left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
021:018 After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with
an incurable disease.
021:019 It happened, in process of time, at the end of two years,
that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died
of sore diseases. His people made no burning for him,
like the burning of his fathers.
021:020 Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned
in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired;
and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs
of the kings.
022:001 The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest
son king in his place; for the band of men who came
with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest.
So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
022:002 Forty-two 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.
022:003 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother
was his counselor to do wickedly.
022:004 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did
the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death
of his father, to his destruction.
022:005 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram
the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king
of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
022:006 He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had
given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria.
Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see
Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
022:007 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram:
for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu
the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off
the house of Ahab.
022:008 It happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house
of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons
of the brothers of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah,
and killed them.
022:009 He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding
in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him;
and they buried him, for they said, He is the son
of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.
The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
022:010 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead,
she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah.
022:011 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son
of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons
who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber.
So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife
of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah),
hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn't kill him.
022:012 He was with them hid in the house of God six years:
and Athaliah reigned over the land.
023:001 In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took
the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham,
and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed,
and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri,
into covenant with him.
023:002 They went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out
of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers'
[houses] of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
023:003 All the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God.
He said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign,
as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.
023:004 This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you,
who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites,
shall be porters of the thresholds;
023:005 and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third
part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall
be in the courts of the house of Yahweh.
023:006 But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests,
and those who minister of the Levites; they shall come in,
for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the
charge of Yahweh.
023:007 The Levites shall compass the king round about, every man
with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes into the house,
let him be slain: and be you with the king when he comes in,
and when he goes out.
023:008 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada
the priest commanded: and they took every man his men,
those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were
to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn't
dismiss the shift.
023:009 Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds
the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's,
which were in the house of God.
023:010 He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand,
from the right side of the house to the left side of the house,
along by the altar and the house, by the king round about.
023:011 Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown
on him, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king:
and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said,
[Long] live the king.
023:012 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising
the king, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh:
023:013 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at
the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king;
and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets;
the singers also [played] on instruments of music, and led
the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes,
and said, Treason! treason!
023:014 Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set
over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks;
and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword:
for the priest said, Don't kill her in the house of Yahweh.
023:015 So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse
gate to the king's house: and they killed her there.
023:016 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people,
and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.
023:017 All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down,
and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed
Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
023:018 Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under
the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed
in the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh,
as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and
with singing, according to the order of David.
023:019 He set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh,
that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
023:020 He took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the
governors of the people, and all the people of the land,
and brought down the king from the house of Yahweh:
and they came through the upper gate to the king's house,
and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
023:021 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet.
Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
024:001 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
024:002 Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days
of Jehoiada the priest.
024:003 Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father
of sons and daughters.
024:004 It happened after this, that Joash was minded to restore
the house of Yahweh.
024:005 He gathered together the priests and the Levites,
and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather
of all Israel money to repair the house of your God
from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter.
However the Levites didn't hurry.
024:006 The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him,
Why haven't you required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah
and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh,
and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?
024:007 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up
the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house
of Yahweh did they bestow on the Baals.
024:008 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it
outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.
024:009 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem,
to bring in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God
laid on Israel in the wilderness.
024:010 All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in,
and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
024:011 It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's
officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw
that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief
priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it,
and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day,
and gathered money in abundance.
024:012 The king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of
the service of the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons
and carpenters to restore the house of Yahweh, and also such
as worked iron and brass to repair the house of Yahweh.
024:013 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward
in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state,
and strengthened it.
024:014 When they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money
before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made vessels
for the house of Yahweh, even vessels with which to minister
and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver.
They offered burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh continually
all the days of Jehoiada.
024:015 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died;
one hundred thirty years old was he when he died.
024:016 They buried him in the city of David among the kings,
because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
024:017 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah,
and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.
024:018 They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers,
and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah
and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
024:019 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh;
and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
024:020 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them,
Thus says God, Why disobey you the commandments of Yahweh,
so that you can't prosper? because you have forsaken Yahweh,
he has also forsaken you.
024:021 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at
the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh.
024:022 Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which
Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son.
When he died, he said, Yahweh look on it, and require it.
024:023 It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians
came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem,
and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people,
and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus.
024:024 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men;
and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand,
because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
So they executed judgment on Joash.
024:025 When they were departed for him (for they left him very sick),
his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons
of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died;
and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't
bury him in the tombs of the kings.
024:026 These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son
of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of
Shimrith the Moabitess.
024:027 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens
[laid] on him, and the rebuilding of the house of God, behold,
they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings.
Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
025:001 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem:
and his mother's name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
025:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not
with a perfect heart.
025:003 Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him,
that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.
025:004 But he didn't put their children to death, but did according
to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses,
as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for
the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers;
but every man shall die for his own sin.
025:005 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them
according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands
and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin:
and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward,
and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go
forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.
025:006 He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out
of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
025:007 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, don't let
the army of Israel go with you; for Yahweh is not with Israel,
[to wit], with all the children of Ephraim.
025:008 But if you will go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle:
God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power
to help, and to cast down.
025:009 Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred
talents which I have given to the army of Israel? The man
of God answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.
025:010 Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that
had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again:
therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah,
and they returned home in fierce anger.
025:011 Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went
to the Valley of Salt, and struck of the children of
Seir ten thousand.
025:012 [other] ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive,
and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from
the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.
025:013 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they
should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah,
from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand,
and took much spoil.
025:014 Now it happened, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter
of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children
of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself
before them, and burned incense to them.
025:015 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah,
and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why have you
sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered
their own people out of your hand?
025:016 It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him,
Have we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should
you be struck down? Then the prophet stopped, and said,
I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you
have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.
025:017 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash,
the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel,
saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
025:018 Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,
The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was
in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife:
and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon,
and trod down the thistle.
025:019 You say, Behold, you have struck Edom; and your heart
lifts you up to boast: abide now at home; why should you
meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you,
and Judah with you?
025:020 But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might
deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they
had sought after the gods of Edom.
025:021 So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king
of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh,
which belongs to Judah.
025:022 Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every
man to his tent.
025:023 Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought
him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from
the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
025:024 [He took] all the gold and silver, and all the vessels
that were found in the house of God with Obed-Edom,
and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also,
and returned to Samaria.
025:025 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
025:026 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold,
aren't they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
025:027 Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following
Yahweh they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem;
and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish,
and killed him there.
025:028 They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers
in the city of Judah.
026:001 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old,
and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
026:002 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
026:003 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign;
and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
026:004 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to
all that his father Amaziah had done.
026:005 He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah,
who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long
as he sought Yahweh, God made him to prosper.
026:006 He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke
down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall
of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod,
and among the Philistines.
026:007 God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians
who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
026:008 The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad
even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceeding strong.
026:009 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate,
and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall],
and fortified them.
026:010 He built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns,
for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain:
[and he had] farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains
and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.
026:011 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war
by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made
by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand
of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
026:012 The whole number of the heads of fathers' [houses], even the mighty
men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred.
026:013 Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven
thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power,
to help the king against the enemy.
026:014 Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields,
and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows,
and stones for slinging.
026:015 He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men,
to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to
shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad;
for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.
026:016 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that
he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God;
for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on
the altar of incense.
026:017 Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty
priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men:
026:018 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains
not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests
the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense:
go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall
it be for your honor from Yahweh God.
026:019 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand
to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests,
the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests
in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense.
026:020 Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him,
and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him
out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out,
because Yahweh had struck him.
026:021 Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death,
and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut
off from the house of Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over
the king's house, judging the people of the land.
026:022 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah
the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
026:023 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings;
for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned
in his place.
027:001 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
027:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,
according to all that his father Uzziah had done:
however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh.
The people did yet corruptly.
027:003 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall
of Ophel he built much.
027:004 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah,
and in the forests he built castles and towers.
027:005 He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon,
and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave
him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten
thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley.
So much did the children of Ammon render to him, in the second
year also, and in the third.
027:006 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before
Yahweh his God.
027:007 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars,
and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings
of Israel and Judah.
027:008 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
027:009 Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city
of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
028:001 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't do that which was
right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father;
028:002 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made
also molten images for the Baals.
028:003 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations
of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
028:004 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on
the hills, and under every green tree.
028:005 Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king
of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a
great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus.
He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel,
who struck him with a great slaughter.
028:006 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred
twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men;
because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
028:007 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son,
and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was
next to the king.
028:008 The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers
two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took
also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
028:009 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded:
and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said
to them, Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers,
was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand,
and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.
028:010 Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah
and Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids to you:
[but] aren't there even with you trespasses of your own
against Yahweh your God?