted the Passover over the fire according to the ordinance, but what had been sanctified they cooked in pots, cauldrons, and pans, and quickly distributed it to all the people.
14 Then they prepared for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were busy until night in the sacrifice of burnt offerings and fat offerings; Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, Aaron’s sons.
fifteenLikewise the singers, the sons of Asaph, were in place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; The doormen were also at each door; and it was not necessary for them to depart from their ministry, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
16 Thus was all the service of the Lord prepared on that day, to celebrate the Passover, and to sacrifice burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josiah.
17 And the children of Israel who were there kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
18 Never was such a Passover celebrated in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; Nor did any king of Israel celebrate the Passover as King Josiah celebrated, with the priests and Levites, and all Judah and Israel, who were there, together with the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
19 This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of King Josiah.
20 After all these things, after Josiah had repaired the house of the Lord, Necho king of Egypt went up to make war at Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah came out against him.
21 And Neco sent messengers to him, saying, What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house that makes war against me: and God has told me to make haste. Stop opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.
22 But Josiah did not retreat, but disguised himself to give battle, and did not heed the words of Necho, which were from the mouth of God; and he came to give him battle in the field of Megiddo.
23 And the archers shot against King Josiah. Then the king said to his servants, Take me away from here, for I am seriously wounded.
24 Then his servants took him out of that cart, and put him in a second cart that he had, and took him to Jerusalem, where he died; and they buried him in the tombs of his parents. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
25 And Jeremiah mourned in memory of Josiah. All male and female singers recite these lamentations about Josiah to this day; and they made them a rule for mourning in Israel, which are written in the book of Lamentations.
26 The rest of Josiah’s acts, and his godly works, according to what is written in the law of the Lord,
27 And his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.
2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months.
3 And the king of Egypt removed him from Jerusalem, and condemned the land to pay one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
4 And the king of Egypt established Eliacim the brother of Jehoahaz as king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; and Jehoahaz his brother took Necho, and brought him to Egypt.
5 When Jehoiakim began to reign, he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
6 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and brought him to Babylon bound in chains.
7 He also brought Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon of the vessels of the house of the Lord, and put them in his temple in Babylon.
8 The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found in him, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiakim his son reigned in his place.
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
10 At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and carried him to Babylon, together with the precious articles of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and did not humble himself before the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke to him from the Lord.
13 He also rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, to whom he had sworn by God; and he hardened his neck, and made his heart obstinate, from turning to the LORD God of Israel.
14 Also all the chief priests and the people increased iniquity, following all the abominations of the nations, and defiling the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.
15 And the Lord God of his fathers constantly sent word to them by his messengers, because he had mercy on his people and on his habitation.
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, mocking his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed his young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, sparing neither young man nor maiden, old man nor decrepit; He delivered them all into his hands.
18 Likewise all the utensils of the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king and of his princes, all he took to Babylon.
19 And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and consumed all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its desirable objects.
20 Those who escaped the sword were taken captive to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons, until the kingdom of the Persians came;
21 That the word of the Lord might be fulfilled through the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed rest; for all the time of his desolation he rested, until the seventy years were completed.
22 But in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the LORD might be fulfilled by the mouth of Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he proclaimed it by word of mouth and also in writing throughout all his kingdom, saying:
23 Thus says Cyrus king of the Persians: Jehovah, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commissioned me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him, and may he ascend.
