and all that he did, and his might, are they] 24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and not written in the book of the Chronicles of Benhadad his son reigued in his stead. the kings of Israel? 25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took 9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and again, out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his of Hazael, the cities which he had taken out son reigned in his stead. of the hand of Jehcalaz his father by war: 10 In the thirty and seventh year of Jo-three times did Joash beat him, and recoverash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of ed the cities of Israel. Jehoalaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and years. CHAP. XIV. second of Joash son of Jehoa ad reigned siderne arhich was evil in the haz king of Israel, reigned Amazigh the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all son of Joash king of Judah. the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who 2 He was twenty and five years old when nade Israel sin; but he walked therein. he began to reign, and reigned twenty and 12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and nine years in Jerusalem and his mother's all that he did, and his might wherewith he name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are 3 And he did that which was right in the they not written in the book of the Chroni-sight of the LORD, yet not like David his fa cles of the kings of Israel? ther; he did according to all things as Joash 13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and his father did. Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was 4 Howbeit the high places were not take buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. away; as yet the people did sacrifice and 14¶ Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sick-burnt incense on the high places. ness whereof he died. And Joash the king of 51 And it came to pass, as soon as the Israel came down unto him, and wept over kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he his face, and said, O my father, my father slew his servants which had slain the king hi the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen father. thereof! arrows. 6 But the children of the murderers he slew 15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow not; according unto that which is written it and arrows: and he took unto him bow and the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shal 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. 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. 17 And he said, Open the window east- 7 He slew of Edom in the valley of Sal ward: and ne opened it. Then Elisha said, ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and Shoot: and he shot. And he said, The arrow called the name of it Joktheel unto this day of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of 8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Je deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite hoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jeâu, king the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consum-of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one ano ed them ther in the face. 18 And he said, Take the arrows: and he 9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent t took them. And he said unto the king of Is- Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle rael, Smite upon the ground: and he smote that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar ila thrice, and stayed. was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter 19 And the man of God was wroth with to my son to wife; and there passed by a wild him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten beast that was in Lebanon, and trode dowr five or six times, then hadst thou smitten the thistle. Syria till thou hadst consumed it; whereas 10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, are now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice. thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this 20 And Elisha died, and they buried and tarry at home; for why shouldest thou him. And the bands of the Moabites in-meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, vaded the land at the coming in of the year, eren thou, and Judah with thee? 21. And it came to pass, as they were Lury- 11 But Amaziah would not wear: therefore ing a mar, that, behold, they spied a band Jeloash king of Israel went up; and he and men; and they cast the man into the sepul- Amaziah king of Judah looked one another chre of Elisha: and when the man was let in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he to Judah. revived, and stood up on his feet. 12 And Judah was put to the worse before 22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel; and they fled every man to their tents Israel all the days of Jehoalaz. 13 Aad Jeloash king of Israel took Ama 23 And the LORD was gracious unto them,ziah king of Judah, the son of Jeboash the and had compassion on them, and had respect son of Aliaziah, at Beth-shemeshi, and came unto them, because of his covenant with to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Je Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not rusalem, from the gate of Ephram auto die destroy them, neither cast he them from his corner-gate, four hundred cubits. presence as yet. 14 And he took all the goid and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of, in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's Jecholiah of Jerusalem. house, and hostages, and returned to Sa- 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his maria. 15 ↑ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash failer Amaziah had done; which he did, and his might, and how he 4 Save that the high places were not re fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they moved the people sacrificed and burnt innot written in the book of the Chronicles of cense still on the high places. the kings of Israel? 5 And the LORD smote the king, so that io And Jehoasi slept with his fathers, and he was a leper into the day of his death, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of dwelt in a several house: and Jotham the Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land. stead. 17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, fifteen years. 6' And the rest of the acts of Azariahı, and all that he did. are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Ju 18 Ard the rest of the acts of Amaziah, ar?jdah? they not written in the book of the Chroni cles of the kings of Judah? 7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; ana they buried him with his fathers in the city 19 Now they made a conspiracy against of David: and Jotham bis son reigned in him in Jerusalein: and he fled to Lachish; his stead. but they sert afer him to Lachish, and slew 8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azahim thers riah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of 20 Aad her frought him on horses; and Jeroboain reign over Israel in Samaria six he was trim at Jerusalem with his fathers months. in the city of 1 avid. 9 And he did that which was evil in the 21 ¶ Aine people of Judah took Aza-sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. riah, wluct was exteen years old, and made he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam bim kinger of his father Amaziah. 22 Hebat Firth, and restored it to Judali, after that ek ng slept with his fathers. 23 la 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. 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from ali the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. 11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel. 12 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehn, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth ge neration. And so it came to pass. 25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, 13 ¶ Shalium the son of Jabesh began to according to the word of the LORD God of reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Ůzziah Israel, which he spake by the band of his ser-king of Judah; and he reigned a full month vant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, in Samaria. which was of Gath-hepher. 14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up 26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Is- from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and rael, that it was very bitter: for there was smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samanot any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper ria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. for Israel. 15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and 27 And the LORD said not that be would his conspiracy which he made, behold, they blot out the name of Israel from under hea- are written in the book of the Chronicles of ven; but he saved them by the hand of Je-the kings of Israel. roboam the son of Joash. 16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and 28¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, all that were therein, and the coasts thereof and all that he did, and his might, how he from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, warred, and how he recovered Damascus, therefore he smote it; and all the women and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for therein trat were with child he ripped up. Israel. are they not written in the book of the 17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azari Chronicles of the kings of Israel? ah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gad to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria. 29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XV. 18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his IN the twenty and seventh year of Jerobo-days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of am king of Israel, began Azariah son of Nebat, who made israel to sin. Amnaziah king of Judah to reign. 19 And Pul the king of Assyria came 2 Sixteen years old was he when he began against the land: and Menaliem gave Pul reign; and he reigned two and fifty years a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom 36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written i in his hand. 20 And Menahem exacted the money of the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, Judah? 37 (In those days the LORD began to send of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria: so the king of Assyria against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and turned back, and stayed not there in the land. Pekah the son of Remaliah.) 21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem,| 38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and and all that he did, are they not written in was buried with his fathers in the city of Dathe book of the Chronicles of the kings of Is-vid his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. rael? 22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekabiah his son reigned in his stead. 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. CHAP. XVI. N the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Alaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty years old as Aliaz when he ļ 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 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 his father. made Israel to sin. 3 But he walked in the way of the kings 25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a cap-of Israel; yea, and made his son to past tain of his, conspired against him, and smote through the fire, according to the abomina. him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's tions of the heathen, whom the LORD cast house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him out from before the children of Israel. fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room. 4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under 26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, every green tree. and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel. 27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, und reigned twenty years. 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. 5 Then Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, came up tɔ Jerusalem to war; and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria reco vered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jew! from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath and dwelt there unto this day. against me. 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy ser vant and thy son: come up, and save me out 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of caine Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up took ljon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and JaBoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and ras found in the house of the LORD, and in carried them captive to Assyria. the treasures of the king's house, and sent ù 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a for a present to the king of Assyria. conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remali- 9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto ah, and smote him, and slew him, and reign-him: for the king of Assyria went up agamst ed in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jo-Damascus, and took it, and carried the peotham the son of Uzziah. ple of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. 31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and 10 T Aud king Ahaz went to Damascus all that he did, behold, they are written in to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Is-saw an altar that was at Damascus and rael. king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fa 32 In the second year of Pekah the son shion of the altar, and the pattern of it, acof Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham cording to all the workmanship thereof, the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. 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. 11 And Urijah the priest built an altar ac cording to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascns: so Urijah the priest made it against king Abaz came from Damascus. 12 And when the king was come from Da 34 And he did that which was right in the mascus, the king saw the altar; and the king sight of the LORD: he did according to all approached to the altar, and offered thereon. that his father Uzziah had done. 13 And he burnt his burnt-offering and his 23 Howbeit the high places were not re-meat-offering, and poured his drink-offermoved: the people sacrificed and burned in-ing, and sprinkled the blood of his peace. cense still in the high places. He built the offerings, upon the altar. highet gate of the house of the LORD. 14 And he brought also the brazen alta vhich was before the LORD, from the fore-places in all their cities, from the tover of ront of the house, from between the altar the watchmen to the fenced city. and the house of the LORD, and put it on the 10 And they set them up images and north side of the altar. groves in every high hill, and under every 15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the green tree: priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the 11 And there they burnt incense in all the morning burnt-offering, and the evening high places, as did the heathen whom the meat-offering, and the king's burnt-sacrifice, LORD carried away before them; and and his meat-offering, with the burnt-offer-wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD ing of all the people of the and, and their to anger: meat-offering, and their drink-offerings, and 12 For they served idols, whereof the sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not de offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice this thing. and the brasen altar shall be for me to en- 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel quire by. and against Judah by all the prophets, ana 16 Thus did Urijal the priest, according by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your to all that king Aliaz commanded. evil ways, and keep my commandments, and 17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of my statutes, according to all the law which the bases, and removed the laver from off I cominanded your failers, and which I sent them; and took down the sea from off the to you by my servants the prophets. brasen oxen that were under it, and put it 14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, upon a pavement of stones: but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. 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. 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? 20 And Abaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. CHAP: XVII. N the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 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. 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiraey 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. 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in HaJah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel kad 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, 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. 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified agains 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. 16 And they left all the coinmandments 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. 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. 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. 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 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. 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sia. 22 For the children of Israel walked in a.. the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them, 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out o. his sight, as he nad said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israe carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly 24 And the king of Assyria brought men those things that were not right against the from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from LORD their God, and they built them high Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sephar vaim, and placed them in the cities of Sa- and he shall deliver you out of the hand of 2. And so it was, at the beginning of their dueling there, that they feared not the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 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 he land: therefore he hath sent lions among hem, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and it came to pass, in the third year of Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah be 2 Twenty and five years old was he when 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom riah. and 3 And he did that which was right in the ye brought from thence, and let them go dwell there, and let him teach them the man-sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. ner of the God of the land. 23 Then one of the priests, whom they had carried away from Samaria, came and dwelt in Beth-cl, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 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. 4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he cal'ed it Nehushtan. 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 30 And the men of Babylon made Suc-him. 6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed coth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima.not from following him, but kept his com 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tar-mandments, which the LORD commanded tak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children Moses. in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 7 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth and 32 So they feared the LORD, and made le rebelled against the king of Assyria, and unto themselves of the lowest of them priests served him not. & He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, of the high places, which sacrificed for them and the borders thereof, from the tower of in the houses of the high places. 33 They feared the LORD, and served their the watchmen to the fenced city. own gods, after the manner of the nations | whom they carried away from thence. 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; 9¶ And it came to pass, in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elab king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 An at the end of three years they took it; eren in the sixth year of Hezekiah, (that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Is 35 With whom the LORD had made a co-rael,) Samaria was taken. venant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall 11 And the king of Assyria did carry away not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah thein, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them; jand in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in 36 But the LORD, who brought you up the cities of the Medes; 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. 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. 33 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; 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 Cominanded, and would not hear them, nor do them. 13 Now, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Ju dah, and took them 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which tho puttest on me will I bear. And the king of |