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___2 Kings chapter 1
 1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
 2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick, and he sent messengers, and said to them, "Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I'll recover of this disease."
 3 But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?"
 4 Now therefore thus says the Lord, "You shall not come down from that bed on which you've gone up, but shall surely die."  And Elijah departed.
 5 And when the messengers turned back to him, he said to them, "Why have you now turned back?"
 6 And they said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and said to us, go, turn again to the king that sent you, and say to him, thus says the Lord, is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?  Therefore you shall not come down from that bed on which you've gone up, but shall surely die."
 7 And he said to them, "What kind of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?"
 8 And they answered him, "He was a hairy man, and girded with a girdle of leather around his midsection."  And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."
 9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty.  And he went up to him, and, see, he sat on the top of a hill.  And he spoke to him, "You man of God, the king has said, come down."
 10 And Elijah answered the captain of fifty, "If I'm a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty."  And fire came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
 11 Again he also sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty.  And he said to him, "O man of God, the king says, come down quickly."
 12 And Elijah answered and said to them, "If I'm a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty."  And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
 13 And again he sent a captain of the third fifty with his fifty.  And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said to him, "O man of God, please, let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.
 14 See, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties, therefore let my life now be precious in your sight."
 15 And the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, "Go down with him, don't be afraid of him."  And he got up, and went down with him to the king.
 16 And he said to him, "Thus says the Lord, since you have sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?  Therefore you shall not come down off that bed on which you've gone up, but shall surely die."
 17 So he died according to the word of the Lord that Elijah had spoken.  And Jehoram ruled instead of him in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.
 18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

___2 Kings chapter 2
 1 And when the Lord wanted to take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
 2 And Elijah said to Elisha, "Wait here, please, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel."  And Elisha said to him, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I won't leave you."  So they went down to Bethel.
 3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from your head today?"  And he said, "Yes, I know it, be quiet."
 4 And Elijah said to him, "Elisha, wait here, please, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho."  And he said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I won't leave you."  So they came to Jericho.
 5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said to him, "Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from your head today?"  And he answered, "Yes, I know it, be quiet."
 6 And Elijah said to him, "Wait here, please, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan."  And he said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I won't leave you."  And the two of them went on.
 7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to watch afar off, and the two of them stood by Jordan.
 8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that the two of them went over on dry ground.
 9 And when they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I'm taken away from you."  And Elisha said, please let a double portion of your spirit be on me."
 10 And he said, "You've asked a difficult thing, but if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so to you, but if not, it shall not be so."
 11 And as they still went on, and talked, see, a chariot of fire appeared, and horses of fire, and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
 12 And Elisha saw it, and he shouted, "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen of it."  And he saw him no more, and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
 13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan,
 14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, "Where is the Lord God of Elijah?"  And when he also had struck the waters, they separated here and there, and Elisha went over.
 15 And when the sons of the prophets who were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha."  And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
 16 And they said to him, "See now, there are fifty strong men with your servants, let them go, please, and seek your master, so that perhaps the Spirit of the Lord didn't take him up, and throw him on some mountain, or into some valley."  And he said, "You shall not send."
 17 And when they urged him 'til he was ashamed, he said, "Send."  They sent therefore fifty men, and they sought three days, but didn't find him.
 18 And when they came again to him, (for he waited at Jericho,) he said to them, "Didn't I say to you you, don't go?"
 19 And the men of the city said to Elisha, "See, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is nothing, and the ground barren."
 20 And he said, "Bring me a new cruse, and put salt in it."  And they brought it to him.
 21 And he went out to the spring of the waters, and threw the salt in there, and said, "Thus says the Lord, I have healed these waters, there shall not be from there anymore death or barren land."
 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the saying of Elisha that he spoke.
 23 And he went up from there to Bethel, and as he was going up by the way, little children came out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you bald head, go up, you bald head."
 24 And he turned back, and looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord.  And two she bears came out of the wood, and tore forty two children of them.
 25 And he went from there to mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

___2 Kings chapter 3
 1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to rule over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and ruled twelve years.
 2 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
 3 But he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, he didn't depart from them.
 4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep master, and rendered to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
 5 But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
 6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and counted all Israel.
 7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me, will you go with me against Moab to battle?"  And he said, "I will go up, I am like you are, my people like your people, and my horses like your horses."
 8 And he said, "Which way shall we go up?"  And he answered, "The way through the wilderness of Edom."
 9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom, and they circled for seven days' journey, and there was no water for the army, and for the cattle that followed them.
 10 And the king of Israel said, "Alas!  For the Lord has called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!"
 11 But Jehoshaphat said, is there not here a prophet of the Lord, "So we can inquire of the Lord by him?"  And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, "Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah."
 12 And Jehoshaphat said, "The word of the Lord is with him."  So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
 13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do I have to do with you?  Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother."  And the king of Israel said to him, "No, for the Lord has called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab."
 14 And Elisha said, "As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, if it weren't that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.
 15 But now bring me a minstrel."  And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came on him.
 16 And he said, "Thus says the Lord, make this valley full of ditches.
 17 For thus says the Lord, you shall not see wind, nor shall you see rain, yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you can drink, both you, and your cattle, and your animals.
 18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord, he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
 19 And you shall strike every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones."
 20 And in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, see, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
 21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood in the border.
 22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shined on the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood,
 23 And they said, "This is blood, the kings are surely killed, and they have struck one another, now therefore, Moab, to the spoil."
 24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them, but they went forward striking the Moabites, even in their country.
 25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw his stone, and filled it, and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees, only in Kirharaseth did they leave the stones of it, but the slingers went around it, and struck it.
 26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even to the king of Edom, but they couldn't.
 27 Then he took his eldest son that should have ruled instead of him, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall.  And there was great indignation against Israel, and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

___2 Kings chapter 4
 1 Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets called to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, and the creditor has come to take to him my two sons to be bondmen."
 2 And Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you?  Tell me, what do you have in the house?"  And she said, "Your handmaid doesn't have anything in the house, except a pot of oil."
 3 Then he said, "Go, borrow containers abroad from all your neighbors, empty containers, don't borrow just a few.
 4 And when you've come in, you shall shut the door on you and on your sons, and shall pour out into all those containers, and you shall set aside that which is full."
 5 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons, who brought the containers to her, and she poured out.
 6 And when the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring me yet a container.  And he said to her, there is not another container."  And the oil stopped.
 7 Then she came and told the man of God.  And he said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your children live on the rest."
 8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a great woman, and she constrained him to eat bread.  And so it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
 9 And she said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us continually.
 10 Let us make a little room, please, on the wall, and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."
 11 And it fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the room, and lay there.
 12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite."  And when he had called her, she stood before him.
 13 And he said to him, "Now say to her, see, you have been careful for us with all this care, what is to be done for you?  Would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?"  And she answered, "I live among my own people."
 14 And he said, "What then is to be done for her?"  And Gehazi answered, "Truly she has no child, and her husband is old."
 15 And he said, call her.  And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
 16 And he said, "About this season, according to the time of life, you'll embrace a son."  And she said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."
 17 And the woman conceived, and bore a son at the season that Elisha had said to her, according to the time of life.
 18 And after the child grew bigger, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
 19 And he said to his father, "My head, my head."  And he said to a lad, "Carry him to his mother."
 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees 'til noon, and then died.
 21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.
 22 And she called to her husband, and said, "Send me, please, one of the young men, and one of the asses, so I can run to the man of God, and come again."
 23 And he said, "Why will you go to him today?  It is neither new moon, nor Sabbath."  And she said, "It shall be well."
 24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward, don't slack your riding for me, unless I tell you to."
 25 So she went and came to the man of God to mount Carmel.  And when the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, "See, yonder is that Shunammite,
 26 Run now, please, to meet her, and say to her, is it well with you?  Is it well with your husband?  Is it well with the child?"  And she answered, "It is well."
 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet, but Gehazi came near to push her away.  And the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is vexed inside her, and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told me."
 28 Then she said, "Did I desire a son from my lord?  Didn't I say, do not deceive me?"
 29 Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go your way, if you meet any man, don't greet him, and if any greets you, don't answer him back, and lay my staff on the face of the child."
 30 And the mother of the child said, "As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I won't leave you."  And he got up, and followed her.
 31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was neither voice, nor hearing.  So he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened."
 32 And when Elisha had come into the house, see, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door on the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.
 34 And he went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself on the child, and the flesh of the child grew warm.
 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house back and forth, and went up, and stretched himself on him, and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
 36 And he called Gehazi, and said, call this Shunammite.  So he called her.  And when she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son."
 37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
 38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal, and there was a dearth in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, "Set on the large pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets."
 39 And someone went out into the field to gather vegetables, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage, for they didn't know them.
 40 So they poured out for the men to eat.  And as they were eating the pottage, they shouted out, and said, "O man of God, there is death in the pot."  And they couldn't eat from it.
 41 But he said, "Then bring meal."  And he threw it into the pot, and he said, "Pour out for the people, so they can eat."  And there was no harm in the pot.
 42 And a man came from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in its husks.  And he said, "Give to the people, so they can eat."
 43 And his helper said, what, "Should I set this before a hundred men?"  He said again, "Give the people, so they can eat, for thus says the Lord, they shall eat, and shall have food left over."
 44 So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord.

___2 Kings chapter 5
 1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syria, he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.
 2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid, and she waited on Naaman's wife.
 3 And she said to her mistress, "Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria!  For he would heal him of his leprosy."
 4 And someone went in, and told his lord, saying, "Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel."
 5 And the king of Syria said, "Go on, go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel."  And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
 6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "Now when this letter has come to you, see, I have sent with it Naaman my servant to you, so you can heal him of his leprosy."
 7 And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy?  So consider, please, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me."
 8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes?  Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."
 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you'll be clean."
 11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, "See, I thought, he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.
 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?  May I not wash in them, and be clean?"  So he turned and went away in a rage.
 13 And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do some difficult thing, wouldn't you have done it?  How much rather then, when he says to you, wash, and be clean?"
 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God, and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
 15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him, and he said, "See, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel, now therefore, please, take a blessing from your servant."
 16 But he said, "As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none."  And he urged him to take it, but he refused.
 17 And Naaman said, "Shall there not then, please, be given to your servant two mules' load of goods?  For your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to the Lord.
 18 In this thing the Lord pardon your servant, that when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon your servant in this thing."
 19 And he said to him, "Go in peace."  So he departed from him a little way.
 20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "See, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving from his hands what he brought, but, as the Lord lives, I will run after him, and take something from him."
 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman.  And when Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"
 22 And he said, "All is well.  My master has sent me, saying, see, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from mount Epraim, give them, please, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments."
 23 And Naaman said, "Be content, take two talents."  And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them on two of his servants, and they carried them before him.
 24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and put them in the house, and he let the men go, and they departed.
 25 But he went in, and stood before his master.  And Elisha said to him, "Where have you come from, Gehazi?"  And he said, "Your servant didn't go anywhere."
 26 And he said to him, "Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet you?  Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
 27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall stick to you, and to your descendants forever."  And he went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

___2 Kings chapter 6
 1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, see now, the place where we live with you is too small for us.
 2 Please let us go to Jordan, and take from there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we can live.  And he answered, "Go."
 3 And someone said, "Be content, please, and go with your servants."  And he answered, "I will go."
 4 So he went with them.  And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
 5 But as someone was cutting down a beam, the axe head fell into the water, and he shouted, and said, "Alas, master!  For it was borrowed."
 6 And the man of God said, "Where did it fall?"  And he showed him the place.  And he cut down a stick, and threw it in there, and the iron floated.
 7 Therefore he said, "Take it up to you."  And he put out his hand, and took it.
 8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took advice with his servants, saying, in such and such a place shall be my camp.
 9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you don't go near such a place, for the Syrians have come down there."
 10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him about, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
 11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was very troubled for this thing, and he called his servants, and said to them, "Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?"
 12 And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king, but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."
 13 And he said, "Go and spy where he is, so I can and fetch him."  And it was told him, saying, see, he is in Dothan.
 14 Therefore he sent horses and chariots there, and a great army, and they came at night, and surrounded the city.
 15 And when the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, see, an army surrounded the city both with horses and chariots.  And his servant said to him, "Alas, my master!  What shall we do?"
 16 And he answered, "Don't be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, "Lord, please, open his eyes, so he can see."  And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
 18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, and said, "Strike this people, please, with blindness."  And he struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
 19 And Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, nor is this the city, follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek."  But he led them to Samaria.
 20 And when they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, "Lord, open the eyes of these men, do they can see."  And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw, and, see, they were in the middle of Samaria.
 21 And the king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them?  Shall I strike them?"
 22 And he answered, "You shall not strike them, would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow?  Set bread and water before them, so they can eat and drink, and go to their master."
 23 And he prepared great provision for them, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master.  So the bands of Syria didn't go anymore into the land of Israel.
 24 And after this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria, and, see, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and one fourth of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman shouted to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king."
 27 And he said, "If the Lord doesn't help you, how shall I help you?  Out of the barn floor, or out of the winepress?"
 28 And the king said to her, "What ails you?"  And she answered, "This woman said to me, give your son, so we can eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
 29 So we boiled my son, and ate him, and I said to her on the next day, give your son, so we can eat him, and she has hidden her son."
 30 And when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes, and he passed by on the wall, and the people looked, and, see, he had sackcloth inside on his flesh.
 31 Then he said, "God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day."
 32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him, and the king sent a man from before him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "See how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head?  Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door, isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
 33 And while he yet talked with them, see, the messenger came down to him, and he said, "See, this evil is from the Lord, why should I wait for the Lord any longer?"

___2 Kings chapter 7
 1 Then Elisha said, "Hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord, tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria."
 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "See, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be?"  And he said, "See, you shall see it with yours eyes, but shall not eat of it."
 3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate, and they said to each other, "Why do we sit here until we die?
 4 If we say, we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there, and if we sit still here, we die also.  Now therefore come, and let's surrender to the host of the Syrians, if they save us alive, we shall live, and if they kill us, we'll only die."
 5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians, and when they had come to the farthest part of the camp of Syria, see, there was no man there.
 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host, and they said to each other, "See, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come against us."
 7 So they got up and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.
 8 And when these lepers came to the farthest part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it, and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried from there also, and went and hid it.
 9 Then they said to each other, "We don't do well, this day is a day of good news, and we are silent, if we wait 'til the morning light, some mischief will come on us, now therefore come, let's go and tell the king's household."
 10 So they came and called to the gate keeper of the city, and they told him, "We went to the camp of the Syrians, and, see, there was no man there, nor voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were."
 11 And he called the porters, and they told it to the king's house inside.
 12 And the king got up in the night, and said to his servants, "I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us.  They know that we're hungry, therefore they've gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, when they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city."
 13 And one of his servants answered and said, "Let someone take, please, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (see, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it, see, I say, they are as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed,) and let us send and see."
 14 They took therefore two chariot horses, and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."
 15 And they went after them to Jordan, and, lo, all the way was full of garments and containers, that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste.  And the messengers returned, and told the king.
 16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians.  So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.
 17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, like the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
 18 And it happened like the man of God had said to the king, saying, "Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria,"
 19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, "Now, see, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?"  And he said, see, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."
 20 And that's what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.

___2 Kings chapter 8
 1 Then Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go you and your household, and stay wherever you can stay, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it shall also come on the land seven years."
 2 And the woman got up, and did like the man of God said, and she went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.
 3 And at the seven years' end, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went to call to the king for her house and for her land.
 4 And the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me, please, all the great things that Elisha has done."
 5 And as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, see, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, called to the king for her house and for her land.  And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."
 6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him.  So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, until now."
 7 And Elisha went to Damascus, and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick, and it was told him, saying, "The man of God has come here."
 8 And the king said to Hazael, take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord by him, saying, "Shall I recover from this disease?"
 9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' load, and came and stood before him, and said, "Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, shall I recover of this disease?"
 10 And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, you can certainly recover, but the Lord has showed me that he shall surely die."
 11 And he settled his countenance steadily, until he was ashamed, and the man of God cried.
 12 And Hazael said, "Why does my lord cry?  And he answered, because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel, their strong holds you'll set on fire, and their young men you'll kill with the sword, and will dash their children, and rip up their women with child."
 13 And Hazael said, "But what, is your servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?"  And Elisha answered, "The Lord has shown me that you'll be king over Syria."
 14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?"  And he answered, "He told me that you would surely recover."
 15 And on the next day, he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died, and Hazael ruled instead of him.
 16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to rule.
 17 He was thirty two years old when he began to rule, and he ruled eight years in Jerusalem.
 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
 19 Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him always a light, and to his children.
 20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
 21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him, and he rose by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots, and the people fled into their tents.
 22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day.  Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
 23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son ruled instead of him.
 25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to rule.
 26 Twenty two years old was Ahaziah when he began to rule, and he ruled one year in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab, for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
 28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.
 29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria.  And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

___2 Kings chapter 9
 1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said to him, "Gird up your loins, and take this box of oil in your hand, and go to Ramothgilead,
 2 And when you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi there, and go in, and make him get up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room,
 3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, thus says the Lord, I have anointed you king over Israel.  Then open the door, and flee, and don't stay."
 4 So the young man, the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.
 5 And when he came, see, the captains of the army were sitting, and he said, "I have an errand to you, O captain."  And Jehu said, "To which of all of us?"  And he said, "To you, O captain."
 6 And he got up, and went into the house, and he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, thus says the Lord God of Israel, "I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.
 7 And you shall strike the house of Ahab your master, so I can avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel.
 8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisses against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
 9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah,
 10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her."  And he opened the door, and fled.
 11 Then Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and someone said to him, "Is all well?  Why did this this crazy man come to you?"  And he said to them, "You know the man, and his communication."
 12 And they said, "It is false, tell us now."  And he said, "Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, thus says the Lord, I have anointed you king over Israel."
 13 Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, "Jehu is king."
 14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.  (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
 15 But king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.)  And Jehu said, "If it be your minds, then let none go out nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel."
 16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there.  And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.
 17 And a watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company."  And Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, is it peace?"
 18 So someone went on horseback to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king, is it peace?"  And Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace?  Turn behind me."  And the watchman told, saying, "The messenger came to them, but he's not coming back."
 19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, that came to them, and said, "Thus says the king, is it peace?"  And Jehu answered, "What do you have to do with peace?  Turn behind me."
 20 And the watchman told, saying, "He came to them, and is not coming back, and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously."
 21 And Joram said, "Make ready."  And his chariot was made ready.  And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
 22 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?"  And he answered, "What peace, as long as the whoredoms of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?"
 23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, "There is treachery, O Ahaziah."
 24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and struck Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
 25 Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, "Take him up, and throw him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord laid this burden on him,
 26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says the Lord, and I will repay you in this piece of ground, says the Lord.  Now therefore take and throw him into the plot of ground, according to the word of the Lord."
 27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house.  And Jehu followed after him, and said, "Strike him also in the chariot."  And they did so at the going up to Gur, that is by Ibleam.  And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
 28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
 29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to rule over Judah.
 30 And when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out of a window.
 31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, "Did Zimri have peace, who killed his master?"
 32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side?  Who?"  And two or three eunuchs looked out to him.
 33 And he said, "Throw her down."  So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses, and he trampled her.
 34 And when he had come in, he ate and drink, and said, "Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter."
 35 And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
 36 So they came again, and told him.  And he said, "This is the word of the Lord, that he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, in the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel,
 37 And the carcass of Jezebel shall be like manure on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, this is Jezebel."

___2 Kings chapter 10
 1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria.  And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab's children, saying,
 2 "Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armor,
 3 Choose out the best and fittest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."
 4 But they were very afraid, and said, "See, two kings couldn't stand before him, how then shall we stand?"
 5 And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and will do all that you shall tell us, we will not make any king, do that which is good in your eyes."
 6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, "If you are mine, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time."  Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
 7 And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons, and killed seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
 8 And a messenger came and told him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons."  And he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning."
 9 And in the morning, he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, "You are righteous, see, I conspired against my master, and killed him, but who killed all these?
 10 Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of the Lord, that the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.
 11 So Jehu killed all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his family, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.
 12 And he got up and departed, and came to Samaria.  And as he was at the shearing house on the way,
 13 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, "Who are you?"  And they answered, "We are the brothers of Ahaziah, and we go down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen."
 14 And he said, "Take them alive."  And they took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, forty two men, he left none them.
 15 And when he had departed from there, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him, and he greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?"  And Jehonadab answered, "It is."  "If it is, give me your hand."  And he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot.
 16 And he said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord."  So they made him ride in his chariot.
 17 And when he came to Samaria, he killed all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, 'til he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the Lord, that he spoke to Elijah.
 18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu shall serve him much.
 19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests, let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal, whoever shall be missing, he shall not live."  But Jehu did it in subtlety, so that he could destroy the worshippers of Baal.
 20 And Jehu said, "Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal."  And they proclaimed it.
 21 And Jehu sent through all Israel, and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come.  And they came into the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was full from one end to the other.
 22 And he said to him that was over the vestry, "Bring vestments for all the worshippers of Baal."  And he brought them vestments.
 23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said to the worshippers of Baal, "Search, and look so that there are none of the servants of the Lord here with you, but only the worshippers of Baal."
 24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed eighty men outside, and said, "If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, he that lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him."
 25 And as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in, and kill them, let no one come out."  And they struck them with the edge of the sword, and the guard and the captains threw them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal."
 26 And they brought the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
 27 And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draft house to this day.
 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
 29 But from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu didn't depart from following them, specifically, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
 30 And the Lord said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."
 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart, for he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.
 32 In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short, and Hazael struck them in all the coasts of Israel,
 33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, that is by the river Arnon, Gilead and Bashan.
 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 35 And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria.  And Jehoahaz his son ruled instead of him.
 36 And the time that Jehu ruled over Israel in Samaria was twenty eight years.

___2 Kings chapter 11
 1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she got up and killed all the royal descendants.
 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were killed, and they hid him, him and his nurse, in the bedroom from Athaliah, so that he wasn't killed.
 3 And he was with her hidden in the house of the Lord six years.  And Athaliah ruled over the land.
 4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath from them in the house of the Lord, and showed them the king's son.
 5 And he commanded them, saying, "This is the thing that you shall do, one third of you that enter in on the Sabbath shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house,
 6 And one third shall be at the gate of Sur, and one third at the gate behind the guard, so you shall keep the watch of the house, so that it's not broken down.
 7 And two parts of all you that go out on the Sabbath, they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord around the king.
 8 And you shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand, and he that comes within range, let him be killed, and be with the king as he goes out and as he comes in."
 9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they took every man his men that were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who should go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
 10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the Lord.
 11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, around the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
 12 And he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony, and they made him king, and anointed him, and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
 13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord.
 14 And when she looked, see, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets, and Athaliah tore her clothes, and shouted, "Treason, treason."
 15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said to them, "Take her out of range, and him that follows her kill with the sword."  For the priest had said, let her not be killed in the house of the Lord.
 16 And they laid hands on her, and she went by the way by which the horses came into the king's house, and she was killed there.
 17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, so that they would be the Lord's people, between the king also and the people.
 18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and broke it down, his altars and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.  And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.
 19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house.  And he sat on the throne of the kings.
 20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet, and they killed Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
 21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to rule.

___2 Kings chapter 12
 1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to rule, and he ruled forty years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
 2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
 3 But the high places were not taken away, the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
 4 And Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money of everyone that passes the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of the Lord,
 5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance, and let them repair the holes of the house, wherever any hole is found."
 6 But it was so, that in the twenty third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the holes of the house.
 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, "Why don't you repair the breaches of the house?  Now therefore receive no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the holes of the house."
 8 And the priests consented to receive no more money from the people, nor to repair the holes of the house.
 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the door put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
 10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and reported the money that was found in the house of the Lord.
 11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of those who did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and they paid it out to the carpenters and builders, that worked on the house of the Lord,
 12 And to masons, and cutters of stone, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the holes of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
 13 But there were not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any containers of gold, or containers of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord,
 14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired with that the house of the Lord.
 15 Also they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen, for they dealt faithfully.
 16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the Lord, it was the priests'.
 17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it, and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
 18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria, and he went away from Jerusalem.
 19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 20 And his servants got up, and made a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, that goes down to Silla.
 21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son ruled instead of him.

___2 Kings chapter 13
 1 In the twenty third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to rule over Israel in Samaria, and ruled seventeen years.
 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, he didn't depart from them.
 3 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
 4 And Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.
 5 (And the Lord gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians, and the children of Israel lived in their tents, as previously.
 6 But they didn't depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked in it, and the grove remained also in Samaria.)
 7 Nor did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Joash his son ruled instead of him.
 10 In the thirty seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to rule over Israel in Samaria, and ruled sixteen years.
 11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, but he walked in it.
 12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 13 And Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne, and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
 14 Now Elisha had fallen sick of his sickness from which he died.  And Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, "O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen of it."
 15 And Elisha said to him, "Take bow and arrows."  And he took to himself bow and arrows.
 16 And he said to the king of Israel, "Put your hand on the bow."  And he put his hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.
 17 And he said, "Open the window eastward."  And he opened it.  Then Elisha said, "Shoot.  And he shot.  And he said, "The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria, for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, 'til you have consumed them."
 18 And he said, "Take the arrows."  And he took them.  And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike on the ground."  And he struck three times, and stopped.
 19 And the man of God was angry with him, and said, "You should have struck five or six times, then you would have struck Syria 'til you had consumed it, but now you'll strike Syria only three times."
 20 And Elisha died, and they buried him.  And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
 21 And as they were burying a man, see, they spied a band of men, and they threw the man into the tomb of Elisha, and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
 22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
 23 And the Lord was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor did he throw from his presence as yet.
 24 So Hazael king of Syria died, and Benhadad his son ruled instead of him.
 25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, that he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war.  Joash beat him three times, and recovered the cities of Israel.

___2 Kings chapter 14
 1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah ruled.
 2 He was twenty five years old when he began to rule, and ruled twenty nine years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father, he did according to all things like Joash his father did.
 4 But the high places were not taken away, as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
 5 And as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, he killed his servants that had killed the king his father.
 6 But the children of the murderers he didn't kill, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, in which the Lord commanded, saying, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers, but every man shall be put to death for his own sin."
 7 He killed ten thousand of Edom in the valley of salt, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel to this day.
 8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look each other in the face."
 9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thorn 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 walked on down the thistle.
 10 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up, glory of this, and stay at home, for why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, you, and Judah with you?"
 11 But Amaziah would not listen.  Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked each other in the face at Bethshemesh, that belongs to Judah.
 12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to their tents.
 13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, two hundred yards.
 14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the containers that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
 15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son ruled instead of him.
 17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
 18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
 20 And they brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
 21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
 22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to rule in Samaria, and ruled forty one years.
 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
 25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath to the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, that he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gathhepher.
 26 For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter, for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
 27 And the Lord didn't say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
 28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, that belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, with the kings of Israel, and Zachariah his son ruled instead of him.

___2 Kings chapter 15
 1 In the twenty seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to rule.
 2 He was sixteen years old when he began to rule, and he ruled fifty two years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done,
 4 Except that the high places were not removed, the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
 5 And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a several house.  And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
 6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 7 So Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son ruled instead of him.
 8 In the thirty eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zachariah the son of Jeroboam ruled over Israel in Samaria six months.
 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done, he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and ruled instead of him.
 11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, see, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
 12 This was the word of the Lord that he spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation."  And that's what happened.
 13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to rule in the thirty ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he ruled a full month in Samaria.
 14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him, and ruled instead of him.
 15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy that he made, see, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
 16 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all that were in it, and the coasts of it from Tirzah, because they didn't open to him, therefore he struck it, and all the women in it that were with child he ripped up.
 17 In the thirty ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to rule over Israel, and ruled ten years in Samaria.
 18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, he didn't depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that his hand would be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
 20 And Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria.  So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay there in the land.
 21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 22 And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son ruled instead of him.
 23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to rule over Israel in Samaria, and ruled two years.
 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
 25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites, and he killed him, and ruled in his office.
 26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, see, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
 27 In the fifty second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to rule over Israel in Samaria, and ruled twenty years.
 28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglathpileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and ruled instead of him, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
 31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, see, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
 32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to rule.
 33 He was twenty five years old when he began to rule, and he ruled sixteen years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
 34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
 35 But the high places were not removed, the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places.  He built the higher gate of the house of the Lord.
 36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 37 In those days the Lord began to send against Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
 38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Ahaz his son ruled instead of him.

___2 Kings chapter 16
 1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to rule.
 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to rule, and ruled sixteen years in Jerusalem, and didn't do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his father.
 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the dirty things of the heathen, whom the Lord threw out from before the children of Israel.
 4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
 5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war, and they besieged Ahaz, but couldn't overcome him.
 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath, and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there to this day.
 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son, come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, that rise up against me."
 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
 9 And the king of Assyria listened to him, for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
 10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus, and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the design of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship of it.
 11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for when king Ahaz would come from Damascus.
 12 And when the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar, and the king approached to the altar, and offered on it.
 13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, on the altar.
 14 And he brought also the brass altar, that was before the Lord, from the front of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of the altar.
 15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, on the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings, and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice, and the brass altar shall be for me to inquire by.
 16 Thus Urijah the priest did, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
 17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the wash basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the brass oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.
 18 And the covert for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, he turned from the house of the Lord for the king of Assyria.
 19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son ruled instead of him.

___2 Kings chapter 17
 1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to rule in Samaria over Israel nine years.
 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not like the kings of Israel that were before him.
 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to so king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year, therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord threw out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, that they had made.
 9 And the children of Israel secretly did the things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
 10 And they set themselves up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree,
 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them, and made wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger,
 12 For they served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, you shall not do this thing.
 13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
 14 But they wouldn't listen, but hardened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.
 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies that he testified against them, and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
 16 And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves images cast in foundry, two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight, there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
 19 Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel that they made.
 20 And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had thrown them out of his sight.
 21 For he tore Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin.
 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam that he did, they didn't depart from them,
 23 Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets.  So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.
 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel, and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.
 25 And so it was at the beginning of their living there, that they didn't fear the Lord, therefore the Lord sent lions among them, that killed some of them.
 26 So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations that you have removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, don't know the manner of the God of the land, therefore he has sent lions among them, and, see, they kill them, because they don't know the manner of the God of the land."
 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Take back there one of the priests that you brought from there, and let them go and live there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land."
 28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria went and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.
 29 But every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
 30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
 32 So they feared the Lord, and made for themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
 33 They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, like the nations whom they carried away from there.
 34 To this day they do after the former manner, they don't fear the Lord, nor do they do according to statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel,
 35 With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, "You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them,
 36 But the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him shall you worship, and to him shall you do sacrifice.
 37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, that he wrote for you, you shall observe to do for evermore, and you shall not fear other gods.
 38 And the covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, neither shall you fear other gods.
 39 But you shall fear the Lord your God, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies."
 40 But they did not listen, but they did like they had done previously.
 41 So these nations feared the Lord, and served their engraved images, both their children, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so they do until this day.

___2 Kings chapter 18
 1 Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to rule.
 2 He was twenty five years old when he began to rule, and he ruled twenty nine years in Jerusalem.  His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
 4 He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the brass serpent that Moses had made, for to those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and he called it Nehushtan.
 5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
 6 For he stuck to the Lord, and didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, that the Lord commanded Moses.
 7 And the Lord was with him, and he prospered wherever he went out, and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve.
 8 He struck the Philistines, even to Gaza, and the borders of it, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
 9 And in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
 10 And at the end of three years they took it, in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
 11 And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
 12 Because they didn't obey the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and wouldn't listen them, nor do them.
 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, "I have offended, go away from me.  The burden that you put on me I will carry."  And the king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house.
 16 At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars that Hezekiah king of Judah had plated, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
 17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem.  And they went up and came to Jerusalem.  And when they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, that is in the highway of the fuller's field.
 18 And when they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah came out to them, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
 19 And Rabshakeh said to them, speak now to Hezekiah, "Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, what confidence is this in which you trust?
 20 You say, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war.  Now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?
 21 Now see, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will pierce his hand, so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those who trust on him.
 22 But if you say to me, we trust in the Lord our God, is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, you shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
 23 Now therefore, please give security deposits to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
 24 How then will you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
 25 Have I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it?  The Lord said to me, go up against this land, and destroy it."
 26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it, and don't talk with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall."
 27 But Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words?  Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, so that they can eat their own feces, and drink their own piss with you?"
 28 Then Rabshakeh stood and shouted with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria,
 29 Thus says the king, don't let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand,
 30 Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, the Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
 31 Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat every man of his own vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink everyone the waters of his cistern,
 32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and of honey, so you can live, and not die, and don't listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, the Lord will deliver us.
 33 Have any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad?  Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?  Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?"
 36 But the people were quiet, and didn't answer him a word, for the king's commandment was, saying, "Don't answer him."
 37 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah came, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

___2 Kings chapter 19
 1 And when king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
 3 And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, this day is a day of trouble, and of reprimand, and blasphemy, for the children have come to the birth, and there is not strength to give birth.
 4 It may be the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words that the Lord your God has heard, so lift up your prayer for the remnant that are left."
 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
 6 And Isaiah said to them, "Thus shall you say to your master, thus says the Lord, don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
 7 See, I will send a blast on him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."
 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
 9 And when he heard about Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "See, he has come out to fight against you," he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
 10 "Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
 11 See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them completely, and shall you be delivered?
 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them that my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Thelasar?
 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?"
 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it, and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, "O Lord God of Israel, who lives between the cherubims, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, you have made heaven and earth.
 16 Lord, bow down your ear, and hear, open, Lord, your eyes, and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, that has sent to reproach the living God.
 17 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
 18 And have cast their gods into the fire, for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone, therefore they have destroyed them.
 19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beg of you, save us out of his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you are the Lord God, you only."
 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, that which you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
 21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him, the virgin the daughter of Zion has despised you, and laughed you to scorn, the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
 22 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?  And against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up yours eyes on high?  Against the Holy one of Israel.
 23 By your messengers you have reproached the Lord, and have said, with the multitude of my chariots I've come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees from it, and the choice fir trees from it, and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I've dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
 25 Haven't you heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it?  Now I've made it happen, that you should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were discouraged and confused, they were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like corn blasted before it's grown up.
 27 But I know your dwelling, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me.
 28 Because your rage against me and your tumult has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
 29 And this shall be a sign to you, you shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springs of the same, and in the third year plant, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits from them.
 30 And the remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion, the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
 32 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, he shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor throw a bank against it.
 33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, says the Lord.
 34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake."
 35 And that night, the angel of the Lord went out, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty five thousand, and when they got up early in the morning, see, they were all dead corpses.
 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
 37 And as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Armenia.  And Esarhaddon his son ruled instead of him.

___2 Kings chapter 20
 1 In those days Hezekiah was sick to death.  And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live."
 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,
 3 "I beseech you, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight."  And Hezekiah wept severely.
 4 And before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
 5 "Go back, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears, see, I will heal you, on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
 6 And I will add to your days fifteen years, and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake."
 7 And Isaiah said, "Take a lump of figs."  And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
 8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?"
 9 And Isaiah said, "This sign shall you have from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has spoken, shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?"
 10 And Hezekiah answered, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees, no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees."
 11 And Isaiah the prophet called to the Lord, and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
 12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
 13 And Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures, there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
 14 Then Isaiah came the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say?  And where did they come to you from?"  And Hezekiah said, "They've come from a far country, from Babylon."
 15 And he said, "What have they seen in your house?"  And Hezekiah answered, "They have seen everything that's in my house, there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."
 16 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the Lord.
 17 See, the days come, that all that is in your house, and what your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried into Babylon, nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
 18 And of your sons that shall issue from you, that you shall father, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."
 19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the Lord that you've spoken is good."  And he said, "Isn't it good, if peace and truth are in my days?"
 20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a aqueduct, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son ruled instead of him.

___2 Kings chapter 21
 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to rule, and ruled fifty five years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the dirty things of the heathen, whom the Lord threw out before the children of Israel.
 3 For he built up again the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
 4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, in Jerusalem will I put my name.
 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards, he made much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
 7 And he set a engraved image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,
 8 Nor will I make the feet of Israel move anymore out of the land that I gave their fathers, only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them."
 9 But they didn't listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
 10 And the Lord spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
 11 "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these dirty things, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,
 12 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, see, I am bringing such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.
 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem like a man wipes a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
 14 And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,
 15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, to this day."
 16 Also Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, 'til he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son ruled instead of him.
 19 Amon was twenty two years old when he began to rule, and he ruled two years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, like his father Manasseh did.
 21 And he walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them,
 22 And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and didn't walk in the way of the Lord.
 23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his own house.
 24 And the people of the land killed all of those who had conspired against king Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king instead of him.
 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 26 And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son ruled instead of him.

___2 Kings chapter 22
 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to rule, and he ruled thirty one years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
 3 And in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,
 4 "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, so that he can add up the silver that is brought into the house of the Lord, that the keepers of the door have gathered from the people,
 5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord, and let them give it to the doers of the work that is in the house of the Lord, to repair the holes of the house,
 6 To carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the house."
 7 But there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hands, because they dealt faithfully.
 8 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord."  And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
 9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, "Your servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of those who do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord."
 10 And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, "Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book."  And Shaphan read it before the king.
 11 And when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.
 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
 13 "Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found, for great is the anger of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."
 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe, (now she lived in Jerusalem in the college,) and they communed with her.
 15 And she said to them, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, tell the man that sent you to me,
 16 Thus says the Lord, see, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, so that they would provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my anger shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
 18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, thus says the Lord God of Israel, concerning the words that you have heard,
 19 Because your heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and cried before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.
 20 See therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered into your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring on this place."  And they brought the king word again.

___2 Kings chapter 23
 1 And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
 2 And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great, and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.
 3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book.  And all the people stood to the covenant.
 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the containers that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem, those also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
 6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and threw the powder from it on the graves of the children of the people.
 7 And he broke down the houses of the Sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and broke down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, that were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
 9 But the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brothers.
 10 And he defiled Topheth, that is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, so that no man could make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, that was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king beat down, and broke them down from there, and threw the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, that were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the dirty thing of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the dirty thing of the Moabites, and for Milcom the dirty thing of the children of Ammon, the king defiled.
 14 And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
 15 Also the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place that Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
 17 Then he said, "What title is that that I see?"  And the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel."
 18 And he said, "Let him alone, let no man move his bones."  So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
 19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, that the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
 20 And he killed all the priests of the high places that were there on the altars, and burned men's bones on them, and returned to Jerusalem.
 21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant."
 22 Surely there was not held such a Passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah,
 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, in which this Passover was held to the Lord in Jerusalem.
 24 Also the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the dirty things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, so that he would perform the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
 25 And before him there was no king like him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, nor did any rise up like him after him.
 26 But the Lord didn't turn from the fierceness of his great anger, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him with.
 27 And the Lord said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, like I've removed Israel, and will throw off this city Jerusalem that I've chosen, and the house about which I said, my name shall be there."
 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates, and king Josiah went against him, and he killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb.  And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king instead of his father.
 31 Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to rule, and he ruled three months in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
 33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he wouldn't rule in Jerusalem, and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
 34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the office of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt, and died there.
 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh, he exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaohnechoh.
 36 Jehoiakim was twenty five years old when he began to rule, and he ruled eleven years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

___2 Kings chapter 24
 1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years, then he turned and rebelled against him.
 2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, that he spoke by his servants the prophets.
 3 Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.
 5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son ruled instead of him.
 7 And the king of Egypt didn't come again anymore out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
 8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to rule, and he ruled in Jerusalem three months.  And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done.
 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers, and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his rule.
 13 And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the containers of gold that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths, none remained, except the poorest sort of the people of the land.
 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, he carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, the king of Babylon brought them captive to Babylon.
 17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king instead of him, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
 18 Zedekiah was twenty one years old when he began to rule, and he ruled eleven years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
 20 For through the anger of the Lord in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had thrown them out from his presence, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

___2 Kings chapter 25
 1 And in the ninth year of his rule, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and they built forts against it all around.
 2 And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
 4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled at night by the way of the gate between two walls, that is by the king's garden, (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around,) and the king went the way toward the plain.
 5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army were scattered from him.
 6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah, and they gave judgment on him.
 7 And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
 8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, that is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan came, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem,
 9 And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burned with fire.
 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
 11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away.
 12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.
 13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brass sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the containers of brass with which they ministered, they took away.
 15 And the fire pans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases that Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, the brass of all these containers was without weight.
 17 The height of the one pillar was twenty seven feet, and the chapiter on it was brass, and the height of the chapiter four and a half feet, and the wreathen work, and pomegranates on the chapiter all around, all of brass, and like these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
 18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door,
 19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city,
 20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah,
 21 And the king of Babylon struck them, and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath.  So Judah was carried away out of their land.
 22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
 23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
 24 And Gedaliah swore to them, and to their men, and said to them, "Don't be afraid to be the servants of the Chaldeans, live in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you."
 25 But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal descendants, came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
 26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, got up, and came to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
 27 And in the thirty seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to rule, brought Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison,
 28 And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
 29 And changed his prison garments, and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life.
 30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

___1 Chronicles chapter 1
 1 Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
 2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
 3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 5 The sons of Japheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
 6 And the sons of Gomer, Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
 7 And the sons of Javan, Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
 8 The sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizraim, put, and Canaan.
 9 And the sons of Cush, Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha.  And the sons of Raamah, Sheba, and Dedan.
 10 And Cush fathered Nimrod, he began to be mighty on the earth.
 11 And Mizraim fathered Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
 12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
 13 And Canaan fathered Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
 14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
 15 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
 16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
 17 The sons of Shem, Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
 18 And Arphaxad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
 19 And to Eber were born two sons, the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.
 20 And Joktan fathered Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
 21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
 22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
 23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab.  All these were the sons of Joktan.
 24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
 27 Abram, the same is Abraham.
 28 The sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael.
 29 These are their generations, the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
 30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.  These are the sons of Ishmael.
 32 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine, she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.  And the sons of Jokshan, Sheba, and Dedan.
 33 And the sons of Midian, Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah.  All these are the sons of Keturah.
 34 And Abraham fathered Isaac.  The sons of Isaac, Esau and Israel.
 35 The sons of Esau, Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
 36 The sons of Eliphaz, Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
 37 The sons of Reuel, Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
 38 And the sons of Seir, Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
 39 And the sons of Lotan, Hori, and Homam, and Timna was Lotan's sister.
 40 The sons of Shobal, Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam.  And the sons of Zibeon, Aiah, and Anah.
 41 The sons of Anah, Dishon.  And the sons of Dishon, Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
 42 The sons of Ezer, Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan.  The sons of Dishan, Uz, and Aran.
 43 Now these are the kings that ruled in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the children of Israel, Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
 44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah ruled instead of him.
 45 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites ruled instead of him.
 46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, ruled instead of him, and the name of his city was Avith.
 47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah ruled instead of him.
 48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river ruled instead of him.
 49 And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor ruled instead of him.
 50 And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad ruled instead of him, and the name of his city was Pai, and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
 51 Hadad died also.  And the dukes of Edom were, duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,
 52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
 53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
 54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram.  These are the dukes of Edom.

___1 Chronicles chapter 2
 1 These are the sons of Israel, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
 2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
 3 The sons of Judah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah, which three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess.  And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he killed him.
 4 And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah.  All the sons of Judah were five.
 5 The sons of Pharez, Hezron, and Hamul.
 6 And the sons of Zerah, Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara, five of them in all.
 7 And the sons of Carmi, Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
 8 And the sons of Ethan, Azariah.
 9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born to him, Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
 10 And Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah,
 11 And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz,
 12 And Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse,
 13 And Jesse fathered his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
 14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh,
 16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail.  And the sons of Zeruiah, Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
 17 And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
 18 And Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth, her sons are these, Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
 19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
 20 And Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezaleel.
 21 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub.
 22 And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty three cities in the land of Gilead.
 23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns of it, sixty cities.  All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
 24 And after Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bore him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
 25 And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.
 26 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah, she was the mother of Onam.
 27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
 28 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada.  And the sons of Shammai, Nadab, and Abishur.
 29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.
 30 And the sons of Nadab, Seled, and Appaim, but Seled died without children.
 31 And the sons of Appaim, Ishi.  And the sons of Ishi, Sheshan.  And the children of Sheshan, Ahlai.
 32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai, Jether, and Jonathan, and Jether died without children.
 33 And the sons of Jonathan, Peleth, and Zaza.  These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters.  And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
 35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife, and she bore him Attai.
 36 And Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad,
 37 And Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed,
 38 And Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah,
 39 And Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah,
 40 And Eleasah fathered Sisamai, and Sisamai fathered Shallum,
 41 And Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.
 42 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
 43 And the sons of Hebron, Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
 44 And Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkoam, and Rekem fathered Shammai.
 45 And the son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Bethzur.
 46 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez, and Haran fathered Gazez.
 47 And the sons of Jahdai, Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
 48 Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber, and Tirhanah.
 49 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea, and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
 50 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim,
 51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Bethgader.
 52 And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons, Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.
 53 And the families of Kirjathjearim, the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites, of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.
 54 The sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
 55 And the families of the scribes who lived at Jabez, the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites.  These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

___1 Chronicles chapter 3
 1 Now these were the sons of David, that were born to him in Hebron, the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess,
 2 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith,
 3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital, the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
 4 These six were born to him in Hebron, and there he ruled seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he ruled thirty three years.
 5 And these were born to him in Jerusalem, Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel,
 6 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
 7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
 8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
 9 These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.
 10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
 12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
 14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.
 15 And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
 16 And the sons of Jehoiakim, Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
 17 And the sons of Jeconiah, Assir, Salathiel his son,
 18 Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
 19 And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei, and the sons of Zerubbabel, Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister,
 20 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five.
 21 And the sons of Hananiah, Pelatiah, and Jesaiah, the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.
 22 And the sons of Shechaniah, Shemaiah, and the sons of Shemaiah, Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
 23 And the sons of Neariah, Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
 24 And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.

___1 Chronicles chapter 4
 1 The sons of Judah, Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
 2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai, and Lahad.  These are the families of the Zorathites.
 3 And these were of the father of Etam, Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi,
 4 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah.  These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
 5 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
 6 And Naarah bore him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari.  These were the sons of Naarah.
 7 And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
 8 And Coz fathered Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
 9 And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, because I bore him with sorrow.
 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, so that it won't grieve me!  And God granted him what he requested.
 11 And Chelub the brother of Shuah fathered Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
 12 And Eshton fathered Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash.  These are the men of Rechah.
 13 And the sons of Kenaz, Othniel, and Seraiah, and the sons of Othniel, Hathath.
 14 And Meonothai fathered Ophrah, and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim, for they were craftsmen.
 15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh, Iru, Elah, and Naam, and the sons of Elah, Kenaz.
 16 And the sons of Jehaleleel, Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
 17 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon, and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
 18 And his wife Jehudijah bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.  And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
 19 And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
 20 And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon.  And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Benzoheth.
 21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that made fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
 22 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem.  And these are ancient things.
 23 These were the potters, and those that lived among plants and hedges, there they lived with the king for his work.
 24 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul,
 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
 26 And the sons of Mishma, Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
 27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply, like the children of Judah.
 28 And they lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
 29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
 30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
 31 And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim.  These were their cities until the rule of David.
 32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,
 33 And all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal.  These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
 34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
 35 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
 36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
 37 And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah,
 38 These mentioned by their names were princes in their families, and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
 39 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
 40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable, for those of Ham had lived there of old.
 41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them completely to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
 42 And some of them, of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
 43 And they struck the rest of the Amalekites that had escaped, and lived there to this day.

___1 Chronicles chapter 5
 1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn, but, since he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
 2 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the chief ruler, but the birthright was Joseph's,)
 3 The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
 4 The sons of Joel, Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
 5 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son,
 6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive, he was prince of the Reubenites.
 7 And his brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
 8 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, to Nebo and Baalmeon,
 9 And eastward he inhabited to the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle multiplied in the land of Gilead.
 10 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand, and they lived in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
 11 And the children of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salchah,
 12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
 13 And their brothers of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.
 14 These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz,
 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
 16 And they lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, on their borders.
 17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
 18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty four thousand seven hundred sixty, that went out to the war.
 19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them, for they shouted to God in the battle, and he was entreated by them, because they put their trust in him.
 21 And they took away their cattle, of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men a hundred thousand.
 22 For many fell down killed, because the war was of God.  And they lived instead of them until the captivity.
 23 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh lived in the land, they increased from Bashan to Baalhermon and Senir, and to mount Hermon.
 24 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
 25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
 26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, to this day.

___1 Chronicles chapter 6
 1 The sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
 2 And the sons of Kohath, Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
 3 And the children of Amram, Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam.  The sons also of Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 4 Eleazar fathered Phinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua,
 5 And Abishua fathered Bukki, and Bukki fathered Uzzi,
 6 And Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, and Zerahiah fathered Meraioth,
 7 Meraioth fathered Amariah, and Amariah fathered Ahitub,
 8 And Ahitub fathered Zadok, and Zadok fathered Ahimaaz,
 9 And Ahimaaz fathered Azariah, and Azariah fathered Johanan,
 10 And Johanan fathered Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem,)
 11 And Azariah fathered Amariah, and Amariah fathered Ahitub,
 12 And Ahitub fathered Zadok, and Zadok fathered Shallum,
 13 And Shallum fathered Hilkiah, and Hilkiah fathered Azariah,
 14 And Azariah fathered Seraiah, and Seraiah fathered Jehozadak,
 15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the Lord carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
 16 The sons of Levi, Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
 17 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom, Libni, and Shimei.
 18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
 19 The sons of Merari, Mahli, and Mushi.  And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
 20 Of Gershom, Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.
 22 The sons of Kohath, Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
 23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
 25 And the sons of Elkanah, Amasai, and Ahimoth.
 26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah, Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
 28 And the sons of Samuel, the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.
 29 The sons of Merari, Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,
 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
 31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the Lord, after the ark had rest.
 32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and then they waited on their office according to their order.
 33 And these are they that waited with their children.  Of the sons of the Kohathites, Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
 34 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
 35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
 36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
 37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
 38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
 39 And his brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand, Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
 40 The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
 41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
 42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
 43 The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
 44 And their brothers the sons of Merari stood on the left hand, Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
 45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
 46 The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,
 47 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
 48 Their brothers also the Levites were appointed to all kinds of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
 49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
 50 And these are the sons of Aaron, Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
 53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
 54 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, for theirs was the lot.
 55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs around it.
 56 But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
 57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, specifically, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
 58 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
 59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs,
 60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs.  All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
 61 And to the sons of Kohath, that were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, specifically, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
 62 And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
 63 To the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
 64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
 65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
 66 And the remainder of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
 67 And they gave to them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs, they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
 68 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs,
 69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs,
 70 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.
 71 To the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs,
 72 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
 73 And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs,
 74 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
 75 And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs,
 76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.
 77 To the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs,
 78 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
 79 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs,
 80 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
 81 And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.

___1 Chronicles chapter 7
 1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
 2 And the sons of Tola, Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to know, of Tola, they were valiant men of might in their generations, whose number was in the days of David twenty two thousand six hundred.
 3 And the sons of Uzzi, Izrahiah, and the sons of Izrahiah, Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five, all of them chief men.
 4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, thirty six thousand men, for they had many wives and sons.
 5 And their brothers among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies eighty seven thousand.
 6 The sons of Benjamin, Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
 7 And the sons of Bela, Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor, and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty two thousand thirty four.
 8 And the sons of Becher, Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth.  All these are the sons of Becher.
 9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor, was twenty thousand two hundred.
 10 The sons also of Jediael, Bilhan, and the sons of Bilhan, Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
 11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valor, were seventeen thousand two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
 12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.
 13 The sons of Naphtali, Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
 14 The sons of Manasseh, Ashriel, whom she bore, (but his concubine the Aramitess bore Machir the father of Gilead,
 15 And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah,) and the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.
 16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh, and the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
 17 And the sons of Ulam, Bedan.  These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
 18 And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
 19 And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
 20 And the sons of Ephraim, Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
 21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land killed, because they came down to take away their cattle.
 22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
 23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
 24 (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the lower, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
 25 And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
 26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
 27 Non his son, Jehoshua his son.
 28 And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns from which, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns from which, Shechem also and the towns from which, to Gaza and the towns from which,
 29 And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns.  The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived In those.
 30 The sons of Asher, Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
 31 And the sons of Beriah, Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.
 32 And Heber fathered Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
 33 And the sons of Japhlet, Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath.  These are the children of Japhlet.
 34 And the sons of Shamer, Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
 35 And the sons of his brother Helem, Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
 36 The sons of Zophah, Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
 37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
 38 And the sons of Jether, Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
 39 And the sons of Ulla, Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes.  And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty six thousand men.

___1 Chronicles chapter 8
 1 Now Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
 2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
 3 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
 4 And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
 5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
 6 And these are the sons of Ehud, these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath,
 7 And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and fathered Uzza, and Ahihud.
 8 And Shaharaim fathered children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away, Hushim and Baara were his wives.
 9 And he fathered of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
 10 And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma.  These were his sons, heads of the fathers.
 11 And of Hushim he fathered Abitub, and Elpaal.
 12 The sons of Elpaal, Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns from which,
 13 Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath,
 14 And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
 15 And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,
 16 And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah,
 17 And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber,
 18 Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
 19 And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
 20 And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,
 21 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi,
 22 And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
 23 And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
 24 And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
 25 And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak,
 26 And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
 27 And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
 28 These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men.  These lived in Jerusalem.
 29 And at Gibeon lived the father of Gibeon, whose wife's name was Maachah,
 30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
 31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
 32 And Mikloth fathered Shimeah.  And these also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, opposite them.
 33 And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
 34 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal, and Meribbaal fathered Micah.
 35 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
 36 And Ahaz fathered Jehoadah, and Jehoadah fathered Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri, and Zimri fathered Moza,
 37 And Moza fathered Binea, Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son,
 38 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan.  All these were the sons of Azel.
 39 And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
 40 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, one hundred fifty.  All these are of the sons of Benjamin.

___1 Chronicles chapter 9
 1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies, and see, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
 2 Now the first inhabitants that lived in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
 3 And in Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh,
 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
 5 And of the Shilonites, Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
 6 And of the sons of Zerah, Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
 7 And of the sons of Benjamin, Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah,
 8 And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah,
 9 And their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty six.  All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
 10 And of the priests, Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
 11 And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God,
 12 And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer,
 13 And their brothers, heads of the house of their fathers, one thousand seven hundred sixty, very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
 14 And of the Levites, Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari,
 15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,
 16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
 17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers, Shallum was the chief,
 18 Who until now waited in the king's gate eastward, they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
 19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle, and their fathers, being over the host of the Lord, were keepers of the entry.
 20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the Lord was with him.
 21 And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 22 All these that were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred twelve.  These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, specifically, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
 24 In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
 25 And their brothers, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.
 26 For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the rooms and treasuries of the house of God.
 27 And they lodged around the house of God, because the charge was on them, and the opening of it every morning pertained to them.
 28 And certain of them had the charge of the ministering containers, that they should bring them in and out by tale.
 29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the containers, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
 30 And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.
 31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.
 32 And some of their other brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
 33 And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the rooms were free, for they were employed in that work day and night.
 34 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations, these lived at Jerusalem.
 35 And in Gibeon lived the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah,
 36 And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
 37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
 38 And Mikloth fathered Shimeam.  And they also lived with their brothers at Jerusalem, opposite their brothers.
 39 And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
 40 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal, and Meribbaal fathered Micah.
 41 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
 42 And Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri, and Zimri fathered Moza,
 43 And Moza fathered Binea, and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
 44 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan, these were the sons of Azel.

___1 Chronicles chapter 10
 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down dead in mount Gilboa.
 2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
 3 And the battle went severely against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded by the archers.
 4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised don't come and abuse me."  But his armor bearer wouldn't, for he was very afraid.  So Saul took a sword, and fell on it.
 5 And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on the sword, and died.
 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.
 7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled, and the Philistines came and lived in them.
 8 And on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the killed, they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
 9 And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry news to their idols, and to the people.
 10 And they put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
 11 And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
 12 They got up, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
 13 So Saul died for his transgression that he committed against the Lord, against the word of the Lord, that he didn't keep, and also for asking advice from someone that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it,
 14 And didn't inquire of the Lord, therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

___1 Chronicles chapter 11
 1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, "See, we are your bone and your flesh.
 2 And also in the past, even when Saul was king, you were he that led out and brought in Israel, and the Lord your God said to you, you shall feed my people Israel, and you shall be ruler over my people Israel."
 3 Therefore all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel.
 4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
 5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You shall not come here."  But David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.
 6 And David said, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain."  So Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was chief.
 7 And David lived in the castle, therefore they called it the city of David.
 8 And he built the city all around, from Millo all around, and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
 9 So David grew greater and greater, for the Lord of hosts was with him.
 10 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.
 11 And this is the number of the mighty men that David had, Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains, he lifted up his spear against three hundred killed by him at one time.
 12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
 13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley, and the people fled from before the Philistines.
 14 And they set themselves in the middle of that parcel, and delivered it, and killed the Philistines, and the Lord saved them by a great deliverance.
 15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam, and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
 16 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.
 17 And David longed, and said, "Oh that someone would give me drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!"
 18 And the three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David, but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the Lord,
 19 And said, "My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing, shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in danger?  For with the danger of their lives they brought it."  Therefore he would not drink it.  These three mightiest did these things.
 20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three, for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he killed them, and had a name among the three.
 21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, for he was their captain, but he didn't attain to the first three.
 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he killed two lion like men of Moab, also he went down and killed a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
 23 And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high, and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam, and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
 24 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had the name among the three mighties.
 25 See, he was honorable among the thirty, but didn't attain to the first three, and David set him over his guard.
 26 Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
 27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
 32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
 34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
 37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,
 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
 41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
 42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,
 43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,
 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
 47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.

___1 Chronicles chapter 12
 1 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish, and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.
 2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, of Saul's brothers of Benjamin.
 3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,
 4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
 5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
 6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,
 7 And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
 8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves to David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes on the mountains,
 9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
 11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
 13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
 14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host, one of the least was over a hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
 15 These are those who went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks, and they put to flight all those of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
 16 And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to the hold to David.
 17 And David went out to meet them, and said to them, "If you've come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you, but if you've come to betray me to my enemies, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look on it, and reprimand it."
 18 Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, "We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse, peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers, for your God helps you."  Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
 19 And some of Manasseh fell to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle, but they didn't help them, for the lords of the Philistines on advisement sent him away, saying, he will fall to his master Saul to the danger of our heads.
 20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
 21 And they helped David against the band of the rovers, for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the host.
 22 For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great army, like the army of God.
 23 And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord.
 24 The children of Judah that carried shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
 25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand one hundred.
 26 Of the children of Levi four thousand six hundred.
 27 And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand seven hundred,
 28 And Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty two captains.
 29 And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand, for until now the majority of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
 30 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
 31 And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
 32 And of the children of Issachar, who were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred, and all their brothers were at their commandment.
 33 Of Zebulun, such as went out to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, who could keep rank, they were not of double heart.
 34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty seven thousand.
 35 And of the Danites expert in war twenty eight thousand six hundred.
 36 And of Asher, such as went out to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
 37 And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
 38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel, and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
 39 And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had prepared for them.
 40 Also they that were near them, to Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly, for there was joy in Israel.

___1 Chronicles chapter 13
 1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
 2 And David said to all the congregation of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and that it be from the Lord our God, let us send out to our brothers everywhere, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites who are in their cities and suburbs, so they can gather themselves to us,
 3 And let's bring again the ark of our God to us, for we didn't inquire at it in the days of Saul."
 4 And all the congregation said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
 5 So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even to the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.
 6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, that belonged to Judah, to bring up there the ark of God the Lord, who lives between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
 7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
 8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
 9 And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to steady the ark, for the oxen stumbled.
 10 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark, and there he died before God.
 11 And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach on Uzza, so that place is called Perezuzza to this day.
 12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, "How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?"
 13 So David didn't bring the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
 14 And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months.  And the Lord blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.

___1 Chronicles chapter 14
 1 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him a house.
 2 And David perceived that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.
 3 And David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.
 4 Now these are the names of his children that he had in Jerusalem, Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
 5 And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
 6 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
 7 And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.
 8 And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David.  And David heard of it, and went out against them.
 9 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
 10 And David inquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines?  And will you deliver them into my hand?"  And the Lord said to him, "Go up, for I will deliver them into your hand."
 11 So they came up to Baalperazim, and David struck them there.  Then David said, "God has broken in on my enemies by my hand like the breaking forth of waters," therefore they called the name of that place Baalperazim.
 12 And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
 13 And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley.
 14 Therefore David inquired again of God, and God said to him, "Don't go up after them, turn away from them, and come at them opposite the mulberry trees.
 15 And it shall be, when you hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle, for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines."
 16 David therefore did as God commanded him, and they struck the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
 17 And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the Lord brought the fear of him on all nations.

___1 Chronicles chapter 15
 1 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
 2 Then David said, "No one ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites, for the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him forever."
 3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, that he had prepared for it.
 4 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites,
 5 Of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty,
 6 Of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty,
 7 Of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty,
 8 Of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred,
 9 Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty,
 10 Of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
 11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
 12 And said to them, "You are the chief of the fathers of the Levites, make yourselves holy, both you and your brothers, so that you can bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it.
 13 Since, because you didn't do it before, the Lord our God made a breach on us, 'cause we didn't seek him according to the due order.
 14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.
 15 And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with its staves, like Moses commanded according to the word of the Lord.
 16 And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel, and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah, and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah,
 18 And with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass,
 20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth,
 21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
 22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song, he instructed about the song, because he was skillful.
 23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were door keepers for the ark.
 24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew with the trumpets before the ark of God, and Obededom and Jehiah were door keepers for the ark.
 25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obededom with joy.
 26 And when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that carried the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers, David also had on himself a ephod of linen.
 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
 29 And as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looking out of a window saw king David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.

___1 Chronicles chapter 16
 1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
 2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.
 3 And he dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.
 4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, and to record, and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel,
 5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps, but Asaph made a sound with cymbals,
 6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
 7 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the Lord into the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
 8 "Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name, make known his deeds among the people.
 9 Sing to him, sing psalms to him, talk of all his wondrous works.
 10 Glory in his holy name, let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
 11 Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.
 12 Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
 13 O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
 14 He is the Lord our God, his judgments are in all the earth.
 15 Be mindful always of his covenant, the word that he commanded to a thousand generations,
 16 Even of the covenant that he made with Abraham, and of his oath to Isaac,
 17 And has confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
 18 Saying, to you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,
 19 When you were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
 20 And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people,
 21 He allowed no man to do them wrong, yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
 22 Saying, don't touch my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
 23 Sing to the Lord, all the earth, show forth from day to day his salvation.
 24 Declare his glory among the heathen, his marvelous works among all nations.
 25 For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, he also is to be feared above all gods.
 26 For all the gods of the people are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.
 27 Glory and honor are in his presence, strength and gladness are in his place.
 28 Give to the Lord, you kindreds of the people, give to the Lord glory and strength.
 29 Give to the Lord the glory due to his name, bring an offering, and come before him, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
 30 Fear before him, all the earth, the world also shall be stable, so that it's not moved.
 31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let men say among the nations, the Lord rules.
 32 Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it, let the fields rejoice, and all that is in it.
 33 Then shall the trees of the woods sing out at the presence of the Lord, because he comes to judge the earth.
 34 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.
 35 And say, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, so that we can give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
 36 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel forever and ever."  And all the people said, Amen, and praised the Lord.
 37 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required,
 38 And Obededom with their brothers, sixty eight, Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters,
 39 And Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon,
 40 To offer burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the Lord, that he commanded Israel,
 41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the Lord, because his mercy endures forever,
 42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God.  And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
 43 And all the people departed every man to his house, and David returned to bless his house.

___1 Chronicles chapter 17
 1 Now as David sat in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "See, I live in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remains under curtains."
 2 Then Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you."
 3 And the same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
 4 "Go and tell David my servant, thus says the Lord, you shall not build me a house to dwell in,
 5 For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
 6 Wherever I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, why haven't you built me a house of cedars?
 7 Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over my people Israel,
 8 And I have been with you wherever you have walked, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
 9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall live in their place, and shall be moved no more, nor shall the children of wickedness waste them anymore, as at the beginning,
 10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel.  Also I will subdue all your enemies.  Furthermore I tell you that the Lord will build you a house.
 11 And when your days are expired that you must go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendants after you, that shall be of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
 12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
 13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son, and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before you,
 14 But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established for evermore."
 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
 16 And David the king came and sat before the Lord, and said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me to this?
 17 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O God, for you have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God.
 18 What can David speak more to you for the honor of your servant?  For you know your servant.
 19 O Lord, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, you've done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
 20 O Lord, there is none like you, nor is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
 21 And what nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make yourself a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before your people, whom you have redeemed out of Egypt?
 22 For you made your people Israel your own people forever, and you, Lord, became their God.
 23 Therefore now, Lord, let the thing that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have said.
 24 Let it be established, so that your name will be magnified forever, saying, the Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, a God to Israel, and let the house of David your servant be established before you.
 25 For you, O my God, have told your servant that you will build him a house, therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray before you.
 26 And now, Lord, you are God, and have promised this goodness to your servant,
 27 Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it will be before you forever, for you bless, O Lord, and it shall be blessed forever."

___1 Chronicles chapter 18
 1 Now after this David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
 2 And he struck Moab, and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
 3 And David struck Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
 4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand infantry, David also cut all the chariot horses, but reserved of them a hundred chariots.
 5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David killed of the Syrians twenty two thousand men.
 6 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus, and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought gifts.  Thus the Lord preserved David wherever he went.
 7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
 8 Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, David brought very much brass, with which Solomon made the brass sea, and the pillars, and the containers of brass.
 9 Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had struck all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah,
 10 He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and struck him, (for Hadarezer had war with Tou,) and with him all kinds of containers of gold and silver and brass.
 11 Them also king David dedicated to the Lord, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations, from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
 12 Also Abishai the son of Zeruiah killed of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
 13 And he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became David's servants.  Thus the Lord preserved David wherever he went.
 14 So David ruled over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.
 15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
 16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests, and Shavsha was scribe,
 17 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and the sons of David were chief around the king.

___1 Chronicles chapter 19
 1 Now after this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son ruled instead of him.
 2 And David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me."  And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father.  So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, "Do you think that David is honoring your father, because he has sent comforters to you?  Haven't his servants come to you to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?"
 4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
 5 Then some went and told David how the men were treated.  And he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed.  And the king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."
 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves stink to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah.
 7 So they hired thirty two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people, who came and pitched before Medeba.  And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
 8 And when David heard about it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
 9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city, and the kings that had come were by themselves in the field.
 10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
 11 And the rest of the people he delivered to the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
 12 And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you'll help me, but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.
 13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God, and let the Lord do what is good in his sight."
 14 So Joab and the people that were with him went near before the Syrians to the battle, and they fled before him.
 15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city.  Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
 16 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew out the Syrians that were beyond the river, and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
 17 And it was told David, and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them.  So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
 18 But the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians seven thousand men who fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
 19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants, nor would the Syrians help the children of Ammon anymore.

___1 Chronicles chapter 20
 1 And after the year had expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led out the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah.  But David stayed at Jerusalem.  And Joab struck Rabbah, and destroyed it.
 2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it, and it was set on David's head, and he brought also very much spoil out of the city.
 3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes.  That's how David dealt with all the cities of the children of Ammon.  And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
 4 And after this, there was war at Gezer with the Philistines, at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Sippai, that was of the children of the giant, and they were subdued.
 5 And there was war again with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.
 6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty four, six on each hand, and six on each foot, and he also was the son of the giant.
 7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother killed him.
 8 These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

___1 Chronicles chapter 21
 1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to count Israel.
 2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, "Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan, and bring the number of them to me, so I will know it."
 3 And Joab answered, "The Lord make his people a hundred times as many more as they are, but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants?  Why then does my lord require this thing?  Why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?"
 4 But the king's word prevailed against Joab.  So Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
 5 And Joab gave the total of the number of the people to David.  And all of those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men that drew sword, and Judah was four hundred seventy thousand men that drew sword.
 6 But Levi and Benjamin he didn't count among them, for the king's word stank to Joab.
 7 And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he struck Israel.
 8 And David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing, but now, I beg of you, put away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly."
 9 And the Lord spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
 10 "Go and tell David, saying, thus says the Lord, I offer you three things, choose one of them, so I can do it to you."
 11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, choose,
 12 Either three years' famine, or three months to be destroyed before your enemies, while the sword of yours enemies overtakes you, or else three days the sword of the Lord, the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel.  Now therefore advise what word I shall bring back to him that sent me."
 13 And David said to Gad, "I am in great distress, let me fall now into the hand of the Lord, for very great are his mercies, but let me not fall into the hand of man."
 14 So the Lord sent pestilence on Israel, and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
 15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and he changed his mind about the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, "It is enough, stop your hand now."  And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.  Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
 17 And David said to God, "Isn't it I that commanded the people to be counted?  It is I that has sinned and done evil indeed, but as for these sheep, what have they done?  Let your hand, please, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my father's house, but not on your people, that they should be plagued."
 18 Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
 19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, that he spoke in the name of the Lord.
 20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel, and his four sons with him hid themselves.  Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
 21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
 22 Then David said to Ornan, "Grant me the place of this threshing floor, so I can build an altar in it to the Lord, you shall grant it me for the full price, so that the plague will be stopped from the people."
 23 And Ornan said to David, "Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes, lo, I give you the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering, I give it all."
 24 And king David said to Ornan, "No, but I will truly buy it for the full price, for I will not take that which is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings without cost."
 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
 26 And David built an altar there to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the Lord, and he answered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
 27 And the Lord commanded the angel, and he put up his sword back into its sheath.
 28 At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
 29 For the tabernacle of the Lord, that Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
 30 But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

___1 Chronicles chapter 22
 1 Then David said, "This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel."
 2 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel, and he set masons to cut stones to build the house of God.
 3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings, and brass in abundance without weight,
 4 Also cedar trees in abundance, for the Zidonians and those of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
 5 And David said, "Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be very magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries, I will therefore now make preparation for it."  So David prepared abundantly before his death.
 6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the Lord God of Israel.
 7 And David said to Solomon, "My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house to the name of the Lord my God,
 8 But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, you have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars, you shall not build a house to my name, because you've shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
 9 See, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies all around, for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
 10 He shall build a house for my name, and he shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.
 11 Now, my son, the Lord be with you, and prosper you, and build the house of the Lord your God, as he has said about you.
 12 Only the Lord give you wisdom and understanding, and give you charge concerning Israel, so you'll keep the law of the Lord your God.
 13 Then you'll prosper, if you're careful to fulfill the statutes and judgments that the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel, be strong, and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be discouraged.
 14 Now, see, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight, for it is in abundance, I've also prepared timber and stone, and you can add to that.
 15 Also there are workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of cunning men for every kind of work.
 16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number.  Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with you.
 17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
 18 Isn't the Lord your God with you?  And hasn't he given you rest on every side?  For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.
 19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God, arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy containers of God, into the house that is to be built for the name of the Lord."

___1 Chronicles chapter 23
 1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
 2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
 3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward, and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty eight thousand.
 4 Of which, twenty four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were officers and judges,
 5 Also four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise with them.
 6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, specifically, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
 7 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
 8 The sons of Laadan, the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
 9 The sons of Shimei, Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three.  These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
 10 And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah.  These four were the sons of Shimei.
 11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons, therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house.
 12 The sons of Kohath, Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
 13 The sons of Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Aaron was separated, so that he should make holy the most holy things, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister to him, and to bless in his name forever.
 14 Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.
 15 The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.
 16 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
 17 And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief.  And Eliezer had none other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
 18 Of the sons of Izhar, Shelomith the chief.
 19 Of the sons of Hebron, Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
 20 Of the sons of Uzziel, Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.
 21 The sons of Merari, Mahli, and Mushi.  The sons of Mahli, Eleazar, and Kish.
 22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters, and their brothers the sons of Kish took them.
 23 The sons of Mushi, Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
 24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers, even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of twenty years and older.
 25 For David said, "The Lord God of Israel has given rest to his people, so they can live in Jerusalem forever,
 26 And also to the Levites, they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any containers of it for the service of it."
 27 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and older,
 28 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God,
 29 Both for the showbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all kinds of measure and size,
 30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord, and likewise at evening,
 31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices to the Lord in the Sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded to them, continually before the Lord,
 32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, in the service of the house of the Lord.

___1 Chronicles chapter 24
 1 Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron.  The sons of Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children, therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
 3 And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.
 4 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they divided.  Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.
 5 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another, for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
 6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
 7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
 8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
 9 The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
 10 The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
 11 The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
 12 The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
 13 The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
 14 The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
 15 The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,
 16 The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,
 17 The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,
 18 The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.
 19 These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the Lord, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.
 20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these, of the sons of Amram, Shubael, of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
 21 Concerning Rehabiah, of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah.
 22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth, of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
 23 And the sons of Hebron, Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
 24 Of the sons of Uzziel, Michah, of the sons of Michah, Shamir.
 25 The brother of Michah was Isshiah, of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
 26 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi, the sons of Jaaziah, Beno.
 27 The sons of Merari by Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.
 28 Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
 29 Concerning Kish, the son of Kish was Jerahmeel.
 30 The sons also of Mushi, Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth.  These were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.
 31 These likewise drew straws opposite their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, the principal fathers over against their younger brothers.

___1 Chronicles chapter 25
 1 Also David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals, and the number of the workmen according to their service was,
 2 Of the sons of Asaph, Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, who prophesied according to the order of the king.
 3 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the Lord.
 4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth,
 5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn.  And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
 7 So the number of them, with their brothers that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, all that were cunning, was two hundred eighty eight.
 8 And they drew straws, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
 9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph, the second to Gedaliah, who with his brothers and sons were twelve,
 10 The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 11 The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 12 The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 13 The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 14 The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 15 The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 16 The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 17 The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 18 The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 19 The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 20 The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 21 The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 22 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 23 The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 24 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 25 The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 26 The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 27 The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 28 The twenty first to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 29 The twenty second to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 30 The twenty third to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve,
 31 The twenty fourth Romamtiezer, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve.

___1 Chronicles chapter 26
 1 Concerning the divisions of the porters, of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
 2 And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
 3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.
 4 Also the sons of Obededom were, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,
 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth, for God blessed him.
 6 Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father, for they were mighty men of valor.
 7 The sons of Shemaiah, Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
 8 All these of the sons of Obededom, they and their sons and their brothers, able men for strength for the service, were sixty two of Obededom.
 9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, strong men, eighteen.
 10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons, Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief,)
 11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth, all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
 12 Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord.
 13 And they drew straws, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
 14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah.  Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they drew straws, and his lot came out northward.
 15 To Obededom southward, and to his sons the house of Asuppim.
 16 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
 17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
 18 At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
 19 These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.
 20 And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
 21 As concerning the sons of Laadan, the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehieli.
 22 The sons of Jehieli, Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the Lord.
 23 Of the Amramites, and the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites,
 24 And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.
 25 And his brothers by Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.
 26 Which Shelomith and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
 27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord.
 28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, and whoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brothers.
 29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
 30 And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the Lord, and in the service of the king.
 31 Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers.  In the fortieth year of the rule of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead.
 32 And his brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.

___1 Chronicles chapter 27
 1 Now the children of Israel after their number, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, who came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty four thousand.
 2 Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 3 Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.
 4 And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler, in his course likewise were twenty four thousand.
 5 The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 6 This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above the thirty, and in his course was Ammizabad his son.
 7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
 10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel, and in his course were twenty four thousand.
 16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel, the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri, of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah,
 17 Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel, of the Aaronites, Zadok,
 18 Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David, of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael,
 19 Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah, of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel,
 20 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah, of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah,
 21 Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah, of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner,
 22 Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham.  These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.
 23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell anger for it against Israel, neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
 25 And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel, and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah,
 26 And over those who did the work of the field for tilling of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub,
 27 And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite, over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite,
 28 And over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite, and over the cellars of oil was Joash,
 29 And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite, and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai,
 30 Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite, and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite,
 31 And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite.  All these were the rulers of the substance that was king David's.
 32 Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counselor, a wise man, and a scribe, and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons,
 33 And Ahithophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's companion,
 34 And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar, and the general of the king's army was Joab.

___1 Chronicles chapter 28
 1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, to Jerusalem.
 2 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, "Hear me, my brothers, and my people, as for me, I had in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building,
 3 But God said to me, you shall not build a house for my name, because you have been a man of war, and have shed blood.
 4 But the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for he has chosen Judah to be the ruler, and of the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel,
 5 And of all my sons, (for the Lord has given me many sons,) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
 6 And he said to me, Solomon your son shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
 7 Also I will establish his kingdom forever, if he's constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.
 8 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the Lord, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God, so that you'll possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you forever.
 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts, if you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will throw you off forever.
 10 Take heed now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary, be strong, and do it."
 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses of it, and of the treasuries of it, and of the upper rooms of it, and of the inner parlors of it, and of the place of the mercy seat,
 12 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the rooms round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things,
 13 Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and for all the containers of service in the house of the Lord.
 14 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all kinds of service, silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service,
 15 Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps of it, and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps of it, according to the use of every candlestick.
 16 And by weight he gave gold for the tables of showbread, for every table, and likewise silver for the tables of silver,
 17 Also pure gold for the flesh hooks, and the bowls, and the cups, and for the golden basins he gave gold by weight for every basin, and likewise silver by weight for every basin of silver,
 18 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight, and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
 19 "All this," David said, "the Lord made me understand in writing by his hand on me, all the works of this pattern."
 20 And David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and of good courage, and do it, don't be afraid, nor be discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, will be with you, he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until you've finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
 21 And, see, the courses of the priests and the Levites, they shall be with you for all the service of the house of God, and there shall be with you for all kinds of workmanship every willing skillful man, for any kind of service, also the princes and all the people will be completely at your commandment."

___1 Chronicles chapter 29
 1 Furthermore David the king said to all the congregation, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is still young and tender, and the work is great, for the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.
 2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood, onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
 3 Also, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of my own proper good, of gold and silver, that I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
 4 Three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to plate the walls of the houses with,
 5 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of craftsmen.  And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day to the Lord?"
 6 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,
 7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
 8 And those with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the Lord, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
 9 Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord, and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
 10 So David blessed the Lord before all the congregation, and David said, "Blessed be you, Lord God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
 11 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is yours, yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all, and in your hand is power and might, and in your hand it is to make great, and to give strength to all.
 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly like this?  For all things come from you, and of your own have we given to you.
 15 For we are strangers before you, and visitors, as were all our fathers, our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is none abiding.
 16 O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes of your hand, and is all your own.
 17 I know also, my God, that you test the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness.  As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things, and now I've seen with joy your people, who are present here, to offer willingly to you.
 18 O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart toward you,
 19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision."
 20 And David said to all the congregation, "Now bless the Lord your God."  And all the congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the Lord, and the king.
 21 And they sacrificed sacrifices to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings to the Lord, on the next day after that day, a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
 22 And ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great gladness.  And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to the Lord to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.
 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.
 24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
 25 And the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
 26 Thus David the son of Jesse ruled over all Israel.
 27 And the time that he ruled over Israel was forty years, he ruled seven years in Hebron, and he ruled thirty three years in Jerusalem.
 28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor, and Solomon his son ruled instead of him.
 29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, see, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
 30 With all his rule and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.