2 Chronicles
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"Title":
The Book of 2 Chronicles was originally one book with 1 Chronicles in the
Hebrew text. They were divided by the translators of the Septuagint and
were entitled "Things Left Behind" (i.e., details not included in Samuel
and Kings). The Hebrew title, "Daily Matters" like the English title,
implies an important and detailed narrative account. Written by the priests
of Israel, the books of Chronicles view Israel's religious institutions,
the temple, priesthood, offerings and feasts, as the essential elements of
her national life.
"Authorship":
Many believe that Ezra, a Levitical priest and teacher, answered those
questions by writing 1 and 2 Chronicles as a history of the monarchy for
the returning exiles.
The case for Ezra's authorship is well established in Jewish tradition. He
was of priestly descent and Levitical training, as well as being the
spiritual leader of the new state of Judah after the return from Babylonian
captivity. Thus, he would have had access to the records of state and other
official documents (compare 16:11; 20:34; 25:26; 28:26; 32:32; 35:27; 36:8;
see also the note on 1 Chronicles 29:29). Critical arguments for a third
century B.C. date are totally unwarranted. Besides, the need for such a
book to establish national credibility was much more crucial for Ezra's
community than for the Hasmonean leaders in the second century B.C.
"Historical Setting":
The individual reigns of the descendants of David are featured, from the
time of Solomon until the fall of Jerusalem under Zedekiah (in 586 B.C.). A
concluding note concerning the edict of Cyrus the Great permitting the Jews
to return to Jerusalem is added at the end. Throughout 1 and 2 Chronicles
the emphasis is strictly on the southern kingdom of Judah, whose fortunes
are viewed in light of her faithfulness to God's commandments and the
institutions of Israel's religious faith. The political fate of Judah is
also seen against the rising power of Babylon and Persia, although the
book's major theme is that Judah is falling because of internal weaknesses
brought about by her failure to remain faithful to God.
Returning to their homeland after 70 years of captivity, the Israelites
were the very definition of an unsettle, transitioning people. Guides might
be able to lead them 900 miles to Jerusalem, but who would help them
understand the implications of that journey? Who would give them a context
for what it meant to be the people of God?
The temple of the Lord in Jerusalem is a thread throughout 2 Chronicles,
beginning with the construction and dedication of the first temple, built
by Solomon and ending with a decree by the king of Persia to rebuild that
temple after it lay desolate for 70 years. In between these two events, 2
Chronicles records the temple's fate throughout the history of the
monarchy.
"What it Says":
The terms temple, house of God, and house of the Lord occur 139 times (in 2
Chronicles), indicating what was on the author's mind as he wrote. That
concern can be summarized under six headings:
"Solomon's Temple":
The first nine chapters are about Solomon. His accession to power over the
united nation proved God's promise to establish David's throne with great
blessing. But six of those chapters pertain to Solomon's greatest and most
important achievement, building a "house" for the Lord in Jerusalem. The
earthly dwelling place of God. Nothing symbolized God's presence among His
people more than the temple (chapters 1-9).
"Hezekiah's Rule":
After the kingdom divided, all the rulers of the northern kingdom (Israel),
and most in the southern kingdom (Judah), defied the Lord's commands. The
worship of God in the temple was compromised, and the temple fell into
disrepair. The eleventh king of Judah, Hezekiah, repaired and purified the
temple and reinstated worship in Jerusalem according to the instructions
given by God through Moses (chapters 29-32).
"Josiah's Rule":
The two kings who followed Hezekiah, Manasseh and Amon, allowed Judah to
lapse into idolatrous worship again. But when Josiah became king, he
destroyed the idols, repaired the temple again, and led the people to a
renewed devotion to the covenant and to God (chapters 34:1 - 36:1).
"Desecration and Destruction of the Temple":
The three kings who followed Josiah allowed the temple to again be
desecrated (36:14). God sent the Babylonian armies to destroy Jerusalem and
burn its temple during the reign of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah.
"Decree to Rebuild the Temple":
After 70 years in Babylon, which became the Persian kingdom, God moved the
Persian king Cyrus to allow the Jews to return to Judah and rebuild the
temple (36:23). As much as the destruction of the temple was a sign of
God's absence among His people, so the decree to rebuild it was a sign of
His enduring care for His people.
"What it Means":
The destruction of the temple was a devastating consequence of Israel's
sin. But the hope and challenge of 2 Chronicles is that despite the
pervasiveness of sin (6:36), repentance and restoration will win the day.
"The Temple":
Many who were taken captive probably died in Babylon, wondering what the
destruction of the temple meant for the future of Israel. Ezekiel, in
Babylon with the captives, saw in a vision the glory of the Lord filling
the temple again (Ezek. 43:4; 44:4). But the temple had been left in
rubble. To rebuild it, Israel would need to repent. The hope for rebuilding
was fulfilled when Cyrus decreed the return of the Jews.
"Purity":
Both Hezekiah and Josiah took steps to purify the temple and undertook
major repairs to prepare it for proper use (chapters 29, 34). In both
cases, God's holy dwelling place had been misused and made common, a
storage and living space.
"Word of God":
God had spoken through Moses and the prophets. He expected that His people
would pay attention to His Word and obey it. Anyone who either perpetually
ignored it or stubbornly disobeyed it would reap the consequences. Anyone
who listened and obeyed would find blessing. And those who disobeyed but
repented would know God's deliverance and restoration (as did Manasseh in
chapter 33).
"What it Means for You":
God no longer dwells in a physical temple of stone, but the New Testament
says a believer's very body and spirit are together a temple where He
truly, literally, resides. Paul wrote to the church at Corinth: "Do you not
know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you ... you
were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your
spirit" (1 Cor. 6:19-20).
Some estimate that Solomon's temple would cost billions of dollars to build
in today's money. But God purchased each of His children with the more
costly and precious, priceless blood of Jesus.
Just as the Lord paid careful attention to how His people treated His
temple, so He takes note of the choices we make, our priorities, and the
directions we pursue. They are no longer "our own" because we no longer
belong to ourselves but wholly and completely to God. This is the single
most important truth about our lives.
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2 Chronicles 1
2 Chronicles Chapter 1
2 Chronicles 1:1 "And Solomon the son of
David was strengthened in his kingdom, and
the LORD his God [was] with him, and
magnified him exceedingly."
2 Chronicles 1:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 1:3 "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."
2 Chronicles 1:4 "But the ark of God had
David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to
[the place which] David had prepared for
it: for he had pitched a tent for it at
Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 1:5 "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."
2 Chronicles 1:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 1:7 "In that night did God
appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask
what I shall give thee."
2 Chronicles 1:8 "And Solomon said unto
God, Thou hast showed great mercy unto
David my father, and hast made me to reign
in his stead."
2 Chronicles 1:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 1:10 "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?"
2 Chronicles 1:11 "And God said to Solomon,
Because this was in thine heart, and thou
hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor,
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:"
2 Chronicles 1:12 "Wisdom and knowledge
[is] granted unto thee; and I will give
thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as
none of the kings have had that [have been]
before thee, neither shall there any after
thee have the like."
2 Chronicles 1:13 "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."
2 Chronicles 1:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 1:15 "And the king made silver
and gold at Jerusalem [as plenteous] as
stones, and cedar trees made he as the
sycamore trees that [are] in the vale for
abundance."
2 Chronicles 1:16 "And Solomon had horses
brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the
king's merchants received the linen yarn at
a price."
2 Chronicles 1:17 "And they fetched up, and
brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for
six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a
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."
2 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles Chapter 2
2 Chronicles 2:1 "And Solomon determined to
build a house for the name of the LORD, and
an house for his kingdom."
2 Chronicles 2:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 2:3 "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 a house to dwell
therein, [even so deal with me]."
2 Chronicles 2:4 "Behold, I build a 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 showbread,
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."
2 Chronicles 2:5 "And the house which I
build [is] great: for great [is] our God
above all gods."
2 Chronicles 2:6 "But who is able to build
him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven
of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I
then, that I should build him a house, save
only to burn sacrifice before him?"
2 Chronicles 2:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 2:8 "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,"
2 Chronicles 2:9 "Even to prepare me timber
in abundance: for the house which I am
about to build [shall be] wonderful great."
2 Chronicles 2:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 2:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 2:12 "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 a house for the LORD, and a house for
his kingdom."
2 Chronicles 2:13 "And now I have sent a
cunning man, endued with understanding, of
Huram my father's,"
2 Chronicles 2:14 "The son of a woman of
the daughters of Dan, and his father [was]
a man of Tyre, skillful 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."
2 Chronicles 2:15 "Now therefore the wheat,
and the barley, the oil, and the wine,
which my lord hath spoken of, let him send
unto his servants:"
2 Chronicles 2:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 2:17 "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 a hundred and fifty thousand and
three thousand and six hundred."
2 Chronicles 2:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 3
2 Chronicles Chapter 3
2 Chronicles 3:1 "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 threshing floor
of Ornan the Jebusite."
2 Chronicles 3:2 "And he began to build in
the second [day] of the second month, in
the fourth year of his reign."
2 Chronicles 3:3 "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."
2 Chronicles 3:4 "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]
a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it
within with pure gold."
2 Chronicles 3:5 "And the greater house he
ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid
with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees
and chains."
2 Chronicles 3:6 "And he garnished the
house with precious stones for beauty: and
the gold [was] gold of Parvaim."
2 Chronicles 3:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 3:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 3:9 "And the weight of the
nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he
overlaid the upper chambers with gold."
2 Chronicles 3:10 "And in the most holy
house he made two cherubims of image work,
and overlaid them with gold."
2 Chronicles 3:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 3:12 "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."
2 Chronicles 3:13 "The wings of these
cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
cubits: and they stood on their feet, and
their faces [were] inward."
2 Chronicles 3:14 "And he made the veil
[of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and
fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon."
2 Chronicles 3:15 "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."
2 Chronicles 3:16 "And he made chains, [as]
in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads
of the pillars; and made a hundred
pomegranates, and put [them] on the
chains."
2 Chronicles 3:17 "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."
2 Chronicles 4
2 Chronicles Chapter 4
2 Chronicles 4:1 Moreover he made an altar
of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof,
and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and
ten cubits the height thereof.
2 Chronicles 4:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 4:3 "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."
2 Chronicles 4:4 "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."
2 Chronicles 4:5 "And the thickness of it
[was] a 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."
2 Chronicles 4:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 4:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 4:8 "He made also ten tables,
and placed [them] in the temple, five on
the right side, and five on the left. And
he made a hundred basins of gold."
2 Chronicles 4:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 4:10 "And he set the sea on
the right side of the east end, over
against the south."
2 Chronicles 4:11 "And Huram made the pots,
and the shovels, and the basins. And Huram
finished the work that he was to make for
king Solomon for the house of God;"
2 Chronicles 4:12 "[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;"
2 Chronicles 4:13 "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."
2 Chronicles 4:14 "He made also bases, and
lavers made he upon the bases;"
2 Chronicles 4:15 "One sea, and twelve oxen
under it."
2 Chronicles 4:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 4:17 "In the plain of Jordan
did the king cast them, in the clay ground
between Succoth and Zeredathah."
2 Chronicles 4:18 "Thus Solomon made all
these vessels in great abundance: for the
weight of the brass could not be found
out."
2 Chronicles 4:19 "And Solomon made all the
vessels that [were for] the house of God,
the golden altar also, and the tables
whereon the showbread [was set];"
2 Chronicles 4:20 "Moreover the
candlesticks with their lamps, that they
should burn after the manner before the
oracle, of pure gold;"
2 Chronicles 4:21 "And the flowers, and the
lamps, and the tongs, [made he of] gold,
[and] that perfect gold;"
2 Chronicles 4:22 "And the snuffers, and
the basins, 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."
2 Chronicles 5
2 Chronicles Chapter 5
2 Chronicles 5:1 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.
2 Chronicles 5:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 5:3 "Wherefore all the men of
Israel assembled themselves unto the king
in the feast which [was] in the seventh
month."
2 Chronicles 5:4 "And all the elders of
Israel came; and the Levites took up the
ark."
2 Chronicles 5:5 "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."
2 Chronicles 5:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 5:7 "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:"
2 Chronicles 5:8 "For the cherubims spread
forth [their] wings over the place of the
ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and
the staves thereof above."
2 Chronicles 5:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 5:10 "[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."
2 Chronicles 5:11 "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:"
2 Chronicles 5:12 "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 a hundred and twenty priests
sounding with trumpets:)"
2 Chronicles 5:13 "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 music, 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;"
2 Chronicles 5:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 6
2 Chronicles Chapter 6
2 Chronicles 6:1 "Then said Solomon, The
LORD hath said that he would dwell in the
thick darkness."
2 Chronicles 6:2 "But I have built a house
of habitation for thee, and a place for thy
dwelling for ever."
2 Chronicles 6:3 "And the king turned his
face, and blessed the whole congregation of
Israel: and all the congregation of Israel
stood."
2 Chronicles 6:4 "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,"
2 Chronicles 6:5 "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 a house in, that my name
might be there; neither chose I any man to
be a ruler over my people Israel:"
2 Chronicles 6:6 "But I have chosen
Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and
have chosen David to be over my people
Israel."
2 Chronicles 6:7 "Now it was in the heart
of David my father to build a house for the
name of the LORD God of Israel."
2 Chronicles 6:8 "But the LORD said to
David my father, Forasmuch as it was in
thine heart to build a house for my name,
thou didst well in that it was in thine
heart:"
2 Chronicles 6:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:11 "And in it have I put the
ark, wherein [is] the covenant of the LORD,
that he made with the children of Israel."
2 Chronicles 6:12 "And he stood before the
altar of the LORD in the presence of all
the congregation of Israel, and spread
forth his hands:"
2 Chronicles 6:13 "For Solomon had made a
brazen 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,"
2 Chronicles 6:14 "And said, O LORD God of
Israel, [there is] no God like thee in the
heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest
covenant, and [showest] mercy unto thy
servants, that walk before thee with all
their hearts:"
2 Chronicles 6:15 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:17 "Now then, O LORD God of
Israel, let thy word be verified, which
thou hast spoken unto thy servant David."
2 Chronicles 6:18 "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!"
2 Chronicles 6:19 "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:"
2 Chronicles 6:20 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:21 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:22 "If a man sin against his
neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to
make him swear, and the oath come before
thine altar in this house;"
2 Chronicles 6:23 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:24 "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;"
2 Chronicles 6:25 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:26 "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;"
2 Chronicles 6:27 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:28 "If there be dearth in
the land, if there be pestilence, if there
be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or
caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them
in the cities of their land; whatsoever
sore or whatsoever sickness [there be]:"
2 Chronicles 6:29 "[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:"
2 Chronicles 6:30 "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:)"
2 Chronicles 6:31 "That they may fear thee,
to walk in thy ways, so long as they live
in the land which thou gavest unto our
fathers."
2 Chronicles 6:32 "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;"
2 Chronicles 6:33 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:34 "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;"
2 Chronicles 6:35 "Then hear thou from the
heavens their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause."
2 Chronicles 6:36 "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;"
2 Chronicles 6:37 "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;"
2 Chronicles 6:38 "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:"
2 Chronicles 6:39 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:40 "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."
2 Chronicles 6:41 "Now therefore arise, O
LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and
the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O
LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and
let thy saints rejoice in goodness."
2 Chronicles 6:42 "O LORD God, turn not
away the face of thine anointed: remember
the mercies of David thy servant."
2 Chronicles 7
2 Chronicles Chapter 7
2 Chronicles 7:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 7:2 "And the priests could not
enter into the house of the LORD, because
the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S
house."
2 Chronicles 7:3 "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."
2 Chronicles 7:4 "Then the king and all the
people offered sacrifices before the LORD."
2 Chronicles 7:5 "And king Solomon offered
a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand
oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand
sheep: so the king and all the people
dedicated the house of God."
2 Chronicles 7:6 "And the priests waited on
their offices: the Levites also with
instruments of music 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."
2 Chronicles 7:7 "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 brazen altar which
Solomon had made was not able to receive
the burnt offerings, and the meat
offerings, and the fat."
2 Chronicles 7:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 7:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 7:10 "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 showed unto David, and to Solomon,
and to Israel his people."
2 Chronicles 7:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 7:12 "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 a house of sacrifice."
2 Chronicles 7:13 "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;"
2 Chronicles 7:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 7:15 "Now mine eyes shall be
open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer
[that is made] in this place."
2 Chronicles 7:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 7:17 "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;"
2 Chronicles 7:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 7:19 "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;"
2 Chronicles 7:20 "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."
2 Chronicles 7:21 "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?"
2 Chronicles 7:22 "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."
2 Chronicles 8
2 Chronicles Chapter 8
2 Chronicles 8:1 "And it came to pass at
the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon
had built the house of the LORD, and his
own house,"
2 Chronicles 8:2 "That the cities which
Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon
built them, and caused the children of
Israel to dwell there."
2 Chronicles 8:3 "And Solomon went to
Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it."
2 Chronicles 8:4 "And he built Tadmor in
the wilderness, and all the store cities,
which he built in Hamath."
2 Chronicles 8:5 "Also he built Beth-horon
the upper, and Beth-horon the nether,
fenced cities, with walls, gates, and
bars;"
2 Chronicles 8:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 8:7 "[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,"
2 Chronicles 8:8 "[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."
2 Chronicles 8:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 8:10 "And these [were] the
chief of king Solomon's officers, [even]
two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over
the people."
2 Chronicles 8:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 8:12 "Then Solomon offered
burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar
of the LORD, which he had built before the
porch,"
2 Chronicles 8:13 "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."
2 Chronicles 8:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 8:15 "And they departed not
from the commandment of the king unto the
priests and Levites concerning any matter,
or concerning the treasures."
2 Chronicles 8:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 8:17 "Then went Solomon to
Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side
in the land of Edom."
2 Chronicles 8:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 9
2 Chronicles Chapter 9
2 Chronicles 9:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:2 "And Solomon told her all
her questions: and there was nothing hid
from Solomon which he told her not."
2 Chronicles 9:3 "And when the queen of
Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and
the house that he had built,"
2 Chronicles 9:4 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:5 "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:"
2 Chronicles 9:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:7 "Happy [are] thy men, and
happy [are] these thy servants, which stand
continually before thee, and hear thy
wisdom."
2 Chronicles 9:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:9 "And she gave the king a
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."
2 Chronicles 9:10 "And the servants also of
Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which
brought gold from Ophir, brought algum
trees and precious stones."
2 Chronicles 9:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:12 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:13 "Now the weight of gold
that came to Solomon in one year was six
hundred and threescore and six talents of
gold;"
2 Chronicles 9:14 "Beside [that which]
chapmen and merchants brought. And all the
kings of Arabia and governors of the
country brought gold and silver to
Solomon."
2 Chronicles 9:15 "And king Solomon made
two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six
hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to
one target."
2 Chronicles 9:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:17 "Moreover the king made a
great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with
pure gold."
2 Chronicles 9:18 "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:"
2 Chronicles 9:19 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:20 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:21 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:22 "And king Solomon passed
all the kings of the earth in riches and
wisdom."
2 Chronicles 9:23 "And all the kings of the
earth sought the presence of Solomon, to
hear his wisdom, that God had put in his
heart."
2 Chronicles 9:24 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:25 "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."
2 Chronicles 9:26 "And he reigned over all
the kings from the river even unto the land
of the Philistines, and to the border of
Egypt."
2 Chronicles 9:27 "And the king made silver
in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees
made he as the sycamore trees that [are] in
the low plains in abundance."
2 Chronicles 9:28 "And they brought unto
Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all
lands."
2 Chronicles 9:29 "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?"
2 Chronicles 9:30 "And Solomon reigned in
Jerusalem over all Israel forty years."
2 Chronicles 9:31 "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."
2 Chronicles 10
2 Chronicles Chapter 10
2 Chronicles 10:1 "And Rehoboam went to
Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel
come to make him king."
2 Chronicles 10:2 "And it came to pass,
when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who [was]
in Egypt, whither he had fled from the
presence of Solomon the king, heard [it],
that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt."
2 Chronicles 10:3 "And they sent and called
him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and
spake to Rehoboam, saying,"
2 Chronicles 10:4 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:5 "And he said unto them,
Come again unto me after three days. And
the people departed."
2 Chronicles 10:6 "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?"
2 Chronicles 10:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:9 "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?"
2 Chronicles 10:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:12 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:13 "And the king answered
them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the
counsel of the old men,"
2 Chronicles 10:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:15 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:17 "But [as for] the
children of Israel that dwelt in the cities
of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them."
2 Chronicles 10:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 10:19 "And Israel rebelled
against the house of David unto this day."
2 Chronicles 11
2 Chronicles Chapter 11
2 Chronicles 11:1 "And when Rehoboam was
come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house
of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and
fourscore thousand chosen [men], which were
warriors, to fight against Israel, that he
might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam."
2 Chronicles 11:2 "But the word of the LORD
came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,"
2 Chronicles 11:3 "Speak unto Rehoboam the
son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all
Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,"
2 Chronicles 11:4 "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."
2 Chronicles 11:5 "And Rehoboam dwelt in
Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in
Judah."
2 Chronicles 11:6 "He built even
Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,"
2 Chronicles 11:7 "And Beth-zur, and Shoco,
and Adullam,"
2 Chronicles 11:8 "And Gath, and Mareshah,
and Ziph,"
2 Chronicles 11:9 "And Adoraim, and
Lachish, and Azekah,"
2 Chronicles 11:10 "And Zorah, and Aijalon,
and Hebron, which [are] in Judah and in
Benjamin fenced cities."
2 Chronicles 11:11 "And he fortified the
strong holds, and put captains in them, and
store of victual, and of oil and wine."
2 Chronicles 11:12 "And in every several
city [he put] shields and spears, and made
them exceeding strong, having Judah and
Benjamin on his side."
2 Chronicles 11:13 "And the priests and the
Levites that [were] in all Israel resorted
to him out of all their coasts."
2 Chronicles 11:14 "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:"
2 Chronicles 11:15 "And he ordained him
priests for the high places, and for the
devils, and for the calves which he had
made."
2 Chronicles 11:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 11:17 "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."
2 Chronicles 11:18 "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;"
2 Chronicles 11:19 "Which bare him
children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham."
2 Chronicles 11:20 "And after her he took
Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare
him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and
Shelomith."
2 Chronicles 11:21 "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.)"
2 Chronicles 11:22 "And Rehoboam made
Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, [to
be] ruler among his brethren: for [he
thought] to make him king."
2 Chronicles 11:23 "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."
2 Chronicles 12
2 Chronicles Chapter 12
2 Chronicles 12:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 12:2 "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,"
2 Chronicles 12:3 "With twelve hundred
chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen:
and the people [were] without number that
came with him out of Egypt; the Lubim, the
Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians."
2 Chronicles 12:4 "And he took the fenced
cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came
to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 12:5 "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."
2 Chronicles 12:6 "Whereupon the princes of
Israel and the king humbled themselves; and
they said, The LORD [is] righteous."
2 Chronicles 12:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 12:8 "Nevertheless they shall
be his servants; that they may know my
service, and the service of the kingdoms of
the countries."
2 Chronicles 12:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 12:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 12:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 12:12 "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."
2 Chronicles 12:13 "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."
2 Chronicles 12:14 "And he did evil,
because he prepared not his heart to seek
the LORD."
2 Chronicles 12:15 "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."
2 Chronicles 12:16 "And Rehoboam slept with
his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David: and Abijah his son reigned in his
stead."
2 Chronicles 13
2 Chronicles Chapter 13
2 Chronicles 13:1 "Now in the eighteenth
year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign
over Judah."
2 Chronicles 13:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 13:3 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 valor.
2 Chronicles 13:4 "And Abijah stood up upon
mount Zemaraim, which [is] in mount
Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam,
and all Israel;"
2 Chronicles 13:5 "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?"
2 Chronicles 13:6 "Yet Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of
David, is risen up, and hath rebelled
against his lord."
2 Chronicles 13:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 13:8 "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 you
golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for
gods."
2 Chronicles 13:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 13:10 "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:"
2 Chronicles 13:11 "And they burn unto the
LORD every morning and every evening burnt
sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread
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."
2 Chronicles 13:12 "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."
2 Chronicles 13:13 "But Jeroboam caused an
ambushment to come about behind them: so
they were before Judah, and the ambushment
[was] behind them."
2 Chronicles 13:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 13:15 "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."
2 Chronicles 13:16 "And the children of
Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered
them into their hand."
2 Chronicles 13:17 "And Abijah and his
people slew them with a great slaughter: so
there fell down slain of Israel five
hundred thousand chosen men."
2 Chronicles 13:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 13:19 "And Abijah pursued
after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
Beth-el with the towns thereof, and
Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and
Ephrain with the towns thereof."
2 Chronicles 13:20 "Neither did Jeroboam
recover strength again in the days of
Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he
died."
2 Chronicles 13:21 "But Abijah waxed
mighty, and married fourteen wives, and
begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen
daughters."
2 Chronicles 13:22 "And the rest of the
acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his
sayings, [are] written in the story of the
prophet Iddo."
2 Chronicles 14
2 Chronicles Chapter 14
2 Chronicles 14:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 14:2 "And Asa did [that which
was] good and right in the eyes of the LORD
his God:"
2 Chronicles 14:3 "For he took away the
altars of the strange [gods], and the high
places, and brake down the images, and cut
down the groves:"
2 Chronicles 14:4 "And commanded Judah to
seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to
do the law and the commandment."
2 Chronicles 14:5 "Also he took away out of
all the cities of Judah the high places and
the images: and the kingdom was quiet
before him."
2 Chronicles 14:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 14:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 14:8 "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 valor."
2 Chronicles 14:9 "And there came out
against them Zerah the Ethiopian with a
host of a thousand thousand, and three
hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah."
2 Chronicles 14:10 "Then Asa went out
against him, and they set the battle in
array in the valley of Zephathah at
Mareshah."
2 Chronicles 14:11 "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
not man prevail against thee."
2 Chronicles 14:12 "So the LORD smote the
Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah;
and the Ethiopians fled." The glory for
winning this battle was to be given to the
LORD. He delivered Asa and Judah, and
caused the Ethiopians to run in fear.
2 Chronicles 14:13 "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."
2 Chronicles 14:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 14:15 "They smote also the
tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and
camels in abundance, and returned to
Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 15
2 Chronicles Chapter 15
2 Chronicles 15:1 "And the Spirit of God
came upon Azariah the son of Oded:"
2 Chronicles 15:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 15:3 "Now for a long season
Israel [hath been] without the true God,
and without a teaching priest, and without
law."
2 Chronicles 15:4 "But when they in their
trouble did turn unto the LORD God of
Israel, and sought him, he was found of
them."
2 Chronicles 15:5 "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."
2 Chronicles 15:6 "And nation was destroyed
of nation, and city of city: for God did
vex them with all adversity."
2 Chronicles 15:7 "Be ye strong therefore,
and let not your hands be weak: for your
work shall be rewarded."
2 Chronicles 15:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 15:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 15:10 So they gathered
themselves together at Jerusalem in the
third month, in the fifteenth year of the
reign of Asa.
2 Chronicles 15:11 "And they offered unto
the LORD the same time, of the spoil
[which] they had brought, seven hundred
oxen and seven thousand sheep."
2 Chronicles 15:12 "And they entered into a
covenant to seek the LORD God of their
fathers with all their heart and with all
their soul;"
2 Chronicles 15:13 "That whosoever would
not seek the LORD God of Israel should be
put to death, whether small or great,
whether man or woman."
2 Chronicles 15:14 "And they sware unto the
LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting,
and with trumpets, and with cornets."
2 Chronicles 15:15 "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."
2 Chronicles 15:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 15:17 "But the high places
were not taken away out of Israel:
nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect
all his days."
2 Chronicles 15:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 15:19 "And there was no [more]
war unto the five and thirtieth year of the
reign of Asa."
2 Chronicles 16
2 Chronicles Chapter 16
2 Chronicles 16:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 16:2 "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 Ben-hadad king of Syria, that
dwelt at Damascus, saying,"
2 Chronicles 16:3 "[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."
2 Chronicles 16:4 "And Ben-hadad hearkened
unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his
armies against the cities of Israel; and
they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim,
and all the store cities of Naphtali."
2 Chronicles 16:5 "And it came to pass,
when Baasha heard [it], that he left off
building of Ramah, and let his work cease."
2 Chronicles 16:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 16:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 16:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the LORD
run to and fro throughout the whole earth,
to show 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."
2 Chronicles 16:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 16:11 "And, behold, the acts
of Asa, first and last, lo, they [are]
written in the book of the kings of Judah
and Israel."
2 Chronicles 16:12 "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."
2 Chronicles 16:13 "And Asa slept with his
fathers, and died in the one and fortieth
year of his reign."
2 Chronicles 16:14 "And they buried him in
his own sepulchers, which he had made for
himself in the city of David, and laid him
in the bed which was filled with sweet
odors and divers kinds [of spices] prepared
by the apothecaries' art: and they made a
very great burning for him."
2 Chronicles 17
2 Chronicles Chapter 17
2 Chronicles 17:1 "And Jehoshaphat his son
reigned in his stead, and strengthened
himself against Israel."
2 Chronicles 17:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 17:3 "And the LORD was with
Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first
ways of his father David, and sought not
unto Baalim;"
2 Chronicles 17:4 "But sought to the [LORD]
God of his father, and walked in his
commandments, and not after the doings of
Israel."
2 Chronicles 17:5 "Therefore the LORD
stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all
Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and
he had riches and honor in abundance."
2 Chronicles 17:6 "And his heart was lifted
up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he
took away the high places and groves out of
Judah."
2 Chronicles 17:7 "Also in the third year
of his reign he sent to his princes, [even]
to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to
Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to
Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah."
2 Chronicles 17:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 17:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 17:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 17:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 17:12 "And Jehoshaphat waxed
great exceedingly; and he built in Judah
castles, and cities of store."
2 Chronicles 17:13 "And he had much
business in the cities of Judah: and the
men of war, mighty men of valor, [were] in
Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 17:14 "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 valor three hundred
thousand."
2 Chronicles 17:15 "And next to him [was]
Jehohanan the captain, and with him two
hundred and fourscore thousand."
2 Chronicles 17:16 "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 valor."
2 Chronicles 17:17 "And of Benjamin; Eliada
a mighty man of valor, and with him armed
men with bow and shield two hundred
thousand."
2 Chronicles 17:18 And next him [was]
Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and
fourscore thousand ready prepared for the
war.
2 Chronicles 17:19 "These waited on the
king, beside [those] whom the king put in
the fenced cities throughout all Judah."
2 Chronicles 18
2 Chronicles Chapter 18
2 Chronicles 18:1 "Now Jehoshaphat had
riches and honor in abundance, and joined
affinity with Ahab."
2 Chronicles 18:2 "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 Ramoth-gilead."
2 Chronicles 18:3 "And Ahab king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt
thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he
answered him, I [am] as thou [art], and my
people as thy people; and [we will be] with
thee in the war."
2 Chronicles 18:4 "And Jehoshaphat said
unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray
thee, at the word of the LORD to day."
2 Chronicles 18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is
there] not here a prophet of the LORD
besides, that we might inquire of him?
2 Chronicles 18:7 "And the king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one
man, by whom we may inquire 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."
2 Chronicles 18:8 "And the king of Israel
called for one [of his] officers, and said,
Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla."
2 Chronicles 18:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:12 "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
theirs, and speak thou good."
2 Chronicles 18:13 "And Micaiah said, [As]
the LORD liveth, even what my God saith,
that will I speak."
2 Chronicles 18:15 "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?"
2 Chronicles 18:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:17 "And the king of Israel
said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee
[that] he would not prophesy good unto me,
but evil?"
2 Chronicles 18:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:19 "And the LORD said, Who
shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he
may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And
one spake saying after this manner, and
another saying after that manner."
2 Chronicles 18:20 "Then there came out a
spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
said, I will entice him. And the LORD said
unto him, Wherewith?"
2 Chronicles 18:21 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:22 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."
2 Chronicles 18:23 "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?"
2 Chronicles 18:24 "And Micaiah said,
Behold, thou shalt see on that day when
thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide
thyself."
2 Chronicles 18:25 "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;"
2 Chronicles 18:26 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:27 "And Micaiah said, If
thou certainly return in peace, [then] hath
not the LORD spoken by me. And he said,
Hearken, all ye people."
2 Chronicles 18:28 "So the king of Israel
and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up
to Ramoth-gilead."
2 Chronicles 18:29 "And the king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
myself, and will go to the battle; but put
thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel
disguised himself; and they went to the
battle."
2 Chronicles 18:30 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:31 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:32 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:33 "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."
2 Chronicles 18:34 "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."
2 Chronicles 19
2 Chronicles Chapter 19
2 Chronicles 19:1 "And Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah returned to his house in peace to
Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 19:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 19:3 "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."
2 Chronicles 19:4 "And Jehoshaphat dwelt at
Jerusalem: and he went out again through
the people from Beer-sheba to mount
Ephraim, and brought them back unto the
LORD God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 19:5 "And he set judges in the
land throughout all the fenced cities of
Judah, city by city,"
2 Chronicles 19:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 19:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 19:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 19:9 "And he charged them,
saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the
LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect
heart."
2 Chronicles 19:10 "And what cause soever
shall come to you of your brethren that
dwell in their 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."
2 Chronicles 19:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 20
2 Chronicles Chapter 20
2 Chronicles 20:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:2 "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 Hazazon-tamar, which [is]
En-gedi."
2 Chronicles 20:3 "And Jehoshaphat feared,
and set himself to seek the LORD, and
proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah."
2 Chronicles 20:4 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:5 "And Jehoshaphat stood in
the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in
the house of the LORD, before the new
court,"
2 Chronicles 20:6 "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?"
2 Chronicles 20:7 "[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?"
2 Chronicles 20:8 "And they dwelt therein,
and have built thee a sanctuary therein for
thy name, saying,"
2 Chronicles 20:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:10 "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;"
2 Chronicles 20:11 "Behold, [I say, how]
they reward us, to come to cast us out of
thy possession, which thou hast given us to
inherit."
2 Chronicles 20:12 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:13 "And all Judah stood
before the LORD, with their little ones,
their wives, and their children."
2 Chronicles 20:14 "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;"
2 Chronicles 20:15 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:17 "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; tomorrow go out
against them: for the LORD [will be] with
you."
2 Chronicles 20:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:19 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:20 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:21 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:22 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:23 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:24 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:25 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:26 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:27 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:28 "And they came to
Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and
trumpets unto the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 20:29 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:30 "So the realm of
Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him
rest round about."
2 Chronicles 20:31 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:32 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:33 "Howbeit the high places
were not taken away: for as yet the people
had not prepared their hearts unto the God
of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 20:34 "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."
2 Chronicles 20:35 "And after this did
Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with
Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very
wickedly:"
2 Chronicles 20:36 "And he joined himself
with him to make ships to go to Tarshish:
and they made the ships in Ezion-geber."
2 Chronicles 20:37 "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."
2 Chronicles 21
2 Chronicles Chapter 21
2 Chronicles 21:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:3 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:4 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:5 "Jehoram [was] thirty and
two years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned eight years in Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 21:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:8 "In his days the Edomites
revolted from under the dominion of Judah,
and made themselves a king."
2 Chronicles 21:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:11 "Moreover he made high
places in the mountains of Judah, and
caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
commit fornication, and compelled Judah
[thereto]."
2 Chronicles 21:12 "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,"
2 Chronicles 21:13 "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:"
2 Chronicles 21:14 "Behold, with a great
plague will the LORD smite thy people, and
thy children, and thy wives, and all thy
goods:"
2 Chronicles 21:15 "And thou [shalt have]
great sickness by disease of thy bowels,
until thy bowels fall out by reason of the
sickness day by day."
2 Chronicles 21:16 "Moreover the LORD
stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of
the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that
[were] near the Ethiopians:"
2 Chronicles 21:17 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:18 "And after all this the
LORD smote him in his bowels with an
incurable disease."
2 Chronicles 21:19 "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."
2 Chronicles 21:20 "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 sepulchers of the kings."
2 Chronicles 22
2 Chronicles Chapter 22
2 Chronicles 22:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 22:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 22:3 "He also walked in the
ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother
was his counsellor to do wickedly."
2 Chronicles 22:4 "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."
2 Chronicles 22:5 "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 Ramoth-gilead: and
the Syrians smote Joram."
2 Chronicles 22:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 22:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 22:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 22:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 22:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 22:11 "But Jeho-shabeath, 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
Jeho-shabeath, 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."
2 Chronicles 22:12 "And he was with them
hid in the house of God six years: and
Athaliah reigned over the land."
2 Chronicles 23
2 Chronicles Chapter 23
2 Chronicles 23:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:2 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:3 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:4 "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;"
2 Chronicles 23:5 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:6 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:12 "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:"
2 Chronicles 23:13 "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 music, and such as
taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her
clothes, and said, Treason, Treason."
2 Chronicles 23:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:15 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:16 "And Jehoiada made a
covenant between him, and between all the
people, and between the king, that they should
be the LORD'S people."
2 Chronicles 23:17 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:19 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:20 "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."
2 Chronicles 23:21 "And all the people of the
land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after
that they had slain Athaliah with the sword."
2 Chronicles 24
2 Chronicles Chapter 24
2 Chronicles 24:1 "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 Beer-sheba."
2 Chronicles 24:2 "And Joash did [that
which was] right in the sight of the LORD
all the days of Jehoiada the priest."
2 Chronicles 24:3 "And Jehoiada took for
him two wives; and he begat sons and
daughters."
2 Chronicles 24:4 "And it came to pass
after this, [that] Joash was minded to
repair the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 24:6 "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?"
2 Chronicles 24:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:8 "And at the king's
commandment they made a chest, and set it
without at the gate of the house of the
LORD."
2 Chronicles 24:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:10 "And all the princes and
all the people rejoiced, and brought in,
and cast into the chest, until they had
made an end."
2 Chronicles 24:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:12 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:13 "So the workmen wrought,
and the work was perfected by them, and
they set the house of God in his state, and
strengthened it."
2 Chronicles 24:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:15 "But Jehoiada waxed old,
and was full of days when he died; a
hundred and thirty years old [was he] when
he died."
2 Chronicles 24:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:17 "Now after the death of
Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and
made obeisance to the king. Then the king
hearkened unto them."
2 Chronicles 24:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:19 "Yet he sent prophets to
them, to bring them again unto the LORD;
and they testified against them: but they
would not give ear."
2 Chronicles 24:20 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:21 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:22 "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]."
2 Chronicles 24:23 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:24 "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."
2 Chronicles 24:25 "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 sepulchers of the kings."
2 Chronicles 24:26 "And these are they that
conspired against him; Zabad the son of
Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the
son of Shimrith a Moabitess."
2 Chronicles 24:27 "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."
2 Chronicles 25
2 Chronicles Chapter 25
2 Chronicles 25:1 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:2 "And he did [that which
was] right in the sight of the LORD, but
not with a perfect heart."
2 Chronicles 25:3 "Now it came to pass,
when the kingdom was established to him,
that he slew his servants that had killed
the king his father."
2 Chronicles 25:4 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:5 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:6 "He hired also a hundred
thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel
for a hundred talents of silver."
2 Chronicles 25:7 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:8 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:9 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:10 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:11 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:12 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:13 "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
Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of
them, and took much spoil."
2 Chronicles 25:14 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:15 "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?"
2 Chronicles 25:16 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:17 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:18 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:19 "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?"
2 Chronicles 25:20 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:21 "So Joash the king of
Israel went up; and they saw one another in
the face, [both] he and Amaziah king of
Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which [belongeth]
to Judah."
2 Chronicles 25:22 "And Judah was put to
the worse before Israel, and they fled
every man to his tent."
2 Chronicles 25:23 "And Joash the king of
Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at
Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from
the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate,
four hundred cubits."
2 Chronicles 25:24 "And [he took] all the
gold and the silver, and all the vessels
that were found in the house of God with
Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's
house, the hostages also, and returned to
Samaria."
2 Chronicles 25:25 "And Amaziah the son of
Joash king of Judah lived after the death
of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
fifteen years."
2 Chronicles 25:26 "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?"
2 Chronicles 25:27 "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."
2 Chronicles 25:28 "And they brought him
upon horses, and buried him with his
fathers in the city of Judah."
2 Chronicles 26
2 Chronicles Chapter 26
2 Chronicles 26:1 "Then all the people of
Judah took Uzziah, who [was] sixteen years
old, and made him king in the room of his
father Amaziah."
2 Chronicles 26:2 "He built Eloth, and
restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers."
2 Chronicles 26:3 "Sixteen years old [was]
Uzziah when he began to reign, and he
reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name also [was] Jecoliah of
Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 26:4 "And he did [that which
was] right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah
did."
2 Chronicles 26:5 "And he sought God in the
days of Zechariah, who had understanding in
the visions of God: and as long as he
sought the LORD, God made him to prosper."
2 Chronicles 26:6 "And he went forth and
warred against the Philistines, and brake
down the wall of Gath, and the wall of
Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built
cities about Ashdod, and among the
Philistines."
2 Chronicles 26:7 "And God helped him
against the Philistines, and against the
Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the
Mehunim."
2 Chronicles 26:8 "And the Ammonites gave
gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad
[even] to the entering in of Egypt; for he
strengthened [himself] exceedingly."
2 Chronicles 26:9 "Moreover Uzziah built
towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and
at the valley gate, and at the turning [of
the wall], and fortified them."
2 Chronicles 26:10 "Also he built towers in
the desert, and digged many wells: for he
had much cattle, both in the low country,
and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and
vine dressers in the mountains, and in
Carmel: for he loved husbandry."
2 Chronicles 26:11 "Moreover Uzziah had a
host of fighting men, that went out to war
by bands, according to the number of their
account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and
Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of
Hananiah, [one] of the king's captains."
2 Chronicles 26:12 "The whole number of the
chief of the fathers of the mighty men of
valor [were] two thousand and six hundred."
2 Chronicles 26:13 "And under their hand
[was] an army, three hundred thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred, that made
war with mighty power, to help the king
against the enemy."
2 Chronicles 26:14 "And Uzziah prepared for
them throughout all the host shields, and
spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and
bows, and slings [to cast] stones."
2 Chronicles 26:15 "And he made in
Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men,
to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks,
to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
And his name spread far abroad; for he was
marvelously helped, till he was strong."
2 Chronicles 26:16 "But when he was strong,
his heart was lifted up to [his]
destruction: for he transgressed against
the LORD his God, and went into the temple
of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar
of incense."
2 Chronicles 26:17 "And Azariah the priest
went in after him, and with him fourscore
priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant
men:"
2 Chronicles 26:18 "And they withstood
Uzziah the king, and said unto him, [It
appertaineth] not unto thee, Uzziah, to
burn incense unto the LORD, but to the
priests the sons of Aaron, that are
consecrated to burn incense: go out of the
sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed;
neither [shall it be] for thine honor from
the LORD God."
2 Chronicles 26:19 "Then Uzziah was wroth,
and [had] a censer in his hand to burn
incense: and while he was wroth with the
priests, the leprosy even rose up in his
forehead before the priests in the house of
the LORD, from beside the incense altar."
2 Chronicles 26:20 "And Azariah the chief
priest, and all the priests, looked upon
him, and, behold, he [was] leprous in his
forehead, and they thrust him out from
thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out,
because the LORD had smitten him."
2 Chronicles 26:21 "And Uzziah the king was
a leper unto the day of his death, and
dwelt in a several house, [being] a leper;
for he was cut off from the house of the
LORD: and Jotham his son [was] over the
king's house, judging the people of the
land."
2 Chronicles 26:22 "Now the rest of the
acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah
the prophet, the son of Amoz, write."
2 Chronicles 26:23 "So Uzziah slept with
his fathers, and they buried him with his
fathers in the field of the burial which
[belonged] to the kings; for they said, He
[is] a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in
his stead."
2 Chronicles 27
2 Chronicles Chapter 27
2 Chronicles 27:1 "Jotham [was] twenty and
five years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also [was] Jerushah, the
daughter of Zadok."
2 Chronicles 27:2 "And he did [that which
was] right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Uzziah
did: howbeit he entered not into the temple
of the LORD. And the people did yet
corruptly."
2 Chronicles 27:3 "He built the high gate
of the house of the LORD, and on the wall
of Ophel he built much."
2 Chronicles 27:4 "Moreover he built cities
in the mountains of Judah, and in the
forests he built castles and towers."
2 Chronicles 27:5 "He fought also with the
king of the Ammonites, and prevailed
against them. And the children of Ammon
gave him the same year a hundred talents of
silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat,
and ten thousand of barley. So much did the
children of Ammon pay unto him, both the
second year, and the third."
2 Chronicles 27:6 "So Jotham became mighty,
because he prepared his ways before the
LORD his God."
2 Chronicles 27:7 "Now the rest of the acts
of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways,
lo, they [are] written in the book of the
kings of Israel and Judah."
2 Chronicles 27:8 "He was five and twenty
years old when he began to reign, and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 27:9 "And Jotham slept with
his fathers, and they buried him in the
city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in
his stead."
2 Chronicles 28
2 Chronicles Chapter 28
2 Chronicles 28:1 "Ahaz [was] twenty years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not
[that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD, like David his father:"
2 Chronicles 28:2 "For he walked in the
ways of the kings of Israel, and made also
molten images for Baalim."
2 Chronicles 28:3 "Moreover he burnt
incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
and burnt his children in the fire, after
the abominations of the heathen whom the
LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel."
2 Chronicles 28:4 "He sacrificed also and
burnt incense in the high places, and on
the hills, and under every green tree."
2 Chronicles 28:5 "Wherefore the LORD his
God delivered him into the hand of the king
of Syria; and they smote him, and carried
away a great multitude of them captives,
and brought [them] to Damascus. And he was
also delivered into the hand of the king of
Israel, who smote him with a great
slaughter."
2 Chronicles 28:6 "For Pekah the son of
Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty
thousand in one day, [which were] all
valiant men; because they had forsaken the
LORD God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 28:7 "And Zichri, a mighty man
of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son,
and Azrikam the governor of the house, and
Elkanah [that was] next to the king."
2 Chronicles 28:8 "And the children of
Israel carried away captive of their
brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons,
and daughters, and took also away much
spoil from them, and brought the spoil to
Samaria."
2 Chronicles 28:9 "But a prophet of the
LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and
he went out before the host that came to
Samaria, and said unto them, Behold,
because the LORD God of your fathers was
wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them
into your hand, and ye have slain them in a
rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven."
2 Chronicles 28:10 "And now ye purpose to
keep under the children of Judah and
Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto
you: [but are there] not with you, even
with you, sins against the LORD your God?"
2 Chronicles 28:11 "Now hear me therefore,
and deliver the captives again, which ye
have taken captive of your brethren: for
the fierce wrath of the LORD [is] upon
you."
2 Chronicles 28:12 "Then certain of the
heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah
the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of
Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of
Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood
up against them that came from the war,"
2 Chronicles 28:13 "And said unto them, Ye
shall not bring in the captives hither: for
whereas we have offended against the LORD
[already], ye intend to add [more] to our
sins and to our trespass: for our trespass
is great, and [there is] fierce wrath
against Israel."
2 Chronicles 28:14 "So the armed men left
the captives and the spoil before the
princes and all the congregation."
2 Chronicles 28:15 "And the men which were
expressed by name rose up, and took the
captives, and with the spoil clothed all
that were naked among them, and arrayed
them, and shod them, and gave them to eat
and to drink, and anointed them, and
carried all the feeble of them upon asses,
and brought them to Jericho, the city of
palm trees, to their brethren: then they
returned to Samaria."
2 Chronicles 28:16 "At that time did king
Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help
him."
2 Chronicles 28:17 "For again the Edomites
had come and smitten Judah, and carried
away captives."
2 Chronicles 28:18 "The Philistines also
had invaded the cities of the low country,
and of the south of Judah, and had taken
Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and
Shocho with the villages thereof, and
Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo
also and the villages thereof: and they
dwelt there."
2 Chronicles 28:19 "For the LORD brought
Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel;
for he made Judah naked, and transgressed
sore against the LORD."
2 Chronicles 28:20 "And Tilgath-pilneser
king of Assyria came unto him, and
distressed him, but strengthened him not."
2 Chronicles 28:21 "For Ahaz took away a
portion [out] of the house of the LORD, and
[out] of the house of the king, and of the
princes, and gave [it] unto the king of
Assyria: but he helped him not."
2 Chronicles 28:22 "And in the time of his
distress did he trespass yet more against
the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz."
2 Chronicles 28:23 "For he sacrificed unto
the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and
he said, Because the gods of the kings of
Syria help them, [therefore] will I
sacrifice to them, that they may help me.
But they were the ruin of him, and of all
Israel."
2 Chronicles 28:24 "And Ahaz gathered
together the vessels of the house of God,
and cut in pieces the vessels of the house
of God, and shut up the doors of the house
of the LORD, and he made him altars in
every corner of Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 28:25 "And in every several
city of Judah he made high places to burn
incense unto other gods, and provoked to
anger the LORD God of his fathers."
2 Chronicles 28:26 "Now the rest of his
acts and of all his ways, first and last,
behold, they [are] written in the book of
the kings of Judah and Israel."
2 Chronicles 28:27 "And Ahaz slept with his
fathers, and they buried him in the city,
[even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him
not into the sepulchers of the kings of
Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his
stead."
2 Chronicles 29
2 Chronicles Chapter 29
2 Chronicles 29:1 "Hezekiah began to reign
[when he was] five and twenty years old,
and he reigned nine and twenty years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah."
2 Chronicles 29:2 "And he did [that which
was] right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that David his father had
done."
2 Chronicles 29:3 "He in the first year of
his reign, in the first month, opened the
doors of the house of the LORD, and
repaired them."
2 Chronicles 29:4 "And he brought in the
priests and the Levites, and gathered them
together into the east street,"
2 Chronicles 29:5 "And said unto them, Hear
me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves,
and sanctify the house of the LORD God of
your fathers, and carry forth the
filthiness out of the holy [place]."
2 Chronicles 29:6 "For our fathers have
trespassed, and done [that which was] evil
in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have
forsaken him, and have turned away their
faces from the habitation of the LORD, and
turned [their] backs."
2 Chronicles 29:7 "Also they have shut up
the doors of the porch, and put out the
lamps, and have not burned incense nor
offered burnt offerings in the holy [place]
unto the God of Israel."
2 Chronicles 29:8 "Wherefore the wrath of
the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and
he hath delivered them to trouble, to
astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see
with your eyes."
2 Chronicles 29:9 "For, lo, our fathers
have fallen by the sword, and our sons and
our daughters and our wives [are] in
captivity for this."
2 Chronicles 29:10 "Now [it is] in mine
heart to make a covenant with the LORD God
of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn
away from us."
2 Chronicles 29:11 My sons, be not now
negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to
stand before him, to serve him, and that ye
should minister unto him, and burn incense.
2 Chronicles 29:12 "Then the Levites arose,
Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son
of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites:
and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of
Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and
of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah,
and Eden the son of Joah:"
2 Chronicles 29:13 "And of the sons of
Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the
sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:"
2 Chronicles 29:14 "And of the sons of
Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons
of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel."
2 Chronicles 29:15 "And they gathered their
brethren, and sanctified themselves, and
came, according to the commandment of the
king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse
the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 29:16 "And the priests went
into the inner part of the house of the
LORD, to cleanse [it], and brought out all
the uncleanness that they found in the
temple of the LORD into the court of the
house of the LORD. And the Levites took
[it], to carry [it] out abroad into the
brook Kidron."
2 Chronicles 29:17 "Now they began on the
first [day] of the first month to sanctify,
and on the eighth day of the month came
they to the porch of the LORD: so they
sanctified the house of the LORD in eight
days; and in the sixteenth day of the first
month they made an end."
2 Chronicles 29:18 "Then they went in to
Hezekiah the king, and said, We have
cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the
altar of burnt offering, with all the
vessels thereof, and the showbread table,
with all the vessels thereof."
2 Chronicles 29:19 "Moreover all the
vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did
cast away in his transgression, have we
prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they
[are] before the altar of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 29:20 "Then Hezekiah the king
rose early, and gathered the rulers of the
city, and went up to the house of the
LORD."
2 Chronicles 29:21 "And they brought seven
bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs,
and seven he goats, for a sin offering for
the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for
Judah. And he commanded the priests the
sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the altar
of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 29:22 "So they killed the
bullocks, and the priests received the
blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar:
likewise, when they had killed the rams,
they sprinkled the blood upon the altar:
they killed also the lambs, and they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar."
2 Chronicles 29:23 "And they brought forth
the he goats [for] the sin offering before
the king and the congregation; and they
laid their hands upon them:"
2 Chronicles 29:24 "And the priests killed
them, and they made reconciliation with
their blood upon the altar, to make an
atonement for all Israel: for the king
commanded [that] the burnt offering and the
sin offering [should be made] for all
Israel."
2 Chronicles 29:25 "And he set the Levites
in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with
psalteries, and with harps, according to
the commandment of David, and of Gad the
king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for
[so was] the commandment of the LORD by his
prophets."
2 Chronicles 29:26 "And the Levites stood
with the instruments of David, and the
priests with the trumpets."
2 Chronicles 29:27 "And Hezekiah commanded
to offer the burnt offering upon the altar.
And when the burnt offering began, the song
of the LORD began [also] with the trumpets,
and with the instruments [ordained] by
David king of Israel."
2 Chronicles 29:28 "And all the
congregation worshipped, and the singers
sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all
[this continued] until the burnt offering
was finished."
2 Chronicles 29:29 "And when they had made
an end of offering, the king and all that
were present with him bowed themselves, and
worshipped."
2 Chronicles 29:30 "Moreover Hezekiah the
king and the princes commanded the Levites
to sing praise unto the LORD with the words
of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they
sang praises with gladness, and they bowed
their heads and worshipped."
2 Chronicles 29:31 "Then Hezekiah answered
and said, Now ye have consecrated
yourselves unto the LORD, come near and
bring sacrifices and thank offerings into
the house of the LORD.
And the congregation brought in sacrifices
and thank offerings; and as many as were of
a free heart burnt offerings."
2 Chronicles 29:32 "And the number of the
burnt offerings, which the congregation
brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, a
hundred rams, [and] two hundred lambs: all
these [were] for a burnt offering to the
LORD."
2 Chronicles 29:33 "And the consecrated
things [were] six hundred oxen and three
thousand sheep."
2 Chronicles 29:34 "But the priests were
too few, so that they could not flay all
the burnt offerings: wherefore their
brethren the Levites did help them, till
the work was ended, and until the [other]
priests had sanctified themselves: for the
Levites [were] more upright in heart to
sanctify themselves than the priests."
2 Chronicles 29:35 "And also the burnt
offerings [were] in abundance, with the fat
of the peace offerings, and the drink
offerings for [every] burnt offering. So
the service of the house of the LORD was
set in order."
2 Chronicles 29:36 "And Hezekiah rejoiced,
and all the people, that God had prepared
the people: for the thing was [done]
suddenly."
2 Chronicles 30
2 Chronicles Chapter 30
2 Chronicles 30:1 "And Hezekiah sent to all
Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to
Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come
to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to
keep the passover unto the LORD God of
Israel."
2 Chronicles 30:2 "For the king had taken
counsel, and his princes, and all the
congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the
Passover in the second month."
2 Chronicles 30:3 "For they could not keep
it at that time, because the priests had
not sanctified themselves sufficiently,
neither had the people gathered themselves
together to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 30:4 "And the thing pleased
the king and all the congregation."
2 Chronicles 30:5 "So they established a
decree to make proclamation throughout all
Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that
they should come to keep the passover unto
the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for
they had not done [it] of a long [time in
such sort] as it was written."
2 Chronicles 30:6 "So the posts went with
the letters from the king and his princes
throughout all Israel and Judah, and
according to the commandment of the king,
saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again
unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Israel, and he will return to the remnant
of you, that are escaped out of the hand of
the kings of Assyria."
2 Chronicles 30:7 "And be not ye like your
fathers, and like your brethren, which
trespassed against the LORD God of their
fathers, [who] therefore gave them up to
desolation, as ye see."
2 Chronicles 30:8 "Now be ye not
stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but]
yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter
into his sanctuary, which he hath
sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD
your God, that the fierceness of his wrath
may turn away from you."
2 Chronicles 30:9 "For if ye turn again
unto the LORD, your brethren and your
children [shall find] compassion before
them that lead them captive, so that they
shall come again into this land: for the
LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful,
and will not turn away [his] face from you,
if ye return unto him."
2 Chronicles 30:10 "So the posts passed
from city to city through the country of
Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but
they laughed them to scorn, and mocked
them."
2 Chronicles 30:11 "Nevertheless divers of
Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled
themselves, and came to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 30:12 "Also in Judah the hand
of God was to give them one heart to do the
commandment of the king and of the princes,
by the word of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 30:13 "And there assembled at
Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of
unleavened bread in the second month, a
very great congregation."
2 Chronicles 30:14 "And they arose and took
away the altars that [were] in Jerusalem,
and all the altars for incense took they
away, and cast [them] into the brook
Kidron."
2 Chronicles 30:15 "Then they killed the
passover on the fourteenth [day] of the
second month: and the priests and the
Levites were ashamed, and sanctified
themselves, and brought in the burnt
offerings into the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 30:16 "And they stood in their
place after their manner, according to the
law of Moses the man of God: the priests
sprinkled the blood, [which they received]
of the hand of the Levites."
2 Chronicles 30:17 "For [there were] many
in the congregation that were not
sanctified: therefore the Levites had the
charge of the killing of the passovers for
every one [that was] not clean, to sanctify
[them] unto the LORD."
2 Chronicles 30:18 "For a multitude of the
people, [even] many of Ephraim, and
Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not
cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the
passover otherwise than it was written. But
Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good
LORD pardon every one"
2 Chronicles 30:19 "[That] prepareth his
heart to seek God, the LORD God of his
fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed]
according to the purification of the
sanctuary."
2 Chronicles 30:20 "And the LORD hearkened
to Hezekiah, and healed the people."
2 Chronicles 30:21 "And the children of
Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept
the feast of unleavened bread seven days
with great gladness: and the Levites and
the priests praised the LORD day by day,
[singing] with loud instruments unto the
LORD."
2 Chronicles 30:22 "And Hezekiah spake
comfortably unto all the Levites that
taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and
they did eat throughout the feast seven
days, offering peace offerings, and making
confession to the LORD God of their
fathers."
2 Chronicles 30:23 "And the whole assembly
took counsel to keep other seven days: and
they kept [other] seven days with
gladness."
2 Chronicles 30:24 "For Hezekiah king of
Judah did give to the congregation a
thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep;
and the princes gave to the congregation a
thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep:
and a great number of priests sanctified
themselves."
2 Chronicles 30:25 "And all the
congregation of Judah, with the priests and
the Levites, and all the congregation that
came out of Israel, and the strangers that
came out of the land of Israel, and that
dwelt in Judah, rejoiced."
2 Chronicles 30:26 "So there was great joy
in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon
the son of David king of Israel [there was]
not the like in Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 30:27 "Then the priests the
Levites arose and blessed the people: and
their voice was heard, and their prayer
came [up] to his holy dwelling place,
[even] unto heaven."
2 Chronicles 31
2 Chronicles Chapter 31
2 Chronicles 31:1 "Now when all this was
finished, all Israel that were present went
out to the cities of Judah, and brake the
images in pieces, and cut down the groves,
and threw down the high places and the
altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in
Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had
utterly destroyed them all. Then all the
children of Israel returned, every man to
his possession, into their own cities."
2 Chronicles 31:2 "And Hezekiah appointed
the courses of the priests and the Levites
after their courses, every man according to
his service, the priests and Levites for
burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to
minister, and to give thanks, and to praise
in the gates of the tents of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 31:3 "[He appointed] also the
king's portion of his substance for the
burnt offerings, [to wit], for the morning
and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt
offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new
moons, and for the set feasts, as [it is]
written in the law of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 31:4 "Moreover he commanded
the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give
the portion of the priests and the Levites,
that they might be encouraged in the law of
the LORD."
2 Chronicles 31:5 "And as soon as the
commandment came abroad, the children of
Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits
of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of
all the increase of the field; and the
tithe of all [things] brought they in
abundantly."
2 Chronicles 31:6 "And [concerning] the
children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in
the cities of Judah, they also brought in
the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe
of holy things which were consecrated unto
the LORD their God, and laid [them] by
heaps."
2 Chronicles 31:7 "In the third month they
began to lay the foundation of the heaps,
and finished [them] in the seventh month."
2 Chronicles 31:8 "And when Hezekiah and
the princes came and saw the heaps, they
blessed the LORD, and his people Israel."
2 Chronicles 31:9 "Then Hezekiah questioned
with the priests and the Levites concerning
the heaps."
2 Chronicles 31:10 "And Azariah the chief
priest of the house of Zadok answered him,
and said, Since [the people] began to bring
the offerings into the house of the LORD,
we have had enough to eat, and have left
plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his
people; and that which is left [is] this
great store."
2 Chronicles 31:11 "Then Hezekiah commanded
to prepare chambers in the house of the
LORD; and they prepared [them],"
2 Chronicles 31:12 "And brought in the
offerings and the tithes and the dedicated
[things] faithfully: over which Cononiah
the Levite [was] ruler, and Shimei his
brother [was] the next."
2 Chronicles 31:13 "And Jehiel, and
Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and
Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and
Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, [were]
overseers under the hand of Cononiah and
Shimei his brother, at the commandment of
Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of
the house of God."
2 Chronicles 31:14 "And Kore the son of
Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the
east, [was] over the freewill offerings of
God, to distribute the oblations of the
LORD, and the most holy things."
2 Chronicles 31:15 "And next him [were]
Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and
Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the
cities of the priests, in [their] set
office, to give to their brethren by
courses, as well to the great as to the
small:"
2 Chronicles 31:16 "Beside their genealogy
of males, from three years old and upward,
[even] unto every one that entereth into
the house of the LORD, his daily portion
for their service in their charges
according to their courses;"
2 Chronicles 31:17 "Both to the genealogy
of the priests by the house of their
fathers, and the Levites from twenty years
old and upward, in their charges by their
courses;"
2 Chronicles 31:18 "And to the genealogy of
all their little ones, their wives, and
their sons, and their daughters, through
all the congregation: for in their set
office they sanctified themselves in
holiness:"
2 Chronicles 31:19 "Also of the sons of
Aaron the priests, [which were] in the
fields of the suburbs of their cities, in
every several city, the men that were
expressed by name, to give portions to all
the males among the priests, and to all
that were reckoned by genealogies among the
Levites."
2 Chronicles 31:20 "And thus did Hezekiah
throughout all Judah, and wrought [that
which was] good and right and truth before
the LORD his God."
2 Chronicles 31:21 "And in every work that
he began in the service of the house of
God, and in the law, and in the
commandments, to seek his God, he did [it]
with all his heart, and prospered."
2 Chronicles 32
2 Chronicles Chapter 32
2 Chronicles 32:1 "After these things, and
the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king
of Assyria came, and entered into Judah,
and encamped against the fenced cities, and
thought to win them for himself."
2 Chronicles 32:2 "And when Hezekiah saw
that Sennacherib was come, and that he was
purposed to fight against Jerusalem,"
2 Chronicles 32:3 "He took counsel with his
princes and his mighty men to stop the
waters of the fountains which [were]
without the city: and they did help him."
2 Chronicles 32:4 "So there was gathered
much people together, who stopped all the
fountains, and the brook that ran through
the midst of the land, saying, Why should
the kings of Assyria come, and find much
water?"
2 Chronicles 32:5 Also he strengthened
himself, and built up all the wall that was
broken, and raised [it] up to the towers,
and another wall without, and repaired
Millo [in] the city of David, and made
darts and shields in abundance.
2 Chronicles 32:6 "And he set captains of
war over the people, and gathered them
together to him in the street of the gate
of the city, and spake comfortably to them,
saying,"
2 Chronicles 32:7 "Be strong and
courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for
the king of Assyria, nor for all the
multitude that [is] with him: for [there
be] more with us than with him:"
2 Chronicles 32:8 "With him [is] an arm of
flesh; but with us [is] the LORD our God to
help us, and to fight our battles. And the
people rested themselves upon the words of
Hezekiah king of Judah."
2 Chronicles 32:9 "After this did
Sennacherib king of Assyria send his
servants to Jerusalem, (but he [himself
laid siege] against Lachish, and all his
power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of
Judah, and unto all Judah that [were] at
Jerusalem, saying,"
2 Chronicles 32:10 "Thus saith Sennacherib
king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that
ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?"
2 Chronicles 32:11 "Doth not Hezekiah
persuade you to give over yourselves to die
by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD
our God shall deliver us out of the hand of
the king of Assyria?"
2 Chronicles 32:12 "Hath not the same
Hezekiah taken away his high places and his
altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem,
saying, Ye shall worship before one altar,
and burn incense upon it?"
2 Chronicles 32:13 "Know ye not what I and
my fathers have done unto all the people of
[other] lands? were the gods of the nations
of those lands any ways able to deliver
their lands out of mine hand?"
2 Chronicles 32:14 "Who [was there] among
all the gods of those nations that my
fathers utterly destroyed, that could
deliver his people out of mine hand, that
your God should be able to deliver you out
of mine hand?"
2 Chronicles 32:15 "Now therefore let not
Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on
this manner, neither yet believe him: for
no god of any nation or kingdom was able to
deliver his people out of mine hand, and
out of the hand of my fathers: how much
less shall your God deliver you out of mine
hand?"
2 Chronicles 32:16 "And his servants spake
yet [more] against the LORD God, and
against his servant Hezekiah."
2 Chronicles 32:17 "He wrote also letters
to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to
speak against him, saying, As the gods of
the nations of [other] lands have not
delivered their people out of mine hand, so
shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his
people out of mine hand."
2 Chronicles 32:18 "Then they cried with a
loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the
people of Jerusalem that [were] on the
wall, to affright them, and to trouble
them; that they might take the city."
2 Chronicles 32:19 "And they spake against
the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods
of the people of the earth, [which were]
the work of the hands of man."
2 Chronicles 32:20 "And for this [cause]
Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah
the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to
heaven."
2 Chronicles 32:21 "And the LORD sent an
angel, which cut off all the mighty men of
valor, and the leaders and captains in the
camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned
with shame of face to his own land. And
when he was come into the house of his god,
they that came forth of his own bowels slew
him there with the sword."
2 Chronicles 32:22 "Thus the LORD saved
Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
from the hand of Sennacherib the king of
Assyria, and from the hand of all [other],
and guided them on every side."
2 Chronicles 32:23 "And many brought gifts
unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to
Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was
magnified in the sight of all nations from
thenceforth."
2 Chronicles 32:24 "In those days Hezekiah
was sick to the death, and prayed unto the
LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave
him a sign."
2 Chronicles 32:25 "But Hezekiah rendered
not again according to the benefit [done]
unto him; for his heart was lifted up:
therefore there was wrath upon him, and
upon Judah and Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 32:26 "Notwithstanding
Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of
his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD
came not upon them in the days of
Hezekiah."
2 Chronicles 32:27 "And Hezekiah had
exceeding much riches and honor: and he
made himself treasuries for silver, and for
gold, and for precious stones, and for
spices, and for shields, and for all manner
of pleasant jewels;"
2 Chronicles 32:28 "Storehouses also for
the increase of corn, and wine, and oil;
and stalls for all manner of beasts, and
cotes for flocks."
2 Chronicles 32:29 "Moreover he provided
him cities, and possessions of flocks and
herds in abundance: for God had given him
substance very much."
2 Chronicles 32:30 "This same Hezekiah also
stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and
brought it straight down to the west side
of the city of David. And Hezekiah
prospered in all his works."
2 Chronicles 32:31 "Howbeit in [the
business of] the ambassadors of the princes
of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of
the wonder that was [done] in the land, God
left him, to try him, that he might know
all [that was] in his heart."
2 Chronicles 32:32 "Now the rest of the
acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold,
they [are] written in the vision of Isaiah
the prophet, the son of Amoz, [and] in the
book of the kings of Judah and Israel."
2 Chronicles 32:33 "And Hezekiah slept with
his fathers, and they buried him in the
chiefest of
the sepulchers of the sons of David: and
all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
did him honor at his death. And Manasseh
his son reigned in his stead."
2 Chronicles 33
2 Chronicles Chapter 33
2 Chronicles 33:1 "Manasseh [was] twelve
years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:"
2 Chronicles 33:2 "But did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto
the abominations of the heathen, whom the
LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel."
2 Chronicles 33:3 "For he built again the
high places which Hezekiah his father had
broken down, and he reared up altars for
Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all
the host of heaven, and served them."
2 Chronicles 33:4 "Also he built altars in
the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had
said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for
ever."
2 Chronicles 33:5 "And he built altars for
all the host of heaven in the two courts of
the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 33:6 "And he caused his
children to pass through the fire in the
valley of the son of Hinnom: also he
observed times, and used enchantments, and
used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar
spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much
evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke
him to anger."
2 Chronicles 33:7 "And he set a carved
image, the idol which he had made, in the
house of God, of which God had said to
David and to Solomon his son, In this
house, and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen before all the tribes of Israel,
will I put my name for ever:"
2 Chronicles 33:8 "Neither will I any more
remove the foot of Israel from out of the
land which I have appointed for your
fathers; so that they will take heed to do
all that I have commanded them, according
to the whole law and the statutes and the
ordinances by the hand of Moses."
2 Chronicles 33:9 "So Manasseh made Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err,
[and] to do worse than the heathen, whom
the LORD had destroyed before the children
of Israel."
2 Chronicles 33:10 "And the LORD spake to
Manasseh, and to his people: but they would
not hearken."
2 Chronicles 33:11 "Wherefore the LORD
brought upon them the captains of the host
of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh
among the thorns, and bound him with
fetters, and carried him to Babylon."
2 Chronicles 33:12 "And when he was in
affliction, he besought the LORD his God,
and humbled himself greatly before the God
of his fathers,"
2 Chronicles 33:13 "And prayed unto him:
and he was entreated of him, and heard his
supplication, and brought him again to
Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh
knew that the LORD he [was] God."
2 Chronicles 33:14 "Now after this he built
a wall without the city of David, on the
west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to
the entering in at the fish gate, and
compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a
very great height, and put captains of war
in all the fenced cities of Judah."
2 Chronicles 33:15 "And he took away the
strange gods, and the idol out of the house
of the LORD, and all the altars that he had
built in the mount of the house of the
LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast [them] out
of the city."
2 Chronicles 33:16 "And he repaired the
altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon
peace offerings and thank offerings, and
commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of
Israel."
2 Chronicles 33:17 "Nevertheless the people
did sacrifice still in the high places,
[yet] unto the LORD their God only."
2 Chronicles 33:18 "Now the rest of the
acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his
God, and the words of the seers that spake
to him in the name of the LORD God of
Israel, behold, they [are written] in the
book of the kings of Israel."
2 Chronicles 33:19 "His prayer also, and
[how God] was entreated of him, and all his
sins, and his trespass, and the places
wherein he built high places, and set up
groves and graven images, before he was
humbled: behold, they [are] written among
the sayings of the seers."
2 Chronicles 33:20 "So Manasseh slept with
his fathers, and they buried him in his own
house: and Amon his son reigned in his
stead."
2 Chronicles 33:21 "Amon [was] two and
twenty years old when he began to reign,
and reigned two years in Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 33:22 "But he did [that which
was] evil in the sight of the LORD, as did
Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed
unto all the carved images which Manasseh
his father had made, and served them;"
2 Chronicles 33:23 "And humbled not himself
before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had
humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more
and more."
2 Chronicles 33:24 "And his servants
conspired against him, and slew him in his
own house."
2 Chronicles 33:25 "But the people of the
land slew all them that had conspired
against king Amon; and the people of the
land made Josiah his son king in his
stead."
2 Chronicles 34
2
Chronicles Chapter 34
2 Chronicles 34:1 "Josiah [was] eight years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem one and thirty years."
2 Chronicles 34:2 "And he did [that which was]
right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in
the ways of David his father, and declined
[neither] to the right hand, nor to the left."
2 Chronicles 34:3 "For in the eighth year of
his reign, while he was yet young, he began to
seek after the God of David his father: and in
the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and
Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves,
and the carved images, and the molten images."
2 Chronicles 34:4 "And they brake down the
altars of Baalim in his presence; and the
images, that [were] on high above them, he cut
down; and the groves, and the carved images,
and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and
made dust [of them], and strewed [it] upon the
graves of them that had sacrificed unto them."
2 Chronicles 34:5 "And he burnt the bones of
the priests upon their altars, and cleansed
Judah and Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:6 "And [so did he] in the
cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon,
even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round
about."
2 Chronicles 34:7 "And when he had broken down
the altars and the groves, and had beaten the
graven images into powder, and cut down all the
idols throughout all the land of Israel, he
returned to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:8 "Now in the eighteenth year
of his reign, when he had purged the land, and
the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,
and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah
the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the
house of the LORD his God."
2 Chronicles 34:9 "And when they came to
Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the
money that was brought into the house of God,
which the Levites that kept the doors had
gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim,
and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all
Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to
Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:10 "And they put [it] in the
hand of the workmen that had the oversight of
the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the
workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD,
to repair and amend the house:"
2 Chronicles 34:11 "Even to the artificers and
builders gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and
timber for couplings, and to floor the houses
which the kings of Judah had destroyed."
2 Chronicles 34:12 "And the men did the work
faithfully: and the overseers of them [were]
Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of
Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the
sons of the Kohathites, to set [it] forward;
and [other of] the Levites, all that could
skill of instruments of music."
2 Chronicles 34:13 "Also [they were] over the
bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all
that wrought the work in any manner of service:
and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and
officers, and porters."
2 Chronicles 34:14 "And when they brought out
the money that was brought into the house of
the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of
the law of the LORD [given] by Moses."
2 Chronicles 34:15 "And Hilkiah answered and
said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the
book of the law in the house of the LORD. And
Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan."
2 Chronicles 34:16 "And Shaphan carried the
book to the king, and brought the king word
back again, saying, All that was committed to
thy servants, they do [it]."
2 Chronicles 34:17 "And they have gathered
together the money that was found in the house
of the LORD, and have delivered it into the
hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the
workmen."
2 Chronicles 34:18 "Then Shaphan the scribe
told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath
given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the
king."
2 Chronicles 34:19 "And it came to pass, when
the king had heard the words of the law, that
he rent his clothes."
2 Chronicles 34:20 "And the king commanded
Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and
Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe,
and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,"
2 Chronicles 34:21 "Go, inquire of the LORD for
me, and for them that are left in Israel and in
Judah, concerning the words of the book that is
found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD
that is poured out upon us, because our fathers
have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after
all that is written in this book."
2 Chronicles 34:22 "And Hilkiah, and [they]
that the king [had appointed], went to Huldah
the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of
Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the
college:) and they spake to her to that
[effect]."
2 Chronicles 34:23 "And she answered them, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man
that sent you to me,"
2 Chronicles 34:24 "Thus saith the LORD,
Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and
upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the
curses that are written in the book which they
have read before the king of Judah:"
2 Chronicles 34:25 "Because they have forsaken
me, and have burned incense unto other gods,
that they might provoke me to anger with all
the works of their hands; therefore my wrath
shall be poured out upon this place, and shall
not be quenched."
2 Chronicles 34:26 "And as for the king of
Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so
shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel [concerning] the words which thou
hast heard;"
2 Chronicles 34:27 "Because thine heart was
tender, and thou didst humble thyself before
God, when thou heardest his words against this
place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and
humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy
clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard
[thee] also, saith the LORD."
2 Chronicles 34:28 "Behold, I will gather thee
to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to
thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes
see all the evil that I will bring upon this
place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So
they brought the king word again."
2 Chronicles 34:29 "Then the king sent and
gathered together all the elders of Judah and
Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:30 "And the king went up into
the house of the LORD, and all the men of
Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
the priests, and the Levites, and all the
people, great and small: and he read in their
ears all the words of the book of the covenant
that was found in the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 34:31 "And the king stood in his
place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to
walk after the LORD, and to keep his
commandments, and his testimonies, and his
statutes, with all his heart, and with all his
soul, to perform the words of the covenant
which are written in this book."
2 Chronicles 34:32 "And he caused all that were
present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to
it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did
according to the covenant of God, the God of
their fathers."
2 Chronicles 34:33 "And Josiah took away all
the abominations out of all the countries that
[pertained] to the children of Israel, and made
all that were present in Israel to serve,
[even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all
his days they departed not from following the
LORD, the God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 35
2 Chronicles Chapter 35
2 Chronicles 35:1 "Moreover Josiah kept a
passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they
killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of
the first month."
2 Chronicles 35:2 "And he set the priests in
their charges, and encouraged them to the
service of the house of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 35:3 "And said unto the Levites
that taught all Israel, which were holy unto
the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which
Solomon the son of David king of Israel did
build; [it shall] not [be] a burden upon [your]
shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his
people Israel,"
2 Chronicles 35:4 "And prepare [yourselves] by
the houses of your fathers, after your courses,
according to the writing of David king of
Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon
his son."
2 Chronicles 35:5 "And stand in the holy
[place] according to the divisions of the
families of the fathers of your brethren the
people, and [after] the division of the
families of the Levites."
2 Chronicles 35:6 "So kill the passover, and
sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren,
that [they] may do according to the word of the
LORD by the hand of Moses."
2 Chronicles 35:7 "And Josiah gave to the
people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for
the passover offerings, for all that were
present, to the number of thirty thousand, and
three thousand bullocks: these [were] of the
king's substance."
2 Chronicles 35:8 "And his princes gave
willingly unto the people, to the priests, and
to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and
Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto
the priests for the passover offerings two
thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and
three hundred oxen."
2 Chronicles 35:9 "Conaniah also, and Shemaiah
and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and
Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave
unto the Levites for passover offerings five
thousand [small cattle], and five hundred
oxen."
2 Chronicles 35:10 "So the service was
prepared, and the priests stood in their place,
and the Levites in their courses, according to
the king's commandment."
2 Chronicles 35:11 "And they killed the
passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood]
from their hands, and the Levites flayed
[them]."
2 Chronicles 35:12 "And they removed the burnt
offerings, that they might give according to
the divisions of the families of the people, to
offer unto the LORD, as [it is] written in the
book of Moses. And so [did they] with the
oxen."
2 Chronicles 35:13 "And they roasted the
passover with fire according to the ordinance:
but the [other] holy [offerings] sod they in
pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided
[them] speedily among all the people."
2 Chronicles 35:14 "And afterward they made
ready for themselves, and for the priests:
because the priests the sons of Aaron [were
busied] in offering of burnt offerings and the
fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared
for themselves, and for the priests the sons of
Aaron."
2 Chronicles 35:15 "And the singers the sons of
Asaph [were] in their place, according to the
commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and
Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters
[waited] at every gate; they might not depart
from their service; for their brethren the
Levites prepared for them."
2 Chronicles 35:16 "So all the service of the
LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the
passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the
altar of the LORD, according to the commandment
of king Josiah."
2 Chronicles 35:17 "And the children of Israel
that were present kept the passover at that
time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven
days."
2 Chronicles 35:18 "And there was no passover
like to that kept in Israel from the days of
Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings
of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept,
and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah
and Israel that were present, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 35:19 "In the eighteenth year of
the reign of Josiah was this passover kept."
2 Chronicles 35:20 "After all this, when Josiah
had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt
came up to fight against Carchemish by
Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him."
2 Chronicles 35:21 "But he sent ambassadors to
him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou
king of Judah? [I come] not against thee this
day, but against the house wherewith I have
war: for God commanded me to make haste:
forbear thee from [meddling with] God, who [is]
with me, that he destroy thee not."
2 Chronicles 35:22 "Nevertheless Josiah would
not turn his face from him, but disguised
himself, that he might fight with him, and
hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the
mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley
of Megiddo."
2 Chronicles 35:23 "And the archers shot at
king Josiah; and the king said to his servants,
Have me away; for I am sore wounded."
2 Chronicles 35:24 "His servants therefore took
him out of that chariot, and put him in the
second chariot that he had; and they brought
him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried
in [one of] the sepulchers of his fathers. And
all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah."
2 Chronicles 35:25 "And Jeremiah lamented for
Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing
women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to
this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel:
and, behold, they [are] written in the
lamentations."
2 Chronicles 35:26 "Now the rest of the acts of
Josiah, and his goodness, according to [that
which was] written in the law of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 35:27 "And his deeds, first and
last, behold, they [are] written in the book of
the kings of Israel and Judah."
2 Chronicles 36
2 Chronicles Chapter 36
2 Chronicles 36:1 “Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.”
2 Chronicles 36:2 “Jehoahaz twenty and three years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.”
2 Chronicles 36:3 “And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and
condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of
gold.”
2 Chronicles 36:4 “And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king
over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho
took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.”
2 Chronicles 36:5 “Jehoiakim twenty and five years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil in the
sight of the LORD his God.”
2 Chronicles 36:6 “Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.”
2 Chronicles 36:7 “Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the
house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.”
2 Chronicles 36:8 “Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his
abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold,
they written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and
Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.”
2 Chronicles 36:9 “Jehoiachin eight years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did evil
in the sight of the LORD.”
2 Chronicles 36:10 “And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar
sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house
of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and
Jerusalem.”
2 Chronicles 36:11 “Zedekiah one and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.”
2 Chronicles 36:12 “And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God,
humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet from the mouth of the
LORD.”
2 Chronicles 36:13 “And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar,
who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened
his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.”
2 Chronicles 36:14 “Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the
people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the
heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in
Jerusalem.”
2 Chronicles 36:15 “And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by
his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had
compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:”
2 Chronicles 36:16 “But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised
his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose
against his people, till no remedy.”
2 Chronicles 36:17 “Therefore he brought upon them the king of the
Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their
sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or
him that stooped for age: he gave all into his hand.”
2 Chronicles 36:18 “And all the vessels of the house of God, great and
small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of
the king, and of his princes; all he brought to Babylon.”
2 Chronicles 36:19 “And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the
wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and
destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.”
2 Chronicles 36:20 “And them that had escaped from the sword carried he
away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the
reign of the kingdom of Persia:”
2 Chronicles 36:21 “To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of
Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: as long as she lay
desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.”
2 Chronicles 36:22 “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that
the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,”
2 Chronicles 36:23 “Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms
of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged
me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which in Judah. Who among you of
all his people? The LORD his God with him, and let him go up.”
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