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 18 And all the people of the land he goeth out and as he cometh in. f9 And the captains over the hun- went into the house of Baal, and dreds did according to all things that brake it down; his altars and his Jehoiada the priest commanded: images brake they in pieces thoand they took every man his men roughly, and slew Mattan the priest that were to come in on the sab- of Baal before the altars. And the bath, with them that should go out priest appointed officers over the on the sabbath, and came to Jehoi-house of the LORD. f 19 And he took the rulers over ada the priest. 10 And to the captains over hun- hundreds, and the captains, and the dreds did the priest give king Da- guard, and all the people of the vid's spears and shields, that were land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, in the temple 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. f15 But Jehoiada the priest com- f 4 And Jehoash said to the manded the captains of the hun- priests, All the money of the dedidreds, the officers of the host, and cated things that is brought into the said unto them, Have her forth with-house of the LORD, even the money out the ranges: and him that follow-of every one that passeth the aceth her kill with the sword. For count, the money that every man is the priest had said, Let her not be set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring slain in the house of the LORD. into the house of the LORD, d 5 Let the priests take it to them 453 16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the every man of his acquaintance: and workmen, and repaired therewith let them repair the breaches of the the house of the LORD. house, wheresoever any breach shall c 15 Moreover, they reckoned not be found. 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. with the inen, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen for they dealt faithfully. 16 The trespass-money and sin7 Then king Jehoash called for money was not brought into the Jehoiada the priest, and the other house of the LORD it was the priests, and said unto them, Why priests'. repair ye not the breaches of the g 17 Then Hazael king of Syria house? now therefore receive no went up, and fought against Gath, more money of your acquaintance, and took it: and Hazael set his face but deliver it for the breaches of the to go up to Jerusalem. house. 8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. f 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 f 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a f 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 ? 20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla. 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. f 11 And they gave the money, 21 For Jozachar the son of Shibeing told, into the hands of them meath, and Jehozabad the son of that did the work, that had the over- Shomer, his servants, smote him, sight of the house of the LORD: and and he died; and they buried him they laid it out to the carpenters and with his fathers in the city of Dabuilders, that wrought upon the vid and Amaziah his son reigned house of the LORD, in his stead. 12 And to masons, and hewers of CHAP. XIII. stone, and to buy timber and hewash the son of Ahaziah three and twentieth year ed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. 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: king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. 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. 14 But they gave that to the t 3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he throne; and Joash was buried in delivered them into the hand of Ha-Samaria with the kings of Israel. zael king of Syria, and into the 14 T Now Elisha was fallen sick hand of Ben-hadad the son of Ha- of his sickness whereof he died. zael, all their days. 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! f 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. 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. c 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.) 15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. 16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thy hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. 17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he 7 Neither did he leave of the peo- shot. And he said, The arrow of ple to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, the LORD's deliverance, and the arand ten chariots, and ten thousand row of deliverance from Syria: for footmen; for the king of Syria had thou shalt smite the Syrians in destroyed them, and had made them Aphek, till thou have consumed like the dust by threshing. them. f8 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? 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. 9 And Jehoahaz slept with his 19 And the man of God was fathers; and they buried him in wroth with him, and said, Thou Samaria and Joash his son reign-shouldest have smitten five or six ed in his stead. times; then hadst thou smitten Syria f10 In the thirty and seventh till thou hadst consumed it: whereyear of Joash king of Judah began as now thou shalt smite Syria but Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to thrice. reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years. c 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 f 20 ¶ And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. m 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 f 12 And the rest of the acts of Elisha: and when the man was let Joash, and all that he did, and his down, and touched the bones of Elimight wherewith he fought against sha, he revived, and stood up on his Amaziah king of Judah, are they feet. therein. not written in the book of the Chro- f 22 ¶ But Hazael king of Syria nicles of the kings of Israel? oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. 13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his b 23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on haz, son of Jehu king of Israel, saythem, and had respect unto them, ing, Come, let us look one another because of his covenant with Abra- in the face. ham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet. f 24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his stead. i 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. 25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the 10 Thou hast indeed smitten cities, which he had taken out of the Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. up: glory of this, and tarry at Three times did Joash beat him, and home: for why shouldest thou medrecovered the cities of Israel. dle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? g 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 2 He was twenty and five years face at Beth-shemesh, which beold when he began to reign, and longeth to Judah. CHAP. XIV. N the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah. reigned twenty and nine years in f 12 And Judah was put to the Jerusalem. And his mother's name worse before Israel; and they fled was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. every man to their tents. e 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. 4 Howbeit, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice, and burnt incense on the high places. 13 And 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 brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner-gate, four hundred cubits. 14 And he took all the gold and f5 And it came to pass, as soon silver, and all the vessels that were as the kingdom was confirmed in his found in the house of the LORD, and hand, that he slew his servants which in the treasures of the king's house, had slain the king his father. and hostages, and returned to Sa f 6 But the children of the murder-maria. ers he slew not: according unto that f 15 T Now the rest of the acts of which is written in the book of the Jehoash which he did, and his might, law of Moses, wherein the LORD and how he fought with Amaziah commanded, saying, The fathers king of Judah, are they not written shall not be put to death for the chil- in the book of the Chronicles of the dren, nor the children be put to kings of Israel? death for the fathers; but every man 16 And Jehoash slept with his fashall be put to death for his own sin. thers, and was buried in Samaria g 7 He slew of Edom in the valley with the kings of Israel; and Jeroof Salt ten thousand, and took Se- boam his son reigned in his stead. lah by war, and called the name of ƒ 17 ¶ And Amaziah the son of it Joktheel unto this day. Joash king of Judah lived after the f8 Then Amaziah sent messen- death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz gers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoa-king of Israel fifteen years. f TN the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. 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. f 21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king in-c 3 And he did that which was right stead of his father Amaziah. in the sight of the LORD, according g 22 He built Elath, and restored it to all that his father Amaziah had to Judah, after that the king slept done; with his fathers. 4 Save that the high places were f23¶ in the fifteenth year of Ama-not removed: the people sacrificed ziah the son of Joash king of Judah, and burnt incense still on the high Jeroboam the son of Joash king of places. Israel began to reign in Samaria, D5 T And the LORD smote the and reigned forty and one years. king, so that he was a leper unto the e 24 And he did that which was evil day of his death, and dwelt in a sein the sight of the LORD: he de-veral house. And Jotham the king's parted not from all the sins of Jero- son was over the house, judging the boam the son of Nebat, who made people of the land. Israel to sin. g 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 Gath-hepher. 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. 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. f 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? f 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? 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. f8 ¶ In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. c 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. 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people. and slew him, and reigned in his stead. f 11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel. |