^19:1When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house. ^19:2He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. ^19:3They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. ^19:4It 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.’” ^19:5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. ^19:6Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. ^19:7Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’” ^19:8So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. ^19:9When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, ^19:10‘Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: “Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. ^19:11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered? ^19:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? ^19:13Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?”’” ^19:14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh. ^19:15Hezekiah 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. ^19:16Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God. ^19:17Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, ^19:18and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them. ^19:19Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.” ^19:20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you. ^19:21This 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. ^19:22Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel! ^19:23By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field. ^19:24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.” ^19:25Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. ^19:26Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up. ^19:27But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. ^19:28Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’ ^19:29“This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit. ^19:30The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. ^19:31For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this. ^19:32“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. ^19:33By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh. ^19:34‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’” ^19:35That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. ^19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh. ^19:37As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

^20:1In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’” ^20:2Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying, ^20:3“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.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. ^20:4Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, ^20:5“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house. ^20:6I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’” ^20:7Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. ^20:8Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?” ^20:9Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?” ^20:10Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.” ^20:11Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz. ^20:12At 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. ^20:13Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, 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, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them. ^20:14Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.” ^20:15He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.” ^20:16Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Yahweh’s word. ^20:17‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh. ^20:18‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’” ^20:19Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?” ^20:20Now 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? ^20:21Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

^21:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. ^21:2He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. ^21:3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them. ^21:4He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.” ^21:5He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house. ^21:6He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger. ^21:7He 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; ^21:8I will not 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.” ^21:9But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel. ^21:10Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying, ^21:11“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 also made Judah to sin with his idols; ^21:12therefore Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. ^21:13I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ^21:14I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies, ^21:15because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’” ^21:16Moreover 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 Yahweh’s sight. ^21:17Now 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? ^21:18Manasseh 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. ^21:19Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. ^21:20He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as Manasseh his father did. ^21:21He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them; ^21:22and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh. ^21:23The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house. ^21:24But 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. ^21:25Now 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? ^21:26He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

^22:1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. ^22:2He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left. ^22:3In the eighteenth year of king Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to Yahweh’s house, saying, ^22:4“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into Yahweh’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people. ^22:5Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in Yahweh’s house, to repair the damage to the house, ^22:6to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house. ^22:7However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.” ^22:8Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it. ^22:9Shaphan 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 hands of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house.” ^22:10Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me.” Then Shaphan read it before the king. ^22:11When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. ^22:12The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying, ^22:13“Go 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 Yahweh’s wrath 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.” ^22:14So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, 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. ^22:15She said to them, “Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, ^22:16“Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. ^22:17Because 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 will not be quenched.’” ^22:18But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, tell him, “Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Concerning the words which you have heard, ^22:19because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, 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. ^22:20‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” So they brought this message back to the king.

^23:1The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. ^23:2The king went up to Yahweh’s house, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, with the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in Yahweh’s house. ^23:3The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, 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 agreed to the covenant. ^23:4The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, 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 their ashes to Bethel. ^23:5He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. ^23:6He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people. ^23:7He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. ^23:8He 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. ^23:9Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to Yahweh’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. ^23:10He 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. ^23:11He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. ^23:12The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron. ^23:13The king defiled 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. ^23:14He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones. ^23:15Moreover 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. ^23:16As 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 Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. ^23:17Then 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.” ^23:18He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. ^23:19All 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. ^23:20He 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. ^23:21The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.” ^23:22Surely 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; ^23:23but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem. ^23:24Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s house. ^23:25There was no king like him 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; and there was none like him who arose after him. ^23:26Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him. ^23:27Yahweh said, “I will also remove Judah 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.’” ^23:28Now 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? ^23:29In 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. ^23:30His 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. ^23:31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^23:32He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done. ^23:33Pharaoh 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. ^23:34Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there. ^23:35Jehoiakim 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, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh. ^23:36Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. ^23:37He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.

^24:1In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. ^24:2Yahweh 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 Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets. ^24:3Surely at the commandment of Yahweh this came on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, ^24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon. ^24:5Now 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? ^24:6So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. ^24:7The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that belonged to the king of Egypt. ^24:8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. ^24:9He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his father had done. ^24:10At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. ^24:11Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it, ^24:12and 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 captured him in the eighth year of his reign. ^24:13He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, 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 Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said. ^24:14He 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. No one remained, except the poorest people of the land. ^24:15He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. ^24:16All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. ^24:17The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. ^24:18Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^24:19He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. ^24:20For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

^25:1In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it. ^25:2So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. ^25:3On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. ^25:4Then 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 around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah. ^25:5But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. ^25:6Then they captured the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him. ^25:7They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon. ^25:8Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ^25:9He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire. ^25:10All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. ^25:11Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive 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. ^25:12But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields. ^25:13The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon. ^25:14They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered. ^25:15The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver. ^25:16The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house, the brass of all these vessels was not weighed. ^25:17The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass; and the second pillar with its network was like these. ^25:18The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold; ^25:19and 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. ^25:20Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. ^25:21The king of Babylon attacked them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. ^25:22As 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. ^25:23Now 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. ^25:24Gedaliah 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 will be well with you.” ^25:25But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, with the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. ^25:26All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans. ^25:27In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; ^25:28and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, ^25:29and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life; ^25:30and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

1 Chronicles

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

^2:1These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, ^2:2Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. ^2:3The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him. ^2:4Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. ^2:5The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. ^2:6The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. ^2:7The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. ^2:8The son of Ethan: Azariah. ^2:9The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. ^2:10Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; ^2:11and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz, ^2:12and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; ^2:13and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, 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. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. ^2:17Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. ^2:18Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. ^2:19Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur. ^2:20Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. ^2:21Afterward 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. ^2:22Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. ^2:23Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. ^2:24After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. ^2:25The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. ^2:26Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. ^2:27The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. ^2:28The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. ^2:29The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid. ^2:30The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children. ^2:31The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai. ^2:32The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children. ^2:33The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. ^2:34Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. ^2:35Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai. ^2:36Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, ^2:37and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed, ^2:38and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah, ^2:39and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah, ^2:40and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum, ^2:41and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama. ^2:42The 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. ^2:43The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. ^2:44Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai. ^2:45The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur. ^2:46Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez. ^2:47The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. ^2:48Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. ^2:49She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. ^2:50These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim, ^2:51Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader. ^2:52Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. ^2:53The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. ^2:54The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. ^2:55The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

^3:1Now 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; ^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 of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife: ^3:4six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem; ^3:5and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel; ^3:6and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, ^3:7Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, ^3:8Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. ^3:9All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister. ^3:10Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah 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, and Josiah his son. ^3:15The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum. ^3:16The sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah his son. ^3:17The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, ^3:18Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. ^3:19The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister; ^3:20and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab Hesed, five. ^3:21The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah. ^3:22The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six. ^3:23The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. ^3:24The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

^4:1The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. ^4:2Reaiah 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. ^4:3These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi. ^4:4Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. ^4:5Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. ^4:6Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. ^4:7The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. ^4:8Hakkoz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. ^4:9Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.” ^4:10Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested. ^4:11Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. ^4:12Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah. ^4:13The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath. ^4:14Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen. ^4:15The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz. ^4:16The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. ^4:17The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. ^4:18His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. ^4:19The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. ^4:20The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth. ^4:21The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; ^4:22and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient. ^4:23These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: they lived there with the king for his work. ^4:24The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; ^4:25Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son. ^4:26The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. ^4:27Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family did not multiply like the children of Judah. ^4:28They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual, ^4:29at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad, ^4:30at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag, ^4:31at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign. ^4:32Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; ^4:33and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy. ^4:34Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah, ^4:35Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, ^4:36Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, ^4:37and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah— ^4:38these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly. ^4:39They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. ^4:40They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham. ^4:41These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks. ^4:42Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. ^4:43They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

^5:1The 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 listed according to the birthright. ^5:2For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)— ^5:3the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ^5:4The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, ^5:5Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, ^5:6and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites. ^5:7His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, ^5:8and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon; ^5:9and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead. ^5:10In 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. ^5:11The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah: ^5:12Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. ^5:13Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven. ^5:14These 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; ^5:15Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses. ^5:16They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. ^5:17All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. ^5:18The sons of Reuben, 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 sixty, that were able to go out to war. ^5:19They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. ^5:20They 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 answered them, because they put their trust in him. ^5:21They 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. ^5:22For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity. ^5:23The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. ^5:24These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses. ^5:25They 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. ^5:26So 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, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

^6:1The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ^6:2The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. ^6:3The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ^6:4Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua, ^6:5Abishua became the father of Bukki. Bukki became the father of Uzzi. ^6:6Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah. Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth. ^6:7Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub. ^6:8Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz. ^6:9Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah. Azariah became the father of Johanan. ^6:10Johanan became the father of Azariah, who executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem. ^6:11Azariah became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub. ^6:12Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Shallum. ^6:13Shallum became the father of Hilkiah. Hilkiah became the father of Azariah. ^6:14Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak. ^6:15Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. ^6:16The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ^6:17These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ^6:18The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ^6:19The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households. ^6:20Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ^6:21Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, and Jeatherai his son. ^6:22The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, ^6:23Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, ^6:24Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. ^6:25The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth. ^6:26As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, Nahath his son, ^6:27Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son. ^6:28The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah. ^6:29The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, ^6:30Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. ^6:31These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there. ^6:32They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed the duties of their office according to their order. ^6:33These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, ^6:34the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, ^6:35the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, ^6:36the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, ^6:37the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, ^6:38the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. ^6:39His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, ^6:40the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, ^6:41the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, ^6:42the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, ^6:43the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. ^6:44On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, ^6:45the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, ^6:46the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, ^6:47the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. ^6:48Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house. ^6:49But 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. ^6:50These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, ^6:51Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, ^6:52Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, ^6:53Zadok his son, and Ahimaaz his son. ^6:54Now 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), ^6:55to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs around it; ^6:56but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ^6:57To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its suburbs, ^6:58Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, ^6:59Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; ^6:60and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities. ^6:61To 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. ^6:62To 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. ^6:63To 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. ^6:64The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs. ^6:65They 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. ^6:66Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim. ^6:67They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs, ^6:68Jokmeam with its suburbs, Beth Horon with its suburbs, ^6:69Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; ^6:70and 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. ^6:71To 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; ^6:72and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, ^6:73Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs; ^6:74and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs, ^6:75Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; ^6:76and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs. ^6:77To 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; ^6:78and 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, ^6:79Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; ^6:80and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, Mahanaim with its suburbs, ^6:81Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.

^7:1Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. ^7:2The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred. ^7:3The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, five; all of them chief men. ^7:4With 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. ^7:5Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand. ^7:6The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three. ^7:7The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four. ^7:8The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. ^7:9They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred. ^7:10The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. ^7:11All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war. ^7:12So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher. ^7:13The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah. ^7:14The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead. ^7:15Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maacah. The name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters. ^7:16Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. ^7:17The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. ^7:18His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. ^7:19The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam. ^7:20The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, ^7:21Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock. ^7:22Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. ^7:23He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house. ^7:24His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. ^7:25Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son, ^7:26Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, ^7:27Nun his son, and Joshua his son. ^7:28Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns; ^7:29and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these. ^7:30The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Serah was their sister. ^7:31The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. ^7:32Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister. ^7:33The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet. ^7:34The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. ^7:35The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. ^7:36The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, ^7:37Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. ^7:38The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara. ^7:39The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia. ^7:40All 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 listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.

^8:1Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third, ^8:2Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. ^8:3Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud, ^8:4Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, ^8:5Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram. ^8:6These are the sons of Ehud. These are the heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, who were carried captive to Manahath: ^8:7Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who carried them captive; and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud. ^8:8Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away. Hushim and Baara were his wives. ^8:9By Hodesh his wife, he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, ^8:10Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ households. ^8:11By Hushim, he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal. ^8:12The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns; ^8:13and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath; ^8:14and Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, ^8:15Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, ^8:16Michael, Ishpah, Joha, the sons of Beriah, ^8:17Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber, ^8:18Ishmerai, Izliah, Jobab, the sons of Elpaal, ^8:19Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi, ^8:20Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, ^8:21Adaiah, Beraiah, Shimrath, the sons of Shimei, ^8:22Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, ^8:23Abdon, Zichri, Hanan, ^8:24Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah, ^8:25Iphdeiah, Penuel, the sons of Shashak, ^8:26Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, ^8:27Jaareshiah, Elijah, Zichri, and the sons of Jeroham. ^8:28These were heads of fathers’ households throughout their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem. ^8:29The father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon, ^8:30with his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, ^8:31Gedor, Ahio, and Zecher. ^8:32Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers. ^8:33Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. ^8:34The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah. ^8:35The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz. ^8:36Ahaz became the father of Jehoaddah. Jehoaddah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza. ^8:37Moza became the father of Binea. Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son. ^8:38Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. ^8:39The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third. ^8:40The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.

^9:1So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience. ^9:2Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants. ^9:3In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh: ^9:4Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah. ^9:5Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons. ^9:6Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brothers, six hundred ninety. ^9:7Of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah, ^9:8and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah; ^9:9and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ households by their fathers’ houses. ^9:10Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin, ^9:11and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house; ^9:12and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer; ^9:13and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of God’s house. ^9:14Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; ^9:15and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph, ^9:16and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites. ^9:17The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief), ^9:18who previously served in the king’s gate eastward. They were the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi. ^9:19Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry. ^9:20Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him. ^9:21Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper of the door of the Tent of Meeting. ^9:22All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust. ^9:23So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of Yahweh’s house, even the house of the tent, by wards. ^9:24On the four sides were the gatekeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south. ^9:25Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them: ^9:26for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house. ^9:27They stayed around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to their duty was its opening morning by morning. ^9:28Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count. ^9:29Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices. ^9:30Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices. ^9:31Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans. ^9:32Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath. ^9:33These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night. ^9:34These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem. ^9:35Jeiel the father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon with ^9:36his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab, ^9:37Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth. ^9:38Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, near their brothers. ^9:39Ner became the father of Kish. Kish became the father of Saul. Saul became the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. ^9:40The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah. ^9:41The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz. ^9:42Ahaz became the father of Jarah. Jarah became the father of Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri became the father of Moza. ^9:43Moza became the father of Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son. ^9:44Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.

^10:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. ^10:2The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. ^10:3The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers. ^10:4Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it. ^10:5When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died. ^10:6So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together. ^10:7When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. ^10:8On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. ^10:9They stripped him, and took his head and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people. ^10:10They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon. ^10:11When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, ^10:12all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. ^10:13So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire, ^10:14and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

^11:1Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. ^11:2In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’” ^11:3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel. ^11:4David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (also called Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there. ^11:5The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city. ^11:6David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief. ^11:7David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city. ^11:8He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city. ^11:9David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh of Armies was with him. ^11:10Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. ^11:11This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time. ^11:12After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men. ^11:13He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines. ^11:14They stood in the middle of the plot, defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory. ^11:15Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim. ^11:16David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time. ^11:17David longed, and said, “Oh that one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!” ^11:18The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink any of it, but poured it out to Yahweh, ^11:19and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things. ^11:20Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three. ^11:21Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three. ^11:22Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day. ^11:23He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear. ^11:24Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men. ^11:25Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard. ^11:26The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, ^11:27Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, ^11:28Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, ^11:29Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, ^11:30Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, ^11:31Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, ^11:32Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, ^11:33Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, ^11:34the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite, ^11:35Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, ^11:36Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, ^11:37Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, ^11:38Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, ^11:39Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armor bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, ^11:40Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, ^11:41Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, ^11:42Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, ^11:43Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, ^11:44Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, ^11:45Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, ^11:46Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, ^11:47Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

^12:1Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war. ^12:2They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin. ^12:3The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite; ^12:4Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite; ^12:5Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite; ^12:6Elkanah, Isshiah Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites; ^12:7and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. ^12:8Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains: ^12:9Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, ^12:10Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, ^12:11Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, ^12:12Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, ^12:13Jeremiah the tenth, and Machbannai the eleventh. ^12:14These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand. ^12:15These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west. ^12:16Some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David. ^12:17David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.” ^12:18Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band. ^12:19Some of Manasseh also joined David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle; but they didn’t help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.” ^12:20As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh. ^12:21They helped David against the band of rovers; for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army. ^12:22For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army. ^12:23These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to Yahweh’s word. ^12:24The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war. ^12:25Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand one hundred. ^12:26Of the children of Levi four thousand six hundred. ^12:27Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred, ^12:28and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains. ^12:29Of the children of Benjamin, Saul’s relatives, three thousand: for until then, the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to Saul’s house. ^12:30Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses. ^12:31Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king. ^12:32Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command. ^12:33Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could command and were not of double heart. ^12:34Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand. ^12:35Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred. ^12:36Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand. ^12:37On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand. ^12:38All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king. ^12:39They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them. ^12:40Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.