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    <book number='12' name='2 Kings' abbreviation='2 Kings' testament='old'>
        <chapter number='1'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs><strongs hebrew='6586'>rebelled</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>fell <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>through</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7639'>lattice</strongs>in his upper <strongs hebrew='5944'>chamber</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='2470'>sick</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1176'>Baal</strongs>-zebub the <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs><strongs hebrew='518'>whether</strongs>I shall <strongs hebrew='2421'>recover</strongs>of this <strongs hebrew='4480 2483 2088'>disease</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>But the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8664'>Tishbite</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Arise</strongs>, go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> not <strongs hebrew='4480 1097'>because</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1176'>Baal</strongs>-zebub the <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Now <strongs hebrew='3651'>therefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, Thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='834 8033'>which</strongs>thou art gone <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>shalt surely <strongs hebrew='4191 4191'>die</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And when the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>turned <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>are ye <strongs hebrew='2088'>now</strongs>turned <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, There <strongs hebrew='5927'>came</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>us, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>us, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>you, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> not <strongs hebrew='4480 1097'>because</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sendest</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1176'>Baal</strongs>-zebub the <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3651'>therefore</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='834 8033'>which</strongs>thou art gone <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>shalt surely <strongs hebrew='4191 4191'>die</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And he <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><em>was</em> <em>he</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>you, and <strongs hebrew='1696 413'>told</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And they <strongs hebrew='559 413'>answered</strongs>him, <em>He</em> <em>was</em> a hairy <strongs hebrew='376 1167 8181'>man</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='247'>girt</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='232'>girdle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5785'>leather</strongs>about his <strongs hebrew='4975'>loins</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>It</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8664'>Tishbite</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then the king <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>. And he went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='2022'>hill</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, Thou <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs>, Come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, then let <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>consume</strongs>thee and thy <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>. And there came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>consumed</strongs>him and his <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='7725'>Again</strongs>also he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='312'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, O <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs>hath the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4120'>quickly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, let <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>consume</strongs>thee and thy <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>consumed</strongs>him and his <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3766'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1290'>knees</strongs><strongs hebrew='5048'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2603 413'>besought</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, O <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, let my <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, be <strongs hebrew='3365'>precious</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, there came fire <strongs hebrew='3381 784'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and burnt <strongs hebrew='398'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7223'>former</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifties</strongs>with their <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifties</strongs>: therefore let my <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3365'>precious</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>, Go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him: be not <strongs hebrew='408 3372'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs>him. And he <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, Forasmuch <strongs hebrew='3282 834'>as</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1176'>Baal</strongs>-zebub the <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs>, <em>is</em> <em>it</em> not <strongs hebrew='4480 1097'>because</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3651'>therefore</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>off</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='834 8033'>which</strongs>thou art gone <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>shalt surely <strongs hebrew='4191 4191'>die</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>So he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8147'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>King</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='2'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>would take <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>by a <strongs hebrew='5591'>whirlwind</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3427'>Tarry</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><em>unto</em> <em>him,</em> <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, and <em>as</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='518'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>leave</strongs>thee. So they went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> at <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3045'>Knowest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will take <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>Yea</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><em>it</em> ; hold ye your <strongs hebrew='2814'>peace</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3427'>tarry</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='3405'>Jericho</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, and <em>as</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='518'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>leave</strongs>thee. So they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3405'>Jericho</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> at <strongs hebrew='3405'>Jericho</strongs><strongs hebrew='5066'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3045'>Knowest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will take <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>Yea</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><em>it</em> ; hold ye your <strongs hebrew='2814'>peace</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='3427'>Tarry</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, and <em>as</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='518'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>leave</strongs>thee. And they <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='1980'>on</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4480 5048'>view</strongs>afar <strongs hebrew='4480 7350'>off</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='155'>mantle</strongs>, and wrapped <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='1563'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>, and they were <strongs hebrew='2673'>divided</strongs><strongs hebrew='2008'>hither</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2008'>thither</strongs>, so that they <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>on dry <strongs hebrew='2724'>ground</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when they were gone <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7592'>Ask</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>I shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>for thee, <strongs hebrew='2962'>before</strongs>I be taken <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs>thee. And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, let a <strongs hebrew='8147'>double</strongs><strongs hebrew='6310'>portion</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thou hast <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs>a hard <strongs hebrew='7185'>thing</strongs>: <em>nevertheless</em> , <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>me <em>when</em> <em>I</em> <em>am</em> <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs>thee, it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>unto thee; but <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>, it shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><em>so</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>still went <strongs hebrew='1980'>on</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>talked</strongs>, that, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>appeared</em> a <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6504'>parted</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>asunder</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>by a <strongs hebrew='5591'>whirlwind</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><em>it</em> , and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='6817'>cried</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>thereof. And he <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs>: and he took <strongs hebrew='2388'>hold</strongs>of his own <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs>them in <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='7168'>pieces</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>He took <strongs hebrew='7311'>up</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='155'>mantle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him, and went <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8193'>bank</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='155'>mantle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='346'>Where</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>? and when <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='637'>also</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='2673'>parted</strongs><strongs hebrew='2008'>hither</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2008'>thither</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And when the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> to <strongs hebrew='4480 5048'>view</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3405'>Jericho</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>him, they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>doth <strongs hebrew='5117'>rest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>him, and bowed <strongs hebrew='7812'>themselves</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>before him. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, there <strongs hebrew='3426'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121 2428'>strong</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; let them <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>, we pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>: lest <strongs hebrew='6435'>peradventure</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath taken him <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs>him upon <strongs hebrew='259'>some</strongs><strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='259'>some</strongs><strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And when they <strongs hebrew='6484'>urged</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='954'>ashamed</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7971'>Send</strongs>. They <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And when they came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, (for <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>tarried</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3405'>Jericho</strongs>,) he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, Did I <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>you, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4186'>situation</strongs>of this <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>pleasant</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>seeth</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>naught</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs><strongs hebrew='7921'>barren</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Bring</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='2319'>new</strongs><strongs hebrew='6746'>cruse</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='4417'>salt</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>therein</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='3947'>brought</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4161'>spring</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4417'>salt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='7495'>healed</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>; there shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>or <strongs hebrew='7921'>barren</strongs><em>land</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='22'>So the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='7495'>healed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>saying</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And he went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>: and as <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was going <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, there came <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='6996'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='5288'>children</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7046'>mocked</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, thou bald <strongs hebrew='7142'>head</strongs>; go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, thou bald <strongs hebrew='7142'>head</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And he <strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>back</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>looked</strongs>on them, and <strongs hebrew='7043'>cursed</strongs>them in the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And there came <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>she <strongs hebrew='1677'>bears</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3293'>wood</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1234'>tore</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='3206'>children</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='3'>
            <verse number='1'>Now <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='7535'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>like his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and like his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>: for he put <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4676'>image</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='7535'>Nevertheless</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1692'>cleaved</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>; he <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>therefrom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='4338'>Mesha</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5349'>sheepmaster</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>rendered</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='3733'>lambs</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='352'>rams</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='6785'>wool</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>But it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4194'>dead</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs><strongs hebrew='6586'>rebelled</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 8111'>Samaria</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6586'>rebelled</strongs>against me: wilt thou <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>: I <em>am</em> as thou <em>art</em> , my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>as thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <em>and</em> my <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>as thy <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='335 2088'>Which</strongs><strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>shall we go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>So the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>: and they fetched a <strongs hebrew='5437'>compass</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='1870'>journey</strongs>: and there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='929'>cattle</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7272'>followed</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='162'>Alas</strongs>! <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>together, to <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>! </verse>
            <verse number='11'>But <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <em>there</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>by</strongs>him? And <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of Israel's <strongs hebrew='4480 5650 3478'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6311'>Here</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8202'>Shaphat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3332'>poured</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him. So the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>have I to do with thee? <strongs hebrew='1980'>get</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='408'>Nay</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>together, to <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6635'>hosts</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>surely</strongs>, were it <strongs hebrew='3884'>not</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='5375'>regard</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>presence</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, I would not <strongs hebrew='5027'>look</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>toward</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='518'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>But <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>bring</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='5059'>minstrel</strongs>. And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='5059'>minstrel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5059'>played</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6213'>Make</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5158'>valley</strongs>full of <strongs hebrew='1356 1356'>ditches</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>wind</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='1653'>rain</strongs>; yet <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5158'>valley</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, that ye may <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>, both <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>, and your <strongs hebrew='4735'>cattle</strongs>, and your <strongs hebrew='929'>beasts</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>is <em>but</em> a light <strongs hebrew='7043'>thing</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: he will <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moabites</strongs>also into your <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And ye shall <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4013'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4004'>choice</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and shall <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>tree</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5640'>stop</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='4599'>wells</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3510'>mar</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>piece of <strongs hebrew='2513'>land</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, when the meat <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>, that, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='4480 1870'>way</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='776'>country</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And when <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moabites</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>were come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against them, they gathered <strongs hebrew='6817 4480 3605'>all</strongs>that were able to put <strongs hebrew='2296'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='2290'>armor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4605'>upward</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>border</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And they rose up <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8121'>sun</strongs><strongs hebrew='2224'>shone</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moabites</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>on the other <strongs hebrew='4480 5048'>side</strongs><em>as</em> <strongs hebrew='122'>red</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>are surely <strongs hebrew='2717 2717'>slain</strongs>, and they have <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore, <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And when they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israelites</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moabites</strongs>, so that they <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>them: but they <strongs hebrew='5221'>went</strongs>forward <strongs hebrew='5221'>smiting</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moabites</strongs>, even in <em>their</em> country. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And they beat <strongs hebrew='2040'>down</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and on <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='2513'>piece</strongs>of land <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs>it; and they <strongs hebrew='5640'>stopped</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4599'>wells</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5307'>felled</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5704'>only</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7025'>Kir</strongs>-haraseth <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>they the <strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>thereof; howbeit the <strongs hebrew='7051'>slingers</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5437'>about</strongs><em>it</em> , and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>was too <strongs hebrew='2388'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>for</strongs>him, he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs><strongs hebrew='2719'>swords</strongs>, to break <strongs hebrew='1234'>through</strongs><em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>: but they <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Then he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1060'>eldest</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>should have <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>him <em>for</em> a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>. And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='7110'>indignation</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5265'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <em>their</em> <em>own</em> <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='4'>
            <verse number='1'>Now there <strongs hebrew='6817'>cried</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='259'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 802'>wives</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knowest</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5383'>creditor</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>unto him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='3206'>sons</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='5650'>bondmen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>shall I <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>for thee? <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='3426'>hast</strongs>thou in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>? And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thine <strongs hebrew='8198'>handmaid</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='3605'>thing</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>save</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='610'>pot</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7592'>borrow</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 2351'>abroad</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='7934'>neighbors</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='7386'>empty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>; borrow not a <strongs hebrew='408 4591'>few</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And when thou art come <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5462'>shut</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>door</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>upon</strongs>thee and <strongs hebrew='1157'>upon</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and shalt pour <strongs hebrew='3332'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>, and thou shalt set <strongs hebrew='5265'>aside</strongs>that which is <strongs hebrew='4392'>full</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>So she <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5462'>shut</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>door</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>upon</strongs>her and <strongs hebrew='1157'>upon</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='5066'>brought</strongs><em>the</em> <em>vessels</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>her; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs>poured <strongs hebrew='3332'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='4390'>full</strongs>, that she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5066 413'>Bring</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessel</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <em>There</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stayed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Then she <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4376'>sell</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7999'>pay</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5386'>debt</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2421'>live</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>and thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3498'>rest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>fell</strongs>on a <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='5674'>passed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7766'>Shunem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8033'>where</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>; and she <strongs hebrew='2388'>constrained</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>. And <em>so</em> it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>, <em>that</em> as <strongs hebrew='4480 1767'>oft</strongs>as he passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>by</strongs>, he turned <strongs hebrew='5493'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='3045'>perceive</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>this</strongs><em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='6918'>holy</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, which passeth <strongs hebrew='5674 5921'>by</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='8548'>continually</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Let us <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6996'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='5944'>chamber</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, on the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>; and let us <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs>for him <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='7979'>table</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='3678'>stool</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='4501'>candlestick</strongs>: and it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>, when he <strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>us, that he shall turn <strongs hebrew='5493'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>fell</strongs>on a <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='5493'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5944'>chamber</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7121'>Call</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7767'>Shunammite</strongs>. And when he had <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>her, she <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='559'>Say</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, thou hast been <strongs hebrew='2729'>careful</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='2731'>care</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> to be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>for thee? <strongs hebrew='3426'>wouldest</strongs>thou be <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>? And she <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>among</strongs>mine own <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>then <em>is</em> to be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>for her? And <strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='61'>Verily</strongs>she hath <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>child</strongs>, and her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='2204'>old</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7121'>Call</strongs>her. And when he had <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>her, she <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6607'>door</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, About <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4150'>season</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2416'>life</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>shalt <strongs hebrew='2263'>embrace</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='408'>Nay</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, <em>thou</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, do not <strongs hebrew='3576 408'>lie</strongs>unto thine <strongs hebrew='8198'>handmaid</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='2029'>conceived</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3205'>bore</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='2088'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4150'>season</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, according to the <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2416'>life</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And when the <strongs hebrew='3206'>child</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1431'>grown</strongs>, it <strongs hebrew='1961'>fell</strongs>on a <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, that he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7114'>reapers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5375'>Carry</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And when he had <strongs hebrew='5375'>taken</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1290'>knees</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs><strongs hebrew='6672'>noon</strongs>, and <em>then</em> <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And she went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7901'>laid</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5462'>shut</strongs><em>the</em> <em>door</em> <strongs hebrew='1157'>upon</strongs>him, and went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And she <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7971'>Send</strongs>me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs>, that I may <strongs hebrew='7323'>run</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and come <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4069'>Wherefore</strongs>wilt <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>? <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>new <strongs hebrew='2320'>moon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbath</strongs>. And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>It</em> <em>shall</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>well</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>Then she <strongs hebrew='2280'>saddled</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='860'>ass</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5090'>Drive</strongs>, and go <strongs hebrew='1980'>forward</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='6113'>slack</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><em>thy</em> <strongs hebrew='7392'>riding</strongs>for me, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>except</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='559'>bid</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>So she <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>. And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>her afar <strongs hebrew='4480 5048'>off</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <em>yonder</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1975'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7767'>Shunammite</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs hebrew='7323'>Run</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs>her, and <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>unto her, <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>well</strongs>with thee? <em>is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>well</strongs>with thy <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>? <em>is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>well</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='3206'>child</strongs>? And she <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <em>It</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>well</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And when she <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2022'>hill</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='2388'>caught</strongs>him by the <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs>to thrust her <strongs hebrew='1920'>away</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let her <strongs hebrew='7503'>alone</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='4843'>vexed</strongs>within her: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5956'>hid</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>me, and hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Then she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Did I <strongs hebrew='7592'>desire</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>? did I <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, Do <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7952'>deceive</strongs>me? </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Then he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs>, Gird <strongs hebrew='2296'>up</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4975'>loins</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='4938'>staff</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and go thy <strongs hebrew='1980'>way</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>if</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='4672'>meet</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1288'>salute</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3588'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='1288'>salute</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='6030'>answer</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>again: and <strongs hebrew='7760'>lay</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='4938'>staff</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And the <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, and <em>as</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='518'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>leave</strongs>thee. And he <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>followed</strongs>her. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And <strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs>passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4938'>staff</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>; but <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='369'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='7182'>hearing</strongs>. Wherefore he went <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6974'>awaked</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And when <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='7901'>laid</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>He went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>therefore, and <strongs hebrew='5462'>shut</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>door</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>upon</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='8147'>twain</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And he went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3206'>child</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='1457'>stretched</strongs>himself <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the child; and the <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3206'>child</strongs>waxed <strongs hebrew='2552'>warm</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>Then he <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>to and <strongs hebrew='259 2008 259 2008'>fro</strongs>; and went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1457'>stretched</strongs>himself <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him: and the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='2237 5704'>sneezed</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>times</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='6491'>opened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And he <strongs hebrew='7121 413'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7121 413'>Call</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7767'>Shunammite</strongs>. So he <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>her. And when she was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Take <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>Then she went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>, and bowed <strongs hebrew='7812'>herself</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>, and took <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>: and <em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='7458'>dearth</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3427'>sitting</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him: and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, Set <strongs hebrew='8239'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='5518'>pot</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1310'>seethe</strongs><strongs hebrew='5138'>pottage</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'>And <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3950'>gather</strongs><strongs hebrew='219'>herbs</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7704'>wild</strongs><strongs hebrew='1612'>vine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3950'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>thereof</strongs><strongs hebrew='7704'>wild</strongs><strongs hebrew='6498'>gourds</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>lap</strongs><strongs hebrew='4393'>full</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6398'>shred</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5518'>pot</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5138'>pottage</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>So they poured <strongs hebrew='3332'>out</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>. And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as they were <strongs hebrew='398'>eating</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5138'>pottage</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>cried <strongs hebrew='6817'>out</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, O <em>thou</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5518'>pot</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><em>thereof</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='41'>But he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Then <strongs hebrew='3947'>bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='7058'>meal</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5518'>pot</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Pour <strongs hebrew='3332'>out</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, that they may <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>. And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697 7451'>harm</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5518'>pot</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='42'>And there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1190'>Baal</strongs>-shalisha, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1061'>firstfruits</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>loaves</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8184'>barley</strongs>, and full ears of <strongs hebrew='3759'>corn</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6861'>husk</strongs>thereof. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Give</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, that they may <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='43'>And his <strongs hebrew='8334'>servitor</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>, should I <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>? He <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>again, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Give</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, that they may <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, They shall <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>, and shall <strongs hebrew='3498'>leave</strongs><em>thereof</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='44'>So he <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them, and they did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3498'>left</strongs><em>thereof</em> , according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='5'>
            <verse number='1'>Now <strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375 6440'>honorable</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>by him the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs><strongs hebrew='8668'>deliverance</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>also a <strongs hebrew='1368'>mighty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>, <em>but</em> <em>he</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='6879'>leper</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>had gone <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='1416'>companies</strongs>, and had brought away <strongs hebrew='7617'>captive</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6996'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='5291'>maid</strongs>; and she <strongs hebrew='1961 6440'>waited</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1404'>mistress</strongs>, Would <strongs hebrew='305'>God</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>! <strongs hebrew='227'>for</strongs>he would <strongs hebrew='622'>recover</strongs>him of his <strongs hebrew='4480 6883'>leprosy</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <em>one</em> went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2063'>Thus</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2063'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5291'>maid</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Go <strongs hebrew='1980'>to</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs>, and I will <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5612'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><em>pieces</em> of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='2487'>changes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='899'>raiment</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>when <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>letter</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, I have <em>therewith</em> <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee, that thou mayest <strongs hebrew='622'>recover</strongs>him of his <strongs hebrew='4480 6883'>leprosy</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7121'>read</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>letter</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Am</em> <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='4191'>kill</strongs>and to make <strongs hebrew='2421'>alive</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>man doth <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='622'>recover</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4480 6883'>leprosy</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588 389'>wherefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>consider</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>you</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>how</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>seeketh a <strongs hebrew='579'>quarrel</strongs>against me. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so</em> , when <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherefore</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>? let him <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, and he shall <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>So <strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>and with his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='6607'>door</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4397'>messenger</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7364'>wash</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>times</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>shall come <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>to thee, and thou shalt be <strongs hebrew='2891'>clean</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>But <strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7107'>wroth</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='1980'>away</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='559'>thought</strongs>, He will surely come <strongs hebrew='3318 3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5130'>strike</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='622'>recover</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6879'>leper</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><em>Are</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='71'>Abana</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6554'>Pharpar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5104'>rivers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs>than <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? may I <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7364'>wash</strongs>in them, and be <strongs hebrew='2891'>clean</strongs>? So he <strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs>and went <strongs hebrew='1980'>away</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='2534'>rage</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <em>if</em> the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1696 413'>bid</strongs>thee <em>do</em> <em>some</em> <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>, wouldest thou <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><em>it</em> ? how much <strongs hebrew='637'>rather</strongs>then, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='7364'>Wash</strongs>, and be <strongs hebrew='2891'>clean</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then went he <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2881'>dipped</strongs>himself <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>times</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>saying</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: and his <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>like unto the <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='6996'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>, and he was <strongs hebrew='2891'>clean</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4264'>company</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him: and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1293'>blessing</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>But he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='3947'>receive</strongs>none. And he <strongs hebrew='6484'>urged</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><em>it</em> ; but he <strongs hebrew='3985'>refused</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Shall there <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>then, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, be <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>to thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='6776 6505'>mules</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='4853'>burden</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='127'>earth</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='5750'>henceforth</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>offer</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>nor <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>In <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5545'>pardon</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>, <em>that</em> when my <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>goeth</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7417'>Rimmon</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7812'>worship</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='8172'>leaneth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and I bow <strongs hebrew='7812'>myself</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7417'>Rimmon</strongs>: when I bow down <strongs hebrew='7812'>myself</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7417'>Rimmon</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5545'>pardon</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>. So he <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs>him a little <strongs hebrew='3530 776'>way</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>But <strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='2820'>spared</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='761'>Syrian</strongs>, in not <strongs hebrew='4480 3947'>receiving</strongs>at his <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>, <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='7323'>run</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='3972'>somewhat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>So <strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>followed</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs>. And when <strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='7323'>running</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him, he lighted <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariot</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Is</em> all <strongs hebrew='7965'>well</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, All <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>well</strongs>. My <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='6258 2088'>now</strongs>there be <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me from <strongs hebrew='4480 2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>them, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3603'>talent</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2487'>changes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='899'>garments</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Be <strongs hebrew='2974'>content</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='6555'>urged</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='6696'>bound</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2754'>bags</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2487'>changes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='899'>garments</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>laid</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servants</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5375'>bore</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And when he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6076'>tower</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><em>them</em> from their <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6485'>bestowed</strongs><em>them</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: and he let <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>But <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>before</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4480 370'>Whence</strongs><em>comest</em> <em>thou</em> , <strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='575 575'>whither</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Went</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><em>with</em> <em>thee</em> , <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>turned <strongs hebrew='2015'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariot</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs>thee? <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> a <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3947'>receive</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='3947'>receive</strongs><strongs hebrew='899'>garments</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2132'>oliveyards</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5650'>menservants</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8198'>maidservants</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='27'>The <strongs hebrew='6883'>leprosy</strongs>therefore of <strongs hebrew='5283'>Naaman</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1692'>cleave</strongs>unto thee, and unto thy <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>. And he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>from his <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>presence</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6879'>leper</strongs><em>as</em> <em>white</em> as <strongs hebrew='7950'>snow</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='6'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs><strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>with</strongs>thee is too <strongs hebrew='6862'>strait</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>for</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Let us <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>, we pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='6982'>beam</strongs>, and let us <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>us a <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8033'>where</strongs>we may <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>ye. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Be <strongs hebrew='2974'>content</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>So he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>them. And when they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>, they cut <strongs hebrew='1504'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>wood</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>But as <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>felling</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6982'>beam</strongs>, the axe <strongs hebrew='1270'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='6817'>cried</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='162'>Alas</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>! for <strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7592'>borrowed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='575'>Where</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>it? And he <strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. And he cut <strongs hebrew='7094'>down</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6086'>stick</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs><em>it</em> in <strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='1270'>iron</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='6687'>swim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Therefore <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>he, Take <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='7311'>up</strongs>to thee. And he put <strongs hebrew='7971'>out</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>warred</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and took <strongs hebrew='3289'>counsel</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>In</strongs>such and <strongs hebrew='6423 492'>such</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> my <strongs hebrew='8466'>camp</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8104'>Beware</strongs>that thou pass <strongs hebrew='4480 5674'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>such</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>are come <strongs hebrew='5185'>down</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>told</strongs>him and <strongs hebrew='2094'>warned</strongs>him of, and saved <strongs hebrew='8104'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>once</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>twice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Therefore the <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>was sore <strongs hebrew='5590'>troubled</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='7121 413'>called</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, Will ye <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>show</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='4310'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 7495'>of</strongs>us <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4480 5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>None</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5046'>telleth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='1696'>speakest</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='2315 4904'>bedchamber</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7200'>spy</strongs><strongs hebrew='351'>where</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>is</em> , that I may <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetch</strongs>him. And it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <em>he</em> <em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='1886'>Dothan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Therefore <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs><strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='3515'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5362 5921'>compassed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>about. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And when the <strongs hebrew='8334'>servant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='6965'>risen</strongs><strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>, and gone <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs><strongs hebrew='5437'>compassed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>both with <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='162'>Alas</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>! <strongs hebrew='349'>how</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3372'>Fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>us <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>more</strongs>than they <strongs hebrew='4480 834'>that</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6491'>open</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, that he may <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6491'>opened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>of the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4390'>full</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And when they came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5221'>Smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1471'>people</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='5575'>blindness</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them with <strongs hebrew='5575'>blindness</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2090'>this</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>follow</strongs>me, and I will <strongs hebrew='1980'>bring</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs>. But he <strongs hebrew='1980'>led</strongs>them to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when they were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6491'>open</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>men</em> , that they may <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6491'>opened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>; and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>they</em> <em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='8432'>midst</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, when he <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>them, My <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, shall I <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><em>them</em> ? shall I <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><em>them</em> ? </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, Thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><em>them</em> : wouldest <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs>those <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>thou hast taken <strongs hebrew='7617'>captive</strongs>with thy <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>and with thy <strongs hebrew='7198'>bow</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them, that they may <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And he <strongs hebrew='3739'>prepared</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='3740'>provision</strongs>for them: and when they had <strongs hebrew='398'>eaten</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drunk</strongs>, he sent them <strongs hebrew='7971'>away</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='1416'>bands</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254 5750'>more</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>this</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1130'>Ben</strongs>-hadad <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='6908'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6696 5921'>besieged</strongs><strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='7458'>famine</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='6696 5921'>besieged</strongs>it, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>sold</em> for <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><em>pieces</em> of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and the fourth <strongs hebrew='7255'>part</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='6894'>cab</strongs>of dove's <strongs hebrew='1686'>dung</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><em>pieces</em> of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And as the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>passing <strongs hebrew='5674'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>, there <strongs hebrew='6817'>cried</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3467'>Help</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, If the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>do <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3467'>help</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='4480 370'>whence</strongs>shall I <strongs hebrew='3467'>help</strongs>thee? out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1637'>barnfloor</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3342'>winepress</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>aileth thee? And she <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2063'>This</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>, and we will <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>So we <strongs hebrew='1310'>boiled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>him: and I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her on the <strongs hebrew='312'>next</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>him: and she hath <strongs hebrew='2244'>hid</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>looked</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>he</em> <em>had</em> <strongs hebrew='8242'>sackcloth</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>within</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>Then he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>so</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>also</strongs>to me, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8202'>Shaphat</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>him this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>But <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him; and <em>the</em> <em>king</em> <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>him: but <strongs hebrew='2962'>ere</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messenger</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7200'>See</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='3588'>how</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='7523'>murderer</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>to take <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='7200'>look</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messenger</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5462'>shut</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>door</strongs>, and hold him <strongs hebrew='3905 *853'>fast</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='1817'>door</strongs>: <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>sound</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>behind</strongs>him? </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And while he <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>talked</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messenger</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him: and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>should I <strongs hebrew='3176'>wait</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='5750'>longer</strongs>? </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='7'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs>ye the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4279'>Tomorrow</strongs>about this <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs><em>shall</em> a <strongs hebrew='5429'>measure</strongs>of fine <strongs hebrew='5560'>flour</strongs><em>be</em> <em>sold</em> for a <strongs hebrew='8255'>shekel</strongs>, and two <strongs hebrew='5429'>measures</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8184'>barley</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='8255'>shekel</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then a <strongs hebrew='7991'>lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8172'>leaned</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <em>if</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='699'>windows</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, might <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, thou shalt <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><em>it</em> with thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, but shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thereof</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='6879'>leprous</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>at the entering <strongs hebrew='6607'>in</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sit</strongs><strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, We will <strongs hebrew='935'>enter</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, then the <strongs hebrew='7458'>famine</strongs><em>is</em> in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and we shall <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='3427'>sit</strongs>still <strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs>, we <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>also. <strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='1980'>come</strongs>, and let us <strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>they save us <strongs hebrew='2421'>alive</strongs>, we shall <strongs hebrew='2421'>live</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='4191'>kill</strongs>us, we shall but <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And they rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5399'>twilight</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>: and when they were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the uttermost <strongs hebrew='7097'>part</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>For the <strongs hebrew='136'>Lord</strongs>had made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>, <em>even</em> the <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='251'>another</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Lo</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7936'>hired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2850'>Hittites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egyptians</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Wherefore they <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5399'>twilight</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>, even the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs><em>was</em> , and <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And when <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='6879'>lepers</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the uttermost <strongs hebrew='7097'>part</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>carried</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='899'>raiment</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2934'>hid</strongs><em>it</em> ; and came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>entered</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>carried</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs><em>also</em> , and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2934'>hid</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='587'>We</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>well</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of good <strongs hebrew='1309'>tidings</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs>hold our <strongs hebrew='2814'>peace</strongs>: if we <strongs hebrew='2442'>tarry</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs><strongs hebrew='216'>light</strongs>, some <strongs hebrew='5771'>mischief</strongs>will come <strongs hebrew='4672'>upon</strongs>us: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='1980'>come</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>So they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porter</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, We <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, neither <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs><strongs hebrew='631'>tied</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs><strongs hebrew='631'>tied</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>were</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And he <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><em>it</em> to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='6441'>within</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>show</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to us. They <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='7457'>hungry</strongs>; therefore are they gone <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>to hide <strongs hebrew='2247'>themselves</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>When</strongs>they come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, we shall <strongs hebrew='8610'>catch</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='2416'>alive</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>get</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4480 5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let <em>some</em> <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7604'>remain</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>in the city, ( <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> as <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>in it: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>I</em> <em>say</em> , they <em>are</em> even as <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israelites</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='8552'>consumed</strongs>:) and let us <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>They <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs><strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>lo</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4392'>full</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='899'>garments</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>had cast <strongs hebrew='7993'>away</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='2648'>haste</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='962'>spoiled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>tents</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>. So a <strongs hebrew='5429'>measure</strongs>of fine <strongs hebrew='5560'>flour</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>sold</em> for a <strongs hebrew='8255'>shekel</strongs>, and two <strongs hebrew='5429'>measures</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8184'>barley</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='8255'>shekel</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6485'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7991'>lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='8172'>leaned</strongs>to have the charge <strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>trod <strongs hebrew='7429'>upon</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>as the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Two <strongs hebrew='5429'>measures</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8184'>barley</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='8255'>shekel</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='5429'>measure</strongs>of fine <strongs hebrew='5560'>flour</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='8255'>shekel</strongs>, shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs>about this <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And that <strongs hebrew='7991'>lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Now, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>if</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>should <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='699'>windows</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, might <strongs hebrew='2088'>such</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, thou shalt <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>it with thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, but shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thereof</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>it fell <strongs hebrew='1961'>out</strongs>unto him: for the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>trod <strongs hebrew='7429'>upon</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='8'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>he had restored to <strongs hebrew='2421'>life</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Arise</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>and thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1481'>sojourn</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wheresoever</strongs>thou canst <strongs hebrew='1481'>sojourn</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='7458'>famine</strongs>; and it shall <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>after the <strongs hebrew='1697'>saying</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>with her <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1481'>sojourned</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='4480 7097'>end</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: and she went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6817'>cry</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='7704'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>talked</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5608'>Tell</strongs>me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the great <strongs hebrew='1419'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5608'>telling</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>he had restored a dead body to <strongs hebrew='2421 *853 4191'>life</strongs>, that, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>he had restored to <strongs hebrew='2421'>life</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6817'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='7704'>land</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1522'>Gehazi</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>is</em> her <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>restored to <strongs hebrew='2421'>life</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='5608'>told</strongs>him. So the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>appointed</strongs>unto her a <strongs hebrew='259'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='5631'>officer</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7725'>Restore</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> hers, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8393'>fruits</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>since the <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>day</strongs>that she <strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1130'>Ben</strongs>-hadad the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2470'>sick</strongs>; and it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 2008'>hither</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>by</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Shall I <strongs hebrew='2421'>recover</strongs>of this <strongs hebrew='4480 2483 2088'>disease</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>So <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>with</strongs>him, even of <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs>good <strongs hebrew='2898'>thing</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='4853'>burden</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='1130'>Ben</strongs>-hadad <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Shall I <strongs hebrew='2421'>recover</strongs>of this <strongs hebrew='4480 2483 2088'>disease</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>unto him, Thou mayest certainly <strongs hebrew='2421 2421'>recover</strongs>: howbeit the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he shall surely <strongs hebrew='4191 4191'>die</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>settled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>countenance</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>steadfastly</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='954'>ashamed</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4069'>Why</strongs><strongs hebrew='1058'>weepeth</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>Because</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou wilt <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: their <strongs hebrew='4013'>strongholds</strongs>wilt thou <strongs hebrew='7971'>set</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>, and their young <strongs hebrew='970'>men</strongs>wilt thou <strongs hebrew='2026'>slay</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and wilt <strongs hebrew='7376'>dash</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5768'>children</strongs>, and rip <strongs hebrew='1234'>up</strongs>their women with <strongs hebrew='2030'>child</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>But</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>, <em>is</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3611'>dog</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he should <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs>me that thou <em>shalt</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>So he <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>; who <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>to thee? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, He <strongs hebrew='559'>told</strongs>me <em>that</em> thou shouldest surely <strongs hebrew='2421 2421'>recover</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>a thick <strongs hebrew='4346'>cloth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2881'>dipped</strongs><em>it</em> in <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6566'>spread</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>, so that he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And in the <strongs hebrew='2568'>fifth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><em>being</em> then <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='7970'>Thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>he when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Yet the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4616'>sake</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='559'>promised</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>always</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5216'>light</strongs>, <em>and</em> to his <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>In his <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs><strongs hebrew='6586'>revolted</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>themselves. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>So <strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6811'>Zair</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him: and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>rose</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='123'>Edomites</strongs>which compassed him <strongs hebrew='5437 413'>about</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>into their <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Yet <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs><strongs hebrew='6586'>revolted</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='3841'>Libnah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6586'>revolted</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>In the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>begin to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs hebrew='8147'>Two</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6018'>Omri</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, as <em>did</em> the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead; and the <strongs hebrew='761'>Syrians</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>wounded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='7495'>healed</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4347'>wounds</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='761'>Syrians</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5221'>given</strongs>him at <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, when he <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2470'>sick</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='9'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Gird <strongs hebrew='2296'>up</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4975'>loins</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6378'>box</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead: </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And when thou <strongs hebrew='935'>comest</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>, look <strongs hebrew='7200'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5250'>Nimshi</strongs>, and go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, and make him arise <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8432'>among</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>carry</strongs>him to an <strongs hebrew='2315'>inner</strongs><strongs hebrew='2315'>chamber</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6378'>box</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3332'>pour</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. Then <strongs hebrew='6605'>open</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>door</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5127'>flee</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2442'>tarry</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>So the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>, <em>even</em> the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And when he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3427'>sitting</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I have an <strongs hebrew='1697'>errand</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee, O <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>Unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>which</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>us? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>To</strongs>thee, O <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='3332'>poured</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, that I may <strongs hebrew='5358'>avenge</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, at the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='348'>Jezebel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>For the <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='6'>perish</strongs>: and I will cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>him that <strongs hebrew='8366'>pisseth</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>, and him that is shut <strongs hebrew='6113'>up</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>like the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, and like the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1201'>Baasha</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='281'>Ahijah</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='3611'>dogs</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='348'>Jezebel</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2506'>portion</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>, and <em>there</em> <em>shall</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6912'>bury</strongs><em>her</em> . And he <strongs hebrew='6605'>opened</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>door</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Then <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>: and <em>one</em> <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <em>Is</em> all <strongs hebrew='7965'>well</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='4069'>wherefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7696'>mad</strongs><em>fellow</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='859'>Ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7879'>communication</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>It</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='8267'>false</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2063'>Thus</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2063'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then they <strongs hebrew='4116'>hasted</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>garment</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1634'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4609'>stairs</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8628'>blew</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpets</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>So <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5250'>Nimshi</strongs><strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>. (Now <strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs><strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>because</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>But <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3088'>Joram</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='7495'>healed</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4347'>wounds</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='761'>Syrians</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5221'>given</strongs>him, when he <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>.) And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='3426'>be</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='5315'>minds</strongs>, <em>then</em> let <strongs hebrew='408'>none</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><em>nor</em> <strongs hebrew='6412'>escape</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs><em>it</em> in <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>So <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>rode in a <strongs hebrew='7392'>chariot</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>was come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And there <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6822'>watchman</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4026'>tower</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='7200'>spied</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8229'>company</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>as he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8229'>company</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3088'>Joram</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7395'>horseman</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs>them, and let him <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='18'>So there <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>one on <strongs hebrew='7392 5483'>horseback</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>hast thou to do with <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='5437'>turn</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='413 310'>behind</strongs>me. And the <strongs hebrew='6822'>watchman</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='4397'>messenger</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>them</strongs>, but he cometh not <strongs hebrew='7725 3808'>again</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Then he sent <strongs hebrew='7971'>out</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='7392 5483'>horseback</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>hast thou to do with <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='5437'>turn</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='413 310'>behind</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='6822'>watchman</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, He <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>even</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, and cometh not <strongs hebrew='7725 3808'>again</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4491'>driving</strongs><em>is</em> like the <strongs hebrew='4491'>driving</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5250'>Nimshi</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='5090'>driveth</strongs><strongs hebrew='7697'>furiously</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='3088'>Joram</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Make <strongs hebrew='631'>ready</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs>was made <strongs hebrew='631'>ready</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3088'>Joram</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='376'>each</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs>, and they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='7122'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4672'>met</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='2513'>portion</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5022'>Naboth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3158'>Jezreelite</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='3088'>Joram</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>, so long <strongs hebrew='5704'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2183'>whoredoms</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs><strongs hebrew='348'>Jezebel</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='3785'>witchcrafts</strongs><em>are</em> <em>so</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='3088'>Joram</strongs><strongs hebrew='2015'>turned</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>, <em>There</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='4820'>treachery</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>drew a <strongs hebrew='7198'>bow</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='4390'>full</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>strength</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2220'>arms</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2678'>arrow</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>at his <strongs hebrew='4480 3820'>heart</strongs>, and he sunk <strongs hebrew='3766'>down</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><em>Jehu</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='920'>Bidkar</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7991'>captain</strongs>, Take <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='2513'>portion</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5022'>Naboth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3158'>Jezreelite</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2142'>remember</strongs>how that, when <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7392'>rode</strongs><strongs hebrew='6776'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5375'>laid</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4853'>burden</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him; </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs hebrew='518 3808'>Surely</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='570'>yesterday</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5022'>Naboth</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5002'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and I will <strongs hebrew='7999'>requite</strongs>thee in <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='2513'>plat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5002'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='5375'>take</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs>him into the <strongs hebrew='2513'>plat</strongs><em>of</em> <em>ground</em> , according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>But when <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><em>this</em> , he <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1588'>garden</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>followed</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5221'>Smite</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariot</strongs>. <em>And</em> <em>they</em> <em>did</em> <em>so</em> at the going <strongs hebrew='4608'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1483'>Gur</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='2991'>Ibleam</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4023'>Megiddo</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>carried him in a <strongs hebrew='7392 *853'>chariot</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in his <strongs hebrew='6900'>sepulcher</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And in the <strongs hebrew='259 6240'>eleventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>began <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And when <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='348'>Jezebel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>of</em> <em>it</em> ; and she <strongs hebrew='7760 6320'>painted</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='5869'>face</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3190'>tired</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and looked <strongs hebrew='8259'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>at</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2474'>window</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And as <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>entered <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Had</em> <strongs hebrew='2174'>Zimri</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And he lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2474'>window</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>is</em> on my <strongs hebrew='854'>side</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs>? And there looked <strongs hebrew='8259'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><em>or</em> <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='5631'>eunuchs</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Throw her <strongs hebrew='8058'>down</strongs>. So they threw her <strongs hebrew='8058'>down</strongs>: and <em>some</em> of her <strongs hebrew='4480 1818'>blood</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5137'>sprinkled</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>: and he trod her under <strongs hebrew='7429'>foot</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And when he was come <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, he did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Go, <strongs hebrew='6485'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='779'>cursed</strongs><em>woman</em> , and <strongs hebrew='6912'>bury</strongs>her: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6912'>bury</strongs>her: but they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>no <strongs hebrew='3808'>more</strongs>of her <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>than</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1538'>skull</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3709'>palms</strongs>of <em>her</em> <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>Wherefore they came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>This</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8664'>Tishbite</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, In the <strongs hebrew='2506'>portion</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3611'>dogs</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='348'>Jezebel</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='37'>And the <strongs hebrew='5038'>carcass</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='348'>Jezebel</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='1828'>dung</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2506'>portion</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>; <em>so</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>they shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2063'>This</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='348'>Jezebel</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='10'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>rulers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>them that brought <strongs hebrew='539'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>'s <em>children</em> , <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>as soon as <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>you, seeing your <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>you, and <em>there</em> <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='4013'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>also, and <strongs hebrew='5402'>armor</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Look even <strongs hebrew='7200'>out</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2896'>best</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3477'>meetest</strongs>of your master's <strongs hebrew='4480 1121 113'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>But they were <strongs hebrew='3966 3966'>exceedingly</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='349'>how</strongs>then shall <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>also, and the bringers <strongs hebrew='539'>up</strongs><em>of</em> <em>the</em> <em>children</em> , <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='587'>We</strongs><em>are</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and will <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='559 413'>bid</strongs>us; we will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>make any <strongs hebrew='4427 376'>king</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>thou <em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Then he <strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5612'>letter</strongs>the second <strongs hebrew='8145'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><em>be</em> mine, and <em>if</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs>unto my <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>heads</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>. Now the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, <em>being</em> <strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>persons</strongs>, <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the great <strongs hebrew='1419'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, which brought them <strongs hebrew='1431 *853'>up</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='5612'>letter</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>them, that they <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7819'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='7657'>seventy</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>persons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='7218'>heads</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1731'>baskets</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971 413'>sent</strongs>him <em>them</em> to <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4397'>messenger</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, They have <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>heads</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7760'>Lay</strongs>ye them in <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='6652'>heaps</strongs>at the entering <strongs hebrew='6607'>in</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, that he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>Ye</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='6662'>righteous</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>him: but <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='3045'>Know</strongs><strongs hebrew='645'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>there shall <strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nothing</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>concerning</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>: for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>So <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7604'>remained</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his great <strongs hebrew='1419'>men</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='3045'>kinsfolk</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='1115'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='8300'>remaining</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And he <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='935'>departed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. <em>And</em> as <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> at the shearing <strongs hebrew='1044'>house</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>met</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>? And they <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='587'>We</strongs><em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>; and we go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7965'>salute</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1377'>queen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8610'>Take</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='2416'>alive</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='8610'>took</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='2416'>alive</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7819'>slew</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='413'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='953'>pit</strongs>of the shearing <strongs hebrew='1044'>house</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='376'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And when he was <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>, he lighted <strongs hebrew='4672'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3082'>Jehonadab</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7394'>Rechab</strongs><em>coming</em> to <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs>him: and he <strongs hebrew='1288'>saluted</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3426'>Is</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs><strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='3082'>Jehonadab</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, It <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs>. If it <strongs hebrew='3426'>be</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><em>me</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><em>him</em> his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>; and he took him <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariot</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='7068'>zeal</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. So they made him <strongs hebrew='7392'>ride</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And when he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7604'>remained</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroyed</strongs>him, according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>saying</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='452'>Elijah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='6908'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>together, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs><strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4592'>little</strongs>; <em>but</em> <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7235'>much</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5647'>servants</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>; let <strongs hebrew='376 408'>none</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='6485'>wanting</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I have a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs><em>to</em> <em>do</em> to <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3605 834'>whosoever</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='6485'>wanting</strongs>, he shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2421'>live</strongs>. But <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>it</em> in <strongs hebrew='6122'>subtlety</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='4616'>intent</strongs>that he might <strongs hebrew='6'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5647'>worshipers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6942'>Proclaim</strongs>a solemn <strongs hebrew='6116'>assembly</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='7121'>proclaimed</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>through <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5647'>worshipers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, so that there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4390'>full</strongs>from one <strongs hebrew='6310'>end</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6310'>another</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4458'>vestry</strongs>, Bring <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3830'>vestments</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5647'>worshipers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>. And he brought them <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='4403'>vestments</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3082'>Jehonadab</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7394'>Rechab</strongs>, into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5647'>worshipers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2664'>Search</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>look</strongs><strongs hebrew='6435'>that</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='3426'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>you none of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5650'>servants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5647'>worshipers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And when they went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>offer</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifices</strongs>and burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='2351'>without</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>If</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='4422'>escape</strongs>, <em>he</em> <em>that</em> <em>letteth</em> <em>him</em> <em>go</em> , his <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='8478'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>of him. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as soon as he had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6213'>offering</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs>and to the <strongs hebrew='7991'>captains</strongs>, Go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='5221'>slay</strongs>them; let <strongs hebrew='376 408'>none</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='7991'>captains</strongs>cast <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='7993'>out</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And they brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4676'>images</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And they broke <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4676'>image</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, and broke <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>made</strongs>it a draught <strongs hebrew='4163'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Thus <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='8045'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'><strongs hebrew='7535'>Howbeit</strongs><em>from</em> the <strongs hebrew='2399'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>after</strongs>them, <em>to</em> <em>wit</em> , the <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='5695'>calves</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3282 834'>Because</strongs>thou hast done <strongs hebrew='2895'>well</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6213'>executing</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in mine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, <em>and</em> hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in mine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>, thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7243'>fourth</strongs><em>generation</em> shall <strongs hebrew='3427'>sit</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>But <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>took no <strongs hebrew='8104 3808'>heed</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>: for he <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>In <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to cut Israel <strongs hebrew='7096 3478'>short</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coasts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='33'><strongs hebrew='4480'>From</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs><strongs hebrew='4217 8121'>eastward</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1425'>Gadites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7206'>Reubenites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4520'>Manassites</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 6177'>Aroer</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5158'>river</strongs><strongs hebrew='769'>Arnon</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1316'>Bashan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1369'>might</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And the <strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='11'>
            <verse number='1'>And when <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4467'>royal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>But <strongs hebrew='3089'>Jehosheba</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='269'>sister</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1589'>stole</strongs>him from <strongs hebrew='4480 8432'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><em>which</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5641'>hid</strongs>him, <em>even</em> him and his <strongs hebrew='3243'>nurse</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='2315 4296'>bedchamber</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>, so that he was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And he <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='854'>her</strongs><strongs hebrew='2244'>hid</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs><strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetched</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>rulers</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='3746'>captains</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>with them, and took an <strongs hebrew='7650'>oath</strongs>of them in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>ye shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>; A third <strongs hebrew='7992'>part</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>you that <strongs hebrew='935'>enter</strongs>in on the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbath</strongs>shall even be <strongs hebrew='8104'>keepers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4931'>watch</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And a third <strongs hebrew='7992'>part</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> at the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5495'>Sur</strongs>; and a third <strongs hebrew='7992'>part</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>behind</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs>: so shall ye <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4931'>watch</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, that it be not broken <strongs hebrew='4535'>down</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>parts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>you that go <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbath</strongs>, even they shall <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4931'>watch</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>about</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And ye shall <strongs hebrew='5362 5921'>compass</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='3627'>weapons</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: and he that <strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>within</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7713'>ranges</strongs>, let him be <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>as he goeth <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>and as he cometh <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>over the <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>things</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that were to come <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbath</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them that should go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And to the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>did the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2595'>spears</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7982'>shields</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='3627'>weapons</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, round <strongs hebrew='5439 5921'>about</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, from the right <strongs hebrew='4480 3802 3233'>corner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>temple</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8042'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='3802'>corner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>temple</strongs>, <em>along</em> by the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>temple</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And he brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5145'>crown</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him, and <em>gave</em> <em>him</em> the <strongs hebrew='5715'>testimony</strongs>; and they made him <strongs hebrew='4427 *853'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>him; and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>clapped</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, God <strongs hebrew='2421'>save</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And when <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs><em>and</em> of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And when she <strongs hebrew='7200'>looked</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillar</strongs>, as the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs><em>was</em> , and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpeters</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='8056'>rejoiced</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8628'>blew</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7195'>Treason</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7195'>Treason</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>But <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6485'>officers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, Have her <strongs hebrew='3318 *853'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413 4480 1004'>without</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7713'>ranges</strongs>: and him that <strongs hebrew='935 310'>followeth</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='4191'>kill</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let her <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And they <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>on her; and she <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>by the which the <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs><strongs hebrew='3996'>came</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>was she <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs><strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, that they should <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>also and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, and broke it <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs>; his <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='6754'>images</strongs>broke they in <strongs hebrew='7665'>pieces</strongs><strongs hebrew='3190'>thoroughly</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4977'>Mattan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='6486'>officers</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>rulers</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3746'>captains</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>; and they brought <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoiced</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>was in <strongs hebrew='8252'>quiet</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs><em>beside</em> the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='7651'>Seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='12'>
            <verse number='1'>In the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs><strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>he in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6645'>Zibiah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 884'>Beer</strongs>-sheba. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs><strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='3384'>instructed</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='7535'>But</strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>taken <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>still</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs>and burnt <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>in the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>of the dedicated <strongs hebrew='6944'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>even</em> the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>of every one that <strongs hebrew='5674'>passeth</strongs><em>the</em> <em>account</em> , the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>that every <strongs hebrew='5315'>man</strongs>is set <strongs hebrew='6187'>at</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Let the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><em>it</em> to them, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4378'>acquaintance</strongs>: and let <strongs hebrew='1992'>them</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388'>repair</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='919'>breaches</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605 834 8033'>wheresoever</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='919'>breach</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>But it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so,</em> <em>that</em> in the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twentieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388'>repaired</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='919'>breaches</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Then <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and the <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='4069'>Why</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388'>repair</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='919'>breaches</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='3947'>receive</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>no</strongs><em>more</em> <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='4378'>acquaintance</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>it for the <strongs hebrew='919'>breaches</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='225'>consented</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3947'>receive</strongs><strongs hebrew='1115'>no</strongs><em>more</em> <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1115'>neither</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2388'>repair</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='919'>breaches</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>But <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='727'>chest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5344'>bored</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2356'>hole</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1817'>lid</strongs>of it, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='681'>beside</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, on the right <strongs hebrew='3225'>side</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5592'>door</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>therein</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so</em> , when they <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='727'>chest</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1419'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and they put up in <strongs hebrew='6696'>bags</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4487'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>that was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And they <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>, being <strongs hebrew='8505'>told</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of them that <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>, that had the <strongs hebrew='6485'>oversight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and they laid it <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='2796 6086'>carpenters</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1129'>builders</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And to <strongs hebrew='1443'>masons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2672'>hewers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='7069'>buy</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>timber</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4274'>hewed</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2388'>repair</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='919'>breaches</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>was laid <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2394'>repair</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='389'>Howbeit</strongs>there were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5592'>bowls</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4212'>snuffers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4219'>basins</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='3588'>But</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>that to the <strongs hebrew='6213 4399'>workmen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>repaired</strongs>therewith <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Moreover they <strongs hebrew='2803'>reckoned</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='5414'>bestowed</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='6213 4399'>workmen</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>dealt</strongs><strongs hebrew='530'>faithfully</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>The <strongs hebrew='817'>trespass</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs>it: and <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the hallowed <strongs hebrew='6944'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, had <strongs hebrew='6942'>dedicated</strongs>, and his own hallowed <strongs hebrew='6944'>things</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><em>it</em> to <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>: and he went <strongs hebrew='5927'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7194'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7195'>conspiracy</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4407'>Millo</strongs>, which goeth <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5538'>Silla</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>For <strongs hebrew='3108'>Jozachar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8100'>Shimeath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3075'>Jehozabad</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7763'>Shomer</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him, and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='13'>
            <verse number='1'>In the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twentieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>reigned</em> <strongs hebrew='7651 6240'>seventeen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>followed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>; he <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>therefrom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>kindled</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, and into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1130'>Ben</strongs>-hadad the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='2470'>besought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440 3068'>LORD</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3906'>oppression</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='3905'>oppressed</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>(And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3467'>savior</strongs>, so that they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='8543 8032'>formerly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs hebrew='389'>Nevertheless</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 2403'>sins</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>, <em>but</em> <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>therein: and there <strongs hebrew='5975'>remained</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>.) </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='3588 3808'>Neither</strongs>did he <strongs hebrew='7604'>leave</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='7273'>footmen</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6'>destroyed</strongs>them, and had <strongs hebrew='7760'>made</strongs>them like the <strongs hebrew='6083'>dust</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='1758'>threshing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1369'>might</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>In the <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>began <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>reigned</em> <strongs hebrew='8337 6240'>sixteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; he <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>: <em>but</em> he <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>therein. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1369'>might</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wherewith</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Now <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>was fallen <strongs hebrew='2470'>sick</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2483'>sickness</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whereof</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, O my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs><strongs hebrew='7198'>bow</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrows</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7198'>bow</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrows</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7392'>Put</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7198'>bow</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='7392'>put</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><em>upon</em> <em>it</em> : and <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6605'>Open</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2474'>window</strongs><strongs hebrew='6924'>eastward</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='6605'>opened</strongs><em>it</em> . Then <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3384'>Shoot</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='3384'>shot</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrow</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8668'>deliverance</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrow</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8668'>deliverance</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>: for thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='663'>Aphek</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>thou have <strongs hebrew='3615'>consumed</strongs><em>them</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrows</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><em>them</em> . And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5221'>Smite</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969 6471'>thrice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stayed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7107'>wroth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thou shouldest have <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>times</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='227'>then</strongs>hadst thou <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>thou hadst <strongs hebrew='3615'>consumed</strongs><em>it</em> : whereas <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><em>but</em> <strongs hebrew='7969 6471'>thrice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him. And the <strongs hebrew='1416'>bands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moabites</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>invaded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>at the coming <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6912'>burying</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, that, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='7200'>spied</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1416'>band</strongs><em>of</em> <em>men</em> ; and they <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulcher</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>: and when the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>was let <strongs hebrew='1980'>down</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5060'>touched</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6106'>bones</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='477'>Elisha</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='2421'>revived</strongs>, and stood <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>But <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='3905'>oppressed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2603'>gracious</strongs>unto them, and had compassion <strongs hebrew='7355'>on</strongs>them, and had <strongs hebrew='6437'>respect</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='4616'>because</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='85'>Abraham</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3327'>Isaac</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3290'>Jacob</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs>he them <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>presence</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>yet</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>So <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1130'>Ben</strongs>-hadad his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1130'>Ben</strongs>-hadad the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='7969'>Three</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>times</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>beat</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>recovered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='14'>
            <verse number='1'>In the <strongs hebrew='8147'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>He <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3086'>Jehoaddan</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7535'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>like <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>according to all <strongs hebrew='3605'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='7535'>Howbeit</strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>taken <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>: as <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>and burnt <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>on the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as soon <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2388'>confirmed</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>which had <strongs hebrew='5221'>slain</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>But the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5221'>murderers</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>: according unto that which is <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be put to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>be put to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>shall be put to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>for his own <strongs hebrew='2399'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4417'>salt</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8610'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5554'>Selah</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of it <strongs hebrew='3371'>Joktheel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, let us look one <strongs hebrew='7200'>another</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='2336'>thistle</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='730'>cedar</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>to my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>: and there passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>by</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7704'>wild</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>beast</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs>, and trod <strongs hebrew='7429'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2336'>thistle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Thou hast indeed <strongs hebrew='5221 5221'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>, and thine <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>hath lifted thee <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3513'>glory</strongs><em>of</em> <em>this</em> , and <strongs hebrew='3427'>tarry</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1004'>home</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>shouldest thou <strongs hebrew='1624'>meddle</strongs>to <em>thy</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>hurt</strongs>, that thou shouldest <strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee? </verse>
            <verse number='11'>But <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>. Therefore <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>looked one <strongs hebrew='7200'>another</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>belongeth</em> to <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>was put to the <strongs hebrew='5062'>worse</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to their <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8610'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>, at <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and broke <strongs hebrew='6555'>down</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6438'>corner</strongs><strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1121 8594'>hostages</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1369'>might</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='2421'>lived</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3060'>Jehoash</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568 6240'>fifteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Now they <strongs hebrew='7194'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7195'>conspiracy</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3923'>Lachish</strongs>; but they <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='3923'>Lachish</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And they <strongs hebrew='5375'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>: and he was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8337 6240'>sixteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>, and made him <strongs hebrew='4427 *853'>king</strongs>instead <strongs hebrew='8478'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='359'>Elath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>restored</strongs>it to <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, after <strongs hebrew='310'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>In the <strongs hebrew='2568 6240'>fifteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>reigned</em> <strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>restored</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coast</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 935'>entering</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6160'>plain</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='3124'>Jonah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='573'>Amittai</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> of <strongs hebrew='4480 1662'>Gath</strongs>-hepher. </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6040'>affliction</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>that</em> <em>it</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='4784'>bitter</strongs>: for <em>there</em> <em>was</em> not <strongs hebrew='657'>any</strongs>shut <strongs hebrew='6113'>up</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='657'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='369'>nor</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='5826'>helper</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>that he would blot <strongs hebrew='4229'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>under</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>: but he <strongs hebrew='3467'>saved</strongs>them by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1369'>might</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3898'>warred</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7725'>recovered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>belonged</em> to <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, are <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zachariah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='15'>
            <verse number='1'>In the <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>began <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='8334 6240'>Sixteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>he when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3203'>Jecholiah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='7535'>Save</strongs>that the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs>and burnt <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>still</strongs>on the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5060'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, so that he <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6879'>leper</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='2669'>several</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8199'>judging</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='7'>So <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>In the <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8083'>eighth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zachariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs><strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6905'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zachariah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='1931'>This</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3427'>sit</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='7243'>fourth</strongs><em>generation</em> . And <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirtieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3117'>full</strongs><strongs hebrew='3391'>month</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>For <strongs hebrew='4505'>Menahem</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1424'>Gadi</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8656'>Tirzah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='7195'>conspiracy</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7194'>made</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='4505'>Menahem</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8607'>Tiphsah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> therein, and the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coasts</strongs>thereof from <strongs hebrew='4480 8656'>Tirzah</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6605'>opened</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>to</em> <em>him</em> , therefore he <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><em>it;</em> <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the women therein that were with <strongs hebrew='2030'>child</strongs>he ripped <strongs hebrew='1234'>up</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>In the <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirtieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>began <strongs hebrew='4505'>Menahem</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1424'>Gadi</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>reigned</em> <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><em>And</em> <strongs hebrew='6322'>Pul</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4505'>Menahem</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='6322'>Pul</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, that his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>might <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='2388'>confirm</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='4505'>Menahem</strongs><strongs hebrew='3318'>exacted</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>wealth</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='259'>each</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8255'>shekels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>turned <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4505'>Menahem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='4505'>Menahem</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='6494'>Pekahiah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>In the <strongs hebrew='2572'>fiftieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6494'>Pekahiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4505'>Menahem</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>reigned</em> two <strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>But <strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7425'>Remaliah</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='7991'>captain</strongs>of his, <strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='759'>palace</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='709'>Argob</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>and</strongs><strongs hebrew='745'>Arieh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121 1569'>Gileadites</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>killed</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>room</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6494'>Pekahiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>In the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2572'>fiftieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7425'>Remaliah</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>reigned</em> <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>In the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='8407'>Tiglathpileser</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5859'>Ijon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='62'>Abel</strongs>-beth-maachah, and <strongs hebrew='3239'>Janoah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6943'>Kedesh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2674'>Hazor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1551'>Galilee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5321'>Naphtali</strongs>, and carried them <strongs hebrew='1540'>captive</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And <strongs hebrew='1954'>Hoshea</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='425'>Elah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7194'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7195'>conspiracy</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7425'>Remaliah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='6242'>twentieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>In the <strongs hebrew='8147'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7425'>Remaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>began <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'><strongs hebrew='2568'>Five</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>he when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337 6240'>sixteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3388'>Jerusha</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6659'>Zadok</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'><strongs hebrew='7535'>Howbeit</strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs>and burned <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>still</strongs>in the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5945'>higher</strongs><strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>, and all <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='37'>In <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7526'>Rezin</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7425'>Remaliah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='16'>
            <verse number='1'>In the <strongs hebrew='7651 6240'>seventeenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7425'>Remaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='6242'>Twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337 6240'>sixteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, like <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>But he <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>yea</strongs>, and made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>to pass <strongs hebrew='5674'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834 *853'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>cast <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs>and burnt <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>in the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1389'>hills</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='7488'>green</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>tree</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='7526'>Rezin</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7425'>Remaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='6696 5921'>besieged</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>overcome</strongs><em>him</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='6'>At <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='7526'>Rezin</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>recovered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='359'>Elath</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5394'>drove</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 359'>Elath</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='726'>Syrians</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='359'>Elath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>So <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8407'>Tiglathpileser</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>am</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>and thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>: come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>me out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3709'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, and out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3709'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, which rise <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>that was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><em>it</em> <em>for</em> a <strongs hebrew='7810'>present</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him: for the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8610'>took</strongs>it, and carried <em>the people of</em> it <strongs hebrew='1540'>captive</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7024'>Kir</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='7526'>Rezin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7122'>meet</strongs><strongs hebrew='8407'>Tiglathpileser</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> at <strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='223'>Urijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1823'>fashion</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8403'>pattern</strongs>of it, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4639'>workmanship</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='223'>Urijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1834'>Damascus</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><strongs hebrew='223'>Urijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1834'>Damascus</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1834'>Damascus</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7126'>approached</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>thereon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he <strongs hebrew='6999'>burnt</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>and his meat <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5258'>poured</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his drink <strongs hebrew='5262'>offering</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2236'>sprinkled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='834'>his</strongs>peace <strongs hebrew='8002'>offerings</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='7126'>brought</strongs>also the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brazen</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>forefront</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 996'>between</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6828'>north</strongs><strongs hebrew='3409'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='223'>Urijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>Upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs><strongs hebrew='6999'>burn</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6153'>evening</strongs>meat <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>sacrifice</strongs>, and his meat <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>, with the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and their meat <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>, and their drink <strongs hebrew='5262'>offerings</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='2236'>sprinkle</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>of the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brazen</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>for me to <strongs hebrew='1239'>inquire</strongs><em>by</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Thus <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='223'>Urijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>cut <strongs hebrew='7112'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4526'>borders</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4350'>bases</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3595'>laver</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>them; and took <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brazen</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>it, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4837'>pavement</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='4329'>covert</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbath</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3996'>entry</strongs><strongs hebrew='2435'>without</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5437'>turned</strongs>he from the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='17'>
            <verse number='1'>In the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>began <strongs hebrew='1954'>Hoshea</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='425'>Elah</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7535'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>as the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='5921'>Against</strongs>him came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='8022'>Shalmaneser</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1954'>Hoshea</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>gave</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4503'>presents</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='7195'>conspiracy</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1954'>Hoshea</strongs>: for he had <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='5471'>So</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, as <em>he</em> <em>had</em> <em>done</em> <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>: therefore the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>shut him <strongs hebrew='6113'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='1004 3608'>prison</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6696 5921'>besieged</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>In the <strongs hebrew='8671'>ninth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1954'>Hoshea</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and carried Israel <strongs hebrew='1540 *853 3478'>away</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>placed</strongs>them in <strongs hebrew='2477'>Halah</strongs>and in <strongs hebrew='2249'>Habor</strongs><em>by</em> the <strongs hebrew='5104'>river</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1470'>Gozan</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4074'>Medes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>For <em>so</em> it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, which had brought them <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6547'>Pharaoh</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and had <strongs hebrew='3372'>feared</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2708'>statutes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>cast <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='2644'>secretly</strongs><em>those</em> <strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>them high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, from the <strongs hebrew='4480 4026'>tower</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5341'>watchmen</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4013'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And they set them <strongs hebrew='5324'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4676'>images</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='1364'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='1389'>hill</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='7488'>green</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>tree</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>they burnt <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>, as <em>did</em> the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>them; and <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>wicked</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3707'>provoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to anger: </verse>
            <verse number='12'>For they <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='1544'>idols</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whereof</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Yet the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5749'>testified</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and against <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>by</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2374'>seers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7725'>Turn</strongs>ye from your evil <strongs hebrew='4480 1870 7451'>ways</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs><em>and</em> my <strongs hebrew='2708'>statutes</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Notwithstanding they would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='7185'>hardened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6203'>necks</strongs>, like to the <strongs hebrew='6203'>neck</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='539'>believe</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And they <strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2706'>statutes</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5715'>testimonies</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='5749'>testified</strongs>against them; and they <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>followed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1892'>vanity</strongs>, and became <strongs hebrew='1891'>vain</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>them, <em>concerning</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6680'>charged</strongs>them, that they should <strongs hebrew='1115'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>like them. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And they <strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>them molten <strongs hebrew='4541'>images</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5695'>calves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And they caused <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>to pass <strongs hebrew='5674'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7080'>used</strongs><strongs hebrew='7081'>divination</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5172'>enchantments</strongs>, and sold <strongs hebrew='4376'>themselves</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to provoke him to <strongs hebrew='3707'>anger</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Therefore the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was very <strongs hebrew='599 3966'>angry</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs>them out <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>sight</strongs>: there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='7535'>but</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Also</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2708'>statutes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6031'>afflicted</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8154'>spoilers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704 834'>until</strongs>he had cast them <strongs hebrew='7993'>out</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>sight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>; and they made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='5080'>drove</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>following</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and made them <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2401'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>For the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>; they <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>them; </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='5704 834'>Until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>sight</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>. So was <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs>their own <strongs hebrew='127'>land</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><em>men</em> from <strongs hebrew='4480 894'>Babylon</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 3575'>Cuthah</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 5755'>Ava</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 2574'>Hamath</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='5617'>Sepharvaim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>placed</strongs><em>them</em> in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>instead</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='3423'>possessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <em>so</em> it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='8462'>beginning</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelling</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, <em>that</em> they <strongs hebrew='3372'>feared</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: therefore the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='738'>lions</strongs>among them, which <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><em>some</em> of them. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Wherefore they <strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1540'>removed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>placed</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: therefore he hath <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='738'>lions</strongs>among them, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='834'>because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Carry</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='1540'>brought</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>; and let them <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, and let him <strongs hebrew='3384'>teach</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Then <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>they had carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8111'>Samaria</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3384'>taught</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='349'>how</strongs>they should <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Howbeit every <strongs hebrew='1471 1471'>nation</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of their own, and <strongs hebrew='5117'>put</strongs><em>them</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs>of the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8118'>Samaritans</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='1471 1471'>nation</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>wherein</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5524'>Succothbenoth</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3575'>Cuth</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5370'>Nergal</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='807'>Ashima</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And the <strongs hebrew='5761'>Avites</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='5026'>Nibhaz</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8662'>Tartak</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5617'>Sepharvites</strongs><strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='152'>Adrammelech</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6048'>Anammelech</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5617'>Sepharvaim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>So they <strongs hebrew='1961 3372'>feared</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>unto themselves of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7098'>lowest</strongs>of them <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='6213'>sacrificed</strongs>for them in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs>of the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>They <strongs hebrew='1961 3372'>feared</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961 5647'>served</strongs>their own <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, after the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 *853'>whom</strongs>they carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'><strongs hebrew='5704'>Unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>after the <strongs hebrew='7223'>former</strongs><strongs hebrew='4941'>manners</strongs>: they <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='369'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>they after their <strongs hebrew='2708'>statutes</strongs>, or after their <strongs hebrew='4941'>ordinances</strongs>, or after the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3290'>Jacob</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7760 8034'>named</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='35'><strongs hebrew='854'>With</strongs>whom the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6680'>charged</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs>bow <strongs hebrew='7812'>yourselves</strongs>to them, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>to them: </verse>
            <verse number='36'><strongs hebrew='3588 518'>But</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>brought you <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>power</strongs>and a stretched <strongs hebrew='5186'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='2220'>arm</strongs>, him shall ye <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs>, and him shall ye <strongs hebrew='7812'>worship</strongs>, and to him shall ye do <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>And the <strongs hebrew='2706'>statutes</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4941'>ordinances</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs>for you, ye shall <strongs hebrew='8104'>observe</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>forevermore</strongs>; and ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>you ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7911'>forget</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'><strongs hebrew='3588 518'>But</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>ye shall <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>you out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>Howbeit they did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>after their <strongs hebrew='7223'>former</strongs><strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='41'>So <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961 3372'>feared</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs>their graven <strongs hebrew='6456'>images</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, so <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='18'>
            <verse number='1'>Now it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7969'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1954'>Hoshea</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='425'>Elah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='6242'>Twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>he when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. His <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>also <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='21'>Abi</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zachariah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7665'>broke</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4676'>images</strongs>, and cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>, and broke in <strongs hebrew='3807'>pieces</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brazen</strongs><strongs hebrew='5175'>serpent</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>did</strongs>burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>to it: and he <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='5180'>Nehushtan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>He <strongs hebrew='982'>trusted</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; so that <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>none</strongs>like <strongs hebrew='3644'>him</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, nor <em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>For he <strongs hebrew='1692'>cleaved</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>following</strongs>him, but <strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him; <em>and</em> he <strongs hebrew='7919'>prospered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 834'>whithersoever</strongs>he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='4775'>rebelled</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='5804'>Gaza</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1366'>borders</strongs>thereof, from the <strongs hebrew='4480 4026'>tower</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5341'>watchmen</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4013'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7243'>fourth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1954'>Hoshea</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='425'>Elah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='8022'>Shalmaneser</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6696 5921'>besieged</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And at the <strongs hebrew='4480 7097'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs>it: <em>even</em> in the <strongs hebrew='8337'>sixth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='8672'>ninth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1954'>Hoshea</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>did carry <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5148'>put</strongs>them in <strongs hebrew='2477'>Halah</strongs>and in <strongs hebrew='2249'>Habor</strongs><em>by</em> the <strongs hebrew='5104'>river</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1470'>Gozan</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4074'>Medes</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='5921 834'>Because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='8085'>obeyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='5674'>transgressed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>, and would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><em>them</em> , <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><em>them</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Now in the <strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='5576'>Sennacherib</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1219'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8610'>took</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3923'>Lachish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='2398'>offended</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>me: <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='5414'>puttest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>me will I <strongs hebrew='5375'>bear</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>that was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>At <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>cut <strongs hebrew='7112'>off</strongs><em>the</em> <em>gold</em> <em>from</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <em>from</em> the <strongs hebrew='547'>pillars</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6823'>overlaid</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>it to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8661'>Tartan</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7249'>Rabsaris</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7262'>Rab</strongs>-shakeh <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='3923'>Lachish</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='3515'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2426'>host</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And they went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And when they were come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='8585'>conduit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5945'>upper</strongs><strongs hebrew='1295'>pool</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4546'>highway</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3526'>fuller</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And when they had <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, there came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='471'>Eliakim</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7644'>Shebna</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3098'>Joah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2142'>recorder</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='7262'>Rab</strongs>-shakeh <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='559'>Speak</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='986'>confidence</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='982'>trustest</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Thou <strongs hebrew='559'>sayest</strongs>, ( <strongs hebrew='389'>but</strongs><em>they</em> <em>are</em> <em>but</em> <strongs hebrew='8193'>vain</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>,) <em>I</em> <em>have</em> <strongs hebrew='6098'>counsel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1369'>strength</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs>dost thou <strongs hebrew='982'>trust</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='4775'>rebellest</strongs>against me? </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, thou <strongs hebrew='982'>trustest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4938'>staff</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7533'>bruised</strongs><strongs hebrew='7070'>reed</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>if a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='5564'>lean</strongs>, it will <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='3709'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5344'>pierce</strongs>it: <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='6547'>Pharaoh</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='982'>trust</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>But <strongs hebrew='3588'>if</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me, We <strongs hebrew='982'>trust</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>and whose <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>hath taken <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>, and hath <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='7812'>worship</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, give <strongs hebrew='6149'>pledges</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>to</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, and I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>thee two <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thou be <strongs hebrew='3201'>able</strongs>on thy part to <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='7392'>riders</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='349'>How</strongs>then wilt thou turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='6346'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6996'>least</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and put thy <strongs hebrew='982'>trust</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>and for <strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Am I <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1107'>without</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs>it? The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, Go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='471'>Eliakim</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7644'>Shebna</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3098'>Joah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7262'>Rab</strongs>-shakeh, <strongs hebrew='1696'>Speak</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>in the Syrian <strongs hebrew='762'>language</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>understand</strongs><em>it</em> : and <strongs hebrew='1696'>talk</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us in the Jews' <strongs hebrew='3066'>language</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>But <strongs hebrew='7262'>Rab</strongs>-shakeh <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, Hath my <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee, to <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>? <em>hath</em> <em>he</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>sent</em> <em>me</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>which <strongs hebrew='3427'>sit</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>, that they may <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their own <strongs hebrew='6675'>dung</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their own <strongs hebrew='4325 7272'>piss</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>you? </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Then <strongs hebrew='7262'>Rab</strongs>-shakeh <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>loud</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>in the Jews' <strongs hebrew='3066'>language</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='29'><strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5377'>deceive</strongs>you: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3201'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>you out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='30'><strongs hebrew='408'>Neither</strongs>let <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>make you <strongs hebrew='982 853'>trust</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will surely <strongs hebrew='5337 5337'>deliver</strongs>us, and <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs hebrew='8085'>Hearken</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6213'>Make</strongs><em>an</em> <em>agreement</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me by a <strongs hebrew='1293'>present</strongs>, and come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, and <em>then</em> <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>ye every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of his own <strongs hebrew='1612'>vine</strongs>, and every <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>of his fig <strongs hebrew='8384'>tree</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drink</strongs>ye every <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='953'>cistern</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='32'><strongs hebrew='5704'>Until</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>and take you <strongs hebrew='3947 *853'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>like your own <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1715'>corn</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8492'>wine</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3323'>oil</strongs><strongs hebrew='2132'>olive</strongs>and of <strongs hebrew='1706'>honey</strongs>, that ye may <strongs hebrew='2421'>live</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='5496'>persuadeth</strongs>you, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>Hath <strongs hebrew='376'>any</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs>delivered at <strongs hebrew='5337 5337'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='34'><strongs hebrew='346'>Where</strongs><em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='774'>Arpad</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='346'>where</strongs><em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5617'>Sepharvaim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2012'>Hena</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5755'>Ivah</strongs>? have they <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='35'><strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>are</em> they among <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>countries</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='776'>country</strongs>out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>should <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='36'>But the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>held their <strongs hebrew='2790'>peace</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>was, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6030'>Answer</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>Then <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='471'>Eliakim</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7644'>Shebna</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3098'>Joah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2142'>recorder</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>with <em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs><strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7262'>Rab</strongs>-shakeh. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='19'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>it</em> , that he <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, and covered <strongs hebrew='3680'>himself</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8242'>sackcloth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='471'>Eliakim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7644'>Shebna</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3680'>covered</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8242'>sackcloth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='531'>Amoz</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6869'>trouble</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='8433'>rebuke</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5007'>blasphemy</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4866'>birth</strongs>, and <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs>to bring <strongs hebrew='3205'>forth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>It may <strongs hebrew='194'>be</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7262'>Rab</strongs>-shakeh, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2778'>reproach</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2416'>living</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; and will <strongs hebrew='3198'>reprove</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>: wherefore lift <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs><em>thy</em> <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7611'>remnant</strongs>that are <strongs hebrew='4672'>left</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>So the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, Be not <strongs hebrew='408 3372'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>servants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='1442'>blasphemed</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>send</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7307'>blast</strongs>upon him, and he shall <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8052'>rumor</strongs>, and shall <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>to his own <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>; and I will cause him to <strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>in his own <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>So <strongs hebrew='7262'>Rab</strongs>-shakeh <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>warring</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3841'>Libnah</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='5265'>departed</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3923'>Lachish</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And when he <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='8640'>Tirhakah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3568'>Ethiopia</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, he is come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>against</strongs>thee: he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='559'>speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='982'>trustest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5377'>deceive</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>, by destroying them <strongs hebrew='2763'>utterly</strongs>: and shalt <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Have the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroyed</strongs>; <em>as</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1470'>Gozan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2771'>Haran</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7530'>Rezeph</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5729'>Eden</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='8515'>Thelasar</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='346'>Where</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='774'>Arpad</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5617'>Sepharvaim</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='2012'>Hena</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5755'>Ivah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>received</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>letter</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>read</strongs>it: and <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6566'>spread</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwellest</strongs><em>between</em> the <strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>art the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <em>even</em> thou <strongs hebrew='905'>alone</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdoms</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, bow <strongs hebrew='5186'>down</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='241'>ear</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6491'>open</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5576'>Sennacherib</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='2778'>reproach</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2416'>living</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Of a <strongs hebrew='546'>truth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='2717'>destroyed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And have <strongs hebrew='5414'>cast</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4639'>work</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='120'>men</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6086'>wood</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>: therefore they have <strongs hebrew='6'>destroyed</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, I beseech <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>thou us out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdoms</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <em>even</em> thou <strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Then <strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='531'>Amoz</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>That</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='5576'>Sennacherib</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>concerning</strongs>him; The <strongs hebrew='1330'>virgin</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6726'>Zion</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='959'>despised</strongs>thee, <em>and</em> laughed thee to <strongs hebrew='3932'>scorn</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5128'>shaken</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>at</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>Whom</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='2778'>reproached</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1442'>blasphemed</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='7311'>exalted</strongs><em>thy</em> <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='4791'>high</strongs>? <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6918'>Holy</strongs><em>One</em> of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='3027'>By</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='2778'>reproached</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='136'>Lord</strongs>, and hast <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, With the <strongs hebrew='7230'>multitude</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>am come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4791'>height</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='3411'>sides</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs>, and will cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6967'>tall</strongs>cedar <strongs hebrew='730'>trees</strongs>thereof, <em>and</em> the <strongs hebrew='4004'>choice</strongs>fir <strongs hebrew='1265'>trees</strongs>thereof: and I will <strongs hebrew='935'>enter</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='4411'>lodgings</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7093'>borders</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>into</em> the <strongs hebrew='3293'>forest</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='6979'>digged</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drunk</strongs><strongs hebrew='2114'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>, and with the <strongs hebrew='3709'>sole</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='6471'>feet</strongs>have I dried <strongs hebrew='2717'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2975'>rivers</strongs>of besieged <strongs hebrew='4693'>places</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Hast thou <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>long <strongs hebrew='4480 7350'>ago</strongs><em>how</em> I have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>it, <em>and</em> of ancient <strongs hebrew='4480 3117 6924'>times</strongs>that I have <strongs hebrew='3335'>formed</strongs>it? <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>have I brought it to <strongs hebrew='935'>pass</strongs>, that thou shouldest <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>to lay <strongs hebrew='7582'>waste</strongs><strongs hebrew='1219'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><em>into</em> <strongs hebrew='5327'>ruinous</strongs><strongs hebrew='1530'>heaps</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Therefore their <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>were of <strongs hebrew='7116'>small</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>power</strongs>, they were <strongs hebrew='2865'>dismayed</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='954'>confounded</strongs>; they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='6212'>grass</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>, and <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3419'>green</strongs><strongs hebrew='1877'>herb</strongs>, <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='2682'>grass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='1406'>housetops</strongs>, and <em>as</em> <em>corn</em> <strongs hebrew='7711'>blasted</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>it be grown <strongs hebrew='7054'>up</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>But I <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>, and thy going <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and thy coming <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='7264'>rage</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='28'><strongs hebrew='3282'>Because</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='7264'>rage</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>me and thy <strongs hebrew='7600'>tumult</strongs>is come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>into mine <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>, therefore I will <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='2397'>hook</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='639'>nose</strongs>, and my <strongs hebrew='4964'>bridle</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='8193'>lips</strongs>, and I will turn thee <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='935'>camest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='226'>sign</strongs>unto thee, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>such things as grow of <strongs hebrew='5599'>themselves</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>that which springeth of the <strongs hebrew='7823'>same</strongs>; and in the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs><strongs hebrew='2232'>sow</strongs>ye, and <strongs hebrew='7114'>reap</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5193'>plant</strongs><strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6529'>fruits</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And the <strongs hebrew='7604'>remnant</strongs>that is <strongs hebrew='6413'>escaped</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>shall yet <strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>take <strongs hebrew='8328'>root</strongs><strongs hebrew='4295'>downward</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>bear</strongs><strongs hebrew='6529'>fruit</strongs><strongs hebrew='4605'>upward</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>shall go <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7611'>remnant</strongs>, and they that <strongs hebrew='6413'>escape</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='6726'>Zion</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='7068'>zeal</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>of</em> <em>hosts</em> shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'><strongs hebrew='3651'>Therefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>concerning</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, He shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='3384'>shoot</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrow</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='6923'>before</strongs>it with <strongs hebrew='4043'>shield</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='8210'>cast</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5550'>bank</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>By the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, by the same shall he <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>, and shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5002'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>For I will <strongs hebrew='1598 413'>defend</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>it, for mine own <strongs hebrew='4616'>sake</strongs>, and for my <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4616'>sake</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyrians</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>: and when they arose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs><strongs hebrew='6297'>corpses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>So <strongs hebrew='5576'>Sennacherib</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5265'>departed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='5210'>Nineveh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiping</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5268'>Nisroch</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='152'>Adrammelech</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8272'>Sharezer</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him with the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='780'>Armenia</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='634'>Esarhaddon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='20'>
            <verse number='1'>In <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>was Hezekiah <strongs hebrew='2470 2396'>sick</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='531'>Amoz</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, Set thine house in <strongs hebrew='6680 1004'>order</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>shalt <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2421'>live</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then he <strongs hebrew='5437'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='3'>I beseech <strongs hebrew='577'>thee</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2142'>remember</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee in <strongs hebrew='571'>truth</strongs>and with a <strongs hebrew='8003'>perfect</strongs><strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs><strongs hebrew='1065 1419'>sore</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>was gone <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='8484'>middle</strongs><strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559 413'>tell</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5057'>captain</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1832'>tears</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='7495'>heal</strongs>thee: on the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>thou shalt go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And I will <strongs hebrew='3254'>add</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568 6240'>fifteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>; and I will <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>thee and <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3709'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>; and I will <strongs hebrew='1598 5921'>defend</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>for mine own <strongs hebrew='4616'>sake</strongs>, and for my <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4616'>sake</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1690'>lump</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8384'>figs</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7822'>boil</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='2421'>recovered</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='226'>sign</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='7495'>heal</strongs>me, and that I shall go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs><strongs hebrew='226'>sign</strongs>shalt thou have <strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs>: shall the <strongs hebrew='6738'>shadow</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='1980'>forward</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='4609'>degrees</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>or</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='4609'>degrees</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, It is a light <strongs hebrew='7043'>thing</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='6738'>shadow</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='5186'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='4609'>degrees</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3808'>nay</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>let the <strongs hebrew='6738'>shadow</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='322'>backward</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='4609'>degrees</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='7725'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6738'>shadow</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='4609'>degrees</strongs><strongs hebrew='322'>backward</strongs>, by <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>it had gone <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4609'>dial</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>At <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='1255'>Berodach</strongs>-baladan, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1081'>Baladan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>had been <strongs hebrew='2470'>sick</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of his precious <strongs hebrew='5238'>things</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1314'>spices</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2896'>precious</strongs><strongs hebrew='8081'>ointment</strongs>, and <em>all</em> the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='3627'>armor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>: there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808 1697'>nothing</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, nor in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4475'>dominion</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>? and from <strongs hebrew='4480 370'>whence</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee? And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, They are <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>from a far <strongs hebrew='4480 776 7350'>country</strongs>, <em>even</em> from <strongs hebrew='4480 894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>have they <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs><em>the</em> <em>things</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>are</em> in mine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>have they <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>: there <strongs hebrew='1961'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808 1697'>nothing</strongs>among my <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>showed</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>have laid up in <strongs hebrew='686'>store</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, shall be <strongs hebrew='5375'>carried</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3808 1697'>nothing</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='3498'>left</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And of thy <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3318'>issue</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3205'>beget</strongs>, shall they take <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs>; and they shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5631'>eunuchs</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1964'>palace</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2896'>Good</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>good</em> , <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='571'>truth</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1369'>might</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1295'>pool</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='8585'>conduit</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='21'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2657'>Hephzibah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, after the <strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>cast <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>For he built <strongs hebrew='1129'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6'>destroyed</strongs>; and he reared <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, In <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>will I <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2691'>courts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>pass <strongs hebrew='5674'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>, and observed <strongs hebrew='6049'>times</strongs>, and used <strongs hebrew='5172'>enchantments</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>dealt</strongs>with familiar <strongs hebrew='178'>spirits</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3049'>wizards</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs><strongs hebrew='7235'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>wickedness</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to provoke <em>him</em> to <strongs hebrew='3707'>anger</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And he <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a graven <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, In <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, will I <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='3808'>Neither</strongs>will I make the <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5110'>move</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='127'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='7535'>only</strongs><strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>they will <strongs hebrew='8104'>observe</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>them, and according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>But they <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8582'>seduced</strongs>them to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>more <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>than</strongs>did the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='8045'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='3282 834'>Because</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs>, <em>and</em> hath done <strongs hebrew='7489'>wickedly</strongs>above <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him, and hath made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='1544'>idols</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='3651'>Therefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I <em>am</em> <strongs hebrew='935'>bringing</strongs><em>such</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>whosoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heareth</strongs>of it, <strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='6750'>tingle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And I will <strongs hebrew='5186'>stretch</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6957'>line</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4949'>plummet</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>: and I will <strongs hebrew='4229'>wipe</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><em>a</em> <em>man</em> <strongs hebrew='4229'>wipeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6747'>dish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4229'>wiping</strongs><em>it</em> , and <strongs hebrew='2015'>turning</strongs><em>it</em> upside <strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>down</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And I will <strongs hebrew='5203'>forsake</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7611'>remnant</strongs>of mine <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>; and they shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>become</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='957'>prey</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='4933'>spoil</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='3282 834'>Because</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>have</strongs>provoked me to <strongs hebrew='3707 *853'>anger</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480'>since</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Moreover</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8210'>shed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5355'>innocent</strongs><strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='7235'>much</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704 834'>till</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>from one <strongs hebrew='6310'>end</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6310'>another</strongs>; beside his <strongs hebrew='905 4480 2403'>sin</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wherewith</strongs>he made Judah to <strongs hebrew='2398 *853 3063'>sin</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='6213'>doing</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1588'>garden</strongs>of his own <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='1588'>garden</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5798'>Uzza</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='526'>Amon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='526'>Amon</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4922'>Meshullemeth</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2743'>Haruz</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3192'>Jotbah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>walked <strongs hebrew='1980'>in</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1544'>idols</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs>them: </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And he <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='526'>Amon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>in his own <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>them that had <strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='526'>Amon</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='526'>Amon</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And he was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='6900'>sepulcher</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1588'>garden</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5798'>Uzza</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='22'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3040'>Jedidah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5718'>Adaiah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1218'>Boscath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and turned not <strongs hebrew='3808 5493'>aside</strongs>to the right <strongs hebrew='3225'>hand</strongs>or to the <strongs hebrew='8040'>left</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>, <em>that</em> the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='683'>Azaliah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4918'>Meshullam</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, that he may <strongs hebrew='8552'>sum</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>which is <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8104'>keepers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5592'>door</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And let them <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6213'>doers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>, that have the <strongs hebrew='6485'>oversight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and let them <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>it to the <strongs hebrew='6213'>doers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='2388'>repair</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='919'>breaches</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Unto <strongs hebrew='2796'>carpenters</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1129'>builders</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1443'>masons</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='7069'>buy</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>timber</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4274'>hewn</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2388'>repair</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='389'>Howbeit</strongs>there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='2803'>reckoning</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>them of the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>that was <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>dealt</strongs><strongs hebrew='530'>faithfully</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='7121'>read</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and brought the king word <strongs hebrew='7725 *853 4428 1697'>again</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='5413'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>that was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of them that <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>, that have the <strongs hebrew='6485'>oversight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>read</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='296'>Ahikam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5907'>Achbor</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4320'>Michaiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6222'>Asahiah</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>ye, <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>concerning</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>that is <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='2534'>wrath</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3341'>kindled</strongs>against us, <strongs hebrew='5921 834'>because</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>according unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that which is <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>concerning</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>So <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='296'>Ahikam</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5907'>Achbor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6222'>Asahiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2468'>Huldah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5031'>prophetess</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8616'>Tikvah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2745'>Harhas</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8104'>keeper</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='899'>wardrobe</strongs>; (now <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4932'>college</strongs>;) and they <strongs hebrew='1696'>communed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs>her. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>Tell</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>thereof, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7121'>read</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='8478 834'>Because</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>me, and have burned <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs>they might provoke me to <strongs hebrew='3707'>anger</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4639'>works</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>; therefore my <strongs hebrew='2534'>wrath</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='3341'>kindled</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, and shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3518'>quenched</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>But <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>which <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>you to <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>As</em> <em>touching</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='3282'>Because</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7401'>tender</strongs>, and thou hast humbled <strongs hebrew='3665'>thyself</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, when thou <strongs hebrew='8085'>heardest</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>thereof, that they should <strongs hebrew='1961'>become</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8047'>desolation</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='7045'>curse</strongs>, and hast <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me; <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>thee</em> , <strongs hebrew='5002'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>therefore</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='622'>gather</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and thou shalt be <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6913'>grave</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>; and thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='7725'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>again. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='23'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, both <strongs hebrew='4480 6996'>small</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='7121'>read</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>which was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='5715'>testimonies</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='2708'>statutes</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6965'>perform</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of the second <strongs hebrew='4932'>order</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8104'>keepers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5592'>door</strongs>, to bring <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='4480 2351'>without</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7709'>fields</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6939'>Kidron</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>carried</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6083'>ashes</strongs>of them unto <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he put <strongs hebrew='7673'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the idolatrous <strongs hebrew='3649'>priests</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>ordained</strongs>to burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>in the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and in the places round <strongs hebrew='4524'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>; them also that burned <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='8121'>sun</strongs>, and to the <strongs hebrew='3394'>moon</strongs>, and to the <strongs hebrew='4208'>planets</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 2351'>without</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs><strongs hebrew='6939'>Kidron</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs>it at the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs><strongs hebrew='6939'>Kidron</strongs>, and stamped <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='1854'>small</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6083'>powder</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6083'>powder</strongs>thereof <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6913'>graves</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And he broke <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6945'>sodomites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> by the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs><strongs hebrew='707'>wove</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>hangings</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2930'>defiled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>had burned <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 1387'>Geba</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='884'>Beer</strongs>-sheba, and broke <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gates</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the entering <strongs hebrew='6607'>in</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>governor</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>'s left <strongs hebrew='8040'>hand</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='389'>Nevertheless</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>came not <strongs hebrew='5927 3808'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>they did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>of the unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>among</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And he <strongs hebrew='2930'>defiled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8612'>Topheth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2011'>Hinnom</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1115'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>might make <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>or his <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>to pass <strongs hebrew='5674'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4432'>Molech</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And he took <strongs hebrew='7673'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='8121'>sun</strongs>, at the entering <strongs hebrew='4480 935'>in</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3957'>chamber</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5419'>Nathan</strongs>-melech the <strongs hebrew='5631'>chamberlain</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> in the <strongs hebrew='6503'>suburbs</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariots</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8121'>sun</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1406'>top</strongs>of the upper <strongs hebrew='5944'>chamber</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2691'>courts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, did the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>beat <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs>, and broke <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='7323'>down</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6083'>dust</strongs>of them <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs><strongs hebrew='6939'>Kidron</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> on the right <strongs hebrew='4480 3225'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4889'>corruption</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='6253'>Ashtoreth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8251'>abomination</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6722'>Zidonians</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='3645'>Chemosh</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8251'>abomination</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moabites</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='4445'>Milcom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8441'>abomination</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, did the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2930'>defile</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he broke in <strongs hebrew='7665'>pieces</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4676'>images</strongs>, and cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4725'>places</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6106'>bones</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='120'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Moreover</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> at <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>, <em>and</em> the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>, had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>and the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs>he broke <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs>, <em>and</em> stamped <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='1854'>small</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6083'>powder</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And as <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs>himself, he <strongs hebrew='7200'>spied</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulchers</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6106'>bones</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulchers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2930'>polluted</strongs>it, according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>proclaimed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>proclaimed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Then he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='6725'>title</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1975'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>? And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='559 413'>told</strongs>him, <em>It</em> <em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulcher</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>proclaimed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let him <strongs hebrew='5117'>alone</strongs>; let <strongs hebrew='408'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='5128'>move</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6106'>bones</strongs>. So they let his bones <strongs hebrew='4422 6106'>alone</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6106'>bones</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>of the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>to provoke <em>the LORD</em> to <strongs hebrew='3707'>anger</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>to them according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4639'>acts</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And he <strongs hebrew='2076'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>men</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6106'>bones</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6213'>Keep</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='3588'>Surely</strongs>there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>holden</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>such</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>days</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, nor in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, nor of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='3588 518'>But</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>, <em>wherein</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='6213'>holden</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Moreover</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <em>workers</em> <em>with</em> familiar <strongs hebrew='178'>spirits</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3049'>wizards</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8655'>images</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1544'>idols</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8251'>abominations</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='7200'>spied</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, did <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>put <strongs hebrew='1197'>away</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs>he might <strongs hebrew='6965'>perform</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>which were <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And like unto <strongs hebrew='3644'>him</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3966'>might</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>there <em>any</em> like <strongs hebrew='3644'>him</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs hebrew='389'>Notwithstanding</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 2740'>fierceness</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>wrath</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>wherewith</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>kindled</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>because</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3708'>provocations</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3707'>provoked</strongs>him withal. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='5493'>remove</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='6440'>sight</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and will cast <strongs hebrew='3988'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='29'>In his <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>Pharaoh <strongs hebrew='6549'>Necho</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5104'>river</strongs><strongs hebrew='6578'>Euphrates</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='7122'>against</strongs>him; and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him at <strongs hebrew='4023'>Megiddo</strongs>, when he had <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='7392'>carried</strongs>him in a chariot <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 4023'>Megiddo</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in his own <strongs hebrew='6900'>sepulcher</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>him, and made him <strongs hebrew='4427 *853'>king</strongs>in his father's <strongs hebrew='8478 1'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2537'>Hamutal</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3414'>Jeremiah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3841'>Libnah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And Pharaoh <strongs hebrew='6549'>Necho</strongs>put him in <strongs hebrew='631'>bands</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='7247'>Riblah</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs>, that he might not <strongs hebrew='4480 4427'>reign</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='5414 5921'>put</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>to a <strongs hebrew='6066'>tribute</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='3603'>talent</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And Pharaoh <strongs hebrew='6549'>Necho</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='471'>Eliakim</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8478'>room</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5437'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3079'>Jehoiakim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>away: and he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And <strongs hebrew='3079'>Jehoiakim</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6547'>Pharaoh</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='389'>but</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6186'>taxed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>according</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='6310'>commandment</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6547'>Pharaoh</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='5065'>exacted</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, of every <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>according to his <strongs hebrew='6187'>taxation</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><em>it</em> unto Pharaoh <strongs hebrew='6549'>Necho</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'><strongs hebrew='3079'>Jehoiakim</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='259 6240'>eleven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2080'>Zebudah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6305'>Pedaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='7316'>Rumah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='24'>
            <verse number='1'>In his <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3079'>Jehoiakim</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>: then he <strongs hebrew='7725'>turned</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4775'>rebelled</strongs>against him. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>against him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1416'>bands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Chaldees</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1416'>bands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1416'>bands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moabites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1416'>bands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>them against <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6'>destroy</strongs>it, according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='389'>Surely</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6310'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><em>this</em> upon <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5493'>remove</strongs><em>them</em> out <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>sight</strongs>, for the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='5355'>innocent</strongs><strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='8210'>shed</strongs>: for he <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='5355'>innocent</strongs><strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>; which the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5545'>pardon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3079'>Jehoiakim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697 3117'>chronicles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So <strongs hebrew='3079'>Jehoiakim</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3078'>Jehoiachin</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs><strongs hebrew='3318'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs>out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5104'>river</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4480 5158'>river</strongs><strongs hebrew='6578'>Euphrates</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>pertained</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='3078'>Jehoiachin</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5179'>Nehushta</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='494'>Elnathan</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>At <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935 4692'>besieged</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='6696 5921'>besiege</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='3078'>Jehoiachin</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5631'>officers</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='8083'>eighth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he carried <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and cut in <strongs hebrew='7112'>pieces</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1540'>captives</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2796'>craftsmen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4525'>smiths</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3808'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>remained</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2108'>save</strongs>the poorest <strongs hebrew='1803'>sort</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3078'>Jehoiachin</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5631'>officers</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='352'>mighty</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, <em>those</em> <strongs hebrew='1980'>carried</strongs>he into <strongs hebrew='1473'>captivity</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>might</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2796'>craftsmen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4525'>smiths</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='1368'>strong</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='6213'>apt</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, even them the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='1473'>captive</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4983'>Mattaniah</strongs>his father's <strongs hebrew='1730'>brother</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5437'>changed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='259 6240'>eleven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2537'>Hamutal</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3414'>Jeremiah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3841'>Libnah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3079'>Jehoiakim</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>he had cast them <strongs hebrew='7993 *853'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>presence</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4775'>rebelled</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='25'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8671'>ninth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='6224'>tenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='6218'>tenth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>it; and they <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='1785'>forts</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>it round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935 4692'>besieged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6249 6240'>eleventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And on the <strongs hebrew='8672'>ninth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <em>fourth</em> <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7458'>famine</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388'>prevailed</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>was broken <strongs hebrew='1234'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs><em>fled</em> by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='2346'>walls</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1588'>garden</strongs>: (now the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Chaldees</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>:) and <em>the</em> <em>king</em> <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='6160'>plain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='2428'>army</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Chaldees</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5381'>overtook</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='6160'>plains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3405'>Jericho</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2428'>army</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6327'>scattered</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So they <strongs hebrew='8610'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and brought him <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7247'>Riblah</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='1696'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='4941'>judgment</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>upon</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And they <strongs hebrew='7819'>slew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs>before his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, and put <strongs hebrew='5786'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>him with fetters of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>carried</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And in the <strongs hebrew='2549'>fifth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, on the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seventh</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='8672 6240'>nineteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5018'>Nebuzaradan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7227'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2876'>guard</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, unto <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><em>man's</em> <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs>he with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2428'>army</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Chaldees</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <em>with</em> the <strongs hebrew='7227'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2876'>guard</strongs>, broke <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>walls</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5307'>fugitives</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>fell <strongs hebrew='5307'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='3499'>remnant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs>, did <strongs hebrew='5018'>Nebuzaradan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7227'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2876'>guard</strongs>carry <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>But the <strongs hebrew='7227'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2876'>guard</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1803'>poor</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='3755'>vinedressers</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3009'>husbandmen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4350'>bases</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brazen</strongs><strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, did the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Chaldees</strongs>break in <strongs hebrew='7665'>pieces</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>carried</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>of them to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And the <strongs hebrew='5518'>pots</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3257'>shovels</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4212'>snuffers</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3709'>spoons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wherewith</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='8334'>ministered</strongs>, took they <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='4289'>firepans</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4219'>bowls</strongs>, <em>and</em> such things <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><em>were</em> of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7227'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2876'>guard</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>The <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4350'>bases</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>without</strongs><strongs hebrew='4948'>weight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>The <strongs hebrew='6967'>height</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='5982'>pillar</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3805'>chapiter</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>it <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='6967'>height</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3805'>chapiter</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>; and the wreathen <strongs hebrew='7639'>work</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7416'>pomegranates</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3805'>chapiter</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>: and like unto <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>had the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='5982'>pillar</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs>wreathen <strongs hebrew='7639'>work</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='7227'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2876'>guard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8304'>Seraiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6846'>Zephaniah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4932'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104'>keepers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5592'>door</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>an</strongs><strongs hebrew='5631'>officer</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 1931'>that</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='6496'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of them that <strongs hebrew='4480 7200'>were</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6440'>presence</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>principal</strongs><strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='6633'>mustered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='5018'>Nebuzaradan</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2876'>guard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>these, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>brought</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7247'>Riblah</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>them at <strongs hebrew='7247'>Riblah</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>was carried <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='127'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <em>as</em> <em>for</em> the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7604'>remained</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them he made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1436'>Gedaliah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='296'>Ahikam</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6485'>ruler</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And when <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2428'>armies</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>had made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1436'>Gedaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6485'>governor</strongs>, there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1436'>Gedaliah</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpah</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='3458'>Ishmael</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5418'>Nethaniah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3110'>Johanan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7143'>Careah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8304'>Seraiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8576'>Tanhumeth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5200'>Netophathite</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2970'>Jaazaniah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='4602'>Maachathite</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='1436'>Gedaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7650'>swore</strongs>to them, and to their <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='3372'>Fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>to be the <strongs hebrew='4480 5650'>servants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Chaldees</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>; and it shall be <strongs hebrew='3190'>well</strongs>with you. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>But it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3458'>Ishmael</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5418'>Nethaniah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='476'>Elishama</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='4480 2233'>seed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4410'>royal</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1436'>Gedaliah</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3064'>Jews</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Chaldees</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him at <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, both <strongs hebrew='4480 6996'>small</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2428'>armies</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they were <strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Chaldees</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirtieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1546'>captivity</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3078'>Jehoiachin</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, on the <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twentieth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='192'>Evilmerodach</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>that he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>did lift <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3078'>Jehoiachin</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 1004 3608'>prison</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>kindly</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>to</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>above</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='8132'>changed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3608'>prison</strongs><strongs hebrew='899'>garments</strongs>: and he did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='8548'>continually</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='2416'>life</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And his <strongs hebrew='737'>allowance</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='8548'>continual</strongs><strongs hebrew='737'>allowance</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3117'>daily</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>rate</strongs>for every <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='2416'>life</strongs>. </verse>
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