but he walked therein. 013:012 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 013:013 Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. 013:014 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen of it! 013:015 Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows; and he took to him bow and arrows. 013:016 He said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow; and he put his hand [on it]. Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands. 013:017 He said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. He said, Yahweh's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them. 013:018 He said, Take the arrows; and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, Smite on the ground; and he struck thrice, and stayed. 013:019 The man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have struck five or six times: then had you struck Syria until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria but thrice. 013:020 Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. 013:021 It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. 013:022 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. 013:023 But Yahweh 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, neither cast he them from his presence as yet. 013:024 Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his place. 013:025 Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash strike him, and recovered the cities of Israel. 014:001 In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign. 014:002 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. 014:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done. 014:004 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 014:005 It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father: 014:006 but the children of the murderers he didn't put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh 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 die for his own sin. 014:007 He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, to this day. 014:008 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. 014:009 Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle. 014:010 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you? 014:011 But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 014:012 Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent. 014:013 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. 014:014 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. 014:015 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 014:016 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. 014:017 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. 014:018 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 014:019 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there. 014:020 They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. 014:021 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 014:022 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 014:023 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty-one years. 014:024 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. 014:025 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher. 014:026 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel. 014:027 Yahweh didn't say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. 014:028 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, [which had belonged] to Judah, for Israel, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 014:029 Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his place. 015:001 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. 015:002 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 015:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 015:004 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 015:005 Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land. 015:006 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 015:007 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his place. 015:008 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. 015:009 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his fathers had done: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. 015:010 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place. 015:011 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 015:012 This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. So it came to pass. 015:013 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space of a month in Samaria. 015:014 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 reigned in his place. 015:015 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 015:016 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and the borders of it, from Tirzah: because they didn't open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up. 015:017 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned] ten years in Samaria. 015:018 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. 015:019 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. 015:020 Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of 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. 015:021 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 015:022 Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place. 015:023 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] two years. 015:024 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. 015:025 Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his place. 015:026 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 015:027 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years. 015:028 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. 015:029 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria. 015:030 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. 015:031 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 015:032 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. 015:033 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. 015:034 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. 015:035 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh. 015:036 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 015:037 In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. 015:038 Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place. 016:001 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 016:002 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, like David his father. 016:003 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel. 016:004 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. 016:005 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. 016:006 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. 016:007 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser 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, who rise up against me. 016:008 Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. 016:009 The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and killed Rezin. 016:010 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship of it. 016:011 Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. 016:012 When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon. 016:013 He burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, on the altar. 016:014 The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar. 016:015 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by. 016:016 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. 016:017 King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone. 016:018 The covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, turned he to the house of Yahweh, because of the king of Assyria. 016:019 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 016:020 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 017:001 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, [and reigned] nine years. 017:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him. 017:003 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute. 017:004 The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute 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. 017:005 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 017:006 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 017:007 It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 017:008 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made. 017:009 The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; 017:010 and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree; 017:011 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger; 017:012 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing. 017:013 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 017:014 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their God. 017:015 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them. 017:016 They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal. 017:017 They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. 017:018 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 017:019 Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 017:020 Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 017:021 For he tore Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin. 017:022 The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn't depart from them; 017:023 until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day. 017:024 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and 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. 017:025 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them. 017:026 Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land: therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don't know the law of the god of the land. 017:027 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land. 017:028 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh. 017:029 However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived. 017:030 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 017:031 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 017:032 So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 017:033 They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. 017:034 To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; 017:035 with whom Yahweh 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: 017:036 but Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall you fear, and to him shall you bow yourselves, and to him shall you sacrifice: 017:037 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forevermore; and you shall not fear other gods: 017:038 and the covenant that I have made with you you shall not forget; neither shall you fear other gods: 017:039 but Yahweh your God shall you fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 017:040 However they did not listen, but they did after their former manner. 017:041 So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they to this day. 018:001 Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 018:002 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 018:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. 018:004 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. 018:005 He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among them] that were before him. 018:006 For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses. 018:007 Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve him. 018:008 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and the borders of it, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. 018:009 It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 018:010 At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 018:011 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 018:012 because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it. 018:013 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. 018:014 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which you put on me will I bear. The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 018:015 Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house. 018:016 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. 018:017 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. 018:018 When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. 018:019 Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust? 018:020 You say (but they are but vain words), [There is] counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 018:021 Now, behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, even on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him. 018:022 But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God; isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? 018:023 Now therefore, Please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 018:024 How then can 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? 018:025 Am I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 018:026 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall. 018:027 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, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you? 018:028 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, Hear you the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. 018:029 Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand: 018:030 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 018:031 Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern; 018:032 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die: and don't listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. 018:033 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 018:034 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 018:035 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? 018:036 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him. 018:037 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 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. 019:001 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh. 019:002 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. 019:003 They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 019:004 It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. 019:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 019:006 Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 019:007 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. 019:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 019:009 When he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, 019:010 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 given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 019:011 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered? 019:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar? 019:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? 019:014 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh. 019:015 Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 019:016 Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to defy the living God. 019:017 Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, 019:018 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. 019:019 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save you us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you Yahweh are God alone. 019:020 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [you]. 019:021 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. 019:022 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel. 019:023 By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field. 019:024 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. 019:025 Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 019:026 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up. 019:027 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me. 019:028 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I 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. 019:029 This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it. 019:030 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 019:031 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape: the zeal of Yahweh shall perform this. 019:032 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 019:033 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh. 019:034 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 019:035 It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty-five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 019:036 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh. 019:037 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place. 020:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live. 020:002 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying, 020:003 Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore. 020:004 It happened, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, 020:005 Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh. 020:006 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. 020:007 Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. 020:008 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day? 020:009 Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps? 020:010 Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. 020:011 Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz. 020:012 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 020:013 Hezekiah listened to them, and shown them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and 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. 020:014 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon. 020:015 He said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them. 020:016 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh. 020:017 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh. 020:018 Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 020:019 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken. He said moreover, Isn't it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days? 020:020 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 020:021 Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place. 021:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hephzibah. 021:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. 021:003 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them. 021:004 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 021:005 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh. 021:006 He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. 021:007 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever; 021:008 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only 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. 021:009 But they didn't listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel. 021:010 Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying, 021:011 Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols; 021:012 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle. 021:013 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 021:014 I will cast off 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; 021:015 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even to this day. 021:016 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. 021:017 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 021:018 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his place. 021:019 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 021:020 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father. 021:021 He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them: 021:022 and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn't walk in the way of Yahweh. 021:023 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house. 021:024 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. 021:025 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 021:026 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his place. 022:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. 022:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 022:003 It happened in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Yahweh, saying, 022:004 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people: 022:005 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breaches of the house, 022:006 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house. 022:007 However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully. 022:008 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahweh. Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it. 022:009 Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh. 022:010 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book. Shaphan read it before the king. 022:011 It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he tore his clothes. 022:012 The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying, 022:013 Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us. 022:014 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, 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 second quarter); and they talked with her. 022:015 She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell you the man who sent you to me, 022:016 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. 022:017 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched. 022:018 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard, 022:019 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before Yahweh, 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 wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh. 022:020 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again. 023:001 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. 023:002 The king went up to the house of Yahweh, 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 which was found in the house of Yahweh. 023:003 The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his] heart, and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant. 023:004 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel. 023:005 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 round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. 023:006 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people. 023:007 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. 023:008 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 he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. 023:009 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. 023:010 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. 023:011 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the chamber of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 023:012 The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. 023:013 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 023:014 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. 023:015 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah. 023:016 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. 023:017 Then he said, What monument is that which I see? 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. 023:018 He said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. 023:019 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. 023:020 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem. 023:021 The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant. 023:022 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; 023:023 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem. 023:024 Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh. 023:025 Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. 023:026 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him. 023:027 Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there. 023:028 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 023:029 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and [Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. 023:030 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place. 023:031 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 023:032 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done. 023:033 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. 023:034 Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there. 023:035 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 of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh. 023:036 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 023:037 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done. 024:001 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 024:002 Yahweh 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 Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the prophets. 024:003 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, 024:004 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon. 024:005 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 024:006 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 024:007 The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt. 024:008 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 024:009 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done. 024:010 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 024:011 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it; 024:012 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 reign. 024:013 He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said. 024:014 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. 024:015 He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 024:016 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. 024:017 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. 024:018 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 024:019 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 024:020 For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 025:001 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. 025:002 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 025:003 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 025:004 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah. 025:005 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 025:006 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him. 025:007 They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 025:008 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem. 025:009 He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire. 025:010 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were [with] the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. 025:011 The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive. 025:012 But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields. 025:013 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 025:014 The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away. 025:015 The fire pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 025:016 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 025:017 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network. 025:018 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: 025:019 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city. 025:020 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 025:021 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. 025:022 As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor. 025:023 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. 025:024 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, Don't be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 025:025 But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed 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. 025:026 All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans. 025:027 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; 025:028 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, 025:029 and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: 025:030 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life. Book 13 1 Chronicles 001:001 Adam, Seth, Enosh, 001:002 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 001:003 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 001:004 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 001:005 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 001:006 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah. 001:007 The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 001:008 The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 001:009 The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. 001:010 Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 001:011 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 001:012 and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whence came the Philistines), and Caphtorim. 001:013 Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 001:014 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, 001:015 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 001:016 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. 001:017 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. 001:018 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber. 001:019 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. 001:020 Joktan became the father of Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 001:021 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 001:022 and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 001:023 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. 001:024 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, 001:025 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 001:026 Serug, Nahor, Terah, 001:027 Abram (the same is Abraham). 001:028 The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael. 001:029 These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 001:030 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, 001:031 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. 001:032 The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan. 001:033 The sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. 001:034 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel. 001:035 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. 001:036 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. 001:037 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. 001:038 The sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. 001:039 The sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister. 001:040 The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah. 001:041 The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. 001:042 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran. 001:043 Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there resigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 001:044 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. 001:045 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. 001:046 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith. 001:047 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. 001:048 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place. 001:049 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place. 001:050 Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. 001:051 Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth, 001:052 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 001:053 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 001:054 chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom. 002:001 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, 002:002 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 002:003 The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him. 002:004 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. 002:005 The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul. 002:006 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. 002:007 The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. 002:008 The sons of Ethan: Azariah. 002:009 The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. 002:010 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; 002:011 and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz, 002:012 and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; 002:013 and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, 002:014 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 002:015 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; 002:016 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. 002:017 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. 002:018 Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of [children] of Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. 002:019 Azubah died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur. 002:020 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. 002:021 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took [as wife] when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. 002:022 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. 002:023 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. 002:024 After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. 002:025 The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah. 002:026 Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. 002:027 The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker. 002:028 The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur. 002:029 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid. 002:030 The sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children. 002:031 The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. 002:032 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died without children. 002:033 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. 002:034 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. 002:035 Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai. 002:036 Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, 002:037 and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed, 002:038 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah, 002:039 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah, 002:040 and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum, 002:041 and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama. 002:042 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. 002:043 The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. 002:044 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai. 002:045 The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur. 002:046 Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez. 002:047 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. 002:048 Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. 002:049 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. 002:050 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim, 002:051 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth Gader. 002:052 Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. 002:053 The families of Kiriath Jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. 002:054 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. 002:055 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. 003:001 Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess; 003:002 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; 003:003 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife: 003:004 six were born to him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months. In Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years; 003:005 and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel; 003:006 and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet, 003:007 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, 003:008 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. 003:009 All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister. 003:010 Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, 003:011 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, 003:012 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, 003:013 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, 003:014 Amon his son, Josiah his son. 003:015 The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 003:016 The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. 003:017 The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, 003:018 and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. 003:019 The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; 003:020 and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab Hesed, five. 003:021 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah. 003:022 The sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, and Igal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six. 003:023 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. 003:024 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven. 004:001 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. 004:002 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. 004:003 These were [the sons of] the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi; 004:004 and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. 004:005 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. 004:006 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 004:007 The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. 004:008 Hakkoz became the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. 004:009 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow. 004:010 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested. 004:011 Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. 004:012 Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah. 004:013 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath. 004:014 Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen. 004:015 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz. 004:016 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. 004:017 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. 004:018 His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. 004:019 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. 004:020 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth. 004:021 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; 004:022 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. The records are ancient. 004:023 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work. 004:024 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 004:025 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. 004:026 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. 004:027 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. 004:028 They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual, 004:029 and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, 004:030 and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, 004:031 and at Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities to the reign of David. 004:032 Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; 004:033 and all their villages that were round about the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy. 004:034 Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, 004:035 and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 004:036 and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, 004:037 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah— 004:038 these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly. 004:039 They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. 004:040 They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham. 004:041 These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks. 004:042 Some of them, even 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. 004:043 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day. 005:001 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 005:002 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:) 005:003 the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 005:004 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, 005:005 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, 005:006 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites. 005:007 His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 005:008 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon: 005:009 and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead. 005:010 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the [land] east of Gilead. 005:011 The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah: 005:012 Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. 005:013 Their brothers of their fathers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven. 005:014 These were the sons 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; 005:015 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses. 005:016 They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. 005:017 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. 005:018 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-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 and sixty, that were able to go forth to war. 005:019 They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. 005:020 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him. 005:021 They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand. 005:022 For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity. 005:023 The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon. 005:024 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses. 005:025 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them. 005:026 The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day. 006:001 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 006:002 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 006:003 The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 006:004 Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua, 006:005 and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father of Uzzi, 006:006 and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth, 006:007 Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub, 006:008 and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz, 006:009 and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Johanan, 006:010 and Johanan became the father of Azariah, (he it is who executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem), 006:011 and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub, 006:012 and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Shallum, 006:013 and Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah, 006:014 and Azariah became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak; 006:015 Jehozadak went [into captivity], when Yahweh carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. 006:016 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 006:017 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. 006:018 The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 006:019 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses]. 006:020 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, 006:021 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. 006:022 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 006:023 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, 006:024 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. 006:025 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth. 006:026 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, 006:027 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. 006:028 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn [Joel], and the second Abijah. 006:029 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, 006:030 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. 006:031 These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest. 006:032 They ministered with song before the tent of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office according to their order. 006:033 These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, 006:034 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, 006:035 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, 006:036 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, 006:037 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, 006:038 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. 006:039 His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, 006:040 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, 006:041 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, 006:042 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, 006:043 the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. 006:044 On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, 006:045 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, 006:046 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, 006:047 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. 006:048 Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tent of the house of God. 006:049 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 006:050 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, 006:051 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, 006:052 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 006:053 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. 006:054 Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the [first] lot), 006:055 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs of it round about it; 006:056 but the fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 006:057 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, 006:058 and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, 006:059 and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; 006:060 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities. 006:061 To the rest of the sons of Kohath [were given] by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. 006:062 To the sons of Gershom, according to 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. 006:063 To the sons of Merari [were given] by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. 006:064 The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs. 006:065 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 mentioned by name. 006:066 Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim. 006:067 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs, 006:068 and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs, 006:069 and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; 006:070 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath. 006:071 To the sons of Gershom [were given], out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs; 006:072 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, 006:073 and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs; 006:074 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs, 006:075 and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; 006:076 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs. 006:077 To the rest of [the Levites], the sons of Merari, [were given], out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs; 006:078 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, [were given them], out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs, 006:079 and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; 006:080 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, 006:081 and Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs. 007:001 Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. 007:002 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. 007:003 The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men. 007:004 With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons. 007:005 Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand. 007:006 [The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. 007:007 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four. 007:008 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. 007:009 They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred. 007:010 The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 007:011 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the army for war. 007:012 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher. 007:013 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. 007:014 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead: 007:015 and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters. 007:016 Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 007:017 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. 007:018 His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah. 007:019 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. 007:020 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son, 007:021 and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock. 007:022 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. 007:023 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house. 007:024 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. 007:025 Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, 007:026 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 007:027 Nun his son, Joshua his son. 007:028 Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and the towns of it, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns of it; Shechem also and the towns of it, to Azzah and the towns of it; 007:029 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph the son of Israel. 007:030 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. 007:031 The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. 007:032 Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. 007:033 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet. 007:034 The sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. 007:035 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal. 007:036 The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, 007:037 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. 007:038 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara. 007:039 The sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia. 007:040 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men. 008:001 Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third, 008:002 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. 008:003 Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, 008:004 and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, 008:005 and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram. 008:006 These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath: 008:007 and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud. 008:008 Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives. 008:009 He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam, 008:010 and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' [houses]. 008:011 Of Hushim he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal. 008:012 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns of it; 008:013 and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads