2 Chronicles 21st Century King James Version

2 Chronicles 1 - 21st Century King James Version

   And Solomon, the son of David, was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and magnified him xceedingly.   
 ²Then Solomon spoke unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every overnor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.   
 ³So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of he congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.   
 ⁴But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a ent for it at Jerusalem.   
 ⁵Moreover the brazen altar that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD; nd Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.   
 ⁶And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and ffered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.   
 ⁷In that night did God appear unto Solomon and said unto him, "Ask what I shall give thee."   
 ⁸And Solomon said unto God, "Thou hast shown great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.   
 ⁹Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established, for Thou hast made me king over a people like the ust of the earth in multitude.   
 ¹⁰Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this Thy people that is o great?"   
 ¹¹And God said to Solomon, "Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of hine enemies, neither yet hast asked for long life, but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge My eople over whom I have made thee king,   
 ¹²wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have ad who have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like."   
 ¹³Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the ongregation, and reigned over Israel.    
 ¹⁴And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, hom he placed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.   
 ¹⁵And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as abundant as the sycamore rees that are in the vale.   
 ¹⁶And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn; the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.   
 ¹⁷And they fetched and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and ifty; and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria by their means.  

2 Chronicles 2 - 21st Century King James Version

   And Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the LORD and a house for his kingdom.   
 ²And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and hree thousand and six hundred to oversee them.   
 ³And Solomon sent to Hiram, the king of Tyre, saying, "As thou didst deal with David my father and didst send him cedars to uild him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.   
 ⁴Behold, I build a house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to Him and to burn before Him sweet incense, and for he continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and on the new moons and on the solemn easts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.   
 ⁵And the house which I build is great, for great is our God above all gods.   
 ⁶But who is able to build Him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I hould build Him a house, save only to burn sacrifice before Him?   
 ⁷Send me now therefore a man skillful to work in gold and in silver, and in brass and in iron, and in purple and crimson and lue, and who can expertly engrave with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.   
 ⁸Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants have skill to cut timber in ebanon. And behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,   
 ⁹even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.   
 ¹⁰And behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty housand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil."   
 ¹¹Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon: "Because the LORD hath loved His people, He hath ade thee king over them."   
 ¹²Hiram said moreover: "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise on, endued with prudence and understanding, who might build a house for the LORD and a house for his kingdom.   
 ¹³"And now I have sent a skillful man, endued with understanding, Hiramabi   
 ¹⁴(the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skillful to work in gold and in silver, in rass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to engrave any manner of ngraving and to figure out every design which shall be put to him, with thy skillful men and with the skillful men of my lord avid thy father.   
 ¹⁵Now therefore, the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his ervants;   
 ¹⁶and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee as rafts by sea to Joppa, and hou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem."   
 ¹⁷And Solomon numbered all the strangers who were in the land of Israel, according to the numbering wherewith David his father ad numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.   
 ¹⁸And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, nd three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people to work.   

2 Chronicles 3 - 21st Century King James Version

   Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his ather, in the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.   
 ²And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.   
 ³Now these are the measurements which Solomon instructed for the building of the house of God: The length by cubits, according o the ancient measure, was threescore cubits and the breadth twenty cubits.   
 ⁴And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, nd the height was a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.   
 ⁵And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold and set thereon palm trees and chains.   
 ⁶And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.   
 ⁷He overlaid also the house -- the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof -- with gold, and engraved herubims on the walls.   
 ⁸And he made the most holy house: the length thereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the readth thereof twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.   
 ⁹And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.   
 ¹⁰And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work and overlaid them with gold.   
 ¹¹And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of he house, and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.   
 ¹²And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits lso, joining to the wing of the other cherub.   
 ¹³The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, and their faces faced nward.   
 ¹⁴And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.   
 ¹⁵Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them as five cubits.   
 ¹⁶And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates, and put hem on the chains.   
 ¹⁷And he raised up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left, and called the name of that the right hand Jachin (that is, He shall establish), and the name of that on the left Boaz (that is, In it is strength).  

2 Chronicles 4 - 21st Century King James Version

   Moreover he made an altar of brass: twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits he height thereof.   
 ²Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line f thirty cubits did compass it round about.   
 ³And under it was the similitude of oxen, which compassed it round about, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two ows of oxen were cast when it was cast.   
 ⁴It stood upon twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the outh, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.   
 ⁵And the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and t received and held three thousand baths.   
 ⁶He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand and five on the left, to wash in them. Such things as they offered or the burnt offering they washed in them, but the sea was for the priests to wash in.   
 ⁷And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form and set them in the temple, five on the right hand and five on he left.   
 ⁸He made also ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred asins of gold.   
 ⁹Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with rass.   
 ¹⁰And he set the sea on the right side of the east end toward the south.   
 ¹¹And Hiram made the pots and the shovels and the basins. And Hiram finished the work that he was to do for King Solomon for he house of God,   
 ¹²to wit: the two pillars, and the globes and the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to over the two globes of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars;   
 ¹³and four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths, two rows of pomegranates on each wreath to cover the two globes of the apitals which were upon the pillars.   
 ¹⁴He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;    
 ¹⁵one sea and twelve oxen under it.   
 ¹⁶The pots also, and the shovels and the fleshhooks and all their instruments, did Hiramabi make for King Solomon for the ouse of the LORD of bright brass.   
 ¹⁷In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.   
 ¹⁸Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance, for the weight of the brass could not be found out.   
 ¹⁹And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also and the tables whereon the showbread as set;   
 ²⁰moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn according to the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;   
 ²¹and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs made he of gold, and that of perfect gold;   
 ²²and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold; and the entry of the house, the inner oors thereof for the Most Holy Place and the doors of the house of the temple were of gold.   

2 Chronicles 5 - 21st Century King James Version

   Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in all the things that David is father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments put he among the treasures of the house of God.   
 ²Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of srael, unto Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the City of David, which is Zion.   
 ³Therefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.   
 ⁴And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.   
 ⁵And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the abernacle; these did the priests and the Levites bring up.   
 ⁶Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and xen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.   
 ⁷And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the Most oly Place, even under the wings of the cherubims.   
 ⁸For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof bove.   
 ⁹And they drew out the staves of the ark so that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark in front of the oracle; but hey were not seen outside. And they are there unto this day.   
 ¹⁰There was nothing in the ark save the two tablets which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with he children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.   
 ¹¹And it came to pass when the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present were sanctified nd did not then wait by course),   
 ¹²also the Levites who were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being rrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and wenty priests sounding with trumpets--   
 ¹³it came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the ORD, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever," that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD,   
 ¹⁴so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.  

2 Chronicles 6 - 21st Century King James Version

   Then said Solomon: "The LORD hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.   
 ²But I have built a house of habitation for Thee, and a place for Thy dwelling for ever."   
 ³And the king turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel stood.   
 ⁴And he said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hathwith His hands fulfilled that which He spoke with His mouth to my ather David, saying,   
 ⁵`Since the day that I brought forth My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build house in, that My name might be there, neither chose I any man to be a ruler over My people Israel;   
 <sup>6</sup>but I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there, and have chosen David to be over My people Israel.'   
 <sup>7</sup>Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.   
 <sup>8</sup>But the LORD said to David my father: `Inasmuch as it was in thine heart to build a house for My name, thou didst well in that t was in thine heart.   
 ⁹Notwithstanding, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son who shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house or My name.'   
 ¹⁰The LORD therefore hath performed His word that He hath spoken; for I have risen up in the place of David my father and m set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.   
 ¹¹And in it have I put the ark wherein is the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel."   
 ¹²And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands.   
 ¹³For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold of five cubits long and five cubits broad and three cubits high, and had set it in he midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread orth his hands toward heaven    
 ¹⁴and said, "O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like Thee in the heaven nor in the earth, who keepest covenant and showest mercy unto Thy servants who walk before Thee with all their hearts--   
 ¹⁵Thou who hast kept with Thy servant David my father that which Thou hast promised him and spokest with Thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with Thine hand, as it is this day.   
 ¹⁶Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with Thy servant David my father that which Thou hast promised him, saying, `There shall not fail thee a man in My sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet only that thy children take heed to their way, to alk in My law as thou hast walked before Me.'   
 ¹⁷Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let Thy word be verified, which Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant David.   
 ¹⁸"But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house which I have built!   
 ¹⁹Have respect therefore to the prayer of Thy servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which Thy servant prayeth before Thee:   
 ²⁰that Thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof Thou hast said that Thou wouldest put Thy name there, to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant prayeth toward this place.   
 ²¹Hearken therefore unto the supplications of Thy servant and of Thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place. Hear Thou from Thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when Thou hearest, forgive.   
 ²²"If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before Thine altar in this house,   
 ²³then hear Thou from heaven, and do, and judge Thy servants by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head, and by justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.   
 ²⁴"And if Thy people Israel be smitten before the enemy because they have sinned against Thee, and shall return and confess Thy name, and pray and make supplication before Thee in this house,   
 ²⁵then hear Thou from the heavens and forgive the sin of Thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which Thou gavest to them and to their fathers.    
 ²⁶"When the heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against Thee, yet if they pray toward this place and confess Thy name, and turn from their sin when Thou dost afflict them,   
 ²⁷then hear Thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of Thy servants and of Thy people Israel when Thou hast taught them the good way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon Thy land which Thou hast given unto Thy people for an inheritance.   
 ²⁸"If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locusts or caterpillars, if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land, whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be;   
 ²⁹what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made by any man or by all Thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house--   
 ³⁰then hear Thou from heaven, Thy dwelling place, and forgive and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest, for Thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men.

2 Chronicles 7 - 21st Century King James Version

   Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.   
 ²And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.   
 ³And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshiped and praised the LORD, saying, "For He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever."   
 ⁴Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.   
 ⁵And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep; so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.   
 ⁶And the priests attended to their offices. The Levites also, with instruments of music of the LORD which David the king had made to praise the LORD (because His mercy endureth for ever), when David offered praise by their ministry; and the priests ounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.   
 ⁷Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings and the meat offerings and the fat.   
 ⁸Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.   
 ⁹And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.   
 ¹⁰And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown unto David and to Solomon and to Israel His people.   
 ¹¹Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house; and all that came into Solomon's heart to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house, he prosperously effected.   
 ¹²And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said unto him: "I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself for a house of sacrifice.   
 ¹³If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land or if I send pestilence among My people,   
 ¹⁴if My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.   
 ¹⁵Now Mine eyes shall be open and Mine ears attentive unto the prayer that is made in this place.   
 ¹⁶For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and Mine heart shall be there perpetually.   
 ¹⁷And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe My statutes and My judgments,   
 ¹⁸then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, `There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.'   
 <sup>19</sup>"But if ye turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods and worship them,   
 <sup>20</sup>then will I pluck them up by the roots out of My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name will I cast out of My sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.   
 <sup>21</sup>And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one who passeth by it, so that he shall say, `Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land and unto this house?'   
 ²²And it shall be answered, `Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore hath He brought all this evil upon them.'"   

2 Chronicles 8 - 21st Century King James Version

   And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,   
 ²that the cities which Hiram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them up and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.   
 ³And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.   
 ⁴And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storecities which he built in Hamath.   
 ⁵Also he built Bethhoron the Upper and Bethhoron the Nether, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,   
 ⁶and Baalath, and all the storecities that Solomon had, and all the cities for the chariots and the cities for the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and throughout all the land of his dominion.   
 ⁷As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel   
 ⁸(of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not), these Solomon made to pay tribute until this day.   
 ⁹But of the children of Israel Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.   
 ¹⁰And these were the chief of King Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, who bore rule over the people.   
 ¹¹And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the City of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy unto which the ark of the LORD hath come."   
 ¹²Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,   
 ¹³according to a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses on the Sabbaths and on the new moons and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year: on the Feast of Unleavened Bread and on the Feast of Weeks and on the Feast of Tabernacles.   
 ¹⁴And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests for their service, and the Levites to their charges to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the gatekeepers also by their courses at every gate, for so had David the man of God commanded.   
 ¹⁵And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter or concerning the treasurers.   
 ¹⁶Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.   
 ¹⁷Then went Solomon to Eziongeber and to Eloth at the seaside, in the land of Edom.   
 ¹⁸And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of his servants, and servants who had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took from thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought them to King Solomon.  

2 Chronicles 9 - 21st Century King James Version

   And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, having a very great company, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones. And when she had come to Solomon, she communed with him about all that was in her heart.    
 ²And Solomon told her all her questions, and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.   
 ³And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,   
 ⁴and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel, his cupbearers also and their apparel, and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her.   
 ⁵And she said to the king, "It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts and of thy wisdom.   
 ⁶However I believed not their words until I came and mine eyes had seen it. And behold, the half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me, for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.   
 ⁷Happy are thy men and happy are these thy servants, who stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom.   
 ⁸Blessed be the LORD thy God, who delighted in thee to set thee on His throne to be king for the LORD thy God. Because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore He made thee king over them to do judgment and justice."   
 ⁹And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold and spices in great abundance and precious stones; neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.   
 ¹⁰And the servants also of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.   
 ¹¹And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers; and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.   
 ¹²And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, besides that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned and went away to her own land, she and her servants.   
 ¹³Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold,   
 ¹⁴besides that which traders and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.   
 ¹⁵And King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into one buckler.   
 ¹⁶And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went into one shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.   
 ¹⁷Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.   
 ¹⁸And there were six steps to the throne with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays;   
 ¹⁹and twelve lions stood there on one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.   
 ²⁰And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver. (It was of no account in the days of Solomon.)   
 ²¹For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram: once every three years came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.   
 ²²And King Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.   
 ²³And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God had put in his heart.   
 ²⁴And they brought every man his present: vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a set rate year by year.   
 ²⁵And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he positioned in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.    
 ²⁶And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.   
 ²⁷And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.   
 ²⁸And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt and out of all lands.   
 ²⁹Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?   
 ³⁰And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.  

2 Chronicles 10 - 21st Century King James Version

   And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for to Shechem had all Israel come to make him king.   
 ²And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat (who was in Egypt whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king) heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.   
 ³And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,   
 ⁴"Thy father made our yoke grievous. Now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee."   
 ⁵And he said unto them, "Come again unto me after three days." And the people departed.   
 ⁶And King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel give ye me to return an answer to this people?"   
 ⁷And they spoke unto him, saying, "If thou be kind to this people and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever."   
 ⁸But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who were brought up with him, who stood before him.   
 ⁹And he said unto them, "What advice give ye that we may return an answer to this people who have spoken to me, saying, `Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father put upon us'?"   
 <sup>10</sup>And the young men who were brought up with him spoke unto him, saying, "Thus shalt thou answer the people who spoke unto thee, saying, `Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us' -- thus shalt thou say unto them, `My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.   
 ¹¹For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more on your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'"   
 ¹²So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, "Come again to me on the third day."   
 ¹³And the king answered them roughly; and King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,   
 ¹⁴and answered them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions!"   
 ¹⁵So the king hearkened not unto the people, for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform His word which He spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.   
 ¹⁶And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to your tents, O Israel! And now, David, see to thine own house!" So all Israel went to their tents.   
 ¹⁷But as for the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.   
 ¹⁸Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram who had charge over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, so that he died. But King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.   
 ¹⁹And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.  

2 Chronicles 11 - 21st Century King James Version

   And when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he gathered from the house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men who were warriors to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.   
 ²But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,   
 ³"Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,   
 ⁴`Thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren. Return every man to his house, for this thing is done from Me.'" And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.   
 ⁵And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.   
 ⁶He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,    
 ⁷and Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,   
 ⁸and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,   
 ⁹and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,   
 ¹⁰and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.   
 ¹¹And he fortified the strongholds and put captains in them, and stores of victuals and of oil and wine.   
 ¹²And in each separate city he put shields and spears, and made them exceedingly strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.   
 ¹³And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their borders.   
 ¹⁴For the Levites left their suburbs and their possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD.   
 ¹⁵And he ordained for himself priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.   
 ¹⁶And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.   
 ¹⁷So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong three years. For three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.   
 ¹⁸And Rehoboam took Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David for a wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse,   
 ¹⁹who bore him children: Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.    
 ²⁰And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.   
 ²¹And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines (for he took eighteen wives and threescore concubines, and begot twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters);   
 ²²and Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief to be ruler among his brethren, for he thought to make him king.   
 ²³And he dealt wisely, and dispersed some of his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fortified city; and he gave them victuals in abundance. And he desired many wives.  

2 Chronicles 12 - 21st Century King James Version

   And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.   
 ²And it came to pass that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,   
 ³with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen; and the people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.   
 ⁴And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.   
 ⁵Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, "Thus saith the LORD: `Ye have forsaken Me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.'"   
 ⁶Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and they said, "The LORD is righteous."   
 ⁷And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves. Therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and My wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.   
 ⁸Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."   
 ⁹So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house. He took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.   
 ¹⁰In their stead King Rehoboam made shields of brass and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, who kept the entrance of the king's house.   
 ¹¹And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.   
 ¹²And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that He would not destroy him altogether; and also in Judah things went well.   
 ¹³So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned; for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.   
 ¹⁴And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.   
 ¹⁵Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.   
 ¹⁶And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David; and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.  

2 Chronicles 13 - 21st Century King James Version

   Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.   
 ²He reigned three years in Jerusalem. Also his mother's name was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.   
 ³And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men. Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valor.   
 ⁴And Abijah stood up upon Mount Zemaraim, which is in Mount Ephraim, and said, "Hear me, thou Jeroboam and all Israel:   
 ⁵Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?   
 ⁶Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, hath risen up and hath rebelled against his lord.   
 ⁷And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted and could not withstand them.   
 ⁸"And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye are a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.   
 ⁹Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made priests for yourselves in the manner of the nations of other lands, so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods?    
 ¹⁰But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; and the priests, who minister unto the LORD are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business.   
 ¹¹And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense. The showbread also set they in order upon the pure table, and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof to burn every evening; for we keep the charge of the LORD our God. But ye have forsaken Him.   
 ¹²And behold, God Himself is with us for our captain, and His priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers, for ye shall not prosper."   
 ¹³But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah and the ambush was behind them.   
 ¹⁴And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind; and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.   
 ¹⁵Then the men of Judah gave a shout; and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.   
 ¹⁶And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.   
 ¹⁷And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.   
 ¹⁸Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.   
 ¹⁹And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took cities from him: Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.   
 ²⁰Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and the LORD struck him, and he died.   
 ²¹But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begot twenty and two sons and sixteen daughters.   
 ²²And the rest of the acts of Abijah and his ways and his sayings are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.   

2 Chronicles 14 - 21st Century King James Version

   So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.   
 ²And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.   
 ³For he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the Asherah poles;   
 ⁴and he commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.   
 ⁵Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.   
 ⁶And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest; and he had no war in those years, because the LORD had given him rest.   
 ⁷Therefore he said unto Judah, "Let us build these cities and make walls about them, and towers, gates, and bars while the land is yet before us, because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought Him, and He hath given us rest on every side." So they built and prospered.   
 ⁸And Asa had an army of men who bore bucklers and spears out of Judah, three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand. All these were mighty men of valor.   
 ⁹And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with a host of a thousand thousand and three hundred chariots, and came unto Mareshah.   
 ¹⁰Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.   
 ¹¹And Asa cried unto the LORD his God and said, "LORD, it is nothing with Thee to help, whether with many or with those who have no power. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rest on Thee, and in Thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, Thou art our God. Let not man prevail against Thee."   
 ¹²So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.   
 ¹³And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them unto Gerar; and the Ethiopians were overthrown so that they could not recover themselves, for they were destroyed before the LORD and before His host; and they carried away very much spoil.   
 ¹⁴And they smote all the cities round about Gerar, for the fear of the LORD came upon them; and they despoiled all the cities, for there was exceeding much spoil in them.   
 ¹⁵They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.   

2 Chronicles 15 - 21st Century King James Version

   And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.   
 ²And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, "Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while ye be with Him; and if ye seek Him, He will be found by you; but if ye forsake Him, He will forsake you.   
 ³Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law.   
 ⁴But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel and sought Him, He was found by them.   
 ⁵And in those times there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.   
 ⁶And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city; for God vexed them with all adversity.   
 ⁷Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak; for your work shall be rewarded."   
 ⁸And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin and out of the cities which he had taken from Mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD that was before the porch of the LORD.   
 ⁹And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh and out of Simeon; for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.   
 ¹⁰So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.   
 ¹¹And they offered unto the LORD at that time from the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.   
 ¹²And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul,   
 ¹³that whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.   
 ¹⁴And they swore unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.   
 ¹⁵And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart and sought Him with their whole desire, and He was found by them; and the LORD gave them rest round about.   
 ¹⁶And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen because she had made an idol for Asherah. And Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burned it at the Brook Kidron;   
 ¹⁷but the high places were not taken away out of Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.   
 ¹⁸And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated: silver and gold and vessels.   
 ¹⁹And there was no more war until the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.   

2 Chronicles 16 - 21st Century King James Version

   In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah and built Ramah, with the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.   
 ²Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasuries of the house of the LORD and from the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,   
 ³"There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father. Behold, I have sent thee silver and gold. Go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me."   
 ⁴And Benhadad hearkened unto King Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the storecities of Naphtali.   
 ⁵And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building Ramah and let his work cease.   
 ⁶Then Asa the king took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timber thereof wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.   
 ⁷And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, "Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore has the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.   
 ⁸Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, He delivered them into thine hand.   
 ⁹For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars."   
 ¹⁰Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house, for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.   
 ¹¹And behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.   
 ¹²And Asa, in the thirty and ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet until his disease was exceeding great. Yet in his disease he sought not the LORD, but the physicians.   
 ¹³And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.   
 ¹⁴And they buried him in his own sepulchers, which he had made for himself in the City of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art; and they made a very great burning for him.  

2 Chronicles 17 - 21st Century King James Version

   And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.   
 ²And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.   
 ³And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David and sought not unto the Baalim,   
 ⁴but sought the LORD God of his father and walked in His commandments, and not according to the doings of Israel.   
 ⁵Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought Jehoshaphat presents, and he had riches and honor in abundance.   
 ⁶And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD; moreover he took away the high places and Asherah poles out of Judah.   
 ⁷Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Benhail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethaneel, and Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.   
 ⁸And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.   
 ⁹And they taught in Judah, and had the Book of the Law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people.   
 ¹⁰And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.   
 ¹¹Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred hegoats.   
 ¹²And Jehoshaphat waxed exceedingly great; and he built in Judah palaces and cities for stores.   
 ¹³And he had much business in the cities of Judah; and the men of war, mighty men of valor, were in Jerusalem.   
 ¹⁴And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers. Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand;    
 ¹⁵and next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand;   
 ¹⁶and next to him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.   
 ¹⁷And of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand;   
 ¹⁸and next to him was Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and fourscore thousand ready, prepared for the war.   
 ¹⁹These waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.  

2 Chronicles 18 - 21st Century King James Version

   Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and allied himself through marriage ties with Ahab.   
 ²And after certain years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance and for the people whom he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.   
 ³And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead?" And he answered him, "I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war."   
 ⁴And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, "Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD today."   
 ⁵Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, "Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" And they said, "Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand."   
 ⁶But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides these, that we might inquire of him?"   
 ⁷And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil. The same is Micaiah the son of Imla." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so!"   
 ⁸And the king of Israel called for one of his officers and said, "Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla."   
 ⁹And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat each of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.   
 ¹⁰And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, "Thus saith the LORD: `With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.'"   
 <sup>11</sup>And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramothgilead and prosper, for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king."   
 <sup>12</sup>And the messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent. Let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good."   
 <sup>13</sup>And Micaiah said, "As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak."   
 <sup>14</sup>And when he had come to the king, the king said unto him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" And he said, "Go ye up and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand."   
 <sup>15</sup>And the king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?"   
 <sup>16</sup>Then he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, `These have no master. Let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.'"   
 ¹⁷And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?"   
 ¹⁸Again Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting upon His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right hand and on His left.   
 ¹⁹And the LORD said, `Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?' And one spoke saying in this manner, and another saying in that manner.   
 <sup>20</sup>Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD and said, `I will entice him.' And the LORD said unto him, `How?'   
 <sup>21</sup>And he said, `I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And the LORD said, `Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail. Go out, and do even so.'   
 <sup>22</sup>Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee."   
 <sup>23</sup>Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek and said, "Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?"   
 <sup>24</sup>And Micaiah said, "Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself."   
 <sup>25</sup>Then the king of Israel said, "Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son,   
 <sup>26</sup>and say, `Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction until I return in peace.'"   
 ²⁷And Micaiah said, "If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me." And he said, "Hearken, all ye people."   
 ²⁸So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.   
 ²⁹And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went to the battle.   
 ³⁰Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots who were with him, saying, "Fight ye not with small or great, but only with the king of Israel."   

2 Chronicles 19 - 21st Century King James Version

   And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.   
 ²And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love those who hate the LORD? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.   
 ³Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the Asherah poles out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God."   
 ⁴And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem; and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.   
 ⁵And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,   
 ⁶and said to the judges, "Take heed what ye do; for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the matter of judgment.   
 ⁷Therefore now, let the fear of the LORD be upon you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes."   
 ⁸Moreover in Jerusalem, Jehoshaphat set some of the Levites and some of the priests and some of the chief of the fathers of Israel for the judgment of the LORD and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.   
 ⁹And he charged them, saying, "Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.   
 ¹⁰And whatsoever cause shall come to you from your brethren who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them, that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you and upon your brethren. This do, and ye shall not trespass.   
 ¹¹And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good."  

2 Chronicles 20 - 21st Century King James Version

   It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them others besides the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.   
 ²Then there came some who told Jehoshaphat, saying, "There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side of Syria; and behold, they are in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi."   
 ³And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.   
 ⁴And Judah gathered themselves together to ask help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.   
 ⁵And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,   
 ⁶and said, "O LORD God of our fathers, art not Thou God in heaven? And rulest not Thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in Thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand Thee?   
 ⁷Art not Thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend for ever?   
 ⁸And they dwelt therein, and have built Thee a sanctuary therein for Thy name, saying,   
 ⁹`If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house and in Thy presence (for Thy name is in this house), and cry unto Thee in our affliction, then Thou wilt hear and help.'   
 <sup>10</sup>And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom Thou wouldest not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and destroyed them not"   
 <sup>11</sup>behold, I say, how they reward us by coming to cast us out of Thy possession, which Thou hast given us to inherit.   
 <sup>12</sup>O our God, wilt Thou not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us, neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon Thee."   
 <sup>13</sup>And all Judah stood before the LORD with their little ones, their wives, and their children.   
 <sup>14</sup>Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation.   
 <sup>15</sup>And he said, "Hearken ye, all Judah and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou King Jehoshaphat! Thus saith the LORD unto you: `Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.   
 ¹⁶Tomorrow go ye down against them. Behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz, and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the Wilderness of Jeruel.   
 ¹⁷Ye shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem.' Fear not, nor be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, for the LORD will be with you."   
 ¹⁸And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.   
 ¹⁹And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.   
 ²⁰And they rose early in the morning and went forth into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God; so shall ye be established. Believe His prophets; so shall ye prosper."   
 ²¹And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD who should praise the beauty of holiness as they went out before the army, and to say, "Praise the LORD, for His mercy endureth for ever."   
 ²²And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were smitten.   
 ²³For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir utterly to slay and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.   
 ²⁴And when Judah came toward the watchtower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.   
 ²⁵And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil from them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days in gathering the spoil, it was so much.   
 ²⁶And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the Valley of Berachah [that is, Blessing], for there they blessed the LORD. Therefore the name of the same place was called The Valley of Berachah unto this day.   
 ²⁷Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.   
 ²⁸And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.   
 ²⁹And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.   
 ³⁰So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest round about.   

2 Chronicles 21 - 21st Century King James Version

   Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.   
 ²And he had brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.   
 ³And their father gave them great gifts of silver and gold and precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.   
 ⁴Now when Jehoram had risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself and slew all his brethren with the sword, and others also of the princes of Israel.   
 ⁵Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.   
 ⁶And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife; and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.   
 ⁷However the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and as He promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.   
 ⁸In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.   
 ⁹Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him; and he rose up by night and smote the Edomites who compassed him about and the captains of the chariots.   
 ¹⁰So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand, because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.   
 ¹¹Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.   
 ¹²And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, "Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father: `Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,   
 ¹³but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring like the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, who were better than thyself,   
 ¹⁴behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people and thy children and thy wives and all thy goods.   
 ¹⁵And thou shalt have great sickness with a disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.'"   
 ¹⁶Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians who were near the Ethiopians.   
 ¹⁷And they came up into Judah and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also and his wives, so that there was not a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.   
 ¹⁸And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.   
 ¹⁹And it came to pass that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness; so he died of grievous diseases. And his people made no burning for him like the burning of his fathers.   
 ²⁰Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years and departed without being desired. However they buried him in the City of David, but not in the sepulchers of the kings.  

2 Chronicles 22 - 21st Century King James Version

   And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, reigned.   
 ²Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.   
 ³He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.   
 ⁴Therefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.   
 ⁵He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead; and the Syrians smote Joram.   
 ⁶And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.   
 ⁷And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by his coming to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.   
 ⁸And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah who ministered to Ahaziah, that he slew them.   
 ⁹And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (for he had hid in Samaria) and brought him to Jehu. And when they had slain him, they buried him, "because," said they, "he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart." So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom still.   
 ¹⁰But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah.   
 ¹¹But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.   
 ¹²And he was with them hidden in the house of God six years; and Athaliah reigned over the land.   

2 Chronicles 23 - 21st Century King James Version

   And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds into a covenant with him: Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri.   
 ²And they went about in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.   
 ³And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, "Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.   
 ⁴This is the thing that ye shall do: A third part of you entering on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be keepers of the doors;   
 ⁵and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.   
 ⁶But let none come into the house of the LORD save the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall go in, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.   
 ⁷And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death; but be ye with the king when he cometh in and when he goeth out."   
 ⁸So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.   
 ⁹Moreover, Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears and bucklers and shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of God.   
 ¹⁰And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.   
 ¹¹Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, "God save the king."   
 ¹²Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD.   
 ¹³And she looked, and behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entrance, and the princes and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes and said, "Treason! Treason!"   
 ¹⁴Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said unto them, "Take her forth among the ranks. And whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Slay her not in the house of the LORD."   
 ¹⁵So they laid hands on her; and when she had come to the entrance of the Horse Gate by the king's house, they slew her there.   
 ¹⁶And Jehoiada made a covenant between him and between all the people and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.   
 ¹⁷Then all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.   
 ¹⁸Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.    
 ¹⁹And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.   
 ²⁰And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD; and they came through the High Gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.   
 ²¹And all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet after they had slain Athaliah with the sword.   

2 Chronicles 24 - 21st Century King James Version

   Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. Also his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.   
 ²And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.   
 ³And Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he begot sons and daughters.   
 ⁴And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.   
 ⁵And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter." However the Levites hastened it not.   
 ⁶And the king called for Jehoiada the chief priest and said unto him, "Why hast thou not required the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses, the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?"   
 ⁷For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon the Baalim.   
 ⁸And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD.   
 ⁹And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.   
 ¹⁰And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in and cast into the chest until they had made an end.   
 ¹¹Now it came to pass, at whatever time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, that the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.   
 ¹²And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD; and they hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.   
 ¹³So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them; and they set the house of God in order, and strengthened it.   
 ¹⁴And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.   
 ¹⁵But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died: a hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.   
 ¹⁶And they buried him in the City of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and toward His house.   
 ¹⁷Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.   
 ¹⁸And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served Asherah poles and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.   
 ¹⁹Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them, but they would not give ear.   
 ²⁰And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said unto them, "Thus saith God: 'Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? Because ye have forsaken the LORD, He hath also forsaken you.'"   
 ²¹And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.   
 ²²Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, "The LORD look upon it, and require it."   
 ²³And it came to pass at the end of the year that the host of Syria came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil unto the king of Damascus.   
 ²⁴For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.   
 ²⁵And when they had departed from him (for they left him with grave diseases), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died. And they buried him in the City of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchers of the kings.   
 ²⁶And these are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.   
 ²⁷Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.   

2 Chronicles 25 - 21st Century King James Version

   Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.   
 ²And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.   
 ³Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants who had killed the king his father.   
 ⁴But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, "The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin."   
 ⁵Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together and made them captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin. And he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.   
 ⁶He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.   
 ⁷But there came a man of God to him, saying, "O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee, for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.   
 ⁸But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle. But God shall make thee fall before the enemy, for God hath the power to help and to cast down."   
 ⁹And Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?" And the man of God answered, "The LORD is able to give thee much more than this."   
 ¹⁰Then Amaziah separated them (to wit, the army that had come to him out from Ephraim) to go home again. Therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.   
 ¹¹And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people and went to the Valley of Salt, and smote ten thousand of the children of Seir.   
 ¹²And another ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.   
 ¹³But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them and took much spoil.   
 ¹⁴Now it came to pass, after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them and burned incense unto them.   
 ¹⁵Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and He sent unto him a prophet, who said unto him, "Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?"   
 ¹⁶And it came to pass as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, "Art thou made the king's counsel? Forbear! Why should thou be smitten?" Then the prophet forbore and said, "I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this and hast not hearkened unto my counsel."   
 ¹⁷Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face."   
 ¹⁸And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, `Give thy daughter to my son as wife'; and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.   
 <sup>19</sup>Thou sayest, `Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites,' and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast. Abide now at home. Why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou and Judah with thee?"   
 ²⁰But Amaziah would not hear; for it came from God, that He might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.   
 ²¹So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they looked one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.   
 ²²And Judah was smitten before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.   
 ²³And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh; and he brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.   
 ²⁴And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.   
 ²⁵And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.   
 ²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?   
 ²⁷Now after the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish, but they sent to Lachish after him and slew him there.   
 ²⁸And they brought him upon horses and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah (that is, the City of David).   

2 Chronicles 26 - 21st Century King James Version

   Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.   
 ²He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.   
 ³Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. Also his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.   
 ⁴And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.   
 ⁵And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.   
 ⁶And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod and among the Philistines.   
 ⁷And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Meunites.   
 ⁸And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah; and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt, for he strengthened himself exceedingly.   
 ⁹Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.   
 ¹⁰Also he built towers in the desert and dug many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.   
 ¹¹Moreover Uzziah had a host of fighting men who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their count by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.   
 ¹²The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valor was two thousand and six hundred.   
 ¹³And under their hand was an army, three hundred and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy.   
 ¹⁴And Uzziah prepared for them, throughout all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and jackets of mail, and bows, and slings to cast stones.   
 ¹⁵And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks with which to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad, for he was marvelously helped till he was strong.   
 ¹⁶But when he was strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction; for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.   
 ¹⁷And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, who were valiant men.   
 ¹⁸And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, "It pertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honor from the LORD God."   
 ¹⁹Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up on his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, beside the incense altar.   
 ²⁰And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked upon him, and behold, he was leprous on his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence. Yea, he himself hastened also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.   
 ²¹And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death; and he dwelt in a separate house, being a leper, for he was cut off from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.   
 ²²Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.   
 ²³So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, "He is a leper." And Jotham his son reigned in his stead.  

2 Chronicles 27 - 21st Century King James Version

   Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. Also his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.   
 ²And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did. Howbeit, he entered not into the temple of the LORD, and the people did yet corruptly.   
 ³He built the High Gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.   
 ⁴Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built strongholds and towers.   
 ⁵He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The same did the children of Ammon pay unto him both the second year and the third.   
 ⁶So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.   
 ⁷Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.    
 ⁸He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.   
 ⁹And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.   

2 Chronicles 28 - 21st Century King James Version

   Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD like David his father.   
 ²For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made also molten images for the Baalim.   
 ³Moreover he burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.   
 ⁴He sacrificed also and burned incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.   
 ⁵Therefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.   
 ⁶For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, who were all valiant men, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.   
 ⁷And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.   
 ⁸And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.   
 ⁹But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, "Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, He hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.   
 ¹⁰And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem as bondmen and bondwomen unto you. But are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?   
 ¹¹Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives back, whom ye have taken captive from your brethren; for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you."   
 ¹²Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war   
 ¹³and said unto them, "Ye shall not bring in the captives hither, for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel."   
 ¹⁴So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.   
 ¹⁵And the men who were mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses and brought them to their brethren at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.   
 ¹⁶At that time King Ahaz sent unto the kings of Assyria to help him.   
 ¹⁷For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.   
 ¹⁸The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof; and they dwelt there.   
 ¹⁹For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he made Judah naked and transgressed sorely against the LORD.    
 ²⁰And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him and distressed him, but strengthened him not.   
 ²¹For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king and from the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria; but he helped him not.   
 ²²And in the time of his distress he trespassed yet more against the LORD: this is that King Ahaz.   
 ²³For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus which smote him; and he said, "Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me." But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.   
 ²⁴And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.   
 ²⁵And in every separate city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.   
 ²⁶Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.   
 ²⁷And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; but they brought him not into the sepulchers of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.  

2 Chronicles 29 - 21st Century King James Version

   Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.   
 ²And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.   
 ³He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.   
 ⁴And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,   
 ⁵and said unto them, "Hear me, ye Levites! Sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.   
 ⁶For our fathers have trespassed and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.   
 ⁷Also they have shut up the doors of the porch and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.   
 ⁸Therefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.   
 ⁹For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.   
 ¹⁰Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.   
 ¹¹My sons, be not now negligent; for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, and that ye should minister unto Him and burn incense."   
 ¹²Then the Levites arose: Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehalelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son of Joah;   
 ¹³and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;   
 ¹⁴and of the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.   
 ¹⁵And they gathered their brethren and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.   
 ¹⁶And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it to carry it out abroad into the Brook Kidron.   
 ¹⁷Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD. So they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.   
 ¹⁸Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, "We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table with all the vessels thereof.   
 ¹⁹Moreover all the vessels which King Ahaz in his reign cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD."   
 ²⁰Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.   
 ²¹And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven hegoats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.   
 ²²So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. Likewise, when they had killed the rams they sprinkled the blood upon the altar. They killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.   
 ²³And they brought forth the hegoats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation, and they laid their hands upon them.   
 ²⁴And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar to make an atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.   
 ²⁵And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.   
 ²⁶And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.   
 ²⁷And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.   
 ²⁸And all the congregation worshiped, and the singers sang and the trumpeters sounded; and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.   
 ²⁹And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.   
 ³⁰Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.   

2 Chronicles 30 - 21st Century King James Version

   And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem to keep the Passover unto the LORD God of Israel.   
 ²For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the congregation in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.   
 ³For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together at Jerusalem.   
 ⁴And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.    
 ⁵So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem; for they had not done it for a long time in such manner as it was written.   
 ⁶So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, "Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.   
 ⁷And be not ye like your fathers and like your brethren who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, so that He therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.   
 ⁸Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD and enter into His sanctuary, which He hath sanctified for ever; and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.   
 ⁹For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before those who lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land; for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away His face from you if ye return unto Him."   
 ¹⁰So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun; but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.   
 ¹¹Nevertheless some from Asher and Manasseh and from Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.   
 ¹²Also the hand of God was in Judah, to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of the LORD.   
 ¹³And there assembled at Jerusalem many people to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great congregation.   
 ¹⁴And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away and cast them into the Brook Kidron.   
 ¹⁵Then they killed the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month; and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.   
 ¹⁶And they stood in their place according to their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received from the hand of the Levites.   
 ¹⁷For there were many in the congregation who were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the Passover lambs for every one who was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.   
 ¹⁸For a multitude of the people, even many from Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, "The good LORD pardon every one   
 ¹⁹who prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary."   
 ²⁰And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.    
 ²¹And the children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.   
 ²²And Hezekiah spoke comfortingly unto all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of the LORD; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.   
 ²³And the whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.   
 ²⁴For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep, and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.   
 ²⁵And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers who came out of the land of Israel and who dwelt in Judah rejoiced.   
 ²⁶So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there was not the like in Jerusalem.   
 ²⁷Then the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.    

2 Chronicles 31 - 21st Century King James Version

   Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the Asherah poles, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.   
 ²And Hezekiah appointed the watches of the priests and the Levites according to their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.    
 ³He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit: for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths and for the new moons and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.   
 ⁴Moreover he commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.   
 ⁵And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.   
 ⁶And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps.   
 ⁷In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.   
 ⁸And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and His people Israel.   
 ⁹Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.   
 ¹⁰And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him and said, "Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and have left plenty; for the LORD hath blessed His people, and that which is left is this great store.   
 ¹¹Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare storage chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,   
 ¹²and faithfully brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things, over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler and Shimei his brother was the next.   
 ¹³And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother at the commandment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.   
 ¹⁴And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God to distribute the oblations of the LORD and the most holy things.   
 ¹⁵And next to him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small;   
 ¹⁶besides their genealogy of males from three years old and upward, even unto every one who entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges, according to their courses,   
 ¹⁷both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;    
 ¹⁸and to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation; for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness; 2CHRON 31:19 also of the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities in every separate city, the men who were expressed by name to give portions to all the males among the priests and to all who were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.    
 ²⁰And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.   
 ²¹And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.   

2 Chronicles 32 - 21st Century King James Version

   After these things and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.   
 ²And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,   
 ³he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were outside the city; and they helped him.   
 ⁴So there were gathered many people together, who stopped all the fountains and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?"   
 ⁵Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall outside, and repaired Millo in the City of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.   
 ⁶And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spoke comfortingly to them, saying,   
 ⁷"Be strong and courageous. Be not afraid nor dismayed by the king of Assyria and all the multitude that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.   
 ⁸With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles." And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.   
 ⁹After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,   
 ¹⁰"Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria: `Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?   
 ¹¹Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give yourselves over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, "The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria"?   
 ¹²Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, "Ye shall worship before one altar and burn incense upon it"?   
 ¹³Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands any way able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?   
 ¹⁴Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?   
 ¹⁵Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?'"   
 ¹⁶And his servants spoke yet more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.   
 ¹⁷He wrote also letters to rail at the LORD God of Israel and to speak against Him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand."   
 ¹⁸Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might take the city.   
 ¹⁹And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.   
 ²⁰And for this cause Hezekiah the king and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.   
 ²¹And the LORD sent an angel who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he had come into the house of his god, those who came forth from his own loins slew him there with the sword.   
 ²²Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.   
 ²³And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.   
 ²⁴In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and prayed unto the LORD; and He spoke unto him, and He gave him a sign.   
 ²⁵But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him, for his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.   
 ²⁶Notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the rath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.   
 ²⁷And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor; and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for recious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;   
 ²⁸storehouses also for the increase of corn and wine and oil, and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.   
 ²⁹Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.   
 ³⁰This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.    

2 Chronicles 33 - 21st Century King James Version

   Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.   
 ²But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.   
 ³For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asherah poles, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.   
 ⁴Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall My name be for ever."   
 ⁵And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.   
 ⁶And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; also he observed omens, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger.   
 ⁷And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put My name for ever;   
 ⁸neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers, so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses."   
 ⁹So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err and to do worse than the heathen whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.   
 ¹⁰And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not hearken.   
 ¹¹Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.   
 ¹²And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,   
 ¹³and prayed unto Him; and He was entreated by him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD, He was God.   
 ¹⁴Now after this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of Gihon in the valley, even to the entrance at the Fish Gate, and it compassed about Ophel; and he raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fortified cities of Judah.   
 ¹⁵And he took away the strange gods and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.   
 ¹⁶And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.   
 ¹⁷Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but unto the LORD their God only.   
 ¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.   
 ¹⁹His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sins and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places and set up Asherah poles and graven images before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.   
 ²⁰So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.   
 ²¹Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.   
 ²²But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father; for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made and served them.   
 ²³And he humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.   
 ²⁴And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.   
 ²⁵But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.   

2 Chronicles 34 - 21st Century King James Version

   Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.   
 ²And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left.   
 ³For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, and the Asherah poles, and the carved images, and the molten images.   
 ⁴And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence, and the sun images that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherah poles and the carved images and the molten images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and strewed it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed unto them.   
 ⁵And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.   
 ⁶And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.   
 ⁷And when he had broken down the altars and the Asherah poles, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.   
 ⁸Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.   
 ⁹And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.   
 ¹⁰And they put it in the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they gave it to the workmen who wrought in the house of the LORD to repair and mend the house.   
 ¹¹Even to the artificers and builders they gave it to buy hewn stone and timber for couplings and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.   
 ¹²And the men did the work faithfully. And the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to move it forward, and others of the Levites, all who had skill with instruments of music.   
 ¹³Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all who wrought the work in any manner of service; and of the Levites there were scribes and officers and doorkeepers.   
 ¹⁴And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.   
 ¹⁵And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD." And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.   
 ¹⁶And Shaphan carried the book to the king and brought the king word back again, saying, "All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.   
 ¹⁷And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and to the hand of the workmen."   
 ¹⁸Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, "Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book." And Shaphan read it before the king.   
 ¹⁹And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.   
 ²⁰And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king, saying,    
 ²¹"Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book."   
 ²²And Hilkiah and those whom the king had appointed went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college), and they spoke to her to that effect.   
 ²³And she answered them, "Thus saith the LORD God of Israel: Tell ye the man who sent you to Me,   
 ²⁴`Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah,   
 <sup>25</sup>because they have forsaken Me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. Therefore My wrath shall be poured out upon this place and shall not be quenched.'   
 <sup>26</sup>And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, `Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard:   
 ²⁷Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God when thou heardest His words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbled thyself before Me, and didst rend thy clothes and weep before Me, I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.   
 ²⁸Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants of the same.'" So they brought the king word again.   
 ²⁹Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.   
 ³⁰And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites, and all the people, great and small; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.  

2 Chronicles 35 - 21st Century King James Version

   Moreover Josiah kept a Passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem; and they killed the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.   
 ²And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,   
 ³and said unto the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy unto the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. It shall not be a burden upon your shoulders. Serve now the LORD your God and His people Israel,   
 ⁴and prepare yourselves according to the houses of your fathers by your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel and according to the writing of Solomon his son.   
 ⁵And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people and according to the division of the families of the Levites.   
 ⁶So kill the Passover lamb, and sanctify yourselves and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses."   
 ⁷And Josiah gave to the people lambs and kids from the flock, all for the Passover offerings for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks; these were from the king's substance.   
 ⁸And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.   
 ⁹Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.   
 ¹⁰So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.   
 ¹¹And they killed the Passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.   
 ¹²And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.   
 ¹³And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the ordinance; but the other holy offerings boiled they in pots and in caldrons and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.   
 ¹⁴And afterward they made ready for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were busied in offering burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.   
 ¹⁵And the singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place, according to the commandment of David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun the king's seer. And the doorkeepers waited at every gate; they needed not depart from their service, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.   
 ¹⁶So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of King Josiah.   
 ¹⁷And the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.   
 ¹⁸And there was no Passover like to that kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.   
 ¹⁹In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept.   
 ²⁰After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.   
 ²¹But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, "What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war; for God commanded me to make haste. Forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that He destroy thee not."   
 ²²Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the Valley of Megiddo.   
 ²³And the archers shot at King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am sorely wounded."   
 ²⁴His servants therefore took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had, and they brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchers of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.   
 ²⁵And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. And all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel; and behold, they are written in the lamentations.   
 ²⁶Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,   
 ²⁷and his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.   

2 Chronicles 36 - 21st Century King James Version

   Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.   
 ²Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.   
 ³And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and levied upon the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.   
 ⁴And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.   
 ⁵Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.   
 ⁶Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.   
 ⁷Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.   
 ⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.   
 ⁹Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.   
 ¹⁰And when the year had expired, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.   
 ¹¹Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.   
 ¹²And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.   
 ¹³And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.   
 ¹⁴Moreover all the chief of the priests and the people transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the LORD which He had hallowed in Jerusalem.   
 ¹⁵And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by His messengers, rising up early, and sending, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.   
 ¹⁶But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and misused His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.   
 ¹⁷Therefore He brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped with age; He gave them all into his hand.   
 ¹⁸And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.   
 ¹⁹And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all the palaces thereof with fire and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.   
 ²⁰And those who had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,   
 ²¹to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths; for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years.   
 ²²Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing, saying,   
 ²³"Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and He hath charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all His people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up."