The Second Book Of Kings
2 Kings 1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.2 Kings 1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber
that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them,
Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this
disease.
2 Kings 1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go
up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not
because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the
god of Ekron?
2 Kings 1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from
that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
2 Kings 1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them,
Why are ye now turned back?
2 Kings 1:6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said
unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou
sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not
come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
2 Kings 1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up
to meet you, and told you these words?
2 Kings 1:8 And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a
girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
2 Kings 1:9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty.
And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake
unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
2 Kings 1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a
man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy
fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2 Kings 1:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his
fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king
said, Come down quickly.
2 Kings 1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God,
let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire
of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2 Kings 1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty.
And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before
Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my
life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings 1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two
captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now
be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings 1:15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him:
be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
2 Kings 1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou
hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not
because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt
not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
2 Kings 1:17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had
spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son
of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
2 Kings 1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into
heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 Kings 2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the
LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
2 Kings 2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
2 Kings 2:4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for
the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy
soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
2 Kings 2:5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your
peace.
2 Kings 2:6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD
hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
2 Kings 2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to
view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
2 Kings 2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote
the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went
over on dry ground.
2 Kings 2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said
unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee.
And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
2 Kings 2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if
thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not,
it shall not be so.
2 Kings 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that,
behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them
both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
2 Kings 2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the
chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he
took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
2 Kings 2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
2 Kings 2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote
the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had
smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
2 Kings 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho
saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to
meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2 Kings 2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants
fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest
peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some
mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
2 Kings 2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send.
They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
2 Kings 2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,)
he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
2 Kings 2:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee,
the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is
nought, and the ground barren.
2 Kings 2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And
they brought it to him.
2 Kings 2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the
salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters;
there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
2 Kings 2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the
saying of Elisha which he spake.
2 Kings 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up
by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him,
and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
2 Kings 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the
name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare
forty and two children of them.
2 Kings 2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he
returned to Samaria.
2 Kings 3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve
years.
2 Kings 3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his
father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father
had made.
2 Kings 3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
2 Kings 3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the
king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with
the wool.
2 Kings 3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab
rebelled against the king of Israel.
2 Kings 3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered
all Israel.
2 Kings 3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying,
The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab
to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy
people, and my horses as thy horses.
2 Kings 3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way
through the wilderness of Edom.
2 Kings 3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king
of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no
water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
2 Kings 3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called
these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
2 Kings 3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD,
that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's
servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured
water on the hands of Elijah.
2 Kings 3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the
king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
2 Kings 3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with
thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy
mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called
these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
2 Kings 3:14 And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I
stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
2 Kings 3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the
minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
2 Kings 3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of
ditches.
2 Kings 3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall
ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink,
both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
2 Kings 3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will
deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
2 Kings 3:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city,
and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every
good piece of land with stones.
2 Kings 3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was
offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country
was filled with water.
2 Kings 3:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to
fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and
upward, and stood in the border.
2 Kings 3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon
the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
2 Kings 3:23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and
they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
2 Kings 3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose
up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went
forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
2 Kings 3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land
cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of
water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones
thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
2 Kings 3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for
him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even
unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
2 Kings 3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his
stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great
indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their
own land.
2 Kings 4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the
prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest
that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him
my two sons to be bondmen.
2 Kings 4:2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me,
what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing
in the house, save a pot of oil.
2 Kings 4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
2 Kings 4:4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee
and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt
set aside that which is full.
2 Kings 4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her
sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
2 Kings 4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said
unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a
vessel more. And the oil stayed.
2 Kings 4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the
oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
2 Kings 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a
great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft
as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
2 Kings 4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this
is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
2 Kings 4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let
us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and
it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
2 Kings 4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into
the chamber, and lay there.
2 Kings 4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And
when he had called her, she stood before him.
2 Kings 4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been
careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou
be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I
dwell among mine own people.
2 Kings 4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi
answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
2 Kings 4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in
the door.
2 Kings 4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life,
thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not
lie unto thine handmaid.
2 Kings 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that
Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
2 Kings 4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went
out to his father to the reapers.
2 Kings 4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a
lad, Carry him to his mother.
2 Kings 4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he
sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
2 Kings 4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and
shut the door upon him, and went out.
2 Kings 4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray
thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of
God, and come again.
2 Kings 4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is
neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
2 Kings 4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go
forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
2 Kings 4:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And
it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi
his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
2 Kings 4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well
with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she
answered, It is well.
2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him
by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said,
Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from
me, and hath not told me.
2 Kings 4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do
not deceive me?
2 Kings 4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in
thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any
salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the
child.
2 Kings 4:30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
2 Kings 4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the
face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went
again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
2 Kings 4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was
dead, and laid upon his bed.
2 Kings 4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and
prayed unto the LORD.
2 Kings 4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon
his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he
stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
2 Kings 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went
up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the
child opened his eyes.
2 Kings 4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he
called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
2 Kings 4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to
the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
2 Kings 4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the
land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto
his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the
prophets.
2 Kings 4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a
wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred
them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
2 Kings 4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as
they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of
God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
2 Kings 4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and
he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in
the pot.
2 Kings 4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of
God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn
in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
2 Kings 4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an
hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith
the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
2 Kings 4:44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof,
according to the word of the LORD.
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a
great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given
deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a
leper.
2 Kings 5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away
captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's
wife.
2 Kings 5:3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the
prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
2 Kings 5:4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said
the maid that is of the land of Israel.
2 Kings 5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter
unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of
silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
2 Kings 5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now
when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my
servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
2 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the
letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make
alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy?
wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
2 Kings 5:8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the
king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying,
Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall
know that there is a prophet in Israel.
2 Kings 5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood
at the door of the house of Elisha.
2 Kings 5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in
Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be
clean.
2 Kings 5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I
thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the
LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
2 Kings 5:12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all
the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and
went away in a rage.
2 Kings 5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My
father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not
have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
2 Kings 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan,
according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto
the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
2 Kings 5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and
came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no
God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a
blessing of thy servant.
2 Kings 5:16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will
receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
2 Kings 5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to
thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer
neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
2 Kings 5:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master
goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand,
and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house
of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
2 Kings 5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a
little way.
2 Kings 5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold,
my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that
which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take
somewhat of him.
2 Kings 5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him
running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is
all well?
2 Kings 5:22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying,
Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the
sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two
changes of garments.
2 Kings 5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged
him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of
garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before
him.
2 Kings 5:24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand,
and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
2 Kings 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said
unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no
whither.
2 Kings 5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the
man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money,
and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen,
and menservants, and maidservants?
2 Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and
unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as
snow.
2 Kings 6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the
place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
2 Kings 6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man
a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered,
Go ye.
2 Kings 6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.
And he answered, I will go.
2 Kings 6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut
down wood.
2 Kings 6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water:
and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
2 Kings 6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him the
place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
2 Kings 6:7 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand,
and took it.
2 Kings 6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel
with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
2 Kings 6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware
that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
2 Kings 6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God
told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
2 Kings 6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for
this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not show
me which of us is for the king of Israel?
2 Kings 6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but
Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words
that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
2 Kings 6:13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch
him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
2 Kings 6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great
host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
2 Kings 6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and
gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots.
And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
2 Kings 6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more
than they that be with them.
2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes,
that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw:
and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about
Elisha.
2 Kings 6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD,
and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them
with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
2 Kings 6:19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this
the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led
them to Samaria.
2 Kings 6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that
Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD
opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of
Samaria.
2 Kings 6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My
father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
2 Kings 6:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite
those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread
and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
2 Kings 6:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had
eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the
bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
2 Kings 6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria
gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
2 Kings 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they
besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and
the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
2 Kings 6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there
cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
2 Kings 6:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help
thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
2 Kings 6:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered,
This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will
eat my son to morrow.
2 Kings 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on
the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
2 Kings 6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the
woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the
people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
2 Kings 6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of
Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
2 Kings 6:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and
the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he
said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away
mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast
at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
2 Kings 6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came
down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I
wait for the LORD any longer?
2 Kings 7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the
LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Kings 7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of
God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this
thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt
not eat thereof.
2 Kings 7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate:
and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
2 Kings 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in
the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now
therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us
alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings 7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the
Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria,
behold, there was no man there.
2 Kings 7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of
chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said
one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the
Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
2 Kings 7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their
tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled
for their life.
2 Kings 7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp,
they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and
gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into
another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
2 Kings 7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day
of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light,
some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell
the king's household.
2 Kings 7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they
told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was
no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the
tents as they were.
2 Kings 7:11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house
within.
2 Kings 7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I
will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be
hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the
field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and
get into the city.
2 Kings 7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I
pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city,
(behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold,
I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are
consumed:) and let us send and see.
2 Kings 7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after
the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
2 Kings 7:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was
full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste.
And the messengers returned, and told the king.
2 Kings 7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians.
So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley
for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
2 Kings 7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have
the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he
died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
2 Kings 7:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king,
saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a
shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
2 Kings 7:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if
the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said,
Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
2 Kings 7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in
the gate, and he died.
2 Kings 8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to
life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever
thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also
come upon the land seven years.
2 Kings 8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God:
and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines
seven years.
2 Kings 8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman
returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto
the king for her house and for her land.
2 Kings 8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God,
saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
2 Kings 8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had
restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi
said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha
restored to life.
2 Kings 8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and
all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until
now.
2 Kings 8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was
sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
2 Kings 8:8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and
go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I
recover of this disease?
2 Kings 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of
every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before
him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying,
Shall I recover of this disease?
2 Kings 8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that he shall surely die.
2 Kings 8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept.
2 Kings 8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because
I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong
holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the
sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings 8:13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should
do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath showed me that thou
shalt be king over Syria.
2 Kings 8:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to
him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest
surely recover.
2 Kings 8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth,
and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael
reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he
reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the
house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the
sight of the LORD.
2 Kings 8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's
sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
2 Kings 8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
made a king over themselves.
2 Kings 8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and
he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the
captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
2 Kings 8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day.
Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
2 Kings 8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign;
and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the
daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings 8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in
the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of
the house of Ahab.
2 Kings 8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against
Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2 Kings 8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king
of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram
the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Kings 9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the
prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in
thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
2 Kings 9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his
brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
2 Kings 9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus
saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and
flee, and tarry not.
2 Kings 9:4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to
Ramothgilead.
2 Kings 9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting;
and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of
all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
2 Kings 9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on
his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have
anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
2 Kings 9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may
avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the
servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
2 Kings 9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off
from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left
in Israel:
2 Kings 9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
2 Kings 9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and
there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
2 Kings 9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said
unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said
unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
2 Kings 9:12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and
thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king
over Israel.
2 Kings 9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it
under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is
king.
2 Kings 9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of
Hazael king of Syria.
2 Kings 9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of
Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape
out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
2 Kings 9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay
there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
2 Kings 9:17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he
spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram
said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
2 Kings 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus
saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace?
turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to
them, but he cometh not again.
2 Kings 9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and
said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to
do with peace? turn thee behind me.
2 Kings 9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and
cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of
Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
2 Kings 9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And
Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot,
and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the
Jezreelite.
2 Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it
peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy
mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
2 Kings 9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah,
There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
2 Kings 9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram
between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his
chariot.
2 Kings 9:25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in
the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when
I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon
him;
2 Kings 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood
of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the
LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to
the word of the LORD.
2 Kings 9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way
of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in
the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And
he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
2 Kings 9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings 9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah
to reign over Judah.
2 Kings 9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she
painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
2 Kings 9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace,
who slew his master?
2 Kings 9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my
side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
2 Kings 9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some
of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her
under foot.
2 Kings 9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go,
see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
2 Kings 9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than
the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
2 Kings 9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is
the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
2 Kings 9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of
the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is
Jezebel.
2 Kings 10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters,
and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them
that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
2 Kings 10:2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's
sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city
also, and armour;
2 Kings 10:3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and
set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
2 Kings 10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings
stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
2 Kings 10:5 And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city,
the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We
are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any
king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
2 Kings 10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be
mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your
master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the
king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which
brought them up.
2 Kings 10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they
took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in
baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
2 Kings 10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have
brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at
the entering in of the gate until the morning.
2 Kings 10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and
stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired
against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
2 Kings 10:10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the
word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the
LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
2 Kings 10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in
Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he
left him none remaining.
2 Kings 10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was
at the shearing house in the way,
2 Kings 10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said,
Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down
to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
2 Kings 10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and
slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither
left he any of them.
2 Kings 10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the
son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is
thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It
is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up
to him into the chariot.
2 Kings 10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So
they made him ride in his chariot.
2 Kings 10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto
Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the
LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
2 Kings 10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them,
Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
2 Kings 10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his
servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great
sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But
Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers
of Baal.
2 Kings 10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they
proclaimed it.
2 Kings 10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of
Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into
the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
2 Kings 10:22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth
vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth
vestments.
2 Kings 10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house
of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be
here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal
only.
2 Kings 10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings,
Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have
brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for
the life of him.
2 Kings 10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering
the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and
slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the
sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of
the house of Baal.
2 Kings 10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal,
and burned them.
2 Kings 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the
house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
2 Kings 10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2 Kings 10:29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves
that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
2 Kings 10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in
executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of
Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth
generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
2 Kings 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of
Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam,
which made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael
smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
2 Kings 10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and
the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon,
even Gilead and Bashan.
2 Kings 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all
his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
2 Kings 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in
Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was
twenty and eight years.
2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 Kings 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah,
took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which
were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from
Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
2 Kings 11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And
Athaliah did reign over the land.
2 Kings 11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over
hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the
house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in
the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.
2 Kings 11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall
do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of
the watch of the king's house;
2 Kings 11:6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part
at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it
be not broken down.
2 Kings 11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even
they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
2 Kings 11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his
weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain:
and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
2 Kings 11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things
that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were
to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and
came to Jehoiada the priest.
2 Kings 11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king
David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings 11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand,
round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner
of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
2 Kings 11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon
him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and
they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
2 Kings 11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the
people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings 11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as
the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her
clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
2 Kings 11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without
the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had
said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the
which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
2 Kings 11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and
the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and
the people.
2 Kings 11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal,
and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly,
and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed
officers over the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and
the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from
the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the
king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
2 Kings 11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in
quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
2 Kings 11:21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
2 Kings 12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty
years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 Kings 12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2 Kings 12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated
things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one
that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the
money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
2 Kings 12:5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance:
and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be
found.
2 Kings 12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king
Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
2 Kings 12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other
priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now
therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the
breaches of the house.
2 Kings 12:8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the
people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
2 Kings 12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the
lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into
the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the
money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 12:10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the
chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in
bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them
that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they
laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the
LORD,
2 Kings 12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and
hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that
was laid out for the house to repair it.
2 Kings 12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of
silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver,
of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
2 Kings 12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the
house of the LORD.
2 Kings 12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they
delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings 12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the
house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
2 Kings 12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath,
and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that
Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had
dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to
Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash
in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
2 Kings 12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of
Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah
king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
and reigned seventeen years.
2 Kings 13:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and
followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he
departed not therefrom.
2 Kings 13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
2 Kings 13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto
him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed
them.
2 Kings 13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from
under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their
tents, as beforetime.
2 Kings 13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of
Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the
grove also in Samaria.)
2 Kings 13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria
had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
2 Kings 13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and
his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
2 Kings 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned
sixteen years.
2 Kings 13:11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
sin: but he walked therein.
2 Kings 13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and
his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his
throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died.
And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and
said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
2 Kings 13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took
unto him bow and arrows.
2 Kings 13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the
bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's
hands.
2 Kings 13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then
Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S
deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the
Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
2 Kings 13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said
unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and
stayed.
2 Kings 13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till
thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
2 Kings 13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the
Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
2 Kings 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold,
they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha:
and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived,
and stood up on his feet.
2 Kings 13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
Jehoahaz.
2 Kings 13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on
them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence
as yet.
2 Kings 13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in
his stead.
2 Kings 13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of
Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the
cities of Israel.
2 Kings 14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
2 Kings 14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 14:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet
not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father
did.
2 Kings 14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people
did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
2 Kings 14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in
his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
2 Kings 14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto
that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor
the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to
death for his own sin.
2 Kings 14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took
Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
2 Kings 14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the
face.
2 Kings 14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon,
saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast
that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Kings 14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted
thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy
hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
2 Kings 14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel
went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at
Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
2 Kings 14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled
every man to their tents.
2 Kings 14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and
brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner
gate, four hundred cubits.
2 Kings 14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that
were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house,
and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
2 Kings 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his
might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria
with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
2 Kings 14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he
fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
2 Kings 14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem
with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings 14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen
years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
2 Kings 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
2 Kings 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and
reigned forty and one years.
2 Kings 14:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
to sin.
2 Kings 14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath
unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel,
which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the
prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
2 Kings 14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very
bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for
Israel.
2 Kings 14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of
Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of
Joash.
2 Kings 14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and
his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which
belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of
Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began
Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings 15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned
two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of
Jerusalem.
2 Kings 15:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
2 Kings 15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Kings 15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the
day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was
over the house, judging the people of the land.
2 Kings 15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
2 Kings 15:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote
him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 15:12 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu,
saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation.
And so it came to pass.
2 Kings 15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in
Samaria.
2 Kings 15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to
Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and
reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which
he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel.
2 Kings 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the
coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote
it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
2 Kings 15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began
Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in
Samaria.
2 Kings 15:18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
2 Kings 15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem
gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to
confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kings 15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the
mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king
of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the
land.
2 Kings 15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son
reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son
of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
2 Kings 15:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin.
2 Kings 15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with
Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him,
and reigned in his room.
2 Kings 15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah
the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty
years.
2 Kings 15:28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
sin.
2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king
of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and
Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them
captive to Assyria.
2 Kings 15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the
son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the
twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
2 Kings 15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel
began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings 15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and
he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the
daughter of Zadok.
2 Kings 15:34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he
did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
2 Kings 15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher
gate of the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the
king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
2 Kings 15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
stead.
2 Kings 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the
son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of
the LORD his God, like David his father.
2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made
his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the
heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on
the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Kings 16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of
Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not
overcome him.
2 Kings 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and
drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto
this day.
2 Kings 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,
saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of
the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up
against me.
2 Kings 16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house
of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a
present to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it
captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2 Kings 16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah
the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all
the workmanship thereof.
2 Kings 16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that
king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king
Ahaz came from Damascus.
2 Kings 16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the
altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
2 Kings 16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and
poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings,
upon the altar.
2 Kings 16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the
LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of
the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
2 Kings 16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the
great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering,
and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering
of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink
offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all
the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by
.
2 Kings 16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz
commanded.
2 Kings 16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed
the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that
were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
2 Kings 16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the
house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for
the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son
of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
2 Kings 17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but
not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
2 Kings 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea
became his servant, and gave him presents.
2 Kings 17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had
sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of
Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him
up, and bound him in prison.
2 Kings 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and
went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,
and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by
the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against
the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from
under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
2 Kings 17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast
out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they
had made.
2 Kings 17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were
not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all
their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and
under every green tree:
2 Kings 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did
the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things
to provoke the LORD to anger:
2 Kings 17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye
shall not do this thing.
2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by
all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways,
and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I
commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
2 Kings 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks,
like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made
with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and
they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were
round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should
not do like them.
2 Kings 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and
made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all
the host of heaven, and served Baal.
2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through
the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil
in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed
them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God,
but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2 Kings 17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted
them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out
of his sight.
2 Kings 17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the
LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
2 Kings 17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam
which he did; they departed not from them;
2 Kings 17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said
by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own
land to Assyria unto this day.
2 Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from
Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in
the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed
Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
2 Kings 17:25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that
they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew
some of them.
2 Kings 17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The
nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not
the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them,
and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of
the land.
2 Kings 17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one
of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there,
and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
2 Kings 17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from
Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the
LORD.
2 Kings 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in
the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in
their cities wherein they dwelt.
2 Kings 17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth
made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2 Kings 17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites
burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of
Sepharvaim.
2 Kings 17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the
lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the
houses of the high places.
2 Kings 17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the
manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2 Kings 17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not
the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or
after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob,
whom he named Israel;
2 Kings 17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them,
saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve
them, nor sacrifice to them:
2 Kings 17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with
great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye
worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
2 Kings 17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the
commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and
ye shall not fear other gods.
2 Kings 17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not
forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
2 Kings 17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you
out of the hand of all your enemies.
2 Kings 17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former
manner.
2 Kings 17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven
images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their
fathers, so do they unto this day.
2 Kings 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah
king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi,
the daughter of Zachariah.
2 Kings 18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that David his father did.
2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down
the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for
unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called
it Nehushtan.
2 Kings 18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was
none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
2 Kings 18:6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him,
but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
2 Kings 18:7 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he
went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
2 Kings 18:8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders
thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings 18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which
was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser
king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
2 Kings 18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth
year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was
taken.
2 Kings 18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria,
and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of
the Medes:
2 Kings 18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but
transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
2 Kings 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib
king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
2 Kings 18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to
Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on
me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings 18:15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the
house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
2 Kings 18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of
the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had
overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh
from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they
went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood
by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's
field.
2 Kings 18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
2 Kings 18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein
thou trustest?
2 Kings 18:20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words), I have counsel and
strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against
me?
2 Kings 18:21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised
reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
2 Kings 18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not
that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath
said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings 18:23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king
of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on
thy part to set riders upon them.
2 Kings 18:24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen?
2 Kings 18:25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to
destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
2 Kings 18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah,
unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears
of the people that are on the wall.
2 Kings 18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy
master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men
which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own
piss with you?
2 Kings 18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of
Assyria:
2 Kings 18:29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
2 Kings 18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye
every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every
one the waters of his cistern:
2 Kings 18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and
of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when
he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
2 Kings 18:33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land
out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kings 18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods
of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
2 Kings 18:35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have
delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver
Jerusalem out of mine hand?
2 Kings 18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word:
for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
2 Kings 18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to
Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
2 Kings 19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent
his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of
the LORD.
2 Kings 19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
the prophet the son of Amoz.
2 Kings 19:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day
of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the
birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
2 Kings 19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the
living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.