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And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab. + +1:2. And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber, which +he had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them: +Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of +this my illness. + +1:3. And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the Thesbite, saying: +Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say +to them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub, +the god of Accaron? + +1:4. Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art +gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias +went away. + +1:5. And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: +Why are you come back? + +1:6. But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return +to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the +Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest to +Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from +the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die. + +1:7. And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and +spoke these words? + +1:8. But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his +loins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite. + +1:9. And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were +under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a +hill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come +down. + +1:10. And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man +of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty. +And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty +that were with him. + +Let fire, etc... Elias was inspired to call for fire from heaven upon +these captains, who came to apprehend him; not out of a desire to +gratify any private passion; but to punish the insult offered to +religion, to confirm his mission, and to shew how vain are the efforts +of men against God, and his servants, whom he willeth to protect. + +1:11. And he again sent to him another captain of fifty men, and his +fifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God: Thus saith the king: +Make haste and come down. + +1:12. Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let fire come down +from heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And fire came down from +heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. + +1:13. Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that +were with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees before +Elias, and besought him, and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and +the lives of thy servants that are with me. + +1:14. Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two first +captains of fifty men, and the fifties that were with them: but now I +beseech thee to spare my life. + +1:15. And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, saying: Go down with +him, fear not. He arose therefore, and went down with him to the king, + +1:16. And said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast sent +messengers to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, as though there +were not a God in Israel, of whom thou mightest inquire the word; +therefore, from the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come +down, but thou shalt surely die. + +1:17. So he died, according to the word of the Lord, which Elias spoke; +and Joram, his brother, reigned in his stead, in the second year of +Joram, the son of Josaphat, king of Juda, because he had no son. + +The second year of Joram, etc... Counted from the time that he was +associated to the throne by his father Josaphat. + +1:18. But the rest of the acts of Ochozias, which he did, are they not +written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? + +4 Kings Chapter 2 + +Eliseus will not part from Elias. The water of the Jordan is divided by +Elias' cloak. Elias is taken up in a fiery chariot, and his double +spirit is given to Eliseus. Eliseus healeth the waters by casting in +salt. Boys are torn by bears for mocking Eliseus. + +2:1. And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias, into +heaven, by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from Galgal. + +Heaven... By heaven here is meant the air, the lowest of the heavenly +regions. + +2:2. And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the Lord hath +sent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth, +and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come +down to Bethel, + +2:3. The sons of the prophets, that were at Bethel, came forth to +Eliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will +take away thy master from thee? And he answered: I also know it: hold +your peace. + +The sons of the prophets... That is, the disciples of the prophets; who +seem to have had their schools, like colleges or communities, in Bethel, +Jericho, and other places in the days of Elias and Eliseus. + +2:4. And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me +to Jericho. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I +will not leave thee. And when they were come to Jericho, + +2:5. The sons of the prophets, that were at Jericho, came to Eliseus, +and said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will take away +thy master from thee? And he said: I also know it: hold your peace. + +2:6. And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me as +far as the Jordan. And he said: as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul +liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on together. + +2:7. And fifty men, of the sons of the prophets, followed them, and +stood in sight, at a distance: but they two stood by the Jordan. + +2:8. And Elias took his mantle, and folded it together, and struck the +waters, and they were divided hither and thither, and they both passed +over on dry ground. + +2:9. And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask what thou +wilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And +Eliseus said: I beseech thee, that in me may be thy double spirit. + +Double spirit... A double portion of thy spirit, as the eldest son and +heir: or thy spirit which is double in comparison of that which God +usually imparteth to his prophets. + +2:10. And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if +thou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt have what thou hast +asked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not have it. + +2:11. And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a fiery +chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by +a whirlwind into heaven. + +2:12. And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot +of Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took +hold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces. + +2:13. And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him: and going +back, he stood on the bank of the Jordan; + +2:14. And he struck the waters with the mantle of Elias, that had fallen +from him, and they were not divided. And he said: Where is now the God +of Elias? And he struck the waters, and they were divided hither and +thither, and Eliseus passed over. + +2:15. And the sons of the prophets, at Jericho, who were over against +him, seeing it, said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And +coming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground. + +They worshipped him... viz., with an inferior, yet religious veneration, +not for any temporal, but spiritual excellency. + +2:16. And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty +strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit +of the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some monntain, or into +some valley. And he said: Do not send. + +2:17. But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they +sent fifty men: and they sought three days, but found him not. + +2:18. And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and he said to +them: Did I not say to you? Do not send. + +2:l9. And the men of the city, said to Eliseus: Behold the situation of +this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are very +bad, and the ground barren. + +2:20. And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when +they had brought it, + +2:21. He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into +it, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there +shall be no more in them death or barrenness. + +2:22. And the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of +Eliseus, which he spoke. + +2:23. And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by +the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, +thou bald head, go up, thou bald head. + +2:24. And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the +Lord: and there came forth two bears out of the forest, and tore of +them, two and forty boys. + +Cursed them... This curse, which was followed by so visible a judgment +of God, was not the effect of passion, or of a desire of revenging +himself; but of zeal for religion, which was insulted by these boys, in +the person of the prophet; and of a divine inspiration: God punishing in +this manner the inhabitants of Bethel, (the chief seat of the calf +worship,) who had trained up their children in a prejudice against the +true religion and its ministers. + +2:25. And from thence he went to mount Carmel, and from thence he +returned to Samaria. + +4 Kings Chapter 3 + +The kings of Israel, Juda, and Edom, fight against the king of Moab. +They want water, which Eliseus procureth without rain: and prophesieth +victory. The king of Moab is overthrown, his city is besieged: he +sacrificeth his firstborn son: so the Israelites raise the siege. + +3:1. And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the +eighteenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda. And he reigned twelve years. + +3:2. And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his +mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made. + +3:3. Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, +who made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them. + +3:4. Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid to the +king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, +with their fleeces. + +3:5. And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had made with +the king of Israel. + +3:6. And king Joram went out that day from Samaria, and mustered all +Israel. + +3:7. And he sent to Josaphat; king of Juda, saying: The king of Moab is +revolted from me: come with me against him to battle. And he answered: I +will come up: he that is mine, is thine: my people are thy people: and +my horses, thy horses. + +3:8. And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered: By the +desert of Edom. + +3:9. So the king of Israel, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom, +went, and they fetched a compass of seven days journey, and there was no +water for the army, and for the beasts, that followed them. + +3:10. And the king of Israel said: Alas, alas, alas, the Lord hath +gathered us three kings together, to deliver us into the hands of Moab. + +3:11. And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that +we may beseech the Lord by him? And one of the servants of the king of +Israel answered: Here is Eliseus, the son of Saphat, who poured water on +the hands of Elias. + +3:12. And Josaphat said: The word of the Lord is with him. And the king +of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went down +to him. + +3:13. And Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do with +thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of +Israel said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together these three +kings, to deliver them into the hands of Moab? + +3:14. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of hosts liveth, in whose +sight I stand, if I did not reverence the face of Josaphat, king of +Juda, I would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on thee. + +3:15. But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, +the hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said: + +3:16. Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of +ditches. + +3:17. For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and yet +this channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you and +your families, and your beasts. + +3:18. And this is a small thing in the sight of the Lord: moreover, he +will deliver, also, Moab into your hands. + +3:19. And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice city, +and shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the +springs of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover with stones. + +3:20. And it came to pass, in the morning, when the sacrifices used to +be offered, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country +was filled with water. + +3:21. And all the Moabites hearing that the kings were come up to fight +against them, gathered together all that were girded with a belt upon +them, and stood in the borders. + +3:22. And they rose early in the morning, and the sun being now up, and +shining upon the waters, the Moabites saw the waters over against them +red, like blood, + +3:23. And they said: It is the blood of the sword: the kings have fought +among themselves, and they have killed one another: go now, Moab, to the +spoils. + +3:24. And they went into the camp of Israel: but Israel rising up, +defeated Moab, who fled before them. And they being conquerors, went and +smote Moab. + +3:25. And they destroyed the cities: And they filled every goodly field, +every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs of +waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick walls +only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a great part +thereof destroyed. + +Brick walls only remained... It was the proper name of the capital city +of the Moabites. In Hebrew, Kir-Haraseth. + +3:26. And when the king of Moab saw this, to wit, that the enemies had +prevailed, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to +break in upon the king of Edom: but they could not. + +3:27. Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his +stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall: and there was +great indignation in Israel, and presently they departed from him, and +returned into their own country. + +4 Kings Chapter 4 + +Miracles of Eliseus. He raiseth a dead child to life. + +4:1. Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to Eliseus, +saying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy +servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take +away my two sons to serve him. + +4:2. And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me do for thee? Tell +me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I, thy handmaid, +have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me. + +4:3. And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, +not a few. + +4:4. And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: +and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full, +take them away. + +4:5. So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: +they brought her the vessels, and she poured in. + +4:6. And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a +vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood. + +4:7. And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the +oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest. + +4:8. And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a +great woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed often +that way, he turned into her house to eat bread. + +4:9. And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of +God, who often passeth by us. + +4:10. Let us, therefore, make him a little chamber, and put a little bed +in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he +cometh to us he may abide there. + +4:11. Now, there was a certain day, when he came, and turned into the +chamber, and rested there. + +4:12. And he said to Giezi, his servant: Call this Sunamitess. And when +he had called her, and she stood before him, + +4:13. He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold, thou hast diligently +served us in all things; what wilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast +thou any business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king, or to the +general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own +people. + +4:14. And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: +Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old. + +4:15. Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood +before the door, + +4:16. He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in +company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I +beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid. + +4:17. And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and +at the same hour that Eliseus had said. + +4:18. And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his +father to the reapers, + +4:19. He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said +to his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother. + +4:20. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat +him on her knees, until noon, and then he died. + +4:21. And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and +shut the door: and going out, + +4:22. She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, +one of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and +come again. + +4:23. And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither +new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go. + +4:24. And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make +haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee. + +4:25. So she went forward, and came to the man of God, to mount Carmel: +and when the man of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi, his +servant: Behold that Sunamitess. + +4:26. Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with thee, +and with thy husband, and with thy son? And she answered: Well. + +4:27. And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold +on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let +her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, +and hath not told me. + +4:28. And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to +thee: Do not deceive me? + +4:29. Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy +hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man +salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the +child. + +Salute him not... He that is sent to raise to life the sinner +spiritually dead, must not suffer himself to be called off, or diverted +from his enterprise, by the salutations or ceremonies of the world. + +4:30. But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy +soul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed +her. + +4:31. But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon the face +of the child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet +him, and told him, saying: The child is not risen. + +St. Augustine considers a great mystery in this miracle wrought by the +prophet Eliseus, thus: By the staff sent by his servant is figured the +rod of Moses, or the Old Law, which was not sufficient to bring mankind +to life then dead in sin. It was necessary that Christ himself should +come, and by taking on human nature, become flesh of our flesh, and +restore us to life. In this Eliseus was a figure of Christ, as it was +necessary that he should come himself to bring the dead child to life +and restore him to his mother, who is here, in a mystical sense, a +figure of the Church. + +4:32. Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and behold the child lay +dead on his bed: + +4:33. And going in, he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and +prayed to the Lord. + +4:34. And he went up, and lay upon the child: and put his mouth upon his +mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he +bowed himself upon him, and the child's flesh grew warm. + +4:35. Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he +went up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened +his eyes. + +4:36. And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And +she being called, went in to him: and he said: Take up thy son. + +4:37. She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the ground: and +took up her son, and went out. + +4:38. And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in the +land, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him: And he said to one +of his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of +the prophets. + +4:39. And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he found +something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the field, +and filled his mantle, and coming back, he shred them into the pot of +pottage; for he knew not what it was. + +Wild gourds of the field... Colocynthidas. They are extremely bitter, +and therefore are called the gall of the earth; and are poisonous if +taken in a great quantity. + +4:40. And they poured it out for their companions to eat: and when they +had tasted of the pottage, they cried out, saying: Death is in the pot, +O man of God. And they could not eat thereof. + +4:41. But he said: Bring some meal. And when they had brought it, he +cast it into the pot, and said: Pour out for the people, that they may +eat. And there was now no bitterness in the pot. + +4:42. And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of +God, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in +his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat. + +4:43. And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set +it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they +may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be +left. + +4:44. So he set it before them: and they ate, and there was left, +according to the word of the Lord. + +4 Kings Chapter 5 + +Naaman the Syrian is cleansed of his leprosy. He professeth his belief +in one God, promising to serve him. Giezi taketh gifts of Naaman, and is +struck with leprosy. + +5:1. Naaman, general of the army, of the king of Syria, was a great man +with his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to +Syria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but a leper. + +5:2. Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive +out of the land of Israel, a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman's +wife. + +5:3. And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the +prophet that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the +leprosy which he hath. + +5:4. Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying: Thus and +thus said the girl from the land of Israel. + +5:5. And the king of Syria said to him: Go; and I will send a letter to +the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of +silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment; + +5:6. And brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words: When +thou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman, my +servant, that thou mayst heal him of his leprosy. + +5:7. And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his +garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that +this man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how +he seeketh occasions against me. + +5:8. And when Eliseus, the man of God, had heard this, to wit, that the +king of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast +thou rent thy garments? let him come to me, and let him know that there +is a prophet in Israel. + +5:9. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at the door +of the house of Eliseus: + +5:10. And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash seven +times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shalt +be clean. + +5:11. Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have +come out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord +his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed +me. + +5:12. Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better +than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made +clean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation, + +5:13. His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet +had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how +much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be +clean? + +5:14. Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according +to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored, like the +flesh of a little child: and he was made clean. + +5:15. And returning to the man of God, with all his train, he came, and +stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in +all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee, therefore, take a +blessing of thy servant. + +A blessing... a present. + +5:16. But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will +receive none. And when he pressed him, he still refused. + +5:17. And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me, +thy servant, to take from hence two mules' burden of earth: for thy +servant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods, +but to the Lord. + +5:18. But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for +thy servant; when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship +there, and he leaneth on my hand: if I bow down in the temple of Remmon, +when he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me, thy +servant, for this thing. + +5:19. And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the +spring time of the earth. + +Go in peace... What the prophet here allowed, was not an outward +conformity to an idolatrous worship; but only a service which by his +office he owed to his master: who on all public occasions leaned on him: +so that his bowing down when his master bowed himself down was not in +effect adoring the idols: nor was it so understood by the standers by, +since he publicly professed himself a worshipper of the only true and +living God, but it was no more than doing a civil office to the king his +master, whose leaning upon him obliged him to bow at the same time that +he bowed. + +5:20. But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath +spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he +brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of +him. + +5:21. And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him running after +him, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is all well? + +5:22. And he said: Well: my master hath sent me to thee, saying: Just +now there are come to me from mount Ephraim, two young men of the sons +of the prophets: give them a talent of silver, and two changes of +garments. + +5:23. And Naaman said: It is better that thou take two talents. And he +forced him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes +of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they carried +them before him. + +5:24. And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took them +from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the men away, +and they departed. + +5:25. But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus said: +Whence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no whither. + +5:26. But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man turned back, +from his chariot, to meet thee? So now thou hast received money, and +received garments, to buy oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, +and men-servants, and maid-servants. + +5:27. But the leprosy of Naaman, shall also stick to thee, and to thy +seed for ever. And he went out from him a leper, as white as snow. + +4 Kings Chapter 6 + +Eliseus maketh iron to swim upon the water: he leadeth the Syrians that +were sent to apprehend him into Samaria, where there eyes being opened, +they are courteously entertained. The Syrians besiege Samaria: the +famine there causeth a woman to eat her own child. Upon this the king +commandeth Eliseus to be put to death. + +6:1. And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold, the place +where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. + +6:2. Let us go as far as the Jordan, and take out of the wood every man +a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And +he said: Go. + +6:3. And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He +answered: I will come. + +6:4. So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan, they +cut down wood. + +6:5. And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of +the ax fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, +alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed. + +6:6. And the man of God said: Where did it fall? and he shewed him the +place: Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast it in thither: and the +iron swam. + +6:7. And he said: Take it up. And he put out his hand, and took it. + +6:8. And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with +his servants, saying: In such and such a place, let us lay an ambush. + +6:9. And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that +thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush. + +6:10. And the king of Israel, sent to the place which the man of God had +told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not once +nor twice. + +6:11. And the heart of the king of Syria, was troubled for this thing. +And calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who +it is that betrays me to the king of Israel? + +6:12. And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but +Eliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all +the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber. + +6:13. And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and +take him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan. + +6:14. Therefore, he sent thither horses, and chariots, and the strength +of an army: and they came by night, and beset the city. + +6:15. And the servant of the man of God, rising early went out, and saw +an army round about the city, and horses and chariots: and he told him, +saying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do? + +6:16. But he answered: Fear not: for there are more with us than with +them. + +6:17. And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may +see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and +behold, the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round +about Eliseus. + +6:18. And the enemies came down to him: but Eliseus prayed to the Lord, +saying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness: and the Lord +struck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus. + +Blindness... The blindness here spoken of was of a particular kind, +which hindered them from seeing the objects that were really before +them; and represented other different objects to their imagination: so +that they no longer perceived the city of Dothan, nor were able to know +the person of Eliseus; but were easily led by him, whom they took to be +another man, to Samaria. So that he truly told them, this is not the +way, neither is this the city, etc., because he spoke with relation to +the way and to the city, which was represented to them. + +6:19. And Eliseus said to them: This is not the way, neither is this the +city: follow me, and I will shew you the man whom you seek. So he led +them into Samaria. + +6:20. And when they were come into Samaria, Eliseus said: Lord, open the +eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, +and they saw themselves to be in the midst of Samaria. + +6:21. And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them: My +father, shall I kill them? + +6:22. And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take +them with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set +bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to +their master. + +6:23. And a great provision of meats was set before them, and they ate +and drank; and he let them go: and they went away to their master: and +the robbers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel. + +6:24. And it came to pass, after these things, that Benadad, king of +Syria, gathered together all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. + +6:25. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege +continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of +silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons' dung, for five pieces +of silver. + +6:26. And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman +cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king. + +6:27. And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? +out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: +What aileth thee? And she answered: + +6:28. This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today, +and we will eat my son tomorrow. + +6:29. So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next +day: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son. + +6:30. When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by upon +the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore within next +to his flesh. + +6:31. And the king said: May God do so and so to me, and may he add +more, if the head of Eliseus, the son of Saphat, shall stand on him this +day. + +6:32. But Eliseus sat in his house, and the ancients sat with him. So he +sent a man before: and before that messenger came, he said to the +ancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath sent to cut off +my head? Look then when the messenger shall come, shut the door, and +suffer him not to come in: for behold the sound of his master's feet is +behind him. + +6:33. While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared, who was +coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord: +what shall I look for more from the Lord? + +4 Kings Chapter 7 + +Eliseus prophesieth a great plenty, which presently ensueth upon the +sudden flight of the Syrians; of which four lepers bring the news to the +city. The incredulous nobleman is trod to death. + +7:1. And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the +Lord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold +for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of +Samaria. + +A stater... It is the same as a sicle or shekel. + +7:2. Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering +the man of God, said: If the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, can +that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with +thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. + +7:3. Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and +they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die? + +7:4. If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and +if we will remain here, we must also die: come therefore, and let us run +over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live: but if +they kill us, we shall but die. + +7:5. So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp. And when +they were come to the first part of the camp of the Syrians, they found +no man there. + +7:6. For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria, the noise of +chariots, and of horses, and of a very great army: and they said one to +another: Behold, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of +the Hethites, and of the Egyptians; and they are come upon us. + +7:7. Wherefore they arose, and fled away in the dark, and left their +tents, and their horses and asses in the camp, and fled, desiring to +save their lives. + +7:8. So when these lepers were come to the beginning of the camp, they +went into one tent, and ate and drank: and they took from thence silver, +and gold, and raiment, and went, and hid it: and they came again, and +went into another tent, and carried from thence in like manner, and hid +it. + +7:9. Then they said one to another: We do not well: for this is a day of +good tidings. If we hold our peace, and do not tell it till the morning, +we shall be charged with a crime: come, let us go, and tell it in the +king's court. + +7:10. So they came to the gate of the city, and told them, saying: We +went to the camp of the Syrians, and we found no man there, but horses, +and asses tied, and the tents standing. + +7:11. Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within in the king's +palace. + +7:12. And he arose in the night, and said to his servants: I tell you +what the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer great famine, +and therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in the fields, +saying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and +then we may get into the city. + +7:13. And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five horses that +are remaining in the city (because there are no more in the whole +multitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed), and let us send and +see. + +7:14. They brought therefore two horses, and the king sent into the camp +of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see. + +7:15. And they went after them, as far as the Jordan: and behold, all +the way was full of garments, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast +away, in their fright, and the messengers returned, and told the king. + +7:16. And the people going out, pillaged the camp of the Syrians: and a +bushel of fine flour was sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley +for a stater, according to the word of the Lord. + +7:17. And the king appointed that lord on whose hand he leaned, to stand +at the gate: and the people trod upon him in the entrance of the gate; +and he died, as the man of God had said, when the king came down to him. + +7:18. And it came to pass, according to the word of the man of God, +which he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of barley shall be +for a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this very time +tomorrow, in the gate of Samaria. + +7:19. When that lord answered the man of God, and said: Although the +Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, could this come to pass which +thou sayest? And he said to him: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, and +shalt not eat thereof. + +7:20. And so it fell out to him, as it was foretold, and the people trod +upon him in the gate, and he died. + +4 Kings Chapter 8 + +After seven years' famine foretold by Eliseus, the Sunamitess returning +home, recovereth her lands, and revenues. Eliseus foresheweth the death +of Benadad, king of Syria, and the reign of Hazael. Joram's wicked reign +in Juda. He dieth, and his son Ochozias succeedeth. + +8:1. And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, +saying: Arise, and go thou, and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever +thou canst find: for the Lord hath called a famine, and it shall come +upon the land seven years. + +8:2. And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and +going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines +many days. + +8:3. And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the +land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her +house and for her lands. + +8:4. And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of God, +saying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath done. + +8:5. And when he was telling the king how he had raised one dead to +life, the woman appeared, whose son he had restored to life, crying to +the king for her house, and her lands. And Giezi said: My lord, O king, +this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Eliseus raised to life. + +8:6. And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the king +appointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all +the revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land to this +present. + +8:7. Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad, king of Syria was sick; +and they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither. + +8:8. And the king said to Hazael: Take with thee presents, and go to +meet the man of God, and consult the Lord by him, saying: Can I recover +of this my illness? + +8:9. And Hazael went to meet him, taking with him presents, and all the +good things of Damascus, the burdens of forty camels. And when he stood +before him, he said: Thy son, Benadad, the king of Syria, hath sent me +to thee, saying: Can I recover of this my illness? + +8:10. And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover: but the +Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die. + +Tell him: thou shalt recover... By these words the prophet signified +that the king's disease was not mortal: and that he would recover if no +violence were used. Or he might only express himself in this manner, by +way of giving Hazael to understand that he knew both what he would say +and do; that he would indeed tell the king he should recover; but would +be himself the instrument of his death. + +8:11. And he stood with him, and was troubled so far as to blush: and +the man of God wept. + +8:12. And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said: +Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel. +Their strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou +wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up +their pregnant women. + +8:13. And Hazael said: But what am I, thy servant, a dog, that I should +do this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewed me that thou +shalt be king of Syria. + +8:14. And when he was departed from Eliseus he came to his master, who +said to him: What said Eliseus to thee? And he answered: He told me: +Thou shalt recover. + +8:15. And on the next day, he took a blanket, and poured water on it, +and spread it upon his face: and he died, and Hazael reigned in his +stead. + +8:16. In the fifth year of Joram, son of Achab, king of Israel, and of +Josaphat, king of Juda, reigned Joram, son of Josaphat, king of Juda. + +And of Josaphat, etc... That is, Josaphat being yet alive, who sometime +before his death made his son Joram king, as David had done before by +his own son Solomon. + +8:17. He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he +reigned eight years in Jerusalem. + +8:18. And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of +Achab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did +that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. + +8:19. But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant's sake, +as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always. + +8:20. In his days Edom revolted from being under Juda, and made +themselves a king. + +8:21. And Joram came to Seira, and all the chariots with him: and he +arose in the night, and defeated the Edomites that had surrounded him, +and the captains of the chariots, but the people fled into their tents. + +8.22. So Edom revolted from being under Juda, unto this day. Then Lobna +also revolted at the same time. + +8:23. But the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? + +8:24. And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the +city of David, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead. + +8:25. In the twelfth year of Joram, the son of Achab, king of Israel, +reigned Ochozias, son of Joram, king of Juda. + +8:26. Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and +he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the +daughter of Amri king of Israel. + +Daughter... That is, grand-daughter; for she was daughter of Achab son +of Amri, ver. 18. + +8:27. And he walked in the ways of the house of Achab: and he did evil +before the Lord, as did the house of Achab: for he was the son in law of +the house of Achab. + +8:28. He went also with Joram, son of Achab, to fight against Hazael, +king of Syria, in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Joram: + +8:29. And he went back to be healed, in Jezrahel: because the Syrians +had wounded him in Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael, king of Syria +And Ochozias, the son of Joram, king of Juda, went down to visit Joram, +the son of Achab, in Jezrahel, because he was sick there. + +4 Kings Chapter 9 + +Jehu is anointed king of Israel, to destroy the house of Achab and +Jezebel. He killeth Joram king of Israel, and Ochozias king of Juda. +Jezebel is eaten by dogs. + +9:1. And Eliseus the prophet, called one of the sons of the prophets, +and said to him: Gird up thy loins, and take this little bottle of oil +in thy hand, and go to Ramoth Galaad. + +9:2. And when thou art come thither, thou shalt see Jehu the son of +Josaphat the son of Namsi: and going in, thou shalt make him rise up +from amongst his brethren, and carry him into an inner chamber. + +9:3. Then taking the little bottle of oil, thou shalt pour it on his +head, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over +Israel. And thou shalt open the door and flee, and shalt not stay there. + +9:4. So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went away to Ramoth +Galaad, + +9:5. And went in thither: and behold, the captains of the army were +sitting, and he said: I have a word to thee, O prince. And Jehu said: +Unto whom of us all? And he said: To thee, O prince. + +9:6. And he arose, and went into the chamber: and he poured the oil upon +his head, and said: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: I have anointed +thee king over Israel, the people of the Lord. + +9:7. And thou shalt cut off the house of Achab, thy master, and I will +revenge the blood of my servants, the prophets, and the blood of all the +servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel. + +9:8. And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will cut off from +Achab, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and +the meanest in Israel. + +9:9. And I will make the house of Achab, like the house of Jeroboam, the +son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa, the son of Ahias. + +9:10. And the dogs shall eat Jezabel, in the field of Jezrahel, and +there shall be no one to bury her. And he opened the door and fled. + +9:11. Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his Lord: and they said to +him: Are all things well? why came this madman to thee? And he said to +them: You know the man, and what he said. + +9:12. But they answered: It is false; but rather do thou tell us. And he +said to them: Thus and thus did he speak to me: and he said: Thus saith +the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel. + +9:13. Then they made haste, and taking every man his garment, laid it +under his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded +the trumpet, and said: Jehu is king. + +9:14. So Jehu, the son of Josaphat, the son of Namsi, conspired against +Joram. Now Joram had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he, and all Israel, +fighting with Hazael, king of Syria: + +9:15. And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds; for the +Syrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria. And +Jehu said: If it please you, let no man go forth or flee out of the +city, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel. + +9:16. And he got up, and went into Jezrahel for Joram was sick there, +and Ochozias king of Juda, was come down to visit Joram. + +9:17. The watchman therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel, saw +the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said: Take +a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is all +well? + +9:18. So there went one in a chariot to meet him, and said: Thus saith +the king: Are all things peaceable? And Jehu said: What hast thou to do +with peace? go behind and follow me. And the watchman told, saying: The +messenger came to them, but he returneth not. + +9:19. And he sent a second chariot of horses: and he came to them, and +said: Thus saith the king: Is there peace? And Jehu said: What hast thou +to do with peace? pass, and follow me. + +9:20. And the watchman told, saying: He came even to them, but returneth +not: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Namsi; for +he drives furiously. + +9:21. And Joram said: Make ready the chariot. And they made ready his +chariot: and Joram, king of Israel, and Ochozias, king of Juda, went +out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him in +the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite. + +9:22. And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he +answered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel, thy +mother, and her many sorceries, are in their vigour. + +9:23. And Joram turned his hand, and fleeing, said to Ochozias: There is +treachery, Ochozias. + +9:24. But Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and shot Joram between the +shoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, and immediately he +fell in his chariot. + +9:25. And Jehu said to Badacer, his captain: Take him, and cast him into +the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite: for I remember, when I and thou, +sitting in a chariot, followed Achab, this man's father, that the Lord +laid this burden upon him, saying: + +9:26. If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the +blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw +yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field, +according to the word of the Lord. + +9:27. But Ochozias, king of Juda, seeing this, fled by the way of the +garden house: and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his +chariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which is by +Jeblaam: and he fled into Mageddo, and died there. + +9:28. And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and carried him to +Jerusalem: and they buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers, in the +city of David. + +9:29. In the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Achab, Ochozias reigned +over Juda; + +9:30. And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel, hearing of his coming +in, painted her face with stibic stone, and adorned her head, and looked +out of a window. + +9:31. At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: Can there be peace for +Zambri, that hath killed his master? + +9:32. And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said: Who is this? +And two or three eunuchs bowed down to him. + +9:33. And he said to them: Throw her down headlong; And they threw her +down, and the wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs of the +horses trod upon her. + +9:34. And when he was come in to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see +after that cursed woman, and bury her; because she is a king's daughter. + +9:35. And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull, +and the feet, and the extremities of her hands. + +9:36. And coming back they told him. And Jehu said: It is the word of +the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elias, the Thesbite, saying: In +the field of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezabel. + +9:37. And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung upon the face of the +earth in the field of Jezrahel; so that they who pass by shall say: Is +this that same Jezabel? + +4 Kings Chapter 10 + +Jehu destroyeth the house of Achab: abolisheth the worship of Baal, and +killeth the worshippers: but sticketh to the calves of Jeroboam. Israel +is afflicted by the Syrians. + +10:1. And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria: so Jehu wrote letters, and +sent to Samaria, to the chief men of the city, and to the ancients, and +to them that brought up Achab's children, saying: + +10:2. As soon as you receive these letters, ye that have your master's +sons, and chariots, and horses, and fenced cities, and armour, + +10:3. Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your +master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the +house of your master. + +10:4. But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two kings could +not stand before him, and how shall we be able to resist? + +10:5. Therefore they that were over the king's house, and the rulers of +the city, and the ancients, and the bringers up of the children, sent to +Jehu, saying: We are thy servants: whatsoever thou shalt command us we +will do; we will not make us any king: do thou all that pleaseth thee. + +10:6. And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be +mine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and +come to me to Jezrahel by tomorrow at this time. Now the king's sons, +being seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city. + +10:7. And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and +slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to +him to Jezrahel. + +10:8. And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have brought the +heads of the king's sons. And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the +entering in of the gate until the morning. + +10:9. And when it was light, he went out, and standing, said to all the +people: You are just: if I conspired against my master, and slew him; +who hath slain all these? + +10:10. See therefore now that there hath not fallen to the ground any of +the words of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of +Achab, and the Lord hath done that which he spoke in the hand of his +servant Elias. + +10:11. So Jehu slew all that were left of the honse of Achab in +Jezrahel, and all his chief men, and his friends, and his priests, till +there were no remains left of him. + +10:12. And he arose, and went to Samaria: and when he was come to the +shepherds' cabin in the way, + +10:13. He met with the brethren of Ochozias, king of Juda, and he said +to them: Who are you? And they answered: We are the brethren of +Ochozias, and are come down to salute the sons of the king, and the sons +of the queen. + +10:14. And he said: Take them alive. And they took them alive, and +killed them at the pit by the cabin, two and forty men, and he left not +any of them. + +10:15. And when he was departed thence, he found Jonadab, the son of +Rechab, coming to meet him, and he blessed him. And he said to him: Is +thy heart right as my heart is with thy heart? And Jonadab said: It is. +If it be, said he, give me thy hand. He gave him his hand. And he lifted +him up to him into the chariot, + +10:16. And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So +he made him ride in his chariot, + +10:17. And brought him into Samaria. And he slew all that were left of +Achab, in Samaria, to a man, according to the word of the Lord which he +spoke by Elias. + +10:18. And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them: +Achab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more. + +I will worship him more... Jehu sinned in thus pretending to worship +Baal, and causing sacrifice to be offered to him: because evil is not to +be done, that good may come of it. Rom. 3.8. + +10:19. Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his +servants, and all his priests: let none be wanting, for I have a great +sacrifice to offer to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting, shall not live. +Now Jehu did this craftily, that he might destroy the worshippers of +Baal. + +10:20. And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called, + +10:21. And he sent into all the borders of Israel; and all the servants +of Baal came: there was not one left that did not come. And they went +into the temple of Baal: and the house of Baal was filled, from one end +to the other. + +10:22. And he said to them that were over the wardrobe: Bring forth +garments for all the servants of Baal. And they brought them forth +garments. + +10:23. And Jehu, and Jonadab, the son of Rechab, went to the temple of +Baal, and said to the worshippers of Baal: Search, and see that there be +not any with you of the servants of the Lord, but that there be the +servants of Baal only. + +10:24. And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings: but +Jehu had prepared him fourscore men without, and said to them: If any of +the men escape, whom I have brought into your hands, he that letteth him +go, shall answer life for life. + +10:25. And it came to pass, when the burnt offering was ended, that Jehu +commanded his soldiers and captains, saying: Go in, and kill them: let +none escape. And the soldiers and captains slew them with the edge of +the sword, and cast them out: and they went into the city of the temple +of Baal, + +10:26. And brought the statue out of Baal's temple, and burnt it, + +10:27. And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, +and made a jakes in its place unto this day. + +10:28. So Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel: + +10:29. But yet he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of +Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he forsake the golden calves that +were in Bethel, and Dan. + +10:30. And the Lord said to Jehu: because thou hast diligently executed +that which was right and pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the house +of Achab according to all that was in my heart: thy children shall sit +upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation. + +10:31. But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of +Israel, with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of +Jeroboam, who had made Israel to sin. + +10:32. In those days the Lord began to be weary of Israel: and Hazael +ravaged them in all the coasts of Israel, + +10:33. From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Galaad, and Gad, and +Ruben, and Manasses, from Aroer, which is upon the torrent Arnon, and +Galaad, and Basan. + +10:34. But the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and his +strength, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of +the kings of Israel? + +10:35. And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: +and Joachaz, his son, reigned in his stead. + +10:36. And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria, was eight +and twenty years. + +4 Kings 11 + +Athalia's usurpation and tyranny. Joas is made king. Athalia is slain. + +11:1. Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, +arose and slew all the royal seed. + +11:2. But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took +Joas, the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king's sons that +were slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse: and hid him from the +face of Athalia; so that he was not slain. + +11:3. And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And +Athalia reigned over the land. + +11:4. And in the seventh year Joiada sent, and taking the centurions and +soldiers, brought them in to him into the temple of the Lord, and made a +covenant with them: and taking an oath of them in the house of the Lord, +shewed them the king's son: + +11:5. And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do. + +11:6. Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath, and keep the watch +of the king's house. And let a third part be at the gate of Sur; and let +a third part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the shieldbearers; +and you shall keep the watch of the house of Messa. + +11:7. But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep +the watch of the house of the Lord about the king. + +11:8. And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your +hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be +slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out. + +11:9. And the centurions did according to all things that Joiada the +priest, had commanded them: and takiug every one their men, that went in +on the sabbath, with them that went out in the sabbath, came to Joiada, +the priest. + +11:10. And he gave them the spears, and the arms of king David, which +were in the house of the Lord. + +11:11. And they stood, having every one their weapons in their hands, +from the right side of the temple, unto the left side of the altar, and +of the temple, about the king. + +11:12. And he brought forth the king's son, and put the diadem upon him, +and the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and +clapping their hands, they said: God save the king. + +The testimony... The book of the law. + +11:13. And Athalia heard the noise of the people running: and going in +to the people into the temple of the Lord, + +11:14. She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was, and +the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the land +rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments, and +cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy. + +A tribunal... A tribune, or a place elevated above the rest. + +11:15. But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and +said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and +whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the +priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord. + +11:16. And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by +which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there. + +11:17. And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and +the people, that they should be the people of the Lord; and between the +king and the people. + +11:18. And all the people of the land went into the temple of Baal, and +broke down his altars, and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly: +they slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before the altar. And the +priest set guards in the house of the Lord. + +11:19. And he took the centurions, and the bands of the Cerethi, and the +Phelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from +the house of the Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the +shieldbearers into the palace, and he sat on the throne of the kings. + +11:20. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: +but Athalia was slain with the sword in the king's house. + +11:21. Now Joas was seven years old when he began to reign. + +4 Kings Chapter 12 + +The temple is repaired. Hazael is bought off from attacking Jerusalem. +Joas is slain. + +12:1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned +forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia, of Bersabee. + +12:2. And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days +that Joiada, the priest, taught him. + +12:3. But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still +sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. + +12:4. And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified +things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, +which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, +and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord: + +Sanctified... That is, dedicated to God's service.-Ibid. The price of a +soul... That is, the ordinary oblation, which every soul was to offer by +the law. Ex. 30. + +12:5. Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the +house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing. + +12:6. Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests did +not make the repairs of the temple. + +12:7. And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, +saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, +money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing +of the temple. + +12:8. And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the +people, and to make the repairs of the house. + +12:9. And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the +top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into +the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put therein +all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord. + + +12:10. And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest, +the king's scribe, and the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and +counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord. + +12:11. And they gave it out by number and measure into the hands of them +that were over the builders of the house of the Lord: and they laid it +out to the carpenters, and the masons, that wrought in the house of the +Lord, + +12:12. And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy +timber, and stones to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the +Lord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of +expenses to uphold the house. + +12:13. But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the +Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of +gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the +Lord: + +12:14. For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of +the Lord might be repaired. + +12:15. And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to +distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully. + +12:16. But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought +not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests. + +12:17. Then Hazael, king of Syria, went up, and fought against Geth, and +took it, and set his face to go up to Jerusalem. + +12:18. Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the sanctified things, +which Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of Juda, +had dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and all +the silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of the +Lord, and in the king's palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria, +and he went off from Jerusalem. + +12:19. And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? + +12:20. And his servants arose, and conspired among themselves, and slew +Joas, in the house of Mello, in the descent of Sella. + +12:21. For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Jozabad the son of Somer his +servant, struck him, and he died: and they buried him with his fathers +in the city of David; and Amasias, his son, reigned in his stead. + +The city of David... He was buried in the same city with his fathers, +but not in the sepulchres of the kings. 2 Par. 14. + +4 Kings Chapter 13 + +The reign of Joachaz and of Joas kings of Israel. The last acts and +death of Eliseus the prophet: a dead man is raised to life by the touch +of his bones. + +13:1. In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of Ochozias, king of +Juda, Joachaz, the son of Jehu, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, +seventeen years. + +13:2. And he did evil before the Lord, and followed the sins of +Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin; and he departed not +from them. + +13:3. And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he +delivered them into the hand of Hazael, the king of Syria, and into the +hand of Benadad, the son of Hazael, all days. + +13:4. But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard him: +for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had +oppressed them: + +13:5. And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, and they were delivered out of +the hand of the king of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in their +pavilions as yesterday and the day before. + +13:6. But yet they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, +who made Israel to sin, but walked in them: and there still remained a +grove also in Samaria. + +A grove... Dedicated to the worship of idols. + +13:7. And Joachaz had no more left of the people than fifty horsemen, +and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had +slain them, and had brought them low as dust by threshing in the +barnfloor. + +13:8. But the rest of the acts of Joachaz, and all that he did, and his +valour, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the +kings of Israel? + +13:9. And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in +Samaria: and Joas, his son, reigned in his stead. + +13:10. In the seven and thirtieth year of Joas, king of Juda, Joas the +son of Joachaz reigned over Israel, in Samaria, sixteen years. + +13:11. And he did that which is evil in the sight of the Lord: he +departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made +Israel to sin; but he walked in them. + +13:12. But the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, and his +valour wherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not +written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? + +13:13. And Joas slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his +throne. But Joas was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel. + +13:14. Now Eliseus was sick of the illness whereof he died: and Joas, +king of Israel, went down to him, and wept before him, and said: O my +father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the guider thereof. + +13:15. And Eliseus said to him: Bring a bow and arrows. And when he had +brought him a bow and arrows, + +13:16. He said to the king of Israel: Put thy hand upon the bow. And +when he had put his hand, Eliseus put his hands over the king's hands, + +13:17. And said: Open the window to the east. And when he had opened it, +Eliseus said: Shoot an arrow. And he shot. And Eliseus said: The arrow +of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of the deliverance from Syria: +and thou shalt strike the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume them. + +13:18. And he said: Take the arrows. And when he had taken them, he said +to him: Strike with an arrow upon the ground. And he struck three times, +and stood still. + +13:19. And the man of God was angry with him, and said: If thou hadst +smitten five or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to +utter destruction: but now three times shalt thou smite it. + +If thou hadst smitten, etc... By this it appears that God had revealed +to the prophet that the king should overcome the Syrians as many times +as he should then strike on the ground; but as he had not at the same +time revealed to him how often the king would strike, the prophet was +concerned to see that he struck but thrice. + +13:20. And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab +came into the land the same year. + +13:21. And some that were burying a man, saw the rovers, and cast the +body into the sepulchre of Eliseus. And when it had touched the bones +of Eliseus, the man came to life and stood upon his feet. + +13:22. Now Hazael, king of Syria, afflicted Israel all the days of +Joachaz. + +13:23. And the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them, because of +his covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob: and +he would not destroy them, nor utterly cast them away, unto this present +time. + +13:24. And Hazael, king of Syria, died; and Benadad, his son, reigned in +his stead. + +13:25. Now Joas the son of Joachaz, took the cities out of the hand of +Benadad, the son of Hazael, which he had taken out of the hand of +Joachaz, his father, by war; three times did Joas beat him, and he +restored the cities to Israel. + +4 Kings Chapter 14 + +Amasias reigneth in Juda: he overcometh the Edomites: but is overcome by +Joas king of Israel. Jereboam the second reigneth in Israel. + +14:1. In the second year of Joas son of Joachaz, king of Israel, reigned +Amasias son of Joas, king of Juda. + +14:2. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign; and nine +and twenty years he reigned in Jerusalem; the name of his mother was +Joadan, of Jerusalem. + +14:3. And he did that which was right before the Lord, but yet not like +David his father. He did according to all things that Joas his father, +did: + +14:4. But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the +people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places: + +14:5. And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to +death that had slain the king, his father. + +14:6. But the children of the murderers he did not put to death, +according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, +wherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to +death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for +the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin. + +14:7. He slew of Edom in the valley of the Saltpits, ten thousand men, +and took the rock by war, and called the name thereof Jectehel, unto +this day. + +14:8. Then Amasias sent messengers to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of Jehu, +king of Israel, saying: Come, let us see one another. + +Let us see one another... This was a challenge to fight. + +14:9. And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to Amasias, king of Juda, +saying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus, +saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the +forest, that are in Libanus, passed, and trod down the thistle. + +14:10. Thou hast beaten and prevailed over Edom, and thy heart hath +lifted thee up; be content with this glory, and sit at home; why +provokest thou evil, that thou shouldst fall, and Juda with thee? + +14:11. But Amasias did not rest satisfied. So Joas, king of Israel, went +up; and he and Amasias, king of Juda, saw one another in Bethsames, a +town in Juda. + +14:12. And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every +man to their dwellings. + +14:13. But Joas, king of Israel, took Amasias, king of Juda, the son of +Joas, the son of Ochozias, in Bethsames, and brought him into Jerusalem; +and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim to the +gate of the corner, four hundred cubits. + +14:14. And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that +were found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, and +hostages, and returned to Samaria. + +14:15. But the rest of the acts of Joas, which he did, and his valour, +wherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not written +in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? + +14:16. And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with +the kings of Israel: and Jeroboam, his son, reigned in his stead. + +14:17. And Amasias, the son of Joas, king of Juda, lived after the death +of Joas, son of Joachaz, king of Israel, fifteen years. + +14:18. And the rest of the acts of Amasias, are they not written in the +book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? + +14:19. Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled +to Lachis. And they sent after him to Lachis, and killed him there. + +14:20. And they brought him away upon horses, and he was buried in +Jerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David. + +14:21. And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years +old, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias. + +14:22. He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king +slept with his fathers. + +14:23. In the fifteenth year of Amasias, son of Joas, king of Juda, +reigned Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel, in Samaria, one and +forty years: + +14:24. And he did that which is evil before the Lord. He departed not +from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. + +14:25. He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Emath, +unto the sea of the wilderness, according to the word of the Lord, the +God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant, Jonas, the son of Amathi, +the prophet, who was of Geth, which is in Opher. + +Opher... The tribe of Zabulon. + +14:26. For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was +exceedingly bitter, and that they were consumed even to them that were +shut up in prison, and the lowest persons, and that there was no one to +help Israel. + +14:27. And the Lord did not say that he would blot out the name of +Israel from under heaven; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam, the +son of Joas. + +14:28. But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and +his valour, wherewith he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Emath +to Juda, in Israel, are they not written in the book of the words of the +days of the kings of Israel? + +14:29. And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel; and +Zacharias, his son, reigned in his stead. + +4 Kings Chapter 15 + +The reign of Azarias, and Joatham in Juda: and of Zacharias, Sellum, +Manahem, Phaceia, and Phacee in Israel. + +15:1. In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, +reigned Azarias, son of Amasias, king of Juda. + +Azarias... Otherwise called Ozias. + +15:2. He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned +two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia, +of Jerusalem. + +15:3. And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to +all that his father, Amasias, had done. + +15:4. But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, +and burnt incense in the high places. + +15:5. And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day +of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham, the +king's son, governed the palace, and judged the people of the land. + +A leper... In punishment of his usurping the priestly function. 2 Par. +26. + +15:6. And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? + +15:7. And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his +ancestors in the city of David, and Joatham, his son, reigned in his +stead. + +15:8. In the eight and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned +Zacharias, son of Jeroboam, over Israel, in Samaria, six months: + +15:9. And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had +done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who +made Israel to sin. + +15:10. And Sellum, the son of Jabes, conspired against him: and struck +him publicly, and killed him, and reigned in his place. + +15:11. Now the rest of the acts of Zacharias, are they not written in +the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? + +15:12. This was the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Jehu, saying: +Thy children, to the fourth generation, shall sit upon the throne of +Israel. And so it came to pass. + +15:13. Sellum, the son of Jabes, began to reign in the nine and +thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda: and reigned one month in +Samaria. + +15:14. And Manahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Thersa, and he came +into Samaria, and struck Sellum, the son of Jabes, in Samaria, and slew +him, and reigned in his stead. + +15:15. And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy which he +made, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the +kings of Israel? + +15:16. Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it, and the +borders thereof from Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he +slew all the women thereof that were with child, and ripped them up. + +15:17. In the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned +Manahem, son of Gadi, over Israel, ten years, in Samaria. + +15:18. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not +from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, all +his days. + +15:19. And Phul, king of the Assyrians, came into the land, and Manahem +gave Phul a thousand talents of silver to aid him and to establish him +in the kingdom. + +15:20. And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on all that were mighty and +rich, to give the king of the Assyrians, each man fifty sicles of +silver: so the king of the Assyrians turned back, and did not stay in +the land. + +15:21. And the rest of the acts of Manahem, and all that he did, are +they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of +Israel? + +15:22. And Manahem slept with his fathers: and Phaceia, his son, reigned +in his stead. + +15:23. In the fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned Phaceia, +the son of Manahem, over Israel, in Samaria, two years. + +15:24. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not +from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. + +15:25. And Phacee the son of Romelia, his captain, conspired against +him, and smote him in Samaria, in the tower of the king's house, near +Argob, and near Arie, and with him fifty men of the sons of the +Galaadites, and he slew him, and reigned in his stead. + +15:26. And the rest of the acts of Phaceia, and all that he did, are +they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of +Israel? + +15:27. In the two and fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned +Phacee, the son of Romelia, over Israel, in Samaria, twenty years. + +15:28. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not +from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. + +15:29. In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came Theglathphalasar, +king of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and +Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of Nephthali: +and carried them captives into Assyria. + +15:30. Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and formed a plot against +Phacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned in +his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham, the son of Ozias. + +In the twentieth year of Joatham... That is, in the twentieth year, from +the beginning of Joatham's reign. The sacred writer chooses rather to +follow here this date than to speak of the years of Achaz, who had not +yet been mentioned. + +15:31. But the rest of the acts of Phacee, and all that he did, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? + +15:32. In the second year of Phacee, the son of Romelia king of Israel, +reigned Joatham, son of Ozias, king of Juda. + +15:33. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he +reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa, +the daughter of Sadoc. + +15:34. And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all +that his father Ozias had done, so did he. + +15:35. But the high places he took not away: the people still +sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest +gate of the house of the Lord. + +15:36. But the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all that he did, are +they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of +Juda? + +15:37. In those days the Lord began to send into Juda, Rasin king of +Syria, and Phacee the son of Romelia. + +15:38. And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in +the city of David, his father; and Achaz, his son, reigned in his stead. + +4 Kings Chapter 16 + +The wicked reign of Achaz: the kings of Syria and Israel war against +him: he hireth the king of the Assyrians to assist him: he causeth an +altar to be made after the pattern of that of Damascus. + +16:1. In the seventeenth year of Phacee, the son of Romelia reigned +Achaz, the son of Joatham, king of Juda. + +16:2. Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned +sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was pleasing in the +sight of the Lord, his God, as David, his father. + +16:3. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover, he +consecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire, according to +the idols of the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of +Israel. + +16:4. He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on +the hills, and under every green tree. + +16:5. Then Rasin, king of Syria, and Phacee, son of Romelia, king of +Israel, came up to Jerusalem to fight: and they besieged Achaz, but were +not able to overcome him. + +16:6. At that time Rasin, king of Syria, restored Aila to Syria, and +drove the men of Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites came into Aila, and +dwelt there unto this day. + +16:7. And Achaz sent messengers to Theglathphalasar, king of the +Assyrians, saying: I am thy servant, and thy son: come up, and save me +out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of +Israel, who are risen up together against me. + +16:8. And when he had gathered together the silver and gold that could +be found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, he sent +it for a present to the king of the Assyrians. + +16:9. And he agreed to his desire: for the king of the Assyrians went up +against Damascus, and laid it waste: and he carried away the inhabitants +thereof to Cyrene; but Rasin he slew. + +16:10. And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king of +the Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz +sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness, according +to all the work thereof. + +16:11. And Urias, the priest, built an altar according to all that king +Achaz had commanded from Damascus so did Urias, the priest, until king +Achaz came from Damascus. + +16:12. And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and +worshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own +sacrifice; + +16:13. And he offered libations, and poured the blood of the peace +offerings, which he had offered, upon the altar. + +16:14. But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from +the face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the +place of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar +towards the north. + +16:15. And king Achaz commanded Urias, the priest, saying: Upon the +great altar offer the morning holocaust, and the evening sacrifice, and +the king's holocaust, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust of the whole +people of the land, and their sacrifices, and their libations: and all +the blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of the victim, thou shalt +pour out upon it: but the altar of brass shall be ready at my pleasure. + +16:16. So Urias, the priest, did according to all that king Achaz had +commanded him. + +16:17. And king Achaz took away the graven bases, and the laver that was +upon them: and he took down the sea from the brazen oxen that held it +up, and put it upon a pavement of stone. + +16:18. The Musach also for the sabbath, which he had built in the +temple, and the king's entry from without, he turned into the temple of +the Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians. + +Musach... The covert, or pavilion, or tribune, for the king. + +16:19. Now the rest of the acts of Achaz which he did, are they not +written in the book of the words of the of the days of the kings of +Juda? + +16:20. And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the +city of David, and Ezechias, his son, reigned in his stead. + +4 Kings Chapter 17 + +The reign of Osee. The Israelites for their sins are carried into +captivity: other inhabitants are sent to Samaria, who make a mixture of +religion. + +17:1. In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela +reigned in Samaria, over Israel, nine years. + +In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda... He began to reign before: +but was not in quiet possession of the kingdom to the twelfth year of +Achaz. + +17:2. And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel +that had been before him. + +17:3. Against him came up Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians; and Osee +became his servant, and paid him tribute. + +17:4. And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee, endeavouring +to rebel, had sent messengers to Sua, the king of Egypt, that he might +not pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every year, +he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison. + +17:5. And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he +besieged it three years. + +17:6. And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took +Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala, +and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes. + +17:7. For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the +Lord, their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under +the hand of Pharao, king of Egypt; and they worshipped strange gods. + +17:8. And they walked according to the way of the nations which the Lord +had destroyed in the sight of the children of Israel, and of the kings +of Israel: because they had done in like manner. + +17:9. And the children of Israel offended the Lord, their God, with +things that were not right: and built them high places in all their +cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. + +17:10. And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and +under every shady tree: + +17:11. And they burnt incense there upon altars, after the manner of the +nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did wicked +things, provoking the Lord. + +17:12. And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had +commanded them that they should not do this thing. + +17:13. And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the +hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked +ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law +which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of +my servants the prophets. + +17:14. And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck +of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord, their God. + +17:15. And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made +with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: +and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the +nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had +commanded them that they should not do as they did. + +17:16. And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord, their God: and +made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the +host of heaven: and they served Baal, + +17:17. And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire: +and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they +delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him. + +17:18. And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from +his sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda. + +17:19. But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord, +their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had +wrought. + +17:20. And the Lord cast off all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, +and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, till he cast them away +from his face: + +17:21. Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of +David, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king: for Jeroboam +separated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin. + +17:22. And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam, +which he had done: and they departed not from them, + +17:23. Till the Lord removed Israel from his face, as he had spoken in +the hand of all his servants, the prophets: and Israel was carried away +out of their land to Assyria, unto this day. + +17:24. And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and +from Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and +placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: +and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. + +17:25. And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord: and +the Lord sent lions among them, which killed them. + +17:26. And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The +nations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of +Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord +hath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they know +not the manner of the God of the land. + +17:27. And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither +one of the priests whom you brought from thence captive, and let him go, +and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of +the land. + +17:28. So one of the priests, who had been carried away captive from +Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should +worship the Lord. + +17:29. And every nation made gods of their own and put them in the +temples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation +in their cities where they dwelt. + +17:30. For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made +Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima. + +17:31. And the Hevites made Nebahaz, and Tharthac. And they that were +of Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech and Anamelech, +the gods of Sepharvaim. + +17:32. And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to +themselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and +they placed them in the temples of the high places. + +17:33. And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own +gods, according to the custom of the nations out of which they were +brought to Samaria: + +17:34. Unto this day they follow the old manner: they fear not the Lord, +neither do they keep his ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the +commandment, which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he +surnamed Israel: + +17:35. With whom he made a covenant, and charged them, saying: You shall +not fear strange gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship them, nor +sacrifice to them. + +17:36. But the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, +with great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him +shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice. + +17:37. And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, +which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you +shall not fear strange gods. + +17:38. And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget: +neither shall ye worship strange Gods, + +17:39. But fear the Lord, your God, and he shall deliver you out of the +hand of all your enemies. + +17:40. But they did not hearken to them, but did according to their old +custom. + +17:41. So these nations feared the Lord, but nevertheless served also +their idols: their children also, and grandchildren, as their fathers +did, so do they unto this day. + +4 Kings Chapter 18 + +The reign of Ezechias: he abolisheth idolatry and prospereth. +Sennacherib cometh up against him: Rabsaces soliciteth the people to +revolt; and blasphemeth the Lord. + +18:1. In the third year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, reigned +Ezechias, the son of Achaz, king of Juda. + +18:2. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he +reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was +Abi, the daughter of Zacharias. + +18:3. And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all +that David, his father, had done: + +18:4. He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and +cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: +for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he +called its name Nohestan. + +And he called its name Noheston... That is, their brass; or a little +brass. So he called it in contempt, because they had made an idol of it. + +18:5. He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel: so that after him there +was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were +before him: + +18:6. And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but +kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. + +18:7. Wherefore the Lord also was with him, and in all things, to which +he went forth, he behaved himself wisely. And he rebelled against the +king of the Assyrians, and served him not. + +18:8. He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders, +from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. + +18:9. In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh vear of +Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians, +came up to Samaria, and besieged it, + +18:10. And took it. For after three years, in the sixth year of +Ezechias, that is, in the ninth year of Osee, king of Israel, Samaria +was taken: + +18:11. And the king of the Assyrians carried away Israel into Assyria, +and placed them in Hala, and in Habor, by the rivers of Gozan, in the +cities of the Medes. + +18:12. Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God, +but transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, +commanded, they would not hear, nor do. + +18:13. In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the +Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them. + +18:14. Then Ezechias, king of Juda, sent messengers to the king of the +Assyrians, to Lachis, saying: I have offended, depart from me: and all +that thou shalt put upon me, I will bear. And the king of the Assyrians +put a tax upon Ezechias, king of Juda, of three hundred talents of +silver, and thirty talents of gold. + +18:15. And Ezechias gave all the silver that was found in the house of +the Lord, and in the king's treasures. + +18:16. At that time Ezechias broke the doors of the temple of the Lord, +and the plates of gold which he had fastened on them, and gave them to +the king of the Assyrians. + +18:17. And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and +Rabsaces, from Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army, to +Jerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by the +conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's field. + +18:18. And they called for the king: and there went out to them Eliacim, +the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and +Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder. + +18:19. And Rabsaces said to them: Speak to Ezechias: Thus saith the +great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence, wherein +thou trustest? + +18:20. Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle. +On whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel? + +18:21. Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of a broken reed, upon which if +a man lean, it will break and go into his hand, and pierce it? so is +Pharao, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him. + +18:22. But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord, our God: is it not +he, whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath +commanded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar in +Jerusalem? + +18:23. Now therefore come over to my master, the king of the Assyrians, +and I will give you two thousand horses, and see whether you be able to +have riders for them. + +18:24. And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my +master's servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for +horsemen? + +18:25. Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this +place to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and +destroy it. + +18:26. Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe, said to +Rabsaces: We pray thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we +understand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in +the hearing of the people that are upon the wall. + +18:27. And Rabsaces answered them, saying: Hath my master sent me to thy +master, and to thee, to speak these words, and not rather to the men +that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink +their urine with you? + +18:28. Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews' +language, and said: Hear the word of the great king, the king of the +Assyrians. + +18:29. Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you: for he shall +not be able to deliver you out of my hand. + +18:30. Neither let him make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord will +surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the +king of the Assyrians. + +18:31. Do not hearken to Ezechias. For thus saith the king of the +Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to +me: and every man of you shall eat of his own vineyard, and of his own +fig tree: and you shall drink water of your own cisterns, + +18:32. Till I come, and take you away, to a land, like to your own land, +a fruitful land, and plentiful in wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a +land of olives, and oil, and honey, and you shall live, and not die. +Hearken not to Ezechias, who deceiveth you, saying: The Lord will +deliver us. + +18:33. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from the +hand of the king of Assyria? + +18:34. Where is the god of Emath, and of Arphad? where is the god of +Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava? have they delivered Samaria out of my +hand? + +18:35. Who are they among all the gods of the nations that have +delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver +Jerusalem out of my hand? + +18:36. But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for +they had received commandment from the king that they should not answer +him. + +18:37. And Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and +Sobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to +Ezechias, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces. + +4 Kings Chapter 19 + +Ezechias is assured of God's help by Isaias the prophet. The king of the +Assyrians still threateneth and blasphemeth. Ezechias prayeth, and God +promiseth to protect Jerusalem. An angel destroyeth the army of the +Assyrians, their king returneth to Nineve, and is slain by his two sons. + +19:1. And when king Ezechias heard these words, he rent his garments, +and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. + +19:2. And he sent Eliacim, who was over the house, and Sobna, the +scribe, and the ancients of the priests, covered with sackcloths, to +Isaias, the prophet, the son of Amos. + +19:3. And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of +tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: the children are come to +the birth, and the woman in travail hath not strength. + +19:4. It may be the Lord, thy God, will hear all the words of Rabsaces, +whom the king of the Assyrians, his master, hath sent to reproach the +living God, and to reprove with words, which the Lord, thy God, hath +heard: and do thou offer prayer for the remnants that are found. + +19:5. So the servants of king Ezechias came to Isaias. + +19:6. And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus +saith the Lord: Be not afraid for the words which thou hast heard, with +which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me. + +19:7. Behold I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, +and shall return into his own country, and I will make him fall by the +sword in his own country. + +19:8. And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians +besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis. + +19:9. And when he heard of Tharaca, king of Ethiopia: Behold, he is come +out to fight with thee: and was going against him, he sent messengers to +Ezechias, saying: + +19:10. Thus shall you say to Ezechias, king of Juda: Let not thy God +deceive thee, in whom thou trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall not +be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians. + +19:11. Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done +to all countries, how they have laid them waste: and canst thou alone be +delivered? + +19:12. Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my +fathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the +children of Eden, that were in Thelassar? + +19:13. Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king +of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Ana, and of Ava? + +19:14. And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the +messengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and +spread it before the Lord, + +19:15. And he prayed in his sight, saying: O Lord God of Israel, who +sittest upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kings of +the earth: thou madest heaven and earth: + +19:16. Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes and see: and +hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the +living God. + +19:17. Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed +nations, and the lands of them all. + +19:18. And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not +gods, but the work of men's hands, of wood and stone, and they destroyed +them. + +19:19. Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all +the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the only God. + +19:20. And Isaias, the son of Amos, sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith +the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer thou hast made to +me concerning Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians. + +19:21. This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin, +the daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the +daughtor of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back. + +19:22. Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed? against +whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? +against the holy one of Israel. + +19:23. By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and +hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the +height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its +tall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the +furthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel. + +Carmel... A pleasant fruitful hill in the forest. These expressions are +figurative, signifying under the names of mountains and forests, the +kings and provinces whom the Assyrians had triumphed over. + +19:24. I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried +up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters. + +19:25. Hast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? from the +days of old I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect: that +fenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruins: + +I have formed it, etc... All thy exploits, in which thou takest pride, +are no more than what I have decreed; and are not to be ascribed to thy +wisdom or strength, but to my will and ordinance: who have given to thee +to take and destroy so many fenced cities, and to carry terror wherever +thou comest.-Ibid. Heaps of ruin... Literally ruin of the hills. + +19:26. And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and +were confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green +herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity. + +19:27. Thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy way I +knew before, and thy rage against me. + +19:28. Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my +ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy +lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. + +19:29. And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year what +thou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of +themselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and eat +the fruit of them. + +19:30. And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take +root downward, and bear fruit upward. + +19:31. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which +shall be saved out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do +this. + +19:32. Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the +Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, +nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it. + +19:33. By the way that he came he shall return: and into this city he +shall not come, saith the Lord. + +19:34. And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, +and for David, my servant's sake. + +19:35. And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, +and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five +thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies +of the dead. + +19:36. And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, departing, went away, and +he returned and abode in Ninive. + +19:37. And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch, his god, +Adramelech and Sarasar, his sons, slew him with the sword, and they fled +into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon, his son, reigned in his +stead. + +4 Kings Chapter 20 + +Ezechias being sick, is told by Isaias that he shall die; but praying to +God, he obtaineth longer life, and in confirmation thereof receiveth a +sign by the sun's returning back. He sheweth all his treasures to the +ambassadors of the king of Babylon: Isaias reproving him for it, +foretelleth the Babylonish captivity. + +20:1. In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and Isaias, the son of +Amos, the prophet, came and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Give +charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die, and not llve. + +20:2. And he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, +saying: + +20:3. I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in +truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing +before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping. + +20:4. And before Isaias was gone out of the middle of the court, the +word of the Lord came to him, saying: + +20:5. Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my people: Thus saith +the Lord, the God of David, thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I +have seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee: on the third day +thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord. + +20:6. And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee +and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will +protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake. + +20:7. And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had +brought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed. + +20:8. And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the +Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the +third day? + +20:9. And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord, that +the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the +shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees? + +20:10. And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go +forward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it +return back ten degrees. + +20:11. And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the Lord, and he brought the +shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already gone +down on the dial of Achaz. + +20:12. At that time Berodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of the +Babylonians, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard +that Ezechias had been sick. + +20:13. And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the +house of his aromatical spices, and the gold, and the silver, and divers +precious odours, and ointments, and the house of his vessels, and all +that he had in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all +his dominions, that Ezechias shewed them not. + +20:14. And Isaias, the prophet, came to king Ezechias, and said to him: +What said these men? or from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said +to him: From a far country, they came to me out of Babylon. + +20:15. And he said: What did they see in thy house? Ezechias said: They +saw all the things that are in my house: There is nothing among my +treasures that I have not shewed them. + +20:16. And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord. + +20:17. Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and +that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried +into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. + +20:18. And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt +beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of +the king of Babylon. + +20:19. Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which thou hast +spoken, is good: let peace and truth be in my days. + +20:20. And the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and all his might, and how +he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought waters into the city, are +they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of +Juda? + +20:21. And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses, his son +reigned in his stead. + +4 Kings Chapter 21 + +The wickedness of Manasses: God's threats by his prophets. His wicked +son Amon succeedeth him, and is slain by his servants. + +21:1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he +reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was +Haphsiba. + +21:2. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols +of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the +children of Israel. + +21:3. And he turned, and built up the high places, which Ezechias, his +father, had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as +Achab, the king of Israel, had done: and he adored all the host of +heaven, and served them. + +21:4. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord +said: In Jerusalem I will put my name. + +21:5. And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts +of the temple of the Lord. + +21:6. And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divinations, +and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers, +to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him. + +Pythons... That is, diviners by spirits. + +21:7. He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the temple +of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his +son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all +the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever. + +21:8. And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the +land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all +that I have commanded them, according to the law which my servant Moses +commanded them. + +21:9. But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil +more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of +Israel. + +21:10. And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, +saying: + +21:11. Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done these most wicked +abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath +made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings: + +21:12. Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will +bring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of +them, both his ears shall tingle. + +21:13. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the +weight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as writings +tables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw +the pencil often over the face thereof. + +21:14. And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will deliver +them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and +a spoil to all their enemies. + +21:15. Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to +provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto +this day. + +21:16. Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he +filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made +Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord. + +21:17. Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and +his sin, which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words +of the days of the kings of Juda? + +21:18. And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden +of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son, reigned in +his stead. + +21:19. Two and twenty years old was Amon when he began to reign, and he +reigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth, +the daughter of Harus, of Jeteba. + +21:20. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses, his +father, had done. + +21:21. And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and +he served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored +them. + +21:22. And forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and walked not in +the way of the Lord. + +21:23. And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his +own house. + +21:24. But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired +against king Amon: and made Josias, his son, their king in his stead. + +21:25. But the rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are they not +written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? + +21:26. And they buried him in his sepulchre, in the garden of Oza: and +his son, Josias, reigned in his stead. + +4 Kings Chapter 22 + +Josias repaireth the temple. The book of the law is found, upon which +they consult the Lord, and are told that great evils shall fall upon +them, but not in the time of Josias. + +22:1. Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one +and thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the +daughter of Hadaia, of Besecath. + +22:2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and +walked in all the ways of David, his father: he turned not aside to the +right hand, or to the left. + +22:3. And in the eighteenth year of king Josias, the king sent Saphan, +the son of Assia, the son of Messulam, the scribe of the temple of the +Lord, saying to him: + +22:4 .Go to Helcias, the high priest, that the money may be put together +which is brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers of +the temple have gathered of the people. + +22:5. And let it be given to the workmen by the overseers of the house +of the Lord: and let them distribute it to those that work in the temple +of the Lord, to repair the temple: + +22:6. That is, to carpenters and masons, and to such as mend breaches: +and that timber may be bought, and stones out of the quarries, to repair +the temple of the Lord. + +22:7. But let there be no reckoning made with them of the money which +they receive, but let them have it in their power, and in their trust. + +22:8. And Helcias, the high priest, said to Saphan, the scribe: I have +found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave the +book to Saphan, and he read it. + +The book of the law... That is, Deuteronomy. + +22:9. And Saphan, the scribe, came to the king, and brought him word +again concerning that which he had commanded, and said: Thy servants +have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the +Lord: and they have given it to be distributed to the workmen, by the +overseers of the works of the temple of the Lord. + +22:10. And Saphan, the scribe, told the king, saying: Helcias, the +priest, hath delivered to me a book. And when Saphan had read it before +the king, + +22:11. And the king had heard the words of the law of the Lord, he rent +his garments. + +22:12. And he commanded Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, the son of +Saphan, and Achobor, the son of Micha, and Saphan, the scribe, and +Asaia, the king's servant, saying: + +22:13. Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all +Juda, concerning the words of this book which is found: for the great +wrath of the Lord is kindled against us, because our fathers have not +hearkened to the words of this book, to do all that is written for us. + +22:14. So Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, and Achobor, and Sapham, and +Asaia, went to Holda, the prophetess, the wife of Sellum, the son of +Thecua, the son of Araas, keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in +Jerusalem, in the Second: and they spoke to her. + +The Second... A street, or part of the city, so called; in Hebrew, +Massem. + +22:15. And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: +Tell the man that sent you to me: + +22:16. Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place, +and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the +king of Juda hath read: + +22:17. Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange +gods, provoking me by all the works of their hands: therefore my +indignation shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be +quenched. + +22:18. But to the king of Juda, who sent you to consult the Lord, thus +shall you say: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: for as much as +thou hast heard the words of the book, + +22:19. And thy heart hath been moved to fear, and thou hast humbled +thyself before the Lord, hearing the words against this place, and the +inhabitants thereof, to wit, that they should become a wonder and a +curse: and thou hast rent thy garments, and wept before me; I also have +heard thee; saith the Lord. + +22:20. Therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be +gathered to thy sepulchre in peace; that thy eyes may not see all the +evils which I will bring upon this place. + +4 Kings Chapter 23 + +Josias readeth the law before all the people. They promise to observe +it. He abolisheth all idolatry, celebrateth the phase: is slain in +battle by the king of Egypt. The short reign of Joachaz, in whose place +Joakim is made king. + +23:1. And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he +sent: and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him. + +23:2. And the king went up to the temple of the Lord, and all the men of +Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests, and +the prophets, and all the people, both little and great: and in the +hearing of them all he read all the words of the book of the covenant, +which was found in the house of the Lord. + +23:3. And the king stood upon the step: and he made a covenant with the +Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his +testimonies, and his ceremonies, with all their heart, and with all +their soul, and to perform the words of this covenant, which were +written in that book: and the people agreed to the covenant. + +The king stood upon the step... That is, his tribune, or tribunal, a +more eminent place, from whence he might be seen and heard by the +people. + +23:4. And the king commanded Helcias, the high priest, and the priests +of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of +the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove, +and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem, in +the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel. + +23:5. And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had +appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and +round about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the +sun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of +heaven. + +23:6. And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the +Lord, without Jerusalem, to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there, +and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common +people. + +23:7. He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in +the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little +dwellings for the grove. + +23:8. And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of +Juda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered +sacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the +gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue, governor of the +city, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city. + +23:9. However, the priests of the high places came not up to the altar +of the Lord, in Jerusalem: but only eat of the unleavened bread among +their brethren. + +23:10. And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of +Ennom: that no man should consecrate there his son, or his daughter, +through fire, to Moloch. + +23:11. And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to +the sun, at the entering in of the temple of the Lord, near the chamber +of Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was in Pharurim: and he burnt the +chariots of the sun with fire. + +23:12. And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of +Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses +had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke +down: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the +torrent Cedron. + +23:13. The high places also that were at Jerusalem, on the right side of +the Mount of Offence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built to +Astaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, the scandal of Moab, +and to Melchom, the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king +defiled. + +23:14. And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and +he filled their places with the bones of dead men. + +23:15. Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, +which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both +the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to +powder, and burnt the grove. + +23:16. And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that +were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, +and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of +the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things. + +23:17. And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of +that city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from +Juda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the altar of +Bethel. + +23:18. And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones. So his +bones were left untouched with the bones of the prophet, that came out +of Samaria. + +23:19. Moreover all the temples of the high places which were in the +cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the +Lord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts +that he had done in Bethel. + +23:20. And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there, +upon the altars; and he burnt men's bones upon them: and returned to +Jerusalem. + +23:21. And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the +Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant. + +23:22. Now there was no such a Phase kept from the days of the judges, +who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of +the kings of Juda, + +23:23. As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the +eighteenth year of king Josias. + +23:24. Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the +figures of idols, and the uncleannesses, and the abominations, that had +been in the land of Juda and Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he might +perform the words of the law, that were written in the book, which +Helcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord. + +23:25. There was no king before him like unto him, that returned to the +Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his +strength, according to all the law of Moses: neither after him did there +arise any like unto him. + +23:26. But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great +indignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of +the provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him. + +23:27. And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face, +as I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem, which +I chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there. + +23:28. Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? + +23:29. In his days Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt, went up against the +king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet +him: and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen him. + +23:30. And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo: and they brought +him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of +the land took Joachaz, the son of Josias: and they anointed him, and +made him king in his father's stead. + +23:31. Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, +and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was +Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna. + +23:32. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his +fathers had done. + +23:33. And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla, which is in the land of +Emath, that he should not reign in Jerusalem: and he set a fine upon the +land, of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. + +23:34. And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim, the son of Josias, king in the +room of Josias his father: and turned his name to Joakim. And he took +Joachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and he died there. + +23:35. And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao, after he had +taxed the land for every man, to contribute according to the commandment +of Pharao: and he exacted both the silver and the gold of the people of +the land, of every man according to his ability: to give to Pharao +Nechao. + +23:36. Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and +he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Zebida, +the daughter of Phadaia, of Ruma. + +23:37. And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his fathers +had done. + +4 Kings Chapter 24 + +The reign of Joakim, Joachin, and Sedecias. + +24:1. In his days Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon came up, and Joakim +became his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him. + +24:2. And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the +rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children +of Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the +word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the prophets. + +The Lord sent against him the rovers... Latrunculos. Bands or parties of +men, who pillaged and plundered wherever they came. + +24:3. And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them +from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did; + +24:4. And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with +innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased. + +24:5. But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? +And Joakim slept with his fathers: + +24:6. And Joachin, his son, reigned in his stead. + +24:7. And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own +country: for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the +king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates. + +24:8. Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he +reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta, +the daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem. + +24:9. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father +had done. + +24:10. At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, +came up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their forts. + +24:11. And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his +servants, to assault it. + +24:12. And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he, +and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and +the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign. + +24:13. And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of +the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house: and he cut in pieces +all the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the +temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord. + +24:14. And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all +the valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand, into +captivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the +poor sort of the people of the land. + +24:15. And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king's mother, +and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he +carried into captivity, from Jerusalem, into Babylon. + +24:16. And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and +the smiths, a thousand, all that were valiant men, and fit for war: and +the king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon. + +24:17. And he appointed Matthanias, his uncle, in his stead: and called +his name Sedecias. + +24:18. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and +he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, +the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna. + +24:19. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that Joakim had +done. + +24:20. For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Juda, till +he cast them out from his face: and Sedecias revolted from the king of +Babylon. + +4 Kings Chapter 25 + +Jerusalem is besieged and taken by Nabuchodonosor: Sedecias is taken: +the city and temple are destroyed. Godolias, who is left governor, is +slain. Joachin is exalted by Evilmerodach. + +25:1. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth +month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, +came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: +and raised works round about it. + +25:2. And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of +king Sedecias, + +25:3. The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, +and there was no bread for the people of the land. + +25:4. And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled +in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the +Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way +that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness. + +25:5. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook +him in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him +were scattered, and left him: + +25:6. So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to +Reblatha, and he gave judgment upon him. + +25:7. And he slew the sons of Sedecias before his face, and he put out +his eyes, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon. + +25:8. In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, the same is the +nineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan, commander of +the army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem. + +25:9. And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the +houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire. + +25:10. And all the army of the Chaldees, which was with the commander of +the troops, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. + +25:11. And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest +of the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had +gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people. + +25:12. But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and +husbandmen. + +25:13. And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord, and +the bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the Lord, the +Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. + +25:14. They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the +forks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass, with +which they ministered. + +25:15. Moreover also the censers, and the bowls, such as were of gold in +gold: and such as were of silver in silver, the general of the army took +away. + +25:16. That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had +made in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was +without weight. + +25:17. One pillar was eighteen cubits high: and the chapiter of brass, +which was upon it, was three cubits high: and the network, and the +pomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all of +brass: and the second pillar had the like adorning. + +25:18. And the general of the army took Seraias, the chief priest, and +Sophonias, the second priest, and three doorkeepers: + +25:19. And out of the city one eunuch, who was captain over the men of +war: and five men of them who had stood before the king, whom he found +in the city, and Sopher, the captain of the army, who exercised the +young soldiers of the people of the land: and threescore men of the +common people, who were found in the city: + +25:20. These Nabuzardan, the general of the army, took away, and carried +them to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha. + +25:21. And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Reblatha, in +the land of Emath: so Juda was carried away out of their land. + +25:22. But over the people that remained in the land of Juda, which +Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, had left, he gave the government to +Godolias, the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan. + +25:23. And when all the captains of the soldiers had heard this, they +and the men that were with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon had +made Godolias governor they came to Godolias to Maspha, Ismael, the son +of Nathanias, and Johanan, the son of Caree, and Saraia, the son of +Thanehumeth, the Netophathite, and Jezonias, the son of Maachathi, they +and their men. + +25:24. And Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying: Be not +afraid to serve the Chaldees: stay in the land, and serve the king of +Babylon, and it shall be well with you. + +25:25. But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismael, the son of +Nathanias, the son of Elisama, of the seed royal came, and ten men with +him, and smote Godolias; so that he died: and also the Jews and the +Chaldees that were with him in Maspha. + +25:26. And all the people, both little and great, and the captains of +the soldiers, rising up, went to Egypt, fearing the Chaldees. + +25:27. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the +captivity of Joachin, king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the seven and +twentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the year +that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin, king of Juda, out +of prison. + +25:28. And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the +throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon. + +25:29. And he changed his garments which he had in prison, and he ate +bread always before him, all the days of his life. + +25:30. 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