mkjv - 2Kings:9-16

mkjv@2Kings:9:1 @ And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Bind up your loins and take this box of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth in Gilead.

mkjv@2Kings:9:2 @ And you shall go there, and you shall see there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. And you shall go in and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.

mkjv@2Kings:9:3 @ And take the box of oil and pour [it] on his head, and say, So says the LORD, I have anointed you king over Israel. And you shall open the door, and flee, and shall not wait.

mkjv@2Kings:9:4 @ And the young man went, the servant of the prophet, [to] Ramoth in Gilead.

mkjv@2Kings:9:5 @ And [he] came in, and, behold, the commanders of the army [were] sitting. And he said, I have an errand to you, commander. And Jehu said, To which of all of us? And he said, To you, commander.

mkjv@2Kings:9:6 @ And he arose and went into the house. And he poured the oil on his head and said to him, So says Jehovah God of Israel, I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:9:7 @ And you shall strike the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD at the hand of Jezebel.

mkjv@2Kings:9:8 @ For the whole house of Ahab shall perish. And I will cut off from Ahab everyone that urinates against the wall, both bound and free.

mkjv@2Kings:9:9 @ And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

mkjv@2Kings:9:10 @ And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in a part of Jezreel, and none [shall be there] to bury [her]. And he opened the door and fled.

mkjv@2Kings:9:11 @ And Jehu went out to the servants of his lord. And [one] said to him, Well? Why did this mad man come to you? And he said to them, You know the man and what he had to say.

mkjv@2Kings:9:12 @ And they said, [It is] false. Tell us now! And he said, This and this he spoke to me, saying, So says the LORD, I have anointed you king over Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:9:13 @ And they hurried and each man took his garment and put [it] under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.

mkjv@2Kings:9:14 @ And Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi plotted against Jehoram. And Jehoram was keeping [watch at] Ramoth in Gilead, he and all Israel before Hazael king, of Syria.

mkjv@2Kings:9:15 @ And king Jehoram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him when he fought with Hazael the king of Syria. And Jehu said, If it is your minds, [then] let no escapee leave to go to tell [it] in Jezreel.

mkjv@2Kings:9:16 @ And Jehu rode in the chariot and went to Jezreel. For Jehoram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Jehoram.

mkjv@2Kings:9:17 @ And a watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel. And [he] saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Jehoram said, Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, [Is it] peace?

mkjv@2Kings:9:18 @ And the rider on horseback went to meet him and said, So says the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What do you [have to do] with peace? Turn behind me! And the watchman reported, saying, The messenger came to them, but he does not come again.

mkjv@2Kings:9:19 @ And he sent a second rider on horseback, who came to them and said, So says the king, [Is it] peace? And he answered, What [do you have] to do with peace? Turn behind me!

mkjv@2Kings:9:20 @ And the watchman reported, saying, He came up to them, but does not come again. And the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.

mkjv@2Kings:9:21 @ And Jehoram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Jehoram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his own chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth of Jezreel.

mkjv@2Kings:9:22 @ And it happened when Jehoram saw Jehu, he said, [Is it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?

mkjv@2Kings:9:23 @ And Jehoram turned his hands and fled and said to Ahaziah, Treachery, Ahaziah!

mkjv@2Kings:9:24 @ And Jehu drew a bow and struck Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sank down in his chariot.

mkjv@2Kings:9:25 @ And he said to Bidkar his commander, Take him up [and] throw him in the portion of the field of Naboth of Jezreel. For, remember, you and I rode together after Ahab his father, and the LORD laid this burden on him.

mkjv@2Kings:9:26 @ Surely, yesterday I have seen the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, says the LORD, and I will repay you in this portion, says the LORD. And now, take [him] and throw him into the portion, according to the word of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:9:27 @ And when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw, [he] fled by the way of the garden-house. And Jehu followed after him and said, Strike him also in the chariot, at the going up to Gur, that [is near Ibleam. And [he] fled to Megiddo, and died there.

mkjv@2Kings:9:28 @ And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.

mkjv@2Kings:9:29 @ And in the eleventh year of Jehoram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.

mkjv@2Kings:9:30 @ And Jehu had come to Jezreel. And Jezebel heard, and had painted her face and adorned her head, and looked out at a window.

mkjv@2Kings:9:31 @ And Jehu came to the gate. And she said, [Was it] peace [to] Zimri the slayer of his lord?

mkjv@2Kings:9:32 @ And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who [is] with me? Who? And two [or] three eunuchs looked out at him.

mkjv@2Kings:9:33 @ And he said, Throw her down! And they threw her down. And [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses. And he trampled her.

mkjv@2Kings:9:34 @ And when he had come in, he ate and drank, and said, Go, now see this cursed [woman] and bury her. For she is a king's daughter.

mkjv@2Kings:9:35 @ And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of [her] hands.

mkjv@2Kings:9:36 @ And they came again and told him. And he said, [This is] the word of the LORD which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.

mkjv@2Kings:9:37 @ And the dead body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, [so] that they shall not say, This [is] Jezebel.

mkjv@2Kings:10:1 @ And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters and sent to Samaria to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the supporters of Ahab, saying,

mkjv@2Kings:10:2 @ And now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master's sons [are] with you, and chariots and horses are] with you, also a fortified city and armor,

mkjv@2Kings:10:3 @ even look for the best and fittest of your master's sons, and set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

mkjv@2Kings:10:4 @ And they were exceedingly afraid and said, Behold, two kings did not stand before him; how then shall we stand?

mkjv@2Kings:10:5 @ And he who [was] over the house, and he over the city, the elders also, and the guardians, sent to Jehu saying, We [are] your servants and will do all that you shall say to us; we will not make any king. Do what is good in your eyes.

mkjv@2Kings:10:6 @ And he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you [are] mine, and will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by this time tomorrow. And the king's sons, seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city who brought them up.

mkjv@2Kings:10:7 @ And it happened when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and killed them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent to him in Jezreel.

mkjv@2Kings:10:8 @ And a messenger came and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.

mkjv@2Kings:10:9 @ And it happened in the morning, he went out and stood, and said to all the people, You [are] righteous. Behold, I plotted against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?

mkjv@2Kings:10:10 @ Now know that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab. For the LORD has done that which He spoke by His servant Elijah.

mkjv@2Kings:10:11 @ And Jehu killed all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

mkjv@2Kings:10:12 @ And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. He [was] at the shepherds' shearing-house in the way,

mkjv@2Kings:10:13 @ And Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who [are] you? And they answered, The brothers of Ahaziah. And we are going down to greet the king's sons and the queen's sons.

mkjv@2Kings:10:14 @ And he said, Take them alive! And they took them alive and killed them at the pit of the shearing-house, forty-two men. And he left not a man of them.

mkjv@2Kings:10:15 @ And he left there and found Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him. And [he] greeted him and said to him, [Is] your heart right, as my heart [is] with your heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it is, give your hand. And he gave his hand. And he took him up to him into the chariot.

mkjv@2Kings:10:16 @ And [he] said, Come with me and see my zeal for Jehovah. And they made him ride in his chariot.

mkjv@2Kings:10:17 @ And he came to Samaria, and killed all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the saying of Jehovah which he spoke to Elijah.

mkjv@2Kings:10:18 @ And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little, [but] Jehu shall serve him much.

mkjv@2Kings:10:19 @ And now call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. Let no one be lacking. For I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever shall be lacking, he shall not live. But Jehu was acting with cunning, to the end that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal.

mkjv@2Kings:10:20 @ And Jehu said, Call a solemn feast for Baal. And they called [it].

mkjv@2Kings:10:21 @ And Jehu sent through all Israel. And all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they came into the house of Baal. And the house of Baal was full from one end to another.

mkjv@2Kings:10:22 @ And he said to him who [was] over the robe-room, Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal. And he brought [them] out for them.

mkjv@2Kings:10:23 @ And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal. And he said to the servants of Baal, Search and look, that there [may] not [be] here with you any of the servants of the LORD, but only the servants of Baal.

mkjv@2Kings:10:24 @ And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. And Jehu had appointed eighty men outside, and said, [If] any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, his life shall be for the life of him.

mkjv@2Kings:10:25 @ And it happened when he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the commanders, Go in. Kill them! Do not let any come out! And they struck them with the edge of the sword. And the guard and the commanders threw [them] out. And they went to the city, to the house of Baal.

mkjv@2Kings:10:26 @ And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal and burned them.

mkjv@2Kings:10:27 @ And [they] broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal and made it a sewer-house until this day.

mkjv@2Kings:10:28 @ And Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:10:29 @ Only, Jehu did not depart [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, going after them, the golden calves in Bethel and in Daniel.

mkjv@2Kings:10:30 @ And the LORD said to him, Jehu, because you have done well in doing the right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that [was] in My heart, your sons of the fourth generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:10:31 @ But Jehu did not care to walk in the law of Jehovah God of Israel with all his heart, for he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.

mkjv@2Kings:10:32 @ In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short. And Hazael struck them in all the border of Israel,

mkjv@2Kings:10:33 @ from Jordan toward the rising of the sun, all the land of Gilead, the men of Gad and of Reuben and of Manasseh, from Aroer, by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

mkjv@2Kings:10:34 @ And the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did, and all his might, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matter of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

mkjv@2Kings:10:35 @ And Jehu slept with his fathers. And they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:10:36 @ And the days that Jehu reigned over Israel and Samaria [were] twenty-eight years.

mkjv@2Kings:11:1 @ And Athaliah was the mother of Ahaziah. And when she saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed of the kingdom.

mkjv@2Kings:11:2 @ But Jehosheba the daughter of king Jehoram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king's sons [which were] killed. And they hid him from Athaliah in the bedroom, him and his nurse, so that he was not killed.

mkjv@2Kings:11:3 @ And he was hidden with her in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.

mkjv@2Kings:11:4 @ And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the rulers over hundreds, with the commanders and the guards, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD. And he made a covenant with them and took an oath from them in the house of the LORD, and revealed to them the king's son.

mkjv@2Kings:11:5 @ And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that you shall do. A third part of you who enter in on the sabbath [shall be] keepers of the watch of the king's house.

mkjv@2Kings:11:6 @ And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur. And a third part at the gate behind the guard. And you shall keep the watch of the house, alternately.

mkjv@2Kings:11:7 @ And two parts of you, all who go forth [on] the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD around the king.

mkjv@2Kings:11:8 @ And you shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. And he who comes inside the ranks, let him be killed. And they shall be with the king as he goes out and as he comes in.

mkjv@2Kings:11:9 @ And the rulers of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each man took his men, going in on the sabbath, with those going out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

mkjv@2Kings:11:10 @ And the priest gave king David's spears and shields, which [were] in the temple of the LORD, to the rulers of the hundreds.

mkjv@2Kings:11:11 @ And the guard stood, each man with his weapons in his hand, around the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, by the altar and the temple.

mkjv@2Kings:11:12 @ And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown and the testimony on him. And they made him king and anointed him, and clapped their hands and said, Let the king live!

mkjv@2Kings:11:13 @ And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and] of the people, she came [to] the people into the temple of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:11:14 @ And she looked, and behold, the king stood by a pillar as usually [was] done, and the rulers and the trumpeters [were] by the king. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets. And Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! Treason!

mkjv@2Kings:11:15 @ And Jehoiada the priest commanded the rulers of the hundreds, those set over the army, and said to them, Take her out between the ranks, and let the one who follows her kill [her] with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:11:16 @ And they laid hands on her, and she went by the way which the horses came into the king's house. And she was killed there.

mkjv@2Kings:11:17 @ And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the people of Jehovah; also between the king and the people.

mkjv@2Kings:11:18 @ And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images completely in pieces. And they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:11:19 @ And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the commanders, and the guard, and all the people of the land. And they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

mkjv@2Kings:11:20 @ And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And they killed Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house.

mkjv@2Kings:11:21 @ Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign.

mkjv@2Kings:12:1 @ And in the seventh year of Jehu, Joash began to reign. And he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. And his mother's name [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

mkjv@2Kings:12:2 @ And Joash did the right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

mkjv@2Kings:12:3 @ But the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

mkjv@2Kings:12:4 @ And Joash said to the priests, All the silver from things dedicated to God, which is brought into the house of the LORD, the silver from each man the silver of his valuation, all the silver that comes into any man's heart to bring to the house of the LORD,

mkjv@2Kings:12:5 @ let the priests take [it] to themselves, each man from those he knows. And let them repair the breaks in the house, in all [places] where any break shall be found.

mkjv@2Kings:12:6 @ And it happened in the twenty-third year of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the breaks of the house.

mkjv@2Kings:12:7 @ Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the priests, and said to them, Why are you not repairing the breaks of the house? And now take no silver from those you know, but deliver it for the breaks of the house.

mkjv@2Kings:12:8 @ And the priests agreed to take no silver from the people, nor to repair the breaks of the house.

mkjv@2Kings:12:9 @ But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. And he set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD. And the priests who kept the door put in it all the silver brought into the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:12:10 @ And it happened when they saw that much silver [was] in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up. And they bound and counted the silver that was found [in] the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:12:11 @ And they gave the silver which was counted into the hands of those who did the work, those overseeing the house of the LORD. And they laid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the house of the LORD,

mkjv@2Kings:12:12 @ and to masons and cutters of stone, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the breaks of the house of the LORD, and for all that went forth for the house, to repair [it].

mkjv@2Kings:12:13 @ Only, there were no bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, or any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, made for the house of the LORD from the silver which [was] brought into the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:12:14 @ For they gave it to the workmen, and repaired the house of the LORD with it.

mkjv@2Kings:12:15 @ And they did not make an accounting with the men into whose hands they gave the silver to be given to the workmen. For they dealt faithfully.

mkjv@2Kings:12:16 @ The trespass silver and sin silver was not brought into the house of the LORD. It was the priests'.

mkjv@2Kings:12:17 @ Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it. And Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Kings:12:18 @ And Joash king of Judah took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria. And he went away from Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Kings:12:19 @ And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@2Kings:12:20 @ And his servants arose and made a plot. And they killed Joash in the house of Millo, which goes down [to] Silla.

mkjv@2Kings:12:21 @ For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:13:1 @ In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, seventeen years.

mkjv@2Kings:13:2 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. And he did not depart from them.

mkjv@2Kings:13:3 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days.

mkjv@2Kings:13:4 @ And Jehoahaz sought the LORD, and the LORD listened to him. For He saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

mkjv@2Kings:13:5 @ And the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, so that they went out from under the Syrians. And the sons of Israel lived in their tents, as before.

mkjv@2Kings:13:6 @ But they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin, [but] walked in them. And also the Asherah in Samaria stood.

mkjv@2Kings:13:7 @ For He had not left a people remaining to Jehoahaz, but only fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and had made them like the dust at threshing-time.

mkjv@2Kings:13:8 @ And the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

mkjv@2Kings:13:9 @ And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers. And they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoash his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, sixteen years.

mkjv@2Kings:13:11 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, [but] he walked in them.

mkjv@2Kings:13:12 @ And the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and all that he did, and his might which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

mkjv@2Kings:13:13 @ And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. And Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:13:14 @ And Elisha had fallen sick with his illness in which he died. And Jehoash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over his face. And he said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen of it!

mkjv@2Kings:13:15 @ And Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took bow and arrows to himself.

mkjv@2Kings:13:16 @ And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow. And he placed his hand. And Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.

mkjv@2Kings:13:17 @ And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened. And Elisha said, Shoot! And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria. For you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek until it is finished.

mkjv@2Kings:13:18 @ And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them]. And he said to the king of Israel, Strike on the ground. And he struck three times and stopped.

mkjv@2Kings:13:19 @ And the man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have stricken five or six times, then you would have stricken Syria until it was finished. But now you shall strike Syria three times.

mkjv@2Kings:13:20 @ And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at first of the year.

mkjv@2Kings:13:21 @ And it happened as they were burying a man, behold, they spied a band. And they threw the man into the grave of Elisha. And the man went down and touched the bones of Elisha, and revived and stood up on his feet.

mkjv@2Kings:13:22 @ But Hazael, the king of Syria, oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

mkjv@2Kings:13:23 @ And the LORD was gracious to them, and had pity on them, and had respect to them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And He would not destroy them, nor cast them from His presence as yet.

mkjv@2Kings:13:24 @ And Hazael king of Syria died. And his son Ben-hadad reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:13:25 @ And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Jehoash struck him three times and recovered the cities of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:14:1 @ In the second year of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah reigned.

mkjv@2Kings:14:2 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Kings:14:3 @ And he did the right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father. He did according to all things that Joash his father did.

mkjv@2Kings:14:4 @ Only, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

mkjv@2Kings:14:5 @ And it happened when the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain his father the king;

mkjv@2Kings:14:6 @ But he did not kill the sons of the servants, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor shall the sons be put to death for the fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin.

mkjv@2Kings:14:7 @ He killed ten thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel until this day.

mkjv@2Kings:14:8 @ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.

mkjv@2Kings:14:9 @ And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle which [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 in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

mkjv@2Kings:14:10 @ You have indeed stricken Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Rejoice and stay at home, for why should you meddle to [your] harm, so that you should fall, you and Judah with you?

mkjv@2Kings:14:11 @ But Amaziah would not hear. And Jehoash king of Israel went up. And he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, of Judah.

mkjv@2Kings:14:12 @ And Judah was beaten before Israel. And every man fled to his tent.

mkjv@2Kings:14:13 @ And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and he came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

mkjv@2Kings:14:14 @ And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels which were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

mkjv@2Kings:14:15 @ And the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

mkjv@2Kings:14:16 @ And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:14:17 @ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

mkjv@2Kings:14:18 @ And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@2Kings:14:19 @ And they made a plot against him at Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. And they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

mkjv@2Kings:14:20 @ And [they] brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

mkjv@2Kings:14:21 @ And all the people of Judah took Azariah who [was] sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

mkjv@2Kings:14:22 @ He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

mkjv@2Kings:14:23 @ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, forty-one years.

mkjv@2Kings:14:24 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin.

mkjv@2Kings:14:25 @ He restored the border of Israel from the entering of Hamath to the sea of the plain, according to the word of Jehovah God of Israel which He spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, who [was] from Gath-hepher.

mkjv@2Kings:14:26 @ For the LORD had seen the affliction of Israel [to be] very bitter. And one was bound, and none [was] free, and there was no helper for Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:14:27 @ And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash.

mkjv@2Kings:14:28 @ And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus and Hamath, of Judah, for Israel, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

mkjv@2Kings:14:29 @ And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, with the kings of Israel. And his son Zachariah reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:1 @ In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.

mkjv@2Kings:15:2 @ He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

mkjv@2Kings:15:3 @ And he did the right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

mkjv@2Kings:15:4 @ Only, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

mkjv@2Kings:15:5 @ And the LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. And the king's son, Jotham, [was] over the house, judging the people of the land.

mkjv@2Kings:15:6 @ And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@2Kings:15:7 @ And Azariah slept with his fathers. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David. And his son Jotham reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:8 @ In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria, six months.

mkjv@2Kings:15:9 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

mkjv@2Kings:15:10 @ And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him. And he struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:11 @ And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:15:12 @ This [was] the word of the LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel until the fourth [generation]. And it was so.

mkjv@2Kings:15:13 @ Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah. And he reigned in Samaria a full month.

mkjv@2Kings:15:14 @ For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria. And he killed him and reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:15 @ And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he made, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:15:16 @ Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all in it, and its borders, from Tirzah. Because they did not open, he struck it. He ripped up all its pregnant women.

mkjv@2Kings:15:17 @ In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, ten years in Samaria.

mkjv@2Kings:15:18 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, all his days.

mkjv@2Kings:15:19 @ Pul, the king of Assyria came against the land. And Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

mkjv@2Kings:15:20 @ And Menahem took the silver from Israel, from all the mighty men of wealth (fifty shekels of silver from each man) to give to the king of Assyria. And the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.

mkjv@2Kings:15:21 @ And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

mkjv@2Kings:15:22 @ And Menahem slept with his fathers. And Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:23 @ In the fiftieth year of Uzziah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, two years.

mkjv@2Kings:15:24 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

mkjv@2Kings:15:25 @ But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a commander of his, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and fifty men of the Gileadites with him. And he killed him and reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:15:26 @ And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:15:27 @ In the fifty-second year of Uzziah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, twenty years.

mkjv@2Kings:15:28 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

mkjv@2Kings:15:29 @ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he deported them to Assyria.

mkjv@2Kings:15:30 @ And Hoshea the son of Elah made a plot against Pekah the son of Remaliah. And he struck him and killed him and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

mkjv@2Kings:15:31 @ And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they [are] written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:15:32 @ In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.

mkjv@2Kings:15:33 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

mkjv@2Kings:15:34 @ And he did right in the sight of the LORD. He did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

mkjv@2Kings:15:35 @ Only, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:15:36 @ And the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@2Kings:15:37 @ In those days the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Syria against Judah, and also Pekah the son of Remaliah.

mkjv@2Kings:15:38 @ And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father.

mkjv@2Kings:15:39 @ And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:16:1 @ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

mkjv@2Kings:16:2 @ Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

mkjv@2Kings:16:3 @ But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. Yes, and he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out from before the sons of Israel.

mkjv@2Kings:16:4 @ And he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

mkjv@2Kings:16:5 @ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem for war. And they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him].

mkjv@2Kings:16:6 @ At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath. And the Syrians came to Elath and lived there until this day.

mkjv@2Kings:16:7 @ And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.

mkjv@2Kings:16:8 @ And Ahaz took the silver and gold which was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent a present to the king of Assyria.

mkjv@2Kings:16:9 @ And the king of Assyria listened to him, for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it. And he carried it away captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

mkjv@2Kings:16:10 @ And King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria [at] Damascus. And [he] saw an altar at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the pattern of the altar, and the form of it, according to all its work.

mkjv@2Kings:16:11 @ And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Urijah the priest did until King Ahaz came in from Damascus.

mkjv@2Kings:16:12 @ And the king came in from Damascus, and the king saw the altar. And the king approached to the altar and offered on it.

mkjv@2Kings:16:13 @ And he offered his burnt offering and his food offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, on the altar.

mkjv@2Kings:16:14 @ And he also brought the bronze altar which [was] before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

mkjv@2Kings:16:15 @ And King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great altar burn the morning offering and the evening food offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice and his food offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their food offerings, and their drink offerings. And sprinkle all the blood of the burnt offerings on it, and all the blood of the sacrifice. And the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.

mkjv@2Kings:16:16 @ And Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

mkjv@2Kings:16:17 @ And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from them. And he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.

mkjv@2Kings:16:18 @ And the covered way for the sabbath which they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, he turned from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

mkjv@2Kings:16:19 @ And the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@2Kings:16:20 @ And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:17:1 @ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, nine years.