010:033 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites,
and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is
by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
010:034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all
his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
010:035 Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria.
Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
010:036 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria
was twenty-eight years.
011:001 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead,
she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
011:002 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah,
took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among
the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse,
[and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah,
so that he was not slain;
011:003 He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years.
Athaliah reigned over the land.
011:004 In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains
over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought
them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant
with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh,
and shown them the king's son.
011:005 He commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do:
a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be
keepers of the watch of the king's house;
011:006 A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate
behind the guard: so shall you keep the watch of the house,
and be a barrier.
011:007 The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the Sabbath,
shall keep the watch of the house of Yahweh about the king.
011:008 You shall compass the king round about, every man with his
weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks,
let him be slain: and be you with the king when he goes out,
and when he comes in.
011:009 The captains over hundreds 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, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
011:010 The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears
and shields that had been king David's, which were in the
house of Yahweh.
011:011 The guard stood, every man with his weapons 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.
011:012 Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him,
and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king,
and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said,
[Long] live the king.
011:013 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and of] the people,
she came to the people into the house of Yahweh:
011:014 and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar,
as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king;
and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets.
Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
011:015 Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were
set over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between
the ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword.
For the priest said, Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh.
011:016 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses'
entry to the king's house: and there was she slain.
011:017 Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king
and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people;
between the king also and the people.
011:018 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke
it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly,
and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.
011:019 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites,
and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they
brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came
by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house.
He sat on the throne of the kings.
011:020 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet.
Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.
011:021 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
012:001 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign;
and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
012:002 Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all
his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
012:003 However the high places were not taken away; the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
012:004 Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things
that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money,
the money of the persons for whom each man is rated,
and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring
into the house of Yahweh,
012:005 let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance;
and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any
breach shall be found.
012:006 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king
Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
012:007 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for
the [other] priests, and said to them, Why don't you repair
the breaches of the house? now therefore take no [more] money
from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches
of the house.
012:008 The priests consented that they should take no [more] money
from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
012:009 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 comes into the house of Yahweh:
and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money
that was brought into the house of Yahweh.
012:010 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 counted the money that was found
in the house of Yahweh.
012:011 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those
who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh:
and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders,
who worked on the house of Yahweh,
012:012 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber
and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh,
and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
012:013 But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups
of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold,
or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into
the house of Yahweh;
012:014 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired
therewith the house of Yahweh.
012:015 Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose
hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work;
for they dealt faithfully.
012:016 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for
the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh:
it was the priests'.
012:017 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath,
and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
012:018 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat
and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah,
had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold
that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh,
and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria:
and he went away from Jerusalem.
012:019 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
012:020 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash
at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goes down to Silla.
012:021 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son
of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died;
and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David:
and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
013:001 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.
013:002 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and followed
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made
Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it.
013:003 The anger of Yahweh 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, continually.
013:004 Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him;
for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king
of Syria oppressed them.
013:005 (Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under
the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived
in their tents as before.
013:006 Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins of the house
of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein:
and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)
013:007 For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen,
and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria
destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
013:008 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did,
and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
013:009 Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria:
and Joash his son reigned in his place.
013:010 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah began
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria,
[and reigned] sixteen years.
013:011 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he didn't
depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked therein.
013:012 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king
of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
013:013 Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne:
and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
013:014 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died:
and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him,
and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel
and the horsemen of it!
013:015 Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows; and he took to him
bow and arrows.
013:016 He said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow;
and he put his hand [on it]. Elisha laid his hands on
the king's hands.
013:017 He said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it.
Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. He said, Yahweh's arrow
of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall
strike the Syrians in Aphek, until you have consumed them.
013:018 He said, Take the arrows; and he took them. He said to the king
of Israel, Smite on the ground; and he struck thrice, and stayed.
013:019 The man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have
struck five or six times: then had you struck Syria until you
had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria but thrice.
013:020 Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites
invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
013:021 It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied
a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha:
and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived,
and stood up on his feet.
013:022 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
013:023 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them,
and had respect to them, because of his covenant
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them,
neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
013:024 Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned
in his place.
013:025 Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand
of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken
out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times
did Joash strike him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
014:001 In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.
014:002 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem:
and his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
014:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not
like David his father: he did according to all that Joash
his father had done.
014:004 However the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
014:005 It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand,
that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:
014:006 but the children of the murderers he didn't put to death;
according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses,
as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put
to death for the children, nor the children be put to death
for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.
014:007 He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand,
and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel,
to this day.
014:008 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one
another in the face.
014:009 Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,
The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was
in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife:
and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon,
and trod down the thistle.
014:010 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up:
glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you
meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you,
and Judah with you?
014:011 But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up;
and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face
at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
014:012 Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every
man to his tent.
014:013 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came
to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate
of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
014:014 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found
in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house,
the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
014:015 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might,
and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
014:016 Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria
with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned
in his place.
014:017 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death
of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
014:018 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, aren't they written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
014:019 They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem;
and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish,
and killed him there.
014:020 They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem
with his fathers in the city of David.
014:021 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old,
and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
014:022 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
014:023 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign
in Samaria, [and reigned] forty-one years.
014:024 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh:
he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
with which he made Israel to sin.
014:025 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath
to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh,
the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son
of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher.
014:026 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter;
for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there
any helper for Israel.
014:027 Yahweh didn't say that he would blot out the name of Israel
from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam
the son of Joash.
014:028 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did,
and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus,
and Hamath, [which had belonged] to Judah, for Israel,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
014:029 Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel;
and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.
015:001 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began
Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
015:002 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned
fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
015:003 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to
all that his father Amaziah had done.
015:004 However the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
015:005 Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day
of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king's
son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
015:006 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
015:007 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned
in his place.
015:008 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah
the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
015:009 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his
fathers had done: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
015:010 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him
before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
015:011 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
015:012 This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons
to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
So it came to pass.
015:013 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth
year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space
of a month in Samaria.
015:014 Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria,
and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him,
and reigned in his place.
015:015 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which
he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel.
015:016 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein,
and the borders of it, from Tirzah: because they didn't open
to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein
who were with child he ripped up.
015:017 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began
Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned]
ten years in Samaria.
015:018 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh:
he didn't depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
015:019 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria;
and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his
hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
015:020 Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty
men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give
to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back,
and didn't stay there in the land.
015:021 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
015:022 Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned
in his place.
015:023 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah
the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
[and reigned] two years.
015:024 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh:
he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
with which he made Israel to sin.
015:025 Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him,
and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house,
with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites:
and he killed him, and reigned in his place.
015:026 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel.
015:027 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah
the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
[and reigned] twenty years.
015:028 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh:
he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
with which he made Israel to sin.
015:029 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king
of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah,
and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land
of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
015:030 Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son
of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in
his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
015:031 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel.
015:032 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel
began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
015:033 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
015:034 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did
according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
015:035 However the high places were not taken away: the people
still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.
015:036 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
015:037 In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king
of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
015:038 Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned
in his place.
016:001 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz
the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
016:002 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign;
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't
do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God,
like David his father.
016:003 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made
his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations
of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the
children of Israel.
016:004 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on
the hills, and under every green tree.
016:005 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of
Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz,
but could not overcome him.
016:006 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria,
and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath,
and lived there, to this day.
016:007 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria,
saying, I am your servant and your son: come up, and save
me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand
of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.
016:008 Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house
of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house,
and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
016:009 The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria
went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people
of] it captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
016:010 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king
of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king
Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar,
and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship of it.