^10:1Now there were in Samaria seventy of Ahab's sons. And Jehu sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of the town, and to the responsible men, and to those who had the care of the sons of Ahab, saying, ^10:2Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms; ^10:3Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family. ^10:4But they were full of fear, and said, The two kings have gone down before him: how may we keep our place? ^10:5So the controller of the king's house, with the ruler of the town, and the responsible men, and those who had the care of Ahab's sons, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all your orders; we will not make any man king; do whatever seems best to you. ^10:6Then he sent them a second letter, saying, If you are on my side, and if you will do my orders, come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow, with the heads of your master's sons. Now the king's seventy sons were with the great men of the town, who had the care of them. ^10:7And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and put them to death, all the seventy, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. ^10:8And a man came and said to him, They have come with the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Put them down in two masses at the doorway of the town till the morning. ^10:9And in the morning he went out and, stopping, said to all the people there, You are upright men: it is true that I made designs against my master, and put him to death; but who is responsible for the death of all these? ^10:10You may be certain that nothing which the Lord has said about the family of Ahab will be without effect; for the Lord has done what he said by his servant Elijah. ^10:11So Jehu put to death all the rest of the seed of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his relations and his near friends and his priests, till there were no more of them. ^10:12Then he got up and came to Samaria. And he was at the meeting-place of the keepers of sheep, by the way, ^10:13When he came across the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah, and said, Who are you? And they said, We are the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah; we are going down to see the children of the king and of the queen. ^10:14And he said, Take them living. So they took them living, and put them to death in the water-hole of Beth-eked; of the forty-two men he put every one to death; ^10:15And when he had gone away from there, he came across Jehonadab, the son of Rechab: and he said good-day to him, and said to him, Is your heart true to mine, as mine is to yours? And Jehonadab in answer said, It is; and Jehu said, If it is, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand, and he made him come up into his carriage. ^10:16And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage. ^10:17And when he came to Samaria, he put to death all those of Ahab's family who were still in Samaria, till there were no more of them, as the Lord had said to Elijah. ^10:18Then Jehu got all the people together and said to them, Ahab was Baal's servant in a small way, but Jehu will be his servant on a great scale. ^10:19Now send for all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests, to come to me; let no one keep away: for I have a great offering to make to Baal; anyone who is not present, will be put to death. This Jehu did with deceit, his purpose being the destruction of the servants of Baal. ^10:20And Jehu said, Let there be a special holy meeting for the worship of Baal. So a public statement was made. ^10:21And Jehu sent out through all Israel; and all the servants of Baal came, not one kept away. And they came into the house of Baal, so that it was full from end to end. ^10:22And Jehu said to him who kept the robes, Get out robes for all the servants of Baal. So he got out robes for them. ^10:23And Jehu, with Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, went into the house of Baal; and he said to the servants of Baal, Make a search with care, to see that no servant of the Lord is with you, but only servants of Baal. ^10:24Then they went in to make offerings and burned offerings. Now Jehu had put eighty men outside, and said to them, If any man whom I give into your hands gets away, the life of him who lets him go will be the price of his life. ^10:25Then when the burned offering was ended, straight away Jehu said to the armed men and the captains, Go in and put them to death; let not one come out. So they put them to the sword; and, pulling the images to the earth, they went into the holy place of the house of Baal. ^10:26And they took out the image of Asherah from the house of Baal, and had it burned. ^10:27The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day. ^10:28So Jehu put an end to the worship of Baal in Israel. ^10:29But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do; the gold oxen were still in Beth-el and in Dan. ^10:30And the Lord said to Jehu, Because you have done well in doing what is right in my eyes and effecting all my purpose for the family of Ahab, your sons will be kings of Israel to the fourth generation. ^10:31But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do. ^10:32In those days the Lord was angry first with Israel; and Hazael made attacks on all the land of Israel, ^10:33East of Jordan, in all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, all Gilead and Bashan. ^10:34Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all he did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? ^10:35And Jehu went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son became king in his place. ^10:36And the time of Jehu's rule over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

^11:1Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death. ^11:2But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, with the woman who took care of him, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him in the bedroom; and they kept him safe from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death. ^11:3And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land. ^11:4Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the captains of hundreds of the Carians, and the armed men, and taking them into the house of the Lord, made an agreement with them, and made them take an oath in the house of the Lord, and let them see the king's son. ^11:5And he gave them orders, saying, This is what you are to do: the third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the king's house, ^11:6... ^11:7And the two divisions of you, who go out on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the house of the Lord, ^11:8Will make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and whoever comes inside your lines is to be put to death; keep with the king, when he goes out and when he comes in. ^11:9And the captains of hundreds did as Jehoiada the priest gave them orders; every one took with him his men, those who came in and those who went out on the Sabbath, and they came in to Jehoiada the priest. ^11:10And the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's, and which were kept in the house of the Lord. ^11:11Then the armed men took up their positions, every man with his instruments of war in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left, round about the altar and the house. ^11:12Then he made the king's son come out, and put the crown on him and the arm-bands, and made him king, and put the holy oil on him; and they all, making sounds of joy with their hands, said, Long life to the king. ^11:13Now Athaliah, hearing the noise made by the people, came to the people in the house of the Lord; ^11:14And looking, she saw the king in his regular place by the pillar, and the captains and the horns near him; and all the people of the land giving signs of joy and sounding the horns. Then Athaliah, violently parting her robes, gave a cry, saying, Broken faith, broken faith! ^11:15Then Jehoiada the priest gave orders to those who were placed in authority over the army, saying, Take her outside the lines, and let anyone who goes after her be put to death with the sword, for he said, Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord. ^11:16So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the horses, and there she was put to death. ^11:17And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people; and in the same way between the king and the people. ^11:18Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down: its altars and images were all broken to bits, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars. And the priest put overseers over the Lord's house. ^11:19Then he took the captains of hundreds, and the Carians, and the armed men, and all the people of the land; and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord, through the doorway of the armed men, to the king's house. And he took his place on the seat of the kings. ^11:20So all the people of the land were glad, and the town was quiet; and they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king's house. ^11:21And Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

^12:1In the seventh year of Jehu's rule, Jehoash became king; and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. ^12:2Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest. ^12:3But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. ^12:4And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment,) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart, ^12:5Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen. ^12:6But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not made good the damaged parts of the house. ^12:7Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house. ^12:8So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house. ^12:9But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and making a hole in the cover of it, put it by the altar, on the right side when one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put in it regularly all the money which was taken into the house of the Lord. ^12:10And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put it in bags, noting the amount of all the money there was in the house of the Lord. ^12:11And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord, ^12:12And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order. ^12:13But the money was not used for making silver cups or scissors or basins or wind-instruments or any vessels of gold or silver for the house of the Lord; ^12:14But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house. ^12:15And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith. ^12:16The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'. ^12:17Then Hazael, king of Aram, went up against Gath and took it; and his purpose was to go up to Jerusalem. ^12:18Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem. ^12:19Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? ^12:20And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla. ^12:21And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.

^13:1In the twenty-third year of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for seventeen years. ^13:2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them. ^13:3So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again. ^13:4Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram. ^13:5(And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they became free from the hands of the Aramaeans; and the children of Israel were living in their tents as in the past. ^13:6But still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam, which he made Israel do, but went on with it; and there was an image of Asherah in Samaria.) ^13:7For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust. ^13:8Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all he did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? ^13:9And Jehoahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place. ^13:10In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years. ^13:11He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do, but he went on with it. ^13:12Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, and the force with which he went to war against Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? ^13:13And Joash went to rest with his fathers and Jeroboam took his place as king; and Joash was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel. ^13:14Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen! ^13:15Then Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows: and he took bow and arrows. ^13:16And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow: and he put his hand on it; and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. ^13:17Then he said; Let the window be open to the east: and he got it open. Then Elisha said, Let the arrow go; and he let it go. And he said, The Lord's arrow of salvation, of salvation over Aram; for you will overcome the Aramaeans in Aphek and put an end to them. ^13:18And he said, Take the arrows: and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, Send them down into the earth; and he did so three times and no more. ^13:19Then the man of God was angry with him and said, If you had done it five or six times, then you would have overcome Aram completely; but now you will only overcome them three times. ^13:20And death came to Elisha and they put his body into the earth. Now in the spring of the year, armed bands of Moabites frequently came, overrunning the land. ^13:21And while they were putting a dead man into the earth, they saw a band coming; and they put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was; and the dead man, on touching Elisha's bones, came to life again, and got up on his feet. ^13:22And Israel was crushed under the power of Hazael, king of Aram, all the days of Jehoahaz. ^13:23But the Lord was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he would not put them to destruction or send them away from before his face till now. ^13:24Then Hazael, king of Aram, came to his end; and Ben-hadad his son became king in his place. ^13:25And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took again from Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, the towns which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Jehoash overcame him and got back the towns of Israel.

^14:1In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah. ^14:2He was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. ^14:3He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done. ^14:4But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. ^14:5Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father; ^14:6But he did not put their children to death; for the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses say, The fathers are not to be put to death for the children, or the children for their fathers; but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done. ^14:7He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day. ^14:8Then Amaziah sent representatives to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face. ^14:9And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet. ^14:10It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall? ^14:11But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah. ^14:12And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent. ^14:13And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits. ^14:14And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord and in the store-house of the king, together with those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria. ^14:15Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and his power, and how he went to war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? ^14:16And Jehoash went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place. ^14:17Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel. ^14:18And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^14:19Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there. ^14:20And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in Jerusalem, the town of David. ^14:21Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. ^14:22He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king. ^14:23In the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years. ^14:24He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do. ^14:25He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher. ^14:26For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper. ^14:27And the Lord had not said that the name of Israel was to be taken away from the earth; but he gave them a saviour in Jeroboam, the son of Joash. ^14:28Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all he did, and his power, and how he went to war with Damascus, causing the wrath of the Lord to be turned away from Israel, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? ^14:29And Jeroboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son became king in his place.

^15:1In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah. ^15:2He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. ^15:3And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done. ^15:4But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. ^15:5And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land. ^15:6Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^15:7And Azariah went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Jotham his son became king in his place. ^15:8In the thirty-eighth year of Azaliah, king of Judah, Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, was king over Israel for six months. ^15:9And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do. ^15:10And Shallum, the son of Jabesh, made a secret design against him, and, attacking him in Ibleam, put him to death and became king in his place. ^15:11Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel. ^15:12This was what the Lord had said to Jehu, Your sons to the fourth generation will be kings of Israel. And so it came about. ^15:13Shallum, the son of Jabesh, became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah; and he was ruling in Samaria for the space of one month. ^15:14Then Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and attacking Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria, put him to death and made himself king in his place. ^15:15Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the secret design which he made, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel. ^15:16Then Menahem sent destruction on Tappuah and all the people in it, and its limits, from Tirzah, because they would not let him come in; and he had all the women who were with child cut open. ^15:17In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Menahem, the son of Gadi, became king over Israel, and was ruling in Samaria for ten years. ^15:18He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do. ^15:19In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom. ^15:20And Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the men of wealth, fifty silver shekels from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria went back without stopping in the land. ^15:21Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? ^15:22And Menahem went to rest with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son became king in his place. ^15:23In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah, the son of Menahem, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for two years. ^15:24He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do. ^15:25And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, his captain, made a secret design against him, attacking him in the king's great house in Samaria; and with him were fifty men of Gilead; and he put him to death and became king in his place. ^15:26Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all he did, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel. ^15:27In the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for twenty years. ^15:28He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do. ^15:29In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria. ^15:30And Hoshea, the son of Elah, made a secret design against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and, attacking him, put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah. ^15:31Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all he did, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel. ^15:32In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, the son of Uzziah, became king of Judah. ^15:33He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. ^15:34And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done. ^15:35But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord. ^15:36Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^15:37In those days the Lord first sent against Judah, Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah. ^15:38And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.

^16:1In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah. ^16:2Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did. ^16:3But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel. ^16:4And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. ^16:5Then Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they made an attack on Ahaz, shutting him in, but were not able to overcome him. ^16:6At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day. ^16:7So Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come to my help against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me. ^16:8And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria. ^16:9And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death. ^16:10Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure. ^16:11And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus. ^16:12And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it. ^16:13He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar. ^16:14And the brass altar, which was before the Lord, he took from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar. ^16:15And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord. ^16:16So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said ^16:17And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone. ^16:18*** the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria. ^16:19Now the rest of the things which Ahaz did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^16:20And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.

^17:1In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years. ^17:2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him. ^17:3Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings. ^17:4But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains. ^17:5Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years. ^17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes. ^17:7And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods, ^17:8Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel. ^17:9And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town. ^17:10They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree: ^17:11Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath; ^17:12And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this. ^17:13And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets. ^17:14And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God. ^17:15And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do. ^17:16And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal. ^17:17And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath. ^17:18So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place. ^17:19(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made. ^17:20So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.) ^17:21For Israel was broken off from the family of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king, who, driving them away from the laws of the Lord, made them do a great sin. ^17:22And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them; ^17:23Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day. ^17:24Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns. ^17:25Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them. ^17:26So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge of his way. ^17:27Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land. ^17:28So one of the priests whom they had taken away as a prisoner from Samaria came back, and, living in Beth-el, became their teacher in the worship of the Lord. ^17:29And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living. ^17:30The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, ^17:31The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites gave their children to be burned in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. ^17:32So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places. ^17:33They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners. ^17:34So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel; ^17:35And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings: ^17:36But the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm, he is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings: ^17:37And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods. ^17:38And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods. ^17:39And you are to give worship to the Lord your God; for it is he who will give you salvation from the hands of all who are against you. ^17:40But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way. ^17:41So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

^18:1Now in the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, became king of Judah. ^18:2He was twenty-five years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. ^18:3He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done. ^18:4He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan. ^18:5He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him. ^18:6For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses. ^18:7And the Lord was with him; he did well in all his undertakings: and he took up arms against the king of Assyria and was his servant no longer. ^18:8He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town. ^18:9Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies. ^18:10And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah's rule, which was the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken. ^18:11And the king of Assyria took Israel away as prisoners into Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes; ^18:12Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it. ^18:13Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them. ^18:14And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to Lachish, to the king of Assyria, saying, I have done wrong; give up attacking me, and whatever you put on me I will undergo. And the payment he was to make was fixed by the king of Assyria at three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. ^18:15So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house. ^18:16And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria. ^18:17Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field. ^18:18And they sent for the king, and Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them. ^18:19And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope? ^18:20You say you have a design, and strength for war, but these are only words. Now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority? ^18:21See, now, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go through a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him. ^18:22And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem? ^18:23And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them. ^18:24How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen: ^18:25And have I now come up to send destruction on this place without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste. ^18:26Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Will you kindly make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall. ^18:27But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in. ^18:28Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria; ^18:29This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him. ^18:30And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria. ^18:31Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring; ^18:32Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. ^18:33Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria? ^18:34Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah? have they kept Samaria out of my hands? ^18:35Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hands, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hands? ^18:36But the people kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer. ^18:37Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah, with their clothing parted as a sign of grief, and gave him an account of what the Rab-shakeh had said.

^19:1And on hearing it, King Hezekiah took off his robe, and put on haircloth, and went into the house of the Lord. ^19:2And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. ^19:3And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them. ^19:4It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so then make your prayer for the rest of the people. ^19:5So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. ^19:6And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing. ^19:7See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death by the sword. ^19:8So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah, for it had come to his ears that he had gone away from Lachish. ^19:9And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, he sent representatives to Hezekiah again, saying, ^19:10This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria. ^19:11No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse; and will you be kept safe? ^19:12Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? ^19:13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena and of Ivvah? ^19:14And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord. ^19:15And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. ^19:16Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God. ^19:17Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands, ^19:18And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction. ^19:19But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hands, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you and only you, O Lord, are God. ^19:20Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer which you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears. ^19:21This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you. ^19:22Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel. ^19:23You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods; I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods. ^19:24I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry. ^19:25Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls. ^19:26This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops. ^19:27But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in. ^19:28Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came. ^19:29And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit. ^19:30And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit. ^19:31For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done. ^19:32For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it; ^19:33By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord. ^19:34For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David. ^19:35And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies. ^19:36So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh. ^19:37And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword; and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son became king in his place.

^20:1In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near. ^20:2Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, ^20:3O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping. ^20:4Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ^20:5Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord. ^20:6I will give you fifteen more years of life; and I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria; I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David. ^20:7Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better. ^20:8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day? ^20:9And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back? ^20:10And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees. ^20:11Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz. ^20:12At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill. ^20:13And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which Hezekiah did not let them see. ^20:14Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon. ^20:15And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see. ^20:16And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord. ^20:17Truly, days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone, says the Lord. ^20:18And your sons, the offspring of your body, they will take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon. ^20:19Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness? ^20:20Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^20:21And Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers; and Manasseh his son became king in his place.

^21:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. ^21:2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel. ^21:3He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven. ^21:4And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. ^21:5And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord. ^21:6And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath. ^21:7He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever. ^21:8And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them. ^21:9But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel. ^21:10And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets, ^21:11Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods, ^21:12For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning. ^21:13And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face. ^21:14And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves; ^21:15Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day. ^21:16More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord. ^21:17Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all he did, and his sins, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^21:18So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place. ^21:19Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. ^21:20He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. ^21:21He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant; ^21:22Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways. ^21:23And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house. ^21:24But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place. ^21:25Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^21:26He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

^22:1Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. ^22:2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left. ^22:3Now in the eighteenth year after he became king, Josiah sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying to him, ^22:4Go up to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and let him give out the money which is taken into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have got together from the people; ^22:5And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord; ^22:6To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house. ^22:7They did not have to give any account of the money which was handed to them, for they made use of it with good faith. ^22:8Then Hilkiah, the chief priest, said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. So Hilkiah gave it to Shaphan; ^22:9Then, after reading it, Shaphan the scribe went in to the king and gave him an account of what had been done, saying, Your servants have given out the money which was in the house, and have given it to the overseers of the work of the house of the Lord. ^22:10Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he was reading it before the king. ^22:11And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief; ^22:12And he gave orders to 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, ^22:13Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of this book, to do all the things which are recorded in it. ^22:14So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town;) and they had talk with her. ^22:15And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Say to the man who sent you to me, ^22:16These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book; ^22:17Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the work of their hands; so my wrath will be on fire against this place, and will not be put out. ^22:18But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears, ^22:19Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord. ^22:20For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.

^23:1Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem. ^23:2And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord. ^23:3And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement. ^23:4Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el. ^23:5And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven. ^23:6And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest. ^23:7And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah. ^23:8And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town. ^23:9Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers. ^23:10And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech. ^23:11And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire. ^23:12And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron. ^23:13And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean. ^23:14The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead. ^23:15And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned. ^23:16Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said: ^23:17What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el. ^23:18So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria. ^23:19Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el. ^23:20And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem. ^23:21And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law. ^23:22Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah; ^23:23In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem. ^23:24And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord. ^23:25Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him. ^23:26But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath. ^23:27And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there. ^23:28Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^23:29In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him. ^23:30And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father. ^23:31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^23:32He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done. ^23:33And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ^23:34Then Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death. ^23:35And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, taxing the land by his orders to get the money; the people of the land had to give silver and gold, everyone as he was taxed, to make the payment to Pharaoh-necoh. ^23:36Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. ^23:37He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.

^24:1In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him. ^24:2And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets. ^24:3Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did; ^24:4And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it. ^24:5Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? ^24:6So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place. ^24:7And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates. ^24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. ^24:9He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done. ^24:10At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side. ^24:11And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town; ^24:12Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him. ^24:13And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said. ^24:14And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away. ^24:15He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon. ^24:16And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon. ^24:17And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah. ^24:18Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^24:19He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done. ^24:20And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

^25:1Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town. ^25:2And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ^25:3Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land. ^25:4So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah. ^25:5But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction. ^25:6And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged. ^25:7And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon. ^25:8Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem; ^25:9And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire; ^25:10And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain. ^25:11And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners; ^25:12But he let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields. ^25:13And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon. ^25:14And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away. ^25:15And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men. ^25:16The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. ^25:17One of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, with a crown of brass on it; the crown was three cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same. ^25:18And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers; ^25:19And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town. ^25:20These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ^25:21And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land. ^25:22As for the people who were still living in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler over them. ^25:23Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; 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, came with all their men. ^25:24Then Gedaliah gave his oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear because of the servants of the Chaldaeans; go on living in the land under the rule of the king of Babylon, and all will be well. ^25:25But in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, came with ten men and made an attack on Gedaliah, causing his death and the death of the Jews and the Chaldaeans who were with him at Mizpah. ^25:26Then all the people, small and great, and the captains of the forces, got up and went away to Egypt, for fear of the Chaldaeans. ^25:27And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison; ^25:28And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. ^25:29And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life. ^25:30And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.

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^1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh; ^1:2Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, ^1:3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; ^1:4Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ^1:5The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. ^1:6And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah. ^1:7And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim. ^1:8The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan. ^1:9And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ^1:10And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth. ^1:11And Egypt was the father of the Ludim and the Anamim and the Lehabim and the Naphtuhim ^1:12And the Pathrusim and the Casluhim and the Caphtorim (from whom came the Philistines). ^1:13And Canaan was the father of Zidon, his oldest son, and Heth, ^1:14And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite, ^1:15And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite, ^1:16And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite. ^1:17The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech. ^1:18And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber. ^1:19And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan. ^1:20And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah ^1:21And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah ^1:22And Ebal and Abimael and Sheba ^1:23And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. ^1:24Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, ^1:25Eber, Peleg, Reu, ^1:26Serug, Nahor, Terah, ^1:27Abram (that is Abraham). ^1:28The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. ^1:29These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam, ^1:30Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema, ^1:31Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. ^1:32And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. ^1:33And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. ^1:34And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel. ^1:35The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel and Jeush and Jalam and Korah. ^1:36The sons of Eliphaz: Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam, Kenaz and Timna and Amalek. ^1:37The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. ^1:38And the sons of Seir: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. ^1:39And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister. ^1:40The sons of Shobal: Alian and Manahath and Ebal, Shephi and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. ^1:41The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran. ^1:42The sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ^1:43Now these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom, before there was any king over Israel: Bela, the son of Beor; his town was named Dinhabah. ^1:44At his death, Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place. ^1:45At the death of Jobab, Husham, from the land of the Temanites, became king in his place. ^1:46And at the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad, who overcame Midian in the field of Moab, became king; his town was named Avith. ^1:47And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place. ^1:48And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river became king in his place, ^1:49And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, became king in his place. ^1:50And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadad became king in his place; his town was named Pai, and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab. ^1:51And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth, ^1:52The chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon, ^1:53The chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar, ^1:54The chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

^2:1These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun; ^2:2Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ^2:3The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death. ^2:4And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five. ^2:5The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. ^2:6And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them. ^2:7And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing. ^2:8And the son of Ethan: Azariah. ^2:9And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai. ^2:10And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah; ^2:11And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz, ^2:12And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse, ^2:13And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third, ^2:14Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth, ^2:15Ozem, the sixth, David, the seventh; ^2:16And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel. ^2:17And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. ^2:18And Caleb, the son of Hezron, had children by Azubah his wife, the daughter of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon. ^2:19And after the death of Azubah, Caleb took as his wife Ephrath, who was the mother of Hur. ^2:20And Hur was the father of Uri; and Uri was the father of Bezalel. ^2:21And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him. ^2:22And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead. ^2:23And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead. ^2:24And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa. ^2:25And the sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, were Ram, the oldest, and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah. ^2:26And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah: she was the mother of Onam. ^2:27And the sons of Ram, the oldest son of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker. ^2:28And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada; and the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. ^2:29And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him. ^2:30And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled came to his end without sons. ^2:31And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. ^2:32And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether came to his end without sons. ^2:33And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. ^2:34Now Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha. ^2:35And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, as a wife; and she had Attai by him. ^2:36And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad, ^2:37And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the father of Obed, ^2:38And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the father of Azariah, ^2:39And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the father of Eleasah, ^2:40And Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum, ^2:41And Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah was the father of Elishama. ^2:42And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mareshah, his oldest son, who was the father of Ziph and Hebron. ^2:43And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema. ^2:44And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai. ^2:45And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. ^2:46And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez. ^2:47And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph. ^2:48Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah, ^2:49And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb. ^2:50The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, ^2:51Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader. ^2:52And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites. ^2:53And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites and the Puthites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. ^2:54The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. ^2:55And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.

^3:1Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman; ^3:2The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith; ^3:3The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife. ^3:4He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years. ^3:5And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel; ^3:6And Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet ^3:7And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia ^3:8And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine. ^3:9All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of his servant-wives; and Tamar was their sister. ^3:10And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, ^3:11Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, ^3:12Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, ^3:13Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, ^3:14Amon his son, Josiah his son. ^3:15And the sons of Josiah: the oldest Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. ^3:16And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. ^3:17And the sons of Jeconiah, who was taken prisoner: Shealtiel his son, ^3:18And Malchiram and Pedaiah and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah. ^3:19And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; ^3:20And Hashubah and Ohel and Berechiah and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five. ^3:21And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah. ^3:22And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah; and the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush and Igal and Bariah and Neariah and Shaphat, six. ^3:23And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and Azrikam, three. ^3:24And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah and Eliashib and Pelaiah and Akkub and Johanan and Delaiah and Anani, seven.