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1:1 And Solomon the son of David made himself strong over his kingdom, and Yehovah his Elohim was with him, and made him exceedingly great.
1:2 And Solomon spoke to all Yisrael, to the commanders of the thousands, and of the hundreds, and to judges, and to every honorable one of all Yisrael, heads of the fathers;
1:3 and they went, Solomon and all the house of assembly with him, to the high place that was in Gibeon, for there was The Elohim's tent of meeting that Mosheh, the servant of Yehovah, had made in the wilderness.
1:4 But David had brought up the ark of The Elohim from Kirjath-Jearim, when David made ready for it, for he had stretched out a tent for it in Yerushalayim;
1:5 and the altar of bronze that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put it before the tabernacle of Yehovah; and Solomon and the house of assembly sought to it.
1:6 And Solomon went up there on the bronze altar before Yehovah, that was at the tabernacle of the house of assembly, and offered on it a thousand burnt offerings.
1:7 In that night Elohim appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask what I shall give to you.
1:8 And Solomon said to Elohim, You have acted with great kindness with my father David, and have made me king in his place.
1:9 Now, O Yehovah Elohim, Your Word with my father David is confirmed, for You have made me to reign over a people as many as the dust of the earth.
1:10 Now give to me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this, Your great people?
1:11 And Elohim said to Solomon, Because this has been in your heart, that you have not asked riches, wealth, and honor, and the life of those who hate you, and also have not asked many days, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may judge My people, over whom I have made you reign;
1:12 the wisdom and the knowledge are given to you, and riches, and wealth, and honor I will give to you, such as none of the kings who were before you has had, and after you it shall not be so.
1:13 And Solomon came to Yerushalayim from the high place in Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, and reigned over Yisrael.
1:14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand, four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he placed them in the chariot cities, and with the king in Yerushalayim.
1:15 And the king made the silver and the gold in Yerushalayim as stones, and he made the cedars as sycamores that are in the low country for abundance.
1:16 And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Mitsrayim and out of Kue, the king's merchants took them from Kue at a price;
1:17 and they came up and brought out from Mitsrayim a chariot for six hundred silver pieces, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, they brought them out by their hand.
2:1 And Solomon said to build a house for the name of Yehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
2:2 And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men, bearers of burden, and eighty thousand men hewing in the mountains; and overseers over them three thousand, six hundred.
2:3 And Solomon sent to Hiram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with my father David, and sent him cedars to build a house to live in, also
2:4 look, I am building a house to the name of Yehovah my Elohim, to dedicate to Him, to burn incense of sweet spices before Him, and for the continual showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbath, and on the new moons, and at the set feasts of Yehovah our Elohim. This shall be upon Yisrael forever.
2:5 And the house which I am building shall be great, for our Elohim is greater than all the Elohim.
2:6 But who has strength to build a house for Him, since the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? And who am I that I should build Him a house, except to offer before Him?
2:7 And now, send to me a skilled man to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and violet, and knowing how to engrave all kinds of engravings with the skilled men who are with me in Yehudah and in Yerushalayim, whom my father David has prepared.
2:8 And send to me cedar trees, firs, and algums from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut down the trees of Lebanon; and look, my servants shall be with your servants,
2:9 even to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building will be great and wonderful.
2:10 And look, I shall give beaten wheat to the hewers, to those cutting down the trees, to your servants, twenty thousand kors of beaten wheat and twenty thousand kors of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
2:11 And Hiram the king of Tyre answered in writing, and sent to Solomon, Because Yehovah loves His people, He has given you as king over them.
2:12 And Hiram said, Blessed be Yehovah, the Elohim of Yisrael, who has made the heavens and the earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, knowing discretion and under-standing, who will build a house for Yehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
2:13 And now I have sent a skilled man having understanding, of Hiram my father,
2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre, who knows how to work in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in wood, in purple, and violet, and in fine linen, and in crimson, and to engrave any engraving, and to invent any device that is given to him, with your skilled men, and the skilled men of my master David, your father.
2:15 And now the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, as my master said, let him send to his servants.
2:16 And we will cut trees out of Lebanon, according to all your need, and bring them to you by floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall bring them up to Yerushalayim.
2:17 And Solomon numbered all the men, the aliens who were in the land of Yisrael, according to the numbering with which his father David numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty three thousand, six hundred;
2:18 and he made seventy thousand of them burden bearers, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain, and three thousand, six hundred to oversee to cause the people to work.
3:1 And Solomon began to build the house of Yehovah at Yerushalayim, in Mount Moriyah, where He appeared to his father David, in the place that David had prepared, in the grain floor of Ornan the Yebusite.
3:2 And he began to build on the second, in the second new moon, in the fourth year of his reign.
3:3 And these are the foundations Solomon laid, to build the house of The Elohim: the length by cubits according to the ancient measure, sixty cubits; and the breadth twenty cubits.
3:4 As to the porch on the front, the length, according to the breadth of the house in front, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it inside with pure gold.
3:5 And the greater house he covered with cypress wood, and he covered it with good gold, and caused to go on it palms and chains.
3:6 And he overlaid the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.
3:7 And he covered the house, the beams, the threshold, and the walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved messengers on the walls.
3:8 And he built the Most set apart House, its length was the same as the front, as of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he covered it with good gold, to six hundred talents;
3:9 and the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he covered the upper rooms with gold.
3:10 And in the Most set apart House he made two messengers of image work, and he overlaid them with gold.
3:11 And the wings of the messengers, their length was twenty cubits: the wing of the one was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other messenger;
3:12 and the wing of the other messenger was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other messenger.
3:13 The wings of these messengers spread out twenty cubits, and they were standing on their feet, and their faces were inward.
3:14 And he made the veil of violet, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and caused to go on it messengers.
3:15 And at the front of the house, he made two pillars thirty five cubits high, and the capital on their tops was five cubits.
3:16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the capitals of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.
3:17 And he set up the pillars before the sanctuary, one on the right, and one on the left, and called the name of that on the right Yachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.1
4:1 And he made an altar of bronze, its length twenty cubits and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height ten cubits.
4:2 And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from its brim to its brim, circular all around; and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it all around.
4:3 And under it was the shape of oxen, under it and all around it for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. Two rows of oxen were cast when it was cast.
4:4 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing the north, and three facing the west, and three facing the south, and three facing the east; and the sea was upon them above, and all their hinder parts inside.
4:5 And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its lip like the work of the lip of a cup, like a lily blossom. It received and held three thousand baths.
4:6 He also made ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; they washed what pertains to the burnt offering with them; and the sea was for the priests to wash in.
4:7 And he made ten menorah stands of gold, according to their ordinance, and placed them in the sanctuary, five on the right, and five on the left.
4:8 He also made ten tables, and placed them in the sanctuary, five on the right, and five on the left; and he made a hundred basins of gold.
4:9 And he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court; and he overlaid their doors with bronze.
4:10 And he placed the sea on the right side eastward, across from the south.
4:11 And Hiram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Hiram finished the work that he was to make for King Solomon in the house of The Elohim:
4:12 the two pillars, and the bowls, and the capitals on the top of the two pillars, and the two gratings to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;
4:13 and the pomegranates (four hundred to the two networks, two rows of pomegranates to the one grating) to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the face of the pillars.
4:14 He also made the bases; and he made lavers on the bases;
4:15 the one sea, and twelve oxen under it,
4:16 and the pots, and the shovels, and the forks, and all their vessels did his master Hiram make for King Solomon for the house of Yehovah, of burnished bronze.
4:17 In the plain of Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
4:18 And Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance, so that the weight of the bronze could not be searched out.
4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of The Elohim, and the golden altar, and the tables on which the Bread of the Presence rested;
4:20 and the menorah stands, and their menorot, for their burning was according to the ordinance, before the set apart place, of refined gold;
4:21 and the flowers, and the menorot, and the tongs of gold (it was perfect gold);
4:22 and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the entrance to the house, its innermost doors to the set apart of Holies, and the doors of the house to the sanctuary, of gold.
5:1 And all the work that Solomon made for the house of Yehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the dedicated things of his father David, and the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he had put among the treasures of the house of The Elohim. (2 Chron 8:11)
5:2 Then Solomon gathered the elders of Yisrael, and all the heads of the tribes, rulers of the fathers of the sons of Yisrael, to Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yehovah from the city of David; that is Mount Zion.2
5:3 And all the men of Yisrael were gathered to the king in the feast; it was the seventh new moon.
5:4 And all the elders of Yisrael came in, and the Levites lifted up the ark,
5:5 and they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the house of assembly, and all the set apart utensils that were in the tabernacle; the Levitical priests brought them up.
5:6 And King Solomon and all the company of Yisrael who were assembled to him before the ark were sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
5:7 And the priest brought in the ark of the covenant of Yehovah to its place, to the sanctuary of the house, to the set apart of Holies, to the place of the wings of the messengers;
5:8 and the messengers spread out wings over the place under the ark, and the messengers covered the ark and its staves from above;
5:9 and so long were the staves, that the heads of the staves could be seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside. And there it is to this day.
5:10 Nothing was in the ark but the two tablets that Mosheh gave in Horeb, where Yehovah cut a covenant with the sons of Yisrael when they came out from Mitsrayim.
5:11 And it happened as the priests were going from the sanctuary (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves without observing divisions),
5:12 and the Levitical singers to all of them, to Asaph, to Heman, to Yeduthun, and to their sons and to their brothers, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, and with harps and lyres, were standing on the east of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests blowing with trumpets.
5:13 And they were as one to the trumpeters, and to the singers to cause one sound to be heard to praise and to thank Yehovah. And when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yehovah, saying, For He is good; for his mercy endures forever; and a cloud filled the house, the house of Yehovah;
5:14 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of Yehovah had filled the house of The Elohim.
6:1 Then Solomon spoke, Yehovah has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness of the clouds.
6:2 And I have surely built an exalted house for You, and a place for You to dwell forever.
6:3 And the king turned his face and blessed all the house of assembly of Yisrael. And all the house of assembly of Yisrael was standing.
6:4 And he said, Blessed be Yehovah, the Elohim of Yisrael, who has spoken with His mouth to my father David, and with His hands has fulfilled it, saying,
6:5 From the day that I brought My people out of the land of Mitsrayim, I have not chosen a city out of any of the tribes of Yisrael to build a house for My name to be there, and I have not chosen a man to be leader over My people Yisrael.
6:6 But I have chosen Yerushalayim for My name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Yisrael.
6:7 And it was in the heart of my father to build a house for the name of Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael.
6:8 And Yehovah said to my father David, Because it has been in your heart to build a house for My name, you have done well that it has been in your heart.
6:9 But you shall not build the house, for your son who comes forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for My name.
6:10 And Yehovah has lifted up His Word that He spoke, for I have risen up in the place of my father David, and sit on the throne of Yisrael, as Yehovah spoke. And I have built the house for the name of Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael.
6:11 And I have placed the ark there, where the covenant of Yehovah is, that He cut with the sons of Yisrael.
6:12 And he stood before the altar of Yehovah, before the house of assembly of Yisrael, and spread out his hands.
6:13 Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, and put it in the middle of the court, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high; and he stood on it, and knelt on his knees before all the house of assembly of Yisrael, and spread out his hands toward Heaven.
6:14 And said, O Yehovah, Elohim of Yisrael, there is no Elohim like You in the heavens and in the earth, keeping covenant and mercy with Your servants, who walk before You with all their hearts;
6:15 who has kept with Your servant David, my father, that which You spoke to him; yea, You spoke with Your mouth, and You have fulfilled with Your hand, as at this day.
6:16 And now, O Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael, keep with Your servant David, my father, that which You spoke to him, saying, There shall not be cut off to you a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Yisrael. Only, if your sons watch their way to walk in My Torah, as you have walked before Me.
6:17 And now, O Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael, let Your Word be verified, which you spoke to Your servant David.
6:18 For is it true that Elohim shall dwell with men on the earth? Look, the heavens, and the Heaven of heavens, do not contain You. How much less this house that I have built!
6:19 And You have turned toward the prayer of Your servant, and to his supplication, O Yehovah my Elohim, to listen to the cry and to the prayer that Your servant is praying before You;
6:20 for Your eyes shall be open toward this house by day and by night, toward the place that You have said to put Your name there, to listen to the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
6:21 And You shall listen to the supplications of Your servant, and of Your people Yisrael, that they pray toward this place; and You shall hear from Your place of dwelling, from Heaven, and shall hear and forgive.
6:22 If a man shall sin against his neighbor, and he shall lift up an oath on him, to cause him to swear, and he shall come and swear before Your altar in this house,
6:23 You shall hear from Heaven, and shall act, and shall judge Your servants, to repay the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and to justify the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
6:24 And if Your people Yisrael shall be beaten before an enemy, because they have sinned against You; and they shall return and confess Your name, and shall pray and make supplication before You in this house,
6:25 then You shall hear from Heaven, and shall forgive the sin of Your people Yisrael, and shall cause them to return to the land which You have given to them and to their fathers.
6:26 When the heavens shall be shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they shall pray toward this place, and confess Your name, turning back from their sin because You have afflicted them,
6:27 then You shall hear from Heaven, and shall forgive the sin of Your servants, and of Your people Yisrael, because You have taught them the good way in which they should walk, and have given rain on Your land that You have given to Your people for an inheritance.
6:28 When there shall be famine in the land, when there is pestilence, scorching, or mildew; when there are locusts or ravagers when its enemies have distressed it in the land, in its gates, with any plague and any sickness;
6:29 whatever supplication, whatever prayer shall be made for any man, and for all Your people Yisrael, when they know each one his own plague, and his own grief, and he shall spread out his hands toward this house;
6:30 then You shall hear from Heaven, Your dwelling place, and shall forgive, and shall give to each according to all his ways, because You know his heart; for You, You only, have known the heart of the sons of men;
6:31 so that they shall fear You, to walk in Your ways all the days that they shall live on the face of the land that You have given to our fathers.
6:32 And, also, to the foreigner who is not of Your people Yisrael, and he has come from a distant land for Your great name's sake, and Your mighty hand, and Your stretched out arm; and they shall come and pray toward this house,
6:33 then You shall hear from Heaven, from Your dwelling place, and shall do according to all that the stranger calls to You; so that all the people of the earth shall know Your name, so as to fear You, as Your people Yisrael, and to know that Your name is called on this house that I have built.3 (Eph 3:15)
6:34 When Your people shall go out to battle against its enemies in the way that You shall send them, and they shall pray to You toward this city that You have chosen, and the house that I have built for Your name;
6:35 then You shall hear from Heaven their prayer and their supplication, and shall maintain their cause.
6:36 When they sin against You (for there is not a man who does not sin) and You shall be angry with them and shall give them up before an enemy, and their captors shall take them captive, to a land distant or near;
6:37 and they shall return to their heart in the land from which they have been taken captive, and shall turn back and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have acted perversely and have done wickedly;
6:38 yea, they shall turn back to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and they shall pray toward their land that You have given to their fathers, and toward the city that You have chosen, and toward the house that I have built for Your name;
6:39 then You shall hear from Heaven, from Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplications, and shall maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.4
6:40 Now, My Elohim, I beseech You, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer of this place;
6:41 and now, O Yehovah Elohim, rise to Your rest; You, and the ark of Your strength; O Yehovah Elohim, Your priests are clothed with salvation (salvation*), and Your set-apart ones rejoice in goodness.
6:42 O Yehovah Elohim, do not turn away the face of Your Messiah; remember the good deeds of Your servant David.
7:1 And when Solomon finished praying, then fire came down from Heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yehovah filled the house;
7:2 and the priests were not able to go into the house of Yehovah, because the glory of Yehovah had filled the house of Yehovah.
7:3 And all the sons of Yisrael were watching, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yehovah was on the house and they bowed their noses to the earth, on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yehovah: for He is good, for His mercy endures forever.
7:4 And the king and all the people were offering a sacrifice before Yehovah;
7:5 and King Solomon offered the sacrifice from the herd, twenty two thousand, and from the flock, a hundred and twenty thousand; all the people dedicated the house of The Elohim.
7:6 And the priests were standing over their charges, and the Levites with instruments of music to Yehovah, that David the king had made to give thanks to Yehovah (for His mercy endures forever) when David praised by their hand; and the priests were blowing trumpets before them, and all Yisrael was standing.
7:7 And Solomon dedicated the middle of the court that was before the house of Yehovah; for he had offered there the burnt offerings, and the fat of the shalom offerings; for the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to contain the burnt offering, and the food offering, and the fat.
7:8 And Solomon at that time kept the feast seven days, and all Yisrael with him, a great company, from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Mitsrayim.
7:9 And they made a solemn assembly on the eighth day, because they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.5
7:10 And on the twenty third day of the seventh new moon, he sent the people to their tents, rejoicing and glad of heart, for the goodness that Yehovah had done to David, and to Solomon, and to His people Yisrael.
7:11 And Solomon finished the house of Yehovah, and the king's house; and all that came to the heart of Solomon to do in the house of Yehovah, and in his own house, he was caused to prosper.
7:12 And Yehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for a house of sacrifice.
7:13 If I shut up the heavens and there is no rain, and if I command the locusts to consume the land, and if I send pestilence among My people,
7:14 and My people, on whom My name is called, shall be humbled, and shall pray, and shall seek My face, and shall turn back from their evil ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
7:15 Now My eyes shall be open, and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place;
7:16 and now I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name to be there forever; yea, My eyes and My heart shall be there all the days.
7:17 And you, if you shall walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall keep My statutes and My judgments,
7:18 then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with your father David, saying, There shall not be cut off a man to you who rules in Yisrael.
7:19 And if you turn away, and you shall forsake My commandments and My statutes that I have placed before you, and shall go and serve other gods and shall bow yourselves to them,
7:20 then I shall uproot them up from off My land6 that I have given them, and this house that I have sanctified for My name I shall cast away from before My face, and I shall give it for a proverb and a byword among all the nations.
7:21 And this house that was exalted to everyone who pass by it, they shall shudder and say, Why has Yehovah done this to this land and to this house?
7:22 And they shall say, Because they have forsaken Yehovah, the Elohim of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Mitsrayim, and have laid hold on other gods and have bowed themselves to them, and served them; for this He has brought on them all this evil.
8:1 And it happened, at the end of twenty years, Solomon built the house of Yehovah, and his own house.
8:2 As to the cities that Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon had built them, and he caused the sons of Yisrael to live there.
8:3 And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah and prevailed over it.
8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities that he built in Hamath.
8:5 And he built Beth-Horon the upper, and Beth-Horon the lower, as fortified cities, with walls, two leaved doors, and bars;
8:6 and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all the desire of Solomon that he wanted to build in Yerushalayim, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
8:7 All the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Yebusites, who were not of Yisrael,
8:8 (they were of their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Yisrael had not exterminated) Solomon caused them to go for forced labor to this day.
8:9 And none of the sons of Yisrael did Solomon make slaves for his work, but they were men of war, and commanders of his officers, and commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.
8:10 And these were the commanders of the deputies King Solomon had, two hundred and fifty who were rulers among the people.
8:11 And Solomon had brought up Pharaoh's daughter from the city of David to the house that he had built for her. For he said, My wife shall not live in the house of David, the king of Yisrael, for they are set apart, to whom the ark of Yehovah has come.7
8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yehovah on the altar of Yehovah that he had built before the porch,
8:13 even as the matter of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Mosheh, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the appointed feasts three times in the year, in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Shavuot, and in the Feast of Booths.
8:14 And according to the decree of his father David, he made the divisions of the priests stand over their service, and of the Levites over their charges, to praise and to minister before the priests, according to the matter of every day, and the gatekeepers in their courses at every gate, for so was the command of David the man of The Elohim.
8:15 And they did not turn aside from the king's command as to the priests and the Levites in regard to any matter, and to the treasures.
8:16 And all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Yehovah, and until its completion. The house of Yehovah was finished.
8:17 And Solomon went to Ezion-Geber, and to Eloth on the seacoast, in the land of Edom.
8:18 And Hiram sent ships to him by the hand of his servants, and servants who knew the sea. And they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it to King Solomon.
9:1 And the queen of Sheba had heard of Solomon's fame. And she came to test Solomon with sharp questions at Yerushalayim, with a very great train, and camels bearing spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones. And she came in to Solomon and spoke with him all that was in her heart.
9:2 And Solomon told her all her matters; and there was nothing hidden from Solomon that he did not declare to her.
9:3 And the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
9:4 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered up in the house of Yehovah; and there was no more ruach in her.
9:5 And she said to the king, The word that I heard in my land concerning your matters and concerning your wisdom is true.
9:6 But I had given no credence to their words, until I had come and my eyes had seen. And, look, there was not declared to me half of the greatness of your wisdom. You exceeded the report that I heard.
9:7 Oh the happiness of your men, and the happiness of your servants, these who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom!
9:8 May Yehovah your Elohim be blessed, who has delighted in you, to put you on His throne to be king for Yehovah your Elohim. In the love of your Elohim toward Yisrael, to make it stand forever, He has put you over them as king, to do judgment and righteousness.
9:9 And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great plenty, and precious stones. And there has not been any spice as that which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
9:10 And also the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought in gold from Ophir, brought in algum trees and precious stones.
9:11 And the king fashioned the algum trees into steps for the house of Yehovah, and for the king's house, and lyres and harps for singers. And there was none like these before in the land of Yehudah.
9:12 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire that she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. And she turned and went to her land, she and her servants.
9:13 And the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty six talents of gold,
9:14 besides that from the traders, and that the merchants were bringing in. And all the kings of Arabia, and the rulers of the land, were bringing in gold and silver to Solomon.
9:15 And King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; he put six hundred shekels of beaten gold on the one buckler;
9:16 and three hundred shields of beaten gold; he put three hundred shekels of gold on the one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
9:17 And the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold;
9:18 and there were six steps to the throne, and a footstool of gold was fastened to the throne; and hands were on this side and on that, at the place of the sitting; and two lions were standing near the hands;
9:19 and twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on this side and on that. There was not any such made for any kingdom.
9:20 And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon of refined gold. Silver was not counted for anything in the days of Solomon.
9:21 For the ships of the king were going to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once in three years the ships came from Tarshish bearing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
9:22 And King Solomon increased more than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom.
9:23 And all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon, to hear his wisdom that The Elohim had put in his heart.
9:24 And they were each bringing his present, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and garments, weapons, and spices, horses and mules, a rate year by year.
9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he put them in the chariot cities, and with the king in Yerushalayim.
9:26 And he ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Mitsrayim.
9:27 And the king made silver in Yerushalayim as the stones. And he made the cedars as the sycamores in the Shefelah for abundance.
9:28 And they brought out horses from Mitsrayim to Solomon, and from all the lands.
9:29 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Yeroboam the son of Nebat?
9:30 And Solomon reigned in Yerushalayim over all Yisrael forty years.
9:31 And Solomon lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Yisrael had come to Shechem to make him king.
10:2 And it happened, when Yeroboam the son of Nebat heard in Mitsrayim, because he had fled from the face of Solomon the king, Yeroboam returned from Mitsrayim.
10:3 And they sent and called for him. And Yeroboam and all Yisrael came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
10:4 Your father made our yoke hard; and now lighten the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we shall serve you.
10:5 And he said to them, Come again to me in three days; and the people went away.
10:6 And King Rehoboam consulted with the aged men who had stood before his father Solomon when he was alive, saying, How do you advise to answer this people a word?
10:7 And they spoke to him, saying, If you will be good to this people, and will please them, and will speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.
10:8 But he left the counsel of the aged men who had advised him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, those standing before him.
10:9 And he said to them, What do you advise that we shall answer this people that have spoken to me, saying, Lighten the yoke that your father put on us?
10:10 And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, You shall say this to the people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and you lighten our yoke, this you shall say to them, My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father;
10:11 and now, my father laid a heavy yoke on you, and I will surely add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I with scorpions.
10:12 And Yeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king commanded, saying, Return to me on the third day.
10:13 And the king answered them sharply, and King Rehoboam left the counsel of the aged men,
10:14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will surely add to it; my father chastised you with whips, and I with scorpions.
10:15 And the king did not listen to the people, for the revolution was from The Elohim, so that Yehovah might lift up His Word that He spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Yeroboam the son of Nebat.
10:16 And all Yisrael saw that the king did not listen to them, and the people sent back to the king, saying, What part do we have in David? Yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each to your tents, O Yisrael! Now see to your house, David! And all Yisrael went to their tents.
10:17 As to the sons of Yisrael who lived in the cities of Yehudah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
10:18 And King Rehoboam sent Hadoram who was over the forced labor. And the sons of Yisrael threw stones at him, and he died. And King Rehoboam was alerted to mount up into a chariot to flee to Yerushalayim.
10:19 And Yisrael rebelled against the house of David to this day.
11:1 And Rehoboam came to Yerushalayim and called up the house of Yehudah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight with Yisrael, to bring back the kingdom to Rehoboam.
11:2 And the Word of Yehovah came to Shemaiah, a man of The Elohim, saying,
11:3 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon the king of Yehudah, and to all Yisrael in Yehudah and Benjamin, saying,
11:4 So says Yehovah, You shall not go up, nor fight with your brothers. Each return to his house, for this thing has come from Me. And they heard the Words of Yehovah, and turned back from going against Yeroboam.
11:5 And Rehoboam lived in Yerushalayim, and built cities for defense in Yehudah.
11:6 And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
11:7 and Beth-Zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
11:8 and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
11:9 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
11:10 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron. These were in Yehudah and in Benjamin as cities of defense.
11:11 And he made the strengthened the fortifications, and put commanders in them, and treasures of food and oil and wine.
11:12 And he put in every single city shields and spears, and made them exceedingly strong. And Yehudah and Benjamin were his.
11:13 And the priests and the Levites in all Yisrael stationed themselves by him, out of all their territory.
11:14 For the Levites had abandoned their pasture land and their property. And they came to Yehudah and to Yerushalayim; for Yeroboam and his sons had cast them out from acting as priests to Yehovah.
11:15 And he made stand priests for himself for the high places, and for the demon he-goats, and for the calves that he made.8
11:16 And after them, out of all the tribes of Yisrael, those who gave their heart to seek Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael, came to Yerushalayim to sacrifice to Yehovah, the Elohim of their fathers.
11:17 And they made the kingdom of Yehudah stronger, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon stronger, for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.
11:18 And Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath, the daughter of Yerimoth, the son of David, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse.
11:19 And she bore to him sons: Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
11:20 And after her, he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines (for he had taken eighteen wives, and sixty concubines; and he fathered twenty eight sons and sixty daughters).
11:22 And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maachah the head, as ruler among his brothers, in order to cause him to reign.
11:23 And he had understanding, and spread out all his sons to all the lands of Yehudah and Benjamin, to all the cities of defense, and gave them provision in abundance. And he demanded a multitude of wives.
12:1 And it happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was settled, and when he was strong, he forsook the Torah of Yehovah, and all Yisrael with him.
12:2 And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak the king of Mitsrayim came against Yerushalayim because they had acted unfaithfully against Yehovah.
12:3 He came with a thousand and two hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen. And there was no counting the people who came with him out of Mitsrayim: Lubim, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.
12:4 And he captured the cities of defense in Yehudah and came to Yerushalayim.
12:5 And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Yehudah who had gathered to Yerushalayim from the face of Shishak. And he said to them, So says Yehovah, You have forsaken Me; and I also have forsaken you in the hand of Shishak.
12:6 And the leaders of Yisrael and the king were humbled. And they said, Yehovah is righteous.
12:7 And when Yehovah saw that they were humbled, the Word of Yehovah came to Shemaiah, saying, They have been humbled. I will not destroy them, and I will give to them a little deliverance. And I will not pour out My fury on Yerushalayim by the hand of Shishak.
12:8 But they shall become his servants, and they shall know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.
12:9 And Shishak the king of Mitsrayim came up against Yerushalayim, and took the treasures of the house of Yehovah, and the treasures of the king's house. He took all, and he took the golden shields that Solomon had made.
12:10 And King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and deposited them into the hand of the chiefs of the runners who kept the gate of the king's house.
12:11 And it happened, from the time the king went to the house of Yehovah, the runners came in and lifted them up, and brought them back to the guard room.
12:12 And when he was humbled, the wrath of Yehovah turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely. And also good things were found in Yehudah.
12:13 And King Rehoboam made himself strong in Yerushalayim, and reigned. For Rehoboam was a son of forty one years when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city that Yehovah had chosen to put His name there,9 out of all the tribes of Yisrael. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
12:14 And he did the evil, for he had not resolved in his heart to seek Yehovah.
12:15 And the acts of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer as to genealogy? And the wars of Rehoboam and Yeroboam lasted all their days.
12:16 And Rehoboam lay with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.
13:1 In the eighteenth year of King Yeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Yehudah.
13:2 He reigned three years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel, from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Yeroboam.
13:3 And Abijah joined the battle with an army of mighty men of war, four hundred thousand chosen men. And Yeroboam had set the battle in order with him, with eight hundred thousand chosen men, mighty men of valor.
13:4 And Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim in the hills of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Yeroboam and all Yisrael.
13:5 Do you not know that Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael has given the kingdom to David over Yisrael forever, to him and to his sons, a covenant of salt?
13:6 And Yeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon, the son of David has risen up and rebelled against his master.
13:7 And vain men gathered to him, sons of worthlessness, and they made themselves strong against Rehoboam the son of Solomon; and Rehoboam was a youth and tender of heart, and could not be strong against them.
13:8 And now you think to be strong against the kingdom of Yehovah in the hand of the sons of David. And you are a great host; yea, with you are calves of gold that Yeroboam has made as gods to you.
13:9 Have you not thrown out the priests of Yehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made priests to yourselves like the peoples of the lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a bull, a son of the herd, and seven rams, even he becomes a priest to no Elohim.
13:10 As for us, Yehovah is our Elohim, and we have not forsaken Him; yea, priests are serving Yehovah, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, in the work,
13:11 and are offering to Yehovah burnt offerings morning by morning, and evening by evening, and sweet incense, and the Showbread on the pure table, and the golden menorah stand and its menorot, to burn evening by evening. For we are keeping the charge of Yehovah our Elohim. And surely you have forsaken Him.
13:12 And, look, Elohim is with us at our head, and His priests, and the trumpets, the signal to sound for battle against you. O sons of Yisrael, do not fight with Yehovah, the Elohim of your fathers, for you shall not prosper.
13:13 But Yeroboam had made the ambush circle to come in behind them, and they were before Yehudah, and the ambush was behind them.
13:14 And Yehudah turned. And, look, the battle was against them before and behind. And they cried to Yehovah, and the priests were blowing with trumpets.
13:15 And the men of Yehudah shouted. And it was, at the shouting of the men of Yehudah, and The Elohim struck Yeroboam and all Yisrael before Abijah and Yehudah.
13:16 And the sons of Yisrael fled from the face of Yehudah, and Elohim gave them into their hand.
13:17 And Abijah and his people struck them with a great blow, and five hundred thousand chosen men of Yisrael fell slain.
13:18 And the sons of Yisrael were humbled at that time, and the sons of Yehudah were strong. For they leaned on Yehovah the Elohim of their fathers.
13:19 And Abijah pursued Yeroboam and captured cities from him: Bethel and its villages, and Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephrain and its villages.
13:20 And Yeroboam did not regain power any more in Abijah's days. And Yehovah struck him, and he died.
13:21 And Abijah became mighty, and he took fourteen wives to himself. And he fathered twenty two sons and sixteen daughters.
13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his words, are written in the inquiry of the prophet Iddo.
14:1 And Abijah lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
14:2 And Asa did the good and the right in the eyes of Yehovah his Elohim.
14:3 And he removed the altars of the alien, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherahs.
14:4 And he commanded Yehudah to seek Yehovah the Elohim of their fathers, and to do the Torah and the commandment.
14:5 And he removed the high places and the images out of all the cities of Yehudah. And the kingdom was quiet before him.
14:6 And he built fenced cities in Yehudah, for the land had quiet. And there was no war with him in these years, because Yehovah had given him rest.
14:7 And he said to Yehudah, Let us build these cities, and walls around them, and towers, two leaved gates, and bars, while the land is before us, because we have sought Yehovah our Elohim. We have sought, and He has given rest to us all around. And they built and prospered.
14:8 And Asa had an army bearing shields and spears three hundred thousand out of Yehudah, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin, bearing shields and drawing bows; all these were mighty men of valor.
14:9 And Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a thousand thousands, and three hundred chariots. And he came to Mareshah.
14:10 And Asa went out before him and they set the battle in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
14:11 And Asa called to Yehovah his Elohim, and said, O Yehovah, it is nothing to You to help between the mighty and him with no strength. Help us, O Yehovah our Elohim; for we rest on You, and in Your name we come against this host. O Yehovah, You are our Elohim. Do not let man hold out against You.
14:12 And Yehovah struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Yehudah. And the Ethiopians fled.
14:13 And Asa and the people with him pursued them even to Gerar. And all of the Ethiopians fell, for there was not one left alive to them; because they had broken before Yehovah, and before His army. And they carried away very much plunder.
14:14 And they struck all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of Yehovah had come on them. And they plundered all the cities, for there was much booty in them.
14:15 And also they struck the tents of cattle, and they captured sheep and camels in abundance. And they returned to Yerushalayim.
15:1 And the ruach of Elohim came on Azariah the son of Oded.
15:2 And he went out before Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Yehudah and Benjamin. Yehovah is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.10
15:3 Yea, Yisrael has been without a true Elohim many days, and without a teaching priest, and without The Torah.
15:4 And they turned in their distress to Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael, and they sought Him, and He was found by them.
15:5 And in those days there was no shalom to him going out, or to him coming in, for much tumult was on all those living in the lands.
15:6 And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city. For Elohim troubled them with every distress.
15:7 But you, you be strong, and do not let your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.
15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he made himself strong and removed the hateful idols out of the land of Yehudah and Benjamin; and out of the cities that he had captured from the hills of Ephraim. And he restored the altar of Yehovah that was before the porch of Yehovah.
15:9 And he gathered all Yehudah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon. For they had fallen to him in abundance from Yisrael when they saw that Yehovah his Elohim was with him.
15:10 And they were gathered to Yerushalayim in the third new moon of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
15:11 And they sacrificed to Yehovah on that day, from the plunder they had brought in, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
15:12 And they entered into the covenant to seek Yehovah the Elohim of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.
15:13 And everyone who did not seek after Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael was put to death, from the small to the great, from man and to woman.
15:14 And they swore to Yehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with rams' horns.
15:15 And all Yehudah rejoiced on the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart; and they sought Him with all their desire. And He was found by them. And Yehovah gave rest to them all around.
15:16 And also Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made a horrible image for an Asherah11. And Asa cut down her horrible image, and crushed and burned it by the torrent Kidron.
15:17 Yet the high places were not removed from Yisrael. Only, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
15:18 And he brought the dedicated things of his father, and his own dedicated things, into the house of The Elohim, silver and gold and vessels.
15:19 And there was no war until the thirty fifth year of the reign of Asa.
16:1 In the thirty sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha the king of Yisrael came up against Yehudah. And he built Ramah, so as not to allow any going out and coming in to Asa the king of Yehudah.
16:2 And Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasures of the house of Yehovah, and from the king's house; and he sent to Ben-Hadad the king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,
16:3 A covenant shall be between me and you, and between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha the king of Yisrael, and he shall go away from me.
16:4 And Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies to the cities of Yisrael. And they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
16:5 And it happened, when Baasha heard, he stopped building Ramah and let his work rest.
16:6 And Asa the king took all Yehudah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its wood, with which Baasha had built. And he built Geba and Mizpah with them.
16:7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa the king of Yehudah and said to him, Because you leaned on the king of Syria, and you have not leaned on Yehovah your Elohim, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.
16:8 Did not the Ethiopians and the Lubim become a very great army for multitude, for chariots and for horsemen? And when you leaned on Yehovah, He gave them into your hand.
16:9 For the eyes of Yehovah run to and fro in all the earth in order to be strong for those with their heart perfect toward Him. You have acted foolishly in this. For this reason, from now on there shall be wars with you.
16:10 And Asa was angry with the seer; and he gave him up to the house of stocks. For he was in a rage with him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.
16:11 And, look, the acts of Asa, the first and the last, look, they are written in the Scroll of the Kings of Yehudah and Yisrael.
16:12 And Asa was diseased in his feet in the thirty ninth year of his reign, until his disease was severe. And also in his disease he did not seek Yehovah, but among the healers.12
16:13 And Asa lay with his fathers, and died in the forty first year of his reign.
16:14 And they buried him in his grave which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet perfumes and kinds of aromatic herbs, with a mixture of ointments by art. And they burned a great burning for him.
17:1 And his son Yehoshaphat reigned in his place. And he made himself strong against Yisrael.
17:2 And he put an army in all the fortified cities in Yehudah, and placed command posts in the land of Yehudah, and in the cities of Ephraim which his father Asa had captured.
17:3 And Yehovah was with Yehoshaphat, for he walked in the first ways of his father David; and he did not seek to the Baals.
17:4 For he sought to the Elohim of his father, and he walked in His commandments, and not according to the deeds of Yisrael.
17:5 And Yehovah confirmed the kingdom in his hand. And all of Yehudah gave a present to Yehoshaphat. And he had riches and honor in abundance.
17:6 And his heart was exalted in the ways of Yehovah. And he again removed the high places and the Asherahs out of Yehudah.
17:7 And in the third year of his reign, he sent for his leaders, for Ben-Hail, and for Obadiah, and for Zechariah, and for Nethaneel, and for Michaiah, in order to teach in the cities of Yehudah.
17:8 And with them were the Levites: Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Yehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites. And with them were Elishama and Yehoram, the priests.
17:9 And they taught in Yehudah; and with them was the scroll of the Torah of Yehovah. And they went around to all the cities of Yehudah, and taught among the people.
17:10 And the fear of Yehovah was on all the kingdoms of the lands around Yehudah; and they did not fight with Yehoshaphat.
17:11 And from the Philistines, they were bringing in a present to Yehoshaphat, and silver as tribute. Also, the Arabians were bringing flocks to him, seven thousand, seven hundred rams; and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.
17:12 And Yehoshaphat went on to be greater, exceedingly. And he built fortresses and store cities in Yehudah.
17:13 And there was much work for him in the cities of Yehudah. And the men of war, mighty men of valor, resided in Yerushalayim.
17:14 And these were their numbers, for the house of their fathers: Of Yehudah, the commanders of thousands, Adnah the chief, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor.
17:15 And on his hand, Yehohanan the chief, and two hundred and eighty thousand with him.
17:16 And on his hand, Amasiah the son of Zichri, who volunteered himself to Yehovah; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.
17:17 And of Benjamin, Eliada a mighty man, and two hundred thousand armed men with bow and shield with him.
17:18 And on his hand, Jehozabad; and with him a hundred and eighty thousand ready for war.
17:19 These waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities in all Yehudah.
18:1 And Yehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and contracted a marriage with Ahab.
18:2 And at the end of years, he went down to Ahab, to Samaria. And Ahab sacrificed sheep and oxen in abundance for him, and for the people with him. And he persuaded him to go up to Ramoth-Gilead.
18:3 And Ahab the king of Yisrael said to Yehoshaphat the king of Yehudah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-Gilead? And he said to him, As I am, so are you; and as your people, so my people, even with you in battle.
18:4 And Yehoshaphat said to the king of Yisrael, Please seek the Word of Yehovah today.
18:5 And the king of Yisrael gathered the prophets, four hundred men. And he said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, and The Elohim will give it into the king's hand.
18:6 And Yehoshaphat said, Is there not a prophet of Yehovah still here, and we shall seek from him?
18:7 And the king of Yisrael said to Yehoshaphat, One man is still here, to seek Yehovah from him. But I hate him, for he does not prophesy good about me, but evil all his days. He is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Yehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
18:8 And the king of Yisrael called to a certain eunuch and said, Bring Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.
18:9 And the king of Yisrael and Yehoshaphat the king of Yehudah were sitting, each on his throne, clothed with robes. And they were sitting in a grain floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. And all the prophets were prophesying before them.
18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself, and said, So says Yehovah, With these you shall push Syria until they are crushed.
18:11 And all the prophets were prophesying so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-Gilead and prosper. And, Yehovah has given it into the king's hand.
18:12 And the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Look, the words of the prophets speak with one mouth, good toward the king. And, please let your word be like one of theirs, and you shall speak good.
18:13 And Micaiah said, As Yehovah lives, surely that which my Elohim says, that I shall speak.
18:14 And he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go up to Ramoth-Gilead to battle or shall I forbear? And he said, Go up and prosper, for they will be given into your hand.
18:15 And the king said to him, Until how many times must I put you on oath that you speak nothing to me but the truth in the name of Yehovah?
18:16 And he said, I have seen all Yisrael scattered on the mountains, as sheep with no shepherd for them; and Yehovah said, For there is no master to these. Let them return, each man to his own house in shalom.
18:17 And the king of Yisrael said to Yehoshaphat, Did I not say to you that he does not prophesy good concerning me, but rather evil?
18:18 And he said, Then hear the Word of Yehovah: I have seen Yehovah sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing on His right and His left.
18:19 And Yehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab the king of Yisrael, and he shall go and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? And saying, this one said one thing, and saying, this one said one thing.
18:20 And a ruach went out and stood before Yehovah, and said, I will entice him. And Yehovah said, With what?
18:21 And he said, I will go out and become a lying ruach in the mouth of all his prophets. And He said, You shall entice, and also, you are able. Go out and do so.
18:22 And now, look, Yehovah has put a lying ruach in the mouth of these your prophets. And Yehovah has spoken evil against you.
18:23 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way did the ruach of Yehovah cross from me to speak to you?
18:24 And Micaiah said, Look, you shall see in that day when you go from one room into another to hide.
18:25 And the king of Yisrael said, Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the ruler of the city, and to Yoash the king's son.
18:26 And you shall say, So says the king. Put this one in prison and cause him to eat the bread of pain, and the water of pain, until my return in shalom.
18:27 And Micaiah said, If you indeed return in shalom, Yehovah has not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, O peoples, all of them!
18:28 And the king of Yisrael went up, and Yehoshaphat the king of Yehudah, to Ramoth-Gilead.
18:29 And the king of Yisrael said to Yehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into battle; and you put on your robes. And the king of Yisrael disguised himself. And they went into battle.
18:30 And the king of Syria commanded the commanders of the chariots that he had, saying, You shall not fight with small or great, only with the king of Yisrael by himself.
18:31 And it happened, when the commanders of the chariots saw Yehoshaphat, they said, He is the king of Yisrael. And they turned around to fight against him. And Yehoshaphat cried out. And Yehovah helped him. And Elohim drew them away from him.
18:32 And it happened, when the commanders of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Yisrael, they turned away from following him.
18:33 And a man drew with a bow in his simplicity, and struck the king of Yisrael between the joints and the breastplate. And he said to the charioteer, Turn your hand, and you shall bring me out of the battle, for I have been wounded.
18:34 And the battle increased on that day, and the king of Yisrael was made to stand in the chariot before Syria until the evening. And he died at the time of the going of the sun.
19:1 And Yehoshaphat the king of Yehudah returned to his house in shalom to Yerushalayim.
19:2 And Yehu the son of Hanani, the seer, went out before him and said to King Yehoshaphat, Do you love to help the bad one, and those who hate Yehovah, and by this bring wrath on you from before the face of Yehovah?
19:3 But good things have been found with you, for you have burned the Asherahs out of the land, and have fixed your heart to seek The Elohim.
19:4 And Yehoshaphat lived in Yerushalayim, and he went out again among the people, from Beer-Sheba to the hills of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yehovah the Elohim of their fathers.
19:5 And he placed judges in the land, in all the fortified cities of Yehudah, for every city;
19:6 and said to the judges, Watch what you are doing, for you shall not judge for man, but for Yehovah, and He is with you in the matter of judgment;
19:7 and now, let the fear of Yehovah be upon you; watch and act, for there is no perverseness with Yehovah our Elohim, nor lifting up of faces, nor taking of a bribe.
19:8 And also in Yerushalayim Yehoshaphat caused to stand from the Levites and from the priests, and from the heads of the fathers of Yisrael, for the judgment of Yehovah, and for strife; and they returned to Yerushalayim.
19:9 And he charged them, saying, So shall you do in the fear of Yehovah, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
19:10 And when any contention shall come to you from your brothers who are living in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, then you shall warn them, and they shall not be guilty before Yehovah; and wrath shall not be on you and on your brothers; so you shall do, and you shall not be guilty.
19:11 And, look, Amariah the chief priest shall be over you for every matter of Yehovah, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Yehudah, shall be for every matter of the king; and the Levites shall be officers before you. Be strong and act; and Yehovah shall be with the good.
20:1 And after this it happened that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon came in, and with them from the Ammonites, to battle against Yehoshaphat.
20:2 And they came in and spoke to Yehoshaphat, saying, A great multitude has come against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and, look, they are in Hazazon-Tamar, which is En-Gedi.
20:3 And Yehoshaphat feared, and set his face to seek to Yehovah, and proclaimed a fast over all Yehudah.
20:4 And Yehudah was gathered to inquire of Yehovah; also they came in to seek Yehovah from all the cities of Yehudah.
20:5 And Yehoshaphat stood in the house of assembly of Yehudah and Yerushalayim, in the house of Yehovah, at the front of the new court,
20:6 and said, O Yehovah, the Elohim of our fathers, are not You the Elohim in Heaven? Yea, You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and in Your hand is power and might; and there is none able to withstand You.
20:7 Are You not our Elohim? You have driven out the inhabitants of this land from before Your people Yisrael, and have given it to the seed of Abraham, Your friend, forever;
20:8 and they have lived in it, and have built in it a sanctuary to You for Your name, saying,
20:9 If evil shall come upon us, whether sword, judgment, or pestilence and famine, we shall stand before this house and before You, for Your name is in this house, and shall cry to You out of our distress, and You shall hear and save.
20:10 And now, look, the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom You did not allow Yisrael to go against when they came out of the land of Mitsrayim, (for they turned away from them and did not destroy them)
20:11 yea, look, they are repaying us by coming in to drive us out of Your possession, that You have caused us to possess.
20:12 O our Elohim, shall You not execute judgment upon them? For there is no power in us before this great multitude that has come against us, and we do not know what we shall do; but our eyes are on You.
20:13 And all Yehudah was standing before Yehovah, and their infants and their wives and their sons.
20:14 And on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Yeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, the ruach of Yehovah came on him in the midst of the assembly;
20:15 and He said, Listen, all Yehudah, and you living in Yerushalayim, and King Yehoshaphat; so says Yehovah to you, You shall not fear nor be terrified of the face of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but Elohim's.
20:16 Tomorrow, go down against them; look, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz, and you shall find them in the end of the valley, at the front of the wilderness of Jeruel.
20:17 You shall not fight in this: station yourselves; stand and see the salvation* of Yehovah with you, O Yehudah and Yerushalayim; do not be terrified nor fear; tomorrow go out before them, and Yehovah shall be with you.
20:18 And Yehoshaphat bowed his nose to the earth, and all Yehudah and the ones living in Yerushalayim fell down before Yehovah, to bow themselves to Yehovah.
20:19 And the Levites, of the sons of the Kohathites, and of the sons of the Korahites, rose to give praise to Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael with a loud voice on high.
20:20 And they rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out Yehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. Trust in Yehovah, stand firm; trust in His prophets and prosper.
20:21 And he consulted with the people, and appointed singers to Yehovah, and those giving praise to the glory of set-apartness, when going out before those armed, and said, Give thanks to Yehovah, for His mercy endures forever.
20:22 And at the time they began with rejoicing and praise, Yehovah set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, that had come against Yehudah; and they were beaten.
20:23 And the sons of Ammon stood up, and Moab, against the people of Mount Seir, to devote and destroy; and when they finished with the ones living in Seir, they helped, each man against his neighbor, to destroy.
20:24 And when Yehudah had come to the watchtower, to the wilderness, then they looked toward the multitude; and look, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there was no survivor.
20:25 And Yehoshaphat and his people came to seize their plunder; and they found among them in abundance both riches and valuable things on the dead bodies; and they stripped off for themselves until there was no carrying it; and they were three days plundering the spoil; for it was much.
20:26 And on the fourth day they gathered at the Valley of Blessing, for they blessed Yehovah there; on account of this they have called the name of that place the Valley of Blessing to this day.
20:27 And they returned, every man of Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and Yehoshaphat at their head, to go back to Yerushalayim with joy; for Yehovah had made them rejoice over their enemies.
20:28 And they entered Yerushalayim with harps and with lyres, and with trumpets, to the house of Yehovah.
20:29 And there was a fear of Elohim on all kingdoms of the lands when they heard that Yehovah had fought with the enemies of Yisrael.
20:30 And the kingdom of Yehoshaphat was quiet, and his Elohim gave him rest all around.
20:31 And Yehoshaphat was king over Yehudah, a son of thirty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty five years in Yerushalayim; and the name of his mother was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
20:32 And he walked in the way of his father Asa, and did not turn aside from it, to do the right in the eyes of Yehovah.
20:33 Only, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not settled their hearts for the Elohim of their fathers.
20:34 And the rest of the acts of Yehoshaphat, the first and the last, look, they are written in the words of Yehu the son of Hanani, which were taken up in the Scroll of the Kings of Yisrael.
20:35 And after this Yehoshaphat the king of Yehudah joined himself with Ahaziah the king of Yisrael; he did wickedly to do so. (1 Cor 15:33)
20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-Geber.
20:37 And Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Yehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yehovah has broken your works. And the ships were broken, so that they did not hold to go to Tarshish.
21:1 And Yehoshaphat lay with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his son Yehoram reigned in his place.
21:2 And he had brothers, the sons of Yehoshaphat: Azariah, and Yehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Yehoshaphat the king of Yisrael.
21:3 And their father gave to them many gifts of silver and gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities of Yehudah; but he gave the kingdom to Yehoram, for he was the first-born.
21:4 And Yehoram rose up over the kingdom of his father and made himself strong. And he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also of the leaders of Yisrael.
21:5 Yehoram was a son of thirty two years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim eight years.
21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Yisrael, as did the house of Ahab, for a daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did the evil in the eyes of Yehovah.
21:7 And Yehovah was not willing to destroy the house of David, for the sake of the covenant that He made with David, and as He had spoken, to give a menorah to him and to his sons forever.
21:8 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Yehudah, and made a king to reign over them.
21:9 And Yehoram passed over with his chiefs, and all the chariots with him; and it happened that he rose up by night and struck the Edomites who were coming all around him; and the commanders of the chariots.
21:10 And Edom revolted from under the hand of Yehudah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at that time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yehovah, the Elohim of his fathers.
21:11 Also, he had made high places in the mountains of Yehudah, and caused the people of Yerushalayim to commit temple prostitution, and led astray Yehudah.
21:12 And a writing came to him from Elijah the prophet13, saying, So says Yehovah, the Elohim of your father David, Because you have not walked in the ways of your father Yehoshaphat, and in the ways of Asa the king of Yehudah,
21:13 and you walk in the way of the kings of Yisrael, and caused Yehudah and the people of Yerushalayim to commit temple prostitution like the prostitutions of the house of Ahab; and also you have killed your brothers, the house of your father, who were better than yourself;
21:14 look, Yehovah shall strike with a great destruction among your people, and among your sons, and among your wives, and among all your goods;
21:15 and you, with many sicknesses, with disease in your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.
21:16 And Yehovah awakened the ruach of the Philistines against Yehoram, and of the Arabians who were beside the Ethiopians;
21:17 and they came up into Yehudah and broke into it, and captured all the substance that was found at the king's house, and also his sons, and his wives; and there was not left to him a son except Yehoahaz the youngest of his sons.
21:18 And after this, Yehovah struck him in his bowels by disease for which there was no healing;
21:19 and it happened, from days to days, and as the time went out, the end of two years of days, his bowels fell out because of his sickness; so he died of painful diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
21:20 He was a son of thirty two years when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim; and he left without being desired, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the graves of the kings.
22:1 And the inhabitants of Yerushalayim made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place (for all the first ones had been slain by the troop of men that came in with the Arabians to the battle) and Ahaziah the son of Yehoram the king of Yehudah reigned.
22:2 Ahaziah was a son of forty two years when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Yerushalayim; and the name of his mother was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
22:4 And he did evil in the eyes of Yehovah, like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, for his destruction.
22:5 He also walked in their counsel, and went with Yehoram the son of Ahab the king of Yisrael to battle against Hazael the king of Syria, in Ramoth-Gilead; and the Syrians struck Yehoram;
22:6 and he returned to be healed in Yezreel, because of the wounds with which they had stricken him in Ramah, when fighting with Hazael the king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Yehoram the king of Yehudah, went down to see Yehoram the son of Ahab in Yezreel, for he was ill.
22:7 Now, the destruction of Ahaziah was from Elohim, for coming to Yehoram; and when he had come he went out with Yehoram to Yehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yehovah had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
22:8 And it happened, when Yehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, that he found the leaders of Yehudah, and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, the servants of Ahaziah, and killed them.
22:9 And he sought out Ahaziah, and they captured him (and he was hiding himself in Samaria) and brought him to Yehu, and put him to death, and buried him; for they said, He is the son of Yehoshaphat, who sought Yehovah with all his heart. And there was none in the house of Ahaziah to retain power for the kingdom.
22:10 And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, and she rose up and spoke to destroy all the seed of the kingdom of the house of Yehudah.
22:11 And Jehoshabeath the daughter of the king took Yoash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the sons of the king who were put to death, and put him and his nurse into the store room of the bedroom. And Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Yehoram, the wife of Yehoiada the priest, because she was the sister of Ahaziah, hid him from the face of Athaliah; and she did not put him to death.
22:12 And he was with them in the house of The Elohim hiding himself six years, and Athaliah reigned over the land.
23:1 And in the seventh year Yehoiada made himself strong and took the commanders of the hundreds, even Azariah the son of Yeroboam, and Ishmael the son of Yehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
23:2 And they went around in Yehudah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Yehudah, and the chiefs of the fathers of Yisrael, and came to Yerushalayim.
23:3 And all the house of assembly made a covenant in the house of The Elohim with the king, and he said to them, Look, the king's son shall reign, as Yehovah has spoken of the sons of David.
23:4 This is what you shall do: the third of you going in on the Sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, shall be keepers of the doors;
23:5 and a third shall be at the king's house, and a third at the gate of the foundation; and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of Yehovah.
23:6 And no one shall enter the house of Yehovah except the priests and those ministering of the Levites; they may go in, for they are set apart; and all the people shall keep the watch of Yehovah.
23:7 And the Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapon in his hand; and he who goes into the house shall be caused to die; and you be with the king in his coming in and in his going out.
23:8 And the Levites and all Yehudah did according to all things that Yehoiada the priest had commanded. And every man took his men who were to come in on the Sabbath, the ones who were to go out on the Sabbath. For Yehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.
23:9 And Yehoiada the priest gave to the commanders of the hundreds the spears, and the shields, and the bucklers that were King David's, that were in the house of The Elohim.
23:10 And he stationed all of the people, and each had his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, at the altar, and by the king at the house all around.
23:11 And they brought out the son of the king, and put the crown on him, and the testimony, and made him king; and Yehoiada and his sons anointed him, and cried, Let the king live!
23:12 And Athaliah heard the sound of the people who were running and who were praising the king; and she came to the people in the house of Yehovah,
23:13 and looked; and look, the king was standing by his pillar in the entrance, and the commanders and the trumpets were by the king; and all the people of the land were rejoicing and sounding with trumpets; and the singers with instruments of song, and giving signals to praise; and Athaliah tore her garments and cried, Conspiracy! Conspiracy!
23:14 And Yehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of the hundreds, those over the army, and said to them, Bring her out from inside the ranks, and he coming after her shall be caused to die by the sword; for the priest said, Do not put her to death in the house of Yehovah.
23:15 And they put hands on her, and she came into the entrance of the Gate of Horses, beside the king's house, and they caused her to die there.
23:16 And Yehoiada made a covenant between himself and between all the people, and between the king, to be a people to Yehovah;
23:17 and all the people went into the house of Baal and broke it down; yea, they broke down his altars and his images; and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
23:18 And Yehoiada put the offices of the house of Yehovah into the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had allotted over the house of Yehovah, to offer the burnt offerings of Yehovah, as it is written in the Torah of Mosheh; with joy, and with singing, by the hands of David.
23:19 And he stationed the keepers at the gates of the house of Yehovah; and the unclean could not in any way go in.
23:20 And he took the captains of the hundreds, and the nobles, and the rulers among the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of Yehovah; and they came in through the Upper Gate to the king's house, and made the king sit on the throne of the kingdom.
23:21 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And they executed Athaliah by the sword.
24:1 Yoash was a son of seven years when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim; and the name of his mother was Zibiah of Beer-Sheba.
24:2 And Yoash did the right in the eyes of Yehovah all the days of Yehoiada the priest.
24:3 And Yehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters.
24:4 And after this it happened; it had been in the heart of Yoash to renew the house of Yehovah;
24:5 and he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Yehudah, and gather from all Yisrael money to repair the house of your Elohim fully from year to year; and you shall do the matter quickly. But the Levites did not act quickly.
24:6 And the king called for Yehoiada the head, and said to him, Why have you not required the Levites to bring in out of Yehudah and out of Yerushalayim the offering of Mosheh, the servant of Yehovah, and of the house of assembly of Yisrael, for the tabernacle of the testimony?
24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, the wicked one, have broken up the house of The Elohim, and also they have prepared all the set apart things of the house of Yehovah for the Baals.
24:8 And the king commanded, and they made one chest, and put it at the gate of the house of Yehovah outside;
24:9 and they gave a call in Yehudah and in Yerushalayim to bring in to Yehovah the tribute of Mosheh, the servant of The Elohim, laid on Yisrael in the wilderness.
24:10 And all the leaders, and all the people rejoiced; and they brought in and threw into the chest until it was finished.
24:11 And it happened, at the time one brought in the chest to the king's overseers, by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that the silver was much a Sofer of the king came in, and an officer of the head priest, and they emptied the chest and took it up and returned it to its place; so they did day by day, and gathered much silver.
24:12 And the king and Yehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of Yehovah; and they hired stone cutters and carpenters to repair the house of Yehovah; and also skilled workers in iron and bronze to strengthen the house of Yehovah.
24:13 And the workmen did the work and the repair work prospered in their hands; and they set up the house of The Elohim by its proper measure, and made it strong.
24:14 And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the silver in before the king and Yehoiada; and they made vessels of it for the house of Yehovah, vessels of serving, and of offering, and spoons, even vessels of gold and silver; and they offered burnt offerings in the house of Yehovah continually all the days of Yehoiada.
24:15 And Yehoiada was old and satisfied with days, and died, a son of a hundred and thirty years at his death.
24:16 And they buried him in the city of David with the kings, for he had done good in Yisrael, and with The Elohim, and his house.
24:17 And after the death of Yehoiada, the leaders of Yehudah came in and bowed themselves to the king; then the king listened to them.
24:18 And they forsook the house of Yehovah, the Elohim of their fathers, and served the Asherahs and the idols; and there was wrath on Yehudah and Yerushalayim because of this guilt.
24:19 And He sent prophets among them to bring them back to Yehovah; and they testified against them, but they did not give ear.
24:20 And the ruach of Elohim came upon Zechariah the son of Yehoiada the priest, and he stood before the people and said to them, So says The Elohim, Why do you transgress the commandments of Yehovah, and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken Yehovah, He has forsaken you.
24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Yehovah.
24:22 And Yoash the king did not remember the kindness that Yehoiada his father had done to him, and killed his son. And at his death he said, May Yehovah see to it, and seek you out.
24:23 And it happened, at the turn of the year, that the army of Syria came up against him; and they came into Yehudah and Yerushalayim and destroyed all the leaders of the people from among the people; and they sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.
24:24 For with few men the army of Syria came in, and Yehovah gave into their hand an army for great multitude, because they left Yehovah, the Elohim of their fathers. And they executed judgment against Yoash.
24:25 And when they departed from him (they left him with many diseases) his own servants conspired against him, because of the blood of the sons of Yehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed; and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, and did not bury him in the graves of the kings.
24:26 And these are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
24:27 As to his sons, and the greatness of the burdens upon him, and the foundation of the house of The Elohim, look, they are written in the inquiry of the Scroll of the Kings. And his son Amaziah reigned in his place.
25:1 Amaziah was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty nine years in Yerushalayim; and the name of his mother was Jehoaddan of Yerushalayim.
25:2 And he did the right in the eyes of Yehovah; only, not with a perfect heart.
25:3 And it happened, when the kingdom had been made strong to him, he killed his servants, those who had struck the king, his father.
25:4 But he did not kill their sons, but did as is written in the Torah, in the Scroll of Mosheh, whom Yehovah commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the sons, and the sons shall not die for the fathers; but they each shall die for his own sin.
25:5 And Amaziah gathered Yehudah, and made them stand, according to the house of their fathers, for captains of the thousands, and for captains of the hundreds, for all Yehudah and Benjamin. And he numbered them from a son of twenty years and above, and found them to be three hundred thousand chosen ones, going forth to battle, holding spear and shield.
25:6 And he hired a hundred thousand mighty men of war out of Yisrael for a hundred talents of silver.
25:7 But a man of The Elohim came to him, saying, O king, do not let the army of Yisrael go with you, for Yehovah is not with Yisrael, with all the sons of Ephraim.
25:8 But if you will go, do it! Be strong for the battle, for The Elohim will cause you to stumble before the enemy; for there is power in The Elohim to help, and also to cause to stumble.
25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of The Elohim, But what shall I do for the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Yisrael? And the man of The Elohim said, Yehovah has more than this to give to you.
25:10 And Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him from Ephraim, to go to their own place. And their anger burned fiercely against Yehudah, and they returned to their place in the heat of anger.
25:11 And Amaziah made himself strong and led his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and killed ten thousand of the sons of Seir.
25:12 And the sons of Yehudah captured ten thousand alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock and threw them from the top of the rock; and all of them were broken.
25:13 And the sons of the army that Amaziah had sent back from going with him to battle, these raided against the cities of Yehudah, from Samaria even to Beth-Horon, and killed three thousand of them, and seized much prey.
25:14 And it happened, after Amaziah came in from smiting the Edomites, that he brought in the gods of the sons of Seir and made them stand as gods for himself; and bowed himself before them, and burned incense to them.
25:15 And the anger of Yehovah glowed against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him; and he said to him, Why have you sought the gods of the people that have not delivered their people out of your hand?
25:16 And it happened, as he spoke with him, that he said to him, as an advisor to the king we have chosen you? Stop yourself! Why should they strike you? And the prophet stopped, and said, I know that Elohim has counseled to destroy you because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.
25:17 And Amaziah the king of Yehudah took counsel and sent to Yehoash the son of Yehoahaz, the son of Yehu, the king of Yisrael, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
25:18 And Yehoash the king of Yisrael sent to Amaziah the king of Yehudah, saying, The thorn that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife; and a beast of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thorn.
25:19 You have said, look, I have struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up to boast; now, stay in your house; why should you stir yourself up to evil, that you should fall, you and Yehudah with you?
25:20 And Amaziah would not listen, for it was from The Elohim, in order to give them into their hand, because they had sought to the gods of Edom.
25:21 And Yehoash the king of Yisrael went up, and they looked one another in the face, he and Amaziah the king of Yehudah, at Beth-Shemesh that was Yehudah's.
25:22 And Yehudah was beaten before Yisrael; and they fled, each to his tent.
25:23 And Amaziah the king of Yehudah, the son of Yoash, was captured by Yehoash, the son of Yehoahaz, the king of Yisrael in Beth-Shemesh; and he carried him to Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.
25:24 And he took all the gold, and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of The Elohim with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king's house, and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.
25:25 And Amaziah the son of Yoash, the king of Yehudah, lived fifteen years after the death of Yehoash the son of Yehoahaz, the king of Yisrael.
25:26 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, the first and the last, look, are they not written in the Scroll of the Kings of Yehudah and Yisrael?
25:27 And after the time that Amaziah had turned aside from following Yehovah, they made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim; and he fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.
25:28 And they lifted him up on the horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Yehudah.
26:1 And all the people of Yehudah took Uzziah; and he was a son of sixteen years; and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Yehudah, after the king lay with his fathers.
26:3 Uzziah was a son of sixteen years when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty two years in Yerushalayim; and the name of his mother was Jecoliah of Yerushalayim.
26:4 And he did the right in the eyes of Yehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
26:5 And he sought Elohim in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of The Elohim; and in the days he sought Yehovah, The Elohim made him prosper.
26:6 And he went out and fought with the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities around Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
26:7 And The Elohim helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal, and the Meunim.
26:8 And the Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah; and his name spread abroad to the entrance of Mitsrayim; for he became exceedingly strong.
26:9 And Uzziah built towers in Yerushalayim at the Corner Gate, and at the Valley Gate, and at the Turning, and fortified them.
26:10 And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plain; also he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the earth.
26:11 And Uzziah had an army making war, going out to the battle by troops, according to the number of their account by the hand of Yeiel the Sofer, and Maaseiah the superintendent under the hand of Hananiah, of the king's leaders.
26:12 The whole number of the heads of the fathers of the mighty men was two thousand, six hundred.
26:13 And under their hand was a strong arm, three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields and spears and helmets, and breastplates, and bows, even to stones for the slings.
26:15 And he made engines in Yerushalayim, the inventions of skillful men, to be on the towers and on the corners, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was wonderfully helped until he was strong.
26:16 And when he became strong, his heart was lifted up to act corruptly; and he trespassed against Yehovah his Elohim, and went in to the sanctuary of Yehovah to burn incense on the altar of incense.
26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and eighty priests of Yehovah with him, sons of valor;
26:18 and they stood up against Uzziah the king, and said to him, It is not for you, O Uzziah, to burn incense to Yehovah, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are sanctified to burn incense; go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed; and it is not to your honor from Yehovah Elohim.
26:19 And Uzziah was angry, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense; and when he was angry with the priests, the tzaraat rose in his forehead, before the priests, in the house of Yehovah, beside the altar of incense.
26:20 And Azariah the head priest and all the priests turned toward him, and look, he was leprous in his forehead. And they hurried him from there, and he also himself hurried to leave, for Yehovah had touched him.
26:21 And Uzziah the king was one having tzaraat to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house as one having tzaraat, for he had been cut off from the house of Yehovah; and his son Jotham was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
26:22 And the rest of the acts of Uzziah, the first and the last, Yesha'yahu the son of Amoz, the prophet, has written.
26:23 And Uzziah lay with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burying place that the kings had; for they said, He is one having tzaraat. And his son Jotham reigned in his place.
27:1 Jotham was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim; and the name of his mother was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
27:2 And he did the right in the eyes of Yehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah did; only, he did not come into the sanctuary of Yehovah; and the people continued to do wickedly.
27:3 He built the Upper Gate of the house of Yehovah, and he built very much in the wall of Ophel;
27:4 and he built cities in the hills of Yehudah, and in the forests he built palaces and towers.
27:5 He also fought with the king of the sons of Ammon, and prevailed over them. And the sons of Ammon gave to him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley; this the sons of Ammon turned over to him in the second year and in the third.
27:6 And Jotham made himself strong, for he had prepared his ways before Yehovah his Elohim.
27:7 And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his battles, and his ways, look, they are written in the Scroll of the Kings of Yisrael and Yehudah.
27:8 He was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim.
27:9 And Jotham lay with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.
28:1 Ahaz was a son of twenty years when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim; and he did not do the right in the eyes of Yehovah, as his father David,
28:2 but walked in the ways of the kings of Yisrael, and also made casted images for the Baals.
28:3 And he himself burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Yehovah drove out from before the sons of Yisrael;
28:4 and sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
28:5 And Yehovah his Elohim gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they struck him, and captured from him a great captivity, and brought them to Damascus. And he also was given into the hand of the king of Yisrael, and he struck him with a great destruction.
28:6 And Pekah the son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand in Yehudah in one day, all sons of valor, because they had forsaken Yehovah, the Elohim of their fathers.
28:7 And Zichri, a mighty one of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, and Azrikam the leader of the house, and Elkanah, second to the king.
28:8 And the sons of Yisrael captured two hundred thousand of their brothers, wives, sons and daughters, and also they seized from them much spoil, and they brought the spoil to Samaria.
28:9 And a prophet of Yehovah was there, Oded his name; and he went out before the army that had come in to Samaria, and said to them, Look, in the fury of Yehovah, the Elohim of your fathers, against Yehudah, He has given them into your hand, and you have slain among them in rage. It has touched to the heavens.
28:10 And now you are planning to tread down the sons of Yehudah and Yerushalayim for male slaves, and for girl slaves to yourselves; but are not with you causes of guilt, solely yours, before Yehovah your Elohim?
28:11 And now, hear me, and return the captives you have seized from your brothers, for the heat of the anger of Yehovah is on you.
28:12 And men of the leaders of the Ephraimites: Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah, Meshillemoth's son, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, rose up against those coming in from the army.
28:13 And they said to them, You shall not bring the captives here, for guilt against Yehovah is on us; you are planning to add to our sin and to our guilt, for plenty of guilt is ours, and the glow of anger on Yisrael.
28:14 And the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the leaders and all the house of assembly.
28:15 And the men who had been called by name rose and took the captives, and they clothed all the naked ones from the plunder; yea, they clothed them and shod them, and made them eat and drink, and anointed them, and led them out on donkeys, even every feeble one, and brought them to Yericho, the city of palms, near their brothers, and returned to Samaria.
28:16 At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him.
28:17 And again the Edomites had come and struck Yehudah, and had seized a captivity.
28:18 And the Philistines had raided against the cities of the low country, and of the south of Yehudah, and captured Beth-Shemesh and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho and its daughter villages, and Timnah and its daughter villages, and Gimzo and its daughter villages, and dwelt there.
28:19 For Yehovah had humbled Yehudah because of Ahaz the king of Yisrael, for he loosed immorality in Yehudah, and dealt slyly and betrayed Yehovah.
28:20 And Tilgath-Pilneser the king of Assyria came against him and distressed him, but did not help him,
28:21 though Ahaz had taken a lot from the house of Yehovah and from the house of the king, and from the rulers, and had given to the king of Assyria, and it was not for help to him.
28:22 And in the time of his distress, he added to act more slyly against Yehovah, this King Ahaz.
28:23 And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus who had struck him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria are helping them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me. But they were to cause him and all Yisrael to stumble.
28:24 And Ahaz gathered all the utensils of the house of The Elohim, and he cut up the utensils of the house of The Elohim and shut the doors of the house of Yehovah. And he made altars for himself in every corner of Yerushalayim.
28:25 And in every city, even the cities of Yehudah, he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and angered Yehovah the Elohim of his fathers.
28:26 And the rest of his acts, and all his ways, the first and the last, look, they are written in the Scroll of the Kings of Yehudah and Yisrael.
28:27 And Ahaz lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Yerushalayim, but did not bring him to the graves of the kings of Yisrael. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
29:1 Hezekiah was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty nine years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
29:2 And he did the right in the eyes of Yehovah, according to all that his father David did.
29:3 In the first year of his reign, in the first new moon, he opened the doors of the house of Yehovah and repaired them.
29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and he gathered them to the plaza on the east.
29:5 And he said to them, Hear me, O Levites, now consecrate yourselves. And consecrate the house of Yehovah, the Elohim of your fathers, and bring out the uncleanness from the set apart place.
29:6 For our fathers have acted slyly and did the evil in the eyes of Yehovah our Elohim, and they have forsaken Him and turned their faces away from the sanctuary of Yehovah, and have given their backs.
29:7 And they have shut the doors of the porch, and put out the menorot, and they have not burned incense, and burnt offering has not ascended in the sanctuary to the Elohim of Yisrael.
29:8 And the wrath of Yehovah is on Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and He has given them for a trembling, for a horror, and for hissing, as you see with your eyes.
29:9 For, look, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in exile for this.
29:10 Now it is in my heart to cut a covenant with Yehovah, the Elohim of Yisrael, and the glow of His anger shall turn back from us.
29:11 Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for Yehovah has chosen you to stand before His face, to serve Him and to be ministers and incense burners for Him.
29:12 And the Levites rose up: Mahath the son of Amasai, and Yoel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
29:13 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Yeiel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
29:14 and of the sons of Heman, Yehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Yeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
29:15 And they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and came in, according to the commandment of the king in the matters of Yehovah, to cleanse the house of Yehovah.
29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Yehovah to clean, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the sanctuary of Yehovah to the court of the house of Yehovah; and the Levites received and took it out to the torrent Kidron outside.
29:17 And they began to sanctify on the first of the first new moon, and on the eighth day of the new moon they came to the porch of Yehovah; and they sanctified the house of Yehovah in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first new moon they had finished.
29:18 And they came inside to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yehovah, and the altar of the burnt offering, and all its vessels, and the table of the showbread, and all its utensils;
29:19 and all the utensils that King Ahaz cast aside in his reign, in his treachery, we have prepared and sanctified; and look, they are before the altar of Yehovah.
29:20 And Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the heads of the city, and went up to the house of Yehovah.
29:21 And they brought in seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven young he-goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the set apart place, and for Yehudah. And he commanded the sons of Aaron, the priests, to offer on the altar of Yehovah.
29:22 And they killed the oxen, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. And they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. And they killed the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
29:23 And they brought the he-goats of the sin offering before the king and the house of assembly, and they laid their hands on them;
29:24 and the priests slaughtered them, and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to atone for all Yisrael; for the king said, The burnt offering and the sin offering are for all Yisrael.
29:25 And he made the Levites stand in the house of Yehovah with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, by the command of David, and of Gad, the seer of the king, and of Nathan the prophet; for the command was by the hand of Yehovah, by the hand of His prophets.
29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer burnt offering on the altar; and at the time the burnt offering began, the song of Yehovah began, and of the trumpets, even by the hand of the instruments of David the king of Yisrael.
29:28 And all the house of assembly were bowing, and the singers singing, and the trumpeters blowing; all until the completion of the burnt offering.
29:29 And at the completion of the offering the king and all those found with him bowed and worshiped.
29:30 And Hezekiah the king and the leaders commanded the Levites to give praise to Yehovah in the words of David, and of Asaph the seer; and they praised with joy, and they bowed and worshiped.
29:31 And Hezekiah answered and said, Now you have consecrated your hand to Yehovah; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of Yehovah. And the house of assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and every willing hearted one brought burnt offerings.
29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings that the house of assembly brought was seventy oxen, a hundred rams, two hundred lambs; all these for a burnt offering to Yehovah.
29:33 And the dedicated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
29:34 Only, the priests had become few, and were not able to skin all of the burnt offerings; and their brothers the Levites strengthened them until the work was ended, and until the priests sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright of heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
29:35 And also, there were many burnt offerings with fat of the shalom offerings, and with drink offerings for the burnt offering; and the service of the house of Yehovah was established.
29:36 And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because The Elohim had given preparation to the people; for the thing had happened suddenly.
30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Yisrael and Yehudah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of Yehovah in Yerushalayim, to make a Pesach to Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael.
30:2 And the king and his leaders, and all the house of assembly in Yerushalayim, took counsel to keep the Pesach in the second new moon;
30:3 since they could not do it at that time, for the priests had not cleansed themselves enough. And the people had not been gathered to Yerushalayim.
30:4 And the thing was right in the eyes of the king, and in the eyes of the house of assembly.
30:5 And they established a decree to pass through a call to all Yisrael, from Beer-Sheba even to Dan, to come to make a Pesach to Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael in Yerushalayim. For not many of them had done it as it is written.
30:6 And the runners went with letters from the king's hand, and his leaders, to all Yisrael and Yehudah; even by the king's command, saying, O sons of Yisrael return to Yehovah, the Elohim of Abraham, Yitzhak, and Yisrael. And He shall return to the remnant left of you from the hand of the king of Assyria.
30:7 And do not be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yehovah the Elohim of their fathers; and He made them for a horror, as you see.
30:8 Now do not stiffen your necks like your fathers. Give a hand to Yehovah and come to His set apart place that He has sanctified forever; and serve Yehovah your Elohim. And the fierceness of His anger will turn away from you.
30:9 For when you return to Yehovah, your brothers and your sons will have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land. For Yehovah your Elohim is gracious and merciful, and He will not turn His face away from you, if you turn back to Him.
30:10 And the runners passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. And they were laughing at them, and mocking them.
30:11 However, certain men from Asher, and Manasseh, and from Zebulun were humbled, and came to Yerushalayim.
30:12 Also, in Yehudah the hand of The Elohim was to give to them one heart to do the king's command, and of the leaders, by the Word of Yehovah.
30:13 And many people gathered to Yerushalayim, to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second new moon, a very great multitude.
30:14 And they rose up and took away the altars in Yerushalayim, and all the incense altars they removed, and threw them into the torrent Kidron.
30:15 And they killed the Pesach offering on the fourteenth of the second new moon. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in burnt offerings to the house of Yehovah.
30:16 And they stood in their place according to their ordinance, according to the Torah of Mosheh the man of The Elohim. The priests were sprinkling the blood out of the hand of the Levites.
30:17 For many in the assembly had not sanctified themselves, and the Levites were over the slaughtering of the Pesach offerings for everyone not clean, to sanctify them to Yehovah.
30:18 For many of the people, many from Ephraim, and Manasseh, Yisachar, and Zebulun had not been cleansed, but ate the Pesach not as it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, O good Yehovah, atone for
30:19 everyone who has prepared his heart to seek Yehovah Elohim, the Elohim of his fathers, yet not according to the cleansing of the sanctuary.
30:20 And Yehovah listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
30:21 And the sons of Yisrael, those found in Yerushalayim, kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy. And the Levites praised Yehovah day to day, and the priests, with instruments of praise before Yehovah.
30:22 And Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites, those possessing good understanding as to Yehovah. And they ate the appointed feast seven days, offering sacrifices of shalom offerings, and making confession to Yehovah, the Elohim of their fathers.
30:23 And all the house of assembly took counsel to keep another seven days. And they kept seven days joyfully.
30:24 And Hezekiah the king of Yehudah had lifted up to the house of assembly a thousand young bulls, and seven thousand sheep. And the leaders had lifted up to the house of assembly a thousand young bulls, and ten thousand sheep. And the priests had sanctified themselves in abundance.
30:25 And all the house of assembly of Yehudah rejoiced, and the priests and the Levites, and all the house of assembly that came from the land of Yisrael, and the aliens who came from the land of Yisrael, and those who lived in Yehudah.
30:26 And there was great joy in Yerushalayim, for from the days of Solomon the son of David the king of Yisrael, there was nothing like this in Yerushalayim.
30:27 And the priests, the Levites, rose up and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to His set apart dwelling place, to Heaven.
31:1 And when all this was finished, all Yisrael who were found went out to the cities of Yehudah and smashed the standing pillars, and cut down the Asherahs, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Yehudah, and Benjamin, and in Ephraim, and Manasseh, even to the end. And all the sons of Yisrael returned, each to his possession, to their cities.
31:2 And Hezekiah made stand the courses of the priests and of the Levites, by their divisions, each according to his service, of the priests and of the Levites, for burnt offerings, and for shalom offerings, to serve and to give thanks, and to give praise in the gates of the camps of Yehovah.
31:3 And the king's portion from his substance was for burnt offerings, for burnt offerings of the morning and the evening; and the burnt offerings of the Sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of the appointed seasons, as it was written in the Torah of Yehovah.
31:4 And he commanded the people, those who lived in Yerushalayim, to give the portion of the priests and of the Levites, in order that they might be made strong in the Torah of Yehovah.
31:5 And as the word spread, the sons of Yisrael brought abundantly the first-fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and the tithe of all; they brought very much.
31:6 And the sons of Yisrael and Yehudah, those living in the cities of Yehudah, also they tithed of the herd and the flock, even a tithe of the set apart things that were sanctified to Yehovah their Elohim, were brought in. And they gave heaps of heaps.
31:7 They began to lay the foundation of the heaps in the third new moon, and in the seventh new moon they finished.
31:8 And Hezekiah and the leaders came in and saw the heaps, and blessed Yehovah and His people Yisrael.
31:9 And Hezekiah asked the priests and the Levites about the heaps.
31:10 And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, spoke to him and said, From the beginning of the bringing of the heave offering to the house of Yehovah, it was eaten, and it satisfied, and abundance was left; for Yehovah has blessed His people, and this abundance is left.
31:11 And Hezekiah ordered them to build rooms in the house of Yehovah; and they prepared,
31:12 and they brought in the heave offering, and the tithes, and the set apart things, faithfully. And over them was a leader, the Levite Cononiah, and his second brother, Shimei;
31:13 and Yehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Yerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and his brother Shimei, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of Elohim.
31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east, was over the freewill offerings of The Elohim, to distribute the heave offerings of Yehovah, and the most set apart things.
31:15 And by his hand, Eden, and Miniamin, and Yeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, acted faithfully to give to their brothers by divisions, as to the great, so to the small;
31:16 apart from their genealogy, to males from a son of three years and upward, to everyone who had gone into the house of Yehovah, the proper portion of a day in its day, for their service in their duties, according to their divisions;
31:17 and enrolled genealogically the priests by the house of their fathers, and of the Levites from a son of twenty years and upward, and their duties, and their divisions;
31:18 and the enrollment by genealogy with all their infants, their wives, and their sons and their daughters, to all the assembly, for in their faithfulness they sanctified themselves in set-apartness.
31:19 And to the sons of Aaron, the priests, in the fields of the suburbs of their cities in every separate city, were men who were called by name to give portions to every male among the priests, and to all enrolled genealogically among the Levites.
31:20 And Hezekiah did this in all Yehudah, and did the good and the right and true before Yehovah his Elohim.
31:21 And in every work that he began for the service of the house of The Elohim, and in the Torah, and in the commandment, to seek his Elohim with all his heart, he worked and prospered.
32:1 After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came; yea, he came into Yehudah and camped against the cities of defense, and commanded to break them open to himself.
32:2 And Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and his face was set to battle against Yerushalayim;
32:3 and he took counsel with his leaders and his mighty ones, to stop the waters of the fountains that were on the outside of the city; and they helped him.
32:4 And many people were gathered, and they stopped all the fountains, and the torrent that was rushing through the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?
32:5 And he made himself strong and built all the wall that was broken, and raised on it the towers; and outside, another wall; and strengthened Millo, the city of David, and made darts in abundance, and shields.
32:6 And he set officers of war over the people, and gathered them to him, to the street of the gate of the city, and spoke to their heart, saying,
32:7 Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid nor be cast down before the face of the king of Assyria, and before the face of all the multitude with him, for with us are more than with him.
32:8 With him is an arm of flesh, and with us is Yehovah our Elohim to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people were supported by the words of Hezekiah the king of Yehudah.
32:9 After this Sennacherib the king of Assyria sent his servants to Yerushalayim, (and he was by Lachish, and all his power with him) against Hezekiah the king of Yehudah, and against all Yehudah in Yerushalayim, saying,
32:10 So says Sennacherib the king of Assyria, On what are you trusting that you sit under siege in Yerushalayim?
32:11 Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you up to die by famine, and by thirst, saying, Yehovah our Elohim will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?
32:12 Has not Hezekiah himself removed His high places, and His altars, and commanded Yehudah and Yerushalayim, saying, Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn incense. (2 Chron 31:1)
32:13 Do you not know what I have done, my fathers and I, to all the people of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands at all able to deliver their land out of my hand?
32:14 Who among all the gods of these nations whom my fathers have devoted to destruction is he who has been able to deliver his people out of my hand, that your Elohim may be able to deliver you out of my hand?
32:15 And now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, nor believe him, for no Elohim of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand, from the hand of my fathers; also, surely your Elohim shall not deliver you from my hand.
32:16 And again his servants spoke against Yehovah The Elohim, and against His servant Hezekiah.
32:17 And he had written letters to blaspheme Yehovah, the Elohim of Yisrael, and to speak against Him, saying, As the Elohims of the nations of the lands have not delivered their people from my hand, so the Elohim of Hezekiah shall not deliver His people from my hand.
32:18 And they called with a great voice in Jewish, against the people of Yerushalayim who were on the wall, to frighten them and to terrify them, that they might capture the city.
32:19 And they spoke against the Elohim of Yerushalayim as against the gods of the peoples of the land, the work of the hands of man.
32:20 And Hezekiah the king and Yesha'yahu the son of Amoz, the prophet, prayed about this, and they cried to Heaven.
32:21 And Yehovah sent a Messenger, and destroyed every mighty one of valor, both the leader, and the officer in the camp of the king of Assyria; and he returned with shame of face to his land. And he entered the house of his god, and those from his bowels caused him to fall there by the sword.
32:22 And Yehovah saved Hezekiah and the people of Yerushalayim from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all; and He guided them on every side.
32:23 And many brought an offering to Yehovah, to Yerushalayim, and precious things to Hezekiah the king of Yehudah; and he was lifted up before the eyes of all the nations after this.
32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death, and he prayed to Yehovah, and He spoke to him, and gave a sign for him.
32:25 And Hezekiah did not return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart had been lifted up, and there was wrath on him and on Yehudah and Yerushalayim.
32:26 And Hezekiah was humbled for the pride of his heart, he and the people of Yerushalayim, and the wrath of Yehovah did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
32:27 And Hezekiah had great riches and honor, and he had very many treasures of silver for himself, and of gold, and of precious stones, and of spices, and of shields, and of all desirable vessels,
32:28 and storehouses for the increase of grain, and new wine, and oil, and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks for the stalls;
32:29 and he made cities for himself, and had stocks of flocks and very many herds, for Elohim had given him very much property.
32:30 And Hezekiah himself had stopped the outlet of the upper water-course of Gihon, and had directed them beneath the west of the city of David; and Hezekiah prospered in all his work. (2 Kgs 20:20, Is 22:11)
32:31 Even so with the envoys of the rulers of Babylon, those sent to him to inquire of the wonder that had been in the land, The Elohim left him to test him, to know all his heart.
32:32 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds toward Elohim, look, they are written in the vision of Yesha'yahu the son of Amoz, the prophet, and in the Scroll of the Kings of Yehudah and Yisrael.
32:33 And Hezekiah lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the uppermost of the graves of the sons of David; and all Yehudah and the people of Yerushalayim honored him at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
33:1 Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim fifty five years.
33:2 And he did evil in the eyes of Yehovah, like the filthy acts of the nations that Yehovah had driven out from before the sons of Yisrael.
33:3 For again he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and raised up altars for the Baals, and made Asherahs and bowed himself to all the host of the heavens, and served them.
33:4 And he built altars in the house of Yehovah, of which Yehovah had said, In Yerushalayim shall be My name forever.
33:5 And he built altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Yehovah.
33:6 And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and did magic and divined, and used sorcery, and used mediums and soothsayers; he multiplied the doing of the evil in the eyes of Yehovah, to provoke Him to anger.
33:7 And he placed the engraved image of the idol that he had made in the house of The Elohim, of which Elohim had said to David, and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Yerushalayim that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisrael, I will put My name forever.
33:8 And I will not again remove the foot of Yisrael from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers; only, if they take heed to do all that I have commanded them toward all the Torah, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Mosheh.
33:9 And Manasseh caused Yehudah and the people of Yerushalayim to sin, to do evil above the nations that Yehovah destroyed before the sons of Yisrael.
33:10 And Yehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people, and they did not listen.
33:11 And Yehovah brought against them the king of Assyria's army commanders, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, and bound him with bronze fetters, and made him go to Babylon.
33:12 And when he was distressed, he sought the face of Yehovah his Elohim, and was humbled exceedingly before the face of the Elohim of his fathers;
33:13 and prayed to Him, and He was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and returned him to Yerushalayim to his kingdom; and Manasseh knew that Yehovah, He is The Elohim.
33:14 And after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entrance of the Fish Gate. And it went around to the tower and he made it exceedingly high, and he put commanders of the army in all the cities of defense in Yehudah.
33:15 And he removed the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Yehovah and in Yerushalayim, and threw them outside the city.
33:16 And he built the altar of Yehovah, and sacrificed on it sacrifices of shalom offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Yehudah to serve Yehovah, the Elohim of Yisrael.
33:17 But the people still sacrificed in the high places, only to Yehovah their Elohim.
33:18 And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his Elohim, and the things of the seers, who spoke to him in the name of Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael, look, they are in the Scroll of the Kings of Yisrael;
33:19 and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his treachery, and the places in which he had built high places and set up the Asherahs and the graven images before he was humbled, look, they are written in the Matters of the Seers.
33:20 And Manasseh lay with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
33:21 Amon was a son of twenty two years when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Yerushalayim.
33:22 And he did evil in the eyes of Yehovah, as his father Manasseh did; and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images that his father Manasseh had made, and served them.
33:23 And he did not humble himself before Yehovah, like the humbling of his father Manasseh, for Amon himself multiplied guilt.
33:24 And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house;
33:25 and the people of the land killed all those who conspired against King Amon and the people of the land made his son Josiah to reign in his place.
34:1 Josiah was a son of eight years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim thirty one years.
34:2 And he did the right in the eyes of Yehovah, and walked in the ways of his father David, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
34:3 And in the eighth year of his reign, and he was still a boy, he began to seek to the Elohim of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Yehudah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the Asherahs, and the graven images, and the casted images.
34:4 And they broke down before him the altars of the Baals, and the images that were on high above them, and he cut down the Asherahs, and the graven images, and the molten images he broke down and beat small, and scattered on the surface of the grave of those who sacrificed to them.
34:5 And he burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Yehudah and Yerushalayim,
34:6 and in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their tools all around.
34:7 And he broke down the altars and the Asherahs, and he had beaten down the graven images very small; and he had cut down all the images in all the land of Yisrael, and returned to Yerushalayim.
34:8 And in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purified the land and the House, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the head of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yehovah his Elohim.
34:9 And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and they gave the silver brought into the house of Elohim, that the Levites who guarded the threshold had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Yisrael, and from all Yehudah and Benjamin, and the ones living in Yerushalayim.
34:10 And they gave it into the hand of the ones doing the work, those called out in the house of Yehovah; and they gave it to the doers of the work who were working in the house of Yehovah to repair and to make strong the house.
34:11 And they gave to skilled workers, and to builders, to buy quarried stones and wood for couplings, to make beams for the houses that the kings of Yehudah had destroyed.
34:12 And the men were working faithfully in the work. And over them were given the oversight: Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah, and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the Levites all who were skilled in musical instruments;
34:13 and over the load carriers and overseers of everyone doing work for each separate service; and of the Levites were Soferim and officers and gatekeepers.
34:14 And when they brought out the silver brought into the house of Yehovah, Hilkiah the priest found the Scroll of the Torah of Yehovah by the hand of Mosheh.
34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the Sofer, I have found the Scroll of the Torah in the house of Yehovah. And Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.
34:16 And Shaphan brought the Scroll in to the king, and brought the king back word again, saying, All that has been given into the hand of your servants, they are doing.
34:17 And they poured out the silver found in the house of Yehovah, and gave it into the hands of those appointed, and into the hands of those doing the work.
34:18 And Shaphan the Sofer told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has given a scroll to me; and Shaphan read it before the king.
34:19 And it happened, when the king heard the Words of the Torah, that he tore his garments.
34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the Sofer, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying,
34:21 Go, seek Yehovah for me and for him who is left in Yisrael and in Yehudah, as to the Words of the scroll that has been found, for great is the wrath of Yehovah that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the Word of Yehovah, to do according to all that is written in this scroll.
34:22 And Hilkiah and those of the king went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the robes; and she was living in Yerushalayim in the Second. And they spoke to her about this.
34:23 And she said to them, So says Yehovah, the Elohim of Yisrael, Say to the man who has sent you to Me,
34:24 So says Yehovah, Look, I will bring evil on this place, and on the ones living in it, all the curses that are written in the Scroll that they have read before the king of Yehudah;
34:25 because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods so as to anger Me with all the works of their hands; and My wrath shall be poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched.
34:26 And to the king of Yehudah who is sending you to inquire of Yehovah, you shall say this to him, So says Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael, whose Words you have heard,
34:27 Because your heart is tender, and you were humbled before Elohim when you heard His Words concerning this place, and concerning the ones living in it, and were humbled before Me, and have torn your garments and wept before Me; I have even heard also, says Yehovah.
34:28 Look I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in shalom, and your eyes will not look upon all the evil I shall bring upon this place, and on the ones living in it. And they brought the king word again.
34:29 And the king sent and gathered all the elders of Yehudah and Yerushalayim.
34:30 And the king went up to the house of Yehovah and every man of Yehudah, and the people of Yerushalayim, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the ones living there from the great to the small; and he read in their ears all the Words of the Scroll of the Covenant found in the house of Yehovah.
34:31 And the king stood in his place and cut the covenant before Yehovah, to walk after Yehovah, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart, and with all his soul, to do the Words of the covenant that were written in this scroll.
34:32 And he made everyone who was found in Yerushalayim and in Benjamin, and the ones living in Yerushalayim, to stand to the covenant of Elohim, the Elohim of their fathers.
34:33 And Josiah removed all the idols out of all the lands that belonged to the sons of Yisrael, and caused everyone who was found in Yisrael to serve, to serve Yehovah their Elohim; all his days they did not turn away from following Yehovah, the Elohim of their fathers.
35:1 And Josiah performed a Pesach in Yerushalayim to Yehovah, and they killed the Pesach offering on the fourteenth of the first new moon.
35:2 And he made the priests stand over their charges, and made them strong for the service of the house of Yehovah,
35:3 and said to the Levites who were teaching all Yisrael, who were sanctified to Yehovah, Put the set apart ark in the house that Solomon the son of David the king of Yisrael built; it shall not be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yehovah your Elohim, and His people Yisrael,
35:4 and prepare by the house of your fathers, according to your courses, by the writing of David the king of Yisrael, and by the writing of his son Solomon,
35:5 and stand in the place of set-apartness, by the divisions of the house of the fathers of your brothers, the sons of the people, and the portion of the house of the father of the Levites;
35:6 and kill the Pesach offering and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the Word of Yehovah, by the hand of Mosheh.
35:7 And Josiah lifted up to the sons of the people a flock of lambs and young goats, all for Pesach offerings, for everyone who was found, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen; these were from the king's substance.
35:8 And his leaders lifted up for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah, and Zechariah, and Yehiel, rulers in the house of The Elohim, gave to the priest two thousand and six hundred for Pesach offerings, and three hundred oxen.
35:9 And Conaniah, and Shemaiah, and Nethaneel, his brothers; and Hashabiah, and Yeiel, and Jozabad, chiefs of the Levites, lifted up to the Levites five thousand for Pesach offerings, and five hundred oxen.
35:10 And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the command of the king.
35:11 And they slaughtered the Pesach offering and the priests sprinkled out of their hand, and the Levites were stripping;
35:12 and they removed the burnt offering, to distribute them by the divisions of the house of the fathers of the sons of the people, to offer to Yehovah, as it is written in the scroll of Mosheh, and so to the oxen.
35:13 And they cooked the Pesach with fire, according to the ordinance; and they cooked the set apart things in pots, and in kettles, and in pans, and carried to all the sons of the people.
35:14 And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering up the burnt offering and the fat until nightfall; and the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests; the sons of Aaron.
35:15 And the singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place, according to David's command, and Asaph, and Heman, and Yeduthun the seer of the king; and the gatekeepers were at each gate; it was not for them to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
35:16 And all the service of Yehovah was prepared on that day, to perform the Pesach, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yehovah, according to the command of King Josiah.
35:17 And the sons of Yisrael who were found performed the Pesach at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, seven days.
35:18 And there had not been a Pesach performed like it in Yisrael from the days of Samuel the prophet; yea, none of the kings of Yisrael performed such a Pesach as Josiah performed, and the priests, and the Levites and all Yehudah and Yisrael who were found, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.
35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, this Pesach was performed.
35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the house, Necho the king of Mitsrayim came up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out to meet him.
35:21 And he sent messengers to him, saying, What do I have to do with you, O king of Yehudah? I am not coming against you today, but toward the house with which I have war; and Elohim said for me to hasten; stop yourself from opposing Elohim, who is with me, and He shall not destroy you.
35:22 Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself to fight against him, and did not listen to the words of Necho from the mouth of Elohim; and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
35:23 And the archers shot at King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, Carry me out, for I am severely wounded.
35:24 And his servants carried him out from the chariot, and caused him to ride in a second chariot of his, and brought him to Yerushalayim. And he died and was buried in the graves of his fathers. And all Yehudah and Yerushalayim were mourning for Josiah.
35:25 And Yeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singers and the songstresses speak in their lamentations of Josiah to this day, and gave them as a statute in Yisrael; and look, they are written in the Lamentations.
35:26 And the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodly deeds to Elohim, are according as it is written in the Torah of Yehovah.
35:27 And his acts, the first and the last, look, they are written in the Scroll of the Kings of Yisrael and Yehudah.
36:1 And the people of the land took Yehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king instead of his father in Yerushalayim.
36:2 Yehoahaz was a son of twenty three years when he began to reign, and he reigned three new moons in Yerushalayim.
36:3 And the king of Mitsrayim deposed him in Yerushalayim, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
36:4 And the king of Mitsrayim made his brother Eliakim king over Yehudah and Yerushalayim, and turned about his name to Yehoiakim; and Necho took his brother Yehoahaz and brought him to Mitsrayim.
36:5 Yehoiakim was a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And he did the evil in the eyes of Yehovah his Elohim.
36:6 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to take him away to Babylon.
36:7 And Nebuchadnezzar brought some of the vessels of the house of Yehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple in Babylon.
36:8 And the rest of the acts of Yehoiakim, and his evil deeds that he did, and that which was found against him, look, they are written in the Scroll of the Kings of Yisrael and Yehudah. And his son Yehoiachin reigned in his place.
36:9 Yehoiachin was a son of eight years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim three new moons and ten days; and he did the evil in the eyes of Yehovah.
36:10 And at the turn of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of the house of Yehovah, and made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Yehudah and Yerushalayim.
36:11 Zedekiah was a son of twenty one years when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim.
36:12 And he did the evil in the eyes of Yehovah his Elohim; he was not humbled before Yeremiah the prophet, from the mouth of Yehovah.
36:13 And also he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by Elohim; and he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to Yehovah the Elohim of Yisrael.
36:14 Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people were continually acting unfaithfully according to all the abominable idols of the nations; and they defiled the house of Yehovah that He had sanctified in Yerushalayim.
36:15 And Yehovah, the Elohim of their fathers, sent to them by the hand of His messengers, rising early and sending, for He had pity on his people and on His dwelling place.
36:16 But they mocked the messengers of The Elohim, and despised His Words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Yehovah went up against His people, until there was no healing.
36:17 And He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans; and he killed their choice ones by the sword in the house of their set apart place, and had no pity on the young man and the virgin, the old man and the very aged; He gave all into his hand.
36:18 And all the utensils of the house of The Elohim, the large and the small, and the treasures of the house of Yehovah, and the treasures of the king and his leaders, he brought all to Babylon.
36:19 And they burned the house of The Elohim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim; and they burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable vessels.
36:20 And he exiled to Babylon those who had escaped the sword; and they were slaves to him and to his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia;
36:21 in order to fulfill the Word of Yehovah in the mouth of Yeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths; all the days of the desolation it kept the Sabbath, to the full measure of seventy years.
36:22 And in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia, in order to accomplish the Word of Yehovah in the mouth of Yeremiah, Yehovah awakened the ruach of Cyrus the king of Persia, and he caused a voice to pass throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,
36:23 So says Cyrus the king of Persia, Yehovah the Elohim of the heavens has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has laid a charge on me to build a house in Yerushalayim to Him, that is in Yehudah. Who is among you of all His people? May Yehovah his Elohim be with him, and let him go up.