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    <book number='14' name='2 Chronicles' abbreviation='2 Chr' testament='old'>
        <chapter number='1'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthened</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='1431'>magnified</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4605'>exceedingly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>and of <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>, and to the <strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='5387'>governor</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>So <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> at <strongs hebrew='1391'>Gibeon</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='168'>tabernacle</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4150'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='61'>But</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 7157'>Kirjath</strongs>-jearim to <em>the</em> <em>place</em> <em>which</em> <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>for it: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='5186'>pitched</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>for it at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Moreover the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brazen</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1212'>Bezaleel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='221'>Uri</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2354'>Hur</strongs>, had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4908'>tabernacle</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='1875'>sought</strongs>unto it. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brazen</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> at the <strongs hebrew='168'>tabernacle</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4150'>congregation</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>In <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>appear</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='7592'>Ask</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>I shall <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>Thou</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>showed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and hast made me to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, let thy <strongs hebrew='1697'>promise</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='539'>established</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>hast made me <strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>like the <strongs hebrew='6083'>dust</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7227'>multitude</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='5414'>Give</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='2451'>wisdom</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4093'>knowledge</strongs>, that I may go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>and come <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs>can <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <em>that</em> <em>is</em> <em>so</em> <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3282 834'>Because</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>in</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>, and thou hast <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs><strongs hebrew='6239'>riches</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5233'>wealth</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='3519'>honor</strongs>, nor the <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>of thine <strongs hebrew='8130'>enemies</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>yet</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs>long <strongs hebrew='7227 3117'>life</strongs>; but hast <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs><strongs hebrew='2451'>wisdom</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4093'>knowledge</strongs>for thyself, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou mayest <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>I have made thee <strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='2451'>Wisdom</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4093'>knowledge</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5414'>granted</strongs>unto thee; and I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='6239'>riches</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5233'>wealth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3519'>honor</strongs>, such <strongs hebrew='834 3651'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>none</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>have</em> <em>been</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>shall there any <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='1961'>have</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3651'>like</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><em>from</em> <em>his</em> <em>journey</em> to the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> at <strongs hebrew='1391'>Gibeon</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='168'>tabernacle</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4150'>congregation</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>, which he <strongs hebrew='5117'>placed</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><em>as</em> <em>plenteous</em> as <strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>, and cedar <strongs hebrew='730'>trees</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>made</strongs>he as the sycamore <strongs hebrew='8256'>trees</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>are</em> in the <strongs hebrew='8219'>vale</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='4161'>out</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and linen <strongs hebrew='4723'>yarn</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5503'>merchants</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>received</strongs>the linen <strongs hebrew='4723'>yarn</strongs>at a <strongs hebrew='4242'>price</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And they fetched <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariot</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><em>shekels</em> of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='5483'>horse</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>brought they <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><em>horses</em> for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2850'>Hittites</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, by their <strongs hebrew='3027'>means</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='2'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>determined</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>for his <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>told <strongs hebrew='5608'>out</strongs>threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>to bear <strongs hebrew='5449'>burdens</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='505 *376'>thousand</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2672'>hew</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5329 5921'>oversee</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2361'>Huram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6865'>Tyre</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>As</strongs>thou didst <strongs hebrew='6213'>deal</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and didst <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='730'>cedars</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>therein, <em>even</em> <em>so</em> <em>deal</em> <em>with</em> <em>me</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6942'>dedicate</strongs><em>it</em> to him, <em>and</em> to <strongs hebrew='6999'>burn</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5561'>sweet</strongs><strongs hebrew='7004'>incense</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='8548'>continual</strongs><strongs hebrew='4635'>shewbread</strongs>, and for the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs><strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6153'>evening</strongs>, on the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbaths</strongs>, and on the new <strongs hebrew='2320'>moons</strongs>, and on the solemn <strongs hebrew='4150'>feasts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='2063'>This</strongs><em>is</em> <em>an</em> <em>ordinance</em> <strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><em>is</em> our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>above <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>But <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='6113 3581'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>seeing</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heavens</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>cannot</strongs><strongs hebrew='3557'>contain</strongs>him? <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs><em>am</em> <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>then, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I should <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, save <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>only</strongs>to burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>sacrifice</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him? </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='7971'>Send</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='2450'>cunning</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>work</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='1270'>iron</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='710'>purple</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3758'>crimson</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8504'>blue</strongs>, and that can <strongs hebrew='3045'>skill</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6605 6603'>grave</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the cunning <strongs hebrew='2450'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3559'>provide</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='7971'>Send</strongs>me also <strongs hebrew='730'>cedar</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>, fir <strongs hebrew='1265'>trees</strongs>, and algum <strongs hebrew='418'>trees</strongs>, out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3844'>Lebanon</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>can <strongs hebrew='3045'>skill</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3772'>cut</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>timber</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs>; and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Even to <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepare</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='6086'>timber</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>am about to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='6381'>wonderful</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>to thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2404'>hewers</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3772'>cut</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>timber</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='3734'>measures</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4347'>beaten</strongs><strongs hebrew='2406'>wheat</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='3734'>measures</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8184'>barley</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1324'>baths</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1324'>baths</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Then <strongs hebrew='2361'>Huram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6865'>Tyre</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>, which he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, Because the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='160'>loved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, he hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>made</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='2361'>Huram</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>moreover, <strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2450'>wise</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3045'>endued</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='7922'>prudence</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='998'>understanding</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>might <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>for his <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2450'>cunning</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3045'>endued</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='998'>understanding</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='2361'>Huram</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s, </verse>
            <verse number='14'>The <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6876'>Tyre</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3045'>skillful</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>work</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='1270'>iron</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='6086'>timber</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='713'>purple</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='8504'>blue</strongs>, and in fine <strongs hebrew='948'>linen</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='3758'>crimson</strongs>; also to <strongs hebrew='6605'>grave</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='3605'>manner</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6603'>graving</strongs>, and to find <strongs hebrew='2803'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4284'>device</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>to him, <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thy cunning <strongs hebrew='2450'>men</strongs>, and with the cunning <strongs hebrew='2450'>men</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore the <strongs hebrew='2406'>wheat</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8184'>barley</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='559'>spoken</strongs>of, let him <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3772'>cut</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>wood</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs>, as much as <strongs hebrew='3605'>thou</strongs>shalt <strongs hebrew='6878'>need</strongs>: and we will <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs>it to thee in <strongs hebrew='7513'>floats</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3305'>Joppa</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>shalt carry it <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5608'>numbered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376 1616'>strangers</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5610'>numbering</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wherewith</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5608'>numbered</strongs>them; and they were <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>set</strongs>threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them <em>to</em> <em>be</em> bearers of <strongs hebrew='5449'>burdens</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='2672'>hewers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='5329'>overseers</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5647'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>a work. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='3'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='4179'>Moriah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>where</strongs><em>the</em> <em>LORD</em> <strongs hebrew='7200'>appeared</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1637'>threshingfloor</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='771'>Ornan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2983'>Jebusite</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='702'>fourth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Now <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>are</em> <em>the</em> <em>things</em> <em>wherein</em> <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3245'>instructed</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1129'>building</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. The <strongs hebrew='753'>length</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>after the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='4060'>measure</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7341'>breadth</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='197'>porch</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>front</strongs><em>of</em> <em>the</em> <em>house</em> , the <strongs hebrew='753'>length</strongs><em>of</em> <em>it</em> <em>was</em> according <strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7341'>breadth</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1363'>height</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='6823'>overlaid</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='4480 6441'>within</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2889'>pure</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='1419'>greater</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='2645'>ceiled</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='1265'>fir</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>tree</strongs>, which he <strongs hebrew='2645'>overlaid</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2896'>fine</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>thereon</strongs>palm <strongs hebrew='8561'>trees</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8333'>chains</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he <strongs hebrew='6823'>garnished</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3368'>precious</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='8597'>beauty</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6516'>Parvaim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>He <strongs hebrew='2645'>overlaid</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6982'>beams</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5592'>posts</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7023'>walls</strongs>thereof, and the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>thereof, with <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='6605'>graved</strongs><strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7023'>walls</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the most <strongs hebrew='6944 6944'>holy</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='753'>length</strongs>whereof <em>was</em> according <strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7341'>breadth</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7341'>breadth</strongs>thereof <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='2645'>overlaid</strongs>it with <strongs hebrew='2896'>fine</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, <em>amounting</em> to <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='4948'>weight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4548'>nails</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8255'>shekels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='2645'>overlaid</strongs>the upper <strongs hebrew='5944'>chambers</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And in the most <strongs hebrew='6944 6944'>holy</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6816'>image</strongs><strongs hebrew='4639'>work</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6823'>overlaid</strongs>them with <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='3671'>wings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs><strongs hebrew='753'>long</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='3671'>wing</strongs><em>of</em> <em>the</em> <em>one</em> <em>cherub</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5060'>reaching</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='3671'>wing</strongs><em>was</em> <em>likewise</em> <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5060'>reaching</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3671'>wing</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='3742'>cherub</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <em>one</em> <strongs hebrew='3671'>wing</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='259'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='3742'>cherub</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5060'>reaching</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='3671'>wing</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs><em>also</em> , <strongs hebrew='1695'>joining</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3671'>wing</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='3742'>cherub</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>The <strongs hebrew='3671'>wings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs>spread themselves <strongs hebrew='6566'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='6440'>faces</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='1004'>inward</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6532'>veil</strongs><em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='8504'>blue</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='713'>purple</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3758'>crimson</strongs>, and fine <strongs hebrew='948'>linen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>wrought</strongs><strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>thereon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Also he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs><strongs hebrew='753'>high</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6858'>chapiter</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of each of them <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='8333'>chains</strongs>, <em>as</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1687'>oracle</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>heads</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7416'>pomegranates</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><em>them</em> on the <strongs hebrew='8333'>chains</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And he reared <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>on the right <strongs hebrew='4480 3225'>hand</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='259'>other</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 8040'>left</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of that on the right <strongs hebrew='3227'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='3199'>Jachin</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of that on the <strongs hebrew='8042'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='1162'>Boaz</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='4'>
            <verse number='1'>Moreover he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='753'>length</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7341'>breadth</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6967'>height</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Also he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3332'>molten</strongs><strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8193'>brim</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8193'>brim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5696'>round</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='5439'>compass</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6967'>height</strongs>thereof; and a <strongs hebrew='6957'>line</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='5437'>compass</strongs>it round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>it <em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='1823'>similitude</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, which did <strongs hebrew='5437'>compass</strongs>it round <strongs hebrew='5439 5439'>about</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='520'>cubit</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5362'>compassing</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='8147'>Two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2905'>rows</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3332'>cast</strongs>, when it was <strongs hebrew='4166'>cast</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>It <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>looking</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='6828'>north</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>looking</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='3220'>west</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>looking</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>looking</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='4217'>east</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs><em>was</em> <em>set</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 4605'>above</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their hinder <strongs hebrew='268'>parts</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='1004'>inward</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='5672'>thickness</strongs>of it <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='2947'>handbreadth</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8193'>brim</strongs>of it like the <strongs hebrew='4639'>work</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8193'>brim</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='3563'>cup</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='6525'>flowers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7799'>lilies</strongs>; <em>and</em> it <strongs hebrew='2388'>received</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3557'>held</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1324'>baths</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>He <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='3595'>lavers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>on the right <strongs hebrew='4480 3225'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 8040'>left</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7364'>wash</strongs>in them: <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>such things as they <strongs hebrew='4639'>offered</strongs>for the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1740'>washed</strongs>in them; but the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs><em>was</em> for the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7364'>wash</strongs>in. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='4501'>candlesticks</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>according to their <strongs hebrew='4941'>form</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><em>them</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>on the right <strongs hebrew='4480 3225'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 8040'>left</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>He <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='7979'>tables</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5117'>placed</strongs><em>them</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>on the right <strongs hebrew='4480 3225'>side</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 8040'>left</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='4219'>basins</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Furthermore he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='5835'>court</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='5835'>court</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6823'>overlaid</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of them with <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And he <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='3233'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 3802'>side</strongs>of the east <strongs hebrew='6924'>end</strongs>, over <strongs hebrew='4480 4136'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='2361'>Huram</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5518'>pots</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3257'>shovels</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4219'>basins</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='2361'>Huram</strongs>finished the <strongs hebrew='3615 6213 *853 4399'>work</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he was to <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='12'><em>To</em> <em>wit</em> , the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1543'>pommels</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3805'>chapiters</strongs><em>which</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='7639'>wreaths</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3680'>cover</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1543'>pommels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3805'>chapiters</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7416'>pomegranates</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='7639'>wreaths</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='2905'>rows</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7416'>pomegranates</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='259'>each</strongs><strongs hebrew='7639'>wreath</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3680'>cover</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1543'>pommels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3805'>chapiters</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillars</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>He <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='4350'>bases</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3595'>lavers</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4350'>bases</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>One</strongs><strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>The <strongs hebrew='5518'>pots</strongs>also, and the <strongs hebrew='3257'>shovels</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4207'>fleshhooks</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>, did <strongs hebrew='2361'>Huram</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4838'>bright</strongs><strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>In the <strongs hebrew='3603'>plain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>did the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3332'>cast</strongs>them, in the <strongs hebrew='4568'>clay</strongs><strongs hebrew='127'>ground</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='5523'>Succoth</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6868'>Zeredathah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Thus <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3966'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4948'>weight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>could <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be found <strongs hebrew='2713'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <em>for</em> the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>also, and the <strongs hebrew='7979'>tables</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>whereon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3899 6440'>shewbread</strongs><em>was</em> <em>set</em> ; </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Moreover the <strongs hebrew='4501'>candlesticks</strongs>with their <strongs hebrew='5216'>lamps</strongs>, that they should <strongs hebrew='1197'>burn</strongs>after the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1687'>oracle</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='5462'>pure</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='6525'>flowers</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5216'>lamps</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4457'>tongs</strongs>, <em>made</em> <em>he</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4357'>perfect</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And the <strongs hebrew='4212'>snuffers</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4219'>basins</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3709'>spoons</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4289'>censers</strongs>, <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='5462'>pure</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='6607'>entry</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6442'>inner</strongs><strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>thereof for the most <strongs hebrew='6944 6944'>holy</strongs><em>place</em> , and the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>, <em>were</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='5'>
            <verse number='1'>Thus <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7999'>finished</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><em>all</em> the <strongs hebrew='6944'>things</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6944'>dedicated</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>he among the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6950'>assembled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>heads</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4294'>tribes</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5387'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, to bring <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='6726'>Zion</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Wherefore <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>assembled <strongs hebrew='6950'>themselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>was</em> in the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And they brought <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='168'>tabernacle</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4150'>congregation</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='168'>tabernacle</strongs>, these did the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><em>and</em> the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>bring <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Also <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5712'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='3259'>assembled</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>could <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5608'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='4487'>numbered</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='4480 7230'>multitude</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1687'>oracle</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the most <strongs hebrew='6944 6944'>holy</strongs><em>place,</em> <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='413 8478'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3671'>wings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='8'>For the <strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs>spread <strongs hebrew='1961 6566'>forth</strongs><em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='3671'>wings</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs><strongs hebrew='3680 5921'>covered</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='905'>staves</strongs>thereof <strongs hebrew='4480 4605'>above</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And they drew <strongs hebrew='748'>out</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='905'>staves</strongs><em>of</em> <em>the</em> <em>ark</em> , that the <strongs hebrew='7218'>ends</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='905'>staves</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1687'>oracle</strongs>; but they were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='2351'>without</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='1961'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><em>There</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>nothing</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs><strongs hebrew='7535'>save</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='3871'>tables</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><em>therein</em> at <strongs hebrew='2722'>Horeb</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs><em>a</em> <em>covenant</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, when they came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>were come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs><em>place</em> : ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs>, <em>and</em> did <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><em>then</em> <strongs hebrew='8104'>wait</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='4256'>course</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Also the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><em>which</em> <em>were</em> the <strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>of them of <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='1968'>Heman</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='3038'>Jeduthun</strongs>, with their <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, <em>being</em> <strongs hebrew='3847'>arrayed</strongs>in white <strongs hebrew='948'>linen</strongs>, having <strongs hebrew='4700'>cymbals</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5035'>psalteries</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3658'>harps</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>at the east <strongs hebrew='4217'>end</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='2690'>sounding</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>:) </verse>
            <verse number='13'>It came even to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as the <strongs hebrew='2690'>trumpeters</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs><em>were</em> as <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>, to make <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>sound</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1984'>praising</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3034'>thanking</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and when they lifted <strongs hebrew='7311'>up</strongs><em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4700'>cymbals</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7892'>music</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1984'>praised</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>saying</em> , <strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><em>he</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs><em>endureth</em> <strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>: that <em>then</em> the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='6051'>cloud</strongs>, <em>even</em> the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='14'>So that the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8334'>minister</strongs>by reason <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6051'>cloud</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3519'>glory</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='6'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>that he would <strongs hebrew='7931'>dwell</strongs>in the thick <strongs hebrew='6205'>darkness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>But <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2073'>habitation</strongs>for thee, and a <strongs hebrew='4349'>place</strongs>for thy <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelling</strongs><strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5437'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, who hath with his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='4390'>fulfilled</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>to</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs hebrew='4480'>Since</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='977'>chose</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>in, that my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>might <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chose</strongs>I any <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5057'>ruler</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'>But I have <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, that my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>might <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>; and have <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Now it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>But the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 834'>Forasmuch</strongs>as it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>in</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>for my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, thou didst <strongs hebrew='2895'>well</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>in</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='7535'>Notwithstanding</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>which shall come <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2504'>loins</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>for my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>therefore hath <strongs hebrew='6965'>performed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs>: for I am risen <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8478'>room</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and am <strongs hebrew='3427'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>promised</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And in <strongs hebrew='8033'>it</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834 8033'>wherein</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in the presence <strongs hebrew='5048'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and spread <strongs hebrew='6566'>forth</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5178'>brazen</strongs><strongs hebrew='3595'>scaffold</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs><strongs hebrew='753'>long</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs><strongs hebrew='7341'>broad</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs><strongs hebrew='6967'>high</strongs>, and had <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs>it in the <strongs hebrew='8432'>midst</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5835'>court</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>it he <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>, and kneeled <strongs hebrew='1288'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1290'>knees</strongs><strongs hebrew='5048'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and spread <strongs hebrew='6566'>forth</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs>toward <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>like <strongs hebrew='3644'>thee</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, nor in the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>; which <strongs hebrew='8104'>keepest</strongs><strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>, and <em>showest</em> <strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs>unto thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3820'>hearts</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Thou <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs>with thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1696'>promised</strongs>him; and <strongs hebrew='1696'>spakest</strongs>with thy <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>, and hast <strongs hebrew='4390'>fulfilled</strongs><em>it</em> with thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs>with thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1696'>promised</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, There shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3772'>fail</strongs>thee a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>sight</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3427'>sit</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; yet <strongs hebrew='7535'>so</strongs>that thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>take <strongs hebrew='8104'>heed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>to their <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>then, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, let thy <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='539'>verified</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs>unto thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs hebrew='3588'>But</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in very <strongs hebrew='552'>deed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heavens</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>cannot</strongs><strongs hebrew='3557'>contain</strongs>thee; how much <strongs hebrew='637'>less</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>! </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Have <strongs hebrew='6437'>respect</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8467'>supplication</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7440'>cry</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='6419'>prayeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee: </verse>
            <verse number='20'>That thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='6605'>open</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='3119'>day</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whereof</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>that thou wouldest <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>; to <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='6419'>prayeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>toward</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='8085'>Hearken</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8469'>supplications</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>, and of thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>they shall <strongs hebrew='6419'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>toward</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>from thy <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelling</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 4725'>place</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>; and when thou <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearest</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5545'>forgive</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>against his <strongs hebrew='7453'>neighbor</strongs>, and an <strongs hebrew='423'>oath</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='5375'>laid</strongs>upon him to make him <strongs hebrew='422'>swear</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='423'>oath</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='23'>Then <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, by <strongs hebrew='7725'>requiting</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7563'>wicked</strongs>, by <strongs hebrew='5414'>recompensing</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>upon his own <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>; and by <strongs hebrew='6663'>justifying</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6662'>righteous</strongs>, by <strongs hebrew='5414'>giving</strongs>him according to his <strongs hebrew='6666'>righteousness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>be put to the <strongs hebrew='5062'>worse</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>against thee; and shall <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3034'>confess</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6419'>pray</strongs>and make <strongs hebrew='2603'>supplication</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Then <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heavens</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5545'>forgive</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and bring them <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='127'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='5414'>gavest</strongs>to them and to their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>When the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>is shut <strongs hebrew='6113'>up</strongs>, and there <strongs hebrew='1961'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4306'>rain</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>against thee; <em>yet</em> if they <strongs hebrew='6419'>pray</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>toward</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3034'>confess</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>turn</strongs>from their <strongs hebrew='4480 2403'>sin</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>thou dost <strongs hebrew='6031'>afflict</strongs>them; </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Then <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5545'>forgive</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and of thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='3384'>taught</strongs>them the <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs>they should <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='5414'>send</strongs><strongs hebrew='4306'>rain</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>unto thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>for an <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'><strongs hebrew='3588'>If</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='7458'>dearth</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>if</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='1698'>pestilence</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>if</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='7711'>blasting</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='3420'>mildew</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='697'>locusts</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='2625'>caterpillars</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>if</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs><strongs hebrew='6887'>besiege</strongs>them in the <strongs hebrew='8179'>cities</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3605'>whatsoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='5061'>sore</strongs>or <strongs hebrew='3605'>whatsoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='4245'>sickness</strongs><em>there</em> <em>be</em> : </verse>
            <verse number='29'><em>Then</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs><em>or</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='8467'>supplication</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>soever</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='1961'>made</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>, or of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>his own <strongs hebrew='5061'>sore</strongs>and his own <strongs hebrew='4341'>grief</strongs>, and shall spread <strongs hebrew='6566'>forth</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3709'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='30'>Then <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelling</strongs><strongs hebrew='4349'>place</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5545'>forgive</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>render</strongs>unto every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>according unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>whose <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='3045'>knowest</strongs>; ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knowest</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3824'>hearts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='120'>men</strongs>:) </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs hebrew='4616'>That</strongs>they may <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs>thee, to <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>, so <strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>long</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>live</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='127'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='5414'>gavest</strongs>unto our <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Moreover</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>concerning</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5237'>stranger</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, but is <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>from a <strongs hebrew='7350'>far</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 776'>country</strongs>for thy great name's <strongs hebrew='4616 1419 8034'>sake</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='2389'>mighty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and thy stretched <strongs hebrew='5186'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='2220'>arm</strongs>; if they <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6419'>pray</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='33'>Then <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heavens</strongs>, <em>even</em> from thy <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelling</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 4349'>place</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5237'>stranger</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>calleth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee for; <strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs>thee, as <em>doth</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and may <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>by thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'><strongs hebrew='3588'>If</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>them, and they <strongs hebrew='6419'>pray</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='1870'>toward</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>for thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='35'>Then <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heavens</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='8467'>supplication</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>maintain</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4941'>cause</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'><strongs hebrew='3588'>If</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>against thee, ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sinneth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>,) and thou be <strongs hebrew='599'>angry</strongs>with them, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>them over <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>, and they carry them away <strongs hebrew='7617 7617'>captives</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>far <strongs hebrew='7350'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='7138'>near</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='37'>Yet <em>if</em> they bethink <strongs hebrew='7725 413 3824'>themselves</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>whither</strongs>they are carried <strongs hebrew='7617'>captive</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>turn</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2603'>pray</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='7628'>captivity</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, We have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>, we have done <strongs hebrew='5753'>amiss</strongs>, and have dealt <strongs hebrew='7561'>wickedly</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='38'>If they <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>and with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='7628'>captivity</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whither</strongs>they have carried them <strongs hebrew='7617 *853'>captives</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6419'>pray</strongs><strongs hebrew='1870'>toward</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='5414'>gavest</strongs>unto their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and <em>toward</em> the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>, and toward the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>for thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='39'>Then <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8064'>heavens</strongs>, <em>even</em> from thy <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelling</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 4349'>place</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='8467'>supplications</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>maintain</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4941'>cause</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5545'>forgive</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>against thee. </verse>
            <verse number='40'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, let, I beseech <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='6605'>open</strongs>, and <em>let</em> thine <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='7183'>attent</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs><em>that</em> <em>is</em> <em>made</em> in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='41'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='6965'>arise</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, into thy resting <strongs hebrew='5118'>place</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='5797'>strength</strongs>: let thy <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, be <strongs hebrew='3847'>clothed</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8668'>salvation</strongs>, and let thy <strongs hebrew='2623'>saints</strongs><strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoice</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2896'>goodness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='42'>O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, turn not <strongs hebrew='7725 408'>away</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>of thine <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2142'>remember</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2617'>mercies</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='7'>
            <verse number='1'>Now when <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6419'>praying</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8064'>heaven</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>consumed</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifices</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3519'>glory</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>enter</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3519'>glory</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And when <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>how the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3519'>glory</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='3766'>bowed</strongs>themselves with their <strongs hebrew='639'>faces</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7531'>pavement</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3034'>praised</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>saying</em> , <strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><em>he</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs><em>endureth</em> <strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>offered</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifices</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>offered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>: so the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2596'>dedicated</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>waited</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4931'>offices</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>also with <strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7892'>music</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3034'>praise</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs><em>endureth</em> <strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1984'>praised</strongs>by their <strongs hebrew='3027'>ministry</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='2690'>sounded</strongs>trumpets <strongs hebrew='5048'>before</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Moreover <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6942'>hallowed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8432'>middle</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>offered</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2459'>fat</strongs>of the peace <strongs hebrew='8002'>offerings</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5178'>brazen</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>was not <strongs hebrew='3201 3808'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3557'>receive</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>, and the meat <strongs hebrew='4503'>offerings</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2459'>fat</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Also at the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>, from the entering <strongs hebrew='4480 935'>in</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5158'>river</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And in the <strongs hebrew='8066'>eighth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a solemn <strongs hebrew='6116'>assembly</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2598'>dedication</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And on the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twentieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>away into their <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8056'>glad</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2896'>merry</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2896'>goodness</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>showed</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Thus <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3615'>finished</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>that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and in his own <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, he prosperously <strongs hebrew='6743'>effected</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>appeared</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, I have <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>to myself for a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='2005'>If</strongs>I shut <strongs hebrew='6113'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>that there <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4306'>rain</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='2005'>if</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='6680 5921'>command</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2284'>locusts</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='398'>devour</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs><strongs hebrew='1698'>pestilence</strongs>among my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='14'>If my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='7121 5921'>called</strongs>by my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, shall humble <strongs hebrew='3665'>themselves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6419'>pray</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>turn</strongs>from their <strongs hebrew='7451'>wicked</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1870'>ways</strongs>; then will <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>, and will <strongs hebrew='5545'>forgive</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs>, and will <strongs hebrew='7495'>heal</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='6605'>open</strongs>, and mine <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs><strongs hebrew='7183'>attent</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs><em>that</em> <em>is</em> <em>made</em> in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>For <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, that my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>: and mine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>and mine <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>perpetually</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And as for <strongs hebrew='859'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thou wilt <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>thee, and shalt <strongs hebrew='8104'>observe</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='2706'>statutes</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='4941'>judgments</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then will I <strongs hebrew='6965'>establish</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>, according <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='3772'>covenanted</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, There shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3772'>fail</strongs>thee a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='4910'>ruler</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>But <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>away</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsake</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='2708'>statutes</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>you, and shall <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7812'>worship</strongs>them; </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Then will I pluck them up by the <strongs hebrew='5428'>roots</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='127'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>them; and <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs>for my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, will I cast <strongs hebrew='7993'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='6440'>sight</strongs>, and will <strongs hebrew='5414'>make</strongs>it <em>to</em> <em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='4912'>proverb</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='8148'>byword</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>nations</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='5945'>high</strongs>, shall be an <strongs hebrew='8074'>astonishment</strongs>to every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5674'>passeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>it; so that he shall <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>hath the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='3602'>thus</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and unto <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And it shall be <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921 834'>Because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>brought them <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and laid <strongs hebrew='2388'>hold</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs>them: <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>therefore</strongs>hath he <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='8'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4480 7093'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and his own <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'>That the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='2438'>Huram</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>restored</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>them, and caused <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2578'>Hamath</strongs>-zobah, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>prevailed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8412'>Tadmor</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4543'>store</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2574'>Hamath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Also he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1032'>Beth</strongs>-horon the <strongs hebrew='5945'>upper</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1032'>Beth</strongs>-horon the <strongs hebrew='8481'>nether</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4692'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='2346'>walls</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1817'>gates</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1280'>bars</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='1191'>Baalath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4543'>store</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='2837 2836'>desired</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs>, and throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4475'>dominion</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><em>As</em> <em>for</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3498'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2850'>Hittites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6522'>Perizzites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2340'>Hivites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2983'>Jebusites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='8'><em>But</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3498'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>them in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3615'>consumed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, them did <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>make to <strongs hebrew='5927'>pay</strongs><strongs hebrew='4522'>tribute</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>But <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>for his <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8269'>chief</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7991'>captains</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>were</em> the <strongs hebrew='8269'>chief</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5324'>officers</strongs>, <em>even</em> two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>, that bore <strongs hebrew='7287'>rule</strongs>over the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6547'>Pharaoh</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>for her: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><em>the</em> <em>places</em> <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834 413'>whereunto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='197'>porch</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Even after a certain <strongs hebrew='1697'>rate</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='3117 3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5927'>offering</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>, on the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbaths</strongs>, and on the new <strongs hebrew='2320'>moons</strongs>, and on the solemn <strongs hebrew='4150'>feasts</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>times</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>, <em>even</em> in the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs>of unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>bread</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7620'>weeks</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5521'>tabernacles</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>appointed</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='4941'>order</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4931'>charges</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1984'>praise</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8334'>minister</strongs><strongs hebrew='5048'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, as the <strongs hebrew='1697'>duty</strongs>of every day <strongs hebrew='3117 3117'>required</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs>also by their <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>at every <strongs hebrew='8179 8179'>gate</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='4687'>commanded</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And they <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>concerning <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs>, or concerning the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Now <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4143'>foundation</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>it was <strongs hebrew='3615'>finished</strongs>. <em>So</em> the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8003'>perfected</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6100'>Ezion</strongs>-geber, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='359'>Eloth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs><strongs hebrew='8193'>side</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='2361'>Huram</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>him by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='591'>ships</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>that had <strongs hebrew='3045'>knowledge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='211'>Ophir</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs><strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='9'>
            <verse number='1'>And when the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7614'>Sheba</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8088'>fame</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5254'>prove</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>with hard <strongs hebrew='2420'>questions</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, with a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='3515'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2428'>company</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5375'>bore</strongs><strongs hebrew='1314'>spices</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3368'>precious</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>: and when she was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='1696'>communed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>in</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1697'>questions</strongs>: and there was <strongs hebrew='3808 1697'>nothing</strongs><strongs hebrew='5956'>hid</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And when the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7614'>Sheba</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2451'>wisdom</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='3978'>meat</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7979'>table</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4186'>sitting</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4612'>attendance</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='8334'>ministers</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='4403'>apparel</strongs>; his <strongs hebrew='4945'>cupbearers</strongs>also, and their <strongs hebrew='4403'>apparel</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='5944'>ascent</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>in her. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <em>It</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='571'>true</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>report</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>in mine own <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2451'>wisdom</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Howbeit I <strongs hebrew='539'>believed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704 834'>until</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, and mine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><em>it</em> : and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the one <strongs hebrew='2677'>half</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4768'>greatness</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='2451'>wisdom</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>me: <em>for</em> thou <strongs hebrew='3254 5921'>exceedest</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8052'>fame</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='835'>Happy</strongs><em>are</em> thy <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='835'>happy</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='8548'>continually</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee, and <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2451'>wisdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>delighted</strongs>in thee to <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>, <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: because thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='160'>loved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5975'>establish</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>, therefore <strongs hebrew='5414'>made</strongs>he thee <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='4941'>judgment</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6666'>justice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And she <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='1314'>spices</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3368'>precious</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>there any <strongs hebrew='1931'>such</strongs><strongs hebrew='1314'>spice</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7614'>Sheba</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2438'>Huram</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 211'>Ophir</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='418'>algum</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3368'>precious</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='418'>algum</strongs><strongs hebrew='6086'>trees</strongs><strongs hebrew='4546'>terraces</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>palace</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3658'>harps</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5035'>psalteries</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs>: and there were <strongs hebrew='3808'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>such</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4436'>queen</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7614'>Sheba</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='2656'>desire</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whatsoever</strongs>she <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 905'>beside</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>she had <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. So she <strongs hebrew='2015'>turned</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='1980'>away</strongs>to her own <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Now the <strongs hebrew='4948'>weight</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='905'>Beside</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 376 8446'>chapmen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5503'>merchants</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6152'>Arabia</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6346'>governors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>country</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6793'>targets</strongs><em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='7820'>beaten</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><em>shekels</em> of <strongs hebrew='7820'>beaten</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='6793'>target</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='4043'>shields</strongs><em>made</em> <em>he</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='7820'>beaten</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><em>shekels</em> of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='4043'>shield</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>them in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3293'>forest</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Moreover the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8127'>ivory</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6823'>overlaid</strongs>it with <strongs hebrew='2889'>pure</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='4609'>steps</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>, with a <strongs hebrew='3534'>footstool</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='270'>fastened</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3027'>stays</strongs>on each <strongs hebrew='4480 2088 4480 2088'>side</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7675'>sitting</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='738'>lions</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>standing</strongs><strongs hebrew='681'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>stays</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='738'>lions</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>on the one <strongs hebrew='4480 2088'>side</strongs>and on the <strongs hebrew='4480 2088'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='4609'>steps</strongs>. There was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3651'>like</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4945'>drinking</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><em>were</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3293'>forest</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3844'>Lebanon</strongs><em>were</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='5462'>pure</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs><em>were</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>; it was <em>not</em> any <strongs hebrew='3972'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='2803'>accounted</strongs>of in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='591'>ships</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8659'>Tarshish</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2361'>Huram</strongs>: every <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>once</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='591'>ships</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8659'>Tarshish</strongs><strongs hebrew='5375'>bringing</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8143'>ivory</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6971'>apes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8500'>peacocks</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1431'>passed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6239'>riches</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2451'>wisdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>presence</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2451'>wisdom</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4503'>present</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8008'>raiment</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5402'>harness</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1314'>spices</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6505'>mules</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='1697'>rate</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='723'>stalls</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariots</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelve</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>; whom he <strongs hebrew='5117'>bestowed</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And he <strongs hebrew='1961 4910'>reigned</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5104'>river</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>border</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>, and cedar <strongs hebrew='730'>trees</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>made</strongs>he as the sycamore <strongs hebrew='8256'>trees</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>are</em> in the low <strongs hebrew='8219'>plains</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And they <strongs hebrew='3318'>brought</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Now the <strongs hebrew='7605'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='314'>last</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='1697'>book</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5416'>Nathan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5016'>prophecy</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='281'>Ahijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7888'>Shilonite</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='2378'>visions</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3260'>Iddo</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2374'>seer</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and he was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='10'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7927'>Shechem</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to make him <strongs hebrew='4427 *853'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>who</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whither</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>presence</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>it</em> , that <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And they <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>him. So <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>our <strongs hebrew='5923'>yoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='7185'>grievous</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='7043'>ease</strongs>thou somewhat the <strongs hebrew='7186'>grievous</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5656'>servitude</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='3515'>heavy</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5923'>yoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>us, and we will <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, Come <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='5750'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='3289'>counsel</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the old <strongs hebrew='2205'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>while he yet <strongs hebrew='1961 2416'>lived</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='349'>What</strongs>counsel <strongs hebrew='3289'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><em>me</em> to <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>answer</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And they <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>kind</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7521'>please</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>them, they will <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>But he <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6098'>counsel</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the old <strongs hebrew='2205'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='3289'>gave</strongs>him, and took <strongs hebrew='3289'>counsel</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the young <strongs hebrew='3206'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>were brought <strongs hebrew='1431'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, that <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>advice <strongs hebrew='3289'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>that we may <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>answer</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7043'>Ease</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>somewhat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5923'>yoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>us? </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the young <strongs hebrew='3206'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>were brought <strongs hebrew='1431'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs>shalt thou <strongs hebrew='559'>answer</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>made our yoke <strongs hebrew='3513 *853 5923'>heavy</strongs>, but make thou <em>it</em> somewhat <strongs hebrew='859 7043'>lighter</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>for</strongs>us; <strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs>shalt thou <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, My <strongs hebrew='6995'>little</strongs><em>finger</em> shall be <strongs hebrew='5666'>thicker</strongs>than my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4480 4975'>loins</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>For <strongs hebrew='6258'>whereas</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='6006'>put</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3515'>heavy</strongs><strongs hebrew='5923'>yoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>you, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will put <strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='5923'>yoke</strongs>: my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='3256'>chastised</strongs>you with <strongs hebrew='7752'>whips</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>will</em> <em>chastise</em> <em>you</em> with <strongs hebrew='6137'>scorpions</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>So <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>bade</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Come <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me on the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='7186'>roughly</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>forsook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6098'>counsel</strongs>of the old <strongs hebrew='2205'>men</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='1696 413'>answered</strongs>them after the <strongs hebrew='6098'>advice</strongs>of the young <strongs hebrew='3206'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>made your yoke <strongs hebrew='3513 *853 5923'>heavy</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3254'>add</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>thereto</strongs>: my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='3256'>chastised</strongs>you with <strongs hebrew='7752'>whips</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>will</em> <em>chastise</em> <em>you</em> with <strongs hebrew='6137'>scorpions</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>So the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5252'>cause</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>might <strongs hebrew='6965'>perform</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='281'>Ahijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7888'>Shilonite</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And when <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><em>saw</em> <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs>unto them, the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='2506'>portion</strongs>have we in <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>? and <em>we</em> <em>have</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>: every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to your <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>to thine own <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to their <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>But <em>as</em> <em>for</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1913'>Hadoram</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4522'>tribute</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7275'>stoned</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. But <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='553'>speed</strongs>to get him <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariot</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5127'>flee</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6586'>rebelled</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='11'>
            <verse number='1'>And when <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='6950'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><em>men</em> , which were <strongs hebrew='6213 4421'>warriors</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, that he might <strongs hebrew='7725'>bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>again to <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>But the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='559'>Speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='1961'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>me. And they <strongs hebrew='8085'>obeyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1980'>going</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='4692'>defense</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>He <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1035'>Bethlehem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5862'>Etam</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8620'>Tekoa</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='1049'>Beth</strongs>-zur, and <strongs hebrew='7755'>Shoco</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5725'>Adullam</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4762'>Mareshah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2128'>Ziph</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='115'>Adoraim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3923'>Lachish</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5825'>Azekah</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='6681'>Zorah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='357'>Aijalon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2275'>Hebron</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>are</em> in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and in <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='4694'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And he <strongs hebrew='2388'>fortified</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4694'>strongholds</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='5057'>captains</strongs>in them, and <strongs hebrew='214'>store</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3978'>victual</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs>several <strongs hebrew='5892 5892'>city</strongs><em>he</em> <em>put</em> <strongs hebrew='6793'>shields</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7420'>spears</strongs>, and made them exceeding <strongs hebrew='2388 7235 3966'>strong</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>having</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>on his side. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3320'>resorted</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>him out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1366'>coasts</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4054'>suburbs</strongs>and their <strongs hebrew='272'>possession</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>had cast them <strongs hebrew='2186'>off</strongs>from executing the priest's <strongs hebrew='4480 3547'>office</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>ordained</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>for the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='8163'>devils</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='5695'>calves</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>them out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>such as <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3824'>hearts</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>So they <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs><strongs hebrew='553'>strong</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4258'>Mahalath</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3406'>Jerimoth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='32'>Abihail</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='446'>Eliab</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Which <strongs hebrew='3205'>bore</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3266'>Jeush</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8114'>Shamariah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2093'>Zaham</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>her he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4601'>Maachah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='53'>Absalom</strongs>; which <strongs hebrew='3205'>bore</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6262'>Attai</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2124'>Ziza</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8019'>Shelomith</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4601'>Maachah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='53'>Absalom</strongs>above <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='6370'>concubines</strongs>: ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='5375'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs><strongs hebrew='6370'>concubines</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3205'>begot</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs><strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>.) </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4601'>Maachah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>, <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5057'>ruler</strongs>among his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>he</em> <em>thought</em> to make him <strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And he dealt <strongs hebrew='995'>wisely</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6555'>dispersed</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>countries</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4694'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='4202'>victual</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='7592'>desired</strongs><strongs hebrew='1995'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='12'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3559'>established</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>, and had <strongs hebrew='2394'>strengthened</strongs>himself, he <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <em>that</em> in the <strongs hebrew='2549'>fifth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='7895'>Shishak</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='4603'>transgressed</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='3'>With twelve <strongs hebrew='505 3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8346'>threescore</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>without</strongs><strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='3864'>Lubims</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5525'>Sukkiims</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3569'>Ethiopians</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4694'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>pertained</em> to <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Then <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>, and <em>to</em> the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>were gathered <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>because <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='7895'>Shishak</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>Ye</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>me, and therefore have <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='637'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs>you in the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7895'>Shishak</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Whereupon the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>humbled <strongs hebrew='3665'>themselves</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='6662'>righteous</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And when the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>they humbled <strongs hebrew='3665'>themselves</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, They have humbled <strongs hebrew='3665'>themselves</strongs>; <em>therefore</em> I will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs>them, but I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>grant</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='4592'>some</strongs><strongs hebrew='6413'>deliverance</strongs>; and my <strongs hebrew='2534'>wrath</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be poured <strongs hebrew='5413'>out</strongs>upon <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7895'>Shishak</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='3588'>Nevertheless</strongs>they shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>; that they may <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdoms</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>countries</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>So <strongs hebrew='7895'>Shishak</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and took <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></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>; he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>: he carried <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>also the <strongs hebrew='4043'>shields</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Instead <strongs hebrew='8478'>of</strongs>which <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='4043'>shields</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6485'>committed</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8269'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6607'>entrance</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='4480 1767'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>entered <strongs hebrew='1961 935'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5375'>fetched</strongs>them, and brought them <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7323'>guard</strongs><strongs hebrew='8372'>chamber</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And when he humbled <strongs hebrew='3665'>himself</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='639'>wrath</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>him, that he would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs><em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='3617'>altogether</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>well</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>So <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>strengthened <strongs hebrew='2388'>himself</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='705'>forty</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='7651 6240'>seventeen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5279'>Naamah</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='5984'>Ammonitess</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Now the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='314'>last</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1697'>book</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='5714'>Iddo</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2374'>seer</strongs>concerning <strongs hebrew='3187'>genealogies</strongs>? And <em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='4421'>wars</strongs>between <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>continually</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</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='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</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'>Now in the <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>began <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>He <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</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='4322'>Michaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='222'>Uriel</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>. And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='631'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>in array with an <strongs hebrew='2428'>army</strongs>of valiant <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>also set the battle in <strongs hebrew='6186 4421'>array</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, <em>being</em> mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>stood <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='6787'>Zemaraim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs>me, thou <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Ought ye <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>, <em>even</em> to him and to his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>by a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4417'>salt</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Yet <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5028'>Nebat</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, is risen <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>, and hath <strongs hebrew='4775'>rebelled</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And there are <strongs hebrew='6908'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7386'>vain</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1100'>Belial</strongs>, and have strengthened <strongs hebrew='553'>themselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='7346'>Rehoboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5288'>young</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7390 3824'>tenderhearted</strongs>, and could <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388 6440'>withstand</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>think</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2388'>withstand</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs>, and <em>there</em> <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='5695'>calves</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>you for <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Have ye <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>cast <strongs hebrew='5080'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>after the manner of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>nations</strongs>of <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>? so that <strongs hebrew='3605'>whosoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4390 3027'>consecrate</strongs>himself with a <strongs hebrew='1121 1241'>young</strongs><strongs hebrew='6499'>bullock</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='352'>rams</strongs>, <em>the</em> <em>same</em> may <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>of <em>them</em> <em>that</em> <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>But as for <strongs hebrew='587'>us</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and we have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>him; and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='8334'>minister</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><em>wait</em> upon <em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='4399'>business</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And they <strongs hebrew='6999'>burn</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='1242 1242'>morning</strongs>and every <strongs hebrew='6153 6153'>evening</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>sacrifices</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5561'>sweet</strongs><strongs hebrew='7004'>incense</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='3899 4635'>shewbread</strongs>also <em>set</em> <em>they</em> <em>in</em> <em>order</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2889'>pure</strongs><strongs hebrew='7979'>table</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='4501'>candlestick</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='5216'>lamps</strongs>thereof, to <strongs hebrew='1197'>burn</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='6153 6153'>evening</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4931'>charge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; but <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>himself <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us for <em>our</em> <strongs hebrew='7218'>captain</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8643'>sounding</strongs><strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>to cry <strongs hebrew='7321'>alarm</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>you. O <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6743'>prosper</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>But <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='5437'>caused</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>an <strongs hebrew='3993'>ambushment</strongs>to come <strongs hebrew='935'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 310'>behind</strongs>them: so they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3993'>ambushment</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>behind</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And when <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>looked <strongs hebrew='6437'>back</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='268'>behind</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='6817'>cried</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='2690'>sounded</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Then the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>gave a <strongs hebrew='7321'>shout</strongs>: and as the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7321'>shouted</strongs>, it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5062'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>them with a <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>: so there fell <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='2491'>slain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Thus the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>were brought <strongs hebrew='3665'>under</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='553'>prevailed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='8172'>relied</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='3466'>Jeshanah</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='6085'>Ephrain</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1323'>towns</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs hebrew='3808'>Neither</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3379'>Jeroboam</strongs><strongs hebrew='6113'>recover</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>again</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5062'>struck</strongs>him, and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>But <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>waxed <strongs hebrew='2388'>mighty</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>married</strongs><strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3205'>begot</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8337 6240'>sixteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1697'>sayings</strongs>, <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4097'>story</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='5714'>Iddo</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='14'>
            <verse number='1'>So <strongs hebrew='29'>Abijah</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 the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. In his <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8252'>quiet</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='3'>For he took <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5236'>strange</strongs><em>gods</em> , and the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>, and broke <strongs hebrew='7665'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4676'>images</strongs>, and cut <strongs hebrew='1438'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Also he took <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2553'>images</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8252'>quiet</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='4694'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='8252'>rest</strongs>, and he had <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had given him <strongs hebrew='5117'>rest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Therefore he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, Let us <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and make <strongs hebrew='5437'>about</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='2346'>walls</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4026'>towers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1817'>gates</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1280'>bars</strongs>, <em>while</em> the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>us; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='1875'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, we have <strongs hebrew='1875'>sought</strongs><em>him</em> , and he hath given us <strongs hebrew='5117'>rest</strongs>on every <strongs hebrew='4480 5439'>side</strongs>. So they <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6743'>prospered</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='2428'>army</strongs><em>of</em> <em>men</em> that <strongs hebrew='5375'>bore</strongs><strongs hebrew='6793'>targets</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7420'>spears</strongs>, out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>; and out of <strongs hebrew='4480 1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='5375'>bore</strongs><strongs hebrew='4043'>shields</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1869'>drew</strongs><strongs hebrew='7198'>bows</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>were</em> mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And there came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='2226'>Zerah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3569'>Ethiopian</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='4818'>chariots</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='4762'>Mareshah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Then <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>against</strongs>him, and they set the battle in <strongs hebrew='6186 4421'>array</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6859'>Zephathah</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='4762'>Mareshah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>nothing</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee to <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='996'>whether</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>, or with them that have <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>power</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>us, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='8172'>rest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>thee, and in thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs>. O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='582'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='6113'>prevail</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>So the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5062'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3569'>Ethiopians</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3569'>Ethiopians</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1642'>Gerar</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4480 3569'>Ethiopians</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5307'>overthrown</strongs>, that they could <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4241'>recover</strongs>themselves; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they were <strongs hebrew='7665'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>; and they carried <strongs hebrew='5375'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='7235'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And they <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='1642'>Gerar</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6343'>fear</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them: and they <strongs hebrew='962'>spoiled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>exceeding <strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='961'>spoil</strongs>in them. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>They <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='168'>tents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4735'>cattle</strongs>, and carried <strongs hebrew='7617'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='15'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5752'>Oded</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6440'>meet</strongs><strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs>ye me, <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>; The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>you, while ye <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him; and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs>him, he will be <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>of you; but <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsake</strongs>him, he will <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsake</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Now for a long <strongs hebrew='7227 3117'>season</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><em>hath</em> <em>been</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>without</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='571'>true</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3808'>without</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3384'>teaching</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3808'>without</strongs><strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>But when they in their <strongs hebrew='6862'>trouble</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='7725'>turn</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>him, he was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>of them. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And in <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>times</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>to him that went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, nor to him that came <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4103'>vexations</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>countries</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='1471'>nation</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3807'>destroyed</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1471'>nation</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='2000'>vex</strongs>them with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='6869'>adversity</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Be ye <strongs hebrew='859 2388'>strong</strongs>therefore, and let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='7503'>weak</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='6468'>work</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3426'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='7939'>rewarded</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And when <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5016'>prophecy</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5752'>Oded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>, he took <strongs hebrew='2388'>courage</strongs>, and put <strongs hebrew='5674'>away</strongs>the abominable <strongs hebrew='8251'>idols</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, and out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2318'>renewed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='197'>porch</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='6908'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1481'>strangers</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them out of <strongs hebrew='4480 669'>Ephraim</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, and out of <strongs hebrew='4480 8095'>Simeon</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>him out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>So they gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='2568 6240'>fifteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And they <strongs hebrew='2076'>offered</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs><em>which</em> they had <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='935'>entered</strongs>into a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>and with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='13'>That <strongs hebrew='3605 834'>whosoever</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>should be put to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480'>whether</strongs><strongs hebrew='6996'>small</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>, whether <strongs hebrew='4480 376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And they <strongs hebrew='7650'>swore</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>loud</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='8643'>shouting</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='7782'>cornets</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoiced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7621'>oath</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='7650'>sworn</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>him with their <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='7522'>desire</strongs>; and he was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>of them: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>gave them <strongs hebrew='5117'>rest</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='4480 5439'>about</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><em>concerning</em> <strongs hebrew='4601'>Maachah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs>her from <em>being</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 1377'>queen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>because</strongs>she had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4656'>idol</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='842'>grove</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='4656'>idol</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1854'>stamped</strongs><em>it</em> , and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs><em>it</em> at the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs><strongs hebrew='6939'>Kidron</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>But the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>taken <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='7535'>nevertheless</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='8003'>perfect</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And he brought <strongs hebrew='935'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the things that his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6944'>dedicated</strongs>, and that he himself had <strongs hebrew='6944'>dedicated</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><em>more</em> <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirtieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='16'>
            <verse number='1'>In the <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirtieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='1201'>Baasha</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, to the intent that he might <strongs hebrew='5414'>let</strongs><strongs hebrew='1115'>none</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>or come <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 214'>treasures</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>and of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1130'>Ben</strongs>-hadad <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='3'><em>There</em> <em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='1285'>league</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>me and thee, as <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6565'>break</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1285'>league</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1201'>Baasha</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, that he may <strongs hebrew='5927'>depart</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='1130'>Ben</strongs>-hadad <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='834'>his</strongs><strongs hebrew='2428'>armies</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5859'>Ijon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='66'>Abel</strongs>-maim, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4543'>store</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5321'>Naphtali</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='1201'>Baasha</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>it</em> , that he left <strongs hebrew='2308'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1129'>building</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, and let <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs><strongs hebrew='7673'>cease</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Then <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>; and they carried <strongs hebrew='5375'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6086'>timber</strongs>thereof, <strongs hebrew='834'>wherewith</strongs><strongs hebrew='1201'>Baasha</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1129'>building</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>therewith <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1387'>Geba</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='2607'>Hanani</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7203'>seer</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, Because thou hast <strongs hebrew='8172'>relied</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8172'>relied</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>therefore</strongs>is the <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs>out of thine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='1961'>Were</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3569'>Ethiopians</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3864'>Lubims</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7230'>huge</strongs><strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='7235'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>? yet, because thou didst <strongs hebrew='8172'>rely</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>run to and <strongs hebrew='7751'>fro</strongs>throughout the <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, to show himself <strongs hebrew='2388'>strong</strongs>in the behalf <strongs hebrew='5973'>of</strongs><em>them</em> whose <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='8003'>perfect</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>toward</strongs>him. <strongs hebrew='5921 2063'>Herein</strongs>thou hast done <strongs hebrew='5528'>foolishly</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>therefore</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6258'>henceforth</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3426'>have</strongs><strongs hebrew='4421'>wars</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Then <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3707'>wroth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7203'>seer</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>him in a <strongs hebrew='4115'>prison</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>he</em> <em>was</em> in a <strongs hebrew='2197'>rage</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him because <strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><em>thing</em> . And <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='7533'>oppressed</strongs><em>some</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='314'>last</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>lo</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='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8672'>ninth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2456'>diseased</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2483'>disease</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4605'>exceeding</strongs><em>great</em> : <strongs hebrew='1571'>yet</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='2483'>disease</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1875'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='7495'>physicians</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>slept</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='705'>fortieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in his own <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulchers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='3738'>made</strongs>for himself in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7901'>laid</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='4904'>bed</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4390'>filled</strongs>with sweet <strongs hebrew='1314'>odors</strongs>and divers <strongs hebrew='2177'>kinds</strongs><em>of</em> <em>spices</em> prepared by the apothecaries' <strongs hebrew='7543 4842 4639'>art</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='8313'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5704 3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='8316'>burning</strongs>for him. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='17'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>, and strengthened <strongs hebrew='2388'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='5414'>placed</strongs><strongs hebrew='2428'>forces</strongs>in <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='5414'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='5333'>garrisons</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1875'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='3588'>But</strongs><strongs hebrew='1875'>sought</strongs>to the <em>LORD</em> <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>after the <strongs hebrew='4639'>doings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Therefore the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3559'>established</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>brought</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4503'>presents</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='6239'>riches</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3519'>honor</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>was lifted <strongs hebrew='1361'>up</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5750'>moreover</strongs>he took <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Also in the <strongs hebrew='7969'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, <em>even</em> to <strongs hebrew='1134'>Ben</strongs>-hail, and to <strongs hebrew='5662'>Obadiah</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='5417'>Nethaneel</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='4322'>Michaiah</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3925'>teach</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them <em>he</em> <em>sent</em> <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5418'>Nethaniah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2069'>Zebadiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6214'>Asahel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8070'>Shemiramoth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jehonathan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='138'>Adonijah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2900'>Tobijah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2899'>Tob</strongs>-adonijah, <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='476'>Elishama</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And they <strongs hebrew='3925'>taught</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <em>had</em> the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them, and went <strongs hebrew='5437'>about</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3925'>taught</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='6343'>fear</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdoms</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, so that they made no <strongs hebrew='3898 3808'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Also <em>some</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4503'>presents</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4853'>tribute</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='1571'>and</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6163'>Arabians</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6629'>flocks</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='352'>rams</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='8495'>goats</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961 1980'>waxed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1432'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 4605'>exceedingly</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1003'>castles</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4543'>store</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='4399'>business</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>, <em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='6486'>numbers</strongs>of them according to the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>: Of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='5734'>Adnah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>chief</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='5921 3027'>next</strongs>to him <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3076'>Jehohanan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='5921 3027'>next</strongs>him <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6007'>Amasiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2147'>Zichri</strongs>, who willingly offered <strongs hebrew='5068'>himself</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and with <strongs hebrew='5973'>him</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='450'>Eliada</strongs>a mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him armed <strongs hebrew='5401'>men</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='7198'>bow</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4043'>shield</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='5921 3027'>next</strongs>him <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3075'>Jehozabad</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>ready <strongs hebrew='2502'>prepared</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='6635'>war</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='428'>These</strongs>waited <strongs hebrew='8334'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 905'>beside</strongs><em>those</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4013'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='18'>
            <verse number='1'>Now <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='6239'>riches</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3519'>honor</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>, and joined <strongs hebrew='2859'>affinity</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='7093'>after</strongs><em>certain</em> <strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>he went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>killed</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>for him in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>he</em> <em>had</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5496'>persuaded</strongs>him to go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><em>with</em> <em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, Wilt thou <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3644'>I</strongs><em>am</em> as <strongs hebrew='3644'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> , and my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>as thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>; and <em>we</em> <em>will</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee in the <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</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='1875'>Inquire</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, at <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Therefore the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, Shall we <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>or</strongs>shall I <strongs hebrew='2308'>forbear</strongs>? And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>; for <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs><em>it</em> into the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>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><strongs hebrew='5750'>besides</strongs>, that we might <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 854'>him</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='7'>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='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, <em>There</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, by <strongs hebrew='4480 854'>whom</strongs>we may <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='8130'>hate</strongs>him; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='369'>never</strongs><strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>always</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='4321'>Micaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3229'>Imla</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><em>of</em> <em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='5631'>officers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Fetch <strongs hebrew='4116'>quickly</strongs><strongs hebrew='4319'>Micaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3229'>Imla</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>either</strongs>of them <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3847'>clothed</strongs>in <em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='899'>robes</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs>in a void <strongs hebrew='1637'>place</strongs>at the entering <strongs hebrew='6607'>in</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3668'>Chenaanah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7161'>horns</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1270'>iron</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, With <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5055'>push</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>they be <strongs hebrew='3615'>consumed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead, and <strongs hebrew='6743'>prosper</strongs>: for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs><em>it</em> into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messenger</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs><strongs hebrew='4321'>Micaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><em>declare</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='6310'>assent</strongs>; let thy <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>therefore, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>like <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>theirs, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='4321'>Micaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>even</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>, that will I <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And when he was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micaiah</strongs>, shall we <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>or</strongs>shall I <strongs hebrew='2308'>forbear</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Go ye <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6743'>prosper</strongs>, and they shall be <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>into your <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, How <strongs hebrew='5704 4100'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>times</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='7650'>adjure</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='1696'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nothing</strongs><strongs hebrew='7535'>but</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='571'>truth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me in the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Then he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I did <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6327'>scattered</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='7462'>shepherd</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='428'>These</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>; let them <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><em>therefore</em> every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, Did I <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='559 413'>tell</strongs>thee <em>that</em> he would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesy</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Again he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>Therefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; I <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sitting</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>standing</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his right <strongs hebrew='3225'>hand</strongs>and <em>on</em> his <strongs hebrew='8040'>left</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='6601'>entice</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, that he may go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead? And <strongs hebrew='2088'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>after this <strongs hebrew='3602'>manner</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2088'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>after that <strongs hebrew='3602'>manner</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Then there came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6601'>entice</strongs>him. And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherewith</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8267'>lying</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>. And <em>the</em> <em>LORD</em> <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thou shalt <strongs hebrew='6601'>entice</strongs><em>him</em> , and thou shalt <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='3201'>prevail</strongs>: go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8267'>lying</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>Then <strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3668'>Chenaanah</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4321'>Micaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3895'>cheek</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='335 2088'>Which</strongs><strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='5674'>went</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>unto</strongs>thee? </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='4321'>Micaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, thou shalt <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs>into an inner <strongs hebrew='2315 2315'>chamber</strongs>to hide <strongs hebrew='2244'>thyself</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4321'>Micaiah</strongs>, and carry him <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='526'>Amon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>governor</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7760'>Put</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>fellow</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1004 3608'>prison</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>feed</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3906'>affliction</strongs>and with <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3906'>affliction</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And <strongs hebrew='4321'>Micaiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>thou certainly <strongs hebrew='7725 7725'>return</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>, <em>then</em> hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs>by me. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hearken</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>So the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>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='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, I will disguise <strongs hebrew='2664'>myself</strongs>, and will <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>; but put thou <strongs hebrew='859 3847'>on</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='899'>robes</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>disguised <strongs hebrew='2664'>himself</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>Now the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> with him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3898'>Fight</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='6996'>small</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>It</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. Therefore they <strongs hebrew='5437'>compassed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>about</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>cried <strongs hebrew='2199'>out</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5826'>helped</strongs>him; and <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5496'>moved</strongs>them <em>to</em> <em>depart</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>For it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, that, when the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>perceived</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, they turned back <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>pursuing</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And a <em>certain</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='4900'>drew</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7198'>bow</strongs>at a <strongs hebrew='8537'>venture</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1694'>joints</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8302'>harness</strongs>: therefore he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to his chariot <strongs hebrew='7395'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2015'>Turn</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, that thou mayest carry me <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I am <strongs hebrew='2470'>wounded</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>increased</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: howbeit the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>stayed <em>himself</em> <strongs hebrew='1961 5975'>up</strongs>in <em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariot</strongs><strongs hebrew='5227'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6153'>even</strongs>: and about the <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8121'>sun</strongs>going <strongs hebrew='935'>down</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='19'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2607'>Hanani</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2374'>seer</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='413 6440'>meet</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, Shouldest thou <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7563'>ungodly</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='157'>love</strongs>them that <strongs hebrew='8130'>hate</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='2063'>therefore</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='7110'>wrath</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='61'>Nevertheless</strongs>there are <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>in</strongs>thee, in <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thou hast taken <strongs hebrew='1197'>away</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and hast <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: and he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 884'>Beer</strongs>-sheba <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and brought them <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1219'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs>, Take <strongs hebrew='7200'>heed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, who <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>you in the <strongs hebrew='1697 4941'>judgment</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Wherefore <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>let the <strongs hebrew='6343'>fear</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>you; take <strongs hebrew='8104'>heed</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><em>it</em> : <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5766'>iniquity</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='4856'>respect</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6440'>persons</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='4727'>taking</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7810'>gifts</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Moreover</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, for the <strongs hebrew='4941'>judgment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='7379'>controversies</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='6680 5921'>charged</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3374'>fear</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='530'>faithfully</strongs>, and with a <strongs hebrew='8003'>perfect</strongs><strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And what cause <strongs hebrew='3605 7379 834'>soever</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>you of your <strongs hebrew='4480 251'>brethren</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2706'>statutes</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4941'>judgments</strongs>, ye shall even <strongs hebrew='2094'>warn</strongs>them that they <strongs hebrew='816'>trespass</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <em>so</em> <strongs hebrew='7110'>wrath</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>you, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3541'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>, and ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='816'>trespass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='568'>Amariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>you in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>matters</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='2069'>Zebadiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3458'>Ishmael</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5057'>ruler</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>matters</strongs>: also the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='7860'>officers</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>you. <strongs hebrew='6213'>Deal</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388'>courageously</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='20'>
            <verse number='1'>It came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>this</strongs>also, <em>that</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>beside</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5984'>Ammonites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>some that <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, There <strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>thee from <strongs hebrew='4480 5676'>beyond</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs>on this side <strongs hebrew='4480 758'>Syria</strongs>; and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>be</em> in <strongs hebrew='2688'>Hazazon</strongs>-tamar, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5872'>En</strongs>-gedi. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>feared</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>himself</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>proclaimed</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6685'>fast</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>throughout</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1245'>ask</strongs><em>help</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='1571'>even</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2319'>new</strongs><strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, <em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4910'>rulest</strongs><em>not</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdoms</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs>? and in thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><em>is</em> <em>there</em> <em>not</em> <strongs hebrew='3581'>power</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1369'>might</strongs>, so that <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs>is able to <strongs hebrew='3320 5973'>withstand</strongs>thee? </verse>
            <verse number='7'><em>Art</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <em>who</em> didst drive <strongs hebrew='3423'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gavest</strongs>it to the <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='85'>Abraham</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='157'>friend</strongs><strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And they <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>therein, and have <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>thee a <strongs hebrew='4720'>sanctuary</strongs>therein for thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>, <em>when</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>us, <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8196'>judgment</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='1698'>pestilence</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='7458'>famine</strongs>, we <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and in thy <strongs hebrew='6440'>presence</strongs>, ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>,) and <strongs hebrew='2199'>cry</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee in our <strongs hebrew='4480 6869'>affliction</strongs>, then thou wilt <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3467'>help</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='8165'>Seir</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>thou wouldest <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>let</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>invade</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='5493'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroyed</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <em>I</em> <em>say,</em> <em>how</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1580 5921'>reward</strongs>us, to <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to cast us <strongs hebrew='1644'>out</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='4480 3425'>possession</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast given us to <strongs hebrew='3423'>inherit</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>O our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, wilt thou <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs>them? <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>might</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='1995'>company</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>us; <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>with</strongs>their little <strongs hebrew='2945'>ones</strongs>, their <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3166'>Jahaziel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1141'>Benaiah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3273'>Jeiel</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4983'>Mattaniah</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levite</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8432'>midst</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7181'>Hearken</strongs>ye, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and ye <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and thou <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>unto you, Be not <strongs hebrew='*859 3372 408'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='2865'>dismayed</strongs>by reason <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>yours, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>'s. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='4279'>Tomorrow</strongs>go ye <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>them: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='4608'>cliff</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6732'>Ziz</strongs>; and ye shall <strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs>them at the <strongs hebrew='5490'>end</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3385'>Jeruel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>need</em> to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><em>battle</em> : set <strongs hebrew='3320'>yourselves</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs>ye <em>still</em> , and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3444'>salvation</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>you, O <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='408'>nor</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='2865'>dismayed</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>against</strongs>them: for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>will</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>bowed his <strongs hebrew='6915'>head</strongs>with <em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='639'>face</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiping</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6956'>Kohathites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7145'>Korhites</strongs>, stood <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1984'>praise</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>loud</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='4605'>high</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And they rose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8620'>Tekoa</strongs>: and as they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs>me, O <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and ye <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='539'>Believe</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, so shall ye be <strongs hebrew='539'>established</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='539'>believe</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, so shall ye <strongs hebrew='6743'>prosper</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And when he had <strongs hebrew='3289'>consulted</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='5975'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and that should <strongs hebrew='1984'>praise</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1927'>beauty</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6944'>holiness</strongs>, as they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2502'>army</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3034'>Praise</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2617'>mercy</strongs><em>endureth</em> <strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='6256'>when</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7440'>sing</strongs>and to <strongs hebrew='8416'>praise</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='693'>ambushments</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='8165'>Seir</strongs>, which were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>; and they were <strongs hebrew='5062'>smitten</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>For the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>stood <strongs hebrew='5975'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='8165'>Seir</strongs>, utterly to <strongs hebrew='2763'>slay</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroy</strongs><em>them</em> : and when they had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8165'>Seir</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='5826'>helped</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4889'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And when <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>toward</strongs>the watch <strongs hebrew='4707'>tower</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='6437'>looked</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>were</em> dead <strongs hebrew='6297'>bodies</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fallen</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='6413'>escaped</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And when <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to take <strongs hebrew='962'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>of them, they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>among them in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>both <strongs hebrew='7399'>riches</strongs>with the dead <strongs hebrew='6297'>bodies</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2530'>precious</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>jewels</strongs>, which they stripped <strongs hebrew='5337'>off</strongs>for themselves, more <strongs hebrew='369'>than</strongs>they could carry <strongs hebrew='4853'>away</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='962'>gathering</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs>was so <strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And on the <strongs hebrew='7243'>fourth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>they assembled <strongs hebrew='6950'>themselves</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1294'>Berachah</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>therefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1294'>Berachah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Then they <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7218'>forefront</strongs>of them, to go <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8057'>joy</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had made them to <strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoice</strongs>over their <strongs hebrew='4480 341'>enemies</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='5035'>psalteries</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3658'>harps</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And the <strongs hebrew='6343'>fear</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdoms</strongs>of <em>those</em> <strongs hebrew='776'>countries</strongs>, when they had <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>So the <strongs hebrew='4438'>realm</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8252'>quiet</strongs>: for his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>gave him <strongs hebrew='5117'>rest</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='4480 5439'>about</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: <em>he</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</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='6242'>twenty</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='5806'>Azubah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7977'>Shilhi</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>it, <strongs hebrew='6213'>doing</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>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'><strongs hebrew='389'>Howbeit</strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>taken <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>: for as <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3824'>hearts</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='314'>last</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1697'>book</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2607'>Hanani</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5927'>mentioned</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>this</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>join <strongs hebrew='2266'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>who</strongs>did very <strongs hebrew='7561 6213'>wickedly</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And he <strongs hebrew='2266'>joined</strongs>himself <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='591'>ships</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8659'>Tarshish</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='591'>ships</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6100'>Ezion</strongs>-geber. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>Then <strongs hebrew='461'>Eliezer</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1735'>Dodavah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 4762'>Mareshah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Because thou hast joined <strongs hebrew='2266'>thyself</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6555'>broken</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4639'>works</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='591'>ships</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='7665'>broken</strongs>, that they were not <strongs hebrew='6113 3808'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8659'>Tarshish</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='21'>
            <verse number='1'>Now <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</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='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he had <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3171'>Jehiel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4317'>Michael</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8203'>Shephatiah</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>were</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And their <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4979'>gifts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and of precious <strongs hebrew='4030'>things</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='4694'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>he to <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='1060'>firstborn</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Now when <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>was risen <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, he strengthened <strongs hebrew='2388'>himself</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and <em>divers</em> <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</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='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>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>, like <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>he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Howbeit 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>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, because <strongs hebrew='4616'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='559'>promised</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5216'>light</strongs>to him and to his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>In his <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='123'>Edomites</strongs><strongs hebrew='6586'>revolted</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>dominion</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427 5921'>made</strongs>themselves a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then <strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5674'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him: and he rose <strongs hebrew='1961 6965'>up</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='123'>Edomites</strongs>which <strongs hebrew='5437 413'>compassed</strongs>him in, and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>So the <strongs hebrew='123'>Edomites</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>. The <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs><em>also</em> did <strongs hebrew='3841'>Libnah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6586'>revolt</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>under</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Moreover</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and caused <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>to commit <strongs hebrew='2181'>fornication</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5080'>compelled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><em>thereto</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4385'>writing</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him from <strongs hebrew='4480 452'>Elijah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</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='1732'>David</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8478 834'>Because</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, nor in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='609'>Asa</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='13'>But hast <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>, and hast made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>to go a <strongs hebrew='2181'>whoring</strongs>, like to the <strongs hebrew='2181'>whoredoms</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='2026'>slain</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>than</strongs>thyself: </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4046'>plague</strongs>will the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5062'>smite</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='7399'>goods</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>shalt</em> <em>have</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2483'>sickness</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='4245'>disease</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='4578'>bowels</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4578'>bowels</strongs>fall <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>by reason <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2483'>sickness</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Moreover the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>stirred <strongs hebrew='5782'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='6163'>Arabians</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921 3027'>near</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3569'>Ethiopians</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And they came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and broke <strongs hebrew='1234'>into</strongs>it, and carried <strongs hebrew='7617'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7399'>substance</strongs>that was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>; so that there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>never</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6996'>youngest</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5062'>smote</strongs>him in his <strongs hebrew='4578'>bowels</strongs>with an <strongs hebrew='369 4832'>incurable</strongs><strongs hebrew='2483'>disease</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, that in process of <strongs hebrew='3117 4480 3117'>time</strongs>, after the <strongs hebrew='6256 3318 7093'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>years</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='4578'>bowels</strongs>fell <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>by reason <strongs hebrew='5973'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2483'>sickness</strongs>: so he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7451'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='8463'>diseases</strongs>. And his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='8316'>burning</strongs>for him, like the <strongs hebrew='8316'>burning</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs hebrew='7970'>Thirty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>years <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>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>without</strongs>being <strongs hebrew='2532'>desired</strongs>. Howbeit they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulchers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='22'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6996'>youngest</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the band of <strongs hebrew='1416'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6163'>Arabians</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='2026'>slain</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7223'>eldest</strongs>. So <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><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='705'>Forty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</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>. His <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>also <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6018'>Omri</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3289'>counselor</strongs>to do <strongs hebrew='7561'>wickedly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Wherefore 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>like the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3289'>counselors</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='4889'>destruction</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>He <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>after their <strongs hebrew='6098'>counsel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='7433'>Ramoth</strongs>-gilead: and the <strongs hebrew='761'>Syrians</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to be <strongs hebrew='7495'>healed</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>because <strongs hebrew='3588'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4347'>wounds</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5221'>given</strongs>him at <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, when he <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2371'>Hazael</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</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='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2470'>sick</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='8395'>destruction</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 430'>God</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='935'>coming</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3141'>Joram</strongs>: for when he was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5250'>Nimshi</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>to cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, that, when <strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>was executing <strongs hebrew='8199'>judgment</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='256'>Ahab</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='8334'>ministered</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And he <strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='3920'>caught</strongs>him, (for <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2244'>hid</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>,) and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3058'>Jehu</strongs>: and when they had <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>him, they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>Because</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>they, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3092'>Jehoshaphat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='1875'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>power</strongs>to keep <strongs hebrew='6113'>still</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>But 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='1696'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4467'>royal</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>But <strongs hebrew='3090'>Jehoshabeath</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</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>that were <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>him and his <strongs hebrew='3243'>nurse</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='2315 4296'>bedchamber</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='3090'>Jehoshabeath</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3088'>Jehoram</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='269'>sister</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='274'>Ahaziah</strongs>,) <strongs hebrew='5641'>hid</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>, so that she <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And he <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='2244'>hid</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='23'>
            <verse number='1'>And in the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs><strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>strengthened <strongs hebrew='2388'>himself</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3395'>Jeroham</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3458'>Ishmael</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3076'>Jehohanan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5744'>Obed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4641'>Maaseiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5718'>Adaiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='478'>Elishaphat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2147'>Zichri</strongs>, into <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And they went <strongs hebrew='5437'>about</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6908'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><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 <strongs hebrew='935'>entering</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbath</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and of the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, <em>shall</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5592'>doors</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And a third <strongs hebrew='7992'>part</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> at the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; and a third <strongs hebrew='7992'>part</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3247'>foundation</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> in the <strongs hebrew='2691'>courts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>But let <strongs hebrew='408'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>save</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and they that <strongs hebrew='8334'>minister</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>shall go <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4931'>watch</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5362'>compass</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></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 whosoever <em>else</em> <strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, he shall be put to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>when he cometh <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, and when he goeth <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>So the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>according to all <strongs hebrew='3605'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>, and <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 were to <strongs hebrew='3318'>go</strongs><em>out</em> on the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbath</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='6362'>dismissed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Moreover <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2595'>spears</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4043'>bucklers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7982'>shields</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>had</em> <em>been</em> <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>having his <strongs hebrew='7973'>weapon</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, from the <strongs hebrew='3233'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 3802'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>temple</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8042'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='3802'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>temple</strongs>, along by the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>temple</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Then they brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</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='5921'>upon</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5145'>crown</strongs>, and <em>gave</em> <em>him</em> the <strongs hebrew='5715'>testimony</strongs>, and made him <strongs hebrew='4427 *853'>king</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, God <strongs hebrew='2421'>save</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Now 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='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7323'>running</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1984'>praising</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And she <strongs hebrew='7200'>looked</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5982'>pillar</strongs>at the entering <strongs hebrew='3996'>in</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>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'>sounded</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>, also the <strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7892'>music</strongs>, and such as <strongs hebrew='3045'>taught</strongs>to sing <strongs hebrew='1984'>praise</strongs>. Then <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7195'>Treason</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7195'>Treason</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>that were set <strongs hebrew='6485'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, Have her <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='413 4480 1004 7713'>ranges</strongs>: and whoso <strongs hebrew='935 310'>followeth</strongs>her, let him be <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4191'>Slay</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>So they <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>on her; and when she was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3996'>entering</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5483'>horse</strongs><strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs><strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, that they should <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Then <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='935'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baal</strongs>, and broke it <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs>, and broke his <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='6754'>images</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7665'>pieces</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</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>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Also <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>appointed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6486'>offices</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='2505'>distributed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='8057'>rejoicing</strongs>and with <strongs hebrew='7892'>singing</strongs>, <em>as</em> <em>it</em> <em>was</em> <em>ordained</em> <strongs hebrew='5921 3027'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gates</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3808'>none</strongs><em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2931'>unclean</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>should enter <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='117'>nobles</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4910'>governors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and 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 they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5945'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>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 <strongs hebrew='8252'>quiet</strongs>, after that they had <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs><strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='24'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</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='705'>forty</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='6645'>Zibiah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 884'>Beer</strongs>-sheba. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='3077'>Joash</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>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs><strongs hebrew='5375'>took</strongs>for him <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='3205'>begot</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>this</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973 3820'>minded</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2318'>repair</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to them, Go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6908'>gather</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2388'>repair</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1767'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>, and see that <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='4116'>hasten</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs>. Howbeit the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='4116'>hastened</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='4069'>Why</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1875'>required</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>to bring <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3063'>Judah</strongs>and out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4864'>collection</strongs>, <em>according</em> <em>to</em> <em>the</em> <em>commandment</em> of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, for the <strongs hebrew='168'>tabernacle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5715'>witness</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6271'>Athaliah</strongs>, that wicked <strongs hebrew='4849'>woman</strongs>, had broken <strongs hebrew='6555'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the dedicated <strongs hebrew='6944'>things</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>did they <strongs hebrew='6213'>bestow</strongs>upon <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And at the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='559'>commandment</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='727'>chest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='2351'>without</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And they <strongs hebrew='5414'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6963'>proclamation</strongs>through <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, to bring <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4864'>collection</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>laid</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoiced</strongs>, and brought <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='727'>chest</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>they had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Now it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, that at what <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>chest</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6486'>office</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and 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>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='7218'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6496'>officer</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6168'>emptied</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>chest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>took</strongs>it, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>carried</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>again. <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>such as <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961 7936'>hired</strongs><strongs hebrew='2672'>masons</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2796'>carpenters</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2318'>repair</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>such as <strongs hebrew='2796'>wrought</strongs><strongs hebrew='1270'>iron</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2388'>mend</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>So the <strongs hebrew='6213 4399'>workmen</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5927 724'>perfected</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>them, and they <strongs hebrew='5975'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4971'>state</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='553'>strengthened</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And when they had <strongs hebrew='3615'>finished</strongs><em>it</em> , they <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7605'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>, whereof were <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8335'>minister</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs><em>withal</em> , and <strongs hebrew='3709'>spoons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='1961 5927'>offered</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='8548'>continually</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>But <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>waxed <strongs hebrew='2204'>old</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='7646'>full</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>when he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>; a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs><em>was</em> <em>he</em> when he <strongs hebrew='4194'>died</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, both <strongs hebrew='5973'>toward</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and toward his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Now <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and made <strongs hebrew='7812'>obeisance</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='227'>Then</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And they <strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6091'>idols</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='7110'>wrath</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='819'>trespass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Yet he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>to them, to bring them <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5749'>testified</strongs>against them: but they would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>give <strongs hebrew='238'>ear</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3847'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>above</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs><strongs hebrew='5674'>transgress</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, that ye <strongs hebrew='3808'>cannot</strongs><strongs hebrew='6743'>prosper</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, he hath also <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And they <strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='7275'>stoned</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Thus <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2142'>remembered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2617'>kindness</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>to</strongs>him, but <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. And when he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>look <strongs hebrew='7200'>upon</strongs><em>it</em> , and <strongs hebrew='1875'>require</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='8622'>end</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>, <em>that</em> the <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him: and they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>from among the <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>of them unto the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2428'>army</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='758'>Syrians</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>with a small <strongs hebrew='4705'>company</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='7230'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>into their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. So they <strongs hebrew='6213'>executed</strongs><strongs hebrew='8201'>judgment</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And when they were <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>him, ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4251'>diseases</strongs>,) his own <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him for the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3077'>Jehoiada</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, but they <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulchers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>are they that <strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him; <strongs hebrew='2066'>Zabad</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8100'>Shimeath</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='5984'>Ammonitess</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3075'>Jehozabad</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8116'>Shimrith</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4125'>Moabitess</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Now <em>concerning</em> his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7230'>greatness</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4853'>burdens</strongs><em>laid</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him, and the <strongs hebrew='3247'>repairing</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4097'>story</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</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='25'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</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><em>when</em> 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>. And his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3086'>Jehoaddan</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3389'>Jerusalem</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>, <strongs hebrew='7535'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='8003'>perfect</strongs><strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Now it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2388'>established</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>him, that he <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>that had <strongs hebrew='5221'>killed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>But he <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><em>did</em> as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>where</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><strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>shall the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>for his own <strongs hebrew='2399'>sin</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Moreover <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>gathered Judah <strongs hebrew='6908 *853 3063'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>made</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs>of <em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs>them from <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>old</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4605'>above</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>choice</strongs><em>men,</em> <em>able</em> to go <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6635'>war</strongs>, that could <strongs hebrew='270'>handle</strongs><strongs hebrew='7420'>spear</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6793'>shield</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>He <strongs hebrew='7936'>hired</strongs>also a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>for a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>But there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>army</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>to</em> <em>wit,</em> <em>with</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='3588'>But</strongs><strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>wilt <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><em>it</em> , be <strongs hebrew='2388'>strong</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>shall make thee <strongs hebrew='3782'>fall</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='3426'>hath</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>power</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>, and to cast <strongs hebrew='3782'>down</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, But <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1416'>army</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs>able to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>thee much <strongs hebrew='7235'>more</strongs>than <strongs hebrew='4480 2088'>this</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Then <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='914'>separated</strongs>them, <em>to</em> <em>wit</em> , the <strongs hebrew='1416'>army</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him out of <strongs hebrew='4480 669'>Ephraim</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>home</strongs>again: wherefore their <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs><strongs hebrew='2734'>kindled</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>home</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2750'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>strengthened <strongs hebrew='2388'>himself</strongs>, and led <strongs hebrew='5090'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4417'>salt</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8165'>Seir</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><em>left</em> <strongs hebrew='2416'>alive</strongs>did the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>carry away <strongs hebrew='7617'>captive</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>them unto the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs>, and cast them <strongs hebrew='7993'>down</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 7218'>top</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs>, that they <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>were broken in <strongs hebrew='1234'>pieces</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>But the <strongs hebrew='1121'>soldiers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1416'>army</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>sent <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs>, that they should not <strongs hebrew='4480 1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, fell <strongs hebrew='6584'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 8111'>Samaria</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1032'>Beth</strongs>-horon, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='962'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='961'>spoil</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Now it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, after <strongs hebrew='310'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5221'>slaughter</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='130'>Edomites</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8165'>Seir</strongs>, and set them <strongs hebrew='5975'>up</strongs><em>to</em> <em>be</em> his <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, and bowed down <strongs hebrew='7812'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them, and burned <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>unto them. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Wherefore the <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>kindled</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>hast thou sought <strongs hebrew='1875'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>could <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their own <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>out of thine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as he <strongs hebrew='1696'>talked</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs>him, that <em>the</em> <em>king</em> <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Art thou <strongs hebrew='5414'>made</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3289'>counsel</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='2308'>forbear</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>shouldest thou be <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs>? Then the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='2308'>forbore</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3289'>determined</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>, and hast <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs>unto my <strongs hebrew='6098'>counsel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Then <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='3289'>advice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>, the <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 see one <strongs hebrew='7200'>another</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs><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='19'>Thou <strongs hebrew='559'>sayest</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Lo</strongs>, thou hast <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='123'>Edomites</strongs>; and thine <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>lifteth thee <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3513'>boast</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3427'>abide</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1004'>home</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>shouldest thou <strongs hebrew='1624'>meddle</strongs>to <em>thine</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='20'>But <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs><em>came</em> of <strongs hebrew='4480 430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs>he might <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><em>of</em> <em>their</em> <em>enemies</em> , <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they sought <strongs hebrew='1875'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>So <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>; and they saw one <strongs hebrew='7200'>another</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>, <em>both</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</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='22'>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 his <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='3101'>Joash</strongs>the <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='3101'>Joash</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>, at <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him 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='4480 8179'>gate</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</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='24'>And <em>he</em> <em>took</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><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 <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='5654'>Obed</strongs>-edom, and the <strongs hebrew='214'>treasures</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121 8594'>hostages</strongs>also, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>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='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='2568 6240'>fifteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='314'>last</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>are</em> they <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='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Now after the <strongs hebrew='4480 6256'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>did turn <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>following</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>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>to <strongs hebrew='3923'>Lachish</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And they <strongs hebrew='5375'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5483'>horses</strongs>, and <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='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='26'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <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='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>who</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>in the room <strongs hebrew='8478'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='558'>Amaziah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='359'>Eloth</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='3'><strongs hebrew='8337 6240'>Sixteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>when he began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</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='3203'>Jecoliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>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><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='1961 1875'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>, who had <strongs hebrew='995'>understanding</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7200'>visions</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: and as long <strongs hebrew='3117'>as</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1875'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>made him to <strongs hebrew='6743'>prosper</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3898'>warred</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and broke <strongs hebrew='6555'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2996'>Jabneh</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='795'>Ashdod</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>about <strongs hebrew='795'>Ashdod</strongs>, and among the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5826'>helped</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6163'>Arabians</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1485'>Gur</strongs>-baal, and the <strongs hebrew='4586'>Mehunims</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='5984'>Ammonites</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='4503'>gifts</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>: and his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>spread <strongs hebrew='1980'>abroad</strongs><em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the entering <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthened</strongs><em>himself</em> <strongs hebrew='5704 4605'>exceedingly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Moreover <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='4026'>towers</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6438'>corner</strongs><strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs><strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4740'>turning</strongs><em>of</em> <em>the</em> <em>wall</em> , and <strongs hebrew='2388'>fortified</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Also he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='4026'>towers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>desert</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2672'>digged</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='953'>wells</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='4735'>cattle</strongs>, both in the low <strongs hebrew='8219'>country</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='4334'>plains</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='406'>husbandmen</strongs><em>also</em> , and <strongs hebrew='3755'>vinedressers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1961 157'>loved</strongs><strongs hebrew='127'>husbandry</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Moreover <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>of fighting <strongs hebrew='6213 4421'>men</strongs>, that went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6635'>war</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='1416'>bands</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='6486'>account</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3273'>Jeiel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4641'>Maaseiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7860'>ruler</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2608'>Hananiah</strongs>, <em>one</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4480 8269'>captains</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>The <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>of the mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs><em>were</em> two <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='5921'>under</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><em>was</em> an <strongs hebrew='2428 6635'>army</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2428'>mighty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>power</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>for them throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs><strongs hebrew='4043'>shields</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7420'>spears</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3553'>helmets</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8302'>habergeons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7198'>bows</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7050'>slings</strongs><em>to</em> <em>cast</em> <strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='2810'>engines</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4284'>invented</strongs>by cunning <strongs hebrew='2803'>men</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4026'>towers</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6438'>bulwarks</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3384'>shoot</strongs><strongs hebrew='2671'>arrows</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>withal. And his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><strongs hebrew='3318'>spread</strongs>far <strongs hebrew='5704 4480 7350'>abroad</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='6381'>marvelously</strongs><strongs hebrew='5826'>helped</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704 3588'>till</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='2388'>strong</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>But when he was <strongs hebrew='2394'>strong</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>was lifted <strongs hebrew='1361'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='7843'>destruction</strongs>: for he <strongs hebrew='4603'>transgressed</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7004'>incense</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>that</em> <em>were</em> valiant <strongs hebrew='1121 2428'>men</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And they <strongs hebrew='5975 5921'>withstood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <em>It</em> <em>appertaineth</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>unto thee, <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>, to burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>, that are <strongs hebrew='6942'>consecrated</strongs>to burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>: go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4720'>sanctuary</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='4603'>trespassed</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>it</em> <em>be</em> for thine <strongs hebrew='3519'>honor</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Then <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2196'>wroth</strongs>, and <em>had</em> a <strongs hebrew='4730'>censer</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>to burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>: and while he was <strongs hebrew='2196'>wroth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6883'>leprosy</strongs>even rose <strongs hebrew='2224'>up</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='4696'>forehead</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>beside</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7004'>incense</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6437'>looked</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>him, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6879'>leprous</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='4696'>forehead</strongs>, and they thrust him <strongs hebrew='926'>out</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>; yea, <strongs hebrew='1931'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='1765'>hasted</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5060'>smitten</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><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>, <em>being</em> a <strongs hebrew='6879'>leper</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he was cut <strongs hebrew='1504'>off</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <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='22'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='314'>last</strongs>, did <strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='531'>Amoz</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3789'>write</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>So <strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</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='7704'>field</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6900'>burial</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>belonged</em> to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='6879'>leper</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>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='27'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</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='8337 6240'>sixteen</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='3388'>Jerushah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6659'>Zadok</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>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='5818'>Uzziah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='7535'>howbeit</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='935'>entered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>did yet <strongs hebrew='7843 5750'>corruptly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5945'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and on the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6077'>Ophel</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='7230'>much</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Moreover he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='2793'>forests</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='1003'>castles</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4026'>towers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121 5983'>Ammonites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>prevailed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>them. And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>talents</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='3734'>measures</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2406'>wheat</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8184'>barley</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='2063'>much</strongs>did the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>pay</strongs>unto him, both the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>became <strongs hebrew='2388'>mighty</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4421'>wars</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>lo</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='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>He <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</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='8337 6240'>sixteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='3147'>Jotham</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 the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</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='28'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</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='8337 6240'>sixteen</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: but he <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>, like <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='2'>For he <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>molten <strongs hebrew='4541'>images</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Moreover <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2011'>Hinnom</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1197'>burnt</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</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>had 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='4'>He <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs>also 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'>Wherefore the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>him into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him, and carried <strongs hebrew='7617'>away</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>multitude <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='7633'>captives</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><em>them</em> to <strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>. And he was <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>For <strongs hebrew='6492'>Pekah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7425'>Remaliah</strongs><strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>valiant <strongs hebrew='1121 2428'>men</strongs>; because they had <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='2147'>Zichri</strongs>, a mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4641'>Maaseiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5840'>Azrikam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5057'>governor</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='511'>Elkanah</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4932'>next</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>carried away <strongs hebrew='7617'>captive</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='4480 251'>brethren</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>, and took also <strongs hebrew='962 1571'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>But a <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5752'>Oded</strongs>: and he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, because the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2534'>wroth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, he hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into your <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and ye have <strongs hebrew='2026'>slain</strongs>them in a <strongs hebrew='2197'>rage</strongs><em>that</em> reacheth <strongs hebrew='5060'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>purpose</strongs>to keep <strongs hebrew='3533'>under</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='5650'>bondmen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8198'>bondwomen</strongs>unto you: <em>but</em> <em>are</em> <em>there</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>you, <strongs hebrew='7535'>even</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='859'>you</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='819'>sins</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>me therefore, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>deliver</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7633'>captives</strongs>again, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>ye have taken <strongs hebrew='7617'>captive</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='4480 251'>brethren</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2740'>fierce</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>wrath</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Then <strongs hebrew='376'>certain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7218'>heads</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3076'>Johanan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1296'>Berechiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4919'>Meshillemoth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3169'>Jehizkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7967'>Shallum</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6021'>Amasa</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2311'>Hadlai</strongs>, stood <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>them that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6635'>war</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>bring <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7633'>captives</strongs><strongs hebrew='2008'>hither</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='3588'>whereas</strongs>we have offended <strongs hebrew='819 5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>already</em> , <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>intend</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3254'>add</strongs><em>more</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='819'>trespass</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='819'>trespass</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs>, and <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2740'>fierce</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>wrath</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>So the armed <strongs hebrew='2502'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7633'>captives</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='961'>spoil</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5344'>expressed</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>took</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7633'>captives</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4480'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs><strongs hebrew='3847'>clothed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4636'>naked</strongs>among them, and <strongs hebrew='3847'>arrayed</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='5274'>shod</strongs>them, and gave them to <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>and to <strongs hebrew='8248'>drink</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5480'>anointed</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='5095'>carried</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3782'>feeble</strongs>of them upon <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>them to <strongs hebrew='3405'>Jericho</strongs>, the city of palm <strongs hebrew='5899'>trees</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='681'>to</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>: then they <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8111'>Samaria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>At <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>For <strongs hebrew='5750'>again</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='130'>Edomites</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and carried <strongs hebrew='7617'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='7628'>captives</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>The <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>also had <strongs hebrew='6584'>invaded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of the low <strongs hebrew='8219'>country</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and had <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh, and <strongs hebrew='357'>Ajalon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1450'>Gederoth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7755'>Shocho</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1323'>villages</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='8553'>Timnah</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1323'>villages</strongs>thereof, <strongs hebrew='1579'>Gimzo</strongs>also and the <strongs hebrew='1323'>villages</strongs>thereof: and they <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3665'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>low because <strongs hebrew='5668'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he made Judah <strongs hebrew='6544 3063'>naked</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4603'>transgressed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4604'>sore</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='8407'>Tiglath</strongs>-pileser <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='6696'>distressed</strongs>him, but <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthened</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>took away a <strongs hebrew='2505'>portion</strongs><em>out</em> of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <em>out</em> of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><em>it</em> unto the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>: but he <strongs hebrew='5833'>helped</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And in the <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='6887'>distress</strongs>did he <strongs hebrew='4603'>trespass</strongs>yet <strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='1931'>this</strongs><em>is</em> <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>For he <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1834'>Damascus</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him: and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>Because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='758'>Syria</strongs><strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>them, <em>therefore</em> will I <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>to them, that they may <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>me. But <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3782'>ruin</strongs>of him, and of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>gathered <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and cut in <strongs hebrew='7112'>pieces</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and shut <strongs hebrew='5462'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='6438'>corner</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs>several <strongs hebrew='5892 5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>to burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, and provoked to <strongs hebrew='3707'>anger</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>and of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='314'>last</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='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And <strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</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 the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <em>even</em> in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulchers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='29'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>began to <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><em>when</em> <em>he</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8672'>nine</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</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='29'>Abijah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</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>, according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6605'>opened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>repaired</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he brought <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and gathered them <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='4217'>east</strongs><strongs hebrew='7339'>street</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs>me, ye <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, sanctify now <strongs hebrew='6942 6258'>yourselves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctify</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and carry <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5079'>filthiness</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs><em>place</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='4603'>trespassed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>him, and have turned <strongs hebrew='5437'>away</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6440'>faces</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 4908'>habitation</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>turned</strongs><em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='6203'>backs</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Also</strongs>they have shut <strongs hebrew='5462'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='197'>porch</strongs>, and put <strongs hebrew='3518'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5216'>lamps</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6999'>burned</strongs><strongs hebrew='7004'>incense</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs><em>place</em> unto the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Wherefore the <strongs hebrew='7110'>wrath</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and he hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them to <strongs hebrew='2189'>trouble</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8047'>astonishment</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='8322'>hissing</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>with your <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>For, <strongs hebrew='2009'>lo</strongs>, our <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='5307'>fallen</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and our <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and our <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>and our <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs><em>are</em> in <strongs hebrew='7628'>captivity</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>in</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3772'>make</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, that his <strongs hebrew='2740'>fierce</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>wrath</strongs>may turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>My <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, be <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='7952'>negligent</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>you to <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him, to <strongs hebrew='8334'>serve</strongs>him, and that ye should <strongs hebrew='1961 8334'>minister</strongs>unto him, and burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Then the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4287'>Mahath</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6022'>Amasai</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3100'>Joel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6956'>Kohathites</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4847'>Merari</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7027'>Kish</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5660'>Abdi</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3094'>Jehalelel</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1649'>Gershonites</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3098'>Joah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2155'>Zimmah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5731'>Eden</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3098'>Joah</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='469'>Elizaphan</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='8113'>Shimri</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3273'>Jeiel</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4983'>Mattaniah</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1968'>Heman</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3171'>Jehiel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8096'>Shimei</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3038'>Jeduthun</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5816'>Uzziel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And they <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, and sanctified <strongs hebrew='6942'>themselves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, by the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='2891'>cleanse</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>into the inner <strongs hebrew='6441'>part</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='2891'>cleanse</strongs><em>it</em> , and brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2932'>uncleanness</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='2691'>court</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='6901'>took</strongs><em>it</em> , to carry <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='2351'>abroad</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs><strongs hebrew='6939'>Kidron</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Now they <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='259'>first</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctify</strongs>, and on the <strongs hebrew='8083'>eighth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>they to the <strongs hebrew='197'>porch</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: so they <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>; and in the <strongs hebrew='8337 6240'>sixteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>they made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then they <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='6441'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, We have <strongs hebrew='2891'>cleansed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>thereof, and the <strongs hebrew='4635'>shewbread</strongs><strongs hebrew='7979'>table</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Moreover <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='271'>Ahaz</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>did cast <strongs hebrew='2186'>away</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='4604'>transgression</strongs>, have we <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Then <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>rulers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And they <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='6499'>bullocks</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='352'>rams</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3532'>lambs</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6842 5795'>goats</strongs>, for a sin <strongs hebrew='2403'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4720'>sanctuary</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>So they <strongs hebrew='7819'>killed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1241'>bullocks</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='6901'>received</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2236'>sprinkled</strongs><em>it</em> on the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>: likewise, when they had <strongs hebrew='7819'>killed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='352'>rams</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='2236'>sprinkled</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>: they <strongs hebrew='7819'>killed</strongs>also the <strongs hebrew='3532'>lambs</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='2236'>sprinkled</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And they brought <strongs hebrew='5066'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the he <strongs hebrew='8163'>goats</strongs><em>for</em> the sin <strongs hebrew='2403'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5564'>laid</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them: </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='7819'>killed</strongs>them, and they made <strongs hebrew='2398'>reconciliation</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, to make an <strongs hebrew='3722'>atonement</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs><em>that</em> the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>and the sin <strongs hebrew='2403'>offering</strongs><em>should</em> <em>be</em> <em>made</em> for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='4700'>cymbals</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='5035'>psalteries</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='3658'>harps</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='1410'>Gad</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2374'>seer</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5416'>Nathan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>so</em> <em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And <strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='6256'>when</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7892'>song</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs><em>also</em> with the <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpets</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027 3627'>instruments</strongs><em>ordained</em> by <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7892'>singers</strongs><strongs hebrew='7891'>sang</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2689'>trumpeters</strongs><strongs hebrew='2690'>sounded</strongs>: <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>this</em> <em>continued</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3615'>finished</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And when they had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5927'>offering</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3766'>bowed</strongs>themselves, and <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>Moreover <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>to sing <strongs hebrew='1984'>praise</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2374'>seer</strongs>. And they sang <strongs hebrew='1984'>praises</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='8057'>gladness</strongs>, and they bowed their <strongs hebrew='6915'>heads</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>Then <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='4390 3027'>consecrated</strongs>yourselves unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, come <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifices</strongs>and thank <strongs hebrew='8426'>offerings</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifices</strongs>and thank <strongs hebrew='8426'>offerings</strongs>; and as many <strongs hebrew='3605'>as</strongs>were of a <strongs hebrew='5081'>free</strongs><strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And the <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>bullocks</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='352'>rams</strongs>, <em>and</em> two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3532'>lambs</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>were</em> for a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And the consecrated <strongs hebrew='6944'>things</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'><strongs hebrew='7535'>But</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>too <strongs hebrew='4592'>few</strongs>, so that they <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6584'>flay</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>: wherefore their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='2388'>help</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3615'>ended</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>had sanctified <strongs hebrew='6942'>themselves</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><em>were</em> more <strongs hebrew='3477'>upright</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>to sanctify <strongs hebrew='6942'>themselves</strongs>than the <strongs hebrew='4480 3548'>priests</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='2459'>fat</strongs>of the peace <strongs hebrew='8002'>offerings</strongs>, and the drink <strongs hebrew='5262'>offerings</strongs>for <em>every</em> burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was set in <strongs hebrew='3559'>order</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoiced</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>done</em> <strongs hebrew='6597'>suddenly</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='30'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs><strongs hebrew='107'>letters</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, that they should <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>For the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>had taken <strongs hebrew='3289'>counsel</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs>it at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>sanctified <strongs hebrew='6942'>themselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='4078'>sufficiently</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>had the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='3474 5869'>pleased</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>So they <strongs hebrew='5975'>established</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1697'>decree</strongs>to make <strongs hebrew='5674 6963'>proclamation</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 884'>Beer</strongs>-sheba even <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1835'>Dan</strongs>, that they should <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><em>it</em> of a <strongs hebrew='7230'>long</strongs><em>time</em> <em>in</em> <em>such</em> <em>sort</em> as it was <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So the <strongs hebrew='7323'>posts</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='107'>letters</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and according to the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Ye <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='85'>Abraham</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3327'>Isaac</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and he will <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7604'>remnant</strongs>of you, that are <strongs hebrew='6413'>escaped</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3709'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>ye like your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and like your <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='4603'>trespassed</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, <em>who</em> therefore gave them <strongs hebrew='5414'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8047'>desolation</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>be ye not <strongs hebrew='408 7185 6203'>stiffnecked</strongs>, as your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs><em>were,</em> <em>but</em> <strongs hebrew='5414 3027'>yield</strongs>yourselves unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>enter</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='4720'>sanctuary</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs><strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='2740'>fierceness</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='639'>wrath</strongs>may turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>if ye turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, your <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>and your <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>find</em> <strongs hebrew='7356'>compassion</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them that lead them <strongs hebrew='7617'>captive</strongs>, so that they shall come <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2587'>gracious</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7349'>merciful</strongs>, and will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>turn <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>you, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>So the <strongs hebrew='7323'>posts</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961 5674'>passed</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>city</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='776'>country</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2074'>Zebulun</strongs>: but they laughed them to <strongs hebrew='1961 7832 5921'>scorn</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3932'>mocked</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='389'>Nevertheless</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>divers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 836'>Asher</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>and of <strongs hebrew='4480 2074'>Zebulun</strongs>humbled <strongs hebrew='3665'>themselves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Also</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>and of the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>, by the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And there <strongs hebrew='622'>assembled</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs>of unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>bread</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='7230'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And they <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and took <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the altars for <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs>took they <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs><em>them</em> into the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs><strongs hebrew='6939'>Kidron</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Then they <strongs hebrew='7819'>killed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteenth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3637'>ashamed</strongs>, and sanctified <strongs hebrew='6942'>themselves</strongs>, and brought <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And they <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5977'>place</strongs>after their <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='2236'>sprinkled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>they</em> <em>received</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs>: therefore the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>had the charge <strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7821'>killing</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passovers</strongs>for every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2889'>clean</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctify</strongs><em>them</em> unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4768'>multitude</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3485'>Issachar</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2074'>Zebulun</strongs>, had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>cleansed <strongs hebrew='2891'>themselves</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>yet</strongs>did they <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>otherwise</strongs>than it was <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='3588'>But</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3722'>pardon</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='1157'>one</strongs></verse>
            <verse number='19'><em>That</em> <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepareth</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, though <em>he</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>cleansed</em> according to the <strongs hebrew='2893'>purification</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6944'>sanctuary</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7495'>healed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs>of unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='8057'>gladness</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='1984'>praised</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <em>singing</em> with <strongs hebrew='5797'>loud</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921 3820'>comfortably</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7919'>taught</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='7922'>knowledge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and they did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>throughout</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4150'>feast</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2076'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='8002'>peace</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>offerings</strongs>, and making <strongs hebrew='3034'>confession</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='6951'>assembly</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='3289'>counsel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs><em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8057'>gladness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='7311'>give</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6499'>bullocks</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs><strongs hebrew='7311'>gave</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6499'>bullocks</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>: and a great <strongs hebrew='7230'>number</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>sanctified <strongs hebrew='6942'>themselves</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1616'>strangers</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoiced</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>So there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='8057'>joy</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>since the <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>time</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2063'>like</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Then the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: and their <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><em>up</em> to his <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs>dwelling <strongs hebrew='4583'>place</strongs>, <em>even</em> unto <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='31'>
            <verse number='1'>Now when <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3615'>finished</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and broke the images in <strongs hebrew='7665 4676'>pieces</strongs>, and cut <strongs hebrew='1438'>down</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>, and threw <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>also and <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>they had utterly <strongs hebrew='3615'>destroyed</strongs>them all. Then <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='272'>possession</strongs>, into their own <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>after</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>according <strongs hebrew='6310'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>for burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>and for peace <strongs hebrew='8002'>offerings</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8334'>minister</strongs>, and to give <strongs hebrew='3034'>thanks</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='1984'>praise</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gates</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4264'>tents</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><em>He</em> <em>appointed</em> also the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4521'>portion</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7399'>substance</strongs>for the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>, <em>to</em> <em>wit</em> , for the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6153'>evening</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>, and the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbaths</strongs>, and for the new <strongs hebrew='2320'>moons</strongs>, and for the set <strongs hebrew='4150'>feasts</strongs>, as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Moreover he <strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4521'>portion</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs>they might be <strongs hebrew='2388'>encouraged</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And as soon as the <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='6555'>abroad</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>brought in <strongs hebrew='7235'>abundance</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7225'>firstfruits</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1715'>corn</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8492'>wine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3323'>oil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1706'>honey</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8393'>increase</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='4643'>tithe</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>things</em> brought they <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='7230'>abundantly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <em>concerning</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4643'>tithe</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4643'>tithe</strongs>of holy <strongs hebrew='6944'>things</strongs>which were <strongs hebrew='6942'>consecrated</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>laid</strongs><em>them</em> by <strongs hebrew='6194 6194'>heaps</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>In the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to lay the <strongs hebrew='3245'>foundation</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6194'>heaps</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3615'>finished</strongs><em>them</em> in the <strongs hebrew='7637'>seventh</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And when <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6194'>heaps</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1875'>questioned</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>concerning</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6194'>heaps</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chief</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6659'>Zadok</strongs><strongs hebrew='559 413'>answered</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Since <em>the people</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8641'>offerings</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, we have had <strongs hebrew='7646'>enough</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='3498 5704'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='7230'>plenty</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>; and that which is <strongs hebrew='3498'>left</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>great <strongs hebrew='1995'>store</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Then <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepare</strongs><strongs hebrew='3957'>chambers</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs><em>them</em> , </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And brought <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8641'>offerings</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4643'>tithes</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6944'>dedicated</strongs><em>things</em> <strongs hebrew='530'>faithfully</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>which <strongs hebrew='3562'>Cononiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3878'>Levite</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5057'>ruler</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8096'>Shimei</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='4932'>next</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='3171'>Jehiel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5812'>Azaziah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5184'>Nahath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6214'>Asahel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3406'>Jerimoth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3107'>Jozabad</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='447'>Eliel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3253'>Ismachiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4287'>Mahath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1141'>Benaiah</strongs>, <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='6496'>overseers</strongs>under the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3562'>Cononiah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8096'>Shimei</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, at the <strongs hebrew='4662'>commandment</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5838'>Azariah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5057'>ruler</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='6981'>Kore</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3232'>Imnah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Levite</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porter</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='4217'>east</strongs>, <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the freewill <strongs hebrew='5071'>offerings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5414'>distribute</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8641'>oblations</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and the most holy <strongs hebrew='6944 6944'>things</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='5921 3027'>next</strongs>him <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5731'>Eden</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4509'>Miniamin</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3442'>Jeshua</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='568'>Amariah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7935'>Shecaniah</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, in <em>their</em> set <strongs hebrew='530'>office</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>to their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>, as well to the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>as to the <strongs hebrew='6996'>small</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='4480 905'>Beside</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3187'>genealogy</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>old</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4605'>upward</strongs>, <em>even</em> unto every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>entereth</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='3117 3117'>daily</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>portion</strongs>for their <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='4931'>charges</strongs>according to their <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Both <strongs hebrew='854'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3187'>genealogy</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>old</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4605'>upward</strongs>, in their <strongs hebrew='4931'>charges</strongs>by their <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And to the <strongs hebrew='3187'>genealogy</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their little <strongs hebrew='2945'>ones</strongs>, their <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>, through <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6951'>congregation</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>in their set <strongs hebrew='530'>office</strongs>they sanctified <strongs hebrew='6942'>themselves</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6944'>holiness</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Also of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>fields</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4054'>suburbs</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs>several <strongs hebrew='5892 5892'>city</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5344'>expressed</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='4490'>portions</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2145'>males</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that were reckoned by <strongs hebrew='3187'>genealogies</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='2063'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs><em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='571'>truth</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And in <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4639'>work</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>, and in the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><em>it</em> with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6743'>prospered</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='32'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='310'>After</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='571'>establishment</strongs>thereof, <strongs hebrew='5576'>Sennacherib</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>entered</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>encamped</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1219'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>thought</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1234'>win</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs>himself. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And when <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5576'>Sennacherib</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, and that he was <strongs hebrew='6440'>purposed</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='3'>He took <strongs hebrew='3289'>counsel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>and his mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5640'>stop</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4325'>waters</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5869'>fountains</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 2351'>without</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: and they did <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>So there was <strongs hebrew='6908'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>together, who <strongs hebrew='5640'>stopped</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4599'>fountains</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7857'>ran</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='8432'>midst</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>should the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Also he strengthened <strongs hebrew='2388'>himself</strongs>, and built <strongs hebrew='1129'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>that was <strongs hebrew='6555'>broken</strongs>, and raised <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4026'>towers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='312'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs><strongs hebrew='2351'>without</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>repaired</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4407'>Millo</strongs><em>in</em> the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='7973'>darts</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4043'>shields</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and gathered them <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7339'>street</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921 3824'>comfortably</strongs>to them, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Be <strongs hebrew='2388'>strong</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='553'>courageous</strongs>, be not <strongs hebrew='3372 408'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='2865'>dismayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us than <strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>with</strongs>him: </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='5973'>With</strongs>him <em>is</em> an <strongs hebrew='2220'>arm</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>; but <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us <em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5826'>help</strongs>us, and to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='4421'>battles</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>rested <strongs hebrew='5564'>themselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='310'>After</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='5576'>Sennacherib</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, (but <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>himself</em> <em>laid</em> <em>siege</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3923'>Lachish</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4475'>power</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him,) <strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs><strongs hebrew='5576'>Sennacherib</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921 4100'>Whereon</strongs>do <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='982'>trust</strongs>, that ye <strongs hebrew='3427'>abide</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4692'>siege</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Doth <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5496'>persuade</strongs>you to give <strongs hebrew='5414'>over</strongs>yourselves to <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='7458'>famine</strongs>and by <strongs hebrew='6772'>thirst</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>us out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3709'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>taken <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='7812'>worship</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, and burn <strongs hebrew='6999'>incense</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>it? </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='3045'>Know</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>? were the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs>of those <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>any ways <strongs hebrew='3201 3201'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>was</em> <em>there</em> among <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>utterly <strongs hebrew='2763'>destroyed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>should be <strongs hebrew='3201'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>you out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2396'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5377'>deceive</strongs>you, <strongs hebrew='408'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='5496'>persuade</strongs>you on this <strongs hebrew='2063'>manner</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='408'>neither</strongs>yet <strongs hebrew='539'>believe</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808 3605'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='433'>god</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='1471'>nation</strongs>or <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3201'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>, and out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>: how much <strongs hebrew='637 3588'>less</strongs>shall your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>you out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><em>more</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>He <strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='5612'>letters</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2778'>rail</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='559'>speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, As the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs>of <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='776'>lands</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>out of mine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then they <strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>loud</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>in the Jews' <strongs hebrew='3066'>speech</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3372'>frighten</strongs>them, and to <strongs hebrew='926'>trouble</strongs>them; <strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs>they might <strongs hebrew='3920'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And they <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>were</em> the <strongs hebrew='4639'>work</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><em>cause</em> <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</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='6419'>prayed</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>, which cut <strongs hebrew='3582'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>valor</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5057'>leaders</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>. So he <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='1322'>shame</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>to his own <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. And when he was come <strongs hebrew='935'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>, they that came <strongs hebrew='4480 3329'>forth</strongs>of his own <strongs hebrew='4578'>bowels</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>slew</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Thus the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3467'>saved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5576'>Sennacherib</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, and from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>other</em> , and <strongs hebrew='5095'>guided</strongs>them on every <strongs hebrew='4480 5439'>side</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='4503'>gifts</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4030'>presents</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: so that he was <strongs hebrew='5375'>magnified</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310 3651'>thenceforth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>In <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2470'>sick</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>unto him, and he <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='4159'>sign</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>But <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>rendered not <strongs hebrew='7725 3808'>again</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='1576'>benefit</strongs><em>done</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>him; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>was lifted <strongs hebrew='1361'>up</strongs>: therefore there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='7110'>wrath</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Notwithstanding <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>humbled <strongs hebrew='3665'>himself</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='1363'>pride</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>, <em>both</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, so that the <strongs hebrew='7110'>wrath</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>exceeding</strongs><strongs hebrew='7235'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='6239'>riches</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3519'>honor</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>himself <strongs hebrew='214'>treasuries</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='3368'>precious</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='1314'>spices</strongs>, and for <strongs hebrew='4043'>shields</strongs>, and for all <strongs hebrew='3605'>manner</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2532'>pleasant</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>jewels</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='28'><strongs hebrew='4543'>Storehouses</strongs>also for the <strongs hebrew='8393'>increase</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1715'>corn</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8492'>wine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3323'>oil</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='723'>stalls</strongs>for all <strongs hebrew='3605'>manner</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='929 929'>beasts</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='220'>cotes</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='5739'>flocks</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Moreover he <strongs hebrew='6213'>provided</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4735'>possessions</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6629'>flocks</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1241'>herds</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>abundance</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7399'>substance</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='7227'>much</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>This <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='5640'>stopped</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5945'>upper</strongs><strongs hebrew='4161 4325'>watercourse</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1521'>Gihon</strongs>, and brought it <strongs hebrew='3474'>straight</strongs><strongs hebrew='4295'>down</strongs>to the west <strongs hebrew='4628'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6743'>prospered</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4639'>works</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs hebrew='3651'>Howbeit</strongs>in <em>the</em> <em>business</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='3887'>ambassadors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>him to inquire <strongs hebrew='1875'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4159'>wonder</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>done</em> in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs>him, to <strongs hebrew='5254'>try</strongs>him, that he might <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> in his <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='2617'>goodness</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2377'>vision</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3470'>Isaiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='531'>Amoz</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And <strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</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 the <strongs hebrew='4608'>chiefest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulchers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3519'>honor</strongs>at his <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</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='33'>
            <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 he <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>: </verse>
            <verse number='2'>But <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>, like unto the <strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had 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 <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3169'>Hezekiah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had broken <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs>, and he reared <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='842'>groves</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'>Also 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>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whereof</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, In <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>shall my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</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 <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>caused <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5674'>pass</strongs>through the <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2011'>Hinnom</strongs>: also he observed <strongs hebrew='6049'>times</strongs>, and used <strongs hebrew='5172'>enchantments</strongs>, and used <strongs hebrew='3784'>witchcraft</strongs>, and dealt <strongs hebrew='6213'>with</strongs>a familiar <strongs hebrew='178'>spirit</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='3049'>wizards</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs><strongs hebrew='7235'>much</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='7'>And he <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a carved <strongs hebrew='6459'>image</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5566'>idol</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <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>before <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <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='5865'>forever</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='3808'>Neither</strongs>will I any <strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>remove</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7272'>foot</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>from out <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='127'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='5975'>appointed</strongs>for your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>; so <strongs hebrew='7535 518'>that</strongs>they will take <strongs hebrew='8104'>heed</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>them, according to the <strongs hebrew='3605'>whole</strongs><strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2706'>statutes</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='4941'>ordinances</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>So <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8582'>err</strongs>, <em>and</em> to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>worse</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>than</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <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='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: but they would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7181'>hearken</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Wherefore the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>them the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of the host <strongs hebrew='6635'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='804'>Assyria</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='2336'>thorns</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='5178'>fetters</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>carried</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And when he was in <strongs hebrew='6887'>affliction</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='2470'>besought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440 3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and humbled <strongs hebrew='3665'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him: and he was <strongs hebrew='6279'>entreated</strongs>of him, and <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8467'>supplication</strongs>, and brought him <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>. Then <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Now <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>this</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs><strongs hebrew='2435'>without</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, on the west <strongs hebrew='4628'>side</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1521'>Gihon</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='5158'>valley</strongs>, even to the entering <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='1709'>fish</strongs><strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>and compassed <strongs hebrew='5437'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='6077'>Ophel</strongs>, and raised it up a very great <strongs hebrew='1361 3966'>height</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>war</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1219'>fenced</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he took <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5236'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5566'>idol</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7993'>cast</strongs><em>them</em> out <strongs hebrew='2351'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='1129'>repaired</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>thereon</strongs><strongs hebrew='8002'>peace</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>offerings</strongs>and thank <strongs hebrew='8426'>offerings</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='61'>Nevertheless</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>still</strongs>in the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>, <em>yet</em> unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='7535'>only</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the acts <strongs hebrew='1697'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2374'>seers</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <em>written</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>His <strongs hebrew='8605'>prayer</strongs>also, and <em>how</em> <em>God</em> was <strongs hebrew='6279'>entreated</strongs>of him, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='4604'>trespass</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4725'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>, and set <strongs hebrew='5975'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>and graven <strongs hebrew='6456'>images</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='3665'>humbled</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>sayings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2335'>seers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>So <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</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 his own <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</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='21'><strongs hebrew='526'>Amon</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</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='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>But 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><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='526'>Amon</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the carved <strongs hebrew='6456'>images</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs>them; </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And humbled not <strongs hebrew='3808 3665'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had humbled <strongs hebrew='3665'>himself</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='526'>Amon</strongs><strongs hebrew='819'>trespassed</strongs>more and <strongs hebrew='7235'>more</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him in his own <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>But 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 Josiah his son <strongs hebrew='4427 *853 2977 1121'>king</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='8478'>stead</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='34'>
            <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>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</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='3477'>right</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5493'>declined</strongs><em>neither</em> to the right <strongs hebrew='3225'>hand</strongs>, nor to the <strongs hebrew='8040'>left</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>For in the <strongs hebrew='8083'>eighth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, while <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='5288'>young</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>seek</strongs>after the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>: and in the <strongs hebrew='8147 6240'>twelfth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2891'>purge</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>places</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>, and the carved <strongs hebrew='6456'>images</strongs>, and the molten <strongs hebrew='4541'>images</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And they broke <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='6440'>presence</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='2553'>images</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> on <strongs hebrew='4605'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>above</strongs>them, he cut <strongs hebrew='1438'>down</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>, and the carved <strongs hebrew='6456'>images</strongs>, and the molten <strongs hebrew='4541'>images</strongs>, he broke in <strongs hebrew='7665'>pieces</strongs>, and made <strongs hebrew='1854'>dust</strongs><em>of</em> <em>them</em> , and <strongs hebrew='2236'>strewed</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6913'>graves</strongs>of them that had <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs>unto them. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6106'>bones</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2891'>cleansed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <em>so</em> <em>did</em> <em>he</em> in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8095'>Simeon</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='5321'>Naphtali</strongs>, with their <strongs hebrew='2719'>mattocks</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And when he had broken <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altars</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='842'>groves</strongs>, and had <strongs hebrew='3807'>beaten</strongs>the graven <strongs hebrew='6456'>images</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='1854'>powder</strongs>, and cut <strongs hebrew='1438'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2553'>idols</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Now in the <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>, when he had <strongs hebrew='2891'>purged</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, he <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>, and <strongs hebrew='4641'>Maaseiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>governor</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3098'>Joah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3099'>Joahaz</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2142'>recorder</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='2388'>repair</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And when they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>high</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>that was brought <strongs hebrew='935'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5592'>doors</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4519'>Manasseh</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7611'>remnant</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And they <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6213 4399'>workmen</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 <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>it to the <strongs hebrew='6213 4399'>workmen</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='918'>repair</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2388'>amend</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Even to the <strongs hebrew='2796'>artificers</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1129'>builders</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>they <em>it</em> , to <strongs hebrew='7069'>buy</strongs><strongs hebrew='4274'>hewn</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6086'>timber</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='4226'>couplings</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='7136'>floor</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroyed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs><strongs hebrew='530'>faithfully</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5329'>overseers</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs>them <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3189'>Jahath</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5662'>Obadiah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4847'>Merari</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4918'>Meshullam</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6956'>Kohathites</strongs>, to set <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='6485'>forward</strongs>; and <em>other</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that could <strongs hebrew='995'>skill</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7892'>music</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Also <em>they</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the bearers of <strongs hebrew='5449'>burdens</strongs>, and <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5329'>overseers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>in any manner of <strongs hebrew='5656 5656'>service</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><em>there</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7860'>officers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And when they brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3701'>money</strongs>that was brought <strongs hebrew='935'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>given</em> <strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</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'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>carried</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>back <strongs hebrew='5750'>again</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5414'>committed</strongs>to thy <strongs hebrew='3027 5650'>servants</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And they have gathered <strongs hebrew='5413'>together</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>, and have <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='5921'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6485'>overseers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6213 4399'>workmen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</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'>given</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='19'>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='8451'>law</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='296'>Ahikam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5658'>Abdon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4318'>Micah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8227'>Shaphan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5608'>scribe</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6222'>Asaiah</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, inquire <strongs hebrew='1875'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs>them that are <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>concerning</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>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 poured <strongs hebrew='5413'>out</strongs>upon us, <strongs hebrew='5921 834'>because</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>after <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that is <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>, and <em>they</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><em>had</em> <em>appointed</em> , <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</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'>Tikvath</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2641'>Hasrah</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'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>her to <strongs hebrew='2063'>that</strongs><em>effect</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</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>ye 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='24'><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='5921'>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='423'>curses</strongs>that are <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='7121'>read</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='25'><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 poured <strongs hebrew='5413'>out</strongs>upon <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='26'>And as <strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>you to <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>so</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</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>concerning</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs hebrew='3282'>Because</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7401'>tender</strongs>, and thou didst humble <strongs hebrew='3665'>thyself</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, when thou <strongs hebrew='8085'>heardest</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</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, and humbledst <strongs hebrew='3665'>thyself</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me, and didst <strongs hebrew='7167'>rend</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058'>weep</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me; <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>have even <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>thee</em> <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5002'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='622'>gather</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, and thou shalt be <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6913'>grave</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>shall thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</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 <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of the same. So they <strongs hebrew='7725'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>again. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>and gathered <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>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 the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 1419'>great</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6996'>small</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>that was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5977'>place</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><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandments</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5715'>testimonies</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='2706'>statutes</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>, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>perform</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>which are <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And he caused <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><em>to</em> <em>it</em> . And the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>countries</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>pertained</em> to the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>, <em>even</em> to <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. <em>And</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>following</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='35'>
            <verse number='1'>Moreover <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='7819'>killed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='702 6240'>fourteenth</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4931'>charges</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>encouraged</strongs>them to the <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='4000'>taught</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, which were <strongs hebrew='6918'>holy</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs><strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>; <em>it</em> <em>shall</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='4853'>burden</strongs>upon <em>your</em> <strongs hebrew='3802'>shoulders</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepare</strongs><em>yourselves</em> by the <strongs hebrew='1004'>houses</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>, after your <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='3791'>writing</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and according to the <strongs hebrew='4385'>writing</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8010'>Solomon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs><em>place</em> according to the <strongs hebrew='6391'>divisions</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>families</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121 5971'>people</strongs>, and <em>after</em> the <strongs hebrew='2515'>division</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004 1'>families</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So <strongs hebrew='7819'>kill</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>, and sanctify <strongs hebrew='6942'>yourselves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepare</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, that <em>they</em> may <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7311'>gave</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1121 5971'>people</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='6629'>flock</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3532'>lambs</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1121 5795'>kids</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>for the passover <strongs hebrew='6453'>offerings</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>bullocks</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>were</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4480 7399'>substance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs><strongs hebrew='7311'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='5071'>willingly</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, to the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and to the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2518'>Hilkiah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2148'>Zechariah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3171'>Jehiel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5057'>rulers</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>for the passover <strongs hebrew='6453'>offerings</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><em>small</em> <em>cattle</em> , and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='3562'>Conaniah</strongs>also, and <strongs hebrew='8098'>Shemaiah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5417'>Nethaneel</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2811'>Hashabiah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3273'>Jeiel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3107'>Jozabad</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8269'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7311'>gave</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>for passover <strongs hebrew='6453'>offerings</strongs><strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><em>small</em> <em>cattle</em> , and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>So the <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5977'>place</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4256'>courses</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And they <strongs hebrew='7819'>killed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='2236'>sprinkled</strongs><em>the</em> <em>blood</em> from their <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hands</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='6584'>flayed</strongs><em>them</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>, that they might <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='4653'>divisions</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004 1'>families</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121 5971'>people</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7126'>offer</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, as <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><em>did</em> <em>they</em> with the <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And they <strongs hebrew='1310'>roasted</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='4941'>ordinance</strongs>: but the <em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs><em>offerings</em> <strongs hebrew='1310'>sod</strongs>they in <strongs hebrew='5518'>pots</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='1731'>caldrons</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='6745'>pans</strongs>, and divided <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='7323'>speedily</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121 5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='310'>afterward</strongs>they made <strongs hebrew='3559'>ready</strongs>for themselves, and for the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs><em>were</em> <em>busied</em> in <strongs hebrew='5927'>offering</strongs>of burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='2459'>fat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>; therefore the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>for themselves, and for the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='7891'>singers</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4612'>place</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='623'>Asaph</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1968'>Heman</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3038'>Jeduthun</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2374'>seer</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='7778'>porters</strongs><em>waited</em> at every <strongs hebrew='8179 8179'>gate</strongs>; they might <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>depart</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs><strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>for them. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>So <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5656'>service</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, according to the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2282'>feast</strongs>of unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs>like <strongs hebrew='3644'>to</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>keep</strongs>such a <strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>In the <strongs hebrew='8083 6240'>eighteenth</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4438'>reign</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6453'>passover</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>kept</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs hebrew='310'>After</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepared</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>temple</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5224'>Necho</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3751'>Carchemish</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='6578'>Euphrates</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>But he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>ambassadors</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>have I to do with thee, thou <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>? <em>I</em> <em>come</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thee</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>wherewith I have <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>commanded</strongs>me to make <strongs hebrew='926'>haste</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2308'>forbear</strongs>thee from <em>meddling with</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me, that he <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Nevertheless <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5437'>turn</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>disguised <strongs hebrew='2664'>himself</strongs>, that he might <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>with him, and <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5224'>Necho</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 6310'>mouth</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1237'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4023'>Megiddo</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='3384'>archers</strongs><strongs hebrew='3384'>shot</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, Have me <strongs hebrew='5674'>away</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I am sore <strongs hebrew='2470 3966'>wounded</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>His <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='5674'>took</strongs>him out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariot</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7392'>put</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4932'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariot</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he had; and they <strongs hebrew='1980'>brought</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>in <em>one</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='6913'>sepulchers</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs><strongs hebrew='56'>mourned</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='3414'>Jeremiah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6969'>lamented</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the singing <strongs hebrew='7891'>men</strongs>and the singing <strongs hebrew='7891'>women</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='7015'>lamentations</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>made</strongs>them an <strongs hebrew='2706'>ordinance</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, they <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7015'>lamentations</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2977'>Josiah</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='2617'>goodness</strongs>, according to <em>that</em> <em>which</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3789'>written</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8451'>law</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And his <strongs hebrew='1697'>deeds</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='314'>last</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='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='36'>
            <verse number='1'>Then 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 made him <strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs>in his father's <strongs hebrew='8478 1'>stead</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><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>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>put him <strongs hebrew='5493'>down</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6064'>condemned</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>in 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='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='471'>Eliakim</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</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='5224'>Necho</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='3059'>Jehoahaz</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>carried</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><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 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>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs hebrew='5921'>Against</strongs>him came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='631'>bound</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='5178'>fetters</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1980'>carry</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='935'>carried</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3627'>vessels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>them in his <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>acts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3079'>Jehoiakim</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>, and that which was <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>him, <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='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</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='9'><strongs hebrew='3078'>Jehoiachin</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='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>: 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>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And when the <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8666'>expired</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2532'>goodly</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4427'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>king <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='6667'>Zedekiah</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</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='259 6240'>eleven</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>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>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <em>and</em> humbled not <strongs hebrew='3665 3808'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3414'>Jeremiah</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><em>speaking</em> from the <strongs hebrew='4480 6310'>mouth</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='4775'>rebelled</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5019'>Nebuchadnezzar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>had made him <strongs hebrew='7650'>swear</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: but he <strongs hebrew='7185'>stiffened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6203'>neck</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='553'>hardened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 7725'>turning</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Moreover</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, transgressed very <strongs hebrew='7235 4603 4604'>much</strongs>after <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8441'>abominations</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1471'>heathen</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='2930'>polluted</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='6942'>hallowed</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>, rising up <strongs hebrew='7925'>quickly</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sending</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='2550'>compassion</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>his dwelling <strongs hebrew='4583'>place</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='16'>But they <strongs hebrew='1961 3931'>mocked</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='959'>despised</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8591'>misused</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2534'>wrath</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>arose</strongs>against his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4832'>remedy</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Therefore he <strongs hebrew='5927'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3778'>Chaldees</strongs>, who <strongs hebrew='2026'>slew</strongs>their young <strongs hebrew='970'>men</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='4720'>sanctuary</strongs>, and had no <strongs hebrew='2550 3808'>compassion</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>young <strongs hebrew='970'>man</strongs>or <strongs hebrew='1330'>maiden</strongs>, old <strongs hebrew='2205'>man</strongs>, or him that stooped for <strongs hebrew='3486'>age</strongs>: he <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6996'>small</strongs>, and 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>, and of his <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>these</em> he <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And they <strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and broke <strongs hebrew='5422'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='759'>palaces</strongs>thereof with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4261'>goodly</strongs><strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And them that had <strongs hebrew='7611'>escaped</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>carried he <strongs hebrew='1540'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='894'>Babylon</strongs>; where they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>to him and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='21'>To <strongs hebrew='4390'>fulfill</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3414'>Jeremiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7521'>enjoyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='7676'>sabbaths</strongs>: <em>for</em> as long <strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>as</strongs>she lay <strongs hebrew='8074'>desolate</strongs>she kept <strongs hebrew='7673'>sabbath</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='4390'>fulfill</strongs>threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Now in the <strongs hebrew='259'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>spoken</em> by the <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3414'>Jeremiah</strongs>might be <strongs hebrew='3615'>accomplished</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>stirred <strongs hebrew='5782'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>, that he made a <strongs hebrew='5674 6963'>proclamation</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>, and <em>put</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4385'>writing</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs><strongs hebrew='3566'>Cyrus</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6539'>Persia</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdoms</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>hath the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>me; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6485 5921'>charged</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>is</em> <em>there</em> among you of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>? The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, and let him go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>. </verse>
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