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+Title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon
+       The Challoner Revision
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 14***
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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+THE SECOND BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 1
+
+Solomon offereth sacrifices at Gabaon. His choice of wisdom which God
+giveth him.
+
+1:1. And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and
+the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him to a high degree.
+
+1:2. And Solomon gave orders to all Israel, to the captains of
+thousands, and of hundreds, and to the rulers, and to the judges of all
+Israel, and the heads of the families:
+
+1:3. And he went with all the multitude to the high place of Gabaon,
+where was the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, which Moses the
+servant of God made, in the wilderness.
+
+1:4. For David had brought the ark of God from Cariathiarim to the
+place, which he had prepared for it, and where he had pitched a
+tabernacle for it, that is, in Jerusalem.
+
+1:5. And the altar of brass, which Beseleel the son of Uri the son of
+Hur had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon
+and all the assembly sought it:
+
+1:6. And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar, before the
+tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up on it a thousand
+victims.
+
+1:7. And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou
+wilt that I should give thee.
+
+1:8. And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn great kindness to my
+father David: and hast made me king in his stead.
+
+1:9. Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou
+hast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy
+great people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.
+
+1:10. Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before
+thy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so
+great?
+
+1:11. And God said to Solomon: Because this choice hath pleased thy
+heart, and thou hast not asked riches, and wealth, and glory, nor the
+lives of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but hast asked
+wisdom and knowledge, to be able to judge my people, over which I have
+made thee king,
+
+1:12. Wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee: and I will give thee
+riches, and wealth, and glory, so that none of the kings before thee,
+nor after thee, shall be like thee.
+
+1:13. Then Solomon came from the high place of Gabaon to Jerusalem
+before the tabernacle of the covenant, and reigned over Israel.
+
+1:14. And he gathered to himself chariots and horsemen, and he had a
+thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he
+placed them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in
+Jerusalem.
+
+1:15. And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones,
+and cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in great
+multitude.
+
+1:16. And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from Coa by the
+king's merchants, who went, and bought at a price,
+
+1:17. A chariot of four horses for six hundred pieces of silver, and a
+horse for a hundred and fifty: in like manner market was made in all the
+kingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of Syria.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 2
+
+Solomon's embassy to Hiram, who sends him a skilful workman and timber.
+
+2:1. And Solomon determined to build a house to the name of the Lord,
+and a palace for himself.
+
+2:2. And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and
+eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six
+hundred to oversee them.
+
+2:3. He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst with
+David my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him a house, in
+which he dwelt:
+
+2:4. So do with me that I may build a house to the name of the Lord my
+God, to dedicate it to burn incense before him, and to perfume with
+aromatical spices, and for the continual setting forth of bread, and for
+the holocausts, morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and on the new
+moons, and the solemnities of the Lord our God for ever, which are
+commanded for Israel.
+
+2:5. For the house which I desire to build, is great: for our God is
+great above all gods.
+
+2:6. Who then can be able to build him a worthy house? if heaven, and
+the heavens of heavens cannot contain him: who am I that I should be
+able to build him a house? but to this end only, that incense may be
+burnt before him.
+
+2:7. Send me therefore a skilful man, that knoweth how to work in gold,
+and in silver, in brass, and in iron, in purple, in scarlet and in blue,
+and that hath skill in engraving, with the artificers, which I have with
+me in Judea and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
+
+2:8. Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine trees from Libanus:
+for I know that thy servants are skilful in cutting timber in Libanus,
+and my servants shall be with thy servants,
+
+2:9. To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to
+build, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.
+
+2:10. And I will give thy servants the workmen that are to cut down the
+trees, for their food twenty thousand cores of wheat, and as many cores
+of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand
+measures of oil.
+
+2:11. And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to Solomon, saying: Because
+the Lord hath loved his people, therefore he hath made thee king over
+them.
+
+2:12. And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who
+made heaven and earth, who hath given to king David a wise and knowing
+son, endued with understanding and prudence, to build a house to the
+Lord, and a palace for himself.
+
+2:13. I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram, a wise and most
+skilful man,
+
+2:14. The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a
+Tyrian, who knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and in
+iron, and in marble, and in timber, in purple also, and violet, and silk
+and scarlet: and who knoweth to grave all sort of graving, and to devise
+ingeniously all that there may be need of in the work with thy
+artificers, and with the artificers of my lord David thy father.
+
+2:15. The wheat therefore, and the barley and the oil, and the wine,
+which thou, my lord, hast promised, send to thy servants.
+
+2:16. And we will cut down as many trees out of Libanus, as thou shalt
+want, and will convey them in floats by sea to Joppe: and it will be thy
+part to bring them thence to Jerusalem.
+
+2:17. And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel,
+after the numbering which David his father had made, and they were found
+a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.
+
+2:18. And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their
+shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three
+thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 3
+
+The plan and ornaments of the temple: the cherubims, the veil, and the
+pillars.
+
+3:1. And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in
+mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place
+which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
+
+3:2. And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of
+his reign.
+
+3:3. Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the
+house of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth
+twenty cubits.
+
+3:4. And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according
+to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the
+height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with
+pure gold.
+
+3:5. And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them
+with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees,
+and like little chains interlaced with one another.
+
+3:6. He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of
+great beauty.
+
+3:7. And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and
+the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of
+the finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.
+
+3:8. He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it
+according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth
+of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of
+gold, amounting to about six hundred talents.
+
+3:9. He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty
+sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.
+
+3:10. He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of
+image work: and he overlaid them with gold.
+
+3:11. The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that
+one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and
+the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the
+other cherub.
+
+3:12. In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits long,
+and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long, and
+touched the wing of the other cherub.
+
+3:13. So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were
+extended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their
+faces were turned toward the house without.
+
+3:14. He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and
+wrought in it cherubims.
+
+3:15. He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which
+were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.
+
+3:16. He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put
+them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he
+put between the little chains.
+
+3:17. These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the
+right hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right hand,
+he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.
+
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 4
+
+The altar of brass, the molten sea upon twelve oxen, the ten loaves, the
+candlesticks and other vessels and ornaments of the temple.
+
+4:1. He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty
+cubits broad, and ten cubits high.
+
+4:2. Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in
+compass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed
+it round about.
+
+4:3. And under it there was the likeness of oxen, and certain engravings
+on the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the sea, as it were
+with two rows.
+
+4:4. And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself was set upon the twelve
+oxen, three of which looked toward the north, and other three toward the
+west: and other three toward the south, and the other three that
+remained toward the east, and the sea stood upon them: and the hinder
+parts of the oxen were inward under the sea.
+
+4:5. Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was
+like the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand
+measures.
+
+4:6. He made also ten lavers: and he set five on the right hand, and
+five on the left, to wash in them all such things as they were to offer
+for holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
+
+4:7. And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the form which
+they were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five
+on the right hand, and five on the left.
+
+4:8. Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on
+the right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.
+
+4:9. He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors
+in the hall, which he covered with brass.
+
+4:10. And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward
+the south.
+
+4:11. And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished
+all the king's work the house of God:
+
+4:12. That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the
+chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.
+
+4:13. And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so that
+two rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the
+pommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.
+
+4:14. He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:
+
+4:15. One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
+
+4:16. And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls. All the vessels did
+Hiram his father make for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the finest
+brass.
+
+4:17. In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay
+ground between Sochot and Saredatha.
+
+4:18. And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight
+of the brass was not known.
+
+4:19. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God, and the
+golden altar, and the tables, upon which were the loaves of proposition,
+
+4:20. The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give
+light before the oracle, according to the manner.
+
+4:21. And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all were made of
+the finest gold.
+
+4:22. The vessels also for the perfumes, and the censers, and the bowls,
+and the mortars, of pure gold. And he graved the doors of the inner
+temple, that is, for the holy of holies: and the doors of the temple
+without were of gold. And thus all the work was finished which Solomon
+made in the house of the Lord.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 5
+
+The ark is brought with great solemnity into the temple: the temple is
+filled with the glory of God.
+
+5:1. Then Solomon brought in all those things that David his father had
+vowed, the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he put among the
+treasures of the house of God.
+
+5:2. And after this he gathered together the ancients of Israel and all
+the princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families, of the
+children of Israel to Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the covenant of the
+Lord out of the city of David, which is Sion.
+
+5:3. And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn day of the
+seventh month.
+
+5:4. And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites took up
+the ark,
+
+5:5. And brought it in, together with all the furniture of the
+tabernacle. And the priests with the Levites carried the vessels of the
+sanctuary, which were in the tabernacle.
+
+5:6. And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel and all that were
+gathered together before the ark, sacrificed rams, and oxen without
+number: so great was the multitude of the victims.
+
+5:7. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into
+its place, that is, to the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies
+under the wings of the cherubims:
+
+5:8. So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which
+the ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.
+
+5:9. Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried, because
+they were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man
+were a little outward, he could not see them.  So the ark has been there
+unto this day.
+
+5:10. And there was nothing else in the ark but the two tables which
+Moses put there at Horeb when the Lord gave the law to the children of
+Israel, at their coming out of Egypt.
+
+5:11. Now when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, for all the
+priests that could be found there, were sanctified: and as yet at that
+time the courses and orders of the ministries were not divided among
+them,
+
+5:12. Both the Levites and the singing men, that is, both they that were
+under Asaph, and they that were under Heman, and they that were under
+Idithun, with their sons, and their brethren, clothed with fine linen,
+sounded with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps, standing on the east
+side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests, sounding
+with trumpets.
+
+5:13. So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets, and voice,
+and cymbals, and organs, and with divers kind of musical instruments,
+and lifted up their voice on high: the sound was heard afar off, so that
+when they began to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory to the Lord
+for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: the house of God was
+filled with a cloud.
+
+5:14. Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the cloud.
+For the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 6
+
+Solomon's blessings and prayer.
+
+6:1. Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell in a
+cloud.
+
+6:2. But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell there for
+ever.
+
+6:3. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the multitude of
+Israel for all the multitude stood attentive and he said:
+
+6:4. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who hath accomplished in
+deed that which he spoke to David my father, saying:
+
+6:5. From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I
+chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in
+it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my
+people Israel.
+
+6:6. But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose
+David to set him over my people Israel.
+
+6:7. And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the name
+of the Lord the God of Israel,
+
+6:8. The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house
+to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:
+
+6:9. But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out
+of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.
+
+6:10. The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he spoke: and
+I am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit upon the throne
+of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of
+the Lord God of Israel.
+
+6:11. And I have put in it the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord,
+which he made with the children of Israel.
+
+6:12. And he stood before the altar of the Lord, in presence of all the
+multitude of Israel, and stretched forth his hands.
+
+6:13. For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, and had set it in the
+midst of the temple, which was five cubits long, and five cubits broad,
+and three cubits high: and he stood upon it: then kneeling down in the
+presence of all the multitude of Israel, and lifting up his hands
+towards heaven,
+
+6:14. He said: O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven
+nor in earth: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that
+walk before thee with all their hearts:
+
+6:15. Who hast performed to thy servant David my father all that thou
+hast promised him: and hast accomplished in fact, what thou hast spoken
+with thy mouth, as also the present time proveth.
+
+6:16. Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfil to thy servant David my
+father, whatsoever thou hast promised him, saying: There shall not fail
+thee a man in my sight, to sit upon the throne of Israel: yet so that
+thy children take heed to their ways, and walk in my law, as thou hast
+walked before me.
+
+6:17. And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy word be established which
+thou hast spoken to thy servant David.
+
+6:18. Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth?
+If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less
+this house, which I have built?
+
+6:19. But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard the
+prayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest
+hear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before thee.
+
+6:20. That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night, upon
+the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be called
+upon,
+
+6:21. And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in
+it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people
+Israel. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling
+place, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.
+
+6:22. If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against
+him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:
+
+6:23. Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to
+requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and
+to revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.
+
+6:24. If thy people Israel be overcome by their enemies, (for they will
+sin against thee,) and being converted shall do penance, and call upon
+thy name, and pray to thee in this place,
+
+6:25. Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people
+Israel and bring them back into the land which thou gavest to them, and
+their fathers.
+
+6:26. If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by reason of the
+sin of the people, and they shall pray to thee in this place, and
+confess to thy name, and be converted from their sins, where thou dost
+afflict them,
+
+6:27. Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of thy
+servants and of thy people Israel and teach them the good way in which
+they may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou hast given to thy
+people to possess.
+
+6:28. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or
+mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the
+country, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall
+be upon them:
+
+6:29. Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge and
+infirmity shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this house,
+
+6:30. Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive,
+and render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him to
+have in his heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of
+men:
+
+6:31. That they may fear thee, and walk in thy ways all the days that
+they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our
+fathers.
+
+6:32. If the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, come from a
+far country, for the sake of thy great name, and thy strong hand, and
+thy stretched out arm, and adore in this place:
+
+6:33. Hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling place, and do all that
+which that stranger shall call upon thee for: that all the people of the
+earth may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy people Israel, and
+may know, that thy name is invoked upon this house, which I have built.
+
+6:34. If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by the way that
+thou shalt send them, and adore thee towards the way of this city, which
+thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name:
+
+6:35. Then hear thou from heaven their prayers, and their supplications,
+and revenge them.
+
+6:36. And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth
+not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies,
+and they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at
+hand,
+
+6:37. And if they be converted in their heart in the land to which they
+were led captive, and do penance, and pray to thee in the land of their
+captivity saying: We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have dealt
+unjustly:
+
+6:38. And return to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul,
+in the land of their captivity, to which they were led away, and adore
+thee towards the way of their own land which thou gavest their fathers,
+and of the city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
+built to thy name:
+
+6:39. Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm dwelling place,
+their prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy people, although they
+have sinned:
+
+6:40. For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and
+let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.
+
+6:41. Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou and
+the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation,
+and thy saints rejoice in good things.
+
+6:42. O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the
+mercies of David thy servant.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 7
+
+Fire from heaven consumeth the sacrifices. The solemnity of the
+dedication of the temple. God signifieth his having heard Solomon's
+prayer: yet so if he continue to serve him.
+
+7:1. And when Solomon had made an end of his prayer, fire came down from
+heaven, and consumed the holocausts and the victims: and the majesty of
+the Lord filled the house.
+
+7:2. Neither could the priests enter into the temple of the Lord,
+because the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord.
+
+7:3. Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire coming down, and
+the glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down with their faces
+to the ground, upon the stone pavement, they adored and praised the
+Lord: because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.
+
+7:4. And the king and all the people sacrificed victims before the Lord.
+
+7:5. And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen,
+and one hundred and twenty thousand rams: and the king and all the
+people dedicated the house of God.
+
+7:6. And the priests stood in their offices: and the Levites with the
+instruments of music of the Lord, which king David made to praise the
+Lord: because his mercy endureth for ever, singing the hymns of David by
+their ministry: and the priests sounded with trumpets before them, and
+all Israel stood.
+
+7:7. Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court before the temple
+of the Lord: for he offered there the holocausts, and the fat of the
+peace offerings: because the brazen altar, which he had made, could not
+hold the holocausts and the sacrifices and the fat:
+
+7:8. And Solomon kept the solemnity at that time seven days, and all
+Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Emath
+to the torrent of Egypt.
+
+7:9. And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had
+kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the
+solemnity seven days.
+
+7:10. So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent
+away the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that
+the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his
+people.
+
+7:11. And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king's house,
+and all that he had designed in his heart to do, in the house of the
+Lord, and in his own house, and he prospered.
+
+7:12. And the Lord appeared to him by night, and said: I have heard thy
+prayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
+
+7:13. If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give orders,
+and command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among
+my people:
+
+7:14. And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall
+make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their
+most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their
+sins and will heal their land.
+
+7:15. My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of
+him that shall pray in this place.
+
+7:16. For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name
+may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there
+perpetually.
+
+7:17. And as for thee, if thou walk before me, as David thy father
+walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and keep my
+justices and my judgments:
+
+7:18. I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom, as I promised to David
+thy father, saying: There shall not fail thee a man of thy stock to be
+ruler in Israel.
+
+7:19. But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments
+which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and
+adore them,
+
+7:20. I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given
+you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away
+from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all
+nations.
+
+7:21. And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and
+they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this
+land, and to this house?
+
+7:22. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of
+their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold
+on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all
+these evils are come upon them.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 8
+
+Solomon's buildings and other acts.
+
+8:1. And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house of
+the Lord and his own house:
+
+8:2. He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused
+the children of Israel to dwell there.
+
+8:3. He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.
+
+8:4. And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other strong
+cities in Emath.
+
+8:5. And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether,
+walled cities with gates and bars and locks.
+
+8:6. Balaath also and all the strong cities that were Solomon's, and all
+the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen.  All that
+Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built in Jerusalem and in Libanus,
+and in all the land of his dominion.
+
+8:7. All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites,
+and the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of
+the stock of Israel:
+
+8:8. Of their children, and of the posterity, whom the children of
+Israel had not slain, Solomon made to be the tributaries, unto this day.
+
+8:9. But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king's
+works: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and rulers of his
+chariots and horsemen.
+
+8:10. And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two hundred
+and fifty, who taught the people.
+
+8:11. And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to
+the house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall
+not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified:
+because the ark of the Lord came into it.
+
+8:12. Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the
+Lord which he had built before the porch,
+
+8:13. That every day an offering might be made on it according to the
+ordinance of Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the
+festival days three times a year, that is to say, in the feast of
+unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
+tabernacles.
+
+8:14. And he appointed according to the order of David his father the
+offices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their
+order to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the
+duty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate:
+for so David the man of God had commanded.
+
+8:15. And the priests and Levites departed not from the king's
+commandments, as to any thing that he had commanded, and as to the
+keeping of the treasures.
+
+8:16. Solomon had all charges prepared, from the day that he founded the
+house of the Lord, until the day wherein he finished it.
+
+8:17. Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to Ailath, on the coast of
+the Red Sea, which is in the land of Edom.
+
+8:18. And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of his servants, and skilful
+mariners, and they went with Solomon's servants to Ophir, and they took
+thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it to king
+Solomon.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 9
+
+The queen of Saba admireth the wisdom of Solomon. His riches and glory.
+His death.
+
+9:1. And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came
+to try him with hard questions at Jerusalem, with great riches, and
+camels, which carried spices, and abundance of gold, and precious
+stones. And when she was come to Solomon, she proposed to him all that
+was in her heart.
+
+9:2. And Solomon explained to her all that she proposed: and there was
+not any thing that he did not make clear unto her.
+
+9:3. And when she had seen these things, to wit, the wisdom of Solomon,
+and the house which he had built,
+
+9:4. And the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of his
+servants, and the attendance of his officers, and their apparel, his
+cupbearers also, and their garments, and the victims which he offered in
+the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her, she was so
+astonished.
+
+9:5. And she said to the king: The word is true which I heard in my
+country of thy virtues and wisdom.
+
+9:6. I did not believe them that told it, until I came, and my eyes had
+seen, and I had proved that scarce one half of thy wisdom had been told
+me: thou hast exceeded the same with thy virtues.
+
+9:7. Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand always
+before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
+
+9:8. Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been pleased to set thee on
+his throne, king of the Lord thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and
+will preserve them forever: therefore hath he made thee king over them,
+to do judgment and justice.
+
+9:9. And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and
+spices in great abundance, and most precious stones: there were no such
+spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.
+
+9:10. And the servants also of Hiram, with the servants of Solomon,
+brought gold from Ophir, and thyine trees, and most precious stones:
+
+9:11. And the king made of the thyine trees stairs in the house of the
+Lord, and in the king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singing
+men: never were there seen such trees in the land of Juda.
+
+9:12. And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired,
+and that she asked, and many more things than she brought to him: so she
+returned, and went to her own country with her servants.
+
+9:13. And the weight of the gold, that was brought to Solomon every
+year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:
+
+9:14. Beside the sum which the deputies of divers nations, and the
+merchants were accustomed to bring, and all the kings of Arabia, and the
+lords of the lands, who brought gold and silver to Solomon.
+
+9:15. And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six
+hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:
+
+9:16. And three hundred golden shields of three hundred pieces of gold,
+which went to the covering of every shield: and the king put them in the
+armoury, which was compassed with a wood.
+
+9:17. The king also made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with
+pure gold.
+
+9:18. And six steps to go up to the throne, and a footstool of gold, and
+two arms one on either side, and two lions standing by the arms:
+
+9:19. Moreover twelve other little lions standing upon the steps on both
+sides: there was not such a throne in any kingdom.
+
+9:20. And all the vessels of the king's table were of gold, and the
+vessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the purest gold.
+For no account was made of silver in those days.
+
+9:21. For the king's ships went to Tharsis with the servants of Hiram,
+once in three years: and they brought thence gold and silver, and ivory,
+and apes, and peacocks.
+
+9:22. And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth for
+riches and glory.
+
+9:23. And all the kings of the earth desired to see the face of Solomon,
+that they might hear the wisdom which God had given in his heart.
+
+9:24. And every year they brought him presents, vessels of silver and of
+gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules.
+
+9:25. And Solomon had forty thousand horses in the stables, and twelve
+thousand chariots, and horsemen, and he placed them in the cities of the
+chariots and where the king was in Jerusalem.
+
+9:26. And he exercised authority over all the kings from the river
+Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.
+
+9:27. And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars
+as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.
+
+9:28. And horses were brought to him out of Egypt, and out of all
+countries.
+
+9:29. Now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are written in
+the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the books of Ahias the Silonite,
+and in the vision of Addo the seer, against Jeroboam the son of Nabat.
+
+9:30. And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
+
+9:31. And he slept with his fathers: and they buried him in the city of
+David: and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 10
+
+Roboam answereth the people roughly: upon which ten tribes revolt.
+
+10:1. And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled,
+to make him king.
+
+10:2. And when Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was in Egypt, (for he was
+fled thither from Solomon,) heard it, forthwith he returned.
+
+10:3. And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and they spoke
+to Roboam, saying:
+
+10:4. Thy father oppressed with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us
+with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude,
+and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.
+
+10:5. And he said to them: Come to me again after three days.  And when
+the people were gone,
+
+10:6. He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father
+Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I
+may answer the people?
+
+10:7. And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them
+with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.
+
+10:8. But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, and began to treat
+with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his
+train.
+
+10:9. And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I
+answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father
+laid upon us?
+
+10:10. But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in
+pleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to
+thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou
+answer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.
+
+10:11. My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add more weight
+to it: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with
+scorpions.
+
+10:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as
+he commanded them.
+
+10:13. And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the
+ancients.
+
+10:14. And he spoke according to the advice of the young men: My father
+laid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat
+you with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.
+
+10:15. And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it was the
+will of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by the
+hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.
+
+10:16. And all the people upon the king's speaking roughly, said thus
+unto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai.
+Return to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David feed thy own
+house. And Israel went away to their dwellings.
+
+10:17. But Roboam reigned over the children of Israel that dwelt in the
+cities of Juda.
+
+10:18. And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tributes, and the
+children of Israel stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam made haste
+to get up into his chariot, and fled into Jerusalem.
+
+10:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David unto this day.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 11
+
+Roboam's reign. His kingdom is strengthened.
+
+11:1. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and called together all the house of
+Juda and of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men and
+warriors, to fight against Israel, and to bring back his kingdom to him.
+
+11:2. And the word of the Lord came to Semeias the man of God, saying:
+
+11:3. Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon the king of Juda, and to all
+Israel, in Juda and Benjamin:
+
+11:4. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your
+brethren: let every man return to his own house, for by my will this
+thing has been done. And when they heard the word of the Lord, they
+returned, and did not go against Jeroboam,
+
+11:5. And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built walled cities in Juda.
+
+11:6. And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Thecue,
+
+11:7. And Bethsur, and Socho, and Odollam,
+
+11:8. And Geth, and Maresa, and Ziph,
+
+11:9. And Aduram, and Lachis, and Azecha,
+
+11:10. Saraa also, and Aialon, and Hebron, which are in Juda and
+Benjamin, well fenced cities.
+
+11:11. And when he had enclosed them with walls, he put in them
+governors and storehouses of provisions, that is, of oil and of wine.
+
+11:12. Moreover in every city he made an armoury of shields and spears,
+and he fortified them with great diligence, and he reigned over Juda,
+and Benjamin,
+
+11:13. And the priests and Levites, that were in all Israel, came to him
+out of all their seats,
+
+11:14. Leaving their suburbs, and their possessions, and passing over to
+Juda, and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off,
+from executing the priestly office to the Lord.
+
+11:15. And he made to himself priests for the high places, and for the
+devils, and for the calves which he had made.
+
+11:16. Moreover out of all the tribes of Israel, whosoever gave their
+heart to seek the Lord the God of Israel, came into Jerusalem to
+sacrifice their victims before the Lord the God of their fathers.
+
+11:17. And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda, and established Roboam
+the son of Solomon for three years: for they walked in the ways of David
+and of Solomon, only three years.
+
+11:18. And Roboam took to wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth the
+son of David: and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Isai.
+
+11:19. And they bore him sons Jehus, and Somorias, and Zoom.
+
+11:20. And after her he married Maacha the daughter of Absalom, who bore
+him Abia, and Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.
+
+11:21. And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his
+wives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore
+concubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore
+daughters.
+
+11:22. But he put at the head of them Abia the son of Maacha to be the
+chief ruler over all his brethren: for he meant to make him king,
+
+11:23. Because he was wiser and mightier than all his sons, and in all
+the countries of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the walled cities:
+and he gave them provisions in abundance, and he sought many wives.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 12
+
+Roboam for his sins is delivered up into the hands of the king of Egypt:
+who carrieth away all the treasures of the temple.
+
+12:1. And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he
+forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
+
+12:2. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt
+came up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord)
+
+12:3. With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen: and
+the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to wit,
+Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.
+
+12:4. And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.
+
+12:5. And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of
+Juda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and
+he said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left
+you in the hand of Sesac.
+
+12:6. And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a consternation,
+said: The Lord is just.
+
+12:7. And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the Lord
+came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not destroy
+them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall not fall
+upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac.
+
+12:8. But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference
+between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.
+
+12:9. So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the
+treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden
+shields that Solomon had made,
+
+12:10. Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to
+the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the
+palace.
+
+12:11. And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the
+shieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their
+armoury.
+
+12:12. But yet because they were humbled, the wrath of the Lord turned
+away from them, and they were not utterly destroyed: for even in Juda
+there were found good works.
+
+12:13. King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and reigned:
+he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all
+the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name of his
+mother was Naama an Ammonitess.
+
+12:14. But he did evil, and did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.
+
+12:15. Now the acts of Roboam first and last are written in the books of
+Semeias the prophet, and of Addo the seer, and diligently recorded: and
+there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all their days.
+
+12:16. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
+David. And Abia his son reigned in his stead.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 13
+
+Abia's reign: his victory over Jeroboam.
+
+13:1. In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned over Juda.
+
+13:2. Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was
+Michaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia
+and Jeroboam.
+
+Michaia... Alias Maacha. Her father had also two names, viz., Absalom,
+or Abessalom, and Uriel.
+
+13:3. And when Abia had begun battle, and had with him four hundred
+thousand most valiant and chosen men, Jeroboam put his army in array
+against him, eight hundred thousand men, who were also chosen and most
+valiant for war.
+
+13:4. And Abia stood upon mount Semeron, which was in Ephraim, and said:
+Hear me, O Jeroboam, and all Israel:
+
+13:5. Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave to David the
+kingdom over Israel for ever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of
+salt?
+
+A covenant of salt... That is, a firm and perpetual covenant. See Num.
+18.19.
+
+13:6. And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Solomon the son of
+David, rose up: and rebelled against his lord.
+
+13:7. And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial:
+and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was
+unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.
+
+13:8. And now you say that you are able to withstand the kingdom of the
+Lord, which he possesseth by the sons of David, and you have a great
+multitude of people, and golden calves, which Jeroboam hath made you for
+gods.
+
+13:9. And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron,
+and the Levites: and you have made you priests, like all the nations of
+the earth: whosoever cometh and consecrateth his hand with a bullock of
+the herd, and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are no
+gods.
+
+13:10. But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake not, and the priests who
+minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are in their
+order.
+
+13:11. And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and
+evening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and the
+loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us the
+golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in the
+evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have
+forsaken.
+
+13:12. Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who
+sound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel,
+fight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good
+for you.
+
+13:13. While he spoke these things, Jeroboam caused an ambushment to
+come about behind him. And while he stood facing the enemies, he
+encompassed Juda, who perceived it not, with his army.
+
+13:14. And when Juda looked back, they saw the battle coming upon them
+both before and behind, and they cried to the Lord: and the priests
+began to sound with the trumpets.
+
+13:15. And all the men of Juda shouted: and behold when they shouted,
+God terrified Jeroboam, and all Israel that stood against Abia and Juda.
+
+13:16. And the children of Israel fled before Juda, and the Lord
+delivered them into their hand.
+
+13:17. And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and
+there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.
+
+13:18. And the children of Israel were brought down, at that time, and
+the children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened, because they had
+trusted in the Lord the God of their fathers.
+
+13:19. And Abia pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel
+and her daughters, and Jesana with her daughters, Ephron also and her
+daughters.
+
+13:20. And Jeroboam was not able to resist any more, in the days of
+Abia: and the Lord struck him, and he died.
+
+13:21. But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen wives:
+and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.
+
+13:22. And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are
+written diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 14
+
+The reign of Asa: his victory over the Ethiopians.
+
+14:1. And Abia slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city
+of David: an Asa his son reigned in his stead: in his days the land was
+quiet ten years.
+
+14:2. And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his
+God, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high
+places.
+
+14:3. And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.
+
+14:4. And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers,
+and to do the law, and all the commandments.
+
+14:5. And he took away out of all the cities of Juda the altars, and
+temples, and reigned in peace.
+
+14:6. He built also strong cities in Juda, for he was quiet, and there
+had no wars risen in his time, the Lord giving peace.
+
+14:7. And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them
+with walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all
+is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our
+fathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and
+there was no hinderance in building.
+
+14:8. And Asa had in his army of men that bore shields and spears of
+Juda three hundred thousand, and of Benjamin that bore shields and drew
+bows, two hundred and eighty thousand, all these were most valiant men.
+
+14:9. And Zara the Ethiopian came out against them with his army of ten
+hundred thousand men, and with three hundred chariots: and he came as
+far as Maresa.
+
+14:10. And Asa went out to meet him, and set his army in array for
+battle in the vale of Sephata, which is near Maresa:
+
+14:11. And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no
+difference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us,
+O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are come
+against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail
+against thee.
+
+14:12. And the Lord terrified the Ethiopians before Asa and Juda: and
+the Ethiopians fled.
+
+14:13. And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to Gerara:
+and the Ethiopians fell even to utter destruction, for the Lord slew
+them, and his army fought against them, and they were destroyed. And
+they took abundance of spoils,
+
+14:14. And they took all the cities round about Gerara: for a great fear
+was come upon all men: and they pillaged the cities, and carried off
+much booty.
+
+14:15. And they destroyed the sheepcotes, and took an infinite number of
+cattle, and of camels: and returned to Jerusalem.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 15
+
+The prophecy of Azarias. Asa's covenant with God. He deposeth his
+mother.
+
+15:1. And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,
+
+15:2. And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and
+all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with
+him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will
+forsake you.
+
+15:3. And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and
+without a priest a teacher, and without the law.
+
+15:4. And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God
+of Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.
+
+15:5. At that time there shall be no peace to him that goeth out and
+cometh in, but terrors on every side among all the inhabitants of the
+earth.
+
+15:6. For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for
+the Lord will trouble them with all distress.
+
+15:7. Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be weakened:
+for there shall be a reward for your work.
+
+15:8. And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the
+son of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of
+all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of
+mount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the
+Lord, which was before the porch of the Lord.
+
+15:9. And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers
+with them of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over
+to him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.
+
+15:10. And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the
+fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
+
+15:11. They sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils, and of the
+prey, that they had brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thousand
+rams.
+
+15:12. And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should
+seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with
+all their soul.
+
+15:13. And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let
+him die, whether little or great, man or woman.
+
+15:14. And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful
+shouting, and with sound of trumpet, and sound of cornets,
+
+15:15. All that were in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart they
+swore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found him, and
+the Lord gave them rest round about.
+
+15:16. Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal
+authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he
+entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the
+torrent Cedron.
+
+15:17. But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of
+Asa was perfect all his days.
+
+15:18. And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had
+vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and
+vessels of divers uses.
+
+15:19. And there was no war unto the five and thirtieth year of the
+kingdom of Asa.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 16
+
+Asa is reproved for seeking help from the Syrians: his last acts and
+death.
+
+16:1. And in the six and thirtieth year of his kingdom, Baasa the king
+of Israel came up against Juda, and built a wall about Rama, that no one
+might safely go out or come in of the kingdom of Asa.
+
+Six and thirtieth year of his kingdom... That is, of the kingdom of
+Juda, taking the date of it from the beginning of the reign of Reboam.
+
+16:2. Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the
+house of the Lord, and of the king's treasures, and sent to Benadad king
+of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying:
+
+16:3. There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my
+father and thy father, wherefore I have sent thee silver and gold, that
+thou mayst break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, and make him
+depart from me.
+
+16:4. And when Benadad heard this, he sent the captains of his armies
+against the cities of Israel: and they took Ahion, and Dan, and
+Abelmaim, and all the walled cities of Nephtali.
+
+16:5. And when Baasa heard of it, he left off the building of Rama, and
+interrupted his work.
+
+16:6. Then king Asa took all Juda, and they carried away from Rama the
+stones, and the timber that Baasa had prepared for the building: and he
+built with them Gabaa, and Maspha.
+
+16:7. At that time Hanani the prophet came to Asa king of Juda, and said
+to him: Because thou hast had confidence in the king of Syria, and not
+in the Lord thy God, therefore hath the army of the king of Syria
+escaped out of thy hand.
+
+16:8. Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in
+chariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because
+thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand?
+
+16:9. For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth, and give strength
+to those who with a perfect heart trust in him.  Wherefore thou hast
+done foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars shall arise
+against thee.
+
+16:10. And Asa was angry with the seer, and commanded him to be put in
+prison: for he was greatly enraged because of this thing: and he put to
+death many of the people at that time.
+
+16:11. But the works of Asa the first and last are written in the book
+of the kings of Juda and Israel.
+
+16:12. And Asa fell sick in the nine and thirtieth year of his reign, of
+a most violent pain in his feet, and yet in his illness he did not seek
+the Lord, but rather trusted in the skill of physicians.
+
+16:13. And he slept with his fathers: and he died in the one and
+fortieth year of his reign.
+
+16:14. And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for
+himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of
+spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the
+perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 17
+
+Josaphat's reign: his care for the instruction of his people: his
+numerous forces.
+
+17:1. And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong against
+Israel.
+
+17:2. And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of
+Juda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of
+Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
+
+17:3. And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first
+ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,
+
+17:4. But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and
+not according to the sins of Israel.
+
+17:5. And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Juda
+brought presents to Josaphat: and he acquired immense riches, and much
+glory.
+
+17:6. And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he
+took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.
+
+17:7. And in the third year of his reign, he sent of his princes
+Benhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias, and Nathanael, and Micheas, to teach
+in the cites of Juda:
+
+17:8. And with them the Levites, Semeias, and Nathanias, and Zabadias,
+and Asael, and Semiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonias, and Tobias, and
+Thobadonias Levites, and with them Elisama, and Joram priests.
+
+17:9. And they taught the people in Juda, having with them the book of
+the law of the Lord: and they went about all the cities of Juda, and
+instructed the people.
+
+17:10. And the fear of the Lord came upon all the kingdoms of the lands
+that were round about Juda, and they durst not make war against
+Josaphat.
+
+17:11. The Philistines also brought presents to Josaphat, and tribute in
+silver, and the Arabians brought him cattle, seven thousand seven
+hundred rams, and as many he goats.
+
+17:12. And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding great: and he built in
+Juda houses like towers, and walled cities.
+
+17:13. And he prepared many works in the cities of Juda: and he had
+warriors, and valiant men in Jerusalem.
+
+17:14. Of whom this is the number of the houses and families of every
+one: in Juda captains of the army, Ednas the chief, and with him three
+hundred thousand most valiant men.
+
+17:15. After him Johanan the captain, and with him two hundred and
+eighty thousand.
+
+17:16. And after him was Amasias the son of Zechri, consecrated to the
+Lord, and with him were two hundred thousand valiant men.
+
+17:17. After him was Eliada valiant in battle, and with him two hundred
+thousand armed with bow and shield.
+
+17:18. After him also was Jozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty
+thousand ready for war.
+
+17:19. All these were at the hand of the king, beside others, whom he
+had put in the walled cities, in all Juda.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 18
+
+Josaphat accompanies Achab in his expedition against Ramoth; where Achab
+is slain, as Micheas had foretold.
+
+18:1. Now Josaphat was rich and very glorious, and was joined by
+affinity to Achab.
+
+18:2. And he went down to him after some years to Samaria: and Achab at
+his coming killed sheep and oxen in abundance for him and the people
+that came with him: and he persuaded him to go up to Ramoth Galaad.
+
+18:3. And Achab king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda: Come with
+me to Ramoth Galaad. And he answered him: Thou art as I am, and my
+people as thy people, and we will be with thee in the war.
+
+18:4. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee,
+at present the word of the Lord.
+
+18:5. So the king of Israel gathered together of the prophets four
+hundred men, and he said to them: Shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight,
+or shall we forbear? But they said: Go up, and God will deliver into the
+king's hand.
+
+18:6. And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that
+we may inquire also of him?
+
+18:7. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man, of whom
+we may ask the will of the Lord: but I hate him, for he never
+prophesieth good to me, but always evil: and it is Micheas the son of
+Jemla. And Josaphat said: Speak not thus, O king.
+
+18:8. And the king of Israel called one of the eunuchs, and said to him:
+Call quickly Micheas the son of Jemla.
+
+18:9. Now the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, both sat on
+their thrones, clothed in royal robes, and they sat in the open court by
+the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.
+
+18:10. And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made him horns of iron, and
+said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou
+destroy it.
+
+18:11. And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, and said: Go up
+to Ramoth Galaad, and thou shalt prosper, and the Lord will deliver them
+into the king's hand.
+
+18:12. And the messenger that went to call Micheas, said to him: Behold
+the words of all the prophets with one mouth declare good to the king: I
+beseech thee therefore let not thy word disagree with them, and speak
+thou also good success.
+
+18:13. And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God
+shall say to me, that will I speak.
+
+18:14. So he came to the king: and the king said to him: Micheas, shall
+we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or forbear? And he answered him: Go up,
+for all shall succeed prosperously, and the enemies shall be delivered
+into your hands.
+
+18:15. And the king said: I adjure thee again and again to say nothing
+but the truth to me, in the name of the Lord.
+
+18:16. Then he said: I saw all Israel scattered in the mountains, like
+sheep without a shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no masters: let
+every man return to his own house in peace.
+
+18:17. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee that
+this man would not prophesy me any good, but evil?
+
+18:18. Then he said: Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the
+Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him
+on the right hand and on the left,
+
+18:19. And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab king of Israel, that
+he may go up and fall in Ramoth Galaad? And when one spoke in this
+manner, and another otherwise:
+
+Who shall deceive, etc... See the annotations, 3 Kings 22.
+
+18:20. There came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I
+will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means wilt thou
+deceive him?
+
+18:21. And he answered: I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the
+mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive, and
+shalt prevail: go out, and do so.
+
+18:22. Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a spirit of lying in the
+mouth of all thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.
+
+18:23. And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck Micheas on the
+cheek and said: Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me, to speak
+to thee?
+
+18:24. And Micheas said: Thou thyself shalt see in that day, when thou
+shalt go in from chamber to chamber, to hide thyself.
+
+18:25. And the king of Israel commanded, saying: Take Micheas, and carry
+him to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joas the son of Amelech,
+
+18:26. And say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in prison, and give
+him bread and water in a small quantity till I return in peace.
+
+18:27. And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not
+spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.
+
+18:28. So the king of Israel and Josaphat king of Juda went up to Ramoth
+Galaad.
+
+18:29. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: I will change my dress,
+and so I will go to the battle, but put thou on thy own garments. And
+the king of Israel having changed his dress, went to the battle.
+
+18:30. Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his cavalry,
+saying: Fight ye not with small, or great, but with the king of Israel
+only.
+
+18:31. So when the captains of the cavalry saw Josaphat, they said: This
+is the king of Israel. And they surrounded him to attack him: but he
+cried to the Lord, and he helped him, and turned them away from him.
+
+18:32. For when the captains of the cavalry saw, that he was not the
+king of Israel, they left him.
+
+18:33. And it happened that one of the people shot an arrow at a
+venture, and struck the king of Israel between the neck and the
+shoulders, and he said to his chariot man: Turn thy hand, and carry me
+out of the battle, for I am wounded.
+
+18:34. And the fight was ended that day: but the king of Israel stood in
+his chariot against the Syrians until the evening, and died at the
+sunset.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 19
+
+Josaphat's charge to the judges and to the Levites.
+
+19:1. And Josaphat king of Juda returned to his house in peace to
+Jerusalem.
+
+19:2. And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou
+helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that
+hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the
+Lord:
+
+19:3. But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the
+groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the
+Lord the God of thy fathers.
+
+19:4. And Josaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again to the
+people from Bersabee to mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord
+the God of their fathers.
+
+19:5. And he set judges of the land in all the fenced cities of Juda, in
+every place.
+
+19:6. And charging the judges, he said: Take heed what you do: for you
+exercise not the judgment of man, but of the Lord: and whatsoever you
+judge, it shall redound to you.
+
+19:7. Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with
+diligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect
+of persons, nor desire of gifts.
+
+19:8. In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed Levites, and priests and
+chiefs of the families of Israel, to judge the judgment and the cause of
+the Lord for the inhabitants thereof.
+
+19:9. And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear of the
+Lord faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
+
+19:10. Every cause that shall come to you of your brethren, that dwell
+in their cities, between kindred and kindred, wheresoever there is
+question concerning the law, the commandment, the ceremonies, the
+justifications: shew it them, that they may not sin against the Lord,
+and that wrath may not come upon you and your brethren: and so doing you
+shall not sin.
+
+19:11. And Amarias the priest your high priest shall be chief in the
+things which regard God: and Zabadias the son of Ismahel, who is ruler
+in the house of Juda, shall be over those matters which belong to the
+king's office: and you have before you the Levites for masters, take
+courage and do diligently, and the Lord will be with you in good things.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 20
+
+The Ammonites, Moabites, and Syrians combine against Josaphat: he
+seeketh God's help by public prayer and fasting. A prophet foretelleth
+that God will fight for his people: the enemies destroy one another.
+Josaphat with his men gathereth the spoils. He reigneth in peace, but
+his navy perisheth, for his society with wicked Ochozias.
+
+20:1. After this the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and
+with them of the Ammonites, were gathered together to fight against
+Josaphat.
+
+20:2. And there came messengers, and told Josaphat, saying: There cometh
+a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea, and out of Syria,
+and behold they are in Asasonthamar, which is Engaddi.
+
+20:3. And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray
+to the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda.
+
+20:4. And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and all
+came out of their cities to make supplication to him.
+
+20:5. And Josaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Juda, and
+Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court,
+
+20:6. And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and
+rulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and
+power, and no one can resist thee.
+
+20:7. Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land
+before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy
+friend for ever?
+
+20:8. And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name,
+saying:
+
+20:9. If evils fall upon us, the sword of judgment, or pestilence, or
+famine, we will stand in thy presence before this house, in which thy
+name is called upon: and we will cry to thee in our afflictions, and
+thou wilt hear, and save us.
+
+20:10. Now therefore behold the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and
+mount Seir, through whose lands thou didst not allow Israel to pass,
+when they came out of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and slew
+them not,
+
+20:11. Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession
+which thou hast delivered to us.
+
+20:12. O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? as for us we have not
+strength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh
+violently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our
+eyes to thee.
+
+20:13. And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and
+their wives, and their children.
+
+20:14. And Jahaziel the son of Zacharias, the son of Banaias, the son of
+Jehiel, the son of Mathanias, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, was there,
+upon whom the spirit of the Lord came in the midst of the multitude,
+
+20:15. And he said: Attend ye, all Juda, and you that dwell in
+Jerusalem, and thou king Josaphat: Thus saith the Lord to you: Fear ye
+not, and be not dismayed at this multitude: for the battle is not yours,
+but God's.
+
+20:16. To morrow you shall go down against them: for they will come up
+by the ascent named Sis, and you shall find them at the head of the
+torrent, which is over against the wilderness of Jeruel.
+
+20:17. It shall not be you that shall fight, but only stand with
+confidence, and you shall see the help of the Lord over you, O Juda, and
+Jerusalem: fear ye not, nor be you dismayed: to morrow you shall go out
+against them, and the Lord will be with you.
+
+20:18. Then Josaphat, and Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
+fell flat on the ground before the Lord, and adored him.
+
+20:19. And the Levites of the sons of Caath, and of the sons of Core
+praised the Lord the God of Israel with a loud voice, on high.
+
+20:20. And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the
+desert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the
+midst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of
+Jerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure:
+believe his prophets, and all things shall succeed well.
+
+20:21. And he gave counsel to the people, and appointed the singing men
+of the Lord, to praise him by their companies, and to go before the
+army, and with one voice to say: Give glory to the Lord, for his mercy
+endureth for ever.
+
+20:22. And when they began to sing praises, the Lord turned their
+ambushments upon themselves, that is to say, of the children of Ammon,
+and of Moab, and of mount Seir, who were come out to fight against Juda,
+and they were slain.
+
+20:23. For the children of Ammon, and of Moab, rose up against the
+inhabitants of mount Seir, to kill and destroy them: and when they had
+made an end of them, they turned also against one another, and destroyed
+one another.
+
+20:24. And when Juda came to the watch tower, that looketh toward the
+desert, they saw afar off all the country, for a great space, full of
+dead bodies, and that no one was left that could escape death.
+
+20:25. Then Josaphat came, and all the people with him to take away the
+spoils of the dead, and they found among the dead bodies, stuff of
+various kinds, and garments, and most precious vessels: and they took
+them for themselves, insomuch that they could not carry all, nor in
+three days take away the spoils, the booty was so great.
+
+20:26. And on the fourth day they were assembled in the valley of
+Blessing: for there they blessed the Lord, and therefore they called
+that place the valley of Blessing until this day.
+
+20:27. And every man of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem returned,
+and Josaphat at their head, into Jerusalem with great joy, because the
+Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.
+
+20:28. And they came into Jerusalem with psalteries, and harps, and
+trumpets into the house of the Lord.
+
+20:29. And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands
+when they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.
+
+20:30. And the kingdom of Josaphat was quiet, and God gave him peace
+round about.
+
+20:31. And Josaphat reigned over Juda, and he was five and thirty years
+old, when he began to reign: and he reigned five and twenty years in
+Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Azuba the daughter of Selahi.
+
+20:32. And he walked in the way of his father Asa and departed not from
+it, doing the things that were pleasing before the Lord.
+
+20:33. But yet he took not away the high places, and the people had not
+yet turned their heart to the Lord the God of their fathers.
+
+20:34. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, first and last, are written
+in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which he digested into the books
+of the kings of Israel.
+
+20:35. After these things Josaphat king of Juda made friendship with
+Ochozias king of Israel, whose works were very wicked.
+
+20:36. And he was partner with him in making ships, to go to Tharsis:
+and they made the ships in Asiongaber.
+
+20:37. And Eliezer the son of Dodau of Maresa prophesied to Josaphat,
+saying: Because thou hast made a league with Ochozias, the Lord hath
+destroyed thy works, and the ships are broken, and they could not go to
+Tharsis.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 21
+
+Joram's wicked reign: his punishment and death.
+
+21:1. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in
+the city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.
+
+21:2. And he had brethren the sons of Josaphat, Azarias, and Jahiel, and
+Zacharias, and Azaria, and Michael, and Saphatias, all these were the
+sons of Josaphat king of Juda.
+
+21:3. And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and
+pensions, with strong cities in Juda: but the kingdom he gave to Joram,
+because he was the eldest.
+
+21:4. So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had
+established himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some
+of the princes of Israel.
+
+21:5. Joram was two and thirty years old when he began to reign: and he
+reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
+
+21:6. And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of
+Achab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in
+the sight of the Lord.
+
+21:7. But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the
+covenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to give
+a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever.
+
+21:8. In those days Edom revolted, from being subject to Juda, and made
+themselves a king.
+
+21:9. And Joram went over with his princes, and all his cavalry with
+him, and rose in the night, and defeated the Edomites who had surrounded
+him, and all the captains of his cavalry.
+
+21:10. However Edom revolted, from being under the dominion of Juda unto
+this day: at that time Lobna also revolted, from being under his hand.
+For he had forsaken the Lord the God of his fathers.
+
+21:11. Moreover he built also high places in the cities of Juda, and he
+made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and Juda to
+transgress.
+
+21:12. And there was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in
+which it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father:
+Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in
+the ways of Asa king of Juda,
+
+21:13. But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made
+Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating
+the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed
+thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself,
+
+21:14. Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all
+thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.
+
+21:15. And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels,
+till thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.
+
+21:16. And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the
+Philistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians.
+
+21:17. And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they
+carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, his
+sons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but Joachaz,
+who was the youngest.
+
+Joachaz... Alias Ochozias.
+
+21:18. And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable
+disease in his bowels.
+
+21:19. And as day came after day, and time rolled on, two whole years
+passed: then after being wasted with a long consumption, so as to void
+his very bowels, his disease ended with his life.  And he died of a most
+wretched illness, and the people did not make a funeral for him
+according to the manner of burning, as they had done for his ancestors.
+
+21:20. He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he
+reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they
+buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 22
+
+The reign and death of Ochozias. The tyranny of Athalia.
+
+22:1. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias his youngest son
+king in his place: for the rovers of the Arabians, who had broke in upon
+the camp, had killed all that were his elder brothers. So Ochozias the
+son of Joram king of Juda reigned.
+
+22:2. Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he
+reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia
+the daughter of Amri.
+
+Forty-two, etc... Divers Greek Bibles read thirty-two, agreeably to 4
+Kings 8.17.
+
+22:3. He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother
+pushed him on to do wickedly.
+
+22:4. So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Achab
+did: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his
+destruction.
+
+22:5. And he walked after their counsels. And he went with Joram the son
+of Achab king of Israel, to fight against Hazael king of Syria, at
+Ramoth Galaad: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
+
+22:6. And he returned to be healed in Jezrahel: for he received many
+wounds in the foresaid battle. And Ochozias the son of Joram king of
+Juda, went down to visit Joram the son of Achab in Jezrahel where he lay
+sick.
+
+22:7. For it was the will of God against Ochozias that he should come to
+Joram: and when he was come should go out also against Jehu the son of
+Namsi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Achab.
+
+22:8. So when Jehu was rooting out the house of Achab, he found the
+princes of Juda, and the sons of the brethren of Ochozias, who served
+him, and he slew them.
+
+22:9. And he sought for Ochozias himself, and took him lying hid in
+Samaria: and when he was brought to him, he killed him, and they buried
+him: because he was the son of Josaphat, who had sought the Lord with
+all his heart. And there was no more hope that any one should reign of
+the race of Ochozias.
+
+22:10. For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up,
+and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.
+
+22:11. But Josabeth the king's daughter took Joas the son of Ochozias,
+and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain. And she hid
+him with his nurse in a bedchamber: now Josabeth that hid him, was
+daughter of king Joram, wife of Joiada the high priest, and sister of
+Ochozias, and therefore Athalia did not kill him.
+
+22:12. And he was with them hid in the house of God six years, during
+which Athalia reigned over the land.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 23
+
+Joiada the high priest causeth Joas to be made king: Athalia to be
+slain, and idolatry to be destroyed.
+
+23:1. And in the seventh year Joiada being encouraged, took the captains
+of hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel the son of
+Johanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasias the son of Adaias, and
+Elisaphat the son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them.
+
+23:2. And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of
+all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and
+they came to Jerusalem.
+
+23:3. And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house
+of God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king's son shall reign, as
+the Lord hath said of the sons of David.
+
+23:4. And this is the thing that you shall do:
+
+23:5. A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and
+of the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third
+part at the king's house: and a third at the gate that is called the
+Foundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the
+house of the Lord.
+
+To the sabbath... That is, to perform in your weeks the functions of
+your office, or the weekly watches.
+
+23:6. And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests,
+and they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because
+they are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the watches
+of the Lord.
+
+23:7. And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his
+arms; and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain; and let
+them be with the king, both coming in, and going out.
+
+23:8. So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the
+high priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were
+under him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who
+had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high
+priest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to
+succeed one another every week.
+
+23:9. And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the
+shields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house
+of the Lord.
+
+23:10. And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the
+right side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the
+altar, and the temple, round about the king.
+
+23:11. And they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him,
+and the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they
+made him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him: and
+they prayed for him, and said: God save the king.
+
+23:12. Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and
+praising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the
+Lord.
+
+23:13. And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance,
+and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the
+land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments
+of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her
+garments, and said: Treason, treason.
+
+23:14. And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the
+chiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of
+the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword.
+For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of
+the Lord.
+
+23:15. And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come
+within the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.
+
+23:16. And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people,
+and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.
+
+23:17. And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it:
+and they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan the
+priest of Baal before the altars.
+
+23:18. And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under
+the hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed in
+the house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is written
+in the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the disposition
+of David.
+
+23:19. He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord,
+that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.
+
+23:20. And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men,
+and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they
+brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him
+through the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal
+throne.
+
+23:21. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet:
+but Athalia was slain with the sword.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 24
+
+Joas reigneth well all the days of Joiada: afterwards falleth into
+idolatry and causeth Zacharias to be slain. He is slain himself by his
+servants.
+
+24:1. Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned
+forty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.
+
+24:2. And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of
+Joiada the priest.
+
+24:3. And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and
+daughters.
+
+24:4. After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.
+
+24:5. And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them:
+Go out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair
+the temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but
+the Levites were negligent.
+
+24:6. And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast
+thou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and
+Jerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord
+for all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the
+testimony?
+
+24:7. For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the
+house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that
+had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.
+
+24:8. And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the
+gate of the house of the Lord on the outside.
+
+24:9. And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man
+should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God
+appointed for all Israel, in the desert.
+
+24:10. And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going in
+they contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that it
+was filled.
+
+24:11. And when it was time to bring the chest before the king by the
+hands of the Levites, (for they saw there was much money,) the king's
+scribe, and he whom the high priest had appointed went in: and they
+poured out the money that was in the chest: and they carried back the
+chest to its place: and thus they did from day to day, and there was
+gathered an immense sum of money.
+
+24:12. And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works
+of the house of the Lord: but they hired with it stonecutters, and
+artificers of every kind of work to repair the house of the Lord: and
+such as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.
+
+24:13. And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was
+closed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in its
+former state, and made it stand firm.
+
+24:14. And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest
+of the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels
+for the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and other
+vessels of gold and silver: and holocausts were offered in the house of
+the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.
+
+24:15. But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a
+hundred and thirty years old.
+
+24:16. And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because
+he had done good to Israel, and to his house.
+
+24:17. And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and
+worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened
+to them.
+
+24:18. And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers,
+and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for
+this sin.
+
+24:19. And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and
+they would not give ear when they testified against them.
+
+24:20. The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the
+priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus
+saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which
+will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him
+forsake you?
+
+24:21. And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him
+at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.
+
+24:22. And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his
+father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said:
+The Lord see, and require it.
+
+24:23. And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up against
+him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, and killed all the princes of
+the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of Damascus.
+
+24:24. And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the
+Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had
+forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed
+shameful judgments.
+
+24:25. And departing they left him in great diseases: and his servants
+rose up against him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the
+priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him
+in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
+
+24:26. Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of
+Semmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.
+
+24:27. And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered
+under him, and the repairing the house of God, they are written more
+diligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his
+stead.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 25
+
+Amasias' reign: he beginneth well, but endeth ill: he is overthrown by
+Joas, and slain by his people.
+
+25:1. Amasias 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 Joadan of Jerusalem.
+
+25:2. And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not
+with a perfect heart.
+
+25:3. And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to
+death the servants that had slain the king his father.
+
+25:4. But he slew not their children, as it is written in the book of
+the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall
+not be slain for the children, nor the children for their fathers, but
+every man shall die for his own sin.
+
+25:5. Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by
+families, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and
+Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and
+found three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and
+could hold the spear and shield.
+
+25:6. He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a
+hundred talents of silver.
+
+25:7. But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army
+of Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all the
+children of Ephraim:
+
+25:8. And if thou think that battles consist in the strength of the
+army, God will make thee to be overcome by the enemies: for it belongeth
+to God both to help, and to put to flight.
+
+25:9. And Amasias said to the man of God: What will then become of the
+hundred talents which I have given to the soldiers of Israel? and the
+man of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough to be able to give thee
+much more than this.
+
+25:10. Then Amasias separated the army, that came to him out of Ephraim,
+to go home again: but they being much enraged against Juda, returned to
+their own country.
+
+25:11. And Amasias taking courage led forth his people, and went to the
+vale of saltpits, and slew of the children of Seir ten thousand.
+
+25:12. And other ten thousand men the sons of Juda took, and brought to
+the steep of a certain rock, and cast them down headlong from the top,
+and they all were broken to pieces.
+
+25:13. But that army which Amasias had sent back, that they should not
+go with him to battle, spread themselves among the cities of Juda, from
+Samaria to Beth-horon, and having killed three thousand took away much
+spoil.
+
+25:14. But Amasias after he had slain the Edomites, set up the gods of
+the children of Seir, which he had brought thence, to be his gods, and
+adored them, and burnt incense to them.
+
+25:15. Wherefore the Lord being angry against Amasias, sent a prophet to
+him, to say to him: Why hast thou adored gods that have not delivered
+their own people out of thy hand?
+
+25:16. And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the
+king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet
+departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou
+hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.
+
+25:17. Then Amasias king of Juda taking very bad counsel, sent to Joas
+the son of Joachaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let us
+see one another.
+
+25:18. But he sent back the messengers, saying: The thistle that is in
+Libanus, sent to the cedar in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my
+son to wife: and behold the beasts that were in the wood of Libanus
+passed by and trod down the thistle.
+
+25:19. Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom, and therefore thy heart
+is lifted up with pride: stay at home, why dost thou provoke evil
+against thee, that both thou shouldst fall and Juda with thee.
+
+25:20. Amasias would not hearken to him, because it was the Lord's will
+that he should be delivered into the hands of enemies, because of the
+gods of Edom.
+
+25:21. So Joas king of Israel went up, and they presented themselves to
+be seen by one another: and Amasias king of Juda was in Bethsames of
+Juda:
+
+25:22. And Juda fell before Israel, and they fled to their dwellings.
+
+25:23. And Joas king of Israel took Amasias king of Juda, the son of
+Joas, the son of Joachaz, in Bethsames, and brought him to Jerusalem:
+and broke down the walls thereof from the gate of Ephraim, to the gate
+of the corner, four hundred cubits.
+
+25:24. And he took all the gold, and silver, and all the vessels, that
+he found in the house of God, and with Obededom, and in the treasures of
+the king's house, moreover also the sons of the hostages, he brought
+back to Samaria.
+
+25:25. And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda lived, after the death
+of Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, fifteen years.
+
+25:26. Now the rest of the acts of Amasias, the first and last, are
+written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
+
+25:27. And after he revolted from the Lord, they made a conspiracy
+against him in Jerusalem. And he fled into Lachis, and they sent, and
+killed him there.
+
+25:28. And they brought him back upon horses, and buried him with his
+fathers in the city of David.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 26
+
+Ozias reigneth prosperously, till he invadeth the priests' office, upon
+which he is struck with a leprosy.
+
+26:1. And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen
+years old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.
+
+26:2. He built Ailath, and restored it to the dominion of Juda, after
+that the king slept with his fathers.
+
+26:3. Ozias 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.
+
+26:4. And he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, according
+to all that Amasias his father had done.
+
+26:5. And he sought the Lord in the days of Zacharias that understood
+and saw God: and as long as he sought the Lord, he directed him in all
+things.
+
+26:6. Moreover he went forth and fought against the Philistines, and
+broke down the wall of Geth, and the wall of Jabnia, and the wall of
+Azotus: and he built towns in Azotus, and among the Philistines.
+
+26:7. And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the
+Arabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.
+
+26:8. And the Ammonites gave gifts to Ozias: and his name was spread
+abroad even to the entrance of Egypt for his frequent victories.
+
+26:9. And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem over the gate of the corner,
+and over the gate of the valley, and the rest, in the same side of the
+wall, and fortified them.
+
+26:10. And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns, for
+he had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the desert:
+he had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains, and in
+Carmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry.
+
+26:11. And the army of his fighting men, that went out to war, was under
+the hand of Jehiel the scribe, and Maasias the doctor, and under the
+hand of Henanias, who was one of the king's captains.
+
+26:12. And the whole number of the chiefs by the families of valiant men
+were two thousand six hundred.
+
+26:13. And the whole army under them three hundred and seven thousand
+five hundred: who were fit for war, and fought for the king against the
+enemy.
+
+26:14. And Ozias prepared for them, that is, for the whole army,
+shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and
+slings to cast stones.
+
+26:15. And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he
+placed in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows,
+and great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord
+helped him, and had strengthened him.
+
+26:16. But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his
+destruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the
+temple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of
+incense.
+
+26:17. And immediately Azarias the priest going in after him, and with
+him fourscore priests of the Lord, most valiant men,
+
+26:18. Withstood the king and said: It doth not belong to thee, Ozias,
+to burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, that is, to the sons of
+Aaron, who are consecrated for this ministry: go out of the sanctuary,
+do not despise: for this thing shall not be accounted to thy glory by
+the Lord God.
+
+26:19. And Ozias was angry, and holding in his hand the censer to burn
+incense, threatened the priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in
+his forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord at the altar
+of incense.
+
+26:20. And Azarias the high priest, and all the rest of the priests
+looked upon him, and saw the leprosy in his forehead, and they made
+haste to thrust him out. Yea himself also being frightened, hasted to go
+out, because he had quickly felt the stroke of the Lord.
+
+26:21. And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he
+dwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been
+cast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham his son governed the
+king's house, and judged the people of the land.
+
+26:22. But the rest of the acts of Ozias first and last were written by
+Isaias the son of Amos, the prophet.
+
+26:23. And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
+field of the royal sepulchres, because he was a leper: and Joatham his
+son reigned in his stead.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 27
+
+Joatham's good reign.
+
+27:1. Joatham 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.
+
+27:2. And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all
+that Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the temple
+of the Lord, and the people still transgressed.
+
+27:3. He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall
+of Ophel he built much.
+
+27:4. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and
+towers in the forests.
+
+27:5. He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame
+them, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents
+of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of
+barley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and
+third year.
+
+27:6. And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed
+before the Lord his God.
+
+27:7. Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his
+works, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.
+
+27:8. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he
+reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
+
+27:9. And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
+city of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 28
+
+The wicked and unhappy reign of Achaz.
+
+28:1. Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was right in the sight
+of the Lord as David his father had done,
+
+28:2. But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he
+cast statues for Baalim.
+
+28:3. It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and
+consecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the nations,
+which the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel.
+
+28:4. He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on
+the hills, and under every green tree.
+
+28:5. And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of
+Syria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and
+carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king
+of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter.
+
+28:6. For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty
+thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord
+the God of their fathers.
+
+28:7. At the same time Zechri a powerful man of Ephraim, slew Maasias
+the king's son, and Ezricam the governor of his house, and Elcana who
+was next to the king.
+
+28:8. And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two
+hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they
+brought it to Samaria.
+
+28:9. At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name was
+Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to
+them: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with Juda,
+hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them
+cruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven.
+
+28:10. Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and
+Jerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done:
+for you have sinned in this against the Lord your God.
+
+28:11. But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have
+brought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord
+hangeth over you.
+
+28:12. Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the
+son of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of
+Sellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came from
+the war.
+
+28:13. And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives
+hither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and
+heap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce
+anger of the Lord hangeth over Israel.
+
+28:14. So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken,
+before the princes and all the multitude.
+
+28:15. And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the
+captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when
+they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink,
+and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them,
+they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts,
+and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren,
+and they returned to Samaria.
+
+28:16. At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking
+help.
+
+28:17. And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great
+booty.
+
+28:18. The Philistines also spread themselves among the cities of the
+plains, and to the south of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon,
+and Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and Gamzo, with their villages,
+and they dwelt in them.
+
+28:19. For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda,
+for he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord.
+
+For he had stripped it of help... That is, Achaz stripped the kingdom of
+Juda of the divine assistance by his wickedness, and by his introducing
+idolatry.
+
+28:20. And he brought against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the
+Assyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any
+resistance.
+
+28:21. And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the
+kings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians,
+and yet it availed him nothing.
+
+28:22. Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt
+against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,
+
+28:23. Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and
+he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease
+them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they
+were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
+
+28:24. Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of God,
+and broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made
+himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.
+
+28:25. And in all the cities of Juda he built altars to burn
+frankincense, and he provoked the Lord the God of his fathers to wrath.
+
+28:26. But the rest of his acts, and all his works first and last are
+written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
+
+28:27. And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city
+of Jerusalem: for they received him not into the sepulchres of the kings
+of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 29
+
+Ezechias purifieth the temple, and restoreth religion.
+
+29:1. Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years
+old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his
+mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.
+
+29:2. And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord,
+according to all that David his father had done.
+
+29:3. In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of
+the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
+
+29:4. And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in
+the east street.
+
+29:5. And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified,
+purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all
+filth out of the sanctuary.
+
+29:6. Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord
+God, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the
+tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs.
+
+29:7. They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out
+the lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the
+sanctuary of the God of Israel.
+
+29:8. Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda
+and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to
+destruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes.
+
+29:9. Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our
+daughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.
+
+29:10. Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord
+the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation
+from us.
+
+29:11. My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath chosen you to stand
+before him, and to minister to him, and to worship him, and to burn
+incense to him.
+
+29:12. Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the
+son of Azarias, of the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Cis the
+son of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of the sons of Gerson,
+Joah the son of Zemma, and Eden the son of Joah.
+
+29:13. And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and Jahiel. Also of the sons
+of Asaph, Zacharias, and Mathanias.
+
+29:14. And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Semei: and of the sons of
+Idithun, Semeias, and Oziel.
+
+29:15. And they gathered together their brethren, and sanctified
+themselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and
+the precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.
+
+29:16. And the priests went into the temple of the Lord to sanctify it,
+and brought out all the uncleanness that they found within to the
+entrance of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took it away, and
+carried it out abroad to the torrent Cedron.
+
+29:17. And they began to cleanse on the first day of the first month,
+and on the eighth day of the same month they came into the porch of the
+temple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in eight days, and on
+the sixteenth day of the same month they finished what they had begun.
+
+29:18. And they went in to king Ezechias, and said to him: We have
+sanctified all the house of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and
+the vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with all its vessels,
+
+29:19. And all the furniture of the temple, which king Achaz in his
+reign had defiled, after his transgression; and behold they are all set
+forth before the altar of the Lord.
+
+29:20. And king Ezechias rising early, assembled all the rulers of the
+city, and went up into the house of the Lord:
+
+29:21. And they offered together seven bullocks, and seven rams, and
+seven lambs, and seven he goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the
+sanctuary, for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of Aaron, to
+offer them upon the altar of the Lord.
+
+29:22. Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the priests took the
+blood, and poured it upon the altar; they killed also the rams, and
+their blood they poured also upon the altar, and they killed the lambs,
+and poured the blood upon the altar.
+
+29:23. And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the
+whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:
+
+29:24. And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before
+the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded
+that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
+
+29:25. And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and
+psalteries, and harps according to the regulation of David the king, and
+of Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for it was the commandment
+of the Lord by the hand of his prophets.
+
+29:26. And the Levites stood, with the instruments of David, and the
+priests with trumpets.
+
+29:27. And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocausts upon the
+altar: and when the holocausts were offered, they began to sing praises
+to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets, and divers instruments which
+David the king of Israel had prepared.
+
+29:28. And all the multitude adored, and the singers, and the
+trumpeters, were in their office till the holocaust was finished.
+
+29:29. And when the oblation was ended, the king, and all that were with
+him bowed down and adored.
+
+29:30. And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Levites to praise the
+Lord with the words of David, and Asaph the seer: and they praised him
+with great joy, and bowing the knee adored.
+
+29:31. And Ezechias added, and said: You have filled your hands to the
+Lord, come and offer victims, and praises in the house of the Lord. And
+all the multitude offered victims, and praises, and holocausts with a
+devout mind.
+
+29:32. And the number of the holocausts which the multitude offered, was
+seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.
+
+29:33. And they consecrated to the Lord six hundred oxen, and three
+thousand sheep.
+
+29:34. But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the
+holocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the
+work was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are
+sanctified with an easier rite than the priests.
+
+29:35. So there were many holocausts, and the fat of peace offerings,
+and the libations of holocausts: and the service of the house of the
+Lord was completed.
+
+29:36. And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced because the ministry of
+the Lord was accomplished. For the resolution of doing this thing was
+taken suddenly.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 30
+
+Ezechias inviteth all Israel to celebrate the pasch; the solemnity is
+kept fourteen days.
+
+30:1. And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to
+Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in
+Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel,
+
+30:2. For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the
+assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.
+
+30:3. For they could not keep it in its time; because there were not
+priests enough sanctified, and the people was not as yet gathered
+together to Jerusalem.
+
+The host of heaven... The sun, moon, and stars.
+
+30:4. And the thing pleased the king, and all the people.
+
+30:5. And they decreed to send messengers to all Israel from Bersabee
+even to Dan, that they should come, and keep the phase to the Lord the
+God of Israel in Jerusalem: for many had not kept it as it is prescribed
+by the law.
+
+30:6. And the posts went with letters by commandment of the king, and
+his princes, to all Israel and Juda, proclaiming according to the king's
+orders: Ye children of Israel, turn again to the Lord the God of
+Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel: and he will return to the remnant
+of you that have escaped the hand of the king of the Assyrians.
+
+30:7. Be not like your fathers, and brethren, who departed from the Lord
+the God of their fathers, and he hath given them up to destruction, as
+you see.
+
+30:8. Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: yield yourselves to
+the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever:
+serve the Lord the God of your fathers, and the wrath of his indignation
+shall be turned away from you.
+
+30:9. For if you turn again to the Lord, your brethren, and children
+shall find mercy before their masters, that have led them away captive,
+and they shall return into this land: for the Lord your God is merciful,
+and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
+
+30:10. So the posts went speedily from city to city, through the land of
+Ephraim, and of Manasses, even to Zabulon, whilst they laughed at them
+and mocked them.
+
+30:11. Nevertheless some men of Aser, and of Manasses, and of Zabulon,
+yielding to the counsel, came to Jerusalem.
+
+30:12. But the hand of God was in Juda, to give them one heart to do the
+word of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king, and of the
+princes.
+
+30:13. And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the
+solemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:
+
+30:14. And they arose and destroyed the altars that were in Jerusalem,
+and took away all things in which incense was burnt to idols and cast
+them into the torrent Cedron.
+
+30:15. And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second
+month. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified
+offered holocausts in the house of the Lord.
+
+30:16. And they stood in their order according to the disposition and
+law of Moses the man of God: but the priests received the blood which
+was to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,
+
+30:17. Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the
+Levites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be
+sanctified to the Lord.
+
+30:18. For a great part of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and
+Issachar, and Zabulon, that had not been sanctified, ate the phase
+otherwise than it is written: and Ezechias prayed for them, saying: The
+Lord who is good will shew mercy,
+
+30:19. To all them, who with their whole heart, seek the Lord the God of
+their fathers: and will not impute it to them that they are not
+sanctified.
+
+30:20. And the Lord heard him, and was merciful to the people.
+
+30:21. And the children of Israel, that were found at Jerusalem, kept
+the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy, praising the
+Lord every day, the Levites also, and the priests, with instruments that
+agreed to their office.
+
+30:22. And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the Levites, that had good
+understanding concerning the Lord: and they ate during the seven days of
+the solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and praising the
+Lord the God of their fathers.
+
+30:23. And it pleased the whole multitude to keep other seven days:
+which they did with great joy.
+
+30:24. For Ezechias the king of Juda had given to the multitude a
+thousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep: and the princes had given
+the people a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheep: and a great
+number of priests was sanctified.
+
+30:25. And all the multitude of Juda with the priests and Levites, and
+all the assembly, that came out of Israel; and the proselytes of the
+land of Israel, and that dwelt in Juda were full of joy.
+
+30:26. And there was a great solemnity in Jerusalem, such as had not
+been in that city since the time of Solomon the son of David king of
+Israel.
+
+30:27. And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people:
+and their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling
+place of heaven.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 31
+
+Idolatry is abolished; and provisions made for the ministers.
+
+31:1. And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that
+were found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols,
+and cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the
+altars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also
+and Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the
+children of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.
+
+31:2. And Ezechias appointed companies of the priests, and the Levites,
+by their courses, every man in his own office, to wit, both of the
+priests, and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to
+minister, and to praise, and to sing in the gates of the camp of the
+Lord.
+
+31:3. And the king's part was, that of his proper substance the
+holocaust should be offered always morning and evening, and on the
+sabbaths, and the new moons and the other solemnities, as it is written
+in the law of Moses.
+
+31:4. He commanded also the people that dwelt in Jerusalem, to give to
+the priests, and the Levites their portion, that they might attend to
+the law of the Lord.
+
+31:5. Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the
+children of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine,
+and oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the ground
+bringeth forth.
+
+31:6. Moreover the children of Israel and Juda, that dwelt in the cities
+of Juda, brought in the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and the tithes of
+holy things, which they had vowed to the Lord their God: and carrying
+them all, made many heaps.
+
+31:7. In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the heaps,
+and in the seventh month, they finished them.
+
+31:8. And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps, and
+they blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.
+
+31:9. And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay
+so.
+
+31:10. Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him,
+saying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the
+Lord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left,
+because the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is
+this great store which thou seest.
+
+31:11. Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of
+the Lord. And when they had done so,
+
+31:12. They brought in faithfully both the firstfruits, and the tithes,
+and all they had vowed. And the overseer of them was Chonenias the
+Levite, and Semei his brother was the second,
+
+31:13. And after him Jehiel, and Azarias, and Nahath, and Asael, and
+Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jesmachias, and Mahath, and
+Banaias, overseers under the hand of Chonenias, and Semei his brother,
+by the commandment of Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high priest of
+the house of God, to whom all things appertained.
+
+31:14. But Core the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter of the east
+gate, was overseer of the things which were freely offered to the Lord,
+and of the firstfruits and the things dedicated for the holy of holies.
+
+31:15. And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and Semeias,
+and Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to distribute
+faithfully portions to their brethren, both little and great:
+
+31:16. Besides the males from three years old and upward, to all that
+went into the temple of the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in
+the ministry, and their offices according to their courses, day by day.
+
+31:17. To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the
+twentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies.
+
+31:18. And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their
+children of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the things
+that had been sanctified.
+
+31:19. Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the
+suburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions
+to all the males, among the priests and the Levites.
+
+31:20. So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and
+wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his
+God,
+
+31:21. In all the service of the house of the Lord according to the law
+and the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he
+did it and prospered.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 32
+
+Idolatry is abolished; and provisions made for the ministers.
+
+32:1. And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that
+were found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols,
+and cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the
+altars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also
+and Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the
+children of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.
+
+32:2. And Ezechias appointed companies of the priests, and the Levites,
+by their courses, every man in his own office, to wit, both of the
+priests, and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to
+minister, and to praise, and to sing in the gates of the camp of the
+Lord.
+
+32:3. And the king's part was, that of his proper substance the
+holocaust should be offered always morning and evening, and on the
+sabbaths, and the new moons and the other solemnities, as it is written
+in the law of Moses.
+
+32:4. He commanded also the people that dwelt in Jerusalem, to give to
+the priests, and the Levites their portion, that they might attend to
+the law of the Lord.
+
+32:5. Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the
+children of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine,
+and oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the ground
+bringeth forth.
+
+32:6. Moreover the children of Israel and Juda, that dwelt in the cities
+of Juda, brought in the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and the tithes of
+holy things, which they had vowed to the Lord their God: and carrying
+them all, made many heaps.
+
+32:7. In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the heaps,
+and in the seventh month, they finished them.
+
+32:8. And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps, and
+they blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.
+
+32:9. And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay
+so.
+
+32:10. Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him,
+saying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the
+Lord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left,
+because the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is
+this great store which thou seest.
+
+32:11. Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of
+the Lord. And when they had done so,
+
+32:12. They brought in faithfully both the firstfruits, and the tithes,
+and all they had vowed. And the overseer of them was Chonenias the
+Levite, and Semei his brother was the second,
+
+32:13. And after him Jehiel, and Azarias, and Nahath, and Asael, and
+Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jesmachias, and Mahath, and
+Banaias, overseers under the hand of Chonenias, and Semei his brother,
+by the commandment of Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high priest of
+the house of God, to whom all things appertained.
+
+32:14. But Core the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter of the east
+gate, was overseer of the things which were freely offered to the Lord,
+and of the firstfruits and the things dedicated for the holy of holies.
+
+32:15. And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and Semeias,
+and Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to distribute
+faithfully portions to their brethren, both little and great:
+
+32:16. Besides the males from three years old and upward, to all that
+went into the temple of the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in
+the ministry, and their offices according to their courses, day by day.
+
+32:17. To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the
+twentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies.
+
+32:18. And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their
+children of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the things
+that had been sanctified.
+
+32:19. Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the
+suburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions
+to all the males, among the priests and the Levites.
+
+32:20. So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and
+wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his
+God,
+
+32:21. In all the service of the house of the Lord according to the law
+and the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he
+did it and prospered.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 33
+
+Manasses for his manifold wickedness is led captive to Babylon: he
+repenteth, and is restored to his kingdom, and destroyeth idolatry: his
+successor Amon is slain by his servants.
+
+33:1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he
+reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
+
+33:2. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations
+of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:
+
+33:3. And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his
+father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves,
+and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.
+
+The host of heaven... The sun, moon, and stars.
+
+33:4. He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord
+had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
+
+33:5. And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of
+the house of the Lord.
+
+33:6. And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of
+Benennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to
+magic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many
+evils before the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
+
+33:7. He set also a graven, and a molten statue in the house of God, of
+which God had said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this house, and
+in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will
+I put my name for ever.
+
+33:8. And I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed out of the
+land which I have delivered to their fathers: yet so if they will take
+heed to do what I have commanded them, and all the law, and the
+ceremonies, and judgments by the hand of Moses.
+
+33:9. So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do
+evil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the
+face of the children of Israel.
+
+33:10. And the Lord spoke to his people, and they would not hearken.
+
+33:11. Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the
+king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound
+with chains and fetters to Babylon.
+
+33:12. And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God:
+and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.
+
+33:13. And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard
+his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and
+Manasses knew that the Lord was God.
+
+33:14. After this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west
+side of Gihon in the valley, from the entering in of the gate round
+about to Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he appointed
+captains of the army in all the fenced cities of Juda:
+
+33:15. And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house
+of the Lord: the altars also which he had made in the mount of the house
+of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast them all out of the city.
+
+33:16. And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed upon it
+victims, and peace offerings, and praise: and he commanded Juda to serve
+the Lord the God of Israel.
+
+33:17. Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places to
+the Lord their God.
+
+33:18. But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to his God,
+and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the Lord the
+God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.
+
+33:19.  His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and
+contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves,
+and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.
+
+33:20. And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his
+house: and his son Amon reigned in his stead.
+
+33:21. Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he
+reigned two years in Jerusalem.
+
+33:22. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father
+had done: he sacrificed to all the idols which Manasses his father had
+made, and served them.
+
+33:23. And he did not humble himself before the lord, as Manasses his
+father had humbled himself, but committed far greater sin.
+
+33:24. And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own
+house.
+
+33:25. But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had
+killed Amon, and made Josias his son king in his stead.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 34
+
+Josias destroyeth idolatry, repaireth the temple, and reneweth the
+covenant between God and the people.
+
+34:1. Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+one and thirty years in Jerusalem.
+
+34:2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and
+walked in the ways of David his father: he declined not, neither to the
+right hand, nor to the left.
+
+34:3. And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he
+began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after
+he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places,
+and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.
+
+34:4. And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and
+demolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the
+groves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the
+fragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.
+
+34:5. And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols,
+and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.
+
+34:6. And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even
+to Nephtali he demolished all.
+
+34:7. And when he had destroyed the altars, and the groves, and had
+broken the idols in pieces, and had demolished all profane temples
+throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
+
+34:8. Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the
+land, and the temple of the Lord, he sent Saphan the son of Elselias,
+and Maasias the governor of the city, Joha the son of Joachaz the
+recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
+
+34:9. And they came to Helcias the high priest: and received of him the
+money which had been brought into the house of the Lord, and which the
+Levites and porters had gathered together from Manasses, and Ephraim,
+and all the remnant of Israel, and from all Juda, and Benjamin, and the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem,
+
+34:10. Which they delivered into the hands of them that were over the
+workmen in the house of the Lord, to repair the temple, and mend all
+that was weak.
+
+34:11. But they gave it to the artificers, and to the masons, to buy
+stones out of the quarries, and timber for the couplings of the
+building, and to rafter the houses, which the kings of Juda had
+destroyed.
+
+34:12. And they did all faithfully. Now the overseers of the workmen
+were Jahath and Abdias of the sons of Merari, Zacharias and Mosollam of
+the sons of Caath, who hastened the work: all Levites skilful to play on
+instruments.
+
+34:13. But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were scribes,
+and masters of the number of the Levites, and porters.
+
+34:14. Now when they carried out the money that had been brought into
+the temple of the Lord, Helcias the priest found the book of the law of
+the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
+
+34:15. And he said to Saphan the scribe: I have found the book of the
+law in the house of the Lord: and he delivered it to him.
+
+34:16. But he carried the book to the king, and told him, saying: Lo,
+all that thou hast committed to thy servants, is accomplished.
+
+34:17. They have gathered together the silver that was found in the
+house of the Lord: and it is given to the overseers of the artificers,
+and of the workmen, for divers works.
+
+34:18. Moreover Helcias the priest gave me this book. And he read it
+before the king.
+
+34:19. And when he had heard the words of the law, he rent his garments:
+
+34:20. And he commanded Helcias, and Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Abdon
+the son of Micha, and Saphan the scribe, and Asaa the king's servant,
+saying:
+
+34:21. Go, and pray to the Lord for me, and for the remnant of Israel,
+and Juda, concerning all the words of this book, which is found: for the
+great wrath of the Lord hath fallen upon us, because our fathers have
+not kept the words of the Lord, to do all things that are written in
+this book.
+
+34:22. And Helcias and they that were sent with him by the king, went to
+Olda the prophetess, the wife of Sellum the son of Thecuath, the son of
+Hasra keeper of the wardrobe: who dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second part:
+and they spoke to her the words above mentioned.
+
+34:23. And she answered them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:
+Tell the man that sent you to me:
+
+34:24. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring evils upon this place,
+and upon the inhabitants thereof, and all the curses that are written in
+this book which they read before the king of Juda.
+
+34:25. Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange
+gods, to provoke me to wrath with all the works of their hands,
+therefore my wrath shall fail upon this place, and shall not be
+quenched.
+
+34:26. But as to the king of Juda that sent you to beseech the Lord,
+thus shall you say to him: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:
+Because thou hast heard the words of this book,
+
+34:27. And thy heart was softened, and thou hast humbled thyself in the
+sight of God for the things that are spoken against this place, and the
+inhabitants of Jerusalem, and reverencing my face, hast rent thy
+garments, and wept before me: I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
+
+34:28. For now I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be
+brought to thy tomb in peace: and thy eyes shall not see all the evil
+that I will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants thereof.  They
+therefore reported to the king all that she had said.
+
+34:29. And he called together all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem.
+
+34:30. And went up to the house of the Lord, and all the men of Juda,
+and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, and all
+the people from the least to the greatest. And the king read in their
+hearing, in the house of the Lord, all the words of the book.
+
+34:31. And standing up in his tribunal, he made a covenant before the
+Lord to walk after him, and keep his commandments, and testimonies, and
+justifications with all his heart, and with all his soul, and to do the
+things that were written in that book which he had read.
+
+34:32. And he adjured all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to
+do the same: and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the
+covenant of the Lord the God of their fathers.
+
+34:33. And Josias took away all the abominations out of all the
+countries of the children of Israel and made all that were left in
+Israel, to serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived they departed
+not from the Lord the God of their fathers.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 35
+
+Josias celebrateth a most solemn pasch. He is slain by the king of
+Egypt.
+
+35:1. And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was
+sacrificed on the fourteenth day of the first month.
+
+35:2. And he set the priests in their offices, and exhorted them to
+minister in the house of the Lord.
+
+35:3. And he spoke to the Levites, by whose instruction all Israel was
+sanctified to the Lord, saying: Put the ark in the sanctuary of the
+temple, which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built: for you
+shall carry it no more: but minister now to the Lord your God, and to
+his people Israel.
+
+35:4. And prepare yourselves by your houses, and families according to
+your courses, as David king of Israel commanded, and Solomon his son
+hath written.
+
+35:5. And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of
+Levi.
+
+35:6. And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your brethren,
+that they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the hand
+of Moses.
+
+35:7. And Josias gave to all the people that were found there in the
+solemnity of the phase, of lambs and of kids of the flocks, and of other
+small cattle thirty thousand, and of oxen three thousand, all these were
+of the king's substance.
+
+35:8. And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to the
+people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and
+Zacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the
+priests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and
+three hundred oxen.
+
+35:9. And Chonenias, and Semeias and Nathanael, his brethren, and
+Hasabias, and Jehiel, and Jozabad princes of the Levites, gave to the
+rest of the Levites to celebrate the phase five thousand small cattle,
+and five hundred oxen.
+
+35:10. And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their
+office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's
+commandment.
+
+35:11. And the phase was immolated: and the priests sprinkled the blood
+with their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts:
+
+35:12. And they separated them, to give them by the houses and families
+of every one, and to be offered to the Lord, as it is written in the
+book of Moses, and with the oxen they did in like manner.
+
+35:13. And they roasted the phase with fire, according to that which is
+written in the law: but the victims of peace offerings they boiled in
+caldrons, and kettles, and pots, and they distributed them speedily
+among all the people.
+
+35:14. And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the
+priests: for the priests were busied in offering of holocausts and the
+fat until night, wherefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for
+the priests the sons of Aaron last.
+
+35:15. And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in their order, according
+to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Idithun, the
+prophets of the king: and the porters kept guard at every gate, so as
+not to depart one moment from their service, and therefore their
+brethren the Levites prepared meats for them.
+
+35:16. So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished that day,
+both in keeping the phase and offering holocausts upon the altar of the
+Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.
+
+35:17. And the children of Israel that were found there, kept the phase
+at that time, and the feast of unleavened seven days.
+
+35:18. There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of
+Samuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep such
+a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda,
+and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
+
+35:19.  In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this phase
+celebrated.
+
+35:20. After that Josias had repaired the temple, Nechao king of Egypt
+came up to fight in Charcamis by the Euphrates: and Josias went out to
+meet him.
+
+35:21. But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I to do with
+thee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight
+against another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste:
+forbear to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.
+
+35:22. Josias would not return, but prepared to fight against him, and
+hearkened not to the words of Nechao from the mouth of God, but went to
+fight in the field of Mageddo.
+
+35:23. And there he was wounded by the archers, and he said to his
+servants: Carry me out of the battle, for I am grievously wounded.
+
+35:24. And they removed him from the chariot into another, that followed
+him after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to Jerusalem,
+and he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers, and all Juda
+and Jerusalem mourned for him,
+
+35:25. Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the
+singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a
+law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.
+
+35:26. Now the rest of the acts of Josias and of his mercies, according
+to what was commanded by the law of the Lord:
+
+35:27. And his works first and last, are written in the book of the
+kings of Juda and Israel.
+
+2 Paralipomenon Chapter 36
+
+The reigns of Joachaz, Joakim, Joachin, and Sedecias: the captivity of
+Babylon released at length by Cyrus.
+
+36:1. Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and
+made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.
+
+36:2. Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
+he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
+
+36:3. And the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, and deposed him, and
+condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
+
+36:4. And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and
+Jerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with
+him and carried him away into Egypt.
+
+36:5. Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
+he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord
+his God.
+
+36:6. Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led
+him bound in chains into Babylon.
+
+36:7. And he carried also thither the vessels of the Lord, and put them
+in his temple.
+
+36:8. But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and his abominations, which he
+wrought, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the
+book of the kings of Juda and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned in his
+stead.
+
+36:9. Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of
+the Lord.
+
+Eight years old... He was associated by his father to the kingdom, when
+he was but eight years old; but after his father's death, when he
+reigned alone, he was eighteen years old. 4 Kings 24.8.
+
+36:10. And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and
+brought him to Babylon, carrying away at the same time the most precious
+vessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Sedecias his uncle king
+over Juda and Jerusalem.
+
+36:11. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and
+he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
+
+36:12. And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God, and did not
+reverence the face of Jeremias the prophet speaking to him from the
+mouth of the Lord.
+
+36:13. He also revolted from king Nabuchodonosor, who had made him swear
+by God: and he hardened his neck and his heart, from returning to the
+Lord the God of Israel.
+
+36:14. Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly
+transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they
+defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in
+Jerusalem.
+
+36:15. And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand
+of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he
+spared his people and his dwelling place.
+
+36:16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words,
+and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his
+people, and there was no remedy.
+
+36:17. For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew
+their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no
+compassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped for
+age, but he delivered them all into his hands.
+
+36:18. And all the vessels of the house of Lord, great and small, and
+the treasures of the temple and of the king, and of the princes he
+carried away to Babylon.
+
+36:19. And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the
+wall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers, and what soever was precious
+they destroyed.
+
+36:20. Whosoever escaped the sword, was led into Babylon, and there
+served the king and his sons, till the reign of the king of Persia,
+
+36:21. That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be
+fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the
+desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.
+
+36:22. But in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfil
+the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the
+Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus, king of the Persians: who commanded
+it to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also,
+saying:
+
+36:23. Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All the kingdoms of the
+earth hath the Lord the God of heaven given to me, and he hath charged
+me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea: who is there
+among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him
+go up.
+
+
+
+
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