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Book 14 2 Chronicles
14:001:001 And Solomon the son of
David was strengthened in his kingdom,
and the LORD his God
was with him, and magnified him
exceedingly.
14:001:002 Then Solomon spake unto
all Israel, to the captains of
thousands and of
hundreds, and to the judges, and to every
governor in all Israel,
the chief of the fathers.
14:001:003 So Solomon, and all the
congregation with him, went to the
high place that was at
Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of
the congregation of
God, which Moses the servant of the LORD
had made in the
wilderness.
14:001:004 But the ark of God had
David brought up from Kirjathjearim to
the place which David
had prepared for it: for he had pitched
a tent for it at
Jerusalem.
14:001:005 Moreover the brasen
altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, had made,
he put before the tabernacle of the
LORD: and Solomon and
the congregation sought unto it.
14:001:006 And Solomon went up
thither to the brasen altar before the
LORD, which was at the
tabernacle of the congregation, and
offered a thousand
burnt offerings upon it.
14:001:007 In that night did God
appear unto Solomon, and said unto him,
Ask what I shall give
thee.
14:001:008 And Solomon said unto
God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto
David my father, and
hast made me to reign in his stead.
14:001:009 Now, O LORD God, let
thy promise unto David my father be
established: for thou
hast made me king over a people like the
dust of the earth in
multitude.
14:001:010 Give me now wisdom and
knowledge, that I may go out and come
in before this people:
for who can judge this thy people, that
is so great?
14:001:011 And God said to
Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and
thou hast not asked
riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of
thine enemies, neither
yet hast asked long life; but hast
asked wisdom and
knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge
my people, over whom I
have made thee king:
14:001:012 Wisdom and knowledge is
granted unto thee; and I will give
thee riches, and
wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings
have had that have been
before thee, neither shall there any
after thee have the
like.
14:001:013 Then Solomon came from
his journey to the high place that was
at Gibeon to Jerusalem,
from before the tabernacle of the
congregation, and
reigned over Israel.
14:001:014 And Solomon gathered
chariots and horsemen: and he had a
thousand and four
hundred chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen, which he
placed in the chariot cities, and with the
king at Jerusalem.
14:001:015 And the king made
silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as
stones, and cedar trees
made he as the sycomore trees that are
in the vale for
abundance.
14:001:016 And Solomon had horses
brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:
the king's merchants
received the linen yarn at a price.
14:001:017 And they fetched up,
and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot
for six hundred shekels
of silver, and an horse for an hundred
and fifty: and so
brought they out horses for all the kings of
the Hittites, and for
the kings of Syria, by their means.
14:002:001 And Solomon determined
to build an house for the name of the
LORD, and an house for
his kingdom.
14:002:002 And Solomon told out
threescore and ten thousand men to bear
burdens, and fourscore
thousand to hew in the mountain, and
three thousand and six
hundred to oversee them.
14:002:003 And Solomon sent to
Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou
didst deal with David
my father, and didst send him cedars to
build him an house to
dwell therein, even so deal with me.
14:002:004 Behold, I build an
house to the name of the LORD my God, to
dedicate it to him, and
to burn before him sweet incense, and
for the continual
shewbread, and for the burnt offerings
morning and evening, on
the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
and on the solemn
feasts of the LORD our God. This is an
ordinance for ever to
Israel.
14:002:005 And the house which I
build is great: for great is our God
above all gods.
14:002:006 But who is able to
build him an house, seeing the heaven and
heaven of heavens
cannot contain him? who am I then, that I
should build him an
house, save only to burn sacrifice before
him?
14:002:007 Send me now therefore a
man cunning to work in gold, and in
silver, and in brass,
and in iron, and in purple, and crimson,
and blue, and that can
skill to grave with the cunning men
that are with me in
Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my
father did provide.
14:002:008 Send me also cedar
trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of
Lebanon: for I know
that thy servants can skill to cut timber
in Lebanon; and,
behold, my servants shall be with thy
servants,
14:002:009 Even to prepare me
timber in abundance: for the house which I
am about to build shall
be wonderful great.
14:002:010 And, behold, I will
give to thy servants, the hewers that cut
timber, twenty thousand
measures of beaten wheat, and twenty
thousand measures of
barley, and twenty thousand baths of
wine, and twenty
thousand baths of oil.
14:002:011 Then Huram the king of
Tyre answered in writing, which he sent
to Solomon, Because the
LORD hath loved his people, he hath
made thee king over
them.
14:002:012 Huram said moreover,
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that
made heaven and earth,
who hath given to David the king a wise
son, endued with
prudence and understanding, that might build
an house for the LORD,
and an house for his kingdom.
14:002:013 And now I have sent a
cunning man, endued with understanding,
of Huram my father's,
14:002:014 The son of a woman of
the daughters of Dan, and his father was
a man of Tyre, skilful
to work in gold, and in silver, in
brass, in iron, in
stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue,
and in fine linen, and
in crimson; also to grave any manner of
graving, and to find
out every device which shall be put to
him, with thy cunning
men, and with the cunning men of my lord
David thy father.
14:002:015 Now therefore the
wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the
wine, which my lord
hath spoken of, let him send unto his
servants:
14:002:016 And we will cut wood
out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt
need: and we will bring
it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa;
and thou shalt carry it
up to Jerusalem.
14:002:017 And Solomon numbered
all the strangers that were in the land
of Israel, after the
numbering wherewith David his father had
numbered them; and they
were found an hundred and fifty
thousand and three
thousand and six hundred.
14:002:018 And he set threescore
and ten thousand of them to be bearers
of burdens, and
fourscore thousand to be hewers in the
mountain, and three
thousand and six hundred overseers to set
the people a work.
14:003:001 Then Solomon began to
build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem
in mount Moriah, where
the Lord appeared unto David his
father, in the place
that David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
14:003:002 And he began to build
in the second day of the second month,
in the fourth year of
his reign.
14:003:003 Now these are the
things wherein Solomon was instructed for
the building of the
house of God. The length by cubits after
the first measure was
threescore cubits, and the breadth
twenty cubits.
14:003:004 And the porch that was
in the front of the house, the length
of it was according to
the breadth of the house, twenty
cubits, and the height
was an hundred and twenty: and he
overlaid it within with
pure gold.
14:003:005 And the greater house
he cieled with fir tree, which he
overlaid with fine
gold, and set thereon palm trees and
chains.
14:003:006 And he garnished the
house with precious stones for beauty:
and the gold was gold
of Parvaim.
14:003:007 He overlaid also the
house, the beams, the posts, and the
walls thereof, and the
doors thereof, with gold; and graved
cherubims on the walls.
14:003:008 And he made the most
holy house, the length whereof was
according to the
breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the
breadth thereof twenty
cubits: and he overlaid it with fine
gold, amounting to six
hundred talents.
14:003:009 And the weight of the
nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he
overlaid the upper
chambers with gold.
14:003:010 And in the most holy
house he made two cherubims of image
work, and overlaid them
with gold.
14:003:011 And the wings of the
cherubims were twenty cubits long: one
wing of the one cherub
was five cubits, reaching to the wall
of the house: and the
other wing was likewise five cubits,
reaching to the wing of
the other cherub.
14:003:012 And one wing of the
other cherub was five cubits, reaching to
the wall of the house:
and the other wing was five cubits
also, joining to the
wing of the other cherub.
14:003:013 The wings of these
cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
cubits: and they stood
on their feet, and their faces were
inward.
14:003:014 And he made the vail of
blue, and purple, and crimson, and
fine linen, and wrought
cherubims thereon.
14:003:015 Also he made before the
house two pillars of thirty and five
cubits high, and the
chapiter that was on the top of each of
them was five cubits.
14:003:016 And he made chains, as
in the oracle, and put them on the
heads of the pillars;
and made an hundred pomegranates, and
put them on the chains.
14:003:017 And he reared up the
pillars before the temple, one on the
right hand, and the
other on the left; and called the name of
that on the right hand
Jachin, and the name of that on the
left Boaz.
14:004:001 Moreover he made an
altar of brass, twenty cubits the length
thereof, and twenty
cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits
the height thereof.
14:004:002 Also he made a molten
sea of ten cubits from brim to brim,
round in compass, and
five cubits the height thereof; and a
line of thirty cubits
did compass it round about.
14:004:003 And under it was the
similitude of oxen, which did compass it
round about: ten in a
cubit, compassing the sea round about.
Two rows of oxen were
cast, when it was cast.
14:004:004 It stood upon twelve
oxen, three looking toward the north, and
three looking toward
the west, and three looking toward the
south, and three
looking toward the east: and the sea was set
above upon them, and
all their hinder parts were inward.
14:004:005 And the thickness of it
was an handbreadth, and the brim of it
like the work of the
brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies;
and it received and
held three thousand baths.
14:004:006 He made also ten
lavers, and put five on the right hand, and
five on the left, to
wash in them: such things as they offered
for the burnt offering
they washed in them; but the sea was
for the priests to wash
in.
14:004:007 And he made ten
candlesticks of gold according to their form,
and set them in the
temple, five on the right hand, and five
on the left.
14:004:008 He made also ten
tables, and placed them in the temple, five
on the right side, and
five on the left. And he made an
hundred basons of gold.
14:004:009 Furthermore he made the
court of the priests, and the great
court, and doors for
the court, and overlaid the doors of them
with brass.
14:004:010 And he set the sea on
the right side of the east end, over
against the south.
14:004:011 And Huram made the
pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And
Huram finished the work
that he was to make for king Solomon
for the house of God;
14:004:012 To wit, the two
pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters
which were on the top
of the two pillars, and the two wreaths
to cover the two
pommels of the chapiters which were on the
top of the pillars;
14:004:013 And four hundred
pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of
pomegranates on each
wreath, to cover the two pommels of the
chapiters which were
upon the pillars.
14:004:014 He made also bases, and
lavers made he upon the bases;
14:004:015 One sea, and twelve
oxen under it.
14:004:016 The pots also, and the
shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all
their instruments, did
Huram his father make to king Solomon
for the house of the
LORD of bright brass.
14:004:017 In the plain of Jordan
did the king cast them, in the clay
ground between Succoth
and Zeredathah.
14:004:018 Thus Solomon made all
these vessels in great abundance: for
the weight of the brass
could not be found out.
14:004:019 And Solomon made all
the vessels that were for the house of
God, the golden altar
also, and the tables whereon the
shewbread was set;
14:004:020 Moreover the
candlesticks with their lamps, that they should
burn after the manner
before the oracle, of pure gold;
14:004:021 And the flowers, and
the lamps, and the tongs, made he of
gold, and that perfect
gold;
14:004:022 And the snuffers, and
the basons, and the spoons, and the
censers, of pure gold:
and the entry of the house, the inner
doors thereof for the
most holy place, and the doors of the
house of the temple,
were of gold.
14:005:001 Thus all the work that
Solomon made for the house of the LORD
was finished: and
Solomon brought in all the things that David
his father had
dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and
all the instruments,
put he among the treasures of the house
of God.
14:005:002 Then Solomon assembled
the elders of Israel, and all the heads
of the tribes, the
chief of the fathers of the children of
Israel, unto Jerusalem,
to bring up the ark of the covenant of
the LORD out of the
city of David, which is Zion.
14:005:003 Wherefore all the men
of Israel assembled themselves unto the
king in the feast which
was in the seventh month.
14:005:004 And all the elders of
Israel came; and the Levites took up the
ark.
14:005:005 And they brought up the
ark, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and all
the holy vessels that were in the
tabernacle, these did
the priests and the Levites bring up.
14:005:006 Also king Solomon, and
all the congregation of Israel that
were assembled unto him
before the ark, sacrificed sheep and
oxen, which could not
be told nor numbered for multitude.
14:005:007 And the priests brought
in the ark of the covenant of the LORD
unto his place, to the
oracle of the house, into the most holy
place, even under the
wings of the cherubims:
14:005:008 For the cherubims
spread forth their wings over the place of
the ark, and the
cherubims covered the ark and the staves
thereof above.
14:005:009 And they drew out the
staves of the ark, that the ends of the
staves were seen from
the ark before the oracle; but they were
not seen without. And
there it is unto this day.
14:005:010 There was nothing in
the ark save the two tables which Moses
put therein at Horeb,
when the LORD made a covenant with the
children of Israel,
when they came out of Egypt.
14:005:011 And it came to pass,
when the priests were come out of the
holy place: (for all
the priests that were present were
sanctified, and did not
then wait by course:
14:005:012 Also the Levites which
were the singers, all of them of Asaph,
of Heman, of Jeduthun,
with their sons and their brethren,
being arrayed in white
linen, having cymbals and psalteries
and harps, stood at the
east end of the altar, and with them
an hundred and twenty
priests sounding with trumpets:)
14:005:013 It came even to pass,
as the trumpeters and singers were as
one, to make one sound
to be heard in praising and thanking
the LORD; and when they
lifted up their voice with the
trumpets and cymbals
and instruments of musick, and praised
the LORD, saying, For
he is good; for his mercy endureth for
ever: that then the
house was filled with a cloud, even the
house of the LORD;
14:005:014 So that the priests
could not stand to minister by reason of
the cloud: for the
glory of the LORD had filled the house of
God.
14:006:001 Then said Solomon, The
LORD hath said that he would dwell in
the thick darkness.
14:006:002 But I have built an
house of habitation for thee, and a place
for thy dwelling for
ever.
14:006:003 And the king turned his
face, and blessed the whole
congregation of Israel:
and all the congregation of Israel
stood.
14:006:004 And he said, Blessed be
the LORD God of Israel, who hath with
his hands fulfilled
that which he spake with his mouth to my
father David, saying,
14:006:005 Since the day that I
brought forth my people out of the land
of Egypt I chose no
city among all the tribes of Israel to
build an house in, that
my name might be there; neither chose
I any man to be a ruler
over my people Israel:
14:006:006 But I have chosen
Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and
have chosen David to be
over my people Israel.
14:006:007 Now it was in the heart
of David my father to build an house
for the name of the
LORD God of Israel.
14:006:008 But the LORD said to
David my father, Forasmuch as it was in
thine heart to build an
house for my name, thou didst well in
that it was in thine
heart:
14:006:009 Notwithstanding thou
shalt not build the house; but thy son
which shall come forth
out of thy loins, he shall build the
house for my name.
14:006:010 The LORD therefore hath
performed his word that he hath
spoken: for I am risen
up in the room of David my father, and
am set on the throne of
Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
built the house for the
name of the LORD God of Israel.
14:006:011 And in it have I put
the ark, wherein is the covenant of the
LORD, that he made with
the children of Israel.
14:006:012 And he stood before the
altar of the LORD in the presence of
all the congregation of
Israel, and spread forth his hands:
14:006:013 For Solomon had made a
brasen scaffold of five cubits long,
and five cubits broad,
and three cubits high, and had set it
in the midst of the
court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled
down upon his knees
before all the congregation of Israel, and
spread forth his hands
toward heaven.
14:006:014 And said, O LORD God of
Israel, there is no God like thee in
the heaven, nor in the
earth; which keepest covenant, and
shewest mercy unto thy
servants, that walk before thee with
all their hearts:
14:006:015 Thou which hast kept
with thy servant David my father that
which thou hast
promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and
hast fulfilled it with
thine hand, as it is this day.
14:006:016 Now therefore, O LORD
God of Israel, keep with thy servant
David my father that
which thou hast promised him, saying,
There shall not fail
thee a man in my sight to sit upon the
throne of Israel; yet
so that thy children take heed to their
way to walk in my law,
as thou hast walked before me.
14:006:017 Now then, O LORD God of
Israel, let thy word be verified,
which thou hast spoken
unto thy servant David.
14:006:018 But will God in very
deed dwell with men on the earth? behold,
heaven and the heaven
of heavens cannot contain thee; how much
less this house which I
have built!
14:006:019 Have respect therefore
to the prayer of thy servant, and to
his supplication, O
LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and
the prayer which thy
servant prayeth before thee:
14:006:020 That thine eyes may be
open upon this house day and night,
upon the place whereof
thou hast said that thou wouldest put
thy name there; to
hearken unto the prayer which thy servant
prayeth toward this
place.
14:006:021 Hearken therefore unto
the supplications of thy servant, and
of thy people Israel,
which they shall make toward this place:
hear thou from thy
dwelling place, even from heaven; and when
thou hearest, forgive.
14:006:022 If a man sin against
his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon
him to make him swear,
and the oath come before thine altar in
this house;
14:006:023 Then hear thou from
heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by
requiting the wicked,
by recompensing his way upon his own
head; and by justifying
the righteous, by giving him according
to his righteousness.
14:006:024 And if thy people
Israel be put to the worse before the enemy,
because they have
sinned against thee; and shall return and
confess thy name, and
pray and make supplication before thee
in this house;
14:006:025 Then hear thou from the
heavens, and forgive the sin of thy
people Israel, and
bring them again unto the land which thou
gavest to them and to
their fathers.
14:006:026 When the heaven is shut
up, and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against
thee; yet if they pray toward this place,
and confess thy name,
and turn from their sin, when thou dost
afflict them;
14:006:027 Then hear thou from
heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
servants, and of thy
people Israel, when thou hast taught them
the good way, wherein
they should walk; and send rain upon thy
land, which thou hast
given unto thy people for an
inheritance.
14:006:028 If there be dearth in
the land, if there be pestilence, if
there be blasting, or
mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if
their enemies besiege
them in the cities of their land;
whatsoever sore or
whatsoever sickness there be:
14:006:029 Then what prayer or
what supplication soever shall be made of
any man, or of all thy
people Israel, when every one shall
know his own sore and
his own grief, and shall spread forth
his hands in this
house:
14:006:030 Then hear thou from
heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive,
and render unto every
man according unto all his ways, whose
heart thou knowest;
(for thou only knowest the hearts of the
children of men:)
14:006:031 That they may fear
thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they
live in the land which
thou gavest unto our fathers.
14:006:032 Moreover concerning the
stranger, which is not of thy people
Israel, but is come
from a far country for thy great name's
sake, and thy mighty
hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they
come and pray in this
house;
14:006:033 Then hear thou from the
heavens, even from thy dwelling place,
and do according to all
that the stranger calleth to thee for;
that all people of the
earth may know thy name, and fear thee,
as doth thy people
Israel, and may know that this house which
I have built is called
by thy name.
14:006:034 If thy people go out to
war against their enemies by the way
that thou shalt send
them, and they pray unto thee toward this
city which thou hast
chosen, and the house which I have built
for thy name;
14:006:035 Then hear thou from the
heavens their prayer and their
supplication, and
maintain their cause.
14:006:036 If they sin against
thee, (for there is no man which sinneth
not,) and thou be angry
with them, and deliver them over
before their enemies,
and they carry them away captives unto a
land far off or near;
14:006:037 Yet if they bethink
themselves in the land whither they are
carried captive, and
turn and pray unto thee in the land of
their captivity,
saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss,
and have dealt
wickedly;
14:006:038 If they return to thee
with all their heart and with all their
soul in the land of
their captivity, whither they have carried
them captives, and pray
toward their land, which thou gavest
unto their fathers, and
toward the city which thou hast
chosen, and toward the
house which I have built for thy name:
14:006:039 Then hear thou from the
heavens, even from thy dwelling place,
their prayer and their
supplications, and maintain their
cause, and forgive thy
people which have sinned against thee.
14:006:040 Now, my God, let, I
beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let
thine ears be attent
unto the prayer that is made in this
place.
14:006:041 Now therefore arise, O
LORD God, into thy resting place, thou,
and the ark of thy
strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be
clothed with salvation,
and let thy saints rejoice in
goodness.
14:006:042 O LORD God, turn not
away the face of thine anointed: remember
the mercies of David
thy servant.
14:007:001 Now when Solomon had
made an end of praying, the fire came
down from heaven, and
consumed the burnt offering and the
sacrifices; and the
glory of the LORD filled the house.
14:007:002 And the priests could
not enter into the house of the LORD,
because the glory of
the LORD had filled the LORD's house.
14:007:003 And when all the
children of Israel saw how the fire came
down, and the glory of
the LORD upon the house, they bowed
themselves with their
faces to the ground upon the pavement,
and worshipped, and
praised the LORD, saying, For he is good;
for his mercy endureth
for ever.
14:007:004 Then the king and all
the people offered sacrifices before the
LORD.
14:007:005 And king Solomon
offered a sacrifice of twenty and two
thousand oxen, and an
hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so
the king and all the
people dedicated the house of God.
14:007:006 And the priests waited
on their offices: the Levites also with
instruments of musick
of the LORD, which David the king had
made to praise the
LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever,
when David praised by
their ministry; and the priests sounded
trumpets before them,
and all Israel stood.
14:007:007 Moreover Solomon
hallowed the middle of the court that was
before the house of the
LORD: for there he offered burnt
offerings, and the fat
of the peace offerings, because the
brasen altar which
Solomon had made was not able to receive
the burnt offerings,
and the meat offerings, and the fat.
14:007:008 Also at the same time
Solomon kept the feast seven days, and
all Israel with him, a
very great congregation, from the
entering in of Hamath
unto the river of Egypt.
14:007:009 And in the eighth day
they made a solemn assembly: for they
kept the dedication of
the altar seven days, and the feast
seven days.
14:007:010 And on the three and
twentieth day of the seventh month he
sent the people away
into their tents, glad and merry in heart
for the goodness that
the LORD had shewed unto David, and to
Solomon, and to Israel
his people.
14:007:011 Thus Solomon finished
the house of the LORD, and the king's
house: and all that
came into Solomon's heart to make in the
house of the LORD, and
in his own house, he prosperously
effected.
14:007:012 And the LORD appeared
to Solomon by night, and said unto him,
I have heard thy
prayer, and have chosen this place to myself
for an house of
sacrifice.
14:007:013 If I shut up heaven
that there be no rain, or if I command the
locusts to devour the
land, or if I send pestilence among my
people;
14:007:014 If my people, which are
called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray,
and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; then will
I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and will
heal their land.
14:007:015 Now mine eyes shall be
open, and mine ears attent unto the
prayer that is made in
this place.
14:007:016 For now have I chosen
and sanctified this house, that my name
may be there for ever:
and mine eyes and mine heart shall be
there perpetually.
14:007:017 And as for thee, if
thou wilt walk before me, as David thy
father walked, and do
according to all that I have commanded
thee, and shalt observe
my statutes and my judgments;
14:007:018 Then will I stablish
the throne of thy kingdom, according as I
have covenanted with
David thy father, saying, There shall not
fail thee a man to be
ruler in Israel.
14:007:019 But if ye turn away,
and forsake my statutes and my
commandments, which I
have set before you, and shall go and
serve other gods, and
worship them;
14:007:020 Then will I pluck them
up by the roots out of my land which I
have given them; and
this house, which I have sanctified for
my name, will I cast
out of my sight, and will make it to be a
proverb and a byword
among all nations.
14:007:021 And this house, which
is high, shall be an astonishment to
every one that passeth
by it; so that he shall say, Why hath
the LORD done thus unto
this land, and unto this house?
14:007:022 And it shall be
answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of
their fathers, which
brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, and laid hold on
other gods, and worshipped them, and
served them: therefore
hath he brought all this evil upon
them.
14:008:001 And it came to pass at
the end of twenty years, wherein
Solomon had built the
house of the LORD, and his own house,
14:008:002 That the cities which
Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon
built them, and caused
the children of Israel to dwell there.
14:008:003 And Solomon went to
Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
14:008:004 And he built Tadmor in
the wilderness, and all the store
cities, which he built
in Hamath.
14:008:005 Also he built Bethhoron
the upper, and Bethhoron the nether,
fenced cities, with
walls, gates, and bars;
14:008:006 And Baalath, and all
the store cities that Solomon had, and
all the chariot cities,
and the cities of the horsemen, and
all that Solomon
desired to build in Jerusalem, and in
Lebanon, and throughout
all the land of his dominion.
14:008:007 As for all the people
that were left of the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, which were
not of Israel,
14:008:008 But of their children,
who were left after them in the land,
whom the children of
Israel consumed not, them did Solomon
make to pay tribute
until this day.
14:008:009 But of the children of
Israel did Solomon make no servants for
his work; but they were
men of war, and chief of his captains,
and captains of his
chariots and horsemen.
14:008:010 And these were the
chief of king Solomon's officers, even two
hundred and fifty, that
bare rule over the people.
14:008:011 And Solomon brought up
the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city
of David unto the house
that he had built for her: for he
said, My wife shall not
dwell in the house of David king of
Israel, because the
places are holy, whereunto the ark of the
LORD hath come.
14:008:012 Then Solomon offered
burnt offerings unto the LORD on the
altar of the LORD,
which he had built before the porch,
14:008:013 Even after a certain
rate every day, offering according to the
commandment of Moses,
on the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
and on the solemn
feasts, three times in the year, even in the
feast of unleavened
bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in
the feast of
tabernacles.
14:008:014 And he appointed,
according to the order of David his father,
the courses of the
priests to their service, and the Levites
to their charges, to
praise and minister before the priests,
as the duty of every
day required: the porters also by their
courses at every gate:
for so had David the man of God
commanded.
14:008:015 And they departed not
from the commandment of the king unto
the priests and Levites
concerning any matter, or concerning
the treasures.
14:008:016 Now all the work of
Solomon was prepared unto the day of the
foundation of the house
of the LORD, and until it was
finished. So the house
of the LORD was perfected.
14:008:017 Then went Solomon to
Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side
in the land of Edom.
14:008:018 And Huram sent him by
the hands of his servants ships, and
servants that had
knowledge of the sea; and they went with the
servants of Solomon to
Ophir, and took thence four hundred and
fifty talents of gold,
and brought them to king Solomon.
14:009:001 And when the queen of
Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she
came to prove Solomon
with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a
very great company, and
camels that bare spices, and gold in
abundance, and precious
stones: and when she was come to
Solomon, she communed
with him of all that was in her heart.
14:009:002 And Solomon told her
all her questions: and there was nothing
hid from Solomon which
he told her not.
14:009:003 And when the queen of
Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon,
and the house that he
had built,
14:009:004 And the meat of his
table, and the sitting of his servants,
and the attendance of
his ministers, and their apparel; his
cupbearers also, and
their apparel; and his ascent by which he
went up into the house
of the LORD; there was no more spirit
in her.
14:009:005 And she said to the
king, It was a true report which I heard
in mine own land of
thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
14:009:006 Howbeit I believed not
their words, until I came, and mine
eyes had seen it: and,
behold, the one half of the greatness
of thy wisdom was not
told me: for thou exceedest the fame
that I heard.
14:009:007 Happy are thy men, and
happy are these thy servants, which
stand continually
before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
14:009:008 Blessed be the LORD thy
God, which delighted in thee to set
thee on his throne, to
be king for the LORD thy God: because
thy God loved Israel,
to establish them for ever, therefore
made he thee king over
them, to do judgment and justice.
14:009:009 And she gave the king
an hundred and twenty talents of gold,
and of spices great
abundance, and precious stones: neither
was there any such
spice as the queen of Sheba gave king
Solomon.
14:009:010 And the servants also
of Huram, and the servants of Solomon,
which brought gold from
Ophir, brought algum trees and
precious stones.
14:009:011 And the king made of
the algum trees terraces to the house of
the LORD, and to the
king's palace, and harps and psalteries
for singers: and there
were none such seen before in the land
of Judah.
14:009:012 And king Solomon gave
to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked,
beside that which she had brought unto
the king. So she
turned, and went away to her own land, she
and her servants.
14:009:013 Now the weight of gold
that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred and
threescore and six talents of gold;
14:009:014 Beside that which
chapmen and merchants brought. And all the
kings of Arabia and
governors of the country brought gold and
silver to Solomon.
14:009:015 And king Solomon made
two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
hundred shekels of
beaten gold went to one target.
14:009:016 And three hundred
shields made he of beaten gold: three
hundred shekels of gold
went to one shield. And the king put
them in the house of
the forest of Lebanon.
14:009:017 Moreover the king made
a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
it with pure gold.
14:009:018 And there were six
steps to the throne, with a footstool of
gold, which were
fastened to the throne, and stays on each
side of the sitting
place, and two lions standing by the
stays:
14:009:019 And twelve lions stood
there on the one side and on the other
upon the six steps.
There was not the like made in any
kingdom.
14:009:020 And all the drinking
vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and
all the vessels of the
house of the forest of Lebanon were of
pure gold: none were of
silver; it was not any thing accounted
of in the days of
Solomon.
14:009:021 For the king's ships
went to Tarshish with the servants of
Huram: every three
years once came the ships of Tarshish
bringing gold, and
silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
14:009:022 And king Solomon passed
all the kings of the earth in riches
and wisdom.
14:009:023 And all the kings of
the earth sought the presence of Solomon,
to hear his wisdom,
that God had put in his heart.
14:009:024 And they brought every
man his present, vessels of silver, and
vessels of gold, and
raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and
mules, a rate year by
year.
14:009:025 And Solomon had four
thousand stalls for horses and chariots,
and twelve thousand
horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot
cities, and with the
king at Jerusalem.
14:009:026 And he reigned over all
the kings from the river even unto the
land of the
Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
14:009:027 And the king made
silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
trees made he as the
sycomore trees that are in the low plains
in abundance.
14:009:028 And they brought unto
Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of
all lands.
14:009:029 Now the rest of the
acts of Solomon, first and last, are they
not written in the book
of Nathan the prophet, and in the
prophecy of Ahijah the
Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo
the seer against
Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
14:009:030 And Solomon reigned in
Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
14:009:031 And Solomon slept with
his fathers, and he was buried in the
city of David his
father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
stead.
14:010:001 And Rehoboam went to
Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel
come to make him king.
14:010:002 And it came to pass,
when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was
in Egypt, whither he
fled from the presence of Solomon the
king, heard it, that
Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
14:010:003 And they sent and
called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came
and spake to Rehoboam,
saying,
14:010:004 Thy father made our
yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou
somewhat the grievous
servitude of thy father, and his heavy
yoke that he put upon
us, and we will serve thee.
14:010:005 And he said unto them,
Come again unto me after three days.
And the people
departed.
14:010:006 And king Rehoboam took
counsel with the old men that had stood
before Solomon his
father while he yet lived, saying, What
counsel give ye me to
return answer to this people?
14:010:007 And they spake unto
him, saying, If thou be kind to this
people, and please
them, and speak good words to them, they
will be thy servants
for ever.
14:010:008 But he forsook the
counsel which the old men gave him, and
took counsel with the
young men that were brought up with him,
that stood before him.
14:010:009 And he said unto them,
What advice give ye that we may return
answer to this people,
which have spoken to me, saying, Ease
somewhat the yoke that
thy father did put upon us?
14:010:010 And the young men that
were brought up with him spake unto
him, saying, Thus shalt
thou answer the people that spake unto
thee, saying, Thy
father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it
somewhat lighter for
us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My
little finger shall be
thicker than my father's loins.
14:010:011 For whereas my father
put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put
more to your yoke: my
father chastised you with whips, but I
will chastise you with
scorpions.
14:010:012 So Jeroboam and all the
people came to Rehoboam on the third
day, as the king bade,
saying, Come again to me on the third
day.
14:010:013 And the king answered
them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook
the counsel of the old
men,
14:010:014 And answered them after
the advice of the young men, saying,
My father made your
yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my
father chastised you
with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions.
14:010:015 So the king hearkened
not unto the people: for the cause was
of God, that the LORD
might perform his word, which he spake
by the hand of Ahijah
the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of
Nebat.
14:010:016 And when all Israel saw
that the king would not hearken unto
them, the people
answered the king, saying, What portion have
we in David? and we
have none inheritance in the son of Jesse:
every man to your
tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to
thine own house. So all
Israel went to their tents.
14:010:017 But as for the children
of Israel that dwelt in the cities of
Judah, Rehoboam reigned
over them.
14:010:018 Then king Rehoboam sent
Hadoram that was over the tribute; and
the children of Israel
stoned him with stones, that he died.
But king Rehoboam made
speed to get him up to his chariot, to
flee to Jerusalem.
14:010:019 And Israel rebelled
against the house of David unto this day.
14:011:001 And when Rehoboam was
come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the
house of Judah and
Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand
chosen men, which were
warriors, to fight against Israel, that
he might bring the
kingdom again to Rehoboam.
14:011:002 But the word of the
LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God,
saying,
14:011:003 Speak unto Rehoboam the
son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to
all Israel in Judah and
Benjamin, saying,
14:011:004 Thus saith the LORD, Ye
shall not go up, nor fight against
your brethren: return
every man to his house: for this thing
is done of me. And they
obeyed the words of the LORD, and
returned from going
against Jeroboam.
14:011:005 And Rehoboam dwelt in
Jerusalem, and built cities for defence
in Judah.
14:011:006 He built even
Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
14:011:007 And Bethzur, and Shoco,
and Adullam,
14:011:008 And Gath, and Mareshah,
and Ziph,
14:011:009 And Adoraim, and
Lachish, and Azekah,
14:011:010 And Zorah, and Aijalon,
and Hebron, which are in Judah and in
Benjamin fenced cities.
14:011:011 And he fortified the
strong holds, and put captains in them,
and store of victual,
and of oil and wine.
14:011:012 And in every several
city he put shields and spears, and made
them exceeding strong,
having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
14:011:013 And the priests and the
Levites that were in all Israel
resorted to him out of
all their coasts.
14:011:014 For the Levites left
their suburbs and their possession, and
came to Judah and
Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had
cast them off from
executing the priest's office unto the
LORD:
14:011:015 And he ordained him
priests for the high places, and for the
devils, and for the
calves which he had made.
14:011:016 And after them out of
all the tribes of Israel such as set
their hearts to seek
the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem,
to sacrifice unto the
LORD God of their fathers.
14:011:017 So they strengthened
the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam
the son of Solomon
strong, three years: for three years they
walked in the way of
David and Solomon.
14:011:018 And Rehoboam took him
Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the
son of David to wife,
and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the
son of Jesse;
14:011:019 Which bare him
children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
14:011:020 And after her he took
Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which
bare him Abijah, and
Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
14:011:021 And Rehoboam loved
Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all
his wives and his
concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and
threescore concubines;
and begat twenty and eight sons, and
threescore daughters.)
14:011:022 And Rehoboam made
Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be
ruler among his
brethren: for he thought to make him king.
14:011:023 And he dealt wisely,
and dispersed of all his children
throughout all the
countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every
fenced city: and he
gave them victual in abundance. And he
desired many wives.
14:012:001 And it came to pass,
when Rehoboam had established the
kingdom, and had
strengthened himself, he forsook the law of
the LORD, and all
Israel with him.
14:012:002 And it came to pass,
that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam
Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem, because they
had transgressed
against the LORD,
14:012:003 With twelve hundred
chariots, and threescore thousand
horsemen: and the
people were without number that came with
him out of Egypt; the
Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the
Ethiopians.
14:012:004 And he took the fenced
cities which pertained to Judah, and
came to Jerusalem.
14:012:005 Then came Shemaiah the
prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes
of Judah, that were
gathered together to Jerusalem because of
Shishak, and said unto
them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have
forsaken me, and
therefore have I also left you in the hand of
Shishak.
14:012:006 Whereupon the princes
of Israel and the king humbled
themselves; and they
said, The LORD is righteous.
14:012:007 And when the LORD saw
that they humbled themselves, the word
of the LORD came to
Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled
themselves; therefore I
will not destroy them, but I will
grant them some
deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured
out upon Jerusalem by
the hand of Shishak.
14:012:008 Nevertheless they shall
be his servants; that they may know my
service, and the
service of the kingdoms of the countries.
14:012:009 So Shishak king of
Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took
away the treasures of
the house of the LORD, and the treasures
of the king's house; he
took all: he carried away also the
shields of gold which
Solomon had made.
14:012:010 Instead of which king
Rehoboam made shields of brass, and
committed them to the
hands of the chief of the guard, that
kept the entrance of
the king's house.
14:012:011 And when the king
entered into the house of the LORD, the
guard came and fetched
them, and brought them again into the
guard chamber.
14:012:012 And when he humbled
himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from
him, that he would not
destroy him altogether: and also in
Judah things went well.
14:012:013 So king Rehoboam
strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and
reigned: for Rehoboam
was one and forty years old when he
began to reign, and he
reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
the city which the LORD
had chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel, to put his name
there. And his mother's name was
Naamah an Ammonitess.
14:012:014 And he did evil,
because he prepared not his heart to seek the
LORD.
14:012:015 Now the acts of
Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written
in the book of Shemaiah
the prophet, and of Iddo the seer
concerning genealogies?
And there were wars between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam
continually.
14:012:016 And Rehoboam slept with
his fathers, and was buried in the
city of David: and
Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
14:013:001 Now in the eighteenth
year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to
reign over Judah.
14:013:002 He reigned three years
in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
was Michaiah the
daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was
war between Abijah and
Jeroboam.
14:013:003 And Abijah set the
battle in array with an army of valiant men
of war, even four
hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also
set the battle in array
against him with eight hundred
thousand chosen men,
being mighty men of valour.
14:013:004 And Abijah stood up
upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount
Ephraim, and said, Hear
me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
14:013:005 Ought ye not to know
that the LORD God of Israel gave the
kingdom over Israel to
David for ever, even to him and to his
sons by a covenant of
salt?
14:013:006 Yet Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son
of David, is risen up,
and hath rebelled against his lord.
14:013:007 And there are gathered
unto him vain men, the children of
Belial, and have
strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the
son of Solomon, when
Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and
could not withstand
them.
14:013:008 And now ye think to
withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the
hand of the sons of
David; and ye be a great multitude, and
there are with your
golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for
gods.
14:013:009 Have ye not cast out
the priests of the LORD, the sons of
Aaron, and the Levites,
and have made you priests after the
manner of the nations
of other lands? so that whosoever cometh
to consecrate himself
with a young bullock and seven rams, the
same may be a priest of
them that are no gods.
14:013:010 But as for us, the LORD
is our God, and we have not forsaken
him; and the priests,
which minister unto the LORD, are the
sons of Aaron, and the
Levites wait upon their business:
14:013:011 And they burn unto the
LORD every morning and every evening
burnt sacrifices and
sweet incense: the shewbread also set
they in order upon the
pure table; and the candlestick of gold
with the lamps thereof,
to burn every evening: for we keep the
charge of the LORD our
God; but ye have forsaken him.
14:013:012 And, behold, God
himself is with us for our captain, and his
priests with sounding
trumpets to cry alarm against you. O
children of Israel,
fight ye not against the LORD God of your
fathers; for ye shall
not prosper.
14:013:013 But Jeroboam caused an
ambushment to come about behind them:
so they were before
Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
14:013:014 And when Judah looked
back, behold, the battle was before and
behind: and they cried
unto the LORD, and the priests sounded
with the trumpets.
14:013:015 Then the men of Judah
gave a shout: and as the men of Judah
shouted, it came to
pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all
Israel before Abijah
and Judah.
14:013:016 And the children of
Israel fled before Judah: and God
delivered them into
their hand.
14:013:017 And Abijah and his
people slew them with a great slaughter: so
there fell down slain
of Israel five hundred thousand chosen
men.
14:013:018 Thus the children of
Israel were brought under at that time,
and the children of
Judah prevailed, because they relied upon
the LORD God of their
fathers.
14:013:019 And Abijah pursued
after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
Bethel with the towns
thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns
thereof, and Ephraim
with the towns thereof.
14:013:020 Neither did Jeroboam
recover strength again in the days of
Abijah: and the LORD
struck him, and he died.
14:013:021 But Abijah waxed
mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat
twenty and two sons,
and sixteen daughters.
14:013:022 And the rest of the
acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his
sayings, are written in
the story of the prophet Iddo.
14:014:001 So Abijah slept with
his fathers, and they buried him in the
city of David: and Asa
his son reigned in his stead. In his
days the land was quiet
ten years.
14:014:002 And Asa did that which
was good and right in the eyes of the
LORD his God:
14:014:003 For he took away the
altars of the strange gods, and the high
places, and brake down
the images, and cut down the groves:
14:014:004 And commanded Judah to
seek the LORD God of their fathers, and
to do the law and the
commandment.
14:014:005 Also he took away out
of all the cities of Judah the high
places and the images:
and the kingdom was quiet before him.
14:014:006 And he built fenced
cities in Judah: for the land had rest,
and he had no war in
those years; because the LORD had given
him rest.
14:014:007 Therefore he said unto
Judah, Let us build these cities, and
make about them walls,
and towers, gates, and bars, while the
land is yet before us;
because we have sought the LORD our
God, we have sought
him, and he hath given us rest on every
side. So they built and
prospered.
14:014:008 And Asa had an army of
men that bare targets and spears, out
of Judah three hundred
thousand; and out of Benjamin, that
bare shields and drew
bows, two hundred and fourscore
thousand: all these
were mighty men of valour.
14:014:009 And there came out
against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an
host of a thousand
thousand, and three hundred chariots; and
came unto Mareshah.
14:014:010 Then Asa went out
against him, and they set the battle in
array in the valley of
Zephathah at Mareshah.
14:014:011 And Asa cried unto the
LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is
nothing with thee to
help, whether with many, or with them
that have no power:
help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on
thee, and in thy name
we go against this multitude. O LORD,
thou art our God; let
no man prevail against thee.
14:014:012 So the LORD smote the
Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah;
and the Ethiopians
fled.
14:014:013 And Asa and the people
that were with him pursued them unto
Gerar: and the
Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not
recover themselves; for
they were destroyed before the LORD,
and before his host;
and they carried away very much spoil.
14:014:014 And they smote all the
cities round about Gerar; for the fear
of the LORD came upon
them: and they spoiled all the cities;
for there was exceeding
much spoil in them.
14:014:015 They smote also the
tents of cattle, and carried away sheep
and camels in
abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
14:015:001 And the Spirit of God
came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
14:015:002 And he went out to meet
Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me,
Asa, and all Judah and
Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while
ye be with him; and if
ye seek him, he will be found of you;
but if ye forsake him,
he will forsake you.
14:015:003 Now for a long season
Israel hath been without the true God,
and without a teaching
priest, and without law.
14:015:004 But when they in their
trouble did turn unto the LORD God of
Israel, and sought him,
he was found of them.
14:015:005 And in those times
there was no peace to him that went out,
nor to him that came
in, but great vexations were upon all the
inhabitants of the
countries.
14:015:006 And nation was
destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God
did vex them with all
adversity.
14:015:007 Be ye strong therefore,
and let not your hands be weak: for
your work shall be
rewarded.
14:015:008 And when Asa heard
these words, and the prophecy of Oded the
prophet, he took
courage, and put away the abominable idols
out of all the land of
Judah and Benjamin, and out of the
cities which he had
taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the
altar of the LORD, that
was before the porch of the LORD.
14:015:009 And he gathered all
Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with
them out of Ephraim and
Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they
fell to him out of
Israel in abundance, when they saw that the
LORD his God was with
him.
14:015:010 So they gathered
themselves together at Jerusalem in the third
month, in the fifteenth
year of the reign of Asa.
14:015:011 And they offered unto
the LORD the same time, of the spoil
which they had brought,
seven hundred oxen and seven thousand
sheep.
14:015:012 And they entered into a
covenant to seek the LORD God of their
fathers with all their
heart and with all their soul;
14:015:013 That whosoever would
not seek the LORD God of Israel should be
put to death, whether
small or great, whether man or woman.
14:015:014 And they sware unto the
LORD with a loud voice, and with
shouting, and with
trumpets, and with cornets.
14:015:015 And all Judah rejoiced
at the oath: for they had sworn with
all their heart, and
sought him with their whole desire; and
he was found of them:
and the LORD gave them rest round about.
14:015:016 And also concerning
Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he
removed her from being
queen, because she had made an idol in
a grove: and Asa cut
down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt
it at the brook Kidron.
14:015:017 But the high places
were not taken away out of Israel:
nevertheless the heart
of Asa was perfect all his days.
14:015:018 And he brought into the
house of God the things that his
father had dedicated,
and that he himself had dedicated,
silver, and gold, and
vessels.
14:015:019 And there was no more
war unto the five and thirtieth year of
the reign of Asa.
14:016:001 In the six and
thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king
of Israel came up
against Judah, and built Ramah, to the
intent that he might
let none go out or come in to Asa king of
Judah.
14:016:002 Then Asa brought out
silver and gold out of the treasures of
the house of the LORD
and of the king's house, and sent to
Benhadad king of Syria,
that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
14:016:003 There is a league
between me and thee, as there was between my
father and thy father:
behold, I have sent thee silver and
gold; go, break thy
league with Baasha king of Israel, that he
may depart from me.
14:016:004 And Benhadad hearkened
unto king Asa, and sent the captains of
his armies against the
cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon,
and Dan, and Abelmaim,
and all the store cities of Naphtali.
14:016:005 And it came to pass,
when Baasha heard it, that he left off
building of Ramah, and
let his work cease.
14:016:006 Then Asa the king took
all Judah; and they carried away the
stones of Ramah, and
the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was
building; and he built
therewith Geba and Mizpah.
14:016:007 And at that time Hanani
the seer came to Asa king of Judah,
and said unto him,
Because thou hast relied on the king of
Syria, and not relied
on the LORD thy God, therefore is the
host of the king of
Syria escaped out of thine hand.
14:016:008 Were not the Ethiopians
and the Lubims a huge host, with very
many chariots and
horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on
the LORD, he delivered
them into thine hand.
14:016:009 For the eyes of the
LORD run to and fro throughout the whole
earth, to shew himself
strong in the behalf of them whose
heart is perfect toward
him. Herein thou hast done foolishly:
therefore from
henceforth thou shalt have wars.
14:016:010 Then Asa was wroth with
the seer, and put him in a prison
house; for he was in a
rage with him because of this thing.
And Asa oppressed some
of the people the same time.
14:016:011 And, behold, the acts
of Asa, first and last, lo, they are
written in the book of
the kings of Judah and Israel.
14:016:012 And Asa in the thirty
and ninth year of his reign was diseased
in his feet, until his
disease was exceeding great: yet in his
disease he sought not
to the LORD, but to the physicians.
14:016:013 And Asa slept with his
fathers, and died in the one and
fortieth year of his
reign.
14:016:014 And they buried him in
his own sepulchres, which he had made
for himself in the city
of David, and laid him in the bed
which was filled with
sweet odours and divers kinds of spices
prepared by the
apothecaries' art: and they made a very great
burning for him.
14:017:001 And Jehoshaphat his son
reigned in his stead, and strengthened
himself against Israel.
14:017:002 And he placed forces in
all the fenced cities of Judah, and
set garrisons in the
land of Judah, and in the cities of
Ephraim, which Asa his
father had taken.
14:017:003 And the LORD was with
Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the
first ways of his
father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
14:017:004 But sought to the Lord
God of his father, and walked in his
commandments, and not
after the doings of Israel.
14:017:005 Therefore the LORD
stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all
Judah brought to
Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and
honour in abundance.
14:017:006 And his heart was
lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover
he took away the high
places and groves out of Judah.
14:017:007 Also in the third year
of his reign he sent to his princes,
even to Benhail, and to
Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to
Nethaneel, and to
Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
14:017:008 And with them he sent
Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah,
and Zebadiah, and
Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and
Adonijah, and Tobijah,
and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them
Elishama and Jehoram,
priests.
14:017:009 And they taught in
Judah, and had the book of the law of the
LORD with them, and
went about throughout all the cities of
Judah, and taught the
people.
14:017:010 And the fear of the
LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the
lands that were round
about Judah, so that they made no war
against Jehoshaphat.
14:017:011 Also some of the
Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and
tribute silver; and the
Arabians brought him flocks, seven
thousand and seven
hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven
hundred he goats.
14:017:012 And Jehoshaphat waxed
great exceedingly; and he built in Judah
castles, and cities of
store.
14:017:013 And he had much
business in the cities of Judah: and the men
of war, mighty men of
valour, were in Jerusalem.
14:017:014 And these are the
numbers of them according to the house of
their fathers: Of
Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the
chief, and with him
mighty men of valour three hundred
thousand.
14:017:015 And next to him was
Jehohanan the captain, and with him two
hundred and fourscore
thousand.
14:017:016 And next him was
Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly
offered himself unto
the LORD; and with him two hundred
thousand mighty men of
valour.
14:017:017 And of Benjamin; Eliada
a mighty man of valour, and with him
armed men with bow and
shield two hundred thousand.
14:017:018 And next him was
Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and
fourscore thousand
ready prepared for the war.
14:017:019 These waited on the
king, beside those whom the king put in
the fenced cities
throughout all Judah.
14:018:001 Now Jehoshaphat had
riches and honour in abundance, and joined
affinity with Ahab.
14:018:002 And after certain years
he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And
Ahab killed sheep and
oxen for him in abundance, and for the
people that he had with
him, and persuaded him to go up with
him to Ramothgilead.
14:018:003 And Ahab king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
Wilt thou go with me to
Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I
am as thou art, and my
people as thy people; and we will be
with thee in the war.
14:018:004 And Jehoshaphat said
unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray
thee, at the word of
the LORD to day.
14:018:005 Therefore the king of
Israel gathered together of prophets
four hundred men, and
said unto them, Shall we go to
Ramothgilead to battle,
or shall I forbear? And they said, Go
up; for God will
deliver it into the king's hand.
14:018:006 But Jehoshaphat said,
Is there not here a prophet of the LORD
besides, that we might
enquire of him?
14:018:007 And the king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one
man, by whom we may
enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for
he never prophesied
good unto me, but always evil: the same is
Micaiah the son of Imla.
And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the
king say so.
14:018:008 And the king of Israel
called for one of his officers, and
said, Fetch quickly
Micaiah the son of Imla.
14:018:009 And the king of Israel
and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat
either of them on his
throne, clothed in their robes, and they
sat in a void place at
the entering in of the gate of Samaria;
and all the prophets
prophesied before them.
14:018:010 And Zedekiah the son of
Chenaanah had made him horns of iron,
and said, Thus saith
the LORD, With these thou shalt push
Syria until they be
consumed.
14:018:011 And all the prophets
prophesied so, saying, Go up to
Ramothgilead, and
prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into
the hand of the king.
14:018:012 And the messenger that
went to call Micaiah spake to him,
saying, Behold, the
words of the prophets declare good to the
king with one assent;
let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be
like one of their's,
and speak thou good.
14:018:013 And Micaiah said, As
the LORD liveth, even what my God saith,
that will I speak.
14:018:014 And when he was come to
the king, the king said unto him,
Micaiah, shall we go to
Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I
forbear? And he said,
Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be
delivered into your
hand.
14:018:015 And the king said to
him, How many times shall I adjure thee
that thou say nothing
but the truth to me in the name of the
LORD?
14:018:016 Then he said, I did see
all Israel scattered upon the
mountains, as sheep
that have no shepherd: and the LORD said,
These have no master;
let them return therefore every man to
his house in peace.
14:018:017 And the king of Israel
said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
thee that he would not
prophesy good unto me, but evil?
14:018:018 Again he said,
Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the
LORD sitting upon his
throne, and all the host of heaven
standing on his right
hand and on his left.
14:018:019 And the LORD said, Who
shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that
he may go up and fall
at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying
after this manner, and
another saying after that manner.
14:018:020 Then there came out a
spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
said, I will entice
him. And the LORD said unto him,
Wherewith?
14:018:021 And he said, I will go
out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth
of all his prophets.
And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him,
and thou shalt also
prevail: go out, and do even so.
14:018:022 Now therefore, behold,
the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
mouth of these thy
prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
against thee.
14:018:023 Then Zedekiah the son
of Chenaanah came near, and smote
Micaiah upon the cheek,
and said, Which way went the Spirit of
the LORD from me to
speak unto thee?
14:018:024 And Micaiah said,
Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou
shalt go into an inner
chamber to hide thyself.
14:018:025 Then the king of Israel
said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him
back to Amon the
governor of the city, and to Joash the king's
son;
14:018:026 And say, Thus saith the
king, Put this fellow in the prison,
and feed him with bread
of affliction and with water of
affliction, until I
return in peace.
14:018:027 And Micaiah said, If
thou certainly return in peace, then hath
not the LORD spoken by
me. And he said, Hearken, all ye
people.
14:018:028 So the king of Israel
and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went
up to Ramothgilead.
14:018:029 And the king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
myself, and I will go
to the battle; but put thou on thy
robes. So the king of
Israel disguised himself; and they went
to the battle.
14:018:030 Now the king of Syria
had commanded the captains of the
chariots that were with
him, saying, Fight ye not with small
or great, save only
with the king of Israel.
14:018:031 And it came to pass,
when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they
said, It is the king of Israel.
Therefore they
compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat
cried out, and the LORD
helped him; and God moved them to
depart from him.
14:018:032 For it came to pass,
that, when the captains of the chariots
perceived that it was
not the king of Israel, they turned back
again from pursuing
him.
14:018:033 And a certain man drew
a bow at a venture, and smote the king
of Israel between the
joints of the harness: therefore he said
to his chariot man,
Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me
out of the host; for I
am wounded.
14:018:034 And the battle
increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel
stayed himself up in
his chariot against the Syrians until the
even: and about the
time of the sun going down he died.
14:019:001 And Jehoshaphat the
king of Judah returned to his house in
peace to Jerusalem.
14:019:002 And Jehu the son of
Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and
said to king
Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and
love them that hate the
LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee
from before the LORD.
14:019:003 Nevertheless there are
good things found in thee, in that thou
hast taken away the
groves out of the land, and hast prepared
thine heart to seek
God.
14:019:004 And Jehoshaphat dwelt
at Jerusalem: and he went out again
through the people from
Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and
brought them back unto
the LORD God of their fathers.
14:019:005 And he set judges in
the land throughout all the fenced cities
of Judah, city by city,
14:019:006 And said to the judges,
Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not
for man, but for the
LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
14:019:007 Wherefore now let the
fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed
and do it: for there is
no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor
respect of persons, nor
taking of gifts.
14:019:008 Moreover in Jerusalem
did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and
of the priests, and of
the chief of the fathers of Israel, for
the judgment of the
LORD, and for controversies, when they
returned to Jerusalem.
14:019:009 And he charged them,
saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of
the LORD, faithfully,
and with a perfect heart.
14:019:010 And what cause soever
shall come to you of your brethren that
dwell in your cities,
between blood and blood, between law and
commandment, statutes
and judgments, ye shall even warn them
that they trespass not
against the LORD, and so wrath come
upon you, and upon your
brethren: this do, and ye shall not
trespass.
14:019:011 And, behold, Amariah
the chief priest is over you in all
matters of the LORD;
and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the
ruler of the house of
Judah, for all the king's matters: also
the Levites shall be
officers before you. Deal courageously,
and the LORD shall be
with the good.
14:020:001 It came to pass after
this also, that the children of Moab,
and the children of
Ammon, and with them other beside the
Ammonites, came against
Jehoshaphat to battle.
14:020:002 Then there came some
that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There
cometh a great
multitude against thee from beyond the sea on
this side Syria; and,
behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which
is Engedi.
14:020:003 And Jehoshaphat feared,
and set himself to seek the LORD, and
proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judah.
14:020:004 And Judah gathered
themselves together, to ask help of the
LORD: even out of all
the cities of Judah they came to seek
the LORD.
14:020:005 And Jehoshaphat stood
in the congregation of Judah and
Jerusalem, in the house
of the LORD, before the new court,
14:020:006 And said, O LORD God of
our fathers, art not thou God in
heaven? and rulest not
thou over all the kingdoms of the
heathen? and in thine
hand is there not power and might, so
that none is able to
withstand thee?
14:020:007 Art not thou our God,
who didst drive out the inhabitants of
this land before thy
people Israel, and gavest it to the seed
of Abraham thy friend
for ever?
14:020:008 And they dwelt therein,
and have built thee a sanctuary
therein for thy name,
saying,
14:020:009 If, when evil cometh
upon us, as the sword, judgment, or
pestilence, or famine,
we stand before this house, and in thy
presence, (for thy name
is in this house,) and cry unto thee
in our affliction, then
thou wilt hear and help.
14:020:010 And now, behold, the
children of Ammon and Moab and mount
Seir, whom thou
wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came
out of the land of
Egypt, but they turned from them, and
destroyed them not;
14:020:011 Behold, I say, how they
reward us, to come to cast us out of
thy possession, which
thou hast given us to inherit.
14:020:012 O our God, wilt thou
not judge them? for we have no might
against this great
company that cometh against us; neither
know we what to do: but
our eyes are upon thee.
14:020:013 And all Judah stood
before the LORD, with their little ones,
their wives, and their
children.
14:020:014 Then upon Jahaziel the
son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah,
the son of Jeiel, the
son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons
of Asaph, came the
Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the
congregation;
14:020:015 And he said, Hearken
ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and thou
king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto
you, Be not afraid nor
dismayed by reason of this great
multitude; for the
battle is not yours, but God's.
14:020:016 To morrow go ye down
against them: behold, they come up by the
cliff of Ziz; and ye
shall find them at the end of the brook,
before the wilderness
of Jeruel.
14:020:017 Ye shall not need to
fight in this battle: set yourselves,
stand ye still, and see
the salvation of the LORD with you, O
Judah and Jerusalem:
fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go
out against them: for
the LORD will be with you.
14:020:018 And Jehoshaphat bowed
his head with his face to the ground:
and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the
LORD, worshipping the
LORD.
14:020:019 And the Levites, of the
children of the Kohathites, and of the
children of the
Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of
Israel with a loud
voice on high.
14:020:020 And they rose early in
the morning, and went forth into the
wilderness of Tekoa:
and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood
and said, Hear me, O
Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Believe in the LORD
your God, so shall ye be established;
believe his prophets,
so shall ye prosper.
14:020:021 And when he had
consulted with the people, he appointed
singers unto the LORD,
and that should praise the beauty of
holiness, as they went
out before the army, and to say, Praise
the LORD; for his mercy
endureth for ever.
14:020:022 And when they began to
sing and to praise, the LORD set
ambushments against the
children of Ammon, Moab, and mount
Seir, which were come
against Judah; and they were smitten.
14:020:023 For the children of
Ammon and Moab stood up against the
inhabitants of mount
Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them:
and when they had made
an end of the inhabitants of Seir,
every one helped to
destroy another.
14:020:024 And when Judah came
toward the watch tower in the wilderness,
they looked unto the
multitude, and, behold, they were dead
bodies fallen to the
earth, and none escaped.
14:020:025 And when Jehoshaphat
and his people came to take away the
spoil of them, they
found among them in abundance both riches
with the dead bodies,
and precious jewels, which they stripped
off for themselves,
more than they could carry away: and they
were three days in
gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
14:020:026 And on the fourth day
they assembled themselves in the valley
of Berachah; for there
they blessed the LORD: therefore the
name of the same place
was called, The valley of Berachah,
unto this day.
14:020:027 Then they returned,
every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and
Jehoshaphat in the
forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem
with joy; for the LORD
had made them to rejoice over their
enemies.
14:020:028 And they came to
Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and
trumpets unto the house
of the LORD.
14:020:029 And the fear of God was
on all the kingdoms of those
countries, when they
had heard that the LORD fought against
the enemies of Israel.
14:020:030 So the realm of
Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him
rest round about.
14:020:031 And Jehoshaphat reigned
over Judah: he was thirty and five
years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned twenty and
five years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the
daughter of Shilhi.
14:020:032 And he walked in the
way of Asa his father, and departed not
from it, doing that
which was right in the sight of the LORD.
14:020:033 Howbeit the high places
were not taken away: for as yet the
people had not prepared
their hearts unto the God of their
fathers.
14:020:034 Now the rest of the
acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last,
behold, they are
written in the book of Jehu the son of
Hanani, who is
mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
14:020:035 And after this did
Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with
Ahaziah king of Israel,
who did very wickedly:
14:020:036 And he joined himself
with him to make ships to go to
Tarshish: and they made
the ships in Eziongaber.
14:020:037 Then Eliezer the son of
Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against
Jehoshaphat, saying,
Because thou hast joined thyself with
Ahaziah, the LORD hath
broken thy works. And the ships were
broken, that they were
not able to go to Tarshish.
14:021:001 Now Jehoshaphat slept
with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city
of David. And Jehoram his son reigned
in his stead.
14:021:002 And he had brethren the
sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and
Jehiel, and Zechariah,
and Azariah, and Michael, and
Shephatiah: all these
were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of
Israel.
14:021:003 And their father gave
them great gifts of silver, and of gold,
and of precious things,
with fenced cities in Judah: but the
kingdom gave he to
Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
14:021:004 Now when Jehoram was
risen up to the kingdom of his father, he
strengthened himself,
and slew all his brethren with the
sword, and divers also
of the princes of Israel.
14:021:005 Jehoram was thirty and
two years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eight
years in Jerusalem.
14:021:006 And he walked in the
way of the kings of Israel, like as did
the house of Ahab: for
he had the daughter of Ahab to wife:
and he wrought that
which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
14:021:007 Howbeit the LORD would
not destroy the house of David, because
of the covenant that he
had made with David, and as he
promised to give a
light to him and to his sons for ever.
14:021:008 In his days the
Edomites revolted from under the dominion of
Judah, and made
themselves a king.
14:021:009 Then Jehoram went forth
with his princes, and all his chariots
with him: and he rose
up by night, and smote the Edomites
which compassed him in,
and the captains of the chariots.
14:021:010 So the Edomites
revolted from under the hand of Judah unto
this day. The same time
also did Libnah revolt from under his
hand; because he had
forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
14:021:011 Moreover he made high
places in the mountains of Judah and
caused the inhabitants
of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and
compelled Judah
thereto.
14:021:012 And there came a
writing to him from Elijah the prophet,
saying, Thus saith the
LORD God of David thy father, Because
thou hast not walked in
the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father,
nor in the ways of Asa
king of Judah,
14:021:013 But hast walked in the
way of the kings of Israel, and hast
made Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring,
like to the whoredoms
of the house of Ahab, and also hast
slain thy brethren of
thy father's house, which were better
than thyself:
14:021:014 Behold, with a great
plague will the LORD smite thy people,
and thy children, and
thy wives, and all thy goods:
14:021:015 And thou shalt have
great sickness by disease of thy bowels,
until thy bowels fall
out by reason of the sickness day by
day.
14:021:016 Moreover the LORD
stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
Philistines, and of the
Arabians, that were near the
Ethiopians:
14:021:017 And they came up into
Judah, and brake into it, and carried
away all the substance
that was found in the king's house, and
his sons also, and his
wives; so that there was never a son
left him, save Jehoahaz,
the youngest of his sons.
14:021:018 And after all this the
LORD smote him in his bowels with an
incurable disease.
14:021:019 And it came to pass,
that in process of time, after the end of
two years, his bowels
fell out by reason of his sickness: so
he died of sore
diseases. And his people made no burning for
him, like the burning
of his fathers.
14:021:020 Thirty and two years
old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem
eight years, and departed without being
desired. Howbeit they
buried him in the city of David, but not
in the sepulchres of
the kings.
14:022:001 And the inhabitants of
Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son
king in his stead: for
the band of men that came with the
Arabians to the camp
had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the
son of Jehoram king of
Judah reigned.
14:022:002 Forty and two years old
was Ahaziah when he began to reign,
and he reigned one year
in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
was Athaliah the
daughter of Omri.
14:022:003 He also walked in the
ways of the house of Ahab: for his
mother was his
counsellor to do wickedly.
14:022:004 Wherefore he did evil
in the sight of the LORD like the house
of Ahab: for they were
his counsellors after the death of his
father to his
destruction.
14:022:005 He walked also after
their counsel, and went with Jehoram the
son of Ahab king of
Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria
at Ramothgilead: and
the Syrians smote Joram.
14:022:006 And he returned to be
healed in Jezreel because of the wounds
which were given him at
Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king
of Syria. And Azariah
the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
down to see Jehoram the
son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was
sick.
14:022:007 And the destruction of
Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram:
for when he was come,
he went out with Jehoram against Jehu
the son of Nimshi, whom
the LORD had anointed to cut off the
house of Ahab.
14:022:008 And it came to pass,
that, when Jehu was executing judgment
upon the house of Ahab,
and found the princes of Judah, and
the sons of the
brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to
Ahaziah, he slew them.
14:022:009 And he sought Ahaziah:
and they caught him, (for he was hid in
Samaria,) and brought
him to Jehu: and when they had slain
him, they buried him:
Because, said they, he is the son of
Jehoshaphat, who sought
the LORD with all his heart. So the
house of Ahaziah had no
power to keep still the kingdom.
14:022:010 But when Athaliah the
mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and
destroyed all the seed royal of the house
of Judah.
14:022:011 But Jehoshabeath, the
daughter of the king, took Joash the son
of Ahaziah, and stole
him from among the king's sons that were
slain, and put him and
his nurse in a bedchamber. So
Jehoshabeath, the
daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of
Jehoiada the priest,
(for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid
him from Athaliah, so
that she slew him not.
14:022:012 And he was with them
hid in the house of God six years: and
Athaliah reigned over
the land.
14:023:001 And in the seventh year
Jehoiada strengthened himself, and
took the captains of
hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and
Ishmael the son of
Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and
Maaseiah the son of
Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri,
into covenant with him.
14:023:002 And they went about in
Judah, and gathered the Levites out of
all the cities of
Judah, and the chief of the fathers of
Israel, and they came
to Jerusalem.
14:023:003 And all the
congregation made a covenant with the king in the
house of God. And he
said unto them, Behold, the king's son
shall reign, as the
LORD hath said of the sons of David.
14:023:004 This is the thing that
ye shall do; A third part of you
entering on the sabbath,
of the priests and of the Levites,
shall be porters of the
doors;
14:023:005 And a third part shall
be at the king's house; and a third
part at the gate of the
foundation: and all the people shall
be in the courts of the
house of the LORD.
14:023:006 But let none come into
the house of the LORD, save the
priests, and they that
minister of the Levites; they shall go
in, for they are holy:
but all the people shall keep the watch
of the LORD.
14:023:007 And the Levites shall
compass the king round about, every man
with his weapons in his
hand; and whosoever else cometh into
the house, he shall be
put to death: but be ye with the king
when he cometh in, and
when he goeth out.
14:023:008 So the Levites and all
Judah did according to all things that
Jehoiada the priest had
commanded, and took every man his men
that were to come in on
the sabbath, with them that were to go
out on the sabbath: for
Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the
courses.
14:023:009 Moreover Jehoiada the
priest delivered to the captains of
hundreds spears, and
bucklers, and shields, that had been king
David's, which were in
the house of God.
14:023:010 And he set all the
people, every man having his weapon in his
hand, from the right
side of the temple to the left side of
the temple, along by
the altar and the temple, by the king
round about.
14:023:011 Then they brought out
the king's son, and put upon him the
crown, and gave him the
testimony, and made him king. And
Jehoiada and his sons
anointed him, and said, God save the
king.
14:023:012 Now when Athaliah heard
the noise of the people running and
praising the king, she
came to the people into the house of
the LORD:
14:023:013 And she looked, and,
behold, the king stood at his pillar at
the entering in, and
the princes and the trumpets by the king:
and all the people of
the land rejoiced, and sounded with
trumpets, also the
singers with instruments of musick, and
such as taught to sing
praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes,
and said, Treason,
Treason.
14:023:014 Then Jehoiada the
priest brought out the captains of hundreds
that were set over the
host, and said unto them, Have her
forth of the ranges:
and whoso followeth her, let him be slain
with the sword. For the
priest said, Slay her not in the house
of the LORD.
14:023:015 So they laid hands on
her; and when she was come to the
entering of the horse
gate by the king's house, they slew her
there.
14:023:016 And Jehoiada made a
covenant between him, and between all the
people, and between the
king, that they should be the LORD's
people.
14:023:017 Then all the people
went to the house of Baal, and brake it
down, and brake his
altars and his images in pieces, and slew
Mattan the priest of
Baal before the altars.
14:023:018 Also Jehoiada appointed
the offices of the house of the LORD
by the hand of the
priests the Levites, whom David had
distributed in the
house of the LORD, to offer the burnt
offerings of the LORD,
as it is written in the law of Moses,
with rejoicing and with
singing, as it was ordained by David.
14:023:019 And he set the porters
at the gates of the house of the LORD,
that none which was
unclean in any thing should enter in.
14:023:020 And he took the
captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the
governors of the
people, and all the people of the land, and
brought down the king
from the house of the LORD: and they
came through the high
gate into the king's house, and set the
king upon the throne of
the kingdom.
14:023:021 And all the people of
the land rejoiced: and the city was
quiet, after that they
had slain Athaliah with the sword.
14:024:001 Joash was seven years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned forty years in
Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
Zibiah of Beersheba.
14:024:002 And Joash did that
which was right in the sight of the LORD
all the days of
Jehoiada the priest.
14:024:003 And Jehoiada took for
him two wives; and he begat sons and
daughters.
14:024:004 And it came to pass
after this, that Joash was minded to
repair the house of the
LORD.
14:024:005 And he gathered
together the priests and the Levites, and said
to them, Go out unto
the cities of Judah, and gather of all
Israel money to repair
the house of your God from year to
year, and see that ye
hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites
hastened it not.
14:024:006 And the king called for
Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him,
Why hast thou not
required of the Levites to bring in out of
Judah and out of
Jerusalem the collection, according to the
commandment of Moses
the servant of the LORD, and of the
congregation of Israel,
for the tabernacle of witness?
14:024:007 For the sons of
Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the
house of God; and also
all the dedicated things of the house
of the LORD did they
bestow upon Baalim.
14:024:008 And at the king's
commandment they made a chest, and set it
without at the gate of
the house of the LORD.
14:024:009 And they made a
proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to
bring in to the LORD
the collection that Moses the servant of
God laid upon Israel in
the wilderness.
14:024:010 And all the princes and
all the people rejoiced, and brought
in, and cast into the
chest, until they had made an end.
14:024:011 Now it came to pass,
that at what time the chest was brought
unto the king's office
by the hand of the Levites, and when
they saw that there was
much money, the king's scribe and the
high priest's officer
came and emptied the chest, and took it,
and carried it to his
place again. Thus they did day by day,
and gathered money in
abundance.
14:024:012 And the king and
Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of
the service of the
house of the LORD, and hired masons and
carpenters to repair
the house of the LORD, and also such as
wrought iron and brass
to mend the house of the LORD.
14:024:013 So the workmen wrought,
and the work was perfected by them,
and they set the house
of God in his state, and strengthened
it.
14:024:014 And when they had
finished it, they brought the rest of the
money before the king
and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels
for the house of the
LORD, even vessels to minister, and to
offer withal, and
spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And
they offered burnt
offerings in the house of the LORD
continually all the
days of Jehoiada.
14:024:015 But Jehoiada waxed old,
and was full of days when he died; an
hundred and thirty
years old was he when he died.
14:024:016 And they buried him in
the city of David among the kings,
because he had done
good in Israel, both toward God, and
toward his house.
14:024:017 Now after the death of
Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and
made obeisance to the
king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
14:024:018 And they left the house
of the LORD God of their fathers, and
served groves and
idols: and wrath came upon Judah and
Jerusalem for this
their trespass.
14:024:019 Yet he sent prophets to
them, to bring them again unto the
LORD; and they
testified against them: but they would not give
ear.
14:024:020 And the Spirit of God
came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
the priest, which stood
above the people, and said unto them,
Thus saith God, Why
transgress ye the commandments of the
LORD, that ye cannot
prosper? because ye have forsaken the
LORD, he hath also
forsaken you.
14:024:021 And they conspired
against him, and stoned him with stones at
the commandment of the
king in the court of the house of the
LORD.
14:024:022 Thus Joash the king
remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada
his father had done to
him, but slew his son. And when he
died, he said, The LORD
look upon it, and require it.
14:024:023 And it came to pass at
the end of the year, that the host of
Syria came up against
him: and they came to Judah and
Jerusalem, and
destroyed all the princes of the people from
among the people, and
sent all the spoil of them unto the king
of Damascus.
14:024:024 For the army of the
Syrians came with a small company of men,
and the LORD delivered
a very great host into their hand,
because they had
forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So
they executed judgment
against Joash.
14:024:025 And when they were
departed from him, (for they left him in
great diseases,) his
own servants conspired against him for
the blood of the sons
of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on
his bed, and he died:
and they buried him in the city of
David, but they buried
him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
14:024:026 And these are they that
conspired against him; Zabad the son
of Shimeath an
Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a
Moabitess.
14:024:027 Now concerning his
sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid
upon him, and the
repairing of the house of God, behold, they
are written in the
story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah
his son reigned in his
stead.
14:025:001 Amaziah was twenty and
five years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned twenty
and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
14:025:002 And he did that which
was right in the sight of the LORD, but
not with a perfect
heart.
14:025:003 Now it came to pass,
when the kingdom was established to him,
that he slew his
servants that had killed the king his father.
14:025:004 But he slew not their
children, but did as it is written in
the law in the book of
Moses, where the LORD commanded,
saying, The fathers
shall not die for the children, neither
shall the children die
for the fathers, but every man shall
die for his own sin.
14:025:005 Moreover Amaziah
gathered Judah together, and made them
captains over
thousands, and captains over hundreds, according
to the houses of their
fathers, throughout all Judah and
Benjamin: and he
numbered them from twenty years old and
above, and found them
three hundred thousand choice men, able
to go forth to war,
that could handle spear and shield.
14:025:006 He hired also an
hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of
Israel for an hundred
talents of silver.
14:025:007 But there came a man of
God to him, saying, O king, let not
the army of Israel go
with thee; for the LORD is not with
Israel, to wit, with
all the children of Ephraim.
14:025:008 But if thou wilt go, do
it; be strong for the battle: God
shall make thee fall
before the enemy: for God hath power to
help, and to cast down.
14:025:009 And Amaziah said to the
man of God, But what shall we do for
the hundred talents
which I have given to the army of Israel?
And the man of God
answered, The LORD is able to give thee
much more than this.
14:025:010 Then Amaziah separated
them, to wit, the army that was come to
him out of Ephraim, to
go home again: wherefore their anger
was greatly kindled
against Judah, and they returned home in
great anger.
14:025:011 And Amaziah
strengthened himself, and led forth his people,
and went to the valley
of salt, and smote of the children of
Seir ten thousand.
14:025:012 And other ten thousand
left alive did the children of Judah
carry away captive, and
brought them unto the top of the rock,
and cast them down from
the top of the rock, that they all
were broken in pieces.
14:025:013 But the soldiers of the
army which Amaziah sent back, that
they should not go with
him to battle, fell upon the cities of
Judah, from Samaria
even unto Bethhoron, and smote three
thousand of them, and
took much spoil.
14:025:014 Now it came to pass,
after that Amaziah was come from the
slaughter of the
Edomites, that he brought the gods of the
children of Seir, and
set them up to be his gods, and bowed
down himself before
them, and burned incense unto them.
14:025:015 Wherefore the anger of
the LORD was kindled against Amaziah,
and he sent unto him a
prophet, which said unto him, Why hast
thou sought after the
gods of the people, which could not
deliver their own
people out of thine hand?
14:025:016 And it came to pass, as
he talked with him, that the king said
unto him, Art thou made
of the king's counsel? forbear; why
shouldest thou be
smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said,
I know that God hath
determined to destroy thee, because thou
hast done this, and
hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
14:025:017 Then Amaziah king of
Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the
son of Jehoahaz, the
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying,
Come, let us see one
another in the face.
14:025:018 And Joash king of
Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle
that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
was in Lebanon, saying,
Give thy daughter to my son to wife:
and there passed by a
wild beast that was in Lebanon, and
trode down the thistle.
14:025:019 Thou sayest, Lo, thou
hast smitten the Edomites; and thine
heart lifteth thee up
to boast: abide now at home; why
shouldest thou meddle
to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
even thou, and Judah
with thee?
14:025:020 But Amaziah would not
hear; for it came of God, that he might
deliver them into the
hand of their enemies, because they
sought after the gods
of Edom.
14:025:021 So Joash the king of
Israel went up; and they saw one another
in the face, both he
and Amaziah king of Judah, at
Bethshemesh, which
belongeth to Judah.
14:025:022 And Judah was put to
the worse before Israel, and they fled
every man to his tent.
14:025:023 And Joash the king of
Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the
son of Joash, the son
of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought
him to Jerusalem, and
brake down the wall of Jerusalem from
the gate of Ephraim to
the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14:025:024 And he took all the
gold and the silver, and all the vessels
that were found in the
house of God with Obededom, and the
treasures of the king's
house, the hostages also, and returned
to Samaria.
14:025:025 And Amaziah the son of
Joash king of Judah lived after the
death of Joash son of
Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
14:025:026 Now the rest of the
acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold,
are they not written in
the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel?
14:025:027 Now after the time that
Amaziah did turn away from following
the LORD they made a
conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and
he fled to Lachish: but
they sent to Lachish after him, and
slew him there.
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