1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. 
1:2 And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' [houses]. 
1:3 So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the slave of Yahweh had made in the wilderness. 
1:4 But the ark of God David had brought up from Kiriath-jearim to [the place] that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. 
1:5 Moreover the bronze altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly sought it [out]. 
1:6 And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt-offerings on it.
1:7 \p In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I will give you. 
1:8 And Solomon said to God, You have shown great loving-kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his stead. 
1:9 Now, O Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. 
1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great?
1:11 \p And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you haven't asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the soul of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king: 
1:12 wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before you; neither will there any after you have the like. 
1:13 So Solomon went to the high place that was at Gibeon, [then] from the tent of meeting [at Gibeon] to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.
1:14 \p And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. 
1:15 And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars he made to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. 
1:16 And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king's merchants acquired those from Kue for a price. 
1:17 And they fetched up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, they brought them out by their means.
2:1 \p Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom. 
2:2 And Solomon counted out 70,000 men to bear burdens, and 80,000 men who were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. 
2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house to dwell in it, [even so deal with me]. 
2:4 Look, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel. 
2:5 And the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods. 
2:6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except only to burn incense before him? 
2:7 Now therefore send me a skillful man to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave [all manner of] engravings, [to be] with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. 
2:8 Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your slaves know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and, look, my slaves will be with your slaves, 
2:9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
2:10 \p And, look, I will give to your slaves, the hewers who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand cors of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. 
2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them. 
2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom. 
2:13 And now I have sent a skillful man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, 
2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father. 
2:15 Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his slaves.
2:16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you will need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you will carry it up to Jerusalem. 
2:17 And Solomon numbered all the sojourners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. 
2:18 And he set 70,000 of them to bear burdens, and 80,000 who were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work. 
3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 
3:2 And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 
3:3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the width twenty cubits. 
3:4 And the porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height 120; and he overlaid it inside with pure gold. 
3:5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought on it palm-trees and chains. 
3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. 
3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
3:8 \p And he made the most holy house: its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. 
3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
3:10 \p And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of molten work; and they overlaid them with gold. 
3:11 And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. 
3:12 And the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits [also], sticking to the wing of the other cherub. 
3:13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
3:14 \p And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim on it.
3:15 \p Also he made before the house two pillars of 35 cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
3:16 \p And he made chains in the oracle, and put [them] on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
3:17 \p And he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
4:1 \p Moreover he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.
4:2 \p Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in a circle; and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it round about. 
4:3 And under it was the likeness of oxen, which circled it round about, for ten cubits, circling the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 
4:4 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. 
4:5 And it was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
4:6 \p He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
4:7 \p And he made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
4:8 \p He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
4:9 \p Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with bronze. 
4:10 And he set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south. 
4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he wrought for King Solomon in the house of God: 
4:12 the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars, 
4:13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. 
4:14 He also made the bases, and the basins he made on the bases; 
4:15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it. 
4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all the vessels of them, Huram his father made for King Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright bronze. 
4:17 In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. 
4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the bronze could not be found out.
4:19 \p And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables on which was the showbread; 
4:20 and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold; 
4:21 and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold; 
4:22 and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the firepans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, [to wit,] of the temple, were of gold.
5:1 \p Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of Yahweh was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
5:2 \p Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the sons of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. 
5:3 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month. 
5:4 And all the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark; 
5:5 and they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; the Levitical priests brought these up. 
5:6 And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. 
5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. 
5:8 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. 
5:9 And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day. 
5:10 There was nothing in the ark but the two tables which Moses put [there] at Horeb, by which Yahweh made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
5:11 \p And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses; 
5:12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets); 
5:13 it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying,] For he is good; for his loving-kindness [endures] forever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh, 
5:14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.
6:1 \p Then Solomon spoke, Yahweh has said that he would stay in the thick darkness. 
6:2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever. 
6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.
6:4 \p And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, 
6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither did I choose any man to be leader over my people Israel: 
6:6 but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. 
6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 
6:8 But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart: 
6:9 nevertheless you will not build the house; but your son who will come forth out of your loins, he will build the house for my name. 
6:10 And Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 
6:11 And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the sons of Israel.
6:12 \p And he stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands 
6:13 (for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;) 
6:14 and he said, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; who keeps covenant and loving-kindness with your slaves that walk before you with all their heart; 
6:15 who have kept with your slave David my father that which you promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. 
6:16 Now therefore, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your slave David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There will not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me. 
6:17 Now therefore, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your slave David.
6:18 \p But will God in very deed dwell with man on the earth? Look, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built! 
6:19 Yet you have respect to the prayer of your slave, and to his supplication, O Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your slave prays before you; 
6:20 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to listen to the prayer which your slave will pray toward this place. 
6:21 And listen to the supplications of your slave, and of your people Israel, when they will pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when you hear forgive.
6:22 \p If a man sins against his fellow man, and he is subjected to an oath to cause him to swear, and he comes [and] swears before your altar in this house; 
6:23 then hear from heaven, and act, and judge your slaves, requiting the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
6:24 \p And if your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and will turn again and confess your name, and pray and plead for mercy before you in this house; 
6:25 then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.
6:26 \p When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them: 
6:27 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your slaves, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
6:28 \p If there is in the land famine, if there is pestilence, if there is blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the gates of their land; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; 
6:29 whatever prayer and supplication is made by all of man, and by all your people Israel, who will know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and will spread forth his hands toward this house: 
6:30 then hear from heaven your dwelling-place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; for you, even you only, know the hearts of the sons of man; 
6:31 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
6:32 \p Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he will come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they will come and pray toward this house: 
6:33 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
6:34 \p If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you will send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; 
6:35 then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
6:36 \p If they sin against you (for there is no man who does not sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; 
6:37 yet if they will bethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and plead to you for mercy in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly; 
6:38 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name: 
6:39 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you. 
6:40 Now, O my God, let, I urge you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
6:41 \p Now therefore arise, O Yahweh God, into your resting-place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness. 
6:42 O Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed one: remember [your] loving-kindnesses to David your slave.
7:1 \p Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house. 
7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house. 
7:3 And all the sons of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, [saying,] For he is good; for his loving-kindness [endures] forever. 
7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
7:5 \p And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. 
7:6 And the priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh (for his loving-kindness [endures] forever), when David praised by their hand: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood. 
7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.
7:8 \p So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. 
7:9 And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. 
7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
7:11 \p Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house, he prosperously effected. 
7:12 And Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. 
7:13 If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 
7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 
7:15 Now my eyes will be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place. 
7:16 For now I have chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually. 
7:17 And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; 
7:18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according to as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There will not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.
7:19 \p But if you⁺ turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you⁺, and will go and serve other gods, and worship them; 
7:20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 
7:21 And this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house? 
7:22 And they will answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore he has brought all this evil on them.
8:1 \p And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house, 
8:2 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the sons of Israel to dwell there.
8:3 \p And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it. 
8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath. 
8:5 Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; 
8:6 and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
8:7 \p As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel; 
8:8 of their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel did not consume, of them Solomon raised slave labor to this day. 
8:9 But of the sons of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; but they were men of war, and rulers of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. 
8:10 And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, who bore rule over the people.
8:11 \p And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife will not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, to where the ark of Yahweh has come.
8:12 \p Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch, 
8:13 even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
8:14 \p And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their courses at every gate: for so David the man of God had commanded. 
8:15 And they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
8:16 \p Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Yahweh was completed. 
8:17 \p Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom. 
8:18 And Huram sent him ships by the hands of his slaves, and slaves who had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the slaves of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Solomon.
9:1 \p And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great entourage, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she came to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 
9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything hid from Solomon which he did not tell her. 
9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, 
9:4 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his slaves, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, his cupbearers also, and their apparel, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her. 
9:5 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. 
9:6 Nevertheless I didn't believe their words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and, look, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard. 
9:7 Happy are your men, and happy are these your slaves, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom. 
9:8 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.
9:9 \p And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. 
9:10 And the slaves also of Huram, and the slaves of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum-trees and precious stones. 
9:11 And the king made of the algum-trees terraces for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah. 
9:12 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her slaves.
9:13 \p Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold, 
9:14 besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. 
9:15 And King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one buckler. 
9:16 And [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. 
9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. 
9:18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and supports on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the supports. 
9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom. 
9:20 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. 
9:21 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the slaves of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
9:22 \p So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. 
9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. 
9:24 And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. 
9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. 
9:26 And he ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. 
9:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars he made to be as the sycamore trees who are in the lowland, for abundance. 
9:28 And they brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
9:29 \p Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? 
9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 
9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
10:1 \p And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 
10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. 
10:3 And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, 
10:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you. 
10:5 And he said to them, Yet three days, and come again to me. And the people departed.
10:6 \p And King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do you⁺ give me to return answer to this people? 
10:7 And they spoke to him, saying, If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your slaves forever. 
10:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. 
10:9 And he said to them, What counsel do you⁺ give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter? 
10:10 And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus you will say to the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us; thus you will say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins. 
10:11 And now whereas my father laded you⁺ with a heavy yoke, I will add to your⁺ yoke: my father chastised you⁺ with whips, but I [will chastise you⁺] with scorpions.
10:12 \p So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day. 
10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, 
10:14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, I will make your⁺ yoke heavy, and I will add to [the yoke of] my father. He chastised you⁺ with whips, but I [will chastise you⁺] with scorpions. 
10:15 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat 
10:16 and to all Israel: that the king would not listen to them. \p The people answered the king, saying, What portion do we have in David? Neither do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your⁺ tents, O Israel: now see to your own house, David. So all Israel departed to their tents. 
10:17 But as for the sons of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. 
10:18 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to slave labor; and the sons of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam made speed to get up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 
10:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
11:1 \p And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. 
11:2 But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 
11:3 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, 
11:4 Thus says Yahweh, You⁺ will not go up, nor fight against your⁺ brothers: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
11:5 \p And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah. 
11:6 He built Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, 
11:7 And Beth-zur, and Soco, and Adullam, 
11:8 and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, 
11:9 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, 
11:10 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities. 
11:11 And he fortified the strongholds, and put leaders in them, and stores of victuals, and oil and wine. 
11:12 And in every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceedingly strong. And Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
11:13 \p And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border. 
11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office to Yahweh; 
11:15 and he appointed for himself priests for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made. 
11:16 And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 
11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.
11:18 \p And Rehoboam took himself a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse; 
11:19 and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham. 
11:20 And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. 
11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begot twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters.) 
11:22 And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, [even] the leader among his brothers; for [he was minded] to make him king. 
11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them victuals in abundance. And he sought [for them] many wives.
12:1 \p And it came to pass, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him. 
12:2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh, 
12:3 with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. 
12:4 And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. 
12:5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You⁺ have forsaken me, therefore I have also left you⁺ in the hand of Shishak. 
12:6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh is righteous. 
12:7 And when Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. 
12:8 Nevertheless they will be his slaves, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
12:9 \p So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 
12:10 And King Rehoboam made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, that kept the door of the king's house. 
12:11 And it was so, that, as often as the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber. 
12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things [found].
12:13 \p So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 
12:14 And he did that which was evil, because he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh.
12:15 \p Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 
12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
13:1 \p In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah. 
13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 
13:3 And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor. 
13:4 And Abijah stood up on mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel: 
13:5 Don't you⁺ know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? 
13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the slave of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord. 
13:7 And there were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them. 
13:8 And now you⁺ think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David; and you⁺ are a great multitude, and there are with you⁺ the golden calves which Jeroboam made you⁺ for gods. 
13:9 Haven't you⁺ driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests after the manner of the peoples of [other] lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those that are] no gods. 
13:10 But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we haven't forsaken him; and [we have] priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work: 
13:11 and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt-offerings and sweet incense: the showbread also [they set] in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of Yahweh our God; but you⁺ have forsaken him. 
13:12 And, look, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you⁺. O sons of Israel, don't fight⁺ against Yahweh, the God of your⁺ fathers; for you⁺ will not prosper. 
13:13 \p But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them. 
13:14 And when Judah looked back, and saw that the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. 
13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 
13:16 And the sons of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand. 
13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. 
13:18 Thus the sons of Israel were brought under at that time, and the sons of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 
13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with its towns, and Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephron with its towns. 
13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Yahweh struck him, and he died. 
13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and begot twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. 
13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.
14:1 \p So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years. 
14:2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God: 
14:3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, 
14:4 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 
14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. 
14:6 And he built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest. 
14:7 For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. 
14:8 And Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, 280,000: all these were mighty men of valor.
14:9 \p And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and he came to Mareshah. 
14:10 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. 
14:11 And Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength: help us, O Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Yahweh, you are our God; don't let common man prevail against you. 
14:12 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. 
14:13 And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his host; and they carried away very much booty. 
14:14 And they struck all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came upon them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them. 
14:15 They struck also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
15:1 \p And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: 
15:2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear⁺ me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you⁺, while you⁺ are with him; and if you⁺ seek him, he will be found of you⁺; but if you⁺ forsake him, he will forsake you⁺. 
15:3 Now for many days Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law: 
15:4 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. 
15:5 And in those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands. 
15:6 And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God vexed them with all adversity. 
15:7 But be⁺ strong, and don't let your⁺ hands be slack; for your⁺ work will be rewarded.
15:8 \p And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the detestable things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh. 
15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him. 
15:10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 
15:11 And they sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. 
15:12 And they entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; 
15:13 and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. 
15:14 And they swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. 
15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest round about. 
15:16 \p And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made a horrible image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrible image, and made dust of it, and burned it at the brook Kidron. 
15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. 
15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. 
15:19 And there was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
16:1 \p In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 
16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying, 
16:3 [There is] a league between me and you, as [there was] between my father and your father: look, I have sent you silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. 
16:4 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali. 
16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease. 
16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and he built with them Geba and Mizpah.
16:7 \p And 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 haven't relied on Yahweh your God, therefore the host of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand. 
16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceedingly many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand. 
16:9 For the eyes of Yahweh run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly; for from from now on you will have wars. 
16:10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
16:11 \p And, look, the acts of Asa, first and last, see, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 
16:12 And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he did not seek to Yahweh, but to the physicians. 
16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. 
16:14 And they buried him in his own tombs, which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and diverse kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
17:1 \p And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. 
17:2 And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. 
17:3 And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and did not seek to the Baalim, 
17:4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. 
17:5 Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches and honor in abundance. 
17:6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
17:7 \p Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; 
17:8 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. 
17:9 And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of Yahweh with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.
17:10 \p And the fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat. 
17:11 And some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he-goats. 
17:12 And Jehoshaphat waxed exceedingly great; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store. 
17:13 And he had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem. 
17:14 And this was the numbering of them according to their fathers' houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand; 
17:15 and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him 280,000; 
17:16 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Yahweh; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor. 
17:17 And of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield; 
17:18 and next to him Jehozabad and with him 180,000 ready prepared for war. 
17:19 These were those who ministered to the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
18:1 \p Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he joined affinity with Ahab. 
18:2 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up [with him] to Ramoth-gilead. 
18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as you are, and my people as your people; and [we will be] with you in the war.
18:4 \p And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire first, I pray you, for the word of Yahweh. 
18:5 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king. 
18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him? 
18:7 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh: but I hate him; for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Don't let the king say so. 
18:8 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla. 
18:9 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. 
18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and said, Thus says Yahweh, With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed. 
18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
18:12 \p And the messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Look, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: let your word therefore, I pray you, be like one of theirs, and speak good. 
18:13 And Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that I will speak. 
18:14 And when he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go⁺ up, and prosper; and they will be delivered into your⁺ hand. 
18:15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh? 
18:16 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace. 
18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil? 
18:18 And [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear⁺ the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. 
18:19 And Yahweh said, Who will entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner. 
18:20 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, I will entice him. And Yahweh said to him, How? 
18:21 And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You will entice him, and will prevail also: go forth, and do so. 
18:22 Now therefore, look, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these prophets of yours; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
18:23 \p Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh go from me to speak to you? 
18:24 And Micaiah said, Look, you will see on that day, when you will go into an inner chamber to hide yourself. 
18:25 And the king of Israel said, Take⁺ Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; 
18:26 and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace. 
18:27 And Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, you⁺ peoples, all of you⁺.
18:28 \p So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. 
18:29 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle. 
18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, but only with the king of Israel. 
18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him. 
18:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that it wasn't the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. 
18:33 And a certain man innocently drew his bow, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am critically wounded. 
18:34 And the battle increased that day: nevertheless the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening; and about the time of the going down of the sun he died.
19:1 \p And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem. 
19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? For this thing wrath is on you from before Yahweh. 
19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
19:4 \p And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 
19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, 
19:6 and said to the judges, Consider what you⁺ do: for you⁺ do not judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you⁺ in the judgment. 
19:7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you⁺; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
19:8 \p Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for the controversies of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus you⁺ will do in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. 
19:10 And whenever any controversy will come to you⁺ from your⁺ brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you⁺ will warn them, so they will not be guilty toward Yahweh, and that wrath does not come upon you⁺ and on your⁺ brothers: do this, and you⁺ will not be guilty. 
19:11 And, look, Amariah the chief priest is over you⁺ in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the leader of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters: also the Levites will be officers before you⁺. Deal courageously, and Yahweh will be with the good.
20:1 \p And it came to pass after this, that the sons of Moab, and the sons of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. 
20:2 Then there came some who told Jehoshaphat, saying, There comes a great multitude against you from beyond the sea from Edom; and, look, they are in Hazazon-tamar (the same is En-gedi). 
20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek to Yahweh; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 
20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek [help] of Yahweh: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek Yahweh.
20:5 \p And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Yahweh, before the new court; 
20:6 and he said, O Yahweh, the God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven? And are not you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? And in your hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. 
20:7 Did you not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever? 
20:8 And they dwelt in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying, 
20:9 If evil comes on us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save. 
20:10 And now, look, the sons of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and did not destroy them; 
20:11 look, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 
20:12 O our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither do we know what to do: but our eyes are on you. 
20:13 And all Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their sons.
20:14 \p Then on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of Yahweh in the midst of the assembly; 
20:15 and he said, Listen⁺, all Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says Yahweh to you⁺, Don't be⁺ afraid, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours⁺, but God's. 
20:16 Tomorrow go⁺ down against them: look, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz; and you⁺ will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel. 
20:17 You⁺ will not need to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, stand⁺ still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you⁺, O Judah and Jerusalem; don't be afraid, nor be dismayed: tomorrow go out against them: for Yahweh is with you⁺. 
20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshiping Yahweh. 
20:19 And the Levites, of the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice.
20:20 \p And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and you⁺ inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Yahweh your⁺ God, so you⁺ will be established; believe his prophets, so you⁺ will prosper. 
20:21 And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who should sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they went out before the army, and say, Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving-kindness [endures] forever. 
20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck. 
20:23 For the sons of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, completely to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.
20:24 \p And when Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked on the multitude; and saw that they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped. 
20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found beasts of burden, in abundance, and riches, and clothing, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much. 
20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed Yahweh: therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Beracah to this day. 
20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies. 
20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets to the house of Yahweh. 
20:29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel. 
20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest round about.
20:31 \p And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 
20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh. 
20:33 Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers. 
20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, look, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the Book of the Kings of Israel.
20:35 \p And after this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel; the same did very wickedly: 
20:36 and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. 
20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works. And the ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
21:1 \p And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. 
21:2 And he had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. 
21:3 And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn. 
21:4 Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he slew all his brothers with the sword, and diverse also of the princes of Israel. 
21:5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 
21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. 
21:7 Nevertheless Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons always.
21:8 \p In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. 
21:9 Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots. 
21:10 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day: then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.
21:11 \p Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem whores, and led Judah astray. 
21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, Because you haven't walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 
21:13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem whores, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself: 
21:14 look, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your sons, and your wives, and all your substance; 
21:15 and you with many sicknesses by disease of your insides, until your insides fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
21:16 \p And Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians: 
21:17 and they came up against Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
21:18 \p And after all this Yahweh struck him in his insides with an incurable disease. 
21:19 And it came to pass, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his insides fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of intense diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. 
21:20 He was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
22:1 \p And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead; for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 
22:2 Ahaziah was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. 
22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly. 
22:4 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction. 
22:5 He also walked after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram. 
22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
22:7 \p Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he came, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. 
22:8 And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them. 
22:9 And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
22:10 \p Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah. 
22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not slay him. 
22:12 And he was hid with them in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
23:1 \p And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him. 
23:2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' [houses] of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. 
23:3 And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Look, the king's son will reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David. 
23:4 This is the thing that you⁺ will do: a third part of you⁺, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, will be porters of the thresholds; 
23:5 and a third part will be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people will be in the courts of the house of Yahweh. 
23:6 But let none come into the house of Yahweh, except the priests, and those who minister of the Levites; they will come in, for they are holy: but all the people will keep the charge of Yahweh. 
23:7 And the Levites will circle the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes into the house, let him be slain: and be⁺ with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.
23:8 \p So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the courses. 
23:9 And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God. 
23:10 And he set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king round about. 
23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, [Long] live the king.
23:12 \p And when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh: 
23:13 and she looked and saw that the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also [played] on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason! Treason! 
23:14 And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Don't slay her in the house of Yahweh. 
23:15 So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they slew her there.
23:16 \p And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people. 
23:17 And all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 
23:18 And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt-offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David. 
23:19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, that none who was unclean in anything should enter in. 
23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the majestic ones, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Yahweh: and they came through the upper gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom. 
23:21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
24:1 \p Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah, of Beer-sheba. 
24:2 And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 
24:3 And Jehoiada took for himself two wives; and he begot sons and daughters.
24:4 \p And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to restore the house of Yahweh. 
24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel silver to repair the house of your⁺ God from year to year; and see that you⁺ hurry the matter. Nevertheless the Levites did not hurry it. 
24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why haven't you required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the slave of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony? 
24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also they bestowed all the dedicated things of the house of Yahweh on the Baalim.
24:8 \p So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh. 
24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the slave of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. 
24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. 
24:11 And it was so, that, at what time the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much silver, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered silver in abundance. 
24:12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Yahweh, and also such as wrought iron and bronze to repair the house of Yahweh. 
24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it. 
24:14 And when they had made an end, they brought the rest of the silver before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made vessels for the house of Yahweh, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt-offerings in the house of Yahweh continually all the days of Jehoiada.
24:15 \p But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days, and he died; he was a hundred and thirty years old when he died. 
24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house. 
24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them. 
24:18 And they forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt. 
24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
24:20 \p And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do you⁺ transgress the commandments of Yahweh, so that you⁺ can't prosper? Because you⁺ have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you⁺. 
24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh. 
24:22 Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Yahweh look at it, and require it.
24:23 \p And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus. 
24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
24:25 \p And when they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own slaves conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings. 
24:26 And these are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess. 
24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] on him, and the rebuilding of the house of God, look, they are written in the Commentary of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
25:1 \p Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. 
25:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with a perfect heart. 
25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his slaves who had killed the king his father. 
25:4 But he did not put their sons to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the Book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers will not die for the sons, neither will the sons die for the fathers; but every man will die for his own sin.
25:5 \p Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield. 
25:6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver. 
25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, don't let the army of Israel go with you; for Yahweh is not with Israel, [to wit,] with all the sons of Ephraim. 
25:8 But if you will go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to cast down. 
25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than this. 
25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit,] the army that came to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger. 
25:11 And Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck of the sons of Seir ten thousand. 
25:12 And the sons of Judah carried away alive [another] ten thousand, and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that all of them were broken in pieces. 
25:13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth-horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much spoil.
25:14 \p Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense to them. 
25:15 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which haven't delivered their own people out of your hand? 
25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Have we made you of the king's counsel? Forbear; why should you be struck? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and haven't listened to my counsel.
25:17 \p Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. 
25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle. 
25:19 You say, Look, you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast: remain now at home; why should you meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
25:20 \p But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might hand them over, because they had sought after the gods of Edom. 
25:21 So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 
25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent. 
25:23 And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. 
25:24 And [he took] all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
25:25 \p And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. 
25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, look, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel? 
25:27 Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following Yahweh they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there. 
25:28 And they brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
26:1 \p And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. 
26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 
26:3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem. 
26:4 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 
26:5 And he set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him to prosper.
26:6 \p And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod, and among the Philistines. 
26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim. 
26:8 And the Meunites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he waxed exceedingly strong. 
26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and fortified them. 
26:10 And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: [and he had] husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved husbandry. 
26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains. 
26:12 The whole number of the heads of fathers' [houses], even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred. 
26:13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. 
26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging. 
26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.
26:16 \p But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense. 
26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men: 
26:18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It does not pertain to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither will it be for your honor from Yahweh God. 
26:19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense. 
26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, and saw that he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, he himself hurried also to go out, because Yahweh had struck him. 
26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land. 
26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote. 
26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
27:1 \p Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. 
27:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: nevertheless he did not enter into the temple of Yahweh. And the people did yet corruptly. 
27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. 
27:4 Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. 
27:5 He fought also with the king of the sons of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the sons of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the sons of Ammon render to him, in the second year also, and in the third. 
27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God. 
27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, look, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 
27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. 
27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
28:1 \p Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father; 
28:2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baalim. 
28:3 Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, according to the disgusting behaviors of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the sons of Israel. 
28:4 And he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
28:5 \p Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter. 
28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 
28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the leader of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.
28:8 \p And the sons of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. 
28:9 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said to them, Look, because Yahweh, the God of your⁺ fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your⁺ hand, and you⁺ have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven. 
28:10 And now you⁺ purpose to subdue the sons of Judah and Jerusalem for male slaves and female slaves to yourselves: [but] are there not even with you⁺ trespasses of your⁺ own against Yahweh your⁺ God? 
28:11 Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, whom you⁺ have taken captive of your⁺ brothers; for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you⁺. 
28:12 Then certain of the heads of the sons of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war, 
28:13 and said to them, You⁺ will not bring in the captives here: for you⁺ purpose that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel. 
28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly. 
28:15 And the men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and arrayed them, and gave them sandals, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm-trees, to their brothers: then they returned to Samaria.
28:16 \p At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him. 
28:17 For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives. 
28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with its towns, and Timnah with its towns, Gimzo also and its towns: and they dwelt there. 
28:19 For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed intensely against Yahweh. 
28:20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but did not strengthen him. 
28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria: but it did not help him.
28:22 \p And in the time of his distress he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same King Ahaz. 
28:23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, [therefore] I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. 
28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh; and he made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem. 
28:25 And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked Yahweh to anger, the God of his fathers. 
28:26 Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, look, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 
28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
29:1 \p Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 
29:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. 
29:3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them. 
29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east, 
29:5 and said to them, Hear me, you⁺ Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your⁺ fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 
29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs. 
29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. 
29:8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you⁺ see with your⁺ eyes. 
29:9 For, look, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 
29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us. 
29:11 My sons, now don't be negligent; for Yahweh has chosen you⁺ to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you⁺ should be his ministers, and burn incense.
29:12 \p Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah; 
29:13 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; 
29:14 and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. 
29:15 And they gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh. 
29:16 And the priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron. 
29:17 Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. 
29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king inside [the palace], and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt-offering, with all its vessels, and the table of showbread, with all its vessels. 
29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which King Ahaz in his reign had cast away when he trespassed, we have prepared and sanctified; and, look, they are before the altar of Yahweh.
29:20 \p Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh. 
29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he-goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yahweh. 
29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. 
29:23 And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them: 
29:24 and the priests killed them, and they made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded [that] the burnt-offering and the sin-offering [should be made] for all Israel.
29:25 \p And he set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Yahweh by his prophets. 
29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. 
29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-offering on the altar. And when the burnt-offering began, the song of Yahweh began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David king of Israel. 
29:28 And all the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this [continued] until the burnt-offering was finished.
29:29 \p And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped. 
29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.
29:31 \p Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now you⁺ have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of Yahweh. And the assembly brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart [brought] burnt-offerings. 
29:32 And the number of the burnt-offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt-offering to Yahweh. 
29:33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. 
29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt-offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. 
29:35 And also the burnt-offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace-offerings, and with the drink-offerings for every burnt-offering. So the service of the house of Yahweh was set in order. 
29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
30:1 \p And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel. 
30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month. 
30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. 
30:4 And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly. 
30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written. 
30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You⁺ sons of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you⁺ out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. 
30:7 And don't be⁺ like your⁺ fathers, and like your⁺ brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you⁺ see. 
30:8 Now don't be⁺ stiff-necked, as your⁺ fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your⁺ God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you⁺. 
30:9 For if you⁺ turn again to Yahweh, your⁺ brothers and your⁺ sons will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land: for Yahweh your⁺ God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you⁺, if you⁺ return to him.
30:10 \p So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. 
30:11 Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. 
30:12 Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh.
30:13 \p And there assembled at Jerusalem many people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. 
30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and cast them into the brook Kidron. 
30:15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt-offerings into the house of Yahweh. 
30:16 And they stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites. 
30:17 For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh. 
30:18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone 
30:19 that sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, though [he is] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary. 
30:20 And Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. 
30:21 And the sons of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh. 
30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
30:23 \p And the whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days; and they kept [another] seven days with gladness. 
30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. 
30:25 And all the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and who dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. 
30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem. 
30:27 Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
31:1 \p Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
31:2 \p And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh. 
31:3 [He appointed] also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt-offerings, [to wit,] for the morning and evening burnt-offerings, and the burnt-offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Yahweh. 
31:4 Moreover he commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh. 
31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the sons of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things they brought in abundantly. 
31:6 And the sons of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps. 
31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. 
31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh, and his people Israel. 
31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. 
31:10 And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since [the people] began to bring the oblations into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
31:11 \p Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yahweh; and they prepared them. 
31:12 And they brought in the oblations and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the Levite was leader, and Shimei his brother was second. 
31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the leader of the house of God. 
31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east [gate], was over the freewill-offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of Yahweh, and the most holy things. 
31:15 And under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by courses, to the great as well as to the small: 
31:16 besides those who were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone who entered into the house of Yahweh, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their courses; 
31:17 and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their courses; 
31:18 and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness. 
31:19 Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
31:20 \p And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah; and he wrought that which was good and right and faithful before Yahweh his God. 
31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
32:1 \p After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself. 
32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib came, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, 
32:3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were outside the city; and they helped him. 
32:4 So many people were gathered together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? 
32:5 And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised up the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance. 
32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying, 
32:7 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him; for there is a greater with us than with him: 
32:8 with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
32:9 \p After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his slaves to Jerusalem (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying, 
32:10 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, On what do you⁺ trust, that you⁺ remain in the siege in Jerusalem? 
32:11 Does not Hezekiah persuade you⁺, to give you⁺ over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 
32:12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You⁺ will worship before one altar, and on it will you⁺ burn incense? 
32:13 Don't you⁺ know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand? 
32:14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers completely destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your⁺ God should be able to deliver you⁺ out of my hand? 
32:15 Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you⁺, nor persuade you⁺ after this manner, neither believe⁺ him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less will your⁺ God deliver you⁺ out of my hand?
32:16 \p And his slaves spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his slave Hezekiah. 
32:17 He also wrote letters, to rail on Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so will the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand. 
32:18 And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. 
32:19 And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of man's hands.
32:20 \p And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven. 
32:21 And Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, those who came forth from inside him slew him there with the sword. 
32:22 Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and he gave them rest on every side. 
32:23 And many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.
32:24 \p In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. 
32:25 But Hezekiah did not render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem. 
32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn't come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
32:27 \p And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor: and he provided for himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of goodly vessels; 
32:28 storehouses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and flocks for the folds. 
32:29 Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance. 
32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. 
32:31 Nevertheless in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
32:32 \p Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, look, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 
32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
33:1 \p Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. 
33:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the disgusting behaviors of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the sons of Israel. 
33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. 
33:4 And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will my name be forever. 
33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yahweh. 
33:6 He also made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he interpreted omens, and used magic, and did witchcraft, and dealt with spiritists and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. 
33:7 And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever: 
33:8 neither will I anymore remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your⁺ fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances [given] by Moses. 
33:9 And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the sons of Israel.
33:10 \p And Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed. 
33:11 Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 
33:12 And when he was in distress, he implored Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 
33:13 And he prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God.
33:14 \p Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he surrounded Ophel [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. 
33:15 And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 
33:16 And he built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered on it sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. 
33:17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.
33:18 \p Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, look, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel. 
33:19 His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places where he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: look, they are written in the history of Hozai. 
33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
33:21 \p Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 
33:22 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. 
33:23 And he didn't humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more. 
33:24 And his slaves conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house. 
33:25 But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
34:1 \p Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. 
34:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 
34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images. 
34:4 And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of them] that had sacrificed to them. 
34:5 And he burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. 
34:6 And [so he did] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, he searched their houses round about. 
34:7 And he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
34:8 \p Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God. 
34:9 And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the silver that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
34:10 And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and the workmen who wrought in the house of Yahweh gave it to mend and repair the house; 
34:11 even to the carpenters and to the builders they gave it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. 
34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and [others of] the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music. 
34:13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
34:14 \p And when they brought out the silver that was brought into the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of Yahweh [given] by Moses. 
34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the Book of the Law in the house of Yahweh. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. 
34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to your slaves, they are doing. 
34:17 And they have emptied out the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen. 
34:18 And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me. And Shaphan read it before the king. 
34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. 
34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's slave, saying, 
34:21 Go⁺, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that was found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do according to all that is written in this book.
34:22 \p So Hilkiah, and those whom the king [had commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they spoke to her to that effect. 
34:23 And she said to them, This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: Tell⁺ the man who sent you⁺ to me, 
34:24 Thus says Yahweh, Look, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah. 
34:25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched. 
34:26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you⁺ to inquire of Yahweh, thus you⁺ will say to him, This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: As concerning the words which you have heard, 
34:27 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have rent your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh. 
34:28 Look, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, neither will your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on its inhabitants. And they brought back word to the king.
34:29 \p Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 
34:30 And the king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the Book of the Covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh. 
34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. 
34:32 Then he caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. 
34:33 And Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands that pertained to the sons of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they did not depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
35:1 \p And Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month. 
35:2 And he set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Yahweh. 
35:3 And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; there will no more be a burden on your⁺ shoulders: now serve Yahweh your⁺ God, and his people Israel. 
35:4 And prepare yourselves after your⁺ fathers' houses by your⁺ courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. 
35:5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your⁺ brothers the sons of the people, and [let there be for each] a portion of a fathers' house of the Levites. 
35:6 And kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your⁺ brothers, to do according to the word of Yahweh by Moses.
35:7 \p And Josiah gave to the sons of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover-offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance. 
35:8 And his princes gave for a freewill-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the leaders of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen. 
35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover-offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.
35:10 \p So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment. 
35:11 And they killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] from their hand, and the Levites flayed them. 
35:12 And they removed the burnt-offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the sons of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the oxen. 
35:13 And they roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings they boiled in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the sons of the people. 
35:14 And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busy] in offering the burnt-offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron. 
35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters were at every gate: they did not need to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
35:16 \p So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of King Josiah. 
35:17 And the sons of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. 
35:18 And there was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept.
35:20 \p After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 
35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, king of Judah? [I come] not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; and God has commanded me to hurry: forbear yourself from [meddling with] God, who is with me, that he does not destroy you. 
35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn't listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. 
35:23 And the archers shot at King Josiah; and the king said to his slaves, Take me away; for I am critically wounded. 
35:24 So his slaves took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 
35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, look, they are written in the lamentations. 
35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the law of Yahweh, 
35:27 and his acts, first and last, look, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
36:1 \p Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 
36:2 Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 
36:3 And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 
36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
36:5 \p Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God. 
36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. 
36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. 
36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the disgusting things that he did, and that which was found in him, look, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
36:9 \p Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. 
36:10 And at the return of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
36:11 \p Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: 
36:12 and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; he didn't humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of Yahweh. 
36:13 And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel. 
36:14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the disgusting things of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. 
36:15 And Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place: 
36:16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
36:17 \p Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand. 
36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. 
36:19 And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it. 
36:20 And those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were slaves to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 
36:21 to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
36:22 \p Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying, 
36:23 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you⁺ of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.
