KI2 1:1  Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

KI2 1:2  And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was
 in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go,
 enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this
 disease.

KI2 1:3  But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to
 meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not
 because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the
 god of Ekron?

KI2 1:4  Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that
 bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

KI2 1:5  And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why
 are ye now turned back?

KI2 1:6  And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto
 us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith
 the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest
 to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down
 from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

KI2 1:7  And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet
 you, and told you these words?

KI2 1:8  And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of
 leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

KI2 1:9  Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he
 went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto
 him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.

KI2 1:10  And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man
 of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty.
 And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

KI2 1:11  Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty.
 And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said,
 Come down quickly.

KI2 1:12  And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let
 fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of
 God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

KI2 1:13  And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And
 the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before
 Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let
 my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

KI2 1:14  Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two
 captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now
 be precious in thy sight.

KI2 1:15  And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not
 afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

KI2 1:16  And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast
 sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because
 there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not
 come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

KI2 1:17  So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken.
 And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of
 Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

KI2 1:18  Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI2 2:1  And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by
 a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

KI2 2:2  And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD
 hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as
 thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.

KI2 2:3  And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to
 Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
 master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

KI2 2:4  And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the
 LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy
 soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.

KI2 2:5  And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and
 said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy
 head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

KI2 2:6  And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath
 sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I
 will not leave thee. And they two went on.

KI2 2:7  And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar
 off: and they two stood by Jordan.

KI2 2:8  And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the
 waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over
 on dry ground.

KI2 2:9  And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto
 Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And
 Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

KI2 2:10  And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see
 me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall
 not be so.

KI2 2:11  And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that,
 behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them
 both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

KI2 2:12  And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of
 Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of
 his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

KI2 2:13  He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went
 back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;

KI2 2:14  And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the
 waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had
 smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.

KI2 2:15  And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw
 him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to
 meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

KI2 2:16  And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty
 strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure
 the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or
 into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.

KI2 2:17  And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent
 therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.

KI2 2:18  And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said
 unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

KI2 2:19  And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the
 situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is
 naught, and the ground barren.

KI2 2:20  And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they
 brought it to him.

KI2 2:21  And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt
 in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there
 shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

KI2 2:22  So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of
 Elisha which he spake.

KI2 2:23  And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the
 way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and
 said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

KI2 2:24  And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name
 of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare
 forty and two children of them.

KI2 2:25  And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned
 to Samaria.

KI2 3:1  Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the
 eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

KI2 3:2  And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his
 father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his
 father had made.

KI2 3:3  Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
 which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

KI2 3:4  And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king
 of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the
 wool.

KI2 3:5  But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab
 rebelled against the king of Israel.

KI2 3:6  And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all
 Israel.

KI2 3:7  And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The
 king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to
 battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy
 people, and my horses as thy horses.

KI2 3:8  And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way
 through the wilderness of Edom.

KI2 3:9  So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of
 Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no
 water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.

KI2 3:10  And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these
 three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!

KI2 3:11  But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that
 we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants
 answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on
 the hands of Elijah.

KI2 3:12  And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the king
 of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

KI2 3:13  And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee?
 get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother.
 And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these
 three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

KI2 3:14  And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand,
 surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of
 Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.

KI2 3:15  But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel
 played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.

KI2 3:16  And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.

KI2 3:17  For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see
 rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both
 ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.

KI2 3:18  And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will
 deliver the Moabites also into your hand.

KI2 3:19  And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and
 shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good
 piece of land with stones.

KI2 3:20  And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was
 offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country
 was filled with water.

KI2 3:21  And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight
 against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and
 upward, and stood in the border.

KI2 3:22  And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the
 water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:

KI2 3:23  And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they
 have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

KI2 3:24  And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and
 smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward
 smiting the Moabites, even in their country.

KI2 3:25  And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast
 every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of
 water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the
 stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

KI2 3:26  And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him,
 he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even
 unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

KI2 3:27  Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his
 stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was
 great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned
 to their own land.

KI2 4:1  Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the
 prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou
 knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take
 unto him my two sons to be bondmen.

KI2 4:2  And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast
 thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the
 house, save a pot of oil.

KI2 4:3  Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours,
 even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

KI2 4:4  And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon
 thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside
 that which is full.

KI2 4:5  So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons,
 who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.

KI2 4:6  And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto
 her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel
 more. And the oil stayed.

KI2 4:7  Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the
 oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.

KI2 4:8  And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great
 woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he
 passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

KI2 4:9  And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an
 holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.

KI2 4:10  Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us
 set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it
 shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

KI2 4:11  And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the
 chamber, and lay there.

KI2 4:12  And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he
 had called her, she stood before him.

KI2 4:13  And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been
 careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou
 be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I
 dwell among mine own people.

KI2 4:14  And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered,
 Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

KI2 4:15  And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the
 door.

KI2 4:16  And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou
 shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie
 unto thine handmaid.

KI2 4:17  And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha
 had said unto her, according to the time of life.

KI2 4:18  And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to
 his father to the reapers.

KI2 4:19  And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad,
 Carry him to his mother.

KI2 4:20  And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on
 her knees till noon, and then died.

KI2 4:21  And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut
 the door upon him, and went out.

KI2 4:22  And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one
 of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and
 come again.

KI2 4:23  And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new
 moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

KI2 4:24  Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go
 forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.

KI2 4:25  So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came
 to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his
 servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:

KI2 4:26  Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with
 thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she
 answered, It is well:

KI2 4:27  And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by
 the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said,
 Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it
 from me, and hath not told me.

KI2 4:28  Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not
 deceive me?

KI2 4:29  Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine
 hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute
 thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

KI2 4:30  And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul
 liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.

KI2 4:31  And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face
 of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went
 again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

KI2 4:32  And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was
 dead, and laid upon his bed.

KI2 4:33  He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed
 unto the LORD.

KI2 4:34  And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his
 mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and
 stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.

KI2 4:35  Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went
 up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and
 the child opened his eyes.

KI2 4:36  And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called
 her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.

KI2 4:37  Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the
 ground, and took up her son, and went out.

KI2 4:38  And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land;
 and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his
 servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the
 prophets.

KI2 4:39  And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild
 vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them
 into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

KI2 4:40  So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they
 were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of
 God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

KI2 4:41  But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he
 said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm
 in the pot.

KI2 4:42  And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God
 bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn
 in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

KI2 4:43  And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men?
 He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD,
 They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

KI2 4:44  So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof,
 according to the word of the LORD.

KI2 5:1  Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man
 with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given
 deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a
 leper.

KI2 5:2  And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away
 captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's
 wife.

KI2 5:3  And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the
 prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

KI2 5:4  And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the
 maid that is of the land of Israel.

KI2 5:5  And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto
 the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of
 silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

KI2 5:6  And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this
 letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant
 to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.

KI2 5:7  And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that
 he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this
 man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I
 pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

KI2 5:8  And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of
 Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast
 thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there
 is a prophet in Israel.

KI2 5:9  So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the
 door of the house of Elisha.

KI2 5:10  And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan
 seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

KI2 5:11  But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He
 will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his
 God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

KI2 5:12  Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the
 waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went
 away in a rage.

KI2 5:13  And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father,
 if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done
 it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

KI2 5:14  Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan,
 according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto
 the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

KI2 5:15  And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and
 came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no
 God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a
 blessing of thy servant.

KI2 5:16  But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive
 none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

KI2 5:17  And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy
 servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer
 neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.

KI2 5:18  In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth
 into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I
 bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of
 Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.

KI2 5:19  And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little
 way.

KI2 5:20  But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my
 master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that
 which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take
 somewhat of him.

KI2 5:21  So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running
 after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all
 well?

KI2 5:22  And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold,
 even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons
 of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes
 of garments.

KI2 5:23  And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and
 bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and
 laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

KI2 5:24  And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and
 bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.

KI2 5:25  But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto
 him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.

KI2 5:26  And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man
 turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive
 money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and
 oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

KI2 5:27  The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy
 seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

KI2 6:1  And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place
 where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

KI2 6:2  Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a
 beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered,
 Go ye.

KI2 6:3  And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And
 he answered, I will go.

KI2 6:4  So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down
 wood.

KI2 6:5  But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and
 he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

KI2 6:6  And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place.
 And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.

KI2 6:7  Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and
 took it.

KI2 6:8  Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with
 his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.

KI2 6:9  And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that
 thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.

KI2 6:10  And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told
 him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.

KI2 6:11  Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this
 thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me
 which of us is for the king of Israel?

KI2 6:12  And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the
 prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou
 speakest in thy bedchamber.

KI2 6:13  And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him.
 And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

KI2 6:14  Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and
 they came by night, and compassed the city about.

KI2 6:15  And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone
 forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And
 his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

KI2 6:16  And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than
 they that be with them.

KI2 6:17  And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that
 he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and,
 behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about
 Elisha.

KI2 6:18  And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and
 said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with
 blindness according to the word of Elisha.

KI2 6:19  And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the
 city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led
 them to Samaria.

KI2 6:20  And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha
 said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD
 opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of
 Samaria.

KI2 6:21  And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father,
 shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

KI2 6:22  And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those
 whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and
 water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

KI2 6:23  And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and
 drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of
 Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

KI2 6:24  And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered
 all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

KI2 6:25  And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged
 it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the
 fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

KI2 6:26  And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a
 woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

KI2 6:27  And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee?
 out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

KI2 6:28  And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This
 woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat
 my son to morrow.

KI2 6:29  So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next
 day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

KI2 6:30  And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that
 he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people
 looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

KI2 6:31  Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha
 the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

KI2 6:32  But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the
 king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said
 to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine
 head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at
 the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

KI2 6:33  And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down
 unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait
 for the LORD any longer?

KI2 7:1  Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD,
 To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a
 shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

KI2 7:2  Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and
 said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be?
 And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat
 thereof.

KI2 7:3  And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and
 they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

KI2 7:4  If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the
 city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now
 therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us
 alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

KI2 7:5  And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians:
 and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria,
 behold, there was no man there.

KI2 7:6  For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of
 chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they
 said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings
 of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

KI2 7:7  Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents,
 and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for
 their life.

KI2 7:8  And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they
 went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and
 gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into
 another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.

KI2 7:9  Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of
 good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some
 mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the
 king's household.

KI2 7:10  So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told
 them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no
 man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the
 tents as they were.

KI2 7:11  And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house
 within.

KI2 7:12  And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will
 now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry;
 therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field,
 saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get
 into the city.

KI2 7:13  And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray
 thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city,
 (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold,
 I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are
 consumed:) and let us send and see.

KI2 7:14  They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the
 host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

KI2 7:15  And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full
 of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And
 the messengers returned, and told the king.

KI2 7:16  And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a
 measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a
 shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

KI2 7:17  And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the
 charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died,
 as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.

KI2 7:18  And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying,
 Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a
 shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:

KI2 7:19  And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the
 LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said,
 Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

KI2 7:20  And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the
 gate, and he died.

KI2 8:1  Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life,
 saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou
 canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come
 upon the land seven years.

KI2 8:2  And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and
 she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines
 seven years.

KI2 8:3  And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned
 out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king
 for her house and for her land.

KI2 8:4  And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying,
 Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.

KI2 8:5  And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a
 dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to
 life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My
 lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to
 life.

KI2 8:6  And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed
 unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the
 fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

KI2 8:7  And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick;
 and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

KI2 8:8  And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go,
 meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover
 of this disease?

KI2 8:9  So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every
 good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before
 him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying,
 Shall I recover of this disease?

KI2 8:10  And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly
 recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

KI2 8:11  And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and
 the man of God wept.

KI2 8:12  And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know
 the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds
 wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and
 wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

KI2 8:13  And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do
 this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou
 shalt be king over Syria.

KI2 8:14  So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him,
 What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest
 surely recover.

KI2 8:15  And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and
 dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael
 reigned in his stead.

KI2 8:16  And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
 Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Je hoshaphat king of
 Judah began to reign.

KI2 8:17  Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he
 reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

KI2 8:18  And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of
 Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight
 of the LORD.

KI2 8:19  Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as
 he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.

KI2 8:20  In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a
 king over themselves.

KI2 8:21  So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he
 rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the
 captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.

KI2 8:22  Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then
 Libnah revolted at the same time.

KI2 8:23  And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 8:24  And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
 in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 8:25  In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did
 Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

KI2 8:26  Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he
 reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the
 daughter of Omri king of Israel.

KI2 8:27  And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the
 sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the
 house of Ahab.

KI2 8:28  And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king
 of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.

KI2 8:29  And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which
 the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of
 Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram
 the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

KI2 9:1  And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and
 said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and
 go to Ramothgilead:

KI2 9:2  And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of
 Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among
 his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;

KI2 9:3  Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith
 the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and
 flee, and tarry not.

KI2 9:4  So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to
 Ramothgilead.

KI2 9:5  And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and
 he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of
 all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.

KI2 9:6  And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his
 head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed
 thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.

KI2 9:7  And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge
 the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants
 of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.

KI2 9:8  For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab
 him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in
 Israel:

KI2 9:9  And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son
 of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:

KI2 9:10  And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there
 shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.

KI2 9:11  Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto
 him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto
 them, Ye know the man, and his communication.

KI2 9:12  And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus
 spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over
 Israel.

KI2 9:13  Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under
 him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.

KI2 9:14  So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against
 Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael
 king of Syria.

KI2 9:15  But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
 which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.)
 And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out
 of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.

KI2 9:16  So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there.
 And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.

KI2 9:17  And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the
 company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take
 an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

KI2 9:18  So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the
 king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee
 behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he
 cometh not again.

KI2 9:19  Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said,
 Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do
 with peace? turn thee behind me.

KI2 9:20  And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not
 again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he
 driveth furiously.

KI2 9:21  And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram
 king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and
 they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the
 Jezreelite.

KI2 9:22  And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace,
 Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother
 Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

KI2 9:23  And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is
 treachery, O Ahaziah.

KI2 9:24  And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between
 his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his
 chariot.

KI2 9:25  Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the
 portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I
 and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon
 him;

KI2 9:26  Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of
 his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the
 LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according
 to the word of the LORD.

KI2 9:27  But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way
 of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also
 in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam.
 And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.

KI2 9:28  And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried
 him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

KI2 9:29  And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to
 reign over Judah.

KI2 9:30  And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she
 painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

KI2 9:31  And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who
 slew his master?

KI2 9:32  And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side?
 who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.

KI2 9:33  And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her
 blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under
 foot.

KI2 9:34  And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now
 this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.

KI2 9:35  And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the
 skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

KI2 9:36  Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the
 word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
 In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

KI2 9:37  And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the
 field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

KI2 10:1  And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and
 sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that
 brought up Ahab's children, saying,

KI2 10:2  Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons
 are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city
 also, and armour;

KI2 10:3  Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him
 on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

KI2 10:4  But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood
 not before him: how then shall we stand?

KI2 10:5  And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the
 elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We
 are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make
 any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.

KI2 10:6  Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be
 mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your
 master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the
 king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city,
 which brought them up.

KI2 10:7  And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the
 king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and
 sent him them to Jezreel.

KI2 10:8  And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought
 the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the
 entering in of the gate until the morning.

KI2 10:9  And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and
 said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my
 master, and slew him: but who slew all these?

KI2 10:10  Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word
 of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD
 hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.

KI2 10:11  So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and
 all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none
 remaining.

KI2 10:12  And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the
 shearing house in the way,

KI2 10:13  Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who
 are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to
 salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.

KI2 10:14  And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew
 them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left
 he any of them.

KI2 10:15  And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of
 Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine
 heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If
 it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to
 him into the chariot.

KI2 10:16  And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they
 made him ride in his chariot.

KI2 10:17  And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in
 Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD,
 which he spake to Elijah.

KI2 10:18  And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab
 served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.

KI2 10:19  Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his
 servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great
 sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But
 Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers
 of Baal.

KI2 10:20  And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they
 proclaimed it.

KI2 10:21  And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal
 came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the
 house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.

KI2 10:22  And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments
 for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.

KI2 10:23  And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of
 Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be
 here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal
 only.

KI2 10:24  And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu
 appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have
 brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for
 the life of him.

KI2 10:25  And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the
 burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and
 slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the
 sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city
 of the house of Baal.

KI2 10:26  And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and
 burned them.

KI2 10:27  And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of
 Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.

KI2 10:28  Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

KI2 10:29  Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
 to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that
 were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.

KI2 10:30  And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in
 executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of
 Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth
 generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.

KI2 10:31  But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel
 with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made
 Israel to sin.

KI2 10:32  In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote
 them in all the coasts of Israel;

KI2 10:33  From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the
 Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even
 Gilead and Bashan.

KI2 10:34  Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his
 might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?

KI2 10:35  And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And
 Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 10:36  And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and
 eight years.

KI2 11:1  And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead,
 she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

KI2 11:2  But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took
 Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were
 slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from
 Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

KI2 11:3  And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And
 Athaliah did reign over the land.

KI2 11:4  And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over
 hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the
 house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them
 in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.

KI2 11:5  And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A
 third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the
 watch of the king's house;

KI2 11:6  And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the
 gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be
 not broken down.

KI2 11:7  And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they
 shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.

KI2 11:8  And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons
 in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be
 ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.

KI2 11:9  And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that
 Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to
 come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came
 to Jehoiada the priest.

KI2 11:10  And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's
 spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.

KI2 11:11  And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round
 about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the
 temple, along by the altar and the temple.

KI2 11:12  And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and
 gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they
 clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.

KI2 11:13  And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people,
 she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.

KI2 11:14  And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the
 manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the
 people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her
 clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.

KI2 11:15  But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the
 officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges:
 and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let
 her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

KI2 11:16  And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the
 horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.

KI2 11:17  And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the
 people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the king also and the
 people.

KI2 11:18  And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and
 brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and
 slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed
 officers over the house of the LORD.

KI2 11:19  And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the
 guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from
 the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the
 king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

KI2 11:20  And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet:
 and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

KI2 11:21  Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

KI2 12:1  In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years
 reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

KI2 12:2  And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his
 days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

KI2 12:3  But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed
 and burnt incense in the high places.

KI2 12:4  And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated
 things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every
 one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the
 money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

KI2 12:5  Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and
 let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be
 found.

KI2 12:6  But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash
 the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

KI2 12:7  Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other
 priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now
 therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the
 breaches of the house.

KI2 12:8  And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people,
 neither to repair the breaches of the house.

KI2 12:9  But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of
 it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the
 house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the
 money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

KI2 12:10  And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest,
 that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags,
 and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

KI2 12:11  And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did
 the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it
 out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

KI2 12:12  And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed
 stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was
 laid out for the house to repair it.

KI2 12:13  Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of
 silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of
 silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:

KI2 12:14  But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house
 of the LORD.

KI2 12:15  Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they
 delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

KI2 12:16  The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house
 of the LORD: it was the priests'.

KI2 12:17  Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took
 it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

KI2 12:18  And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that
 Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had
 dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found
 in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent
 it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

KI2 12:19  And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 12:20  And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the
 house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

KI2 12:21  For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer,
 his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers
 in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 13:1  In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of
 Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
 reigned seventeen years.

KI2 13:2  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed
 the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed
 not therefrom.

KI2 13:3  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he
 delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of
 Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

KI2 13:4  And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for
 he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

KI2 13:5  (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under
 the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as
 beforetime.

KI2 13:6  Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of
 Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the
 grove also in Samaria.)

KI2 13:7  Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
 horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria
 had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

KI2 13:8  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his
 might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?

KI2 13:9  And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria:
 and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 13:10  In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash
 the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen
 years.

KI2 13:11  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed
 not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but
 he walked therein.

KI2 13:12  And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his
 might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written
 in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI2 13:13  And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne:
 and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

KI2 13:14  Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And
 Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and
 said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen
 thereof.

KI2 13:15  And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him
 bow and arrows.

KI2 13:16  And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And
 he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.

KI2 13:17  And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha
 said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's
 deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite
 the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.

KI2 13:18  And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the
 king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.

KI2 13:19  And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have
 smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst
 consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

KI2 13:20  And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites
 invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

KI2 13:21  And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they
 spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and
 when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and
 stood up on his feet.

KI2 13:22  But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

KI2 13:23  And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and
 had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and
 Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as
 yet.

KI2 13:24  So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his
 stead.

KI2 13:25  And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of
 Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of
 Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the
 cities of Israel.

KI2 14:1  In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned
 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.

KI2 14:2  He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned
 twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of
 Jerusalem.

KI2 14:3  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not
 like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father
 did.

KI2 14:4  Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did
 sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

KI2 14:5  And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his
 hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.

KI2 14:6  But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that
 which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded,
 saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the
 children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death
 for his own sin.

KI2 14:7  He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by
 war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.

KI2 14:8  Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of
 Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.

KI2 14:9  And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,
 The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon,
 saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast
 that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

KI2 14:10  Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up:
 glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt,
 that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

KI2 14:11  But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went
 up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at
 Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

KI2 14:12  And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every
 man to their tents.

KI2 14:13  And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
 Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake
 down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate,
 four hundred cubits.

KI2 14:14  And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were
 found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and
 hostages, and returned to Samaria.

KI2 14:15  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and
 how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book
 of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI2 14:16  And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with
 the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 14:17  And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of
 Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

KI2 14:18  And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the
 book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 14:19  Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to
 Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

KI2 14:20  And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with
 his fathers in the city of David.

KI2 14:21  And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years
 old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

KI2 14:22  He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept
 with his fathers.

KI2 14:23  In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
 Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and
 reigned forty and one years.

KI2 14:24  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
 not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

KI2 14:25  He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the
 sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he
 spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet,
 which was of Gathhepher.

KI2 14:26  For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter:
 for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

KI2 14:27  And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from
 under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

KI2 14:28  Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his
 might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which
 belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI2 14:29  And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel;
 and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 15:1  In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began
 Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

KI2 15:2  Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two
 and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of
 Jerusalem.

KI2 15:3  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that his father Amaziah had done;

KI2 15:4  Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and
 burnt incense still on the high places.

KI2 15:5  And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of
 his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over
 the house, judging the people of the land.

KI2 15:6  And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 15:7  So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
 fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 15:8  In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah
 the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

KI2 15:9  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
 fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
 who made Israel to sin.

KI2 15:10  And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him
 before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

KI2 15:11  And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written
 in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

KI2 15:12  This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy
 sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it
 came to pass.

KI2 15:13  Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth
 year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

KI2 15:14  For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to
 Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and
 reigned in his stead.

KI2 15:15  And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he
 made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel.

KI2 15:16  Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the
 coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he
 smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

KI2 15:17  In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began
 Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in
 Samaria.

KI2 15:18  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
 not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
 to sin.

KI2 15:19  And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave
 Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm
 the kingdom in his hand.

KI2 15:20  And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men
 of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of
 Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the
 land.

KI2 15:21  And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI2 15:22  And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in
 his stead.

KI2 15:23  In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of
 Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

KI2 15:24  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
 not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

KI2 15:25  But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against
 him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob
 and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and
 reigned in his room.

KI2 15:26  And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
 behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel.

KI2 15:27  In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son
 of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.

KI2 15:28  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
 not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

KI2 15:29  In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of
 Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and
 Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them
 captive to Assyria.

KI2 15:30  And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son
 of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the
 twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

KI2 15:31  And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they
 are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

KI2 15:32  In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began
 Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

KI2 15:33  Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he
 reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the
 daughter of Zadok.

KI2 15:34  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did
 according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

KI2 15:35  Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and
 burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the
 house of the LORD.

KI2 15:36  Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 15:37  In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of
 Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

KI2 15:38  And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
 in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 16:1  In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of
 Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

KI2 16:2  Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen
 years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD
 his God, like David his father.

KI2 16:3  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his
 son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen,
 whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

KI2 16:4  And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the
 hills, and under every green tree.

KI2 16:5  Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel
 came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome
 him.

KI2 16:6  At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave
 the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this
 day.

KI2 16:7  So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I
 am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king
 of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against
 me.

KI2 16:8  And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the
 LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present
 to the king of Assyria.

KI2 16:9  And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria
 went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive
 to Kir, and slew Rezin.

KI2 16:10  And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of
 Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah
 the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all
 the workmanship thereof.

KI2 16:11  And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz
 had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came
 from Damascus.

KI2 16:12  And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar:
 and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

KI2 16:13  And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured
 his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the
 altar.

KI2 16:14  And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD,
 from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the
 LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

KI2 16:15  And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great
 altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the
 king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all
 the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings;
 and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood
 of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.

KI2 16:16  Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz
 commanded.

KI2 16:17  And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the
 laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were
 under it, and put it upon the pavement of stones.

KI2 16:18  And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and
 the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king
 of Assyria.

KI2 16:19  Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written
 in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 16:20  And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
 in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 17:1  In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of
 Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.

KI2 17:2  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as
 the kings of Israel that were before him.

KI2 17:3  Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became
 his servant, and gave him presents.

KI2 17:4  And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent
 messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of
 Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him
 up, and bound him in prison.

KI2 17:5  Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up
 to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

KI2 17:6  In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and
 carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by
 the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

KI2 17:7  For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the
 LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from
 under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

KI2 17:8  And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out
 from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they
 had made.

KI2 17:9  And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not
 right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all
 their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

KI2 17:10  And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under
 every green tree:

KI2 17:11  And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the
 heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to
 provoke the LORD to anger:

KI2 17:12  For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall
 not do this thing.

KI2 17:13  Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the
 prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep
 my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded
 your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

KI2 17:14  Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like
 to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

KI2 17:15  And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with
 their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they
 followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round
 about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not
 do like them.

KI2 17:16  And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made
 them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the
 host of heaven, and served Baal.

KI2 17:17  And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the
 fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil
 in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

KI2 17:18  Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out
 of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

KI2 17:19  Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but
 walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

KI2 17:20  And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted
 them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them
 out of his sight.

KI2 17:21  For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam
 the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and
 made them sin a great sin.

KI2 17:22  For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which
 he did; they departed not from them;

KI2 17:23  Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by
 all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own
 land to Assyria unto this day.

KI2 17:24  And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from
 Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them
 in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they
 possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

KI2 17:25  And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they
 feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew
 some of them.

KI2 17:26  Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations
 which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the
 manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and,
 behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the
 land.

KI2 17:27  Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the
 priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let
 him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

KI2 17:28  Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came
 and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

KI2 17:29  Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the
 houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation
 in their cities wherein they dwelt.

KI2 17:30  And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made
 Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

KI2 17:31  And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt
 their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

KI2 17:32  So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest
 of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses
 of the high places.

KI2 17:33  They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner
 of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

KI2 17:34  Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the
 LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or
 after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob,
 whom he named Israel;

KI2 17:35  With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye
 shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor
 sacrifice to them:

KI2 17:36  But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great
 power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye
 worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.

KI2 17:37  And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the
 commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and
 ye shall not fear other gods.

KI2 17:38  And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget;
 neither shall ye fear other gods.

KI2 17:39  But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out
 of the hand of all your enemies.

KI2 17:40  Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former
 manner.

KI2 17:41  So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images,
 both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so
 do they unto this day.

KI2 18:1  Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
 Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

KI2 18:2  Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he
 reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
 Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

KI2 18:3  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that David his father did.

KI2 18:4  He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the
 groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto
 those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it
 Nehushtan.

KI2 18:5  He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like
 him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

KI2 18:6  For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but
 kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

KI2 18:7  And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went
 forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

KI2 18:8  He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof,
 from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

KI2 18:9  And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was
 the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king
 of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

KI2 18:10  And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year
 of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was
 taken.

KI2 18:11  And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put
 them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
 Medes:

KI2 18:12  Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but
 transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD
 commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

KI2 18:13  Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of
 Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

KI2 18:14  And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish,
 saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I
 bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three
 hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

KI2 18:15  And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house
 of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.

KI2 18:16  At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the
 temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had
 overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

KI2 18:17  And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from
 Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went
 up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by
 the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

KI2 18:18  And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim
 the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and
 Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

KI2 18:19  And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith
 the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou
 trustest?

KI2 18:20  Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and
 strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest
 against me?

KI2 18:21  Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even
 upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it:
 so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

KI2 18:22  But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he,
 whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to
 Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

KI2 18:23  Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of
 Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy
 part to set riders upon them.

KI2 18:24  How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of
 my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for
 horsemen?

KI2 18:25  Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it?
 The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

KI2 18:26  Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto
 Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
 understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the
 people that are on the wall.

KI2 18:27  But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy
 master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men
 which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own
 piss with you?

KI2 18:28  Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
 language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of
 Assyria:

KI2 18:29  Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not
 be able to deliver you out of his hand:

KI2 18:30  Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD
 will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand
 of the king of Assyria.

KI2 18:31  Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an
 agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man
 of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the
 waters of his cistern:

KI2 18:32  Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land
 of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of
 honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he
 persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

KI2 18:33  Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out
 of the hand of the king of Assyria?

KI2 18:34  Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of
 Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?

KI2 18:35  Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have
 delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver
 Jerusalem out of mine hand?

KI2 18:36  But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for
 the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

KI2 18:37  Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the
 household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to
 Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

KI2 19:1  And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his
 clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the
 LORD.

KI2 19:2  And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the
 scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the
 prophet the son of Amoz.

KI2 19:3  And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
 trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the
 birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

KI2 19:4  It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom
 the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will
 reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy
 prayer for the remnant that are left.

KI2 19:5  So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

KI2 19:6  And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus
 saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which
 the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

KI2 19:7  Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and
 shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in
 his own land.

KI2 19:8  So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
 Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

KI2 19:9  And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is
 come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah,
 saying,

KI2 19:10  Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy
 God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be
 delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

KI2 19:11  Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all
 lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

KI2 19:12  Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
 destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which
 were in Thelasar?

KI2 19:13  Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king
 of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

KI2 19:14  And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and
 read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it
 before the LORD.

KI2 19:15  And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel,
 which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of
 all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

KI2 19:16  LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see:
 and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living
 God.

KI2 19:17  Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations
 and their lands,

KI2 19:18  And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but
 the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

KI2 19:19  Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of
 his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD
 God, even thou only.

KI2 19:20  Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the
 LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib
 king of Assyria I have heard.

KI2 19:21  This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The
 virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn;
 the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

KI2 19:22  Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou
 exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy
 One of Israel.

KI2 19:23  By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With
 the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains,
 to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and
 the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his
 borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

KI2 19:24  I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet
 have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

KI2 19:25  Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient
 times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou
 shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

KI2 19:26  Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed
 and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb,
 as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

KI2 19:27  But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
 rage against me.

KI2 19:28  Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine
 ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips,
 and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

KI2 19:29  And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such
 things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth
 of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and
 eat the fruits thereof.

KI2 19:30  And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet
 again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

KI2 19:31  For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape
 out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

KI2 19:32  Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He
 shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it
 with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

KI2 19:33  By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not
 come into this city, saith the LORD.

KI2 19:34  For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for
 my servant David's sake.

KI2 19:35  And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went
 out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five
 thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all
 dead corpses.

KI2 19:36  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and
 dwelt at Nineveh.

KI2 19:37  And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch
 his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and
 they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his
 stead.

KI2 20:1  In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah
 the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set
 thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

KI2 20:2  Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
 saying,

KI2 20:3  I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in
 truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy
 sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

KI2 20:4  And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court,
 that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

KI2 20:5  Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith
 the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen
 thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto
 the house of the LORD.

KI2 20:6  And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee
 and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this
 city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

KI2 20:7  And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on
 the boil, and he recovered.

KI2 20:8  And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD
 will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third
 day?

KI2 20:9  And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD
 will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten
 degrees, or go back ten degrees?

KI2 20:10  And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down
 ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

KI2 20:11  And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the
 shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

KI2 20:12  At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
 sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had
 been sick.

KI2 20:13  And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of
 his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the
 precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in
 his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
 Hezekiah shewed them not.

KI2 20:14  Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him,
 What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said,
 They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

KI2 20:15  And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
 answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is
 nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

KI2 20:16  And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.

KI2 20:17  Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
 which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into
 Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

KI2 20:18  And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
 shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of
 Babylon.

KI2 20:19  Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which
 thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my
 days?

KI2 20:20  And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he
 made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 20:21  And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in
 his stead.

KI2 21:1  Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned
 fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.

KI2 21:2  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the
 abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of
 Israel.

KI2 21:3  For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had
 destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab
 king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

KI2 21:4  And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said,
 In Jerusalem will I put my name.

KI2 21:5  And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts
 of the house of the LORD.

KI2 21:6  And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and
 used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought
 much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

KI2 21:7  And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house,
 of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and
 in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my
 name for ever:

KI2 21:8  Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land
 which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all
 that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant
 Moses commanded them.

KI2 21:9  But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil
 than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

KI2 21:10  And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

KI2 21:11  Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and
 hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before
 him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

KI2 21:12  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing
 such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his
 ears shall tingle.

KI2 21:13  And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the
 plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a
 dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

KI2 21:14  And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them
 into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to
 all their enemies;

KI2 21:15  Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have
 provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt,
 even unto this day.

KI2 21:16  Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled
 Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to
 sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

KI2 21:17  Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his
 sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?

KI2 21:18  And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of
 his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 21:19  Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the
 daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

KI2 21:20  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
 father Manasseh did.

KI2 21:21  And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served
 the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

KI2 21:22  And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the
 way of the LORD.

KI2 21:23  And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in
 his own house.

KI2 21:24  And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against
 king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

KI2 21:25  Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written
 in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 21:26  And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah
 his son reigned in his stead.

KI2 22:1  Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
 thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the
 daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.

KI2 22:2  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked
 in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or
 to the left.

KI2 22:3  And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the
 king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe,
 to the house of the LORD, saying,

KI2 22:4  Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is
 brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have
 gathered of the people:

KI2 22:5  And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that
 have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the
 doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches
 of the house,

KI2 22:6  Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn
 stone to repair the house.

KI2 22:7  Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was
 delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

KI2 22:8  And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have
 found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book
 to Shaphan, and he read it.

KI2 22:9  And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word
 again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the
 house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that
 have the oversight of the house of the LORD.

KI2 22:10  And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest
 hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

KI2 22:11  And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book
 of the law, that he rent his clothes.

KI2 22:12  And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of
 Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah
 a servant of the king's, saying,

KI2 22:13  Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all
 Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the
 wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not
 hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is
 written concerning us.

KI2 22:14  So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and
 Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of
 Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in
 Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.

KI2 22:15  And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the
 man that sent you to me,

KI2 22:16  Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and
 upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king
 of Judah hath read:

KI2 22:17  Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other
 gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands;
 therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be
 quenched.

KI2 22:18  But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus
 shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words
 which thou hast heard;

KI2 22:19  Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before
 the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the
 inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and
 hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the
 LORD.

KI2 22:20  Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou
 shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all
 the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word
 again.

KI2 23:1  And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah
 and of Jerusalem.

KI2 23:2  And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of
 Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the
 prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears
 all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the
 LORD.

KI2 23:3  And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD,
 to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and
 his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of
 this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the
 covenant.

KI2 23:4  And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests
 of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the
 temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the
 grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem
 in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

KI2 23:5  And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had
 ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and
 in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal,
 to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of
 heaven.

KI2 23:6  And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without
 Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and
 stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves
 of the children of the people.

KI2 23:7  And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house
 of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

KI2 23:8  And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and
 defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to
 Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the
 entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a
 man's left hand at the gate of the city.

KI2 23:9  Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar
 of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among
 their brethren.

KI2 23:10  And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of
 Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the
 fire to Molech.

KI2 23:11  And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the
 sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of
 Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the
 chariots of the sun with fire.

KI2 23:12  And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz,
 which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made
 in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake
 them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

KI2 23:13  And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the
 right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had
 builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the
 abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children
 of Ammon, did the king defile.

KI2 23:14  And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and
 filled their places with the bones of men.

KI2 23:15  Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which
 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar
 and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it
 small to powder, and burned the grove.

KI2 23:16  And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were
 there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and
 burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the
 LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

KI2 23:17  Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city
 told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and
 proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

KI2 23:18  And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let
 his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

KI2 23:19  And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities
 of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger,
 Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done
 in Bethel.

KI2 23:20  And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon
 the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

KI2 23:21  And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover
 unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

KI2 23:22  Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the
 judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor
 of the kings of Judah;

KI2 23:23  But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was
 holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

KI2 23:24  Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the
 images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land
 of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the
 words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found
 in the house of the LORD.

KI2 23:25  And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the
 LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might,
 according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like
 him.

KI2 23:26  Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great
 wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the
 provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

KI2 23:27  And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I
 have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have
 chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

KI2 23:28  Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 23:29  In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of
 Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew
 him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

KI2 23:30  And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and
 brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people
 of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him
 king in his father's stead.

KI2 23:31  Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and
 he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the
 daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

KI2 23:32  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that his fathers had done.

KI2 23:33  And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath,
 that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an
 hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

KI2 23:34  And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of
 Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away:
 and he came to Egypt, and died there.

KI2 23:35  And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed
 the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he
 exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one
 according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.

KI2 23:36  Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and
 he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the
 daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

KI2 23:37  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that his fathers had done.

KI2 24:1  In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim
 became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

KI2 24:2  And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the
 Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and
 sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD,
 which he spake by his servants the prophets.

KI2 24:3  Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove
 them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he
 did;

KI2 24:4  And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem
 with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

KI2 24:5  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI2 24:6  So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned
 in his stead.

KI2 24:7  And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for
 the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river
 Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

KI2 24:8  Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the
 daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

KI2 24:9  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
 all that his father had done.

KI2 24:10  At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
 against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

KI2 24:11  And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his
 servants did besiege it.

KI2 24:12  And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon,
 he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and
 the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

KI2 24:13  And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the
 LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the
 vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the
 LORD, as the LORD had said.

KI2 24:14  And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the
 mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and
 smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

KI2 24:15  And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's
 mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land,
 those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

KI2 24:16  And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and
 smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king
 of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

KI2 24:17  And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in
 his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

KI2 24:18  Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the
 daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

KI2 24:19  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that Jehoiakim had done.

KI2 24:20  For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and
 Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled
 against the king of Babylon.

KI2 25:1  And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
 month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
 came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and
 they built forts against it round about.

KI2 25:2  And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

KI2 25:3  And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the
 city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

KI2 25:4  And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by
 the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now
 the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way
 toward the plain.

KI2 25:5  And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him
 in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.

KI2 25:6  So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to
 Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

KI2 25:7  And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the
 eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to
 Babylon.

KI2 25:8  And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the
 nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan,
 captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

KI2 25:9  And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the
 houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.

KI2 25:10  And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the
 guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

KI2 25:11  Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the
 fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the
 multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.

KI2 25:12  But the captain of the guard left of the door of the poor of the
 land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

KI2 25:13  And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the
 bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees
 break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

KI2 25:14  And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and
 all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

KI2 25:15  And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in
 gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.

KI2 25:16  The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for
 the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

KI2 25:17  The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter
 upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the
 wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass:
 and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.

KI2 25:18  And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
 Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

KI2 25:19  And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of
 war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found
 in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people
 of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found
 in the city:

KI2 25:20  And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them
 to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

KI2 25:21  And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the
 land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.

KI2 25:22  And as for the people that remained 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, ruler.

KI2 25:23  And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard
 that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah
 to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of
 Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the
 son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

KI2 25:24  And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them,
 Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the
 king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.

KI2 25:25  But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
 Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with
 him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that
 were with him at Mizpah.

KI2 25:26  And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the
 armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.

KI2 25:27  And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
 of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth
 day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began
 to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

KI2 25:28  And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne
 of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

KI2 25:29  And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually
 before him all the days of his life.

KI2 25:30  And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a
 daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

