2 Chronicles 21-30
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2 Chronicles 21
1 ¶Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and
Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of
Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious
things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because
he was the firstborn.
4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened
himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the
princes of Israel.
5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
eight years in Jerusalem.
6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of
Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was
evil in the eyes of the LORD.
7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant
that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to
his sons for ever.
8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made
themselves a king.
9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and
he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the
captains of the chariots.
10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same
time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the
LORD God of his fathers.
11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
12 ¶And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith
the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of
Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house
of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were
better than thyself:
14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children,
and thy wives, and all thy goods:
15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels
fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines,
and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the
substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives;
so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable
disease.
19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his
bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his
people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried
him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles 22
1 ¶And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his
stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all
the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one
year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his
counsellor to do wickedly.
4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for
they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king
of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians
smote Joram.
6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given
him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of
Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel,
because he was sick.
7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was
come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had
anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of
Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah,
that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and
brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said
they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So
the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
10 ¶But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose
and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah,
and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his
nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife
of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from
Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned
over the land.
2 Chronicles 23
1 ¶And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains
of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and
Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son
of Zichri, into covenant with him.
2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities
of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God.
And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said
of the sons of David.
4 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the
sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;
5 And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of
the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the
LORD.
6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that
minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people
shall keep the watch of the LORD.
7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons
in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death:
but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the
priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the
sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest
dismissed not the courses.
9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and
bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of
God.
10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the
right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and
the temple, by the king round about.
11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave
him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him,
and said, God save the king.
12 ¶Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the
king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in,
and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land
rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick,
and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said,
Treason, Treason.
14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set
over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso
followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her
not in the house of the LORD.
15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse
gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and
between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake
his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before
the altars.
18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of
the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to
offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses,
with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which
was unclean in any thing should enter in.
20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of
the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the
house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house,
and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that
they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
2 Chronicles 24
1 ¶Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years
in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of
Jehoiada the priest.
3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of
the LORD.
5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out
unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of
your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the
Levites hastened it not.
6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou
not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the
collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and
of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God;
and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon
Baalim.
8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the
gate of the house of the LORD.
9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the
LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the
wilderness.
10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast
into the chest, until they had made an end.
11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's
office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money,
the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and
took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and
gathered money in abundance.
12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of
the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of
the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the
house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the
king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even
vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and
silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually
all the days of Jehoiada.
15 ¶But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and
thirty years old was he when he died.
16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done
good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance
to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves
and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they
testified against them: but they would not give ear.
20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest,
which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress
ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have
forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment
of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had
done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it,
and require it.
23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up
against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes
of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the
king of Damascus.
24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD
delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD
God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,)
his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the
priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of
David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an
Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and
the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the
book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 25
1 ¶Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of
Jerusalem.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a
perfect heart.
3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his
servants that had killed the king his father.
4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the
book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for
the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man
shall die for his own sin.
5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over
thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers,
throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old
and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to
war, that could handle spear and shield.
6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an
hundred talents of silver.
7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel
go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of
Ephraim.
8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall
before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred
talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered,
The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of
Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against
Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the
valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away
captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the
top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go
with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto
Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
14 ¶Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the
Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to
be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto
him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the
people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art
thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then
the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee,
because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
17 ¶Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of
Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another
in the face.
18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle
that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy
daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in
Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee
up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that
thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them
into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face,
both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his
tent.
23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash,
the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake
down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four
hundred cubits.
24 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found
in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the
hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son
of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not
written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they
made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they
sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city
of Judah.
2 Chronicles 26
1 ¶Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made
him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his
fathers.
3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and
two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his father Amaziah did.
5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the
visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall
of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about
Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that
dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the
entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the
valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much
cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine
dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands,
according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and
Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were
two thousand and six hundred.
13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand
and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the
enemy.
14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and
helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the
towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his
name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
16 ¶But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he
transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to
burn incense upon the altar of incense.
17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of
the LORD, that were valiant men:
18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not
unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of
Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou
hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and
while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead
before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and,
behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence;
yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a
several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and
Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet,
the son of Amoz, write.
23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the
field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper:
and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 27
1 ¶Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of
Zadok.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD.
And the people did yet corruptly.
3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he
built much.
4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he
built castles and towers.
5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And
the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and
ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the
children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they
are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem.
9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David:
and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 28
1 ¶Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, like David his father:
2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images
for Baalim.
3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his
children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had
cast out before the children of Israel.
4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and
under every green tree.
5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria;
and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and
brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of
Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
6 ¶For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in
one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of
their fathers.
7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam
the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred
thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them,
and brought the spoil to Samaria.
9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out
before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the
LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your
hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for
bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins
against the LORD your God?
11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken
captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.
12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of
Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum,
and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we
have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to
our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against
Israel.
14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all
the congregation.
15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and
with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and
shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all
the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm
trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
16 ¶At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the
south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho
with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and
the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made
Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but
strengthened him not.
21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the
house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but
he helped him not.
22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD:
this is that king Ahaz.
23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said,
Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to
them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces
the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD,
and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto
other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they
are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in
Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel:
and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 29
1 ¶Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned
nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the
daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that David his father had done.
3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the
house of the LORD, and repaired them.
4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into
the east street,
5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify
the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of
the holy place.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of
the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from
the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have
not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of
Israel.
8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath
delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your
eyes.
9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters
and our wives are in captivity for this.
10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that
his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before
him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
12 ¶Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of
Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son
of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son
of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph;
Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun;
Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came,
according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse
the house of the LORD.
16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse
it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the
LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry
it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the
eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified
the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end.
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the
house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels
thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his
transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the
altar of the LORD.
20 ¶Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and
went up to the house of the LORD.
21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven
he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for
Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar
of the LORD.
22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and
sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and
the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood
upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that
the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with
psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad
the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD
by his prophets.
26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the
trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when
the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and
with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters
sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present
with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing
praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they
sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the
LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the
LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as
many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was
threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these
were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt
offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was
ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites
were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace
offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of
the house of the LORD was set in order.
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people:
for the thing was done suddenly.
2 Chronicles 30
1 ¶And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim
and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to
keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in
Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not
sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves
together to Jerusalem.
4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
5 So 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 of a long time in such sort
as it was written.
6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout
all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye
children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,
and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of
the kings of Assyria.
7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed
against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation,
as ye see.
8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the
LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve
the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find
compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again
into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not
turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and
Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves,
and came to Jerusalem.
12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the
commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
13 ¶And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened
bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the
altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and
the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought
in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of
Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of
the hand of the Levites.
17 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore
the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that
was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar,
and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover
otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good
LORD pardon every one
19 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he
be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
21 ¶And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of
unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests
praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.
22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good
knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days,
offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their
fathers.
23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept
other seven days with gladness.
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks
and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand
bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified
themselves.
25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all
the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the
land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of
David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice
was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto
heaven.
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