2 Kings
by Ken Cayce
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2 Kings Explained
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Book of 2 Kings Explained
Title:
See introduction from 1 Kings.
The books of Kings were originally one book in the Hebrew text and formed a
two volume corpus with the present books of Samuel. Therefore, 2 Kings is
actually the fourth book in the series on the history of the Hebrew kings
as presently arranged. It also serves as the final account of the demise of
the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The narrative of this volume
concentrates on the miraculous ministry of the prophet Elisha. Events
parallel the prophetic ministries of Amos and Hosea in Israel and eight
prophets of Judah, including Isaiah and Jeremiah. The book also cover the
reign of Amaziah (853 BC), to (Zedekiah (586 B.C.), in Judah. Included are
the accounts of the Assyrian conquest of the northern tribes and the
deportation of Judah in the Babylonian captivity.
Historical Setting:
Anyone wishing to indulge in hours of true drama that makes fiction seem
tame should begin with 1 Samuel and read straight through to the end of 2
Kings. Those four books narrate the rise and fall of the monarchy in
Israel. From its establishment under the prophet Samuel to its demise with
the deportation of the last two tribes into captivity. It is a sad, often
violent story made bearable only by the unconditional promise of God to
King David that his throne would never lack for one of his descendants
(Acts 2:29-30). That final seed of David will one day sit upon that throne,
the Son of David, Jesus of Nazareth (Matt. 1:1; 12:23; 21:15; 22:42).
After Solomon's reign, the 10 northern tribes of Israel united under
Jeroboam (not a descendant of David), while the two southern tribes
(Benjamin and Judah), were ruled by Solomon's son, Rehoboam. Jeroboam
introduced Baal worship in the north, and it remained. Because the northern
tribes would not remove idols from the land, God removed the tribes from
the land. The Assyrians invaded in 722 B.C. and took control of the north,
taking many of the Israelites captive. All of Israel's 20 kings (who ruled
the northern 10 tribes) were evil.
Judah's 20 kings (who ruled over the southern two tribes), all descendants
of the Davidic dynasty, fared a bit better. Eight were considered
righteous, notably Hezekiah (16:20; 18:1 - 20:21) and Josiah (21:26 -
23:30). Both destroyed idols and called Judah back to the worship of the
Lord. But their efforts were not enough. The final three kings of Judah
were all wicked and saw Babylon carry captives away from Judah in three
waves. During the concluding wave (in 586 B.C.), the temple was burned and
Judah was destroyed.
Not surprisingly, most of the major and minor prophets of the Old Testament
were active during the time of 2 Kings. They condemned the idolatry,
immorality, social injustice, and ungodly alliances perpetuated by Israel's
ungodly kings and called those rulers and the people to return to God. The
story of Elijah's ministry begins in the last pages of 1 Kings and
concludes in 2 Kings with Elisha's succession. These books were written
sometime between 586 and 536 B.C.
In Kings we see the gloomy picture of the decline of both the northern and
southern kingdoms (Israel and Judah), during their final days of
independence. However, the major religious revivals under Hezekiah and
Josiah are also recounted. Israel again is depicted as the starting point
of God's dealing with the Gentile nations. Israel's spiritual disobedience
and idolatry are viewed against the backdrop of the rising fortunes of
Assyria in the eighth century B.C. and Babylon in the sixth century B.C.
The northern kingdom finally fell to the Assyrians (in 722 B.C.), and the
southern kingdom fell to the Babylonians (in 605 B.C.), with the final
destruction of Jerusalem coming (in 586 B.C.).
Authorship.
The author of 2 Kings is not known with certainly, although Jewish
tradition claims it was Jeremiah. He certainly had every quality necessary
to be the author of this material. He was both a prophet and a priest. He
had direct access to Judah's last kings and was an eyewitness of her final
destruction. For a detailed discussion of authorship, see introduction to 1
Kings.
The story of Israel as a nation began when the descendants of Jacob were
redeemed from captivity in Egypt and introduced to their Redeemer, the God
of Abraham, in the Sinai desert. The story of Israel concludes at the end
of 2 Kings with the nation back in captivity. From the Exodus to the Exile,
it took nearly 900 years for Israel's unfaithfulness to bear its bitter
fruit, undeserved captivity in Egypt, followed by fully deserved captivity
by the Assyrian and Babylonians empires. Yet all was not lost.
Though the prophets, God continued to emphasize that Israel, remained His
chosen people, the apple of His eye (Jer. 31:35-37; Zech. 2:8). Amos
reported that the tabernacle (house), of David would be restored (Amos
9:11). Where Israel's sin abounded, God's grace abounded all the more (Rom.
5:20).
2 Kings was originally the concluding half on one volume and was finalized
sometime after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem. The first 17
chapters capture events in the divided kingdom of Israel and Judah; the
final eight chapters focus on Judah alone.
A special feature of the books of the Kings is the correlation of
historical facts with theological truths. This is no mere history as an end
in itself but is the story of the living God who acts in the affairs of men
and nations. Here is the record for all to read, of God's providential care
of His people.
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2 Kings 1
2 Kings Chapter 1
2 Kings 1:1 "Then Moab rebelled against
Israel after the death of Ahab."
2 Kings 1:2 "And Ahaziah fell down through
a lattice in his upper chamber that [was]
in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent
messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire
of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I
shall recover of this disease."
2 Kings 1:3 "But the angel of the LORD said
to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to
meet the messengers of the king of Samaria,
and say unto them, [Is it] not because
[there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye
go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of
Ekron?"
2 Kings 1:4 "Now therefore thus saith the
LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that
bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die. And Elijah departed."
2 Kings 1:5 "And when the messengers turned
back unto him, he said unto them, Why are
ye now turned back?"
2 Kings 1:6 "And they said unto him, There
came a man up to meet us, and said unto us,
Go, turn again unto the king that sent you,
and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, [Is
it] not because [there is] not a God in
Israel, [that] thou sendest to inquire of
Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou
shalt not come down from that bed on which
thou art gone up, but shalt surely die."
2 Kings 1:7 "And he said unto them, What
manner of man [was he] which came up to
meet you, and told you these words?"
2 Kings 1:8 "And they answered him, [He
was] a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of
leather about his loins. And he said, It
[is] Elijah the Tishbite."
2 Kings 1:9 "Then the king sent unto him a
captain of fifty with his fifty. And he
went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the
top of a hill. And he spake unto him, Thou
man of God, the king hath said, Come down."
2 Kings 1:10 "And Elijah answered and said
to the captain of fifty, If I [be] a man of
God, then let fire come down from heaven,
and consume thee and thy fifty. And there
came down fire from heaven, and consumed
him and his fifty."
2 Kings 1:11 "Again also he sent unto him
another captain of fifty with his fifty.
And he answered and said unto him, O man of
God, thus hath the king said, Come down
quickly."
2 Kings 1:12 "And Elijah answered and said
unto them, If I [be] a man of God, let fire
come down from heaven, and consume thee and
thy fifty. And the fire of God came down
from heaven, and consumed him and his
fifty."
2 Kings 1:13 "And he sent again a captain
of the third fifty with his fifty. And the
third captain of fifty went up, and came
and fell on his knees before Elijah, and
besought him, and said unto him, O man of
God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life
of these fifty thy servants, be precious in
thy sight."
2 Kings 1:14 "Behold, there came fire down
from heaven, and burnt up the two captains
of the former fifties with their fifties:
therefore let my life now be precious in
thy sight."
2 Kings 1:16 "And he said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent
messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god
of Ekron, [is it] not because [there is] no
God in Israel to inquire of his word?
therefore thou shalt not come down off that
bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die."
2 Kings 1:17 "So he died according to the
word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken.
And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the
second year of Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had
no son."
2 Kings 1:18 "Now the rest of the acts of
Ahaziah which he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 2
2 Kings Chapter 2
2 Kings 2:1 "And it came to pass, when the
LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a
whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha
from Gilgal."
2 Kings 2:2 "And Elijah said unto Elisha,
Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath
sent me to Beth-el. And Elisha said [unto
him, As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went
down to Beth-el."
2 Kings 2:3 "And the sons of the prophets
that [were] at Beth-el came forth to
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou
that the LORD will take away thy master
from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I
know [it]; hold ye your peace."
2 Kings 2:4 "And Elijah said unto him,
Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the
LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said,
[As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came
to Jericho."
2 Kings 2:5 "And the sons of the prophets
that [were] at Jericho came to Elisha, and
said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD
will take away thy master from thy head to
day? And he answered, Yea, I know [it];
hold ye your peace."
2 Kings 2:6 "And Elijah said unto him,
Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath
sent me to Jordan. And he said, [As] the
LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I
will not leave thee. And they two went on."
2 Kings 2:7 "And fifty men of the sons of
the prophets went, and stood to view afar
off: and they two stood by Jordan."
2 Kings 2:8 "And Elijah took his mantle,
and wrapped [it] together, and smote the
waters, and they were divided hither and
thither, so that they two went over on dry
ground."
2 Kings 2:9 "And it came to pass, when they
were gone over, that Elijah said unto
Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee,
before I be taken away from thee. And
Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double
portion of thy spirit be upon me."
2 Kings 2:10 "And he said, Thou hast asked
a hard thing: [nevertheless], if thou see
me [when I am] taken from thee, it shall be
so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be
[so]."
2 Kings 2:11 "And it came to pass, as they
still went on, and talked, that, behold,
[there appeared] a chariot of fire, and
horses of fire, and parted them both
asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind
into heaven."
2 Kings 2:12 "And Elisha saw [it], and he
cried, My father, my father, the chariot of
Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he
saw him no more: and he took hold of his
own clothes, and rent them in two pieces."
2 Kings 2:13 "He took up also the mantle of
Elijah that fell from him, and went back,
and stood by the bank of Jordan;"
2 Kings 2:14 "And he took the mantle of
Elijah that fell from him, and smote the
waters, and said, Where [is] the LORD God
of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the
waters, they parted hither and thither: and
Elisha went over."
2 Kings 2:15 "And when the sons of the
prophets which [were] to view at Jericho
saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah
doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet
him, and bowed themselves to the ground
before him."
2 Kings 2:16 "And they said unto him,
Behold now, there be with thy servants
fifty strong men; let them go, we pray
thee, and seek thy master: lest
peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath
taken him up, and cast him upon some
mountain, or into some valley. And he said,
Ye shall not send."
2 Kings 2:17 "And when they urged him till
he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent
therefore fifty men; and they sought three
days, but found him not."
2 Kings 2:19 "And the men of the city said
unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the
situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my
lord seeth: but the water [is] nought, and
the ground barren."
2 Kings 2:20 "And he said, Bring me a new
cruse, and put salt therein. And they
brought [it] to him."
2 Kings 2:21 "And he went forth unto the
spring of the waters, and cast the salt in
there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I
have healed these waters; there shall not
be from thence any more death or barren
[land]."
2 Kings 2:22 "So the waters were healed
unto this day, according to the saying of
Elisha which he spake."
2 Kings 2:24 "And he turned back, and
looked on them, and cursed them in the name
of the LORD. And there came forth two she
bears out of the wood, and tare forty and
two children of them."
2 Kings 2:25 "And he went from thence to
mount Carmel, and from thence he returned
to Samaria."
2 Kings 3
2 Kings Chapter 3
2 Kings 3:1 "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab
began to reign over Israel in Samaria the
eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, and reigned twelve years."
2 Kings 3:2 " And he wrought evil in the
sight of the LORD; but not like his father,
and like his mother: for he put away the
image of Baal that his father had made."
2 Kings 3:3 "Nevertheless he cleaved unto
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
which made Israel to sin; he departed not
therefrom."
2 Kings 3:4 "And Mesha king of Moab was a
sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of
Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a
hundred thousand rams, with the wool."
2 Kings 3:5 "But it came to pass, when Ahab
was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled
against the king of Israel."
2 Kings 3:6 "And king Jehoram went out of
Samaria the same time, and numbered all
Israel."
2 Kings 3:7 "And he went and sent to
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The
king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt
thou go with me against Moab to battle? And
he said, I will go up: I [am] as thou
[art], my people as thy people, [and] my
horses as thy horses."
2 Kings 3:8 "And he said, Which way shall
we go up? And he answered, The way through
the wilderness of Edom."
2 Kings 3:9 "So the king of Israel went,
and the king of Judah, and the king of
Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven
days' journey: and there was no water for
the host, and for the cattle that followed
them."
2 Kings 3:10 "And the king of Israel said,
Alas! that the LORD hath called these three
kings together, to deliver them into the
hand of Moab!"
2 Kings 3:11 "But Jehoshaphat said, [Is
there] not here a prophet of the LORD, that
we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one
of the king of Israel's servants answered
and said, Here [is] Elisha the son of
Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of
Elijah."
2 Kings 3:12 "And Jehoshaphat said, The
word of the LORD is with him. So the king
of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of
Edom went down to him."
2 Kings 3:13 "And Elisha said unto the king
of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get
thee to the prophets of thy father, and to
the prophets of thy mother. And the king of
Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD
hath called these three kings together, to
deliver them into the hand of Moab."
2 Kings 3:14 "And Elisha said, [As] the
LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand,
surely, were it not that I regard the
presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,
I would not look toward thee, nor see
thee."
2 Kings 3:15 "But now bring me a minstrel.
And it came to pass, when the minstrel
played, that the hand of the LORD came upon
him."
2 Kings 3:16 "And he said, Thus saith the
LORD, Make this valley full of ditches."
2 Kings 3:17 "For thus saith the LORD, Ye
shall not see wind, neither shall ye see
rain; yet that valley shall be filled with
water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your
cattle, and your beasts."
2 Kings 3:18 "And this is [but] a light
thing in the sight of the LORD: he will
deliver the Moabites also into your hand."
Elisha explains that filling these ditches
with water is a minor miracle. The great
miracle that will take place here, will be
the Moabite defeat by the Lord. He will
deliver the Moabites into their hands.
2 Kings 3:19 "And ye shall smite every
fenced city, and every choice city, and
shall fell every good tree, and stop all
wells of water, and mar every good piece of
land with stones."
2 Kings 3:20 "And it came to pass in the
morning, when the meat offering was
offered, that, behold, there came water by
the way of Edom, and the country was filled
with water."
2 Kings 3:21 "And when all the Moabites
heard that the kings were come up to fight
against them, they gathered all that were
able to put on armor, and upward, and stood
in the border."
2 Kings 3:22 "And they rose up early in the
morning, and the sun shone upon the water,
and the Moabites saw the water on the other
side [as] red as blood:"
2 Kings 3:23 "And they said, This [is]
blood: the kings are surely slain, and they
have smitten one another: now therefore,
Moab, to the spoil."
2 Kings 3:24 "And when they came to the
camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and
smote the Moabites, so that they fled
before them: but they went forward smiting
the Moabites, even in [their] country."
2 Kings 3:25 "And they beat down the
cities, and on every good piece of land
cast every man his stone, and filled it;
and they stopped all the wells of water,
and felled all the good trees: only in
Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof;
howbeit the slingers went about [it], and
smote it."
2 Kings 3:26 "And when the king of Moab saw
that the battle was too sore for him, he
took with him seven hundred men that drew
swords, to break through [even] unto the
king of Edom: but they could not."
Kings 3:27 "Then he took his eldest son
that should have reigned in his stead, and
offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the
wall. And there was great indignation
against Israel: and they departed from him,
and returned to [their own] land."
2 Kings 4
2 Kings Chapter 4
2 Kings 4:1 "Now there cried a certain
woman of the wives of the sons of the
prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant
my husband is dead; and thou knowest that
thy servant did fear the LORD: and the
creditor is come to take unto him my two
sons to be bondmen."
2 Kings 4:2 "And Elisha said unto her, What
shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast
thou in the house? And she said, Thine
handmaid hath not any thing in the house,
save a pot of oil."
2 Kings 4:3 "Then he said, Go, borrow thee
vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, [even]
empty vessels; borrow not a few."
2 Kings 4:4 "And when thou art come in,
thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon
thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those
vessels, and thou shalt set aside that
which is full."
2 Kings 4:5 "So she went from him, and shut
the door upon her and upon her sons, who
brought [the vessels] to her; and she
poured out."
2 Kings 4:6 "And it came to pass, when the
vessels were full, that she said unto her
son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said
unto her, [There is] not a vessel more. And
the oil stayed."
2 Kings 4:7 "Then she came and told the man
of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and
pay thy debt, and live thou and thy
children of the rest."
2 Kings 4:8 "And it fell on a day, that
Elisha passed to Shunem, where [was] a
great woman; and she constrained him to eat
bread. And [so] it was, [that] as oft as he
passed by, he turned in thither to eat
bread."
2 Kings 4:9 "And she said unto her husband,
Behold now, I perceive that this [is] an
holy man of God, which passeth by us
continually."
2 Kings 4:10 "Let us make a little chamber,
I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set
for him there a bed, and a table, and a
stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be,
when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in
thither."
2 Kings 4:11 "And it fell on a day, that he
came thither, and he turned into the
chamber, and lay there."
2 Kings 4:12 "And he said to Gehazi his
servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he
had called her, she stood before him."
2 Kings 4:13 "And he said unto him, Say now
unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful
for us with all this care; what [is] to be
done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for
to the king, or to the captain of the host?
And she answered, I dwell among mine own
people."
2 Kings 4:14 "And he said, What then [is]
to be done for her? And Gehazi answered,
Verily she hath no child, and her husband
is old."
2 Kings 4:15 "And he said, Call her. And
when he had called her, she stood in the
door."
2 Kings 4:16 "And he said, About this
season, according to the time of life, thou
shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my
lord, [thou] man of God, do not lie unto
thine handmaid."
2 Kings 4:17 "And the woman conceived, and
bare a son at that season that Elisha had
said unto her, according to the time of
life."
2 Kings 4:18 "And when the child was grown,
it fell on a day, that he went out to his
father to the reapers."
2 Kings 4:19 "And he said unto his father,
My head, my head. And he said to a lad,
Carry him to his mother."
2 Kings 4:20 "And when he had taken him,
and brought him to his mother, he sat on
her knees till noon, and [then] died."
2 Kings 4:21 "And she went up, and laid him
on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the
door] upon him, and went out."
2 Kings 4:22 "And she called unto her
husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee,
one of the young men, and one of the asses,
that I may run to the man of God, and come
again."
2 Kings 4:23 "And he said, Wherefore wilt
thou go to him today? [it is] neither new
moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall
be] well."
2 Kings 4:24 "Then she saddled an ass, and
said to her servant, Drive, and go forward;
slack not [thy] riding for me, except I bid
thee."
2 Kings 4:25 "So she went and came unto the
man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to
pass, when the man of God saw her afar off,
that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold,
[yonder is] that Shunammite:"
2 Kings 4:26 "Run now, I pray thee, to meet
her, and say unto her, [Is it] well with
thee? [is it] well with thy husband? [is
it] well with the child? And she answered,
[It is] well."
2 Kings 4:27 "And when she came to the man
of God to the hill, she caught him by the
feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her
away. And the man of God said, Let her
alone; for her soul [is] vexed within her:
and the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and
hath not told me."
2 Kings 4:28 "Then she said, Did I desire a
son of my lord? Did I not say, Do not
deceive me?"
2 Kings 4:29 "Then he said to Gehazi, Gird
up thy loins, and take my staff in thine
hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man,
salute him not; and if any salute thee,
answer him not again: and lay my staff upon
the face of the child."
2 Kings 4:30 "And the mother of the child
said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy
soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he
arose, and followed her."
2 Kings 4:31 "And Gehazi passed on before
them, and laid the staff upon the face of
the child; but [there was] neither voice,
nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to
meet him, and told him, saying, The child
is not awaked."
2 Kings 4:32 "And when Elisha was come into
the house, behold, the child was dead,
[and] laid upon his bed."
2 Kings 4:33 "He went in therefore, and
shut the door upon them twain, and prayed
unto the LORD."
2 Kings 4:34 "And he went up, and lay upon
the child, and put his mouth upon his
mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his
hands upon his hands: and he stretched
himself upon the child; and the flesh of
the child waxed warm."
2 Kings 4:35 "Then he returned, and walked
in the house to and fro; and went up, and
stretched himself upon him: and the child
sneezed seven times, and the child opened
his eyes."
2 Kings 4:36 "And he called Gehazi, and
said, Call this Shunammite. So he called
her. And when she was come in unto him, he
said, Take up thy son."
2 Kings 4:37 "Then she went in, and fell at
his feet, and bowed herself to the ground,
and took up her son, and went out."
2 Kings 4:38 "And Elisha came again to
Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the
land; and the sons of the prophets [were]
sitting before him: and he said unto his
servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe
pottage for the sons of the prophets."
2 Kings 4:39 "And one went out into the
field to gather herbs, and found a wild
vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his
lap full, and came and shred [them] into
the pot of pottage: for they knew [them]
not."
2 Kings 4:40 "So they poured out for the
men to eat. And it came to pass, as they
were eating of the pottage, that they cried
out, and said, O [thou] man of God, [there
is] death in the pot. And they could not
eat [thereof]."
2 Kings 4:41 "But he said, Then bring meal.
And he cast [it] into the pot; and he said,
Pour out for the people, that they may eat.
And there was no harm in the pot."
2 Kings 4:42 "And there came a man from
Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God
bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of
barley, and full ears of corn in the husk
thereof. And he said, Give unto the people,
that they may eat."
2 Kings 4:43 "And his servitor said, What,
should I set this before a hundred men? He
said again, Give the people, that they may
eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall
eat, and shall leave [thereof]."
2 Kings 4:44 "So he set [it] before them,
and they did eat, and left [thereof],
according to the word of the LORD."
2 Kings 5
2 Kings Chapter 5
2 Kings 5:1 "Now Naaman, captain of the
host of the king of Syria, was a great man
with his master, and honorable, because by
him the LORD had given deliverance unto
Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor,
[but he was] a leper."
2 Kings 5:2 "And the Syrians had gone out
by companies, and had brought away captive
out of the land of Israel a little maid;
and she waited on Naaman's wife."
2 Kings 5:3 "And she said unto her
mistress, Would God my lord [were] with the
prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would
recover him of his leprosy."
2 Kings 5:4 "And [one] went in, and told
his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the
maid that [is] of the land of Israel."
2 Kings 5:5 "And the king of Syria said, Go
to, go, and I will send a letter unto the
king of Israel. And he departed, and took
with him ten talents of silver, and six
thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes
of raiment."
2 Kings 5:6 "And he brought the letter to
the king of Israel, saying, Now when this
letter is come unto thee, behold, I have
[therewith] sent Naaman my servant to thee,
that thou mayest recover him of his
leprosy."
2 Kings 5:7 "And it came to pass, when the
king of Israel had read the letter, that he
rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to
kill and to make alive, that this man doth
send unto me to recover a man of his
leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you,
and see how he seeketh a quarrel against
me."
2 Kings 5:8 "And it was [so], when Elisha
the man of God had heard that the king of
Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent
to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou
rent thy clothes? let him come now to me,
and he shall know that there is a prophet
in Israel."
2 Kings 5:9 "So Naaman came with his horses
and with his chariot, and stood at the door
of the house of Elisha."
2 Kings 5:11 "But Naaman was wroth, and
went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He
will surely come out to me, and stand, and
call on the name of the LORD his God, and
strike his hand over the place, and recover
the leper."
2 Kings 5:12 "[Are] not Abana and Pharpar,
rivers of Damascus, better than all the
waters of Israel? may I not wash in them,
and be clean? So he turned and went away in
a rage."
2 Kings 5:13 "And his servants came near,
and spake unto him, and said, My father,
[if] the prophet had bid thee [do some]
great thing, wouldest thou not have done
[it]? how much rather then, when he saith
to thee, Wash, and be clean?"
2 Kings 5:14 "Then went he down, and dipped
himself seven times in Jordan, according to
the saying of the man of God: and his flesh
came again like unto the flesh of a little
child, and he was clean."
2 Kings 5:15 "And he returned to the man of
God, he and all his company, and came, and
stood before him: and he said, Behold, now
I know that [there is] no God in all the
earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray
thee, take a blessing of thy servant."
2 Kings 5:16 "But he said, [As] the LORD
liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive
none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he
refused."
2 Kings 5:17 "And Naaman said, Shall there
not then, I pray thee, be given to thy
servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy
servant will henceforth offer neither burnt
offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but
unto the LORD."
2 Kings 5:18 "In this thing the LORD pardon
thy servant, [that] when my master goeth
into the house of Rimmon to worship there,
and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself
in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down
myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD
pardon thy servant in this thing."
2 Kings 5:20 "But Gehazi, the servant of
Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my
master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in
not receiving at his hands that which he
brought: but, [as] the LORD liveth, I will
run after him, and take somewhat of him."
2 Kings 5:21 "So Gehazi followed after
Naaman. And when Naaman saw [him] running
after him, he lighted down from the chariot
to meet him, and said, [Is] all well?"
2 Kings 5:22 "And he said, All [is] well.
My master hath sent me, saying, Behold,
even now there be come to me from mount
Ephraim two young men of the sons of the
prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent
of silver, and two changes of garments."
2 Kings 5:23 "And Naaman said, Be content,
take two talents. And he urged him, and
bound two talents of silver in two bags,
with two changes of garments, and laid
[them] upon two of his servants; and they
bare [them] before him."
2 Kings 5:24 "And when he came to the
tower, he took [them] from their hand, and
bestowed [them] in the house: and he let
the men go, and they departed."
2 Kings 5:25 "But he went in, and stood
before his master. And Elisha said unto
him, Whence [comest thou], Gehazi? And he
said, Thy servant went no whither."
2 Kings 5:26 "And he said unto him, Went
not mine heart [with thee], when the man
turned again from his chariot to meet thee?
[Is it] a time to receive money, and to
receive garments, and oliveyards, and
vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and
menservants, and maidservants?"
2 Kings 5:27 "The leprosy therefore of
Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy
seed for ever. And he went out from his
presence a leper [as white] as snow."
2 Kings 6
2 Kings Chapter 6
2 Kings 6:1 "And the sons of the prophets
said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place
where we dwell with thee is too strait for
us."
2 Kings 6:3 "And one said, Be content, I
pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he
answered, I will go."
2 Kings 6:4 "So he went with them. And when
they came to Jordan, they cut down wood."
2 Kings 6:5 "But as one was felling a beam,
the axe head fell into the water: and he
cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was
borrowed."
2 Kings 6:6 "And the man of God said, Where
fell it? And he showed him the place. And
he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in
thither; and the iron did swim."
2 Kings 6:7 "Therefore said he, Take [it]
up to thee. And he put out his hand, and
took it."
2 Kings 6:8 "Then the king of Syria warred
against Israel, and took counsel with his
servants, saying, In such and such a place
[shall be] my camp."
2 Kings 6:9 "And the man of God sent unto
the king of Israel, saying, Beware that
thou pass not such a place; for thither the
Syrians are come down."
2 Kings 6:10 "And the king of Israel sent
to the place which the man of God told him
and warned him of, and saved himself there,
not once nor twice."
2 Kings 6:11 "Therefore the heart of the
king of Syria was sore troubled for this
thing; and he called his servants, and said
unto them, Will ye not show me which of us
[is] for the king of Israel?"
2 Kings 6:12 "And one of his servants said,
None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the
prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the
king of Israel the words that thou speakest
in thy bedchamber."
2 Kings 6:14 "Therefore sent he thither
horses, and chariots, and a great host: and
they came by night, and compassed the city
about."
2 Kings 6:15 "And when the servant of the
man of God was risen early, and gone forth,
behold, a host compassed the city both with
horses and chariots. And his servant said
unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we
do?"
2 Kings 6:16 "And he answered, Fear not:
for they that [be] with us [are] more than
they that [be] with them."
2 Kings 6:17 "And Elisha prayed, and said,
LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he
may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of
the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the
mountain [was] full of horses and chariots
of fire round about Elisha."
2 Kings 6:18 "And when they came down to
him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said,
Smite this people, I pray thee, with
blindness. And he smote them with blindness
according to the word of Elisha."
2 Kings 6:19 "And Elisha said unto them,
This [is] not the way, neither [is] this
the city: follow me, and I will bring you
to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to
Samaria."
2 Kings 6:20 "And it came to pass, when
they were come into Samaria, that Elisha
said, LORD, open the eyes of these [men],
that they may see. And the LORD opened
their eyes, and they saw; and, behold,
[they were] in the midst of Samaria."
2 Kings 6:21 "And the king of Israel said
unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father,
shall I smite [them]? shall I smite
[them]?"
2 Kings 6:22 "And he answered, Thou shalt
not smite [them]: wouldest thou smite those
whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword
and with thy bow? set bread and water
before them, that they may eat and drink,
and go to their master."
2 Kings 6:23 "And he prepared great
provision for them: and when they had eaten
and drunk, he sent them away, and they went
to their master. So the bands of Syria came
no more into the land of Israel."
2 Kings 6:24 "And it came to pass after
this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered
all his host, and went up, and besieged
Samaria."
2 Kings 6:25 "And there was a great famine
in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it,
until an ass's head was [sold] for
fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the
fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for
five [pieces] of silver."
2 Kings 6:26 "And as the king of Israel was
passing by upon the wall, there cried a
woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O
king."
2 Kings 6:27 "And he said, If the LORD do
not help thee, whence shall I help thee?
out of the barnfloor, or out of the
winepress?"
2 Kings 6:28 "And the king said unto her,
What aileth thee? And she answered, This
woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we
may eat him to day, and we will eat my son
to morrow."
2 Kings 6:29 "So we boiled my son, and did
eat him: and I said unto her on the next
day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and
she hath hid her son."
2 Kings 6:30 "And it came to pass, when the
king heard the words of the woman, that he
rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the
wall, and the people looked, and, behold,
[he had] sackcloth within upon his flesh."
2 Kings 6:31 "Then he said, God do so and
more also to me, if the head of Elisha the
son of Shaphat shall stand on him this
day."
2 Kings 6:32 "But Elisha sat in his house,
and the elders sat with him; and [the king]
sent a man from before him: but ere the
messenger came to him, he said to the
elders, See ye how this son of a murderer
hath sent to take away mine head? look,
when the messenger cometh, shut the door,
and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the
sound of his master's feet behind him?"
2 Kings 6:33 "And while he yet talked with
them, behold, the messenger came down unto
him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of
the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD
any longer?"
2 Kings 7
2 Kings Chapter 7
2 Kings 7:1 "Then Elisha said, Hear ye the
word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD,
Tomorrow about this time [shall] a measure
of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and
two measures of barley for a shekel, in the
gate of Samaria."
2 Kings 7:2 "Then a lord on whose hand the
king leaned answered the man of God, and
said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make
windows in heaven, might this thing be? And
he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with
thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof."
2 Kings 7:3 "And there were four leprous
men at the entering in of the gate: and
they said one to another, Why sit we here
until we die?"
2 Kings 7:4 "If we say, We will enter into
the city, then the famine [is] in the city,
and we shall die there: and if we sit still
here, we die also. Now therefore come, and
let us fall unto the host of the Syrians:
if they save us alive, we shall live; and
if they kill us, we shall but die."
2 Kings 7:5 "And they rose up in the
twilight, to go unto the camp of the
Syrians: and when they were come to the
uttermost part of the camp of Syria,
behold, [there was] no man there."
2 Kings 7:6 "For the Lord had made the host
of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots,
and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of
a great host: and they said one to another,
Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against
us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings
of the Egyptians, to come upon us."
2 Kings 7:7 "Wherefore they arose and fled
in the twilight, and left their tents, and
their horses, and their asses, even the
camp as it [was], and fled for their life."
2 Kings 7:8 "And when these lepers came to
the uttermost part of the camp, they went
into one tent, and did eat and drink, and
carried thence silver, and gold, and
raiment, and went and hid [it]; and came
again, and entered into another tent, and
carried thence [also], and went and hid
[it]."
2 Kings 7:9 "Then they said one to another,
We do not well: this day [is] a day of good
tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry
till the morning light, some mischief will
come upon us: now therefore come, that we
may go and tell the king's household."
2 Kings 7:10 "So they came and called unto
the porter of the city: and they told them,
saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians,
and, behold, [there was] no man there,
neither voice of man, but horses tied, and
asses tied, and the tents as they [were]."
2 Kings 7:11 "And he called the porters;
and they told [it] to the king's house
within."
2 Kings 7:12 "And the king arose in the
night, and said unto his servants, I will
now show you what the Syrians have done to
us. They know that we [be] hungry;
therefore are they gone out of the camp to
hide themselves in the field, saying, When
they come out of the city, we shall catch
them alive, and get into the city."
2 Kings 7:13 "And one of his servants
answered and said, Let [some] take, I pray
thee, five of the horses that remain, which
are left in the city, (behold, they [are]
as all the multitude of Israel that are
left in it: behold, [I say], they [are]
even as all the multitude of the Israelites
that are consumed:) and let us send and
see."
2 Kings 7:15 "And they went after them unto
Jordan: and, lo, all the way [was] full of
garments and vessels, which the Syrians had
cast away in their haste. And the
messengers returned, and told the king."
2 Kings 7:16 "And the people went out, and
spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a
measure of fine flour was [sold] for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for a
shekel, according to the word of the LORD."
2 Kings 7:17 "And the king appointed the
lord on whose hand he leaned to have the
charge of the gate: and the people trode
upon him in the gate, and he died, as the
man of God had said, who spake when the
king came down to him."
2 Kings 7:18 "And it came to pass as the
man of God had spoken to the king, saying,
Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a
measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall
be tomorrow about this time in the gate of
Samaria:"
2 Kings 7:19 "And that lord answered the
man of God, and said, Now, behold, [if] the
LORD should make windows in heaven, might
such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou
shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not
eat thereof."
2 Kings 7:20 "And so it fell out unto him:
for the people trode upon him in the gate,
and he died."
2 Kings 8
2 Kings Chapter 8
2 Kings 8:1 "Then spake Elisha unto the
woman, whose son he had restored to life,
saying, Arise, and go thou and thine
household, and sojourn wheresoever thou
canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for
a famine; and it shall also come upon the
land seven years."
2 Kings 8:2 "And the woman arose, and did
after the saying of the man of God: and she
went with her household, and sojourned in
the land of the Philistines seven years."
2 Kings 8:3 "And it came to pass at the
seven years' end, that the woman returned
out of the land of the Philistines: and she
went forth to cry unto the king for her
house and for her land."
2 Kings 8:4 "And the king talked with
Gehazi the servant of the man of God,
saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great
things that Elisha hath done."
2 Kings 8:5 "And it came to pass, as he was
telling the king how he had restored a dead
body to life, that, behold, the woman,
whose son he had restored to life, cried to
the king for her house and for her land.
And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is]
the woman, and this [is] her son, whom
Elisha restored to life."
2 Kings 8:6 "And when the king asked the
woman, she told him. So the king appointed
unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore
all that [was] hers, and all the fruits of
the field since the day that she left the
land, even until now."
2 Kings 8:7 "And Elisha came to Damascus;
and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick;
and it was told him, saying, The man of God
is come hither."
2 Kings 8:8 "And the king said unto Hazael,
Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet
the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by
him, saying, Shall I recover of this
disease?"
2 Kings 8:9 "So Hazael went to meet him,
and took a present with him, even of every
good thing of Damascus, forty camels'
burden, and came and stood before him, and
said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath
sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of
this disease?"
2 Kings 8:10 "And Elisha said unto him, Go,
say unto him, Thou mayest certainly
recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me
that he shall surely die."
2 Kings 8:11 "And he settled his
countenance steadfastly, until he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept."
2 Kings 8:12 "And Hazael said, Why weepeth
my lord? And he answered, Because I know
the evil that thou wilt do unto the
children of Israel: their strong holds wilt
thou set on fire, and their young men wilt
thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash
their children, and rip up their women with
child."
2 Kings 8:13 "And Hazael said, But what,
[is] thy servant a dog, that he should do
this great thing? And Elisha answered, The
LORD hath showed me that thou [shalt be]
king over Syria."
2 Kings 8:14 "So he departed from Elisha,
and came to his master; who said to him,
What said Elisha to thee? And he answered,
He told me [that] thou shouldest surely
recover."
2 Kings 8:15 "And it came to pass on the
morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and
dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on
his face, so that he died: and Hazael
reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 8:16 "And in the fifth year of
Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah,
Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah began to reign."
2 Kings 8:17 "Thirty and two years old was
he when he began to reign; and he reigned
eight years in Jerusalem."
2 Kings 8:18 "And he walked in the way of
the kings of Israel, as did the house of
Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his
wife: and he did evil in the sight of the
LORD."
2 Kings 8:19 "Yet the LORD would not
destroy Judah for David his servant's sake,
as he promised him to give him always a
light, [and] to his children."
2 Kings 8:20 "In his days Edom revolted
from under the hand of Judah, and made a
king over themselves."
2 Kings 8:21 "So Joram went over to Zair,
and all the chariots with him: and he rose
by night, and smote the Edomites which
compassed him about, and the captains of
the chariots: and the people fled into
their tents."
2 Kings 8:22 "Yet Edom revolted from under
the hand of Judah unto this day. Then
Libnah revolted at the same time."
2 Kings 8:23 "And the rest of the acts of
Joram, and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 8:24 "And Joram slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David: and Ahaziah his son
reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 8:25 "In the twelfth year of Joram
the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah
the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to
reign."
2 Kings 8:26 "Two and twenty years old
[was] Ahaziah when he began to reign; and
he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Athaliah, the daughter
of Omri king of Israel."
2 Kings 8:27 "And he walked in the way of
the house of Ahab, and did evil in the
sight of the LORD, as [did] the house of
Ahab: for he [was] the son in law of the
house of Ahab."
2 Kings 8:28 "And he went with Joram the
son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king
of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians
wounded Joram."
2 Kings 8:29 "And king Joram went back to
be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which
the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he
fought against Hazael king of Syria. And
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah
went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in
Jezreel, because he was sick."
2 Kings 9
2 Kings Chapter 9
2 Kings 9:1 "And Elisha the prophet called
one of the children of the prophets, and
said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take
this box of oil in thine hand, and go to
Ramoth-gilead:"
2 Kings 9:2 "And when thou comest thither,
look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat
the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him
arise up from among his brethren, and carry
him to an inner chamber;"
2 Kings 9:3 "Then take the box of oil, and
pour [it] on his head, and say, Thus saith
the LORD, I have anointed thee king over
Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and
tarry not."
2 Kings 9:4 "So the young man, [even] the
young man the prophet, went to
Ramoth-gilead."
2 Kings 9:5 "And when he came, behold, the
captains of the host [were] sitting; and he
said, I have an errand to thee, O captain.
And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he
said, To thee, O captain."
2 Kings 9:6 "And he arose, and went into
the house; and he poured the oil on his
head, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee
king over the people of the LORD, [even]
over Israel."
2 Kings 9:7 "And thou shalt smite the house
of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the
blood of my servants the prophets, and the
blood of all the servants of the LORD, at
the hand of Jezebel."
2 Kings 9:8 "For the whole house of Ahab
shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab
him that pisseth against the wall, and him
that is shut up and left in Israel:"
2 Kings 9:9 "And I will make the house of
Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son
of Ahijah:"
2 Kings 9:10 "And the dogs shall eat
Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and
[there shall be] none to bury [her]. And he
opened the door, and fled."
2 Kings 9:11 "Then Jehu came forth to the
servants of his lord: and [one] said unto
him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this mad
[fellow] to thee? And he said unto them, Ye
know the man, and his communication."
2 Kings 9:12 "And they said, [It is] false;
tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus
spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the
LORD, I have anointed thee king over
Israel."
2 Kings 9:13 "Then they hasted, and took
every man his garment, and put [it] under
him on the top of the stairs, and blew with
trumpets, saying, Jehu is king."
2 Kings 9:14 "So Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram had kept
Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because
of Hazael king of Syria."
2 Kings 9:15 "But king Joram was returned
to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which
the Syrians had given him, when he fought
with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said,
If it be your minds, [then] let none go
forth [nor] escape out of the city to go to
tell [it] in Jezreel."
2 Kings 9:16 "So Jehu rode in a chariot,
and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there.
And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to
see Joram."
2 Kings 9:17 "And there stood a watchman on
the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the
company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see
a company. And Joram said, Take a horseman,
and send to meet them, and let him say, [Is
it] peace?"
2 Kings 9:18 "So there went one on
horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith
the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said,
What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee
behind me. And the watchman told, saying,
The messenger came to them, but he cometh
not again."
2 Kings 9:19 "Then he sent out a second on
horseback, which came to them, and said,
Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And
Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with
peace? turn thee behind me."
2 Kings 9:20 "And the watchman told,
saying, He came even unto them, and cometh
not again: and the driving [is] like the
driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he
driveth furiously."
2 Kings 9:21 "And Joram said, Make ready.
And his chariot was made ready. And Joram
king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah
went out, each in his chariot, and they
went out against Jehu, and met him in the
portion of Naboth the Jezreelite."
2 Kings 9:22 "And it came to pass, when
Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it]
peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace,
so long as the whoredoms of thy mother
Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?"
2 Kings 9:23 "And Joram turned his hands,
and fled, and said to Ahaziah, [There is]
treachery, O Ahaziah."
2 Kings 9:24 "And Jehu drew a bow with his
full strength, and smote Jehoram between
his arms, and the arrow went out at his
heart, and he sunk down in his chariot."
2 Kings 9:25 "Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar
his captain, Take up, [and] cast him in the
portion of the field of Naboth the
Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I
and thou rode together after Ahab his
father, the LORD laid this burden upon
him;"
2 Kings 9:26 "Surely I have seen yesterday
the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his
sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite
thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now
therefore take [and] cast him into the plat
[of ground], according to the word of the
LORD."
2 Kings 9:27 "But when Ahaziah the king of
Judah saw [this], he fled by the way of the
garden house. And Jehu followed after him,
and said, Smite him also in the chariot.
[And they did so] at the going up to Gur,
which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled to
Megiddo, and died there."
2 Kings 9:28 "And his servants carried him
in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him
in his sepulcher with his fathers in the
city of David."
2 Kings 9:29 "And in the eleventh year of
Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to
reign over Judah."
2 Kings 9:30 "And when Jehu was come to
Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it]; and she
painted her face, and tired her head, and
looked out at a window."
2 Kings 9:31 "And as Jehu entered in at the
gate, she said, [Had] Zimri peace, who slew
his master?"
2 Kings 9:32 "And he lifted up his face to
the window, and said, Who [is] on my side?
who? And there looked out to him two [or]
three eunuchs."
2 Kings 9:33 "And he said, Throw her down.
So they threw her down: and [some] of her
blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the
horses: and he trode her under foot."
2 Kings 9:34 "And when he was come in, he
did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now
this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she
[is] a king's daughter."
2 Kings 9:35 "And they went to bury her:
but they found no more of her than the
skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her]
hands."
2 Kings 9:36 "Wherefore they came again,
and told him. And he said, This [is] the
word of the LORD, which he spake by his
servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the
portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh
of Jezebel:"
2 Kings 9:37 "And the carcase of Jezebel
shall be as dung upon the face of the field
in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they
shall not say, This [is] Jezebel."
2 Kings 10
2 Kings Chapter 10
2 Kings 10:1 "And Ahab had seventy sons in
Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent
to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to
the elders, and to them that brought up
Ahab's [children], saying,"
2 Kings 10:2 "Now as soon as this letter
cometh to you, seeing your master's sons
[are] with you, and [there are] with you
chariots and horses, a fenced city also,
and armor;"
2 Kings 10:3 "Look even out the best and
meetest of your master's sons, and set
[him] on his father's throne, and fight for
your master's house."
2 Kings 10:4 "But they were exceedingly
afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood
not before him: how then shall we stand?"
2 Kings 10:5 "And he that [was] over the
house, and he that [was] over the city, the
elders also, and the bringers up [of the
children], sent to Jehu, saying, We [are]
thy servants, and will do all that thou
shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do
thou [that which is] good in thine eyes."
2 Kings 10:6 "Then he wrote a letter the
second time to them, saying, If ye [be]
mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my
voice, take ye the heads of the men your
master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by
tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons,
[being] seventy persons, [were] with the
great men of the city, which brought them
up."
2 Kings 10:7 "And it came to pass, when the
letter came to them, that they took the
king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and
put their heads in baskets, and sent him
[them] to Jezreel."
2 Kings 10:8 "And there came a messenger,
and told him, saying, They have brought the
heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay
ye them in two heaps at the entering in of
the gate until the morning."
2 Kings 10:9 "And it came to pass in the
morning, that he went out, and stood, and
said to all the people, Ye [be] righteous:
behold, I conspired against my master, and
slew him: but who slew all these?"
2 Kings 10:10 "Know now that there shall
fall unto the earth nothing of the word of
the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning
the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done
[that] which he spake by his servant
Elijah."
2 Kings 10:11 "So Jehu slew all that
remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel,
and all his great men, and his kinsfolks,
and his priests, until he left him none
remaining."
2 Kings 10:12 "And he arose and departed,
and came to Samaria. [And] as he [was] at
the shearing house in the way,"
2 Kings 10:13 "Jehu met with the brethren
of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who
[are] ye? And they answered, We [are] the
brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to
salute the children of the king and the
children of the queen."
2 Kings 10:14 "And he said, Take them
alive. And they took them alive, and slew
them at the pit of the shearing house,
[even] two and forty men; neither left he
any of them."
2 Kings 10:15 "And when he was departed
thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of
Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted
him, and said to him, Is thine heart right,
as my heart [is] with thy heart? And
Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give
[me] thine hand. And he gave [him] his
hand; and he took him up to him into the
chariot."
2 Kings 10:16 "And he said, Come with me,
and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made
him ride in his chariot."
2 Kings 10:17 "And when he came to Samaria,
he slew all that remained unto Ahab in
Samaria, till he had destroyed him,
according to the saying of the LORD, which
he spake to Elijah."
2 Kings 10:18 "And Jehu gathered all the
people together, and said unto them, Ahab
served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall
serve him much."
2 Kings 10:19 "Now therefore call unto me
all the prophets of Baal, all his servants,
and all his priests; let none be wanting:
for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to
Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall
not live. But Jehu did [it] in subtilty, to
the intent that he might destroy the
worshippers of Baal."
2 Kings 10:20 "And Jehu said, Proclaim a
solemn assembly for Baal. And they
proclaimed [it]."
2 Kings 10:21 "And Jehu sent through all
Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal
came, so that there was not a man left that
came not. And they came into the house of
Baal; and the house of Baal was full from
one end to another."
2 Kings 10:22 "And he said unto him that
[was] over the vestry, Bring forth
vestments for all the worshippers of Baal.
And he brought them forth vestments."
2 Kings 10:23 "And Jehu went, and Jehonadab
the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal,
and said unto the worshippers of Baal,
Search, and look that there be here with
you none of the servants of the LORD, but
the worshippers of Baal only."
2 Kings 10:24 "And when they went in to
offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu
appointed fourscore men without, and said,
[If] any of the men whom I have brought
into your hands escape, [he that letteth
him go], his life [shall be] for the life
of him."
2 Kings 10:26 "And they brought forth the
images out of the house of Baal, and burned
them."
2 Kings 10:27 "And they brake down the
image of Baal, and brake down the house of
Baal, and made it a draught house unto this
day."
2 Kings 10:28 "Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out
of Israel."
2 Kings 10:29 "Howbeit [from] the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
to sin, Jehu departed not from after them,
[to wit], the golden calves that [were] in
Beth-el, and that [were] in Dan."
2 Kings 10:30 "And the LORD said unto Jehu,
Because thou hast done well in executing
[that which is] right in mine eyes, [and]
hast done unto the house of Ahab according
to all that [was] in mine heart, thy
children of the fourth [generation] shall
sit on the throne of Israel."
2 Kings 10:31 "But Jehu took no heed to
walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel
with all his heart: for he departed not
from the sins of Jeroboam, which made
Israel to sin."
2 Kings 10:32 "In those days the LORD began
to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them
in all the coasts of Israel;"
2 Kings 10:33 "From Jordan eastward, all
the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the
Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer,
which [is] by the river Arnon, even Gilead
and Bashan."
2 Kings 10:34 "Now the rest of the acts of
Jehu, and all that he did, and all his
might, [are] they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 10:35 "And Jehu slept with his
fathers: and they buried him in Samaria.
And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 10:36 "And the time that Jehu
reigned over Israel in Samaria [was] twenty
and eight years."
2 Kings 11
2 Kings Chapter 11
2 Kings 11:1 "And when Athaliah the mother
of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she
arose and destroyed all the seed royal."
2 Kings 11:2 "But Jehosheba, the daughter
of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took
Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him
from among the king's sons [which were]
slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his
nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so
that he was not slain."
2 Kings 11:3 "And he was with her hid in
the house of the LORD six years. And
Athaliah did reign over the land."
2 Kings 11:4 "And the seventh year Jehoiada
sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds,
with the captains and the guard, and
brought them to him into the house of the
LORD, and made a covenant with them, and
took an oath of them in the house of the
LORD, and showed them the king's son."
2 Kings 11:5 "And he commanded them,
saying, This [is] the thing that ye shall
do; A third part of you that enter in on
the Sabbath shall even be keepers of the
watch of the king's house;"
2 Kings 11:6 "And a third part [shall be]
at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the
gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the
watch of the house, that it be not broken
down."
2 Kings 11:7 "And two parts of all you that
go forth on the sabbath, even they shall
keep the watch of the house of the LORD
about the king."
2 Kings 11:8 "And ye shall compass the king
round about, every man with his weapons in
his hand: and he that cometh within the
ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with
the king as he goeth out and as he cometh
in."
2 Kings 11:9 "And the captains over the
hundreds did according to all [things] that
Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they
took every man his men that were to come in
on the sabbath, with them that should go
out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada
the priest."
2 Kings 11:10 "And to the captains over
hundreds did the priest give king David's
spears and shields, that [were] in the
temple of the LORD."
2 Kings 11:11 "And the guard stood, every
man with his weapons in his hand, round
about the king, from the right corner of
the temple to the left corner of the
temple, [along] by the altar and the
temple."
2 Kings 11:12 "And he brought forth the
king's son, and put the crown upon him, and
[gave him] the testimony; and they made him
king, and anointed him; and they clapped
their hands, and said, God save the king."
2 Kings 11:13 "And when Athaliah heard the
noise of the guard [and] of the people, she
came to the people into the temple of the
LORD."
2 Kings 11:14 "And when she looked, behold,
the king stood by a pillar, as the manner
[was], and the princes and the trumpeters
by the king, and all the people of the land
rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and
Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried,
Treason, Treason."
2 Kings 11:15 "But Jehoiada the priest
commanded the captains of the hundreds, the
officers of the host, and said unto them,
Have her forth without the ranges: and him
that followeth her kill with the sword. For
the priest had said, Let her not be slain
in the house of the LORD."
2 Kings 11:16 "And they laid hands on her;
and she went by the way by the which the
horses came into the king's house: and
there was she slain."
2 Kings 11:17 "And Jehoiada made a covenant
between the LORD and the king and the
people, that they should be the LORD'S
people; between the king also and the
people."
2 Kings 11:18 "And all the people of the
land went into the house of Baal, and brake
it down; his altars and his images brake
they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan
the priest of Baal before the altars. And
the priest appointed officers over the
house of the LORD."
2 Kings 11:19 "And he took the rulers over
hundreds, and the captains, and the guard,
and all the people of the land; and they
brought down the king from the house of the
LORD, and came by the way of the gate of
the guard to the king's house. And he sat
on the throne of the kings."
2 Kings 11:20 "And all the people of the
land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet:
and they slew Athaliah with the sword
[beside] the king's house."
2 Kings 11:21 "Seven years old [was]
Jehoash when he began to reign."
2 Kings 12
2 Kings Chapter 12
2 Kings 12:1 "In the seventh year of Jehu
Jehoash began to reign; and forty years
reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba."
2 Kings 12:2 "And Jehoash did [that which
was] right in the sight of the LORD all his
days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed
him."
2 Kings 12:3 "But the high places were not
taken away: the people still sacrificed and
burnt incense in the high places."
2 Kings 12:4 "And Jehoash said to the
priests, All the money of the dedicated
things that is brought into the house of
the LORD, [even] the money of every one
that passeth [the account], the money that
every man is set at, [and] all the money
that cometh into any man's heart to bring
into the house of the LORD,"
2 Kings 12:5 "Let the priests take [it] to
them, every man of his acquaintance: and
let them repair the breaches of the house,
wheresoever any breach shall be found."
2 Kings 12:6 "But it was [so, that] in the
three and twentieth year of king Jehoash
the priests had not repaired the breaches
of the house."
2 Kings 12:7 "Then king Jehoash called for
Jehoiada the priest, and the [other]
priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye
not the breaches of the house? now
therefore receive no [more] money of your
acquaintance, but deliver it for the
breaches of the house."
2 Kings 12:8 "And the priests consented to
receive no [more] money of the people,
neither to repair the breaches of the
house."
2 Kings 12:9 "But Jehoiada the priest took
a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it,
and set it beside the altar, on the right
side as one cometh into the house of the
LORD: and the priests that kept the door
put therein all the money [that was]
brought into the house of the LORD."
2 Kings 12:10 "And it was [so], when they
saw that [there was] much money in the
chest, that the king's scribe and the high
priest came up, and they put up in bags,
and told the money that was found in the
house of the LORD."
2 Kings 12:11 "And they gave the money,
being told, into the hands of them that did
the work, that had the oversight of the
house of the LORD: and they laid it out to
the carpenters and builders, that wrought
upon the house of the LORD,"
2 Kings 12:12 "And to masons, and hewers of
stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to
repair the breaches of the house of the
LORD, and for all that was laid out for the
house to repair [it]."
2 Kings 12:13 "Howbeit there were not made
for the house of the LORD bowls of silver,
snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of
gold, or vessels of silver, of the money
[that was] brought into the house of the
LORD:"
2 Kings 12:14 "But they gave that to the
workmen, and repaired therewith the house
of the LORD."
2 Kings 12:15 "Moreover they reckoned not
with the men, into whose hand they
delivered the money to be bestowed on
workmen: for they dealt faithfully."
2 Kings 12:16 "The trespass money and sin
money was not brought into the house of the
LORD: it was the priests'."
2 Kings 12:17 "Then Hazael king of Syria
went up, and fought against Gath, and took
it: and Hazael set his face to go up to
Jerusalem."
2 Kings 12:18 "And Jehoash king of Judah
took all the hallowed things that
Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his
fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and
his own hallowed things, and all the gold
[that was] found in the treasures of the
house of the LORD, and in the king's house,
and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and
he went away from Jerusalem."
2 Kings 12:19 "And the rest of the acts of
Joash, and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 12:20 "And his servants arose, and
made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the
house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla."
2 Kings 12:21 "For Jozachar the son of
Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer,
his servants, smote him, and he died; and
they buried him with his fathers in the
city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned
in his stead."
2 Kings 13
2 Kings Chapter 13
2 Kings 13:1 "In the three and twentieth
year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of
Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to
reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned]
seventeen years."
2 Kings 13:2 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed
the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
which made Israel to sin; he departed not
therefrom."
2 Kings 13:3 "And the anger of the LORD was
kindled against Israel, and he delivered
them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria,
and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of
Hazael, all [their] days."
2 Kings 13:4 "And Jehoahaz besought the
LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for
he saw the oppression of Israel, because
the king of Syria oppressed them."
2 Kings 13:5 "(And the LORD gave Israel a
savior, so that they went out from under
the hand of the Syrians: and the children
of Israel dwelt in their tents, as
beforetime."
2 Kings 13:6 "Nevertheless they departed
not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam,
who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein:
and there remained the grove also in
Samaria.)"
2 Kings 13:7 "Neither did he leave of the
people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and
ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for
the king of Syria had destroyed them, and
had made them like the dust by threshing."
2 Kings 13:8 "Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his
might, [are] they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 13:9 "And Jehoahaz slept with his
fathers; and they buried him in Samaria:
and Joash his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 13:10 "In the thirty and seventh
year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash
the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years."
2 Kings 13:11 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed
not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel sin: [but] he
walked therein."
2 Kings 13:12 "And the rest of the acts of
Joash, and all that he did, and his might
wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of
Judah, [are] they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 13:13 "And Joash slept with his
fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne:
and Joash was buried in Samaria with the
kings of Israel."
2 Kings 13:14 "Now Elisha was fallen sick
of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash
the king of Israel came down unto him, and
wept over his face, and said, O my father,
my father, the chariot of Israel, and the
horsemen thereof."
2 Kings 13:15 "And Elisha said unto him,
Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him
bow and arrows."
2 Kings 13:16 "And he said to the king of
Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he
put his hand [upon it]: and Elisha put his
hands upon the king's hands."
2 Kings 13:17 "And he said, Open the window
eastward. And he opened [it]. Then Elisha
said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The
arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the
arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou
shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou
have consumed [them]."
2 Kings 13:18 "And he said, Take the
arrows. And he took [them]. And he said
unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the
ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed."
2 Kings 13:19 "And the man of God was wroth
with him, and said, Thou shouldest have
smitten five or six times; then hadst thou
smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed
[it]: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria
[but] thrice."
2 Kings 13:20 "And Elisha died, and they
buried him. And the bands of the Moabites
invaded the land at the coming in of the
year."
2 Kings 13:21 "And it came to pass, as they
were burying a man, that, behold, they
spied a band [of men]; and they cast the
man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when
the man was let down, and touched the bones
of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his
feet."
2 Kings 13:22 "But Hazael king of Syria
oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz."
2 Kings 13:23 "And the LORD was gracious
unto them, and had compassion on them, and
had respect unto them, because of his
covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
and would not destroy them, neither cast he
them from his presence as yet."
2 Kings 13:24 "So Hazael king of Syria
died; and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his
stead."
2 Kings 13:25 "And Jehoash the son of
Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of
Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities,
which he had taken out of the hand of
Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did
Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of
Israel."
2 Kings 14
2 Kings Chapter 14
2 Kings 14:1 "In the second year of Joash
son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah."
2 Kings 14:2 "He was twenty and five years
old when he began to reign, and reigned
twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of
Jerusalem."
2 Kings 14:3 "And he did [that which was]
right in the sight of the LORD, yet not
like David his father: he did according to
all things as Joash his father did."
2 Kings 14:4 "Howbeit the high places were
not taken away: as yet the people did
sacrifice and burnt incense on the high
places."
2 Kings 14:5 "And it came to pass, as soon
as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand,
that he slew his servants which had slain
the king his father."
2 Kings 14:6 "But the children of the
murderers he slew not: according unto that
which is written in the book of the law of
Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying,
The fathers shall not be put to death for
the children, nor the children be put to
death for the fathers; but every man shall
be put to death for his own sin."
2 Kings 14:7 "He slew of Edom in the valley
of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by
war, and called the name of it Joktheel
unto this day."
2 Kings 14:8 "Then Amaziah sent messengers
to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of
Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us
look one another in the face."
2 Kings 14:9 "And Jehoash the 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 Kings 14:10 "Thou hast indeed smitten
Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up:
glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why
shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that
thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah
with thee?"
2 Kings 14:11 "But Amaziah would not hear.
Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up;
and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one
another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which
[belongeth] to Judah."
2 Kings 14:12 "And Judah was put to the
worse before Israel; and they fled every
man to their tents."
2 Kings 14:13 "And Jehoash king of Israel
took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at
Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and
brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the
gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four
hundred cubits."
2 Kings 14:14 "And he took all the gold and
silver, and all the vessels that were found
in the house of the LORD, and in the
treasures of the king's house, and
hostages, and returned to Samaria."
2 Kings 14:15 "Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoash which he did, and his might, and
how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah,
[are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 14:16 "And Jehoash slept with his
fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the
kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son
reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 14:17 "And Amaziah the son of Joash
king of Judah lived after the death of
Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
fifteen years."
2 Kings 14:18 "And the rest of the acts of
Amaziah, [are] they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 14:19 "Now they made a conspiracy
against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to
Lachish; but they sent after him to
Lachish, and slew him there."
2 Kings 14:20 "And they brought him on
horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with
his fathers in the city of David."
2 Kings 14:21 "And all the people of Judah
took Azariah, which [was] sixteen years
old, and made him king instead of his
father Amaziah."
2 Kings 14:22 "He built Elath, and restored
it to Judah, after that the king slept with
his fathers."
2 Kings 14:23 "In the fifteenth year of
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel
began to reign in Samaria, [and reigned]
forty and one years."
2 Kings 14:24 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin."
2 Kings 14:25 "He restored the coast of
Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the
sea of the plain, according to the word of
the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by
the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of
Amittai, the prophet, which [was] of
Gath-hepher."
2 Kings 14:26 "For the LORD saw the
affliction of Israel, [that it was] very
bitter: for [there was] not any shut up,
nor any left, nor any helper for Israel."
2 Kings 14:27 "And the LORD said not that
he would blot out the name of Israel from
under heaven: but he saved them by the hand
of Jeroboam the son of Joash."
2 Kings 14:28 "Now the rest of the acts of
Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his
might, how he warred, and how he recovered
Damascus, and Hamath, [which belonged] to
Judah, for Israel, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?"
2 Kings 14:29 "And Jeroboam slept with his
fathers, [even] with the kings of Israel;
and Zachariah his son reigned in his
stead."
2 Kings 15
2 Kings Chapter 15
2 Kings 15:1 "In the twenty and seventh
year of Jeroboam king of Israel began
Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to
reign."
2 Kings 15:2 "Sixteen years old was he when
he began to reign, and he reigned two and
fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name [was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem."
2 Kings 15:3 "And he did [that which was]
right in the sight of the LORD, according
to all that his father Amaziah had done;"
2 Kings 15:4 "Save that the high places
were not removed: the people sacrificed and
burnt incense still on the high places."
2 Kings 15:5 "And the LORD smote the king,
so that he was a leper unto the day of his
death, and dwelt in a several house. And
Jotham the king's son [was] over the house,
judging the people of the land."
2 Kings 15:6 "And the rest of the acts of
Azariah, and all that he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 15:7 "So Azariah slept with his
fathers; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Jotham
his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 15:8 "In the thirty and eighth year
of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the
son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in
Samaria six months."
2 Kings 15:9 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
fathers had done: he departed not from the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin."
2 Kings 15:10 "And Shallum the son of
Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him
before the people, and slew him, and
reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 15:11 "And the rest of the acts of
Zachariah, behold, they [are] written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel."
2 Kings 15:12 "This [was] the word of the
LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy
sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto
the fourth [generation]. And so it came to
pass."
2 Kings 15:13 "Shallum the son of Jabesh
began to reign in the nine and thirtieth
year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he
reigned a full month in Samaria."
2 Kings 15:14 "For Menahem the son of Gadi
went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria,
and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in
Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his
stead."
2 Kings 15:15 "And the rest of the acts of
Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made,
behold, they [are] written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Israel."
2 Kings 15:16 "Then Menahem smote Tiphsah,
and all that [were] therein, and the coasts
thereof from Tirzah: because they opened
not [to him], therefore he smote [it; and]
all the women therein that were with child
he ripped up."
2 Kings 15:17 "In the nine and thirtieth
year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem
the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and
reigned] ten years in Samaria."
2 Kings 15:18 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin."
2 Kings 15:19 "[And] Pul the king of
Assyria came against the land: and Menahem
gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that
his hand might be with him to confirm the
kingdom in his hand."
2 Kings 15:20 "And Menahem exacted the
money of Israel, [even] of all the mighty
men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of
silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So
the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed
not there in the land."
2 Kings 15:21 "And the rest of the acts of
Menahem, and all that he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?"
2 Kings 15:22 "And Menahem slept with his
fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in
his stead."
2 Kings 15:23 "In the fiftieth year of
Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of
Menahem began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] two years."
2 Kings 15:24 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin."
2 Kings 15:25 "But Pekah the son of
Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in
the palace of the king's house, with Argob
and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the
Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned
in his room."
2 Kings 15:26 "And the rest of the acts of
Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they
[are] written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel."
2 Kings 15:27 "In the two and fiftieth year
of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of
Remaliah began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years."
2 Kings 15:28 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed
not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin."
2 Kings 15:29 "In the days of Pekah king of
Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of
Assyria, and took Ijon, and
Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh,
and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the
land of Naphtali, and carried them captive
to Assyria."
2 Kings 15:30 "And Hoshea the son of Elah
made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of
Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and
reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year
of Jotham the son of Uzziah."
2 Kings 15:31 "And the rest of the acts of
Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they
[are] written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel."
2 Kings 15:32 "In the second year of Pekah
the son of Remaliah king of Israel began
Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to
reign."
2 Kings 15:33 "Five and twenty years old
was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Jerusha, the daughter
of Zadok."
2 Kings 15:34 "And he did [that which was]
right in the sight of the LORD: he did
according to all that his father Uzziah had
done."
2 Kings 15:35 "Howbeit the high places were
not removed: the people sacrificed and
burned incense still in the high places. He
built the higher gate of the house of the
LORD."
2 Kings 15:36 "Now the rest of the acts of
Jotham, and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 15:37 "In those days the LORD began
to send against Judah Rezin the king of
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah."
2 Kings 15:38 "And Jotham slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David his father: and Ahaz his
son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 16
2 Kings Chapter 16
2 Kings 16:1 "In the seventeenth year of
Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of
Jotham king of Judah began to reign."
2 Kings 16:2 "Twenty years old [was] Ahaz
when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which
was] right in the sight of the LORD his
God, like David his father."
2 Kings 16:3 "But he walked in the way of
the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son
to pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out from before the children of
Israel."
2 Kings 16:4 "And he sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places, and on the
hills, and under every green tree."
2 Kings 16:5 "Then Rezin king of Syria and
Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came
up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged
Ahaz, but could not overcome [him]."
2 Kings 16:6 "At that time Rezin king of
Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove
the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came
to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day."
2 Kings 16:7 "So Ahaz sent messengers to
Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I
[am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and
save me out of the hand of the king of
Syria, and out of the hand of the king of
Israel, which rise up against me."
2 Kings 16:8 "And Ahaz took the silver and
gold that was found in the house of the
LORD, and in the treasures of the king's
house, and sent [it for] a present to the
king of Assyria."
2 Kings 16:9 "And the king of Assyria
hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria
went up against Damascus, and took it, and
carried [the people of] it captive to Kir,
and slew Rezin."
2 Kings 16:10 "And king Ahaz went to
Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of
Assyria, and saw an altar that [was] at
Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the
priest the fashion of the altar, and the
pattern of it, according to all the
workmanship thereof."
2 Kings 16:11 "And Urijah the priest built
an altar according to all that king Ahaz
had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the
priest made [it] against king Ahaz came
from Damascus."
2 Kings 16:12 "And when the king was come
from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and
the king approached to the altar, and
offered thereon."
2 Kings 16:13 "And he burnt his burnt
offering and his meat offering, and poured
his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood
of his peace offerings, upon the altar."
2 Kings 16:14 "And he brought also the
brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD,
from the forefront of the house, from
between the altar and the house of the
LORD, and put it on the north side of the
altar."
2 Kings 16:15 "And king Ahaz commanded
Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great
altar burn the morning burnt offering, and
the evening meat offering, and the king's
burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering,
with the burnt offering of all the people
of the land, and their meat offering, and
their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it
all the blood of the burnt offering, and
all the blood of the sacrifice: and the
brasen altar shall be for me to inquire by."
2 Kings 16:16 "Thus did Urijah the priest,
according to all that king Ahaz commanded."
2 Kings 16:17 "And king Ahaz cut off the
borders of the bases, and removed the laver
from off them; and took down the sea from
off the brasen oxen that [were] under it,
and put it upon a pavement of stones."
2 Kings 16:18 "And the covert for the
sabbath that they had built in the house,
and the king's entry without, turned he
from the house of the LORD for the king of
Assyria."
2 Kings 16:19 "Now the rest of the acts of
Ahaz which he did, [are] they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?"
2 Kings 16:20 "And Ahaz slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David: and Hezekiah his son
reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 17
2 Kings Chapter 17
2 Kings 17:1 "In the twelfth year of Ahaz
king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah
to reign in Samaria over Israel nine
years."
2 Kings 17:2 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as
the kings of Israel that were before him."
2 Kings 17:3 "Against him came up
Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea
became his servant, and gave him presents."
2 Kings 17:4 "And the king of Assyria found
conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent
messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought
no present to the king of Assyria, as [he
had done] year by year: therefore the king
of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in
prison."
2 Kings 17:5 "Then the king of Assyria came
up throughout all the land, and went up to
Samaria, and besieged it three years."
2 Kings 17:6 "In the ninth year of Hoshea
the king of Assyria took Samaria, and
carried Israel away into Assyria, and
placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the
river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
Medes."
2 Kings 17:7 "For [so] it was, that the
children of Israel had sinned against the
LORD their God, which had brought them up
out of the land of Egypt, from under the
hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had
feared other gods,"
2 Kings 17:8 "And walked in the statutes of
the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from
before the children of Israel, and of the
kings of Israel, which they had made."
2 Kings 17:9 "And the children of Israel
did secretly [those] things that [were] not
right against the LORD their God, and they
built them high places in all their cities,
from the tower of the watchmen to the
fenced city."
2 Kings 17:10 "And they set them up images
and groves in every high hill, and under
every green tree:"
2 Kings 17:11 "And there they burnt incense
in all the high places, as [did] the
heathen whom the LORD carried away before
them; and wrought wicked things to provoke
the LORD to anger:"
2 Kings 17:12 "For they served idols,
whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye
shall not do this thing."
2 Kings 17:13 "Yet the LORD testified
against Israel, and against Judah, by all
the prophets, [and by] all the seers,
saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and
keep my commandments [and] my statutes,
according to all the law which I commanded
your fathers, and which I sent to you by my
servants the prophets."
2 Kings 17:14 "Notwithstanding they would
not hear, but hardened their necks, like to
the neck of their fathers, that did not
believe in the LORD their God."
2 Kings 17:15 "And they rejected his
statutes, and his covenant that he made
with their fathers, and his testimonies
which he testified against them; and they
followed vanity, and became vain, and went
after the heathen that [were] round about
them, [concerning] whom the LORD had
charged them, that they should not do like
them."
2 Kings 17:16 "And they left all the
commandments of the LORD their God, and
made them molten images, [even] two calves,
and made a grove, and worshipped all the
host of heaven, and served Baal."
2 Kings 17:17 "And they caused their sons
and their daughters to pass through the
fire, and used divination and enchantments,
and sold themselves to do evil in the sight
of the LORD, to provoke him to
anger."
2 Kings 17:18 "Therefore the LORD was very
angry with Israel, and removed them out of
his sight: there was none left but the
tribe of Judah only."
2 Kings 17:19 "Also Judah kept not the
commandments of the LORD their God, but
walked in the statutes
of Israel which they made."
2 Kings 17:20 "And the LORD rejected all
the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and
delivered them into the hand of spoilers,
until he had cast them out of his sight."
2 Kings 17:21 "For he rent Israel from the
house of David; and they made Jeroboam the
son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove
Israel from following the LORD, and made
them sin a great sin."
2 Kings 17:22 "For the children of Israel
walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he
did; they departed not from them;"
2 Kings 17:23 "Until the LORD removed
Israel out of his sight, as he had said by
all his servants the prophets. So was
Israel carried away out of their own land
to Assyria unto this day."
2 Kings 17:24 "And the king of Assyria
brought [men] from Babylon, and from
Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and
from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the
cities of Samaria instead of the children
of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and
dwelt in the cities thereof."
2 Kings 17:25 "And [so] it was at the
beginning of their dwelling there, [that]
they feared not the LORD: therefore the
LORD sent lions among them, which slew
[some] of them."
2 Kings 17:26 "Wherefore they spake to the
king of Assyria, saying, The nations which
thou hast removed, and placed in the cities
of Samaria, know not the manner of the God
of the land: therefore he hath sent lions
among them, and, behold, they slay them,
because they know not the manner of the God
of the land."
2 Kings 17:27 "Then the king of Assyria
commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the
priests whom ye brought from thence; and
let them go and dwell there, and let him
teach them the manner of the God of the
land."
2 Kings 17:28 "Then one of the priests whom
they had carried away from Samaria came and
dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they
should fear the LORD."
2 Kings 17:29 "Howbeit every nation made
gods of their own, and put [them] in the
houses of the high places which the
Samaritans had made, every nation in their
cities wherein they dwelt."
2 Kings 17:30 "And the men of Babylon made
Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made
Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,"
2 Kings 17:31 "And the Avites made Nibhaz
and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their
children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim."
2 Kings 17:32 "So they feared the LORD, and
made unto themselves of the lowest of them
priests of the high places, which
sacrificed for them in the houses of the
high places."
2 Kings 17:33 "They feared the LORD, and
served their own gods, after the manner of
the nations whom they carried away from
thence."
2 Kings 17:34 "Unto this day they do after
the former manners: they fear not the LORD,
neither do they after their statutes, or
after their ordinances, or after the law
and commandment which the LORD commanded
the children of Jacob, whom he named
Israel;"
2 Kings 17:35 "With whom the LORD had made
a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye
shall not fear other gods, nor bow
yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor
sacrifice to them:"
2 Kings 17:36 "But the LORD, who brought
you up out of the land of Egypt with great
power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye
fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him
shall ye do sacrifice."
2 Kings 17:37 "And the statutes, and the
ordinances, and the law, and the
commandment, which he wrote for you, ye
shall observe to do for evermore; and ye
shall not fear other gods."
2 Kings 17:38 "And the covenant that I have
made with you ye shall not forget; neither
shall ye fear other gods."
2 Kings 17:39 "But the LORD your God ye
shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of
the hand of all your enemies."
2 Kings 17:40 "Howbeit they did not
hearken, but they did after their former
manner."
2 Kings 17:41 "So these nations feared the
LORD, and served their graven images, both
their children, and their children's
children: as did their fathers, so do they
unto this day."
2 Kings 18
2 Kings Chapter 18
2 Kings 18:1 "Now it came to pass in the
third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz
king of Judah began to reign."
2 Kings 18:2 "Twenty and five years old was
he when he began to reign; and he reigned
twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His
mother's name also [was] Abi, the daughter
of Zachariah."
2 Kings 18:3 "And he did [that which was]
right in the sight of the LORD, according
to all that David his father did."
2 Kings 18:4 "He removed the high places,
and brake the images, and cut down the
groves, and brake in pieces the brazen
serpent that Moses had made: for unto those
days the children of Israel did burn
incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan."
2 Kings 18:5 "He trusted in the LORD God of
Israel; so that after him was none like him
among all the kings of Judah, nor [any]
that were before him."
2 Kings 18:6 "For he clave to the LORD,
[and] departed not from following him, but
kept his commandments, which the LORD
commanded Moses."
2 Kings 18:7 "And the LORD was with him;
[and] he prospered whithersoever he went
forth: and he rebelled against the king of
Assyria, and served him not."
2 Kings 18:8 "He smote the Philistines,
[even] unto Gaza, and the borders thereof,
from the tower of the watchmen to the
fenced city."
2 Kings 18:9 "And it came to pass in the
fourth year of king Hezekiah, which [was]
the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king
of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of
Assyria came up against Samaria, and
besieged it."
2 Kings 18:10 "And at the end of three
years they took it: [even] in the sixth
year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year
of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was
taken."
2 Kings 18:11 "And the king of Assyria did
carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put
them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river
of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:"
2 Kings 18:12 "Because they obeyed not the
voice of the LORD their God, but
transgressed his covenant, [and] all that
Moses the servant of the LORD commanded,
and would not hear [them], nor do [them]."
2 Kings 18:13 "Now in the fourteenth year
of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of
Assyria come up against all the fenced
cities of Judah, and took them."
2 Kings 18:14 "And Hezekiah king of Judah
sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish,
saying, I have offended; return from me:
that which thou puttest on me will I bear.
And the king of Assyria appointed unto
Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred
talents of silver and thirty talents of
gold."
2 Kings 18:15 "And Hezekiah gave [him] all
the silver that was found in the house of
the LORD, and in the treasures of the
king's house."
2 Kings 18:16 "At that time did Hezekiah
cut off [the gold from] the doors of the
temple of the LORD, and [from] the pillars
which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid,
and gave it to the king of Assyria."
2 Kings 18:17 "And the king of Assyria sent
Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from
Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host
against Jerusalem. And they went up and
came to Jerusalem. And when they were come
up, they came and stood by the conduit of
the upper pool, which [is] in the highway
of the fuller's field."
2 Kings 18:18 "And when they had called to
the king, there came out to them Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah, which [was] over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah
the son of Asaph the recorder."
2 Kings 18:19 "And Rab-shakeh said unto
them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith
the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence [is] this wherein thou
trustest?"
2 Kings 18:20 "Thou sayest, (but [they are
but] vain words,) [I have] counsel and
strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou
trust, that thou rebellest against me?"
2 Kings 18:21 "Now, behold, thou trustest
upon the staff of this bruised reed, [even]
upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will
go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is]
Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust
on him."
2 Kings 18:22 "But if ye say unto me, We
trust in the LORD our God: [is] not that
he, whose high places and whose altars
Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to
Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
before this altar in Jerusalem?"
2 Kings 18:23 "Now therefore, I pray thee,
give pledges to my lord the king of
Assyria, and I will deliver thee two
thousand horses, if thou be able on thy
part to set riders upon them."
2 Kings 18:24 "How then wilt thou turn away
the face of one captain of the least of my
master's servants, and put thy trust on
Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?"
2 Kings 18:26 "Then said Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto
Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy
servants in the Syrian language; for we
understand [it]: and talk not with us in
the Jews' language in the ears of the
people that [are] on the wall."
2 Kings 18:27 "But Rab-shakeh said unto
them, Hath my master sent me to thy master,
and to thee, to speak these words? [hath
he] not [sent me] to the men which sit on
the wall, that they may eat their own dung,
and drink their own piss with you?"
2 Kings 18:28 "Then Rab-shakeh stood and
cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and spake, saying, Hear the word
of the great king, the king of Assyria:"
2 Kings 18:29 "Thus saith the king, Let not
Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be
able to deliver you out of his hand:"
2 Kings 18:30 "Neither let Hezekiah make
you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD
will surely deliver us, and this city shall
not be delivered into the hand of the king
of Assyria."
2 Kings 18:31 "Hearken not to Hezekiah: for
thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an
agreement] with me by a present, and come
out to me, and [then] eat ye every man of
his own vine, and every one of his fig
tree, and drink ye every one the waters of
his cistern:"
2 Kings 18:32 "Until I come and take you
away to a land like your own land, a land
of corn and wine, a land of bread and
vineyards, a land of oil olive and of
honey, that ye may live, and not die: and
hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he
persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will
deliver us."
2 Kings 18:33 "Hath any of the gods of the
nations delivered at all his land out of
the hand of the king of Assyria?"
2 Kings 18:34 "Where [are] the gods of
Hamath, and of Arpad? where [are] the gods
of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they
delivered Samaria out of mine hand?"
2 Kings 18:35 "Who [are] they among all the
gods of the countries, that have delivered
their country out of mine hand, that the
LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine
hand?"
2 Kings 18:36 "But the people held their
peace, and answered him not a word: for the
king's commandment was, saying, Answer him
not."
2 Kings 18:37 "Then came Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, which [was] over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of
Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with
[their] clothes rent, and told him the
words of Rab-shakeh."
2 Kings 19
2 Kings Chapter 19
2 Kings 19:1 "And it came to pass, when
king Hezekiah heard [it], that he rent his
clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of the
LORD."
2 Kings 19:2 "And he sent Eliakim, which
[was] over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests,
covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz."
2 Kings 19:3 "And they said unto him, Thus
saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for
the children are come to the birth, and
[there is] not strength to bring forth."
2 Kings 19:4 "It may be the LORD thy God
will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom
the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God; and will reprove
the words which the LORD thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for
the remnant that are left."
2 Kings 19:5 "So the servants of king
Hezekiah came to Isaiah."
2 Kings 19:6 "And Isaiah said unto them,
Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus
saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words
which thou hast heard, with which the
servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me."
2 Kings 19:7 "Behold, I will send a blast
upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and
shall return to his own land; and I will
cause him to fall by the sword in his own
land."
2 Kings 19:8 "So Rab-shakeh returned, and
found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish."
2 Kings 19:9 "And when he heard say of
Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is
come out to fight against thee: he sent
messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,"
2 Kings 19:10 "Thus shall ye speak to
Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy
God in whom thou trustest deceive thee,
saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered
into the hand of the king of
Assyria."
2 Kings 19:11 "Behold, thou hast heard what
the kings of Assyria have done to all
lands, by destroying them utterly: and
shalt thou be delivered?"
2 Kings 19:12 "Have the gods of the nations
delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden which
[were] in Thelasar?"
2 Kings 19:13 "Where [is] the king of
Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king
of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and
Ivah?"
2 Kings 19:14 "And Hezekiah received the
letter of the hand of the messengers, and
read it: and Hezekiah went up into the
house of the LORD, and spread it before the
LORD."
2 Kings 19:15 "And Hezekiah prayed before
the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel,
which dwellest [between] the cherubims,
thou art the God, [even] thou alone, of all
the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made
heaven and earth."
2 Kings 19:16 "LORD, bow down thine ear,
and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see:
and hear the words of Sennacherib, which
hath sent him to reproach the living God."
2 Kings 19:17 "Of a truth, LORD, the kings
of Assyria have destroyed the nations and
their lands,"
2 Kings 19:18 "And have cast their gods
into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but
the work of men's hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them."
2 Kings 19:19 "Now therefore, O LORD our
God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of
his hand, that all the kingdoms of the
earth may know that thou [art] the LORD
God, [even] thou only."
2 Kings 19:20 "Then Isaiah the son of Amoz
sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, [That] which thou hast
prayed to me against Sennacherib king of
Assyria I have heard."
2 Kings 19:21 "This [is] the word that the
LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin
the daughter of Zion hath despised thee,
[and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter
of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee."
2 Kings 19:22 "Whom hast thou reproached
and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou
exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine
eyes on high? [even] against the Holy [One]
of Israel."
2 Kings 19:23 "By thy messengers thou hast
reproached the Lord, and hast said, With
the multitude of my chariots I am come up
to the height of the mountains, to the
sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the
tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice
fir trees thereof: and I will enter into
the lodgings of his borders, [and into] the
forest of his Carmel."
2 Kings 19:24 "I have digged and drunk
strange waters, and with the sole of my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of
besieged places."
2 Kings 19:25 "Hast thou not heard long ago
[how] I have done it, [and] of ancient
times that I have formed it? now have I
brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be
to lay waste fenced cities [into] ruinous
heaps."
2 Kings 19:26 "Therefore their inhabitants
were of small power, they were dismayed and
confounded; they were [as] the grass of the
field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the
grass on the house tops, and [as corn]
blasted before it be grown up."
2 Kings 19:27 "But I know thy abode, and
thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
rage against me."
2 Kings 19:28 "Because thy rage against me
and thy tumult is come up into mine ears,
therefore I will put my hook in thy nose,
and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn
thee back by the way by which thou camest."
2 Kings 19:29 "And this [shall be] a sign
unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such
things as grow of themselves, and in the
second year that which springeth of the
same; and in the third year sow ye, and
reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the
fruits thereof."
2 Kings 19:30 "And the remnant that is
escaped of the house of Judah shall yet
again take root downward, and bear fruit
upward."
2 Kings 19:31 "For out of Jerusalem shall
go forth a remnant, and they that escape
out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD [of
hosts] shall do this."
2 Kings 19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD
concerning the king of Assyria, He shall
not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
there, nor come before it with shield, nor
cast a bank against it.
2 Kings 19:33 "By the way that he came, by
the same shall he return, and shall not
come into this city, saith the LORD."
2 Kings 19:34 "For I will defend this city,
to save it, for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake."
2 Kings 19:35 "And it came to pass that
night, that the angel of the LORD went out,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a
hundred fourscore and five thousand: and
when they arose early in the morning,
behold, they [were] all dead corpses."
2 Kings 19:36 "So Sennacherib king of
Assyria departed, and went and returned,
and dwelt at Nineveh."
2 Kings 19:37 "And it came to pass, as he
was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons
smote him with the sword: and they escaped
into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon
his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 20
2 Kings Chapter 20
2 Kings 20:1 "In those days was Hezekiah
sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the
son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in
order; for thou shalt die, and not live."
2 Kings 20:2 "Then he turned his face to
the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
saying,"
2 Kings 20:3 "I beseech thee, O LORD,
remember now how I have walked before thee
in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
done [that which is] good in thy sight. And
Hezekiah wept sore."
2 Kings 20:4 "And it came to pass, afore
Isaiah was gone out into the middle court,
that the word of the LORD came to him,
saying,"
2 Kings 20:5 "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah
the captain of my people, Thus saith the
LORD, the God of David thy father, I have
heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears:
behold, I will heal thee: on the third day
thou shalt go up unto the house of the
LORD."
2 Kings 20:6 "And I will add unto thy days
fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and
this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria; and I will defend this city for
mine own sake, and for my servant David's
sake."
2 Kings 20:7 "And Isaiah said, Take a lump
of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the
boil, and he recovered."
2 Kings 20:8 "And Hezekiah said unto
Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign that the
LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up
into the house of the LORD the third day?"
2 Kings 20:9 "And Isaiah said, This sign
shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD
will do the thing that he hath spoken:
shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or
go back ten degrees?"
2 Kings 20:10 "And Hezekiah answered, It is
a light thing for the shadow to go down ten
degrees: nay, but let the shadow return
backward ten degrees."
2 Kings 20:11 "And Isaiah the prophet cried
unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow
ten degrees backward, by which it had gone
down in the dial of Ahaz."
2 Kings 20:12 "At that time
Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king
of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto
Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah
had been sick."
2 Kings 20:13 "And Hezekiah hearkened unto
them, and showed them all the house of his
precious things, the silver, and the gold,
and the spices, and the precious ointment,
and [all] the house of his armor, and all
that was found in his treasures: there was
nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not."
2 Kings 20:14 "Then came Isaiah the prophet
unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What
said these men? and from whence came they
unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come
from a far country, [even] from Babylon."
2 Kings 20:15 "And he said, What have they
seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered,
All [the things] that [are] in mine house
have they seen: there is nothing among my
treasures that I have not showed them."
2 Kings 20:16 "And Isaiah said unto
Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD."
2 Kings 20:17 "Behold, the days come, that
all that [is] in thine house, and that
which thy fathers have laid up in store
unto this day, shall be carried into
Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the
LORD."
2 Kings 20:18 "And of thy sons that shall
issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be
eunuchs in the palace of the king of
Babylon."
2 Kings 20:19 "Then said Hezekiah unto
Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD
which thou hast spoken. And he said, [Is
it] not [good], if peace and truth be in my
days?"
2 Kings 20:20 "And the rest of the acts of
Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he
made a pool, and a conduit, and brought
water into the city, [are] they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?"
2 Kings 20:21 "And Hezekiah slept with his
fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in
his stead."
2 Kings 21
2 Kings Chapter 21
2 Kings 21:1 "Manasseh [was] twelve years
old when he began to reign, and reigned
fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Hephzibah."
2 Kings 21:2 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, after the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out before the children of Israel."
2 Kings 21:3 "For he built up again the
high places which Hezekiah his father had
destroyed; and he reared up altars for
Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of
Israel; and worshipped all the host of
heaven, and served them."
2 Kings 21:4 "And he built altars in the
house of the LORD, of which the LORD said,
In Jerusalem will I put my name."
2 Kings 21:5 "And he built altars for all
the host of heaven in the two courts of the
house of the LORD."
2 Kings 21:6 "And he made his son pass
through the fire, and observed times, and
used enchantments, and dealt with familiar
spirits and wizards: he wrought much
wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke [him] to anger."
2 Kings 21:7 "And he set a graven image of
the grove that he had made in the house, of
which the LORD said to David, and to
Solomon his son, In this house, and in
Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all
tribes of Israel, will I put my name for
ever:"
2 Kings 21:8 "Neither will I make the feet
of Israel move any more out of the land
which I gave their fathers; only if they
will observe to do according to all that I
have commanded them, and according to all
the law that my servant Moses commanded
them."
2 Kings 21:9 "But they hearkened not: and
Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than
did the nations whom the LORD destroyed
before the children of Israel."
2 Kings 21:10 "And the LORD spake by his
servants the prophets, saying,"
2 Kings 21:11 "Because Manasseh king of
Judah hath done these abominations, [and]
hath done wickedly above all that the
Amorites did, which [were] before him, and
hath made Judah also to sin with his
idols:"
2 Kings 21:12 "Therefore thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing
[such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that
whosoever heareth of it, both his ears
shall tingle."
2 Kings 21:13 "And I will stretch over
Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the
plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will
wipe Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish,
wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down."
2 Kings 21:14 "And I will forsake the
remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver
them into the hand of their enemies; and
they shall become a prey and a spoil to all
their enemies;"
2 Kings 21:15 "Because they have done [that
which was] evil in my sight, and have
provoked me to anger, since the day their
fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto
this day."
2 Kings 21:16 "Moreover Manasseh shed
innocent blood very much, till he had
filled Jerusalem from one end to another;
beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to
sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the
sight of the LORD."
2 Kings 21:17 "Now the rest of the acts of
Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin
that he sinned, [are] they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?"
2 Kings 21:18 "And Manasseh slept with his
fathers, and was buried in the garden of
his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and
Amon his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 21:19 "Amon [was] twenty and two
years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Meshullemeth, the
daughter of Haruz of Jotbah."
2 Kings 21:20 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
father Manasseh did."
2 Kings 21:21 "And he walked in all the way
that his father walked in, and served the
idols that his father served, and
worshipped them:"
2 Kings 21:22 "And he forsook the LORD God
of his fathers, and walked not in the way
of the LORD."
2 Kings 21:23 "And the servants of Amon
conspired against him, and slew the king in
his own house."
2 Kings 21:24 "And 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 Kings 21:25 "Now the rest of the acts of
Amon which he did, [are] they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah?"
2 Kings 21:26 "And he was buried in his
sepulcher in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah
his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 22
2 Kings Chapter 22
2 Kings 22:1 "Josiah [was] eight years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned
thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Jedidah, the daughter
of Adaiah of Boscath."
2 Kings 22:2 "And he did [that which was]
right in the sight of the LORD, and walked
in all the way of David his father, and
turned not aside to the right hand or to
the left."
2 Kings 22:3 "And it came to pass in the
eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that] the
king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the
son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house
of the LORD, saying,"
2 Kings 22:5 "And let them deliver it into
the hand of the doers of the work, that
have the oversight of the house of the
LORD: and let them give it to the doers of
the work which [is] in the house of the
LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,"
2 Kings 22:6 "Unto carpenters, and
builders, and masons, and to buy timber and
hewn stone to repair the house."
2 Kings 22:7 "Howbeit there was no
reckoning made with them of the money that
was delivered into their hand, because they
dealt faithfully."
2 Kings 22:8 "And Hilkiah the high priest
said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found
the book of the law in the house of the
LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan,
and he read it."
2 Kings 22:9 "And Shaphan the scribe came
to the king, and brought the king word
again, and said, Thy servants have gathered
the money that was found in the house, and
have delivered it into the hand of them
that do the work, that have the oversight
of the house of the LORD."
2 Kings 22:10 "And Shaphan the scribe
showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest
hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read
it before the king."
2 Kings 22:11 "And it came to pass, when
the king had heard the words of the book of
the law, that he rent his clothes."
2 Kings 22:12 "And the king commanded
Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah,
and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a
servant of the king's, saying,"
2 Kings 22:14 "So Hilkiah the priest, and
Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and
Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess,
the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the
son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now
she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and
they communed with her."
2 Kings 22:15 "And she said unto them, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man
that sent you to me,"
2 Kings 22:16 "Thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will bring evil upon this place, and upon
the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the
words of the book which the king of Judah
hath read:"
2 Kings 22:17 "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 kindled against
this place, and shall not be quenched."
2 Kings 22:18 "But to the king of Judah
which sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus
shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, [As touching] the words
which thou hast heard;"
2 Kings 22:19 "Because thine heart was
tender, and thou hast humbled thyself
before the LORD, when thou heardest what I
spake against this place, and against the
inhabitants thereof, that they should
become a desolation and a curse, and hast
rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I
also have heard [thee], saith the LORD."
2 Kings 22:20 "Behold therefore, I will
gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou
shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace;
and thine eyes shall not see all the evil
which I will bring upon this place. And
they brought the king word again."
2 Kings 23
2 Kings Chapter 23
2 Kings 23:1 "And the king sent, and they
gathered unto him all the elders of Judah
and of Jerusalem."
2 Kings 23:2 "And the king went up into the
house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with
him, and the priests, and the prophets, and
all the people, both small and great: and
he read in their ears all the words of the
book of the covenant which was found in the
house of the LORD."
2 Kings 23:3 "And the king stood by a
pillar, 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 [their] heart and all
[their] soul, to perform the words of this
covenant that were written in this book.
And all the people stood to the covenant."
2 Kings 23:4 "And the king commanded
Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of
the second order, and the keepers of the
door, to bring forth out of the temple of
the LORD all the vessels that were made for
Baal, and for the grove, and for all the
host of heaven: and he burned them without
Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and
carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el."
2 Kings 23:5 "And he put down the
idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah
had ordained to burn incense in the high
places in the cities of Judah, and in the
places round about Jerusalem; them also
that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun,
and to the moon, and to the planets, and to
all the host of heaven."
2 Kings 23:6 "And he brought out the grove
from the house of the LORD, without
Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and
burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped
[it] small to powder, and cast the powder
thereof upon the graves of the children of
the people."
2 Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses
of the sodomites, that [were] by the house
of the LORD, where the women wove hangings
for the grove.
2 Kings 23:8 "And he brought all the
priests out of the cities of Judah, and
defiled the high places where the priests
had burned incense, from Geba to
Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places
of the gates that [were] in the entering in
of the gate of Joshua the governor of the
city, which [were] on a man's left hand at
the gate of the city."
2 Kings 23:9 "Nevertheless the priests of
the high places came not up to the altar of
the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of
the unleavened bread among their brethren."
2 Kings 23:10 "And he defiled Topheth,
which [is] in the valley of the children of
Hinnom, that no man might make his son or
his daughter to pass through the fire to
Molech."
2 Kings 23:11 "And he took away the horses
that the kings of Judah had given to the
sun, at the entering in of the house of the
LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the
chamberlain, which [was] in the suburbs,
and burned the chariots of the sun with
fire."
2 Kings 23:12 "And the altars that [were]
on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz,
which the kings of Judah had made, and the
altars which Manasseh had made in the two
courts of the house of the LORD, did the
king beat down, and brake [them] down from
thence, and cast the dust of them into the
brook Kidron."
2 Kings 23:13 "And the high places that
[were] before Jerusalem, which [were] on
the right hand of the mount of corruption,
which Solomon the king of Israel had
builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of
the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the
abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom
the abomination of the children of Ammon,
did the king defile."
2 Kings 23:14 "And he brake in pieces the
images, and cut down the groves, and filled
their places with the bones of men."
2 Kings 23:15 "Moreover the altar that
[was] at Beth-el, [and] the high place
which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin, had made, both that altar
and the high place he brake down, and
burned the high place, [and] stamped [it]
small to powder, and burned the grove."
2 Kings 23:16 "And as Josiah turned
himself, he spied the sepulchers that
[were] there in the mount, and sent, and
took the bones out of the sepulchers, and
burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted
it, according to the word of the LORD which
the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed
these words."
2 Kings 23:17 "Then he said, What title
[is] that that I see? And the men of the
city told him, [It is] the sepulcher of the
man of God, which came from Judah, and
proclaimed these things that thou hast done
against the altar of Beth-el."
2 Kings 23:18 "And he said, Let him alone;
let no man move his bones. So they let his
bones alone, with the bones of the prophet
that came out of Samaria."
2 Kings 23:19 "And all the houses also of
the high places that [were] in the cities
of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had
made to provoke [the LORD] to anger, Josiah
took away, and did to them according to all
the acts that he had done in Beth-el."
2 Kings 23:20 "And he slew all the priests
of the high places that [were] there upon
the altars, and burned men's bones upon
them, and returned to Jerusalem."
2 Kings 23:21 "And the king commanded all
the people, saying, Keep the passover unto
the LORD your God, as [it is] written in
the book of this covenant."
2 Kings 23:22 "Surely there was not holden
such a passover from the days of the judges
that judged Israel, nor in all the days of
the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of
Judah;"
2 Kings 23:23 "But in the eighteenth year
of king Josiah, [wherein] this passover was
holden to the LORD in Jerusalem."
2 Kings 23:24 "Moreover the [workers with]
familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the
images, and the idols, and all the
abominations that were spied in the land of
Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put
away, that he might perform the words of
the law which were written in the book that
Hilkiah the priest found in the house of
the LORD."
2 Kings 23:25 "And like unto him was there
no king before him, that turned to the LORD
with all his heart, and with all his soul,
and with all his might, according to all
the law of Moses; neither after him arose
there [any] like him."
2 Kings 23:26 "Notwithstanding the LORD
turned not from the fierceness of his great
wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled
against Judah, because of all the
provocations that Manasseh had provoked him
withal."
2 Kings 23:27 "And the LORD said, I will
remove Judah also out of my sight, as I
have removed Israel, and will cast off this
city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the
house of which I said, My name shall be
there."
2 Kings 23:28 "Now the rest of the acts of
Josiah, and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 23:29 "In his days Pharaoh-nechoh
king of Egypt went up against the king of
Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king
Josiah went against him; and he slew him at
Megiddo, when he had seen him."
2 Kings 23:30 "And his servants carried him
in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought
him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
sepulcher. And the people of the land took
Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed
him, and made him king in his father's
stead."
2 Kings 23:31 "Jehoahaz [was] twenty and
three years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And
his mother's name [was] Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah."
2 Kings 23:32 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
all that his fathers had done."
2 Kings 23:33 "And Pharaoh-nechoh put him
in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath,
that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and
put the land to a tribute of a hundred
talents of silver, and a talent of gold."
2 Kings 23:34 "And Pharaoh-nechoh made
Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room
of Josiah his father, and turned his name
to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and
he came to Egypt, and died there."
2 Kings 23:35 "And Jehoiakim gave the
silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he
taxed the land to give the money according
to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted
the silver and the gold of the people of
the land, of every one according to his
taxation, to give [it] unto
Pharaoh-nechoh."
2 Kings 23:36 "Jehoiakim [was] twenty and
five years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And
his mother's name [was] Zebudah, the
daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah."
2 Kings 23:37 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
all that his fathers had done."
2 Kings 24
2 Kings Chapter 24
2 Kings 24:1 "In his days Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim
became his servant three years: then he
turned and rebelled against him."
2 Kings 24:2 "And the LORD sent against him
bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the
Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and
bands of the children of Ammon, and sent
them against Judah to destroy it, according
to the word of the LORD, which he spake by
his servants the prophets."
2 Kings 24:3 "Surely at the commandment of
the LORD came [this] upon Judah, to remove
[them] out of his sight, for the sins of
Manasseh, according to all that he did;"
2 Kings 24:4 "And also for the innocent
blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem
with innocent blood; which the LORD would
not pardon."
2 Kings 24:5 "Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoiakim, and all that he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?"
2 Kings 24:6 "So Jehoiakim slept with his
fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in
his stead."
2 Kings 24:7 "And the king of Egypt came
not again any more out of his land: for the
king of Babylon had taken from the river of
Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that
pertained to the king of Egypt."
2 Kings 24:8 "Jehoiachin [was] eighteen
years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his
mother's name [was] Nehushta, the daughter
of Elnathan of Jerusalem."
2 Kings 24:9 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
all that his father had done."
2 Kings 24:10 "At that time the servants of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
against Jerusalem, and the city was
besieged."
2 Kings 24:11 "And Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon came against the city, and his
servants did besiege it."
2 Kings 24:12 "And Jehoiachin the king of
Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he,
and his mother, and his servants, and his
princes, and his officers: and the king of
Babylon took him in the eighth year of his
reign."
2 Kings 24:13 "And he carried out thence
all the treasures of the house of the LORD,
and the treasures of the king's house, and
cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which
Solomon king of Israel had made in the
temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said."
2 Kings 24:14 "And he carried away all
Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the
mighty men of valor, [even] ten thousand
captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths:
none remained, save the poorest sort of the
people of the land."
2 Kings 24:15 "And he carried away
Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's
mother, and the king's wives, and his
officers, and the mighty of the land,
[those] carried he into captivity from
Jerusalem to Babylon."
2 Kings 24:16 "And all the men of might,
[even] seven thousand, and craftsmen and
smiths a thousand, all [that were] strong
[and] apt for war, even them the king of
Babylon brought captive to Babylon."
2 Kings 24:17 "And the king of Babylon made
Mattaniah his father's brother king in his
stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah
2 Kings 24:18 "Zedekiah [was] twenty and
one years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And
his mother's name [was] Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah."
2 Kings 24:19 "And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, according to
all that Jehoiakim had done."
2 Kings 24:20 "For through the anger of the
LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and
Judah, until he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against
the king of Babylon."
2 Kings 25
2 Kings Chapter 25
2 Kings 25:1 "And it came to pass in the
ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
month, in the tenth [day] of the month,
[that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came,
he, and all his host, against Jerusalem,
and pitched against it: and they built
forts against it round about."
2 Kings 25:2 "And the city was besieged
unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah."
2 Kings 25:3 "And on the ninth [day] of the
[fourth] month the famine prevailed in the
city, and there was no bread for the people
of the land."
2 Kings 25:4 "And the city was broken up,
and all the men of war [fled] by night by
the way of the gate between two walls,
which [is] by the king's garden: (now the
Chaldees [were] against the city round
about:) and [the king] went the way toward
the plain."
2 Kings 25:5 "And the army of the Chaldees
pursued after the king, and overtook him in
the plains of Jericho: and all his army
were scattered from him."
2 Kings 25:6 "So they took the king, and
brought him up to the king of Babylon to
Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him."
2 Kings 25:7 "And they slew the sons of
Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the
eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with
fetters of brass, and carried him to
Babylon."
2 Kings 25:8 "And in the fifth month, on
the seventh [day] of the month, which [is]
the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain
of the guard, a servant of the king of
Babylon, unto Jerusalem:"
2 Kings 25:9 "And he burnt the house of the
LORD, and the king's house, and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and every great
[man's] house burnt he with fire."
2 Kings 25:10 "And all the army of the
Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of
the guard, brake down the walls of
Jerusalem round about."
2 Kings 25:11 "Now the rest of the people
[that were] left in the city, and the
fugitives that fell away to the king of
Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude,
did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard
carry away."
2 Kings 25:12 "But the captain of the guard
left of the poor of the land [to be]
vinedressers and husbandmen."
2 Kings 25:13 "And the pillars of brass
that [were] in the house of the LORD, and
the bases, and the brasen sea that [was] in
the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees
break in pieces, and carried the brass of
them to Babylon."
2 Kings 25:14 "And the pots, and the
shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons,
and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away."
2 Kings 25:15 "And the firepans, and the
bowls, [and] such things as [were] of gold,
[in] gold, and of silver, [in] silver, the
captain of the guard took away."
2 Kings 25:16 "The two pillars, one sea,
and the bases which Solomon had made for
the house of the LORD; the brass of all
these vessels was without weight."
2 Kings 25:17 "The height of the one pillar
[was] eighteen cubits, and the chapiter
upon it [was] brass: and the height of the
chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen
work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter
round about, all of brass: and like unto
these had the second pillar with wreathen
work."
2 Kings 25:18 "And the captain of the guard
took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the door:"
2 Kings 25:19 "And out of the city he took
an officer that was set over the men of
war, and five men of them that were in the
king's presence, which were found in the
city, and the principal scribe of the host,
which mustered the people of the land, and
threescore men of the people of the land
[that were] found in the city:"
2 Kings 25:20 "And Nebuzar-adan captain of
the guard took these, and brought them to
the king of Babylon to Riblah:"
2 Kings 25:21 "And the king of Babylon
smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the
land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away
out of their land."
2 Kings 25:22 "And [as for] the people that
remained in the land of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left,
even over them he made Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler."
2 Kings 25:23 "And when all the captains of
the armies, they and their men, heard that
the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah
governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the
son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and
Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they
and their men."
2 Kings 25:24 "And Gedaliah sware to them,
and to their men, and said unto them, Fear
not to be the servants of the Chaldees:
dwell in the land, and serve the king of
Babylon; and it shall be well with you."
2 Kings 25:25 "But it came to pass in the
seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed
royal, came, and ten men with him, and
smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews
and the Chaldees that were with him at
Mizpah."
2 Kings 25:26 "And all the people, both
small and great, and the captains of the
armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they
were afraid of the Chaldees."
2 Kings 25:27 "And it came to pass in the
seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth
month, on the seven and twentieth [day] of
the month, [that] Evil-merodach king of
Babylon in the year that he began to reign
did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of
Judah out of prison;"
2 Kings 25:28 "And he spake kindly to him,
and set his throne above the throne of the
kings that [were] with him in Babylon;"
2 Kings 25:29 "And changed his prison
garments: and he did eat bread continually
before him all the days of his life."
2 Kings 25:30 "And his allowance [was] a
continual allowance given him of the king,
a daily rate for every day, all the days of
his life."
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