2Chronicles:21-24
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:1 @ And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:2 @ And he had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah. All these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:3 @ And their father gave them great gifts of silver and of gold and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah. But the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he [was] the first-born.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:4 @ And when Jehoram had risen up to the kingdom of his father, he made himself strong and killed all his brothers with the sword, and also [many] of the rulers of Israel.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:5 @ Jehoram [was] thirty-two years old when he began to reign. And he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:6 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like the house of Ahab for he had the daughter of Ahab for a wife. And he did the evil in the eyes of the LORD.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:7 @ And the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and as He promised to give a light to him and to his sons forever.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:8 @ In his days Edom revolted from under the rule of Judah, and made themselves a king.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:9 @ And Jehoram went forth with his rulers, and all his chariots with him. And he rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the commanders of the chariots.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:10 @ And the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah until this day. The same time Libnah revolted from under his hand, because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:11 @ Besides he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the people of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and led astray Judah.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:12 @ And a writing came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, So says the LORD God of David your father, Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:13 @ but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem to go lusting like the fornications of the house of Ahab, and also have killed your brothers of your fathers house ( who were] better than you),
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:14 @ behold, the LORD will strike your people with a great plague, and your sons, and your wives, and all your goods.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:15 @ And you [shall have] great sickness by disease in your bowels, until your bowels fall out because of the sickness day by day.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:16 @ And the LORD stirred up the spirit of the Philistines against Jehoram, and of the Arabians who [were] near the Ethiopians.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:17 @ And they came up into Judah and broke into it, and carried away all the stuff that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives, so that there was not a son left with him except Ahaziah, the youngest of his sons.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:18 @ And after this the LORD struck him in his bowels with a disease that could not be cured.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:19 @ And it happened as days and as the time went out, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out because of his sickness. And he died of painful diseases. And his people made no burning for him like the burning of his fathers.
mkjv@2Chronicles:21:20 @ He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:1 @ And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place. For the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older ones. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:2 @ Ahaziah's [dynasty was] forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name [was] Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:3 @ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab. For his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:4 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab. For they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his ruin.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:5 @ He also walked after their advice and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians struck Jehoram.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:6 @ And he returned to be healed in Jezreel, because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:7 @ And by coming to Jehoram, the destruction of Ahaziah was of God. He went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:8 @ And it happened when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, and found the rulers of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah, the servants of Ahaziah, he killed them.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:9 @ And he looked for Ahaziah. And they caught him (for he was hidden in Samaria), and brought him to Jehu. And when they had killed him, they buried him because they said, He [is] the son of Jehoshaphat who looked to the LORD with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had no power still to keep the kingdom.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:10 @ And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, and she arose and spoke to [destroy] all the royal seed of the house of Judah.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:11 @ But Jehoshabeath the daughter of the king took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons who were killed. And she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. And Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah) hid him from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.
mkjv@2Chronicles:22:12 @ And he was with them six years, hidden in the house of God. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:1 @ And in the seventh year Jehoiada made himself strong. And he took the commanders of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri into covenant with him.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:2 @ And they went about in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:3 @ And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD has said of the sons of David.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:4 @ This [is] the thing that you shall do. A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, [shall be] keepers of the doors.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:5 @ And a third part [shall be] at the king's house. And a third part shall be at the gate of the foundation. And all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:6 @ But let none come into the house of the LORD except the priests, and those of the Levites who minister. They shall go in, for they [are] holy. But all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:7 @ And the Levites shall surround the king, each man with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes into the house, he shall be put to death. But you be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:8 @ And the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded. And every man took his men who were to come in on the sabbath, with the ones who were to go [out] on the sabbath. For Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:9 @ And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the commanders of hundreds king David's spears and bucklers and shields, which [were] in the house of God.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:10 @ And he set all the people, each man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:11 @ And they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said, Let the king live!
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:12 @ And Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, and she came to the people into the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:13 @ And she looked, and behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entrance, and the rulers and the trumpets by the king. And all the people of the land [were] rejoicing and sounding with trumpets, and the singers with instruments of music, and giving signals to praise. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, Treason! Treason!
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:14 @ And Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, Take her out of the ranks. And whoever follows her shall be killed with the sword. For the priest said, Do not kill her [in the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:15 @ And they laid hands on her; and she came to the entrance of the Gate of the Horses, beside the king's house, and they executed her there.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:16 @ And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:17 @ And all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down, and smashed his altars and his images. And they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:18 @ And Jehoiada chose the officers of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as [ it is] written in the law of Moses, with joy and with singing, by the hands of David.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:19 @ And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that the unclean in any way could not go in.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:20 @ And he took the commanders of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the LORD. And they came through the Upper Gate into the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
mkjv@2Chronicles:23:21 @ And all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city was quiet after they had killed Athaliah with the sword.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:1 @ Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign. And he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:2 @ And Joash did the right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:3 @ And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:4 @ And it happened after this, it had been in the mind of Joash to repair the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:5 @ And he gathered together the priests and the Levites and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather silver from all Israel to repair the house of your God from year to year. And see that you hasten the matter. And the Levites did not hasten [it].
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:6 @ And the king called for Jehoiada and said to him, Why have you not made the Levites bring in the collection out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, according to Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:7 @ For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, have broken up the house of God. And also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD they have given to Baals.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:8 @ And the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:9 @ And they gave a call in Judah and in Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection [that] Moses the servant of God [laid] on Israel in the wilderness.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:10 @ And all the rulers and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and threw into the chests until [it was] finished.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:11 @ And it happened at the time the chest was brought into the king's office by the Levites, and when they saw that the silver [was] abundant, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it and carried it to its place again. So they did day by day, and gathered a great amount of silver.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:12 @ And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of the LORD. And they hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also artisans in iron and bronze, to mend the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:13 @ And the workmen worked, and the work was completed by them, and they set the house of God in its proper state and made it strong.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:14 @ And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the silver before the king and Jehoiada. Of this silver were made vessels for the house of the LORD, vessels to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they continually offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:15 @ But Jehoiada became old, and was full of days when he died. He [was] a hundred and thirty years old when he died.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:16 @ And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and toward His house.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:17 @ And after the death of Jehoiada the rulers of Judah came and bowed down to the king. And the king listened to them.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:18 @ And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served Asherahs and idols. And wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:19 @ Yet He sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD. And they testified against them. But they would not listen.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:20 @ And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people and said to them, So says God, Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot be blessed? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:21 @ And they conspired against him and stoned him [with] stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:22 @ And Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD will seek [you out].
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:23 @ And it happened at the end of the year the army of Syria came up against him. And they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the rulers of the people from among the people, and sent all the plunder of them to the king of Damascus.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:24 @ For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the God of the fathers. And they executed judgment against Joash.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:25 @ And when they had departed from him (for they left him in great diseases), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:26 @ And these are the ones who conspired against him Zabad the son of Shimeath of Ammon, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
mkjv@2Chronicles:24:27 @ And [as to] his sons, and the greatness of the burdens on him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.
mkjv@2Chronicles:25:1 @ Amaziah [was] twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
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