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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. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 14 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8314.txt or 8314.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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