path: root/8014.txt

Project Gutenberg EBook The Bible, King James, Book 14: 2 Chronicles

Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the
copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing
this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.

This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project
Gutenberg file.  Please do not remove it.  Do not change or edit the
header without written permission.

Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the
eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file.  Included is
important information about your specific rights and restrictions in
how the file may be used.  You can also find out about how to make a
donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.


**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**

**EBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971**

*****These EBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers*****



Title: The Bible, King James version, Book 14: 2 Chronicles

Release Date: May, 2005  [EBook #8014]
[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]
[This file was first posted on June 7, 2003]


Edition: 10

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII




*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, KING JAMES, BOOK 14 ***




This eBook was produced by David Widger
with the help of Derek Andrew's text from January 1992
and the work of Bryan Taylor in November 2002.





Book 14        2 Chronicles

14:001:001 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom,
           and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him
           exceedingly.

14:001:002 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of
           thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every
           governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

14:001:003 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the
           high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of
           the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD
           had made in the wilderness.

14:001:004 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to
           the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched
           a tent for it at Jerusalem.

14:001:005 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the
           son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the
           LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

14:001:006 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the
           LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and
           offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

14:001:007 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him,
           Ask what I shall give thee.

14:001:008 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto
           David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

14:001:009 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be
           established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the
           dust of the earth in multitude.

14:001:010 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come
           in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that
           is so great?

14:001:011 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and
           thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of
           thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast
           asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge
           my people, over whom I have made thee king:

14:001:012 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give
           thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings
           have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any
           after thee have the like.

14:001:013 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was
           at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the
           congregation, and reigned over Israel.

14:001:014 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a
           thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand
           horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the
           king at Jerusalem.

14:001:015 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as
           stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are
           in the vale for abundance.

14:001:016 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:
           the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

14:001:017 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot
           for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred
           and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of
           the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

14:002:001 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the
           LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

14:002:002 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear
           burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and
           three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

14:002:003 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou
           didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to
           build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.

14:002:004 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to
           dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and
           for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings
           morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
           and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an
           ordinance for ever to Israel.

14:002:005 And the house which I build is great: for great is our God
           above all gods.

14:002:006 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and
           heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I
           should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before
           him?

14:002:007 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in
           silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson,
           and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men
           that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my
           father did provide.

14:002:008 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of
           Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber
           in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy
           servants,

14:002:009 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I
           am about to build shall be wonderful great.

14:002:010 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut
           timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty
           thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of
           wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

14:002:011 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent
           to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath
           made thee king over them.

14:002:012 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that
           made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise
           son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build
           an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

14:002:013 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding,
           of Huram my father's,

14:002:014 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was
           a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in
           brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue,
           and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of
           graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to
           him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord
           David thy father.

14:002:015 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the
           wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his
           servants:

14:002:016 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt
           need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa;
           and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

14:002:017 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land
           of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had
           numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty
           thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

14:002:018 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers
           of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the
           mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set
           the people a work.

14:003:001 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem
           in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his
           father, in the place that David had prepared in the
           threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

14:003:002 And he began to build in the second day of the second month,
           in the fourth year of his reign.

14:003:003 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for
           the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after
           the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth
           twenty cubits.

14:003:004 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length
           of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty
           cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he
           overlaid it within with pure gold.

14:003:005 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he
           overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and
           chains.

14:003:006 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty:
           and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

14:003:007 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the
           walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved
           cherubims on the walls.

14:003:008 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was
           according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the
           breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine
           gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

14:003:009 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he
           overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

14:003:010 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image
           work, and overlaid them with gold.

14:003:011 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one
           wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall
           of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits,
           reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

14:003:012 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to
           the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits
           also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

14:003:013 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
           cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were
           inward.

14:003:014 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and
           fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

14:003:015 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five
           cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of
           them was five cubits.

14:003:016 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the
           heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and
           put them on the chains.

14:003:017 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the
           right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of
           that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the
           left Boaz.

14:004:001 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length
           thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits
           the height thereof.

14:004:002 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim,
           round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a
           line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

14:004:003 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it
           round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about.
           Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

14:004:004 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
           three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the
           south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set
           above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

14:004:005 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it
           like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies;
           and it received and held three thousand baths.

14:004:006 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and
           five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered
           for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was
           for the priests to wash in.

14:004:007 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form,
           and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five
           on the left.

14:004:008 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five
           on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an
           hundred basons of gold.

14:004:009 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great
           court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them
           with brass.

14:004:010 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over
           against the south.

14:004:011 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And
           Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon
           for the house of God;

14:004:012 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters
           which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths
           to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the
           top of the pillars;

14:004:013 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of
           pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the
           chapiters which were upon the pillars.

14:004:014 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;

14:004:015 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

14:004:016 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all
           their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon
           for the house of the LORD of bright brass.

14:004:017 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
           ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

14:004:018 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for
           the weight of the brass could not be found out.

14:004:019 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of
           God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the
           shewbread was set;

14:004:020 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should
           burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

14:004:021 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of
           gold, and that perfect gold;

14:004:022 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the
           censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner
           doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the
           house of the temple, were of gold.

14:005:001 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD
           was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David
           his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and
           all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house
           of God.

14:005:002 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
           of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of
           Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of
           the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

14:005:003 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the
           king in the feast which was in the seventh month.

14:005:004 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the
           ark.

14:005:005 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the
           congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the
           tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

14:005:006 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that
           were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and
           oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

14:005:007 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD
           unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy
           place, even under the wings of the cherubims:

14:005:008 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of
           the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves
           thereof above.

14:005:009 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the
           staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were
           not seen without. And there it is unto this day.

14:005:010 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses
           put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the
           children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

14:005:011 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the
           holy place: (for all the priests that were present were
           sanctified, and did not then wait by course:

14:005:012 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph,
           of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren,
           being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries
           and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them
           an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

14:005:013 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as
           one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking
           the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the
           trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised
           the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for
           ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the
           house of the LORD;

14:005:014 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of
           the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of
           God.

14:006:001 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in
           the thick darkness.

14:006:002 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place
           for thy dwelling for ever.

14:006:003 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole
           congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel
           stood.

14:006:004 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with
           his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my
           father David, saying,

14:006:005 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land
           of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to
           build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose
           I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

14:006:006 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and
           have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

14:006:007 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house
           for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

14:006:008 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in
           thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in
           that it was in thine heart:

14:006:009 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son
           which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the
           house for my name.

14:006:010 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath
           spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and
           am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
           built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

14:006:011 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the
           LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

14:006:012 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of
           all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

14:006:013 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long,
           and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it
           in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled
           down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and
           spread forth his hands toward heaven.

14:006:014 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in
           the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and
           shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with
           all their hearts:

14:006:015 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that
           which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and
           hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

14:006:016 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant
           David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying,
           There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the
           throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their
           way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

14:006:017 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified,
           which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

14:006:018 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold,
           heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much
           less this house which I have built!

14:006:019 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to
           his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and
           the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

14:006:020 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night,
           upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put
           thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant
           prayeth toward this place.

14:006:021 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and
           of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place:
           hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when
           thou hearest, forgive.

14:006:022 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon
           him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in
           this house;

14:006:023 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by
           requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own
           head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according
           to his righteousness.

14:006:024 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy,
           because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and
           confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee
           in this house;

14:006:025 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy
           people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou
           gavest to them and to their fathers.

14:006:026 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
           have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place,
           and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost
           afflict them;

14:006:027 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
           servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them
           the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy
           land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an
           inheritance.

14:006:028 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if
           there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if
           their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land;
           whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

14:006:029 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of
           any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall
           know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth
           his hands in this house:

14:006:030 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive,
           and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose
           heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the
           children of men:)

14:006:031 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they
           live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

14:006:032 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people
           Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's
           sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they
           come and pray in this house;

14:006:033 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place,
           and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for;
           that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee,
           as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which
           I have built is called by thy name.

14:006:034 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way
           that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this
           city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built
           for thy name;

14:006:035 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
           supplication, and maintain their cause.

14:006:036 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth
           not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over
           before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a
           land far off or near;

14:006:037 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are
           carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of
           their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss,
           and have dealt wickedly;

14:006:038 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their
           soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried
           them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest
           unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast
           chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

14:006:039 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place,
           their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their
           cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

14:006:040 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let
           thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this
           place.

14:006:041 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou,
           and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be
           clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in
           goodness.

14:006:042 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember
           the mercies of David thy servant.

14:007:001 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came
           down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the
           sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

14:007:002 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD,
           because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.

14:007:003 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came
           down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed
           themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement,
           and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good;
           for his mercy endureth for ever.

14:007:004 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the
           LORD.

14:007:005 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two
           thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so
           the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

14:007:006 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with
           instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had
           made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever,
           when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded
           trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

14:007:007 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was
           before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt
           offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the
           brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive
           the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.

14:007:008 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and
           all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the
           entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

14:007:009 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they
           kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast
           seven days.

14:007:010 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he
           sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart
           for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to
           Solomon, and to Israel his people.

14:007:011 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's
           house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the
           house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously
           effected.

14:007:012 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him,
           I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself
           for an house of sacrifice.

14:007:013 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the
           locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my
           people;

14:007:014 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
           themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
           wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
           their sin, and will heal their land.

14:007:015 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the
           prayer that is made in this place.

14:007:016 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name
           may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be
           there perpetually.

14:007:017 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy
           father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded
           thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

14:007:018 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I
           have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not
           fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

14:007:019 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
           commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and
           serve other gods, and worship them;

14:007:020 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I
           have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for
           my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a
           proverb and a byword among all nations.

14:007:021 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to
           every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath
           the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

14:007:022 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of
           their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of
           Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and
           served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon
           them.

14:008:001 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein
           Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

14:008:002 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon
           built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

14:008:003 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.

14:008:004 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store
           cities, which he built in Hamath.

14:008:005 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether,
           fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

14:008:006 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and
           all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and
           all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in
           Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

14:008:007 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the
           Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
           Jebusites, which were not of Israel,

14:008:008 But of their children, who were left after them in the land,
           whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon
           make to pay tribute until this day.

14:008:009 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for
           his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains,
           and captains of his chariots and horsemen.

14:008:010 And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two
           hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

14:008:011 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city
           of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he
           said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of
           Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the
           LORD hath come.

14:008:012 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the
           altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

14:008:013 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the
           commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
           and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the
           feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in
           the feast of tabernacles.

14:008:014 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father,
           the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites
           to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests,
           as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their
           courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God
           commanded.

14:008:015 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto
           the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning
           the treasures.

14:008:016 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the
           foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was
           finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.

14:008:017 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side
           in the land of Edom.

14:008:018 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and
           servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the
           servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and
           fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

14:009:001 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she
           came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a
           very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in
           abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to
           Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

14:009:002 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing
           hid from Solomon which he told her not.

14:009:003 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon,
           and the house that he had built,

14:009:004 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants,
           and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his
           cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he
           went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit
           in her.

14:009:005 And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard
           in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

14:009:006 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine
           eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness
           of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame
           that I heard.

14:009:007 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which
           stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

14:009:008 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set
           thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because
           thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore
           made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

14:009:009 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold,
           and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither
           was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king
           Solomon.

14:009:010 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon,
           which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and
           precious stones.

14:009:011 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of
           the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries
           for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land
           of Judah.

14:009:012 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
           whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto
           the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she
           and her servants.

14:009:013 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
           six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

14:009:014 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the
           kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and
           silver to Solomon.

14:009:015 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
           hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.

14:009:016 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three
           hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put
           them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

14:009:017 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
           it with pure gold.

14:009:018 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of
           gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each
           side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the
           stays:

14:009:019 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other
           upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any
           kingdom.

14:009:020 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and
           all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of
           pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted
           of in the days of Solomon.

14:009:021 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of
           Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish
           bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

14:009:022 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches
           and wisdom.

14:009:023 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon,
           to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

14:009:024 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and
           vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and
           mules, a rate year by year.

14:009:025 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots,
           and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot
           cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

14:009:026 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the
           land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

14:009:027 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
           trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains
           in abundance.

14:009:028 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of
           all lands.

14:009:029 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they
           not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the
           prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo
           the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

14:009:030 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

14:009:031 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the
           city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
           stead.

14:010:001 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel
           come to make him king.

14:010:002 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was
           in Egypt, whither he fled from the presence of Solomon the
           king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

14:010:003 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came
           and spake to Rehoboam, saying,

14:010:004 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou
           somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy
           yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

14:010:005 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days.
           And the people departed.

14:010:006 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood
           before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What
           counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

14:010:007 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this
           people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they
           will be thy servants for ever.

14:010:008 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and
           took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him,
           that stood before him.

14:010:009 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return
           answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease
           somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

14:010:010 And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto
           him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto
           thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it
           somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My
           little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.

14:010:011 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put
           more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I
           will chastise you with scorpions.

14:010:012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third
           day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third
           day.

14:010:013 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook
           the counsel of the old men,

14:010:014 And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying,
           My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my
           father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
           scorpions.

14:010:015 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was
           of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake
           by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of
           Nebat.

14:010:016 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto
           them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have
           we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse:
           every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to
           thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

14:010:017 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of
           Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

14:010:018 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and
           the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.
           But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to
           flee to Jerusalem.

14:010:019 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

14:011:001 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the
           house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand
           chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that
           he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

14:011:002 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God,
           saying,

14:011:003 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to
           all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

14:011:004 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against
           your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing
           is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and
           returned from going against Jeroboam.

14:011:005 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence
           in Judah.

14:011:006 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

14:011:007 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

14:011:008 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

14:011:009 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

14:011:010 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in
           Benjamin fenced cities.

14:011:011 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them,
           and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

14:011:012 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made
           them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

14:011:013 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel
           resorted to him out of all their coasts.

14:011:014 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and
           came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had
           cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the
           LORD:

14:011:015 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the
           devils, and for the calves which he had made.

14:011:016 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set
           their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem,
           to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.

14:011:017 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam
           the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they
           walked in the way of David and Solomon.

14:011:018 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the
           son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the
           son of Jesse;

14:011:019 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.

14:011:020 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which
           bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

14:011:021 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all
           his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and
           threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and
           threescore daughters.)

14:011:022 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be
           ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.

14:011:023 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children
           throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every
           fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he
           desired many wives.

14:012:001 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the
           kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of
           the LORD, and all Israel with him.

14:012:002 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam
           Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they
           had transgressed against the LORD,

14:012:003 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand
           horsemen: and the people were without number that came with
           him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the
           Ethiopians.

14:012:004 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and
           came to Jerusalem.

14:012:005 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes
           of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of
           Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have
           forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of
           Shishak.

14:012:006 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled
           themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

14:012:007 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word
           of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled
           themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will
           grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured
           out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

14:012:008 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my
           service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

14:012:009 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took
           away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures
           of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the
           shields of gold which Solomon had made.

14:012:010 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and
           committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that
           kept the entrance of the king's house.

14:012:011 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the
           guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the
           guard chamber.

14:012:012 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from
           him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in
           Judah things went well.

14:012:013 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and
           reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he
           began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
           the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of
           Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was
           Naamah an Ammonitess.

14:012:014 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the
           LORD.

14:012:015 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written
           in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer
           concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam
           and Jeroboam continually.

14:012:016 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
           city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

14:013:001 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to
           reign over Judah.

14:013:002 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
           was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was
           war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

14:013:003 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men
           of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also
           set the battle in array against him with eight hundred
           thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.

14:013:004 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount
           Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

14:013:005 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the
           kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his
           sons by a covenant of salt?

14:013:006 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son
           of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.

14:013:007 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of
           Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the
           son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and
           could not withstand them.

14:013:008 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the
           hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and
           there are with your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for
           gods.

14:013:009 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of
           Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the
           manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh
           to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the
           same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

14:013:010 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken
           him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the
           sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:

14:013:011 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening
           burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set
           they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold
           with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the
           charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

14:013:012 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his
           priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O
           children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your
           fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

14:013:013 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them:
           so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

14:013:014 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and
           behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded
           with the trumpets.

14:013:015 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah
           shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all
           Israel before Abijah and Judah.

14:013:016 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God
           delivered them into their hand.

14:013:017 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so
           there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen
           men.

14:013:018 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time,
           and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon
           the LORD God of their fathers.

14:013:019 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
           Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns
           thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.

14:013:020 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of
           Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

14:013:021 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat
           twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

14:013:022 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his
           sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

14:014:001 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
           city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his
           days the land was quiet ten years.

14:014:002 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the
           LORD his God:

14:014:003 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high
           places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

14:014:004 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and
           to do the law and the commandment.

14:014:005 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high
           places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

14:014:006 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest,
           and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given
           him rest.

14:014:007 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and
           make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the
           land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our
           God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every
           side. So they built and prospered.

14:014:008 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out
           of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that
           bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore
           thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.

14:014:009 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an
           host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and
           came unto Mareshah.

14:014:010 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in
           array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

14:014:011 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is
           nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them
           that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on
           thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD,
           thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee.

14:014:012 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah;
           and the Ethiopians fled.

14:014:013 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto
           Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not
           recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD,
           and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.

14:014:014 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear
           of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities;
           for there was exceeding much spoil in them.

14:014:015 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep
           and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

14:015:001 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:

14:015:002 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me,
           Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while
           ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you;
           but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

14:015:003 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God,
           and without a teaching priest, and without law.

14:015:004 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of
           Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

14:015:005 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out,
           nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the
           inhabitants of the countries.

14:015:006 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God
           did vex them with all adversity.

14:015:007 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for
           your work shall be rewarded.

14:015:008 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the
           prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols
           out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the
           cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the
           altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

14:015:009 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with
           them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they
           fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the
           LORD his God was with him.

14:015:010 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third
           month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

14:015:011 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil
           which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand
           sheep.

14:015:012 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their
           fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

14:015:013 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be
           put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

14:015:014 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with
           shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

14:015:015 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with
           all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and
           he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.

14:015:016 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he
           removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in
           a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt
           it at the brook Kidron.

14:015:017 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:
           nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

14:015:018 And he brought into the house of God the things that his
           father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated,
           silver, and gold, and vessels.

14:015:019 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of
           the reign of Asa.

14:016:001 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king
           of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the
           intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of
           Judah.

14:016:002 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of
           the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to
           Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

14:016:003 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my
           father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and
           gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he
           may depart from me.

14:016:004 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of
           his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon,
           and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

14:016:005 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off
           building of Ramah, and let his work cease.

14:016:006 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the
           stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was
           building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

14:016:007 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah,
           and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of
           Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the
           host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.

14:016:008 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very
           many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on
           the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.

14:016:009 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole
           earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose
           heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly:
           therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

14:016:010 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison
           house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing.
           And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

14:016:011 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are
           written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

14:016:012 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased
           in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his
           disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

14:016:013 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and
           fortieth year of his reign.

14:016:014 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made
           for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed
           which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices
           prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great
           burning for him.

14:017:001 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened
           himself against Israel.

14:017:002 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and
           set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of
           Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

14:017:003 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the
           first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

14:017:004 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his
           commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

14:017:005 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all
           Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and
           honour in abundance.

14:017:006 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover
           he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

14:017:007 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes,
           even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to
           Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

14:017:008 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah,
           and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and
           Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them
           Elishama and Jehoram, priests.

14:017:009 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the
           LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of
           Judah, and taught the people.

14:017:010 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the
           lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war
           against Jehoshaphat.

14:017:011 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and
           tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven
           thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven
           hundred he goats.

14:017:012 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah
           castles, and cities of store.

14:017:013 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men
           of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.

14:017:014 And these are the numbers of them according to the house of
           their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the
           chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred
           thousand.

14:017:015 And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two
           hundred and fourscore thousand.

14:017:016 And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly
           offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred
           thousand mighty men of valour.

14:017:017 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him
           armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

14:017:018 And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and
           fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

14:017:019 These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in
           the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

14:018:001 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined
           affinity with Ahab.

14:018:002 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And
           Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the
           people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with
           him to Ramothgilead.

14:018:003 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
           Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I
           am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be
           with thee in the war.

14:018:004 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray
           thee, at the word of the LORD to day.

14:018:005 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets
           four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to
           Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go
           up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand.

14:018:006 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD
           besides, that we might enquire of him?

14:018:007 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one
           man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for
           he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is
           Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the
           king say so.

14:018:008 And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and
           said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.

14:018:009 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat
           either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they
           sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria;
           and all the prophets prophesied before them.

14:018:010 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron,
           and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push
           Syria until they be consumed.

14:018:011 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
           Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into
           the hand of the king.

14:018:012 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him,
           saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the
           king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be
           like one of their's, and speak thou good.

14:018:013 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith,
           that will I speak.

14:018:014 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him,
           Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I
           forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be
           delivered into your hand.

14:018:015 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee
           that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the
           LORD?

14:018:016 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the
           mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said,
           These have no master; let them return therefore every man to
           his house in peace.

14:018:017 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
           thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?

14:018:018 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the
           LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven
           standing on his right hand and on his left.

14:018:019 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that
           he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying
           after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

14:018:020 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
           said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him,
           Wherewith?

14:018:021 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth
           of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him,
           and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

14:018:022 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
           mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
           against thee.

14:018:023 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote
           Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of
           the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

14:018:024 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou
           shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

14:018:025 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him
           back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's
           son;

14:018:026 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison,
           and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
           affliction, until I return in peace.

14:018:027 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath
           not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye
           people.

14:018:028 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went
           up to Ramothgilead.

14:018:029 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
           myself, and I will go to the battle; but put thou on thy
           robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went
           to the battle.

14:018:030 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the
           chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small
           or great, save only with the king of Israel.

14:018:031 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
           Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel.
           Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat
           cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to
           depart from him.

14:018:032 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots
           perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back
           again from pursuing him.

14:018:033 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king
           of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said
           to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me
           out of the host; for I am wounded.

14:018:034 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel
           stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the
           even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

14:019:001 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in
           peace to Jerusalem.

14:019:002 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and
           said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and
           love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee
           from before the LORD.

14:019:003 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou
           hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared
           thine heart to seek God.

14:019:004 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again
           through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and
           brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

14:019:005 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities
           of Judah, city by city,

14:019:006 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not
           for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

14:019:007 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed
           and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor
           respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

14:019:008 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and
           of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for
           the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they
           returned to Jerusalem.

14:019:009 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of
           the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

14:019:010 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that
           dwell in your cities, between blood and blood, between law and
           commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them
           that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come
           upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not
           trespass.

14:019:011 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all
           matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the
           ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also
           the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously,
           and the LORD shall be with the good.

14:020:001 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab,
           and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the
           Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

14:020:002 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There
           cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on
           this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which
           is Engedi.

14:020:003 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and
           proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

14:020:004 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the
           LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek
           the LORD.

14:020:005 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and
           Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

14:020:006 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in
           heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the
           heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so
           that none is able to withstand thee?

14:020:007 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of
           this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed
           of Abraham thy friend for ever?

14:020:008 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary
           therein for thy name, saying,

14:020:009 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or
           pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy
           presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee
           in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

14:020:010 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount
           Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came
           out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and
           destroyed them not;

14:020:011 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of
           thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

14:020:012 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might
           against this great company that cometh against us; neither
           know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

14:020:013 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones,
           their wives, and their children.

14:020:014 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah,
           the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons
           of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the
           congregation;

14:020:015 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of
           Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto
           you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great
           multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

14:020:016 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the
           cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook,
           before the wilderness of Jeruel.

14:020:017 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves,
           stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O
           Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go
           out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

14:020:018 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground:
           and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the
           LORD, worshipping the LORD.

14:020:019 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the
           children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of
           Israel with a loud voice on high.

14:020:020 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the
           wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood
           and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem;
           Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established;
           believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

14:020:021 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed
           singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of
           holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise
           the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.

14:020:022 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set
           ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount
           Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

14:020:023 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the
           inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them:
           and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir,
           every one helped to destroy another.

14:020:024 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness,
           they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead
           bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

14:020:025 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the
           spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches
           with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped
           off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they
           were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

14:020:026 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley
           of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the
           name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah,
           unto this day.

14:020:027 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and
           Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem
           with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their
           enemies.

14:020:028 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and
           trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

14:020:029 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those
           countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against
           the enemies of Israel.

14:020:030 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him
           rest round about.

14:020:031 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five
           years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and
           five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the
           daughter of Shilhi.

14:020:032 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not
           from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.

14:020:033 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the
           people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their
           fathers.

14:020:034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last,
           behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of
           Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.

14:020:035 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with
           Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

14:020:036 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to
           Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.

14:020:037 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against
           Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with
           Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were
           broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

14:021:001 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with
           his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned
           in his stead.

14:021:002 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and
           Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and
           Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of
           Israel.

14:021:003 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold,
           and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the
           kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.

14:021:004 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he
           strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the
           sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.

14:021:005 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign,
           and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

14:021:006 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did
           the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife:
           and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.

14:021:007 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because
           of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he
           promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

14:021:008 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of
           Judah, and made themselves a king.

14:021:009 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots
           with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites
           which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.

14:021:010 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto
           this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his
           hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

14:021:011 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and
           caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and
           compelled Judah thereto.

14:021:012 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet,
           saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because
           thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father,
           nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

14:021:013 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast
           made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring,
           like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast
           slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better
           than thyself:

14:021:014 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people,
           and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

14:021:015 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels,
           until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by
           day.

14:021:016 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
           Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the
           Ethiopians:

14:021:017 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried
           away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and
           his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son
           left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

14:021:018 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an
           incurable disease.

14:021:019 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of
           two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so
           he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for
           him, like the burning of his fathers.

14:021:020 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he
           reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being
           desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not
           in the sepulchres of the kings.

14:022:001 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son
           king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the
           Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the
           son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

14:022:002 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign,
           and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
           was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

14:022:003 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his
           mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

14:022:004 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house
           of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his
           father to his destruction.

14:022:005 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 Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.

14:022:006 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds
           which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king
           of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
           down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was
           sick.

14:022:007 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram:
           for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu
           the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the
           house of Ahab.

14:022:008 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment
           upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and
           the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to
           Ahaziah, he slew them.

14:022:009 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in
           Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain
           him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of
           Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the
           house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

14:022:010 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
           dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house
           of Judah.

14:022:011 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son
           of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were
           slain, and put him and his nurse in a 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 slew him not.

14:022:012 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and
           Athaliah reigned over the land.

14:023:001 And 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.

14:023:002 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of
           all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of
           Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

14:023:003 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the
           house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son
           shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.

14:023:004 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you
           entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites,
           shall be porters of the doors;

14:023:005 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 the LORD.

14:023:006 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the
           priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go
           in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch
           of the LORD.

14:023:007 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man
           with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into
           the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king
           when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

14:023:008 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that
           Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men
           that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go
           out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the
           courses.

14:023:009 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of
           hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king
           David's, which were in the house of God.

14:023:010 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his
           hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of
           the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king
           round about.

14:023:011 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the
           crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And
           Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the
           king.

14:023:012 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
           praising the king, she came to the people into the house of
           the LORD:

14:023:013 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at
           the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king:
           and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with
           trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and
           such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes,
           and said, Treason, Treason.

14:023:014 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds
           that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her
           forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain
           with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house
           of the LORD.

14:023:015 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the
           entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her
           there.

14:023:016 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the
           people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's
           people.

14:023:017 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it
           down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew
           Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

14:023:018 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD
           by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had
           distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt
           offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses,
           with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

14:023:019 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD,
           that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.

14:023:020 And 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 the LORD: and they
           came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the
           king upon the throne of the kingdom.

14:023:021 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was
           quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

14:024:001 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he
           reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
           Zibiah of Beersheba.

14:024:002 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
           all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

14:024:003 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and
           daughters.

14:024:004 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to
           repair the house of the LORD.

14:024:005 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said
           to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all
           Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to
           year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites
           hastened it not.

14:024:006 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him,
           Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of
           Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the
           commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the
           congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

14:024:007 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 the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

14:024:008 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it
           without at the gate of the house of the LORD.

14:024:009 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to
           bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of
           God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.

14:024:010 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought
           in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

14:024:011 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought
           unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when
           they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the
           high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it,
           and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day,
           and gathered money in abundance.

14:024:012 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of
           the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and
           carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as
           wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

14:024:013 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them,
           and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened
           it.

14:024:014 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the
           money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels
           for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to
           offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And
           they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD
           continually all the days of Jehoiada.

14:024:015 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an
           hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

14:024:016 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings,
           because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and
           toward his house.

14:024:017 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and
           made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.

14:024:018 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and
           served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and
           Jerusalem for this their trespass.

14:024:019 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the
           LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give
           ear.

14:024:020 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
           the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them,
           Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the
           LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the
           LORD, he hath also forsaken you.

14:024:021 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at
           the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the
           LORD.

14:024:022 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada
           his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he
           died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

14:024:023 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of
           Syria 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 unto the king
           of Damascus.

14:024:024 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men,
           and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand,
           because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So
           they executed judgment against Joash.

14:024:025 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in
           great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for
           the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on
           his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of
           David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

14:024:026 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son
           of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a
           Moabitess.

14:024:027 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid
           upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they
           are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah
           his son reigned in his stead.

14:025:001 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
           and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
           mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

14:025:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but
           not with a perfect heart.

14:025:003 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him,
           that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

14:025:004 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in
           the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD 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.

14:025:005 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them
           captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according
           to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and
           Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and
           above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able
           to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

14:025:006 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of
           Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

14:025:007 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not
           the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with
           Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.

14:025:008 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God
           shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to
           help, and to cast down.

14:025:009 And 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?
           And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee
           much more than this.

14:025:010 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to
           him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger
           was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in
           great anger.

14:025:011 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people,
           and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of
           Seir ten thousand.

14:025:012 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah
           carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock,
           and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all
           were broken in pieces.

14:025:013 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that
           they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of
           Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three
           thousand of them, and took much spoil.

14:025:014 Now it came to pass, 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 unto them.

14:025:015 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah,
           and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast
           thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not
           deliver their own people out of thine hand?

14:025:016 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said
           unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why
           shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said,
           I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou
           hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

14:025:017 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 see one another in the face.

14:025:018 And 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 thy daughter to my son to wife:
           and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and
           trode down the thistle.

14:025:019 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine
           heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why
           shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
           even thou, and Judah with thee?

14:025:020 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might
           deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they
           sought after the gods of Edom.

14:025:021 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another
           in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at
           Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

14:025:022 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled
           every man to his tent.

14:025:023 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the
           son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought
           him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from
           the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

14:025:024 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels
           that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the
           treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned
           to Samaria.

14:025:025 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
           death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

14:025:026 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold,
           are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and
           Israel?

14:025:027 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following
           the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and
           he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and
           slew him there.

14:025:028 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his
           fathers in the city of Judah.

14:026:001 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen
           years old, and made him king in the room of his father
           Amaziah.

14:026:002 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
           slept with his fathers.

14:026:003 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he
           reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
           also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

14:026:004 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
           according to all that his father Amaziah did.

14:026:005 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had
           understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought
           the LORD, God made him to prosper.

14:026:006 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and
           brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the
           wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the
           Philistines.

14:026:007 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the
           Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.

14:026:008 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread
           abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened
           himself exceedingly.

14:026:009 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.

14:026:010 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for
           he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the
           plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains,
           and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

14:026:011 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to
           war by bands, according to the number of their account by the
           hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the
           hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

14:026:012 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men
           of valour were two thousand and six hundred.

14:026:013 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and
           seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty
           power, to help the king against the enemy.

14:026:014 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields,
           and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings
           to cast stones.

14:026:015 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to
           be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and
           great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he
           was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

14:026:016 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his
           destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and
           went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the
           altar of incense.

14:026:017 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him
           fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:

14:026:018 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It
           appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the
           LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are
           consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou
           hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the
           LORD God.

14:026:019 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn
           incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy
           even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house
           of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.

14:026:020 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon
           him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they
           thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go
           out, because the LORD had smitten him.

14:026:021 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and
           dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off
           from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the
           king's house, judging the people of the land.

14:026:022 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah
           the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

14:026:023 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his
           fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the
           kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son
           reigned in his stead.

14:027:001 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
           and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
           also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

14:027:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
           according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he
           entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did
           yet corruptly.

14:027:003 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the
           wall of Ophel he built much.

14:027:004 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the
           forests he built castles and towers.

14:027:005 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed
           against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year
           an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of
           wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of
           Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

14:027:006 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before
           the LORD his God.

14:027:007 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his
           ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel
           and Judah.

14:027:008 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
           reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

14:027:009 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
           city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

14:028:001 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he
           reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which
           was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:

14:028:002 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made
           also molten images for Baalim.

14:028:003 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
           and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of
           the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of
           Israel.

14:028:004 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and
           on the hills, and under every green tree.

14:028:005 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the
           king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great
           multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And
           he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who
           smote him with a great slaughter.

14:028:006 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and
           twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men;
           because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

14:028:007 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's
           son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that
           was next to the king.

14:028:008 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their
           brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and
           took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to
           Samaria.

14:028:009 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and
           he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said
           unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was
           wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and
           ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.

14:028:010 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and
           Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there
           not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

14:028:011 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which
           ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath
           of the LORD is upon you.

14:028:012 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah
           the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and
           Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai,
           stood up against them that came from the war,

14:028:013 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither:
           for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye
           intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our
           trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.

14:028:014 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the
           princes and all the congregation.

14:028:015 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the
           captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among
           them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat
           and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of
           them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm
           trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

14:028:016 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to
           help him.

14:028:017 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried
           away captives.

14:028:018 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low
           country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh,
           and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages
           thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and
           the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.

14:028:019 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel;
           for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the
           LORD.

14:028:020 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and
           distressed him, but strengthened him not.

14:028:021 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and
           out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it
           unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

14:028:022 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more
           against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.

14:028:023 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him:
           and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them,
           therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But
           they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

14:028:024 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God,
           and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up
           the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in
           every corner of Jerusalem.

14:028:025 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn
           incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of
           his fathers.

14:028:026 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last,
           behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and
           Israel.

14:028:027 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
           city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the
           sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son
           reigned in his stead.

14:029:001 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old,
           and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his
           mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

14:029:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
           according to all that David his father had done.

14:029:003 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened
           the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

14:029:004 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered
           them together into the east street,

14:029:005 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now
           yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your
           fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

14:029:006 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil
           in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and
           have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD,
           and turned their backs.

14:029:007 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the
           lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings
           in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

14:029:008 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem,
           and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to
           hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

14:029:009 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons
           and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

14:029:010 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God
           of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

14:029:011 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to
           stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister
           unto him, and burn incense.

14:029:012 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the
           son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons
           of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of
           Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and
           Eden the son of Joah:

14:029:013 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the
           sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

14:029:014 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons
           of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.

14:029:015 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves,
           and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the
           words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

14:029:016 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the
           LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that
           they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the
           house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out
           abroad into the brook Kidron.

14:029:017 Now they began on the first day of the first month to
           sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the
           porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
           eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they
           made an end.

14:029:018 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have
           cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt
           offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread
           table, with all the vessels thereof.

14:029:019 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did
           cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and
           sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the
           LORD.

14:029:020 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of
           the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

14:029:021 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven
           lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom,
           and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the
           priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the
           LORD.

14:029:022 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the
           blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had
           killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they
           killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the
           altar.

14:029:023 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering
           before the king and the congregation; and they laid their
           hands upon them:

14:029:024 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with
           their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all
           Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the
           sin offering should be made for all Israel.

14:029:025 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals,
           with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment
           of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet:
           for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

14:029:026 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the
           priests with the trumpets.

14:029:027 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the
           altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD
           began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments
           ordained by David king of Israel.

14:029:028 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and
           the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt
           offering was finished.

14:029:029 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all
           that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.

14:029:030 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the
           Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David,
           and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness,
           and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

14:029:031 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated
           yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and
           thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the
           congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as
           many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.

14:029:032 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation
           brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and
           two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the
           LORD.

14:029:033 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three
           thousand sheep.

14:029:034 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all
           the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did
           help them, till the work was ended, and until the other
           priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more
           upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

14:029:035 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat
           of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every
           burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was
           set in order.

14:029:036 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had
           prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.

14:030:001 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters
           also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the
           house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the
           LORD God of Israel.

14:030:002 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the
           congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second
           month.

14:030:003 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests
           had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the
           people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

14:030:004 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

14:030:005 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout
           all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come
           to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem:
           for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was
           written.

14:030:006 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his
           princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the
           commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn
           again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he
           will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the
           hand of the kings of Assyria.

14:030:007 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which
           trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who
           therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

14:030:008 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield
           yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which
           he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that
           the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

14:030:009 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your
           children shall find compassion before them that lead them
           captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the
           LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away
           his face from you, if ye return unto him.

14:030:010 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of
           Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them
           to scorn, and mocked them.

14:030:011 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun
           humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

14:030:012 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do
           the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of
           the LORD.

14:030:013 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast
           of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great
           congregation.

14:030:014 And they arose and took away the altars that were in
           Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and
           cast them into the brook Kidron.

14:030:015 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the
           second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed,
           and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings
           into the house of the LORD.

14:030:016 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to
           the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the
           blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.

14:030:017 For there were many in the congregation that were not
           sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the
           killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to
           sanctify them unto the LORD.

14:030:018 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and
           Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves,
           yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written.
           But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon
           every one

14:030:019 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his
           fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the
           purification of the sanctuary.

14:030:020 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

14:030:021 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept
           the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness:
           and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day,
           singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.

14:030:022 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that
           taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat
           throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and
           making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.

14:030:023 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days:
           and they kept other seven days with gladness.

14:030:024 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a
           thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes
           gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand
           sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

14:030:025 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the
           Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and
           the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that
           dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

14:030:026 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of
           Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like
           in Jerusalem.

14:030:027 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and
           their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy
           dwelling place, even unto heaven.

14:031:001 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present
           went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in
           pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high
           places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in
           Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed
           them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man
           to his possession, into their own cities.

14:031:002 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the
           Levites after their courses, every man according to his
           service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for
           peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to
           praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

14:031:003 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the
           burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt
           offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for
           the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the
           law of the LORD.

14:031:004 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to
           give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they
           might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

14:031:005 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of
           Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and
           oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the
           tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

14:031:006 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in
           the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen
           and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated
           unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.

14:031:007 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the
           heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

14:031:008 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they
           blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.

14:031:009 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites
           concerning the heaps.

14:031:010 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered
           him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings
           into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and
           have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and
           that which is left is this great store.

14:031:011 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of
           the LORD; and they prepared them,

14:031:012 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated
           things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler,
           and Shimei his brother was the next.

14:031:013 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth,
           and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and
           Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei
           his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and
           Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

14:031:014 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the
           east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute
           the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.

14:031:015 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and
           Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the
           priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by
           courses, as well to the great as to the small:

14:031:016 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and
           upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of
           the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges
           according to their courses;

14:031:017 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their
           fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in
           their charges by their courses;

14:031:018 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives,
           and their sons, and their daughters, through all the
           congregation: for in their set office they sanctified
           themselves in holiness:

14:031:019 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the
           fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city,
           the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all
           the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by
           genealogies among the Levites.

14:031:020 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that
           which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

14:031:021 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of
           God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God,
           he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

14:032:001 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib
           king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped
           against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for
           himself.

14:032:002 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he
           was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

14:032:003 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop
           the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and
           they did help him.

14:032:004 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all
           the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the
           land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find
           much water?

14:032:005 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that
           was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall
           without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made
           darts and shields in abundance.

14:032:006 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them
           together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and
           spake comfortably to them, saying,

14:032:007 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the
           king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him:
           for there be more with us than with him:

14:032:008 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God
           to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested
           themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

14:032:009 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants
           to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and
           all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto
           all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,

14:032:010 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust,
           that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

14:032:011 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die
           by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall
           deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

14:032:012 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his
           altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall
           worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

14:032:013 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the
           people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those
           lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

14:032:014 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my
           fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out
           of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out
           of mine hand?

14:032:015 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you
           on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any
           nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine
           hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall
           your God deliver you out of mine hand?

14:032:016 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and
           against his servant Hezekiah.

14:032:017 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and
           to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of
           other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand,
           so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of
           mine hand.

14:032:018 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the
           people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them,
           and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

14:032:019 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the
           gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the
           hands of man.

14:032:020 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah
           the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.

14:032:021 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men
           of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the
           king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own
           land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they
           that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the
           sword.

14:032:022 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
           from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the
           hand of all other, and guided them on every side.

14:032:023 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and
           presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified
           in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

14:032:024 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto
           the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.

14:032:025 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done
           unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was
           wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

14:032:026 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his
           heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the
           wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

14:032:027 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made
           himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious
           stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of
           pleasant jewels;

14:032:028 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil;
           and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

14:032:029 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and
           herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

14:032:030 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of
           Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the
           city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

14:032:031 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of
           Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was
           done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know
           all that was in his heart.

14:032:032 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness,
           behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet,
           the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and
           Israel.

14:032:033 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
           the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all
           Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his
           death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

14:033:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he
           reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

14:033:002 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like
           unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast
           out before the children of Israel.

14:033:003 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father
           had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made
           groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
           them.

14:033:004 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the
           LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

14:033:005 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
           courts of the house of the LORD.

14:033:006 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the
           valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used
           enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar
           spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of
           the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

14:033:007 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the
           house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon
           his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen
           before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

14:033:008 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of
           the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they
           will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according
           to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the
           hand of Moses.

14:033:009 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
           err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had
           destroyed before the children of Israel.

14:033:010 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they
           would not hearken.

14:033:011 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host
           of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns,
           and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

14:033:012 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God,
           and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

14:033:013 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard
           his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his
           kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.

14:033:014 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on
           the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in
           at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up
           a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced
           cities of Judah.

14:033:015 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the
           house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the
           mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast
           them out of the city.

14:033:016 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon
           peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to
           serve the LORD God of Israel.

14:033:017 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high
           places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

14:033:018 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his
           God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name
           of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the
           book of the kings of Israel.

14:033:019 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his
           sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high
           places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was
           humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the
           seers.

14:033:020 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his
           own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

14:033:021 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
           reigned two years in Jerusalem.

14:033:022 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as
           did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the
           carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served
           them;

14:033:023 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his
           father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

14:033:024 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his
           own house.

14:033:025 But 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.

14:034:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he
           reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

14:034:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and
           walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither
           to the right hand, nor to the left.

14:034:003 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young,
           he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the
           twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the
           high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the
           molten images.

14:034:004 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and
           the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the
           groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake
           in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the
           graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

14:034:005 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and
           cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

14:034:006 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and
           Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

14:034:007 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had
           beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the
           idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to
           Jerusalem.

14:034:008 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged
           the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,
           and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of
           Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

14:034:009 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered
           the money that was brought into the house of God, which the
           Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of
           Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of
           all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

14:034:010 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the
           oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the
           workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and
           amend the house:

14:034:011 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn
           stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which
           the kings of Judah had destroyed.

14:034:012 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them
           were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari;
           and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to
           set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill
           of instruments of musick.

14:034:013 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers
           of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of
           the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

14:034:014 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the
           house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law
           of the LORD given by Moses.

14:034:015 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have
           found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And
           Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

14:034:016 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king
           word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy
           servants, they do it.

14:034:017 And they have gathered together the money that was found in
           the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of
           the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.

14:034:018 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the
           priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the
           king.

14:034:019 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the
           law, that he rent his clothes.

14:034:020 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
           and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah
           a servant of the king's, saying,

14:034:021 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in
           Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is
           found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out
           upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the
           LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.

14:034:022 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to
           Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath,
           the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in
           Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that
           effect.

14:034:023 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell
           ye the man that sent you to me,

14:034:024 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
           place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses
           that are written in the book which they have read before the
           king of Judah:

14:034:025 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 poured out
           upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

14:034:026 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the
           LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of
           Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;

14:034:027 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself
           before God, when thou heardest his words against this place,
           and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself
           before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I
           have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.

14:034:028 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be
           gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see
           all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the
           inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

14:034:029 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of
           Judah and Jerusalem.

14:034:030 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the
           men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the
           priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small:
           and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the
           covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

14:034:031 And the king stood in his place, 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
           his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the
           covenant which are written in this book.

14:034:032 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin
           to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according
           to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

14:034:033 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the
           countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made
           all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the
           LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from
           following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

14:035:001 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem:
           and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the
           first month.

14:035:002 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them
           to the service of the house of the LORD,

14:035:003 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were
           holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which
           Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall
           not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your
           God, and his people Israel,

14:035:004 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after
           your courses, according to the writing of David king of
           Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

14:035:005 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the
           families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after
           the division of the families of the Levites.

14:035:006 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare
           your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the
           LORD by the hand of Moses.

14:035:007 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids,
           all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to
           the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks:
           these were of the king's substance.

14:035:008 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the
           priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,
           rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the
           passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle
           and three hundred oxen.

14:035:009 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and
           Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave
           unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small
           cattle, and five hundred oxen.

14:035:010 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their
           place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the
           king's commandment.

14:035:011 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the
           blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

14:035:012 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give
           according to the divisions of the families of the people, to
           offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses.
           And so did they with the oxen.

14:035:013 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the
           ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and
           in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all
           the people.

14:035:014 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the
           priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in
           offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore
           the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the
           sons of Aaron.

14:035:015 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place,
           according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman,
           and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every
           gate; they might not depart from their service; for their
           brethren the Levites prepared for them.

14:035:016 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to
           keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar
           of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

14:035:017 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover
           at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

14:035:018 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the
           days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of
           Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests,
           and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present,
           and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

14:035:019 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this
           passover kept.

14:035:020 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho
           king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by
           Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

14:035:021 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with
           thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day,
           but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded
           me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is
           with me, that he destroy thee not.

14:035:022 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but
           disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened
           not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to
           fight in the valley of Megiddo.

14:035:023 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his
           servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

14:035:024 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put
           him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to
           Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the
           sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned
           for Josiah.

14:035:025 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and
           the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to
           this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold,
           they are written in the lamentations.

14:035:026 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness,
           according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,

14:035:027 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the
           book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

14:036:001 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,
           and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

14:036:002 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to
           reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

14:036:003 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned
           the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

14:036:004 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah
           and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho
           took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

14:036:005 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to
           reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did
           that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

14:036:006 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound
           him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

14:036:007 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the
           LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

14:036:008 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations
           which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they
           are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and
           Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

14:036:009 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he
           reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did
           that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

14:036:010 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and
           brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house
           of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and
           Jerusalem.

14:036:011 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
           and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

14:036:012 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his
           God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet
           speaking from the mouth of the LORD.

14:036:013 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made
           him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his
           heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.

14:036:014 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,
           transgressed very much after all the abominations of the
           heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had
           hallowed in Jerusalem.

14:036:015 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his
           messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had
           compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

14:036:016 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words,
           and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose
           against his people, till there was no remedy.

14:036:017 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who
           slew their young men with the sword in the house of their
           sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old
           man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his
           hand.

14:036:018 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and
           the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of
           the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.

14:036:019 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of
           Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and
           destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

14:036:020 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to
           Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until
           the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

14:036:021 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until
           the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay
           desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

14:036:022 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word
           of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
           accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of
           Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his
           kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

14:036:023 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth
           hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me
           to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is
           there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with
           him, and let him go up.





*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, KING JAMES, BOOK 14 ***

********** This file should be named 8014.txt or 8014.zip **********

This eBook was produced by David Widger
See above the credits to previous producers of this text.

Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US
unless a copyright notice is included.  Thus, we usually do not
keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition.

We are now trying to release all our eBooks one year in advance
of the official release dates, leaving time for better editing.
Please be encouraged to tell us about any error or corrections,
even years after the official publication date.

Please note neither this listing nor its contents are final til
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
The official release date of all Project Gutenberg eBooks is at
Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month.  A
preliminary version may often be posted for suggestion, comment
and editing by those who wish to do so.

Most people start at our Web sites at:
https://gutenberg.org or
http://promo.net/pg

These Web sites include award-winning information about Project
Gutenberg, including how to donate, how to help produce our new
eBooks, and how to subscribe to our email newsletter (free!).


Those of you who want to download any eBook before announcement
can get to them as follows, and just download by date.  This is
also a good way to get them instantly upon announcement, as the
indexes our cataloguers produce obviously take a while after an
announcement goes out in the Project Gutenberg Newsletter.

http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext03 or
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03

Or /etext02, 01, 00, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 92, 91 or 90

Just search by the first five letters of the filename you want,
as it appears in our Newsletters.


Information about Project Gutenberg (one page)

We produce about two million dollars for each hour we work.  The
time it takes us, a rather conservative estimate, is fifty hours
to get any eBook selected, entered, proofread, edited, copyright
searched and analyzed, the copyright letters written, etc.   Our
projected audience is one hundred million readers.  If the value
per text is nominally estimated at one dollar then we produce $2
million dollars per hour in 2002 as we release over 100 new text
files per month:  1240 more eBooks in 2001 for a total of 4000+
We are already on our way to trying for 2000 more eBooks in 2002
If they reach just 1-2% of the world's population then the total
will reach over half a trillion eBooks given away by year's end.

The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away 1 Trillion eBooks!
This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only about 4% of the present number of computer users.

Here is the briefest record of our progress (* means estimated):

eBooks Year Month

    1  1971 July
   10  1991 January
  100  1994 January
 1000  1997 August
 1500  1998 October
 2000  1999 December
 2500  2000 December
 3000  2001 November
 4000  2001 October/November
 6000  2002 December*
 9000  2003 November*
10000  2004 January*


The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation has been created
to secure a future for Project Gutenberg into the next millennium.

We need your donations more than ever!

As of February, 2002, contributions are being solicited from people
and organizations in: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut,
Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West
Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

We have filed in all 50 states now, but these are the only ones
that have responded.

As the requirements for other states are met, additions to this list
will be made and fund raising will begin in the additional states.
Please feel free to ask to check the status of your state.

In answer to various questions we have received on this:

We are constantly working on finishing the paperwork to legally
request donations in all 50 states.  If your state is not listed and
you would like to know if we have added it since the list you have,
just ask.

While we cannot solicit donations from people in states where we are
not yet registered, we know of no prohibition against accepting
donations from donors in these states who approach us with an offer to
donate.

International donations are accepted, but we don't know ANYTHING about
how to make them tax-deductible, or even if they CAN be made
deductible, and don't have the staff to handle it even if there are
ways.

Donations by check or money order may be sent to:

Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
PMB 113
1739 University Ave.
Oxford, MS 38655-4109

Contact us if you want to arrange for a wire transfer or payment
method other than by check or money order.

The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation has been approved by
the US Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) organization with EIN
[Employee Identification Number] 64-622154.  Donations are
tax-deductible to the maximum extent permitted by law.  As fund-raising
requirements for other states are met, additions to this list will be
made and fund-raising will begin in the additional states.

We need your donations more than ever!

You can get up to date donation information online at:

https://www.gutenberg.org/donation.html


***

If you can't reach Project Gutenberg,
you can always email directly to:

Michael S. Hart <hart@pobox.com>

Prof. Hart will answer or forward your message.

We would prefer to send you information by email.


**The Legal Small Print**


(Three Pages)

***START**THE SMALL PRINT!**FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN EBOOKS**START***
Why is this "Small Print!" statement here? You know: lawyers.
They tell us you might sue us if there is something wrong with
your copy of this eBook, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault. So, among other things, this "Small Print!" statement
disclaims most of our liability to you. It also tells you how
you may distribute copies of this eBook if you want to.

*BEFORE!* YOU USE OR READ THIS EBOOK
By using or reading any part of this PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm
eBook, you indicate that you understand, agree to and accept
this "Small Print!" statement. If you do not, you can receive
a refund of the money (if any) you paid for this eBook by
sending a request within 30 days of receiving it to the person
you got it from. If you received this eBook on a physical
medium (such as a disk), you must return it with your request.

ABOUT PROJECT GUTENBERG-TM EBOOKS
This PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm eBook, like most PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm eBooks,
is a "public domain" work distributed by Professor Michael S. Hart
through the Project Gutenberg Association (the "Project").
Among other things, this means that no one owns a United States copyright
on or for this work, so the Project (and you!) can copy and
distribute it in the United States without permission and
without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth
below, apply if you wish to copy and distribute this eBook
under the "PROJECT GUTENBERG" trademark.

Please do not use the "PROJECT GUTENBERG" trademark to market
any commercial products without permission.

To create these eBooks, the Project expends considerable
efforts to identify, transcribe and proofread public domain
works. Despite these efforts, the Project's eBooks and any
medium they may be on may contain "Defects". Among other
things, Defects may take the form of incomplete, inaccurate or
corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other
intellectual property infringement, a defective or damaged
disk or other eBook medium, a computer virus, or computer
codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment.

LIMITED WARRANTY; DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES
But for the "Right of Replacement or Refund" described below,
[1] Michael Hart and the Foundation (and any other party you may
receive this eBook from as a PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm eBook) disclaims
all liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including
legal fees, and [2] YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE OR
UNDER STRICT LIABILITY, OR FOR BREACH OF WARRANTY OR CONTRACT,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE
OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

If you discover a Defect in this eBook within 90 days of
receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any)
you paid for it by sending an explanatory note within that
time to the person you received it from. If you received it
on a physical medium, you must return it with your note, and
such person may choose to alternatively give you a replacement
copy. If you received it electronically, such person may
choose to alternatively give you a second opportunity to
receive it electronically.

THIS EBOOK IS OTHERWISE PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS". NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE TO YOU AS
TO THE EBOOK OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Some states do not allow disclaimers of implied warranties or
the exclusion or limitation of consequential damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.

INDEMNITY
You will indemnify and hold Michael Hart, the Foundation,
and its trustees and agents, and any volunteers associated
with the production and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm
texts harmless, from all liability, cost and expense, including
legal fees, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the
following that you do or cause:  [1] distribution of this eBook,
[2] alteration, modification, or addition to the eBook,
or [3] any Defect.

DISTRIBUTION UNDER "PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm"
You may distribute copies of this eBook electronically, or by
disk, book or any other medium if you either delete this
"Small Print!" and all other references to Project Gutenberg,
or:

[1]  Only give exact copies of it.  Among other things, this
     requires that you do not remove, alter or modify the
     eBook or this "small print!" statement.  You may however,
     if you wish, distribute this eBook in machine readable
     binary, compressed, mark-up, or proprietary form,
     including any form resulting from conversion by word
     processing or hypertext software, but only so long as
     *EITHER*:

     [*]  The eBook, when displayed, is clearly readable, and
          does *not* contain characters other than those
          intended by the author of the work, although tilde
          (~), asterisk (*) and underline (_) characters may
          be used to convey punctuation intended by the
          author, and additional characters may be used to
          indicate hypertext links; OR

     [*]  The eBook may be readily converted by the reader at
          no expense into plain ASCII, EBCDIC or equivalent
          form by the program that displays the eBook (as is
          the case, for instance, with most word processors);
          OR

     [*]  You provide, or agree to also provide on request at
          no additional cost, fee or expense, a copy of the
          eBook in its original plain ASCII form (or in EBCDIC
          or other equivalent proprietary form).

[2]  Honor the eBook refund and replacement provisions of this
     "Small Print!" statement.

[3]  Pay a trademark license fee to the Foundation of 20% of the
     gross profits you derive calculated using the method you
     already use to calculate your applicable taxes.  If you
     don't derive profits, no royalty is due.  Royalties are
     payable to "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation"
     the 60 days following each date you prepare (or were
     legally required to prepare) your annual (or equivalent
     periodic) tax return.  Please contact us beforehand to
     let us know your plans and to work out the details.

WHAT IF YOU *WANT* TO SEND MONEY EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO?
Project Gutenberg is dedicated to increasing the number of
public domain and licensed works that can be freely distributed
in machine readable form.

The Project gratefully accepts contributions of money, time,
public domain materials, or royalty free copyright licenses.
Money should be paid to the:
"Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation."

If you are interested in contributing scanning equipment or
software or other items, please contact Michael Hart at:
hart@pobox.com

[Portions of this eBook's header and trailer may be reprinted only
when distributed free of all fees.  Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 by
Michael S. Hart.  Project Gutenberg is a TradeMark and may not be
used in any sales of Project Gutenberg eBooks or other materials be
they hardware or software or any other related product without
express permission.]

*END THE SMALL PRINT! FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN EBOOKS*Ver.02/11/02*END*