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